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Chelsea Clinton campaigns at Duke

Critics assail Durham PD transparency Durham officials admit corrumudcation issues exist by

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In the wake of the January murder of

graduate student Abhijit Mahato, Duke students and local community members looked to the Durham Police Department for answers. But some city politicians said the Department fails to communicate effectively with the media, which they said was essential for distributing important crime-related information to the public. City Councilman Eugene Brown said he hopes Chief Jose Lopez, who was appointed in July, can restore the transparency the-organization needs. “We need to keep in mind that the Police Department is a public building and not .a private bunker,” Brown said. “When questions are asked about what’s happening vis-a-vis public safety, there should be a quick and ready and honest

response.”

Lopez did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Kammie Michael, public information officer and public re-

lations coordinator for DPD, declined to comment. SEE BPD ON PAGE

Chelsea Clinton spoke in the Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy Tuesday and said her mother, Hillary Clinton, wouldbe a better president than her father, Bill Clinton. by

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Approximately 300 students, faculty and members of the community filled the tiers of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy Tuesday to hear a former—and perhaps future—first daughter speak in support ofher mother’s candidacy. Chelsea Clinton gave an informal speech in Sanford’s Fleishman Commons at the end of the North Carolina leg of her college campaign tour promoting Sen. Hillary Clinton’s fight for the Demo-

cratic presidential nomination. Clinton answered a variety of questions from the audience, often in defense of hermother’s policies and leadership abilities. Introducing a common theme of her speech early on, she rated her mother’s political ability over that of her father, former president Bill Clinton. “My mother would be a better president than my father,” she said. “She is more progressive and more prepared.” Clinton discussed her mother’s campaign in the question-and-answer session,

which focused on issues of policy, environment, health care and the affordability and accessibility of higher education. “As a young woman and a young voter, I feel students should vote based on issues they really care about,” she said. “Think of this election in terms of what is important to you.”

In answering questions about her mother’s plans for higher education, Clinton highlighted concerns about the inaccessibility of SEE CLINTON ON PAGE

DUPD attrition may be higher by

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Officers may be departing the Duke University Police Department at a higher rate than previously reported. Updated figures indicate that nearly 50 percent of the force has departed sinceJanuary 2006. According to the figures, provided to The Chronicle by an officer who wished to remain anonymous, approximately 32 officers have left in that period. DUPD’s Web site states that the department has 67 commissioned officers. Last week, The Chronicle reported the total departures to comprise approximately one-third of the department, as Aaron Graves cited in a report by Sibson Consulting, a firm hired by the University to study the attrition rate. “[l] haven’t seen those numbers, but they wouldn’t change my general view of the situation,” Executive Vice SEE DUPD ON PAGE

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BUSINESS African countries block shipment Euro breaks $1.60 to set record high

U.S. NEWS Army engineer charged as spy

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An 84-year-old former U.S. NEW YORK Army mechanical engineer was arrested Tuesday on charges he slipped classified documents about nuclear weapons to an employee of the Israeli Consulate who also received information from convicted Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard, authorities announced. Ben-ami Kadish was charged in U.S. District Court in Manhattan with four counts of conspiracy, including allegations that he disclosed U.S. national defense documents to Israel and acted as an agent of the Israeli government.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Zimbabwe's neighbors united to block a shipment ofChinese arms to prevent them from being used against Robert Mugabe's opponents. Union, church and human rights leaders across southern Africa rallied against allowing the Chinese freighter An Yue Jiang to dock at ports in any of landlocked Zimbabwe's neighbors. In Washington, the State Department said it had urged countries in southern Africa—notably South Africa, Mozambique, Angola and Namibia—not to allow the ship to dock or unload. It also asked the Chinese government to recall the vessel and not to make further weapons shipments to Zimbabwe until the postelection crisis is resolved.

Bush calls for NAFTA's continuation President George W. NEW ORLEANS Bush chastised lawmakers Tuesday for letting international trade deals falter in Congress and criticized Democratic presidential contenders for wanting to scrap or amend the vast North American free-trade zone. At the close of a two-day summit, Bush, along with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, stood solidly behind the North American Free Trade Ai iree-

'Silent tsunami'of hunger strikes LONDON Ration cards. Genetically modified crops.The end of pile-it-high, sellit-cheap supermarkets. These possible solutions to the first global ; nce World War II —which the World says already threatens 20 milist children —are complex and id they may not even solve the land continues to soar, it tsunami" of hunger is g the world's most desper:ions, said Josette Sheeran, WFP's executive director, ?aking Tuesday at a London mmit on the crisis. The skyrocketing cost of : ood staples, stoked by rising fuel prices, unpredictable weather and demand Tom India and China, has already sparked sometimes violent protests across the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. '

NEW YORK The euro roared to another record high Tuesday, crossing $1.60 for the first time ever after a pair of European Central Bank governors said high inflation may cause the bank to raise interest rates. The U.S. dollaralso fell against the Japanese yen and the British pound. The euro hit its last record of $1.5982 Thursday. It dropped back Friday after a Wall Street rally generated optimism that the worst of the U.S. credit crunch may be over, but the euro rose again Monday when Bank of America's first-quarter earnings fell short of expectations.

SPORTS Miami Dolphins sign Jake Long DAVIE, Fla. The Miami Dolphins signed Jake Long to a five-year contract with $3O million guaranteed, and they'll select him with the top pick in the draft Saturday. The Michigan left tackle is the NFL's No. 1 draft pick. Long becomes the highest-paid lineman in the NFL and a 6-foot-7,315-pound cornerstone in a rebuilding project for the new Dolphins regime led by Bill Parcells. Last season Miami went 1 -15, and the offensive line has been a chronic problem in recent years-

ODDS& ENDS Oil ship captain liedabout drug use SAN FRANCISCO The pilot of the container ship that spilled 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay was charged Tuesday with two felony counts of lying to Coast Guard officials about his prescription drug use. Capt. John Cota, 60, previously was charged with two misdemeanor environmental crimes for his role in the Nov. 7 accident that fouled the bay, killed or injured thousands of birds and forced the closure of Bay Area beaches.

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Wang case draws widespread media coverage Julia Love

To report the story, journalists said they have had to sift through the flurry of While pro-Tibet and pro-China demposts Wang triggered on blogs and mesonstrators crowded the steps of the Chasage boards, where anonymous writers pel beneath a cloudless blue sky April 9, a have called her a traitor and suggested perfect storm was brewing—a storm that she be burned in oil. quickly thrust freshman Grace Wang into “If you want the story of a young girl the national media spotlight. who is a traitor to her country, that’s everyThe alleged threats Wang has received where,” said Shaila Dewan, a reporter for following henattempts to mediate a discus- The Times who wrote the April 17 story sion between the opposing parties have about Wang. attracted the attention of national media Dewan said reporting a story from outlets. tangled threads of anonymous posts has Reporters for the The Washington Post posed special challenges. She added . and The New that it is often York Times said difficult to dis“If you want the story of a Wang’s story has tinguish a Web content site’s captivated readers who is a traitor to girl young around the world from user-generher country, that’s everywhere.” ated rants. in large part due to mounting ob“Who is the Shaila Dewan aujections to China’s validating human rights reNew York Times reporter thority behind cord and the fasta site’s content? It’s very hard to approaching Beitell,” she said jing Olympic Games. “It seems [Wang] is trying to create a Drew, who is based in Beijing, said dialogue that many people are calling for,” Wang’s story has received little attention in said Jill Drew, a reporter for The Washingthe mainstream Chinese media. ton Post who co-wrote an article about the Conflicting verdicts on Wang in Eastdemonstration. ern and Western societies represent a In addition to The Times and The Post, clash of cultural paradigms, Dewan exthe story of the would-be peacemaker and plained. the animosity she sparked garnered cover“We tend to think that on American age in the Financial Times, British Broadcollege campuses people can say and do what they want,” she said. “This is the ulcasting Company and National Public Radio, among other media networks. timate place for freedom of expression in The Times and The Post both ran frontthis country. The Chinese don’t view it that page stories about Wang April 17, and The way. They have a different framework.” Post published a column written by Wang SEE WANG ON PAGE 17 Sunday. by

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Freshman Grace Wang has been featured in nationaland international media outlets after she enteredthe fray between pro-Tibet and pro-China protesters on theChapel Quadrangle April 9.

