March, 2007 Working@Duke

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EAT FRESH

Sign up for the mobile farmers market by April 13 and pick up produce weekly at Duke Gardens.

THE HEAT IS ON

An inside look at Duke’s steam plant, a 24-hour operation serving 250 campus buildings, including the hospital.

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“A Place To Be Proud Of”

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MEET DUKE’S BASEBALL COACH

Sean McNally played third base for Duke.

Now he’s back, coaching the Blue Devils.

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An interview with President Brodhead

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hen Richard H. Brodhead, Duke’s ninth president, looks back on the past year, he said one of the untold stories is Duke employees’ commitment to service in the face of controversy.

The Duke community pulled together and reached out following allegations against members of the men’s lacrosse team, he said. Relationships with Durham and its institutions are growing. Students and staff are talking about community issues and thinking about the kind of place they want Duke to be.

“When I walk around this university every day, I see people who not only do their work, I see people who take pride in their work and who take pride in trying to live up to a certain quality of service,” Brodhead said. “In the long run, the strengths of this place will be as strong as they’ve ever been.”

Working@Duke sat down with Brodhead in February to talk more about the lacrosse situation and its affect on the Duke community.

What are you most proud of since joining Duke two and a half years ago?

All across Duke, I see people doing interesting and important work in a high-spirited way. That’s what I’m proud of. There are things I’ve wanted to accomplish as president. I started out trying to raise a lot of money for financial aid to guarantee Duke’s accessibility to students of talent from every background. Another goal was to bring together people across the university in the global health initiative to address health issues and disparities, in Durham and around the world. I would also say I’m proud of the way this university has come through the difficulties of the last 10 months. That was a very trying situation that put us really at the center of international attention for a very long time. It’s put this university under a lot of stresses, but I believe this place has held together as a community and has held together with the community of Durham in a way that we should all take pride in.

Has the lacrosse situation drawn attention away from other important issues at Duke?

Duke was caricatured as a place with all rich, white students, whereas we have nearly 40 percent minority undergraduates and more than 40 percent of our students on financial aid. Duke and Durham were also

SEE BRODHEAD, PAGE 7

Top: President Richard H. Brodhead visits with Durham Regional Hospital employees during a lunch. Middle: Brodhead meets with a local media member following allegations against members of the lacrosse team. Bottom: Brodhead, right, and student Nicole Schneider, left, volunteer at Durham Central Park.

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March 2007

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AHEAD @ DUKE MARCH 26 : : Documentary film and privacy: An analysis of the legal and ethical issues in documentary film, Frederick Wiseman, independent filmmaker and general manager, Zipporah Films, Inc., 5 p.m., Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center.

MARCH 27 : : Labyrinth at Duke Chapel, the 40-foot winding path is an ancient spiritual tradition. Walk the self-guided path to follow twists and turns in the spirit of prayer and meditation. Allow 30 minutes to an hour to complete, 10 a.m., Duke Chapel.

APRIL 10 : : New Perspectives on Civil Rights, political engagement and the Voting Rights Act, 5 p.m., Rhodes conference room, Sanford Institute.

For more events, check the university’s online calendar at http://calendar.duke.edu

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Newsbriefs Directory of summer youth camps and programs available Staff & Family Programs in Human Resources has compiled a list of 2007 summer camps and programs in Durham, Wake and Orange counties. The list includes athletic, academic and nature camps sponsored by Duke, as well as other arts and recreation camps in the area. Copies of the directory are available at the Staff & Family Programs office, 154 Trent Dr. The directory is also online at www.hr.duke.edu/child-family/camps.html.

Duke named campus sustainability leader Duke was recognized in January as a “campus sustainability leader” among higher education institutions in the United States and Canada.

The university received an overall B rating, placing it among 26 schools recognized in the “College Sustainability Report Card” for such areas as construction, energy and food and recycling. Duke also received high marks for its investment priorities, notably its $5 million investment in the Latino Community Credit Union in Durham.

