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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011 ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, ISSUE 133www.dukechronicle.com

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NC Division of Alcohol Law Enforcement may be cut, Page 3

onTherecordKen... had a huge impact on building our school both

physically and intellectually. Nich School Dean Bill Chameides on Dr. Kenneth Knoerr. See story page 3

Walsh named permanent finance VP

See walsh on page 7

Rushdie speaks on role of the novelistby Joanna Lichter

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acclaimed author Salman Rushdie spoke about the power of literature to address human freedoms and conflict in the con-temporary world, where public events increasingly impact pri-vate lives.

Rushdie, author of 10 novels including Midnights Children and The Satanic Verses, spoke Tuesday before a sold-out audi-ence in page auditorium about instances when literature helped to bring down brutal regimes. In situations where the truth is obscured, Rushdie feels novels can shed light on true stories out-side government reports and prejudiced information.

prose, the literary novel of the poet, has been historically and still is at the forefront of opposition of tyranny, Rushdie said. no one owns the novelists vision except for the novelist... he has the power to make and remake reality and explore it in a man-ner and on the terms he chooses that are not dictated to him by anyone else.

Rushdies speech, public events, private Lives: Literature and politics in the Modern World, marked the eighth annual John Hope Franklin Humanities Institutes Distinguished Lecture. He was introduced by FHI Director Ian Baucom and Srinivas Special to the chronicle

Author Salman Rushdie, pictured speaking to students, discussed the notion of viewing novelists as news gatherers bringing national issues to public attention. See rushdie on page 7

Tim Walshby Lauren Carroll

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one person was injured when a tree fell on a moving vehicle on Campus Drive in front of the financial aid office Tuesday af-ternoon.

The injured passenger was taken to the hospital, but their condition was unknown Tuesday night, said Chief John Dailey of the Duke University police Department. Traffic was blocked on Campus Drive between the West Campus traffic circle and anderson Street for more than two hours after the incident, with vehicles were redirected to Duke University Road. In order to access buildings along the blocked-off area, people had to walk around the scene. police opened one lane at approximately 4:30 p.m. and allowed vehicles to proceed eastbound along the route.

The accident occurred around 3 p.m. when amy Cleckler, co-ordinator for the Womens Centers gender violence prevention program, and a campus visitor were traveling toward east Cam-pus. a tree on the lawn of the financial aid office fell onto the hood of their silver Honda Fit. Joe Jackson, director of grounds, sanitation and recycling, said older trees of this sizearound 36 inches in diametertend to fall when there is a lot of wind and the soil is damp.

although the smaller branches and debris in the street were cleared yesterday evening, the trunk, which remains in the finan-cial aid offices lawn due to its weight, will be removed within the next one to two days, Jackson said.

In my 16 years [at Duke], never have I experienced this kind of situation, Jackson said, adding that he has seen trees fall be-fore, but never on a car.

by Matthew ChaseTHe CHRonICLe

after serving a nearly five-month term as interim vice president for finance, Tim Walsh will assume the position officially, effective