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Some see trend toward younger campus leaders In the most recent DSG election, two freshmen were elected to the position of The expression “older and wiser” no vice president, Former Campus Council president longer appears to be a consideration in electing campus leaders. Ryan Todd, a senior, said he sees the For the past few years, students have trend toward younger leadership in DSG seen a trend towardyounger leaders in ma- as a positive change but noted that youngjor campus organizations. er leaders are not likely to be elected in “I think in most cases, a student with Campus Council because of the nature of more experience is probably just more the elections, in which only council memprepared to take on the responsibilities,” hers vote. Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said. “In my four years here, there has “And of course, there are exceptions to been a shift in [leadership] in DSG bethat, and we’ve ing younger and had some very y Ul? ger’ nd 1 “j n my four years here, there think that s for capable younger leaders.” has been a shift in leadership the better, honRecently, many estly,” he said, j l m DSG being younger and juniors have as“At the end of sumed prominent younger, and I think that’s for the term seniors are out of here leadership roles the better, honestly. and won’t be at traditionally held to live with by seniors. Ryan Todd, Senior Duke Senior Elliott the legacies of Wolf served as ■*****■■■■ what they’ve acDuke Student Government president as complished. Juniors are more likely to ajunior last year; Jay Ganatra, Trinity ’O7, work hard, try harder, because they’ll be was Campus Council president both his here the next year.” Still, Wolf said the trade-off between a junior and senior years and sophomore Chelsea Allison will be the fifth consecuyounger student who has more time and tive editor of The Chronicle to serve as an older student who has more experia junior. Many leaders of greek organizaence is a choice that individual organizations also assume their positions during tions must make. their junior year. “It would’ve been really difficult for “I think you start out [as a junior] and me, being DSG president this year amidst you’ve just got a lot of drive, a lot of pas- writing my thesis and finding a job and all sion,” Ganatra said. “You don’t have as of that other stuff that goes along with bemuch outside of that job going on. You’re ing a senior,” he said. “Paul [Slattery, curnot as held down academically and... you rent DSG president and a senior,] is misdon’t have to worry about your career or erable having to deal with his thesis and grad school.” grad school.” by

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Senior Elliott Wolf said he was glad he served as DSG president in his junior rather than his senior year.

Although some see the growing trend toward younger leaders in a positive light, Wolf said he does not support the election of underdassmen as DSG vice presidents because of their lack of experience in higher positions. “Honestly, sophomores do not make good DSG vice presidents,” he said. “I think for a position like that you need much more experience, and it’s quite unfortunate for DSG that freshmen are the

fervent voters within DSG.” Wasiolek noted that she does not know why students are not as interested in taking on leadership positions as they get older. “I think we’ve certainly been moving in that direction [of younger leaders] —it seems as though it’s been the case for a couple ofyears now,” she said. “Whether it will continue, only time will tell.” most

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Last Day of Classes 2008

What's better than Last Day of Classes festivities? A lOth-anniversary LDOC celebration with more music and food than in previous years. The same alcohol and grilling policies are in effect as in years past, said junior Vincent Ling, LDOC co-chair. However, new additions this year include an extra band at the evening concerts and an afternoon concert performed by Carbon Leaf, ling added. Also, a buffet dinner will be served at the Great Hall for the first time in the event's 10-year history. Ling said that this decision was made to provide a central dinner location for all students and to encourage freshmen to stay on West Campus. The administration was highly supportive of the dinner idea, Ling said, because it improves the chance that people will be putting food in their stomachs while drinking throughout the day.

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Members of the Duke University Union held their final meeting of the academic year Tuesday night.

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course of the week Sophomore Adam Barron, co-director of marketing, Duke University Union's final meeting of the academic proposed a Harry Potter-themed weekend for next year, which would include several events. year was brief and focused on plans for Fall 2008. After sponsoring successful events during the 2007He said he came up with the idea after watching “We 2008 academic year, Union members discussed plans to Are Wizards,” an award-winning documentary about the start next year on a good note. They said specific events Wizard Rock scene, a small community of Harry Potterfor the Class of 2012 are already in the works. inspired bands. DUU’s plans for orientation week focused on a Barron said the documentary’s director, Josh Koury, Union Night, which would be had expressed enthusiasm about bringing the fdm to the part of the orientation schedule and would introduce incoming “I think we’re going to hit the University and speaking to stufreshmen to Duke’s largest students about the culture of Wizground running, especially dent-run organization. ard Rock. with orientation.” “I think we’re going to hit The Harry Potter-themed the ground running, especially weekend would also feature a Chamindra Goonewardene with orientation,” said President Yule Ball inspired by the event Goonewardene, Chamindra DUU president by the same name that occurs a junior who served as the coin the fourth book of the sevenchair of the Major Attractions book series. committee for the 2007-2008 school year. Performances by two Wizard Rock bands, “Harry and Goonewardene also said he is excited about having a the Potters” and “Draco and the Malfoys,” whose songs focus on events that occur in the books, were also discussed single orientation night devoted to the Union. “It’s a really big deal that we’re going to have our own for the weekend. Plans for next semester also included an outdoor connight because it really sets us apart from any other organization,” he said. cert in mid-fall as well as bringing two national-touring Union members emphasized the importance of coorBroadway shows to campus. But Goodenwardene noted that plans for next year dinating with the First-Year Advisory Council Board and Residence Life and Housing Services to get freshmen and were unconfirmed and that planning would continue over their FACs involved in Union-sponsored events over the the summer. by

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That "easy money" is probably a high-interest loan—which won't be easy when it's time to pay it back.