“Sustainability is part of how we do business today, and we are committed to seeking new ways to protect our campus, our neighbors and our environment for years to come,” said Tavey McDaniel Capps, Duke’s environmental sustainability coordinator.

Duke received A’s in sustainable indicators such as administration, climate change and energy, food and recycling, green building and investment priorities. Duke received an F and D for endowment transparency and shareholder engagement, respectively.

“The ratings regarding the endowment reflect the transparency of investment – not the quality of those investments from a sustainability perspective,” said Anne Light, assistant director of Duke’s Office of the Executive Vice President. It is the policy of the Duke Management Company (DUMAC) to not publicly disclose how it invests Duke’s endowment or other investment assets. Read the report card at www.endowmentinstitute.org.

Submit receipts for health and dependent care reimbursement Faculty and staff enrolled in health or dependent care reimbursement accounts for 2006 (January 1 through December 31, 2006) should submit all claims by April 15 for reimbursement. To be considered for reimbursement, completed claim forms and supporting documentation must be post marked or faxed to WageWorks by April 15. Claims for 2006 submitted after this date will not be reimbursed. Claim forms are available online at www.hr.duke.edu/forms or at the Human Resources office at 705 Broad St.

Nominations for Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award being accepted This May, Duke will award a graduating senior and faculty, staff or graduate student with the Algernon Sydney Sullivan award, which recognizes excellence of character and humanitarian service. The New York Southern Society established the award in 1925 for universities in the South in memory of Sullivan, a prominent lawyer, businessman and philanthropist in the 19th century. Nominations are due by March 9.

Winners receive an engraved medallion and framed certificate signed

by President Richard Brodhead. Visit www.provost.duke.edu for forms and more information.

$1 million arrives a month early Donations for the 2006 United Way Duke Partnership Campaign reached the goal of raising $1 million at the end of January, said Monica Pallett, manager of Staff & Family Programs and campaign ambassador for Duke. The majority of funds raised support more than 30 Durham County non-profits, including the Coordinating Council for Senior Citizens, American Red Cross of Central North Carolina and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle. The million dollar mark was reached with 12 percent of faculty and staff making pledges, a 2 percent decrease from the 2005 campaign. Pallett said she hopes more employees will decide to contribute to the campaign next year. For more information about the United Way campaign, visit www.hr.duke.edu/unitedway/index.html or call Staff & Family Programs at (919) 684-9040.

Employee reading group examines white privilege, how to stand against it hen Bernie Stewart heard about a study circle that met at Duke to discuss racism, he wanted to learn more. He joined one session, then another.

Before long, he attended nearly 24 meetings.

“What hooked me was the fact that I found other white people who shared the same passion as me,” said Stewart, a registered nurse and patient safety associate for Duke Private Diagnostic Clinic. “As a 60-year-old white man born and bred in the South, I have lived through and observed first-hand the evil and cruelty of racism. Sadly, as a product of my environment, I have often contributed to racism by refusing to stand up to it. Through reading, dialogue and introspection, I’ve become more enlightened to an evil that remains quite prevalent and destructive in our society.”

Stewart was one of 23 Duke University and Health System employees who met over lunch for six weeks in January and February to discuss how racism and white privilege have affected whites and people of color, and how to confront racism.

The study circle, whose participants meet on campus during the lunch hour, was introduced by Polly Weiss, director of diversity and equity programs for Duke’s Office for Institutional Equity. Since 2003, she has facilitated 14 circles, each meeting weekly.

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Aziza Jones, a social work intern, left, and Bernie Stewart, middle, discuss white privilege with Polly Weiss, right, from the Office for Institutional Equity.

Few institutions are willing to provide such a space for dialogues about race and the effects of racism within the workplace.”

– Aziza Jones Social Work Intern

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Weiss uses books and invites circle participants to tell their personal experiences as a backdrop for dialogue about subtle privileges white people enjoy and how people can “interrupt racism” at work and in their communities.

