The Chronicle Prez pushes for dialogue via Amethyst
Director of Athletics to live in Few
Jazzing up the art scene
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Brodhead encourages more
alcohol education by
Shuchi Parikh THE CHRONICLE
Don’t ask President Richard Brodhead whether he supports lowering the drinking age. As if repeating a statement, Brodhead will say firmly that he neither advocates nor thinks it worthwhile to fixate on such a policy. And though his signing of the Amethyst Initiative—a pledge that decries the effectiveness of the 21-year-old drinking some age —has cause opponents of the moveROWS a ment to speculate oth-v erwise, Brodhead insists that his pledge is
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lutely not” about the legal age limit. “The question about the drinking age is really not the interesting question,” he said. Instead, the interesting question is whether discussion can focus primarily on responsible behavior and alcohol education—and only then touch upon the age limit, he explained. Whenever Brodhead speaks, he chooses his words carefully—and when he talks about the Amethyst Initiative, he is especially cautious to make his point clear. The current system for addressing drinking is ineffective, he said, but before anything can change, there needs to be thorough discussion. “In the existing world, we understand how we have to address this is that we have to remind people that the law is 21. We can’t encourage people to break the law. At the same time we also have to, in every way we can, urge people to understand that the freedoms of adult life require a sense of responsibility with them,” he said in a September interview with The Chronicle. “But on every campus in America there’s a need for more.” For Duke, Brodhead pointed to the recent hiring of its first associate dean and director of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Center, Tom Szigethy, as an important step toward reforming the University’s drinking culture. But at least one student said the president could do more to follow up directly on his signing of the initiative. Senior Lauren Maisel, Duke Student Government’s vice president for student affairs, said Brodhead should take advantage of the publicity his pledge has received to generate the debate SEE BRODHEAD ON PAGE
CORRECTION A Nov. 19 article,"Rhee pushes contentious education reform policy," incorrectly stated the number of Duke graduates participating in Teach for America.There are 45 2008 graduates in their first year, and 53 2007 graduates in their second year.The Chronicle regrets the error.
Ben Cohen
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Artist Barkley Hendricks compares an enlarged photograph he took of a famous jazz musician with the original print at"A Conversation with Barkley Hendricks'Tuesday in the Nasher Museum of Art.
First-year Director ofAthletics and Vice President Kevin White is new to Duke, but by next year, he might know more about student life and campus issues than most of his fellow administrators. After all, he’ll be living among students on West Campus. White and his wife, Jane, will move into Few Quadrangle and serve as Few’s Faculty-in-Residence for the Spring becoming semester, perhaps the most highprofile faculty member or administrator to live with students. “It’s going to be great fun for us to live on campus and be part of campus,” said White, who came to Duke in May after eight years at Notre Dame. “We’ll learn a whole lot about Duke that we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to learn otherwise.” Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education, first approached White about moving into the newly renovated space as he waits for his SEE WHITE ON PAGE 8
Trespassing cases put students on watch by
Julia Love
THE CHRONICLE
As temperatures plummet, students living on campus have been urged to practice extra vigilance to keep trespassers out in the cold.
Residence coordinators on East and West Campuses have sent e-mails to their residents outlining safety procedures in response to several recent incidents of trespassing in the dormitories. “With the weather getting colder, it is possible we may experience more people trying to use our residences as a haven,” Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, wrote in an e-mail to administrators Nov. 10. Just one day later, a man unaffiliated with the University was arrested for trespassing in Crowell Quadrangle after being incarcerated for sleeping overnight, showering and laundering his socks in Bell Tower Residence Hall three days earlier. In addition, Duke University Police Department suspects that “two suspicious males” who entered Randolph Residence Hall Monday may be responsible for a theft in the dormitory that evening, Residence Coordinator Chris Ellis wrote in an e-mail to residents of Blackwell Residence Hall, Randolph and Bell Tower obtained by The Chronicle. The suspects, both in their mid-to-late 20s, are described as a thin black male ofaverage height with comrows and a white male SEE WATCH ON PAGE
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Crowell Quadrangle was one of a few dormitoriesthat recently housed unwanted guests, leading administrators to encourage students to watch out for trespassers.