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What languages do you know? For most people, the answer might be English, Spanish or Japanese. For some, however, their answers will be Java, SQL and PHR whose Underground technophiles names may be unknown to the masses are finding personal and monetary successes through their passion and their skills in an increasingly technological world. Junior John Huffsmith, who worked in New York City last year for the world’s largest e-mail advertising company Datran Media, said he was originally interested in the hardware side of computers before working for the company. “It’s a lot harder to be innovative on the hardware side,” he said. “But if you want to write the next great program, all it takes is some ftime amd a worl t ree good idea.... It “It’s a lot harder to be innovative But the Internet does, and they tell was just fascinaton the hardware side. But if you you to figure out ing to me that how to do it.” you can build an want to write the next great entire successful Because barprogram, all it takes is some business on lines riers to entry are of code.” so low, Goodlatte free time and a good idea.” Huffsmith said the Web is Huffsmith, junior not exclusive to said he was able technophiles and to live comfortably in New York everyone can take City through his entry-position salary at Daadvantage of it to build their “personal tran Media. brand.” Others students, such as sophomore An“Just because we can program doesn’t drea Coravos and senior Stesha Doku, said mean that we are the only ones who can they make hundreds of dollars for each take advantage of the Internet,” he said. Web site they have designed during their “For any economics major... he can be time at Duke. Coravos’ portfolio includes the next Steven Levitt, and write the the campaign Web site for sophomore Julia next ‘Freakonomics’ as a blog, and put Chou, a vice president for student affairs it out there and get people exposed to candidate in the recent Duke Student Govhis writings.” ernment elections. Doku has worked on Although Web designers are in high desites for the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship mand, Goodlatte said his desire to create program and biomedical company Neuro- sites does not come from monetary incenTherm Incorporated. tives but rather his passion for doing what But some less financially inclined techhe likes. nophiles said that making Web sites is their “You are not interviewing the next Bill passion and the only compensation they Gates or Steve Ballmer here,” Goodlatte receive is personal satisfaction. said. “You are interviewing three kids who Senior Rob Goodlatte and sophomores just made... a tiny application that we Justin Wickett and Daniel Romero are the thought was interesting. We might make a creators of www.strawpollnow.com, a site few thousand dollars a month, but we are that polls its users for answers to a question, not going to become multi-millionaires.”

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The Graduate and Professional Student Council discussed plans for next year at their final meeting of the academic year. Basketball Committee Co-chairs Mickey Tekippe, a sixth-year M.D./Ph.D. student, and Sarah Kreider, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry, proposed the new plan for campout, the process for graduate and professional students to get tickets for men's basketball games. Next year’s campout will occur on the Weekend ofSept. 19. Kreider said the fielckbehind the'Blue Zone parking lots, where campout normally takes place, is being converted into a varsity athletic field. As a result, the event will have to relocate to the other side ofWallace Wade Stadium and will be split into two sections. “We’ll have double the tenting area, and a larger amount of RV area,” she said. “It gives us room to expand as campout grows.” The co-chairs also proposed an increase in the campout fee from $5 to $lO per person. Tekippe said the increase in the cost ofT-shirts was the leading motivation for raising the campout fee. Members approved all changes the co-chairs proposed Also at the meeting, President Alethea Duncan, a thirdyear Ph.D. candidate in chemistry, said Residence Life and Housing Services officials recently informed graduate and professional students that their available bed spaces on Central Campus decreased from 200 to 54 because of the

The council held elections for the six representatives Board of Trustee committees. Midway through the election, however, the council's electric voting system collapsed causing a switch to paper ballots. Many members left the meeting because of the complication. Members approved Ali Saaem, a second-year Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering, and Jim McDonald, a second-year law student, as representatives to the Business and Finance Committee. Pae Wu, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering and a standing member on GPSC, and Justin Jaworski, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering, were elected to the Building and Grounds Committee. The council then electedjulie Roy, a seventh-year Ph.D. candidate in cancer biology, for the remaining spot on the Institutional Advancement Committee and Benson Okeiyi, a first-year medical student, to the Medical Center Affairs Committee. GPSC members David Kahler, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering, and Jessi Bardill, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in English, were selected to head the Undergraduate Student Affairs Committee. Gautham Pandiyan, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the molecular cancer biology program, and Zhizhong Li, a graduate student in molecular cancer biology, were chosen to run the Faculty, Graduate and Professional Schools Affairs Committee. to

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DUPD from page 1 President Tollman Trask wrote in an e-mail Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, arrived at Duke from the University of Southern California in January 2006. In his first year, the number of officers who left Duke jumped threefold from the previous year. The trend has shown no signs of stopping, with at least four officers departing thus far in 2008. Previously, Sibson estimated that the total cost to the University of recruiting and training new hires is nearly

Go and paint the town red Three juveniles were caught spray painting the East Campus Temporary Boiler Facility Friday afternoon. The next morning someone reported that an unidentified person wrote on the walls and ceilings tiles of a West Campus commons room. Puff the magic dragon A resident assistant reported Sunday morning that burning marijuana odor was coming out of a second-floor room in Wilson Residence Hall. Officers who responded to the call were able to identify the room, and a male student gave up a small amount of marijuana.

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A group of students filming an attack of an “injured person on crutches,” who is a member of the film group, was issued a N.C. State Citation for Resist, Delay and Obstruction of police duties by failing to be truthful upon initial contact Monday, The staging occurred in front of a campus

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Open sesame Durham Police Department officers gave an unaffiliated male a warrant Friday evening. Officers found and confiscated 42 electronic door entry cards, which belonged to the Washington Duke Inn, on the male.

Dude, where’s my car? An officer found a car blocking the intersection of Cameron Boulevard and Erwin Road with no one around midnight Saturday. The license plate showed a pick-up order, and the vehicle was towed. Two blocks up the road, officers found an intoxicated unaffiliated male, with no identification, carrying a gas can. Although the man denies having driven the vehicle, officers found the keys to the car on him. The man was taken to jail for a 24-hour lock up because of his state of intoxication.

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probably mentioned the feet that I came to Duke because ofbasketball four or five times. Sure, it’s trite, but it’s also true. Although I haven’t been a productive athlete since sixth grade, I’ve always loved watching, discussing and thinking about sports. At Duke, I’d figured I’d find the largest group of people who’d want to talk about it with me. And that’s andrew why I joined The Chronicle sports section four years ago. Writing for the school newspaper seemed like the best way to get close to the action. I had seen pictures of students sitting front-row, center court in Cameron Indoor Stadium, and dreamed of one day getting to do that. Freshman year, a reporter got sick the day of the Blue Devil gameat Virginia Tech, and I got a call from my editor asking me to go. I skipped class and jumped in a car for the miserable drive to Blacksburg. Duke lost, the crowd rushed the court and I wrote an article condemning the team’s lack ofeffort. How cool, I thought, as I stood in the locker room with a microphone in the face of a disrobed, teary Lee Melchionni. Four years and a dozen games later, fond memory as that may be, I realize covering men’s basketball isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. After two or three press conferences with the legendary Mike Krzyzewski, it all starts to sound the same—Duke played a pretty good team that night and he’s proud ofhis squad’s effort. Forty sports writers peck something into their laptops about a game that a million people watched live and several million more saw highlights of on SportsCenter. Anything you write, someone else has already said, and it disappears after a day. In

Somewhere in the fall of my freshman year, I shed my first name. I walked into the door of 301 Flowers, signed myself up to write for sports, and within a couple weeks I wasn’t Meredith anymore. I was Shiner. I know it may seem like a strange and insignificant thing to be proud of, but I took such satisfaclion in being called