“White privilege is a system of unearned privileges that most whites are unaware of,” Weiss said. “For example, not being followed by security guards in retail places; being given the benefit of the doubt when stopped by a police officer; or it can be institutional oppression – not having systems of accountability for recruiting or promoting under represented minorities.”

Aziza Jones, a circle participant and social work intern at Duke, learned about the study circle from her supervisor. “As a person of color, I am constantly forced to think about race and racism,” she said. “For example, I frequently find myself asking, ‘Did I get poor service because that salesperson is having a bad day, or is it because I am African American?’ ” Jones said she was pleasantly surprised Duke offers employees an opportunity to challenge themselves.

“Few institutions are willing to provide such a space for dialogues about race and the effects of racism within the workplace,” Aziza said. “Learning about the existence of this group made me hopeful and excited that in this post-civil rights era, there are still individuals and institutions working toward racial equality.”

— By Leanora Minai Working@Duke Editor

WANT MORE INFO? Visit www.duke.edu/web/equity or contact Polly Weiss at (919) 684-8222.

From farm to table EAT FRESH THROUGH DUKE’S MOBILE FARMERS MARKET “You can literally drive up right next to ark Kitchens your farmer, get out, get your box and go on traded your way,” said Kitchens, who bought shares potato chips last year from Brinkley Farms of Creedmoor. for cucumbers as Duke’s market is the first of its kind at a a snack, thanks university, said Theresa Nartea, agribusiness to Duke’s Mobile and marketing specialist for the Cooperative Farmers Market.

Extension Program at North Carolina He signed up for Agricultural & Technical State University. the first mobile Nartea helped launch the first workplace farmers market last community supported agriculture in 2002 in spring because he Research Triangle Park. She helped LIVE wanted to eat more FOR LIFE create Duke’s market. vegetables and Elizabeth Barry of the Law Library, left, enrolls in the mobile market “The mantras of ‘food with a face’ and with Mathura Spradling, right, owner of Snow Creek Family Organics support local Farm as Betsy Levitas, center, from LIVE FOR LIFE, looks on. ‘farm to table’ are resonating with our society,” growers.

Nartea said. “The mobile market serves as a A supervisor for Duke Technical Services, Kitchens touch-and-feel wellness program that can inspire other large was so pleased with his experience that he will once again workplaces to be a link between local farms and their buy shares from a local farmer’s crop during the second employees.” mobile farmers market from April to October.

Kitchens paid $13 a week for his share, comparable, Employees can sign up for the mobile market from if not cheaper than buying similar produce in a grocery 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. March 27 at the Sarah P. Duke store.

And it’s fresher. “The cucumbers had a texture that Gardens or 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 13 at the Duke was far superior to anything I’ve ever gotten in a grocery Farmers Market in front of the medical center bookstore store,” he said. off Coal Pile Drive. Employees can also sign up directly The mobile market is also beneficial for farmers such with farmers by calling or e-mailing them before April 13. as Bonnie Williams who runs Belle-Lark Farms with her The list of farmers is on the LIVE FOR LIFE Web site. family in Sanford.

Williams had 17 customers at Duke The mobile market, which is managed by LIVE last year, but she has expanded farm production to take FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee health promotion program, 30 customers this year. involves pre-paying for one or more shares, which “It’s nice when you can sell everything that you represent a part of a week’s harvest. Items vary by week grow,” she said. “The more we sell, the more encouraged and farmer. Farmers bring their products, already boxed, we are to grow.” to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens parking lot off Anderson — By Elizabeth Michalka Road from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays for pick up.

WANT TO SIGN UP?

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4:30 P.M. TO 6:30 P.M. MARCH 27, AT SARAH P. DUKE GARDENS, OR 11 A.M. TO 1 P.M. APRIL 13, AT DUKE FARMERS MARKET IN FRONT OF THE MEDICAL CENTER BOOKSTORE OFF COAL PILE DRIVE. VISIT WWW.HR.DUKE.EDU/ FARMERSMARKET/ MOBILE_MARKET.HTML OR CALL (919) 684-3136, OPTION 1.

Writer, Human Resources Communications

Brrrr…employees brave chilly days outdoors t was 25 degrees at 10 a.m., already three degrees warmer than when the February workday started. With a light wind and bright sun, Willie Summerlin said this morning would be easy, comparatively.

“Last week, we were across the road,” said Summerlin, pointing across Erwin Road toward the shady front of Duke Hospital. “We had no sun, and the wind was blowing hard. Today, we’re in the sun, moving around, doing physical labor. It’ll be okay.”

As the mercury plunged in the teens on Feb. 6, most Duke employees were able to keep warm indoors.

But some jobs on campus require dozens of grounds, police, parking and other university employees to be outdoors. Even at research sites, such as Duke Forest, employees spend significant time outside.

When a winter chill comes, some departments shift to inside work, but monitoring parking lots, providing security, directing traffic and keeping the campus clean are essential and require outside labor, said Joseph Jackson, assistant director of grounds and sanitation in the Facilities Management Department (FMD).

“This time of year, we have to do quite a bit of mulching, both for appearances and for the protection of the trees and plants,” Jackson said. “A great amount of pruning can be done while trees are dormant. And we will always have a lot of cleaning to do, particularly in the medical center area.”

During February’s cold snap, several grounds teams mulched in the morning. Summerlin and three co-workers spread mulch across beds in front of Parking Garage 2 on Erwin Road. They wore three to four layers, including university-issued thermal overalls. And they donned gloves, hats and pairs of socks.

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“The thing that has been different about this winter is that the temperatures keep rocking back,” Summerlin said. “A couple of weeks ago I was in my shorts, playing golf, and now we’ve got this. You come to work needing several layers and spend the day taking layers off.”

Supervisors regularly check in with the employees to make sure they’re warm. “During Clenton Rochelle, a sanitation equipment operator, is one of many Duke employees who breaks we’ll have worked outdoors during cold snaps in January coffee and tea and February. available,” Jackson said. “We’ll let them get into buildings and vehicles to warm up.”

Jack Chance, parking enforcement officer, spends his time outdoors, directing traffic or riding a bike.

Chance is accustomed to frigid temperatures, but on a bike, he is particularly careful about protecting himself against wind chill.

“You throw on an extra pair of wool socks, and that’s fine,” he said. “I’ve been doing this so long, I know what works for me and what doesn’t work.”

— By Geoffrey Mock and Sylvia Pfeiffenberger Duke Today

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AWAKE FOR THE

MIDNI Inside Duke’s Steam Plant

ust after midnight, Gary Sims felt the familiar vibration in the control room of Duke’s steam plant as rail cars rolled along the tracks toward the plant’s receiving area.

“That means the coal’s here,” said Sims, who has worked at the steam plant 18 years. “I can feel the building shake when the rail cars get here.”

The rumbling grew louder as a blue locomotive, affectionately referred to by employees as “the little engine that could,” pushed the rail cars, each packed with 90 tons of West Virginia coal, into a three-bay garage and over open grates in the floor.

Frank Warren, steam plant mechanic, grabbed a giant crowbar and inserted it into the bottom of a rail car. He pushed, opening the car’s frozen bottom doors. Chunks of coal poured out and through the floor grates, bound for conveyers that feed the steam plant’s three coal-fired boilers.

Year round, employees in Duke’s Facilities Management Department (FMD) unload thousands of tons of coal, the fuel that produces steam to heat Duke’s buildings, sterilize the hospital’s surgical equipment and maintain proper humidity for art work and lab research.

Day and night, control room operators monitor and feed the infernos raging inside the boilers to ensure clean steam flows through 13 miles of underground pipe.