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Having captured just one victory in its three-game series against Clertison and losing a four-run ninth inning lead in that series finale, Duke found the perfect means to return to its winning ways: play an out-of-confer1 q ence foe. DUKE Duke (28-13UNC-G 1) continued its dominance over non-conference opponents Tuesday night, defeating UNC-Greensboro 10-3 at UNCG Baseball Stadium. The Blue Devils’ win gives them a perfect 22-0 record against out-of-conference competition. “We were really glad to get back out there and play in the midweek,” head coach Sean McNally said. “Our club responded in great fashion in playing a tight game across the board.” For Duke, an offensive explosion in the fourth inning turned out to be all the team needed to notch its fourth victory in six games. First baseman Nate Freiman opened the decisive frame with a single to center field. Spartans pitcher Korv Judd beaned Jeremy Gould, setting up Gabriel Saade. The sophomore shortstop drilled the 0-1 pitch to right field for a double, scoring Freiman dfcd advancing Gould to third. Jonathan Nicolla added to the drubbing, knocking Judd’s pitch into right field and

scoring both Gouldand Saade for the 3-0 advantage. Although James White came in two outs later for UNC-Greensboro (2415), the Blue Devils did not let up, as Alex Hassan capped the four-run inning with a single to center field. Sophomore pitcher Will Currier did his part to hold the Spartans down, shutting them out for five innings before giving up two runs in the sixth and giving way to freshman Dennis O’Grady, who along with senior Ron Causey, held UNC-Greensboro to just one run the rest of the way. Duke found itself in a familiar situation going into the ninth inning—ahead by four runs and still in control of the game. Batting first, however, the Blue Devils made sure thdl the Spartans would not get the chance to tie or win the game, tacking on four more runs to the board and putting the contest safely out of reach. Three UNC-Greensboro errors allowed Saade and sophomore Michael Ghizzoni to score on back-to-back plays, and a wild pitch later in the inning let freshman Jake Lemmerman score after sophomore Ryan McCurdy doubled home Tom Luciano. “Anytime you’ve got a four-run lead, you want to get it to five so you can take away that threat of one swing tying it,” McNally said. “If we can get to five we’ll breathe a little easier, and we did.” Duke continues its midweek road trip at Davidson tonight before coming back home to host Maryland this weekend.

Ihe Chronicles sports section is the closest thing to a fraternity I’ll ever belong to, and going by my surname, in my mind, was some small sign of respect from its membership. I never was and never will be one of the guys—I know that—but I guess there was an implicit understanding in “Shiner” that I could hang with the best of them. First as a freshman writer and later as an associate, I never thought twice about being a girl. Sports and writing came too naturally to ever doubt whether I belonged. Then I ran to be president of the fraternity. I am eternally grateful to the people who I have worked with for three years, the people who elected me to this position, the people who stuck out long nights in the office to make this section what it is. They have given me the greatest experience of my life. But when it finally hit me more than a year ago that I would be the one in the editor’s chair, I couldn’tshake the question: Would I always be perceived as less of a sports editor because my name is Meredith? I wrestled over whether I wanted to answer this question now, whether I wanted •

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MeredithShiner (right) would like to thankSports Photo Editor Laura Beth Douglas for a fantastic year.

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SHINER from page 13 my last act as editor to be one marked by my gender, particularly after spending three years trying to make it a non-issue. But at a time when gender is at the forefront of discourse nationally and on this campus, I think I would regret not taking this opportunity to reflect on my experience. I can’t speak for all women. I can’t speak for The Chronicle. I can’t even speak for the average Duke student (I think I gave up that privilege when 1 didn’t leave 301 Flowers for more than 12 months). I can only speak for myself. And I’m not doing this to elicit any sort of pity or pat on the back. How could I when I’ve had the coolest extracurricular Job in the country for a whole year and almost 150 issues to show for it? But in a perfect world, my tenure as sports editor would have been no different than those of the editors who came before me. The world, though, is not perfect and neither are we. Equality is not something that will ever be achieved quickly, if at all. Knowing that, we go about the business of building our lives anyway, maneuvering around the constrictions placed upon us in the hopes that one day, by doing so, we overcome them. I’ll never forget the first phone call I fielded in my official capacity last spring, when a news associate came back to the sports hall to let me know that an editor from a local publication wanted to speak with next year’s sports editor. I turned quickly in my chair, with a sort of half-smile—that’s me—and picked up the phone. “The Chronicle, this is Meredith.” “I’m sorry. I was looking for next year’s sports editor.” “You’re speaking to her.” [Awkward silence] “Oh. Wow. Good for you.”

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I joked about this moment later with my friends. The editor didn’t mean to be patronizing or offensive, he was just reacting instinctively to what he thought he knew. It was only the first ofmany subde (or not-sosubtle) moments when I was made acutely aware of my gender—from deciding what to wear to interviews (“If you wear a skirt, you’re reminding Coach K you’re a girl,” a trusted former editor advised, as if that wouldn’t be blatantly obvious in pants) to the screams of “Female reporter!” every time I stepped into a locker room. Contrary to the beliefs expressed by Duke’s studentbody president in an October

article printed in these pages, as a female, I’ve never had any problems maintaining relationships with coaches or administrators. I was respectful and, I think, respected, by the adults with whom I worked. Although I understand that running a sports section is differentfrom running a student government, I also know I’ve operated in one of the most male-dominated spheres on this campus and wasn’t any better or worse because I’m a woman—-just different. In that same article, the DSG president suggested the solution to this problem was to get more female administrators on campus so we girls could have someone to

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relate to. I’m all for a stronger female presence in the Allen Building, but I think this comment speaks to the central obstacle facing driven women on this campus. The problem lies not with the administration, but with students. My greatest disappointment and failure as a sports editor was that we were only able to recruit two freshmen to consistently write for sports. Neither of them are male. Maybe the demographics of this campus are changing and fewer students are interested in sports or working for The Chronicle. Maybe it was an off year. But maybe it was that the freshman guys who walked through the 301 doors didn’t give me a chance to be Shiner and dismissed me as merely Meredith. Part of me hopes that our inability to get more writers was a direct result of my appearance—at least that way, I can be confident in the survival of the most important piece of my Duke life, this section, when I hand the reins to a male editor. The other, smaller and more selfish part of me hopes that wasn’t the case, that the average modern male can be receptive to a woman in sports who doesn’t look like Erin Andrews. When Clemson came to Cameron last year—you know, the “McClutch game”—I was standing outside of the gym, alone with an extra press pass in hand and waiting for my fellow Chronicle writer. A woman with her teenage daughter walked past me and then did a double take, pausing and circling back. She then asked me if I was really a reporter. When I said yes, her eyes lit up with approval and she admitted she had been taken aback by my appearance, “Aren’t you supposed to be fat and bald?” “Oh, and I really love your boots.” In the end, while I might not have been the best sports editor, or the worst, I was

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the long run, the players, the coaches and the fans don’t care what you wrote or if you were even there. It’s fun for a while, but at some point the thrill fades. So why, you ask, have I stuck around The Chronicle for this long? It’s because, if you’re lucky, you’ll write a story that in some' way touches someone’s life—and it usually doesn’t happen in men’s basketball. My freshman year, I was somewhat randomly assigned to the men’s golf beat, a standard non-revenue job for a cub reporter. It is supposed to be a training ground, where a novice learns how to talk to sources and write game stories and features. Because golf is almost entirely played on the road, I did most of my reporting through phone calls to the players and the team’s head coach, the late Rod Myers. Known as one of the nicest men in the world of college athletics, Myers always made sure he had time to speak to me, no matter when it was. On one phone call, as I was preparing to write a preview of an upcoming tournament, I called Coach in the early evening when he was not expecting it. Greeting me with his typical, hearty, “Hey Andrew, how are you doing?” he asked if he could put me on hold for a few moments. Of course, I said. When Myers returned, he apologized for his absence, telling me he and his wife were having dinner at the house offormerDirector ofAthleticsTom Butters, and he had stepped out to take my call. I apologized profusely for interrupting and asked if I could call him later. “Don’t be silly,” he said. “Fire away.” That’s the type ofpersonal touch that makes you, as ajoumalist and a person, feel good. It’s whyyou’re happy to cover these teams. The next fall, before I handed the beat over to a new green reporter, I penned one

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Although he was not Duke's most recognizable coach, the lateRod Myers was one of the best interviews. final feature about a member of the team, then-junior Jake Grodzinsky. The article focused on Grodzinsky’s improved play and jovial demeanor, a light piece that attempted to reflect his personality. (In my only face-toface interaction with him, Grodzinsky spoke only in the third person, giving some of the funnier quotes ever to grace these pages.) The day that feature ran, I saw Grodzinsky from afar on campus. He was carrying a stack of.newspapers a foot high. Through all my hard work at The Chronicle, all of the travel, the stories about national news and those that have become national headlines, that may have been my proudest moment. It wasn’t about the most popular college basketball team in the country, but it actually touched the life of a fellow college student. As cheesy as it sounds, it made a difference.