“Most people don’t realize what we do,” said Dennis Kennedy, steam utilities manager. “It’s a behind-the-scenes operation, but it’s so critical to the success of the university.”

Nestled in the center of campus near Research Drive, the steam plant, built in 1929, is a 24-hour operation, producing 1.3 billion pounds of steam a year, enough to heat about 5,000 homes in Durham. On any given day, a black mountain – 4,000 to 6,000 tons of reserve coal – rises from the plant’s yard off Coal Pile Drive.

In addition to Duke, other universities such as Clemson, Virginia Tech, University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill operate coal plants.

Inside Duke’s plant, boilers pump steam every day, except for a one-time shutdown in August for scheduled maintenance by mechanics who pack and repair valves and fix underground pipes. During this maintenance, which takes a year to plan and coordinate, surgeries at the hospital are curtailed because steam is not available for sterilization.

“The medical center depends on the steam,” Kennedy said. “We have to supply steam 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 364-and-a-half days a year. There really is no room for error.”

That’s where FMD employees like David Long come in.

On a January day, Long sat in the control room on the plant’s main operating floor. Computer screens flashed numbers and symbols in yellow, red and green hues. The computers are part of a state-of-the-art fiber optic network that monitors 2,000 points in the steam plant.

And operators like Long ensure the numbers on gauges stay within acceptable ranges.

During his 12-hour shift, Long kept watch over the three coal boilers. The plant has three more boilers, for gas, oil and recycled fuel oil. They were not running because of unseasonably warm weather. On this 65-degree

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The locomotive arrives just after midnight at the steam plant’s receiving area off Coal Pile Drive and pushes a 90-ton coal car into one of the garage bays for unloading.

Most people don’t realize what we do. It’s a behind-the-scenes operation, but it’s so critical to the success of the university.”

— Dennis Kennedy Steam Utilities Manager

DID YOU KNOW? • The coal travels by rail from Kentucky and West Virginia to an area near the Searle Center. A locomotive, driven by hospital employees, pushes the rail cars – up to six cars a night – to the steam plant off Coal Pile Drive. Just after midnight, a section of the monorail that links Duke South Clinics and Duke North Hospital is raised, allowing the locomotive to travel to the plant.

• Approximately 85 percent of the water used to generate steam returns to the plant for reuse.

• Coal is less expensive than natural gas and oil. If gas was used as a primary fuel, the steam plant would require a major capital investment and significant increase in operating expenses.

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• Steam plant operators are licensed by the National Institute for the Uniform Licensing of Power Engineers.

IGHT TRAIN On any given day, a black mountain – 4,000 to 6,000 tons of reserve coal – rises from the plant’s yard off Coal Pile Drive.

David Long, steam plant operator, uses a long rake to “dump fire” from one of the boilers. This clears the ash, allowing fresh coal to fall into the boiler and burn to provide steam to Duke’s 250 buildings , including the hospital.

January day, 150,000 pounds of steam left the plant per hour, enough to heat 4,000 homes; on Feb. 6, when temperatures dropped in the teens, the plant produced a record of 336,000 pounds of steam per hour.

“I have to watch all my numbers, my temperatures, pressures and steam flows,” said Long, an 18-year steam plant employee. “You’ve got so many things happening at one time. It’s real challenging. You’ve got to be aware of what you’re doing at all times.”

Every six hours, Long left the control room and walked several yards to a bank of coal furnaces to “dump fires,” which clears the ash from each of the boiler’s four burning sections. As he walked, the cranking sound of feeders sprinkling coal into the boilers reverberated through the plant.

“If that squeaking stops, you’ll see three or four people running in different directions,” said Kennedy, the steam utilities manager. “It’s music to their ears.”

Long grabbed a 15-foot-long rake and opened the door to a boiler. A row of gray ash blanketed one of the boiler’s sections. In the other sections roared a 1,800-degree blaze with blinding flames that licked up the furnace.

“Nice clean fire,” said Long, as he pushed the rake with gloved hands, sweeping ash down the furnace grates.

He turned a few dials, and fresh black coal rained from a feeder, taking the place of the ash. A moment later, that section burned again, and the cycle repeated over and over.

Frank Warren, steam plant mechanic, uses a crow bar to open the bottom of a rail car to dump coal bound for conveyers in the steam plant.

Downstairs, steam plant fireman Garry Mitchell waited for a light above his head to flicker five times. When it flashed, he opened an ash door and sent the ash to silos, where it is collected and used again in concrete blocks, walking trails and road beds.

Recycling ash is not the only measure Duke is taking to protect the environment.

Each boiler has a “baghouse” with 820 filters that collect particles before they can be released through the smokestacks. Kennedy said the devices filter 99.7 percent of soot and ash. In addition, Duke is spending $4.5 million to add “lime scrubbers” to the system that will remove gases and heavy metals. These improvements keep the plant in or ahead of environmental compliance requirements.

“Duke has been very proactive when it comes to environmental issues,” Kennedy said. “There’s so much that goes on here to make the plant work efficiently. We have a responsibility not only to serve the university and health system but also to be responsible stewards of our environment.”

That philosophy makes Paul Schuler proud to be among the FMD steam plant employees who bring at least 200 years of experience to the plant’s daily operation and maintenance.

Said Schuler, “We’re a good team.”

— By Leanora Minai, Working@Duke Editor; Missy Baxter, Working@Duke Correspondent, contributed to this report.

STEAM PLANT

BY THE NUMBERS 54,000 Tons of coal burned annually

13 Miles of underground steam pipe

1,800-degrees Fahrenheit temperature at the center of a boiler coal fire 2 Number of 100-ton roof bunkers that feed coal to boilers

3 Tons of coal burned an hour in each boiler

250 University and health system buildings served

8,000 Tons of ash recycled annually

23 Employees who operate and maintain the plant

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Duke Screen Society offers flicks for free MORE THAN 35 FILMS PLAYING THIS SPRING oan Morgan enjoys catching a good movie, but not necessarily the blockbusters that most people clamor to see.

International films appeal to Morgan, staff assistant for the Program in Literature. Luckily, a theater that often shows foreign, independent and historically significant films is only a short walk from her office on East Campus.

The Richard White Auditorium on East Campus is one of three campus venues where free films are shown by Duke’s Screen/Society. The films, which are open to the public and Duke community, are also shown at the Griffith Film Theater and Nasher Museum Auditorium.

“It’s one of the best kept secrets at Duke,” Morgan said about the Screen/Society films. “It’s a treasure. It’s there, but people aren’t really taking advantage of it.”

Hank Okazaki, Screen/Society programmer, said awareness of the films has increased, but he wants to see more employees and community members at screenings.

Still, he said, high attendance numbers are not the only gauge of success.

“We like to show films that pack Griffith Theater, but we also like to show some that only bring out 10 people,” Okazaki said. “If something is well done and meaningful, then it is worthwhile showing it, even if it is only appreciated by a small audience.”

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Hank Okazaki

It’s one of the best kept secrets at Duke. It’s a treasure. It’s there, but people aren’t really taking advantage of it.”

– Joan Morgan Staff Assistant Program in Literature

The Screen/Society was originally established in the early 1990s by a group of Duke graduate students who wanted a venue to see films not available at commercial theaters. Since its re-launching in 2001 as a branch of Duke’s Film/Video/Digital Program, the Screen/Society has expanded operations and now shows 35 to 60 films each semester.

Several film series are showing this spring, including International Science Fiction Films, and films by documentarian Frederick Wiseman, who will be at Duke on March 26 as part of the Provost’s lecture series.

Wiseman will use sequences from several of his films to examine legal and ethical issues in documentary film.

Okazaki said many of the film series are co-organized by a Duke department and focus on a theme that corresponds to material taught in classes that semester.