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Mahato murder until the March 13 capture of 17-year-old suspect Laurence Lovette. John'Burness, senior vice president for public affairs meetPatrick Baker said he called a and government relations, said Duke was ready to offer a City Manager ing several weeks ago among DPD and members of the reward for information relating to the Mahato case, but had slopped seeking information when suspect Stephen press in an effort to foster communication. felt like times was as the PoOates was indicted with the murder Feb. 5. DPD, however, I acting at “Quite frankly, I lice Department’s [Public Information Officer],” Baker continued to look for suspects following Oates’ capture, said. “1 think this meeting came out of the sense ofmy own but Burness said he had been unaware that the case was frustration—it was clear that good lines ofcommunication still open. “There certainly have been times when the communididn’t really exist.” ty—including the Duke commuBaker added that the meeting —haven’t quite understood nity served as a forum for sharing in“There certainly have been what the Durham Police Departformation and voicing concerns ment was doing and why,” he times when the community about both the Police Departsaid. and the media ment Duke community Burness added that the Police Bob Ashley, editor of The including the might have its rea(Durham) Herald-Sun, expressed haven’t quite understood what Department sons to keep sensitive informadissatisfaction with the Departthe Durham Police Department tion quiet. “[Police] are trying to ment’s speed ofresponse. get to the bad people, as it were, “Our sense of urgency doesn’t was doing and why.” and if it’s known that they are he shared,” seem to be always Burness looking for them, its harder to said. “I can’t tell whether it’s get them.” just sort of embedded culture or Baker said the city is planwhether it’s a conscious decision ning to add at least one more person to the media reon some level.” Ashley added that during the Mahato case, DPD lations department of DPD. He added that he thinks held fewer press conferences and circulated less inforDPD does' not intentionally hide information that is mation than the Chapel Hill Police Department did appropriate for release. “I don’t know if there will ever be a situation when University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill stuwhere everybody can be happy,” he said. “The media dent body president and senior Eve Carson was muris always going to want more information than we dered March 5. did not distribute releases related to the can give them.” DPD any press

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Scott Savitt, Trinity ’B5 and a former foreign correspondent for United Press International and the Los Angeles Times in Beijing, is a friend of Wang who has been advising her as well as commenting on the case for the media. He said he has fielded an inordinate number of media inquiries for Wang. “[This story] is as big as it gets some people say it’s rivaling the lacrosse story,” said Savitt. “This is First Amendment 101.” John Bumess, seniorvice president for public affairs and government relations, said he heard chatter about Wang’s ordeal during a visit to Harvard University last week but said the story is not of the same ilk as the lacrosse case. He added that he does not feel that Wang’s experiences reflect poorly on the University. “I don’t think this story is about Duke,” he said. “I think this story is about China and Tibet and the nature of the tensions that are there. The Duke student happens to be in the middle of a much larger story.” For Wang, being die center of an international news story has been an almost unbearable experience. She said she is wracked with worry about die safety of her parents —whose home in China has been vandalized—and hopes the glare of die media will shift to political freedoms in China and Tibet. “If the media is only focusing on my situation, it isn’t worth it,” Wang said. “I want to lead a really quiet and meaningful life. [But] if it’s about something else, if it’s about the future of China and this new generation and whether they want to speak out at all, then it’s probably worth it.”

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Sen. Clinton has said she hopes to double the Pell Grant maximum to $lO,BOO and allow students to pay off their undergraduate or graduate debt with careers in public service. Chelsea Clinton added that middle-class citizens would receive expanded eligibility for Pell Grants, lowerinterest rates—capped at 3.4 percent —for loans and the ability to pay back loans through civic engagement. Among all other issues, however, Clinton said she is most proud of her mother’s support for universal health care. “You’re more likely to die in this country if you don’t have health insurance,” she said. “Universal health care coverage is not only morally imperative, but it also lowers cost.” When faced with more aggressive questions from students on topics such as Chinese-Tibetanrelations and Monica Lewinsky, Clinton refocused conversation on international health care and human rights. “We have to reinstate our position in the world,” she said. “We can do this through strengthening international public health standards and establishing a holistic relationship with China.” When one student questioned Sen. Clinton’s conduct in the handling of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Clinton defended her mother by speaking about the senator’s ability to overcome both personal and political hardships. While the crowd awaited Clinton’s arrival, they were entertained by actor and Clinton supporter Sean Astin, popular for his roles in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and “Rudy.” “[Chelsea] has a quiet strength and a depth of understanding of her mom’s

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me to make a broad, generalizing and potentially racially offensive statement: White people love journey,

and I don’t understand why. Every social event I’ve attended in my illustrious Duke career, from frat party to semiformal to Maya Angelou’s orientation address, is immediately transformed as soon as “Don’t Stop Believing” begins to play. People seem to go into trance-like state when Steve Perry’s tenor is heard, similar to when Britney Spears sees a pack of Twinkies. It has been four years since I left the “monotonatic” world varun lella of Tyler,J, Texas. Who likes senior column kru about alt-councountry? What try? What about Christian country? No lakers? In that long time since I still haven’t figured out the love for Journey. 1 mean, honestly, why pick Journey over what I believe is the superior ’Bos rock band, Foreigner? Sure, “Don’t Stop Believing” and “Anyway You Want It” are great, but they just can’t compete with “Double Vision,” “Cold As Ice,” “I Want to Know What Love Is," and the list goes on and on. The demand for Journey led to an entire student movement to bring the band for LDOC—if forming Facebook groups counts as a movement. Though the group fell short of their ultimate goal, Journey cover band Frontiers will be playing before the main act today on LDOC. It is rather appropriate that Journey and Duke collide on LDOC, because I feel like the annual undergraduate bacchanalia is a perfect example of the musical things I don’t understand about my Caucasian peers. My LDOC headliners have been Collective Soul, Ouster, Jason Mraz and Third Eye Blind. With the exception of Ouster, the acts haven’t exactly been critical darlings. However, not being accepted in the pretentious world of music critics isn’t enough to discount the bands. A bigger problem is that the acts have all come to the Main Quad stage a few too many years past their prime. What’s worse, these acts specialize in what can only be described politely as wussy rock, hardly fitting for what should be the most rambunctious day of the semester. LDOC seems like the perfect place to bring a musical act that can really bring the campus alive, not lull us into a sunnyyacht-ride-on-a-weekend-trip-to-Cape-Cod sense of sleepiness. Why choose Collective Soul when there are currently popular or up-and-coming acts that have some modern relevance and what could be considered musical talent? Let’s aim for a musical act that really knows how to rock. And if we are really lucky we may get a band that rawks, but that is just idealistic hope. The most common answer I receive when I lodge this complaint to the Bureau ofFriends Who Listen to Varun Rant is, “Well, they are limited by budget restrictions.” Mount Holyoke College is bringing M.I.A. for their spring concert and brought Kanye West and Hellogoodbye in previous years (although the show is only free to the first 100 students). Are you kidding me? We are being shown up by Mount Holyoke? First it is Mount Holyoke and LDOC, and before you know it Vassar will be dunking on Singler. With our budget we could bring Muse, Wolfmother, Arctic Monkeys, the White Stripes, the Black Keys or any other number of bands. Bands that have visited Duke like Franz Ferdinand and Death Cab for Cube make more sense for LDOC. After hours of careful introspection and two bags of bin candy, I have come to the conclusion that I will never understand my peers’ taste in music because I don’t share their propensity for nostalgia. 1 came from a small town in Texas that I wasn’t particularly fond ofand was thus usually living for the present and looking toward my future, not usually taking time to reminisce. Now after four years of happy memories, I look at the Marketplace or the massive fortress that is Gilbert-Addoms and can kind of see why people care about the past. I am starting to realize the importance of nostalgia. These bands represent distinct memories or ideas that illicit the warmest of fuzzies. This still doesn’t excuse choosingjourney over Foreigner. We are supposed to use these senior columns to leave you younger folks with a bit of trite advice gleaned from our knowledge and wisdom as seniors. But I don’t feel like it is necessary to extol cliches when Journey has been giving it to you all along: Don’t Stop Believing. I hate myself so much right now. '

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Varan IAla is a Trinity senior. He is the current recess editor and is convinced he is pretty awesome.

not easy to say goodbye.

I remember the goodbye with my parents nearly four years ago when they left their 18-yearold son at the West Campus bus stop, four years of college and a world ofopportunities ahead of him. After the obligatory hugs and goodbye kisses, my dad had a few final words for me, “Greg,” he said, “I better not get a call from the Durham Police Department.” So far, so good. Now it’s time for me to say goodbye to what has become my home over the last four years, and over the past few days I’ve been greg beaton trying to decide whether I senior column want my final words in this newspaper to be in jest like my dad’s were (hopefully) that day, or whether I should search for something more meaningful. Onefriend told me I should make a list of suggestions about how I would change Duke, but I’m not really into whining about things thathavealmost no chance ofchanging. (OK, you got me, I am—but not right now.) Another friend suggested I take some parting shots at die people in the athletics department I’ve challenged over the years, but it doesn’t seem quite worth it at this point to bum more bridges than I already have. A third friend said it might be funny ifI offered advice for incoming Duke students, but I don’tthink I could fit thatall into one column. Most of all, though, I think it’s been tough to find the words to say goodbye to college because it isn’t really about saying goodbye to college. It’s about saying goodbye to childhood, to innocence, to irresponsibility. For all of us that aren’t headed to graduate school next year, college is the final stop on the predetermined path our parents set us on two decades ago. Sure, there were some choices along the way, but for most of us at Duke, it was assumed that graduation from some college was inevitable, the same way that we finished elementary, middle and high school before getting in and deciding to come here.

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is my last hurrah. In two weeks, my script will end. And although the scenes will be fleeting, my memories ofDuke will remain, complete with photogenic smiles that can never be detagged. It will be tragic but beautiful, much like those troubled tales of romance that make for good chats over coffee at brunch. The tears will be inevitable—like those that mark the end of sorority date functions—but undoubtedly minqyang liu drowned in cheap wine or Senior Column local microbrewery beer. I can almost taste the nos tilgia of that Carolina sunset But until then, I will continue to write and recite the lines for the character I’ve so meticulously embodiedfor the past four years. “Who’s Ming?” I’m still flattered when I hear this even though the response has always been the same: “She’s a [insert undergraduate year here]. Kappa. Works for The Chronicle. Pre-med... maybe?” I suppose all of those things are true. Except, I’m not blonde or Southern (and for most of my life, I wasn’t even American). And I don’t actually read The Chronicle. (It’s true, and I’m sorry.) But call me in a few years and maybe I’ll give you a discount on that Botox. Before I arrived in Durham, one unofficial profile of our university told me that walking around West Campus islike walking into an Abercrombie & Fitch ad. And like most new arrivals, I saw my collegiate self as a blank canvas. So I thought, ifI could paint myself into a meticulously Photoshopped adolescent with great teethand a chiseled physique justby going to school, then sign me up! I guess what they were describing was the notorious “effortless perfection” (which, if you haven’t realized, applies to guys too.). Duke students want to be wanted. (And need to be needed?) We strive for validation—from our peers, future employ ers or that guy who more or less imposed an anatomy lesson on you at Shooters. In doing so, we subject ourselves to becoming agents of a grander play that takes place on this NeoGothic stage of pampered foliage and unreasonably expensive .

I would be remiss to not—and embarrassed if I couldn’t—take a few moments toreflect on how I have matured during my time in Durham. My classes have challenged me intellectually, though there are still some books on my shelfI wish I had read more closely. My friends and peers liave shaped my personality, helping me to strike better balancesbetween confidence and humility, sarcasm and seriousness, compassion and strength ofconviction. My thousands of hours working at The Chronicle (no exaggeration) have prepared me for thereal woridworking environment, which I doubt will ever be as fun as it has been for the past four years in 301 Flowers. College is supposed to be about becoming an adult, and all of thesefactors have pointed me in that direction. But in manyways, I think college is really about finishing childhood. After thisyear, it will never again be appropriate to spend an entire day in bed watching TV because I’m too lazy (or hungover) to get dressed I can’t imagine either that it will seem like the right decision to spend an entire finals week beating a video game, to skip class to play golf or to drive through the night with seven friends in a rented RV to spend a couple nights partying in New Orleans atMardi Gras. All of these hypothetically, of course. It’s not that life after college won’tbe fun and rewarding. Isn’t that why we came to Duke in the first place? Like my classmates, I’m leaving college prepared to lead what I hope and expect to be a happy, healthy and successful life. But after this, the mistakes I make will be 100 percent on me. Not on Duke, not on my parents; my actions will be my responsibility. Every step before Life After College, from grade school to summer camp to college, had some level of safety net built in. If I fell down, there was someone there who not only would—but had to—help me back up. So most of all, my goodbye is to the safety net that was childhood. Goodbye Mom and Dad’s credit card. Goodbye youthful spontaneity. Goodbye consequence-less actions. Goodbye irresponsible indiscretions. It’s not easy to say goodbye, but it’s time.