He helps departments choose films for series, and he keeps an eye on current events, film festivals, awards, critics and publications as he considers what films to screen at Duke.

Morgan, who has watched dozens of Screen/Society films over the years, said the films are “stellar.” She’s particularly enjoyed Asian films in the Cine-East series because of the beauty of the scenes and historical context.

The films have been a draw for her and her husband after work and on weekends. “It’s a great date night,” she said.

— By Elizabeth Michalka Writer, Human Resources Communications

WANT THE FILM SCHEDULE? Visit www.fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php

e mployee spotlight MEET SEAN MCNALLY: DUKE BASEBALL PLAYER AND COACH eaching was almost predetermined in Sean McNally’s world.

The son of history teachers, McNally earned degrees in history and political science from Duke in 1994.

He says he’d probably be teaching history today had it not been for his excellence in another arena – baseball.

McNally was a four-year starter and two-year captain for the Blue Devils from 1991 to 1994. After 12 years playing and coaching professionally, he returned to Durham in the summer of 2005 as head coach for the Duke baseball team.

Though he never made it to a traditional classroom, McNally, who played third base at Duke, is still a teacher, and he relishes the role.

“That’s the other component that’s a really neat part of this job – I get a chance to teach,” McNally said recently in his office under the bleachers at Jack Coombs Field. “I’m teaching baseball. That’s probably the most fun that I have.”

McNally emphasizes his players’ academic development, in addition to their on-field progress. As he sees it, no one can be lax in one area and expect to excel in the other. This approach has proved endearing to his players.

“It’s definitely nice to have somebody that you’re playing for who takes as much pride in the school and the baseball program as you do,” said senior Jonathan Anderson. “You understand he played here and everything means a lot to him, so you want to show him the respect.”

Before returning to Duke as baseball coach a year-anda-half ago, McNally spent the three previous years coaching in the Cleveland Indians organization. He began to wonder what his career path might be. He was unsure if

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SEAN MCNALLY STATS AS A DUKE PLAYER

.408 DUKE SINGLE-SEASON RECORD FOR BATTING AVERAGE

.775 DUKE SINGLE-SEASON RECORD FOR SLUGGING PERCENTAGE

181 RANKS FOURTH AMONG DUKE CAREER LEADERS IN RUNS BATTED IN

172 RANKS EIGHTH AMONG DUKE CAREER LEADERS IN RUNS SCORED

251 RANKS NINTH AMONG DUKE CAREER LEADERS IN HITS

.332 RANKS EIGHTH AMONG DUKE’S CAREER LEADERS IN BATTING AVERAGE

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he wanted to remain a coach, become a scout or move into the front office.

When he accepted the job at Duke, he got the opportunity to do all three.

“In pro ball, everything is segmented,” said McNally, 34.

“You’re either on the field, scouting in the stands or you’re a front-office guy. At the college level, you get to combine all three. It’s forced me to grow much more than I would have in pro ball doing one specific thing in one area.”

The Blue Devils went 15-40 in McNally’s first season (6-24 in the ACC). They have not won an ACC championship or reached the College World Series since 1961. But his team, which began play Feb. 10, is young.

The Blue Devils feature 10 freshmen, five sophomores, six juniors and two seniors.

“Some days we’ll come out and play great and other days you don’t know,” McNally said. “I know we’ll be excited, energetic and ready to go every single day.”

— By Tim Candon Working@Duke Correspondent

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caricatured as bitterly estranged forces. But people have been working together in this city for years and years. This has been a painful episode, yet Duke has not lost sight of its mission, which is to create an excellent education, to support the kind of research that pushes the frontiers of knowledge, and to offer truly excellent patient care to thousands and thousands of people every year. Every day, our students, faculty and staff are making a difference in our community and around the world.

How do you think the lacrosse issue has affected people who work here?