Greg Beaton is a Trinity senior. He has worked for The Chronicle for four years, serving as the paper’s sports editor during his junior year. He would like to thank his family and friendsfor all their support.

must go on facilities. Some time between the social priming offreshman year and the debauchery of sophomore year, we emerge with an identity that will carry us through graduation and beyond. If this is all a part of some choreographed routine for us to strive to be our best, then why not dance on? On this stage, we are invincible. Every conceivable plot and prop is within our reach. Think of the lattes in the library and drinks at the WaDuke. Wireless access to Facebook and infinite resources for that last-minute term paper. Not to mention, falling in and out oflove before a semester’s end. News of robbery/date rape/murder fills our inboxes but makes for little more than a conversation starter with a friend from freshman year ora nebulous significant other. We live in a bubble enclosed by a metaphorical three-foot wall within which we are inundated with trivial problems that seem to have monumental bearing on our ability to function. We snuggle in pursuit of eccentricities to define ourselves while still trying to fit into the groove of great expectations. But there’s more to be said for this charade because, after all, what’s a tale without conflict? Along this epic journey to “find your passion,” you will undoubtedly encounter the realities of life, which will ultimately lead you to one ofa few places: Wall Street, grad school or your parents’ house. Having accumulated 40-plus credits on my transcript, I can say I walked away with at least a handful of intellectually stimulating experiences (thanks, Alma). But the moments that shaped me the most happened at 6 p.m. every day freshman year at the Marketplace, offEast while looking for a crime scene, as I rode shotgun toward thebeach with the sun setting in the rearview mirror and hand-in-hand as I promenaded with my girlfriends in Fleishman Commons post-Tailgate. So when the curtain finally draws to a close, will you be there for the standing ovation? Or will you have checked out a long time ago, wondering why you dropped $40,000 a year for this show? Whatever the case may be, the show must go on. As I exit the stage and take my final bow, I will step out of my battered Rainbow sandals and into the next chapter ofmy narrative. And as for Duke, I welcome the new cast ofcharacters who will inevitably fumble on the same lines, improvise hereand there, and maybe retire with a similar sense ofwisdomand contentment

Mingyang Liu is a Trinity senior. She is a senior editorand recruitment chair at The Chronicle. She wants to welcome back AH Herman to this Gothic Wonderland.

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has only been at Duke since 2004, but has already demonstrated impressive leadership, As CEO of Duke University Health System and chancellor for health affairs, he has aggressively expanded the visibility and scope of the Duke medical system. Under his guidance, Duke has jumped to second place in overall funding from the National Institutes of Health, behind only Johns Hopkins University. At the same time, Dzau has expanded Duke’s presence in the international medical community, in part through new initiatives. This globalized push is impressive and has already borne tangible results for students, including the global health certificate program

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This

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the Chronicle office. One day, much to my surprise and amusement, the bottom of one stack yielded an interest form I’d filled out at a Chronicle freshman info session in Fall 2005. I Perhaps should have known that I was destined for editorship when I scrawled “copyediting/proofreading” in the Other section at david graham the bottom of the sheet. But back from the editor's desk then, all I wanted to do was report. I couldn’t wait to make my first phone calls, write my first lede, file my first story. And I remember my awe as I listened to the editor, who led that information session. (I live in both hope and peculiar fear that some freshmen saw me that way at the beginning of this year.) Now, as it did that day, the editor’s job awes me. To be editor is to become one with The Chronicle, to know every nook and cranny of 301 Flowers, to know how to fix the copy machine, the fax machine, the most mangled article and the most mangled office friendship. It is putting the paper to bed at 4 a.m., napping for an hour or two in Weasel’s Place and then getting back up to interview an administrator first thing the next morning. It is the thrill of reading a story late at night, knowing that a reporter has explored every angle of the issue and that an editor has done her damnedest to turn a good story into a truly great one. It is picking up one of the nation’s best college papers each morning and feeling on top of the world, and it is being despised as the lowest of the low because ofwhatever error or supposed slant has made its way into the day’s edition. It is waking up every morning (or afternoon, sometimes) knowing you’ll spend at least 12 hours in the office. It is demoralizing, exhausting, hazardous to one’s health and grades. It is the greatest privilege a Duke student can have, and it is absolute bliss. I am proud of the 149 newspapers we’ve put out this year, and I think we’ve more often than

not lived up to our billing as the Tower of Campus Thought and Action. The late, great Chronicle editor Matthew Sclafani once wrote, “Journalism is perhaps the only profession in which you receive more criticism for doing a better job. I get worried when people stop blasting The Chronicle, because'f we make everyone happy, we aren’t doing our jobs.” I know there are some readers who will be pleased to see me go, and will no doubt tell me so in the online comments on this article. I especially await the input of the cowardly ones who comment anonymously—-John Matthews, Trinity ’69 and Grad ’76 and ’B4, who blogs as John in Carolina, and his ilk. Rest assured, I will enjoy reading all your comments even more than you will enjoy writing them. But for your benefit andfor the record, I’ve never been a card-carrying member of the ACLU (or even a CARD CARRYING MEMBER); I’ve received no payoffs from the Brodhead administration, as my pitifully small bankbook can attest; missed stories are the result of overtaxed staffers balancing class, life and work, and not a Marxist agenda; and no, I’ve never taken a class with a member of the Group of 88, whose poor judgment in placing that infamous ad still boggles my mind. And if we at The Qhronide had the organizational skills and sinister mastermind some have imputed to us, we’d be off making our fortunes, not spending 80 hours each week in a cramped third-floor office squinting at computer screens, desperate to squeeze jobs out of a dying industry. I was, however, completely wrong when I predicted that the lacrosse case was over, although I still absolutely believe that most students would like to see the case over and done with. I see now that that’s not going to happen so easily, and I’ve come to believe that the litigation process is necessary for whatever closure there will ever be for this University, its students, its professoriate and its alumni. As for me, my term ends with this issue. I will relinquish the editor’s desk and return to the newsroom. All over this campus, there are issues to report, sources to interview and stories to file. I can’t wait. .

David Graham is a Trinity junior and editor of The Chronicle. Like his predecessors, he aches with the knowledge that he will never be either again.

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letterstotheeditor CASA, UC-CANF in support of Grace Wang

On behalf of Duke’s Cuban American Student Association and the Duke Chapter of the University Council of the Cuban American National Foundation, I would like to express our solidarity with Grace Wang. As members of the Cuban Diaspora, we empathize with the cause of free thought and free speech throughout the world. We also understand the workings of a totalitarian government which threatens the lives of those who stand up for what they believe in. We admire Wang for standing up for her beliefs, in spite of the personal repercussions inflicted upon her by an oppressive regime. She does not stand alone. May human rights and civil liberties be respected in China, in Tibet, in Cuba and throughout the world. Alexandra Villasante Pratt ’lO

ies Initiative has highlighted a glaring deficiency in Duke’s educational offerings. Progress in this area needs to begin immediately. In addition to classes focusing on politics and economics, there should also be a greater focus on South Asian languages. Currently, the only such language offered is Hindi, but this is by no means the sole language spoken in South Asia. For example, Urdu is the official language ofPakistan, Telegu is one of the top 15 spoken languages of the world and more than 77 million people worldwide-speak Tamil. However, to learn these languages at Duke, one must enroll in online courses or travel to UNC or N.C. State. For many, this is not a viable option. Duke should offer its own South Asian language courses, both for students interested in the languages themselves and for students interested in the advanced study of the region’s economics and

politics. Swathi Appachi Trinity 'O9

Duke: pick up slack in South Asian language studies The

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The sentimental senior column My

closest childhood friend—since the second grade to be exact—finally came to Duke for a visit. It only took four years of incessant bothering. I called her at least once a semester solely reminding her of the plane ticket she needed to purchase; I also emphasized during our every shopping trip that a plane ticket to Durham is certainly superior to a new handbag or a fresh pair of jeans. I quickly pointed out that the purse she wanted to buy was ugly, and, conversely, visiting me would be a once- rachet mclaughlin

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e or ess memory-making experience. So I guess you get that I had to grovel and threaten our friendship in order for her to leave her life in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, for a one-weekend visit to the Gothic Wonderland. But I know the reason for this necessary effort (besides her predilection for accessories): Duke just didn’t sound that great. Being my best friend from home, she has had to deal with my once-a-semester sleep-deprived breakdown, where I call her at 5 a.m., delirious from camping out in a commons room writing a 30-page paper, rambling about how there is no way I can write all these papers all the time anymore and that “I hate this school.” These dreaded early-morning accounts of the Duke intensity, girls on treadmills, sorority drama, the social hierarchy and dammit—people who just don’t share our wholesome, solid, down-to-earth Midwestern values. From these accounts she probably thought the average Duke student needed to be forcibly removed from the Perkins stacks and to a rehab center, celebrity-style. Now, I definitely told her stories about how much I loved Duke, recounting tailgates, adventures abroad, Myrtle and my wonderful friends, but the frantic wakeup calls are the stories that stuck. Consequently, this weekend she was pleasantly sur*-

prised. As we lounged in the gardens—picturesque with couples cuddling on blankets, a family tossing a Frisbee, a group of friends engaged in a lovely game of Red Rover, and flower petals dusting the grass —she said matter-of-factly: “Rachel, you are a lucky b Not only did she “ooh” and “ahh” at the campus’ resemblance to Hogwarts and the beauty of the gardens in 80-degree weather, she was impressed with the people. She left our last Baldwin Scholars meeting of the year raving about how she loved the witty sense of humor in the room and how everyone there was, frankly, exciting. In all, she expected to encoun-

snotty rich kids and instead found that Duke students were quirky, grounded and up for anything. Of course, I attributed this to my natural knack for picking extraordinary friends. But I knew the truth: I am ter

most definitely lucky.

Thus, after writing a year’s worth of critical columns deriding national sorority organizations and their lack of vision, emphasizing the dearth of socioeconomic diversity at Duke and calling for the end of political caucuses—I sign off with the truly sentimental. Thank you, Duke. Notjust for bringing Stephan Jenkins to LDOC today and allowing me to relive the late 19905. More seriously: Thank you for transforming my life. This means thanks for the Baldwin Scholars Program. I have the deepest respect and highest regard for every woman in our class of 18—women who have helped me discover my passion, my values, who hold me accountable (i.e. don’t put up with my shit) and who encourage me to take the big risks. I would not have survived Duke without the support of such an exciting, —

motivating community. Thanks for public policy—a discipline that has helped me combine my political activism with practical tools for change. After four years in the Sanford Building, my professors and work-study bosses are now my greatest mentors and friends. The Sanford Institute is dynamic, churning out graduates with a profound, life-long commitment to civic engagement.

And most importantly, this is a thanks to my fellow Duke students and my best friends here, who with their intelligence, zeal, drive and quest for the next journey have inspired me to break boundaries I would have never approached. Getting my first passport so I could go on a global health Focus trip to Costa Rica and then using that passport four months later to study abroad in Spain. Taking a class with a hard but worth-it professor. Writing that honors senior thesis. Exploring a new field with an internship. Learning spontaneity—abandoning school-work for political campaigns and weekend road trips. Applying for international fellowships in countries far outside my comfort zone. Oh, and writing a Chronicle column, which affords the perk of spending a whole final column, more than 700 words, writing a thank-you speech reminiscent of a tearful and happy Oscar win. Yes, my best friend could not have been more right about Dukies this weekend. You are good people —so don’t be strangers after we leave the bubble. With this, I sign off. Rachel McLaughlin is a Trinity senior. This is her final column.

Things you can t learn in class Whenever

you go out, you need 5 things: Your wallet (with ID, cash and condom), cell phone, keys, gum and ChapStick. Many people overlook the Chap Stick, but let me assure you, there is nothing quite so shockingly unpleasant than to go in for that first kiss only to discover that her lips go: crackle crackle crackle. Two of the notable exceptions to the generally unremarkable Duke administration team are Steve Nowicki, dean of undergraduate education, andjim Wulforst, director of dining services. These two gentlemen have redddlTl ZGII peatedly demonstrated that they tmly understand and care about re f| eCtive Solution* the welfare of the students. If I had to do it all again, there are three things I would keep the same: I would Join a fraternity, I would join Army ROTC and I would fall in love with the same girl. It’s interesting that at a campus with such iippressive entrance scores being geeky is still socially unacceptable. Being in a fraternity gives you an instant extended social circle. Most (but not all) will also introduce you to people you might not normally seek out on your own. Army ROTC is one of the hidden treasures of Duke University. Not only can it help your GPA but it will give you the opportunity for real leadership training that you often can’t get at Duke. And playing paintball in Eno isn’t too bad either. Love at Duke is dangerous but worth the risk. Duke social life is too small to have a clean break, which is why many people choose the hook-up culture as a pre-emptive defense against being confronted with a broken heart. However, that choice, which precludes the blossoming of a truly loving relationship, is a mistake. Falling in love was the best part of my Duke experience. For a long-term relationship or multiple short-term ones, a queen-size bed is a must. I came to this university eager for Truth and Justice and am leaving entirely uninterested in either. I realized that many people, including myself, were all pursuing proxy goals, secondary goals that we mistakenly thought would lead us to what we truly wanted. Given my overly intellectual inclination, I thought Truth and Justice would lead me to Happiness. Whoops. There’s a reason that intelligence has a negative correlation with happiness. We each pay $160,000 not for a Duke education but for the Duke experience. Given that universities award tenure based on research acumen and not teaching prowess and that the calculus here is the same calculus at UNC, actual education is more of a commodity. We are paying for the privilege of socializing and networking with other people accepted to Duke. Durham... sigh. It has all of the crime of a major city with none of the nightlife. In a 1991 poll, the two books chosen by Americans as having a profound impact on their lives were the Bible and “Atlas Shrugged.” I highly recommend reading them both. Start collecting your anecdotes. In an interview, a line on your resume is simply an opening for you to launch into a story, which should demonstrate a skill set, your personality and ability to connect with an audience. I applied Early Decision to Duke because it was the only school to pass my two criteria: having a top-10 ranking and being below the Mason-Dixon Line. I stand by my decision (that one always gets a chuckle in an interview). Study abroad—that I didn’t is my biggest regret about Duke. Don’t use LimeWire. It’s very easy for large associations representing the recording industry and rapacious lawyers to collect evidence that you’re “sharing” files. And when you get caught, President Brodhead and Larry Moneta will not have your back. Although I must thank them—their abandonment of students inspired me to get this column. Take road trips' Even places that might seem boring can be a blast if you’re with a friend and armed with the knowledge that you likely won’t face any lasting consequences. Be wary of that girl by the keg—date rape does happen to men. Complete your graduation requirements. Be careful what you say about Tibet. Apparently, Duke enjoys a large and rabidly nationalist Chinese population lacking respect for freedom of speech. Stand up for causes you believe in, unless it’s a weekend night. Then you should go out Have fun. Later in life people will give you a free pass on past outrageous behavior if you simply tell them, “It was college.” Adam Zell is a Trinity senior. This is hisfinal column.

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