The story we’ve all lived through has contained bitterly divisive issues. I think it’s very important for the community to be able to take seriously issues of race, respect, and treatment of women without drawing unwarranted conclusions about this particular legal case. When I think how this has affected the people who work here, I bet it’s pretty similar to the way it’s affected me, which is, anywhere I go in this city or the country, and people say, ‘Where do you work?’ and you say, ‘Duke,’ the first thing that comes to their mind is this story. We’ve all endured a lot of questions and comments as a result.

What would you say to them?

mission. I think that has been the great plus, and one of the great untold stories of this university. By facing the lessons this event brings, we can make Duke a better place.

What would you say to someone considering working here about the environment at Duke?

People look deeper than yesterday’s sensational headlines before they make judgments about a place to work or a place to go to school. Actually, all through last spring, we recruited a new class of students; we hired lots of faculty; and we’ve successfully hired lots of staff since last year as well.

I believe that anybody who cares to look at Duke understands that this is a great university with great people. A few weeks ago, we had an event in Boston When I walk around with 300 people. Someone asked a student on stage with me, ‘How did you come to go to Duke?’ He this university every said he was admitted to a lot of schools, but when day, I see people who not only do he came to the Duke campus, he was standing here with his map, trying to figure out where in the world their work, I see people who take he was, and five people came up and asked if they pride in their work and who take could help. That spirit of helpfulness and friendliness permeates Duke. pride in trying to live up to a

certain quality of service. ”

I would say I regret we have all had to live through this. Duke is a place to be proud of, and when I walk around this university every day, I see people who not only do their work, I see people who take pride in their work and who take pride in trying to live up to a certain quality of service. All of our work is service. It’s been difficult to have this event overshadow the good work that goes on here. In the face of that, people have continued to be friendly and service-oriented. They take pride in our

– Richard H. Brodhead Duke President

Support, as well as criticism and anger, have been expressed about Duke’s handling of the lacrosse allegations. How has the criticism affected you?

The situation we’ve lived through has been a very complicated one and very emotional. The allegations are a very serious matter. Going back to those earliest days, there were statements by the district attorney who spoke as if what was alleged had certainly happened. That helped create an atmosphere in which there were very high feelings from every possible angle. And that being so, however the president behaved would have been criticized from a variety of perspectives, and I promise you I’ve been criticized in the fall for things that are the opposite of what I was criticized for in the spring. I try to take that in good heart. I just had to do what I thought was right for the university and right in general. I’ve tried to observe three principles. One, that the category of behavior that was charged is a serious matter. Two, we have to go forward on the basis of the presumption of innocence, rather than assume a person is guilty because a story has been told about them in the newspapers or elsewhere. And three, we need to find something separate from your or my private opinion to look into this matter, to look to the legal process to assess the evidence.

How do we move forward from this?

One way to move forward is to remember that all along, we’ve been here working toward common goals. It takes the work of every single person to make Duke work, and we didn’t stop being good nurses; we didn’t stop being good IT staff; and we didn’t stop taking care of the physical plant because there was a very trying episode. Everyone kept working hard through that time. It would be a lot harder to start the healing if we didn’t have a community pulling together already. Now what we need to do is remind ourselves what we’re here for; remind ourselves how fortunate we are to work with the people around us, and remind ourselves that we all have obligations to our community – from the first-year student to the person who has worked here 40 years.

Much of the focus has been on students and faculty. What role do employees play as we move forward?

There are thousands of individuals who come to work every day and do exemplary work and work well with each other. They are an important part of this community. That was evident last October when three separate town hall events were held for students, faculty and employees as part of the Campus Culture Initiative. The employee event was by far the best attended. That’s a clear indication that employees here not only have an interest in the events of this university, but they take pride in this place and how we get better.

Top: President Richard H. Brodhead greets Brenda Abdelrasoul, right, and her son, Ahmed, a 2005 graduate, during “A Duke Conversation” in November in Cleveland. Bottom: Brodhead welcomes students in September during move-in on East Campus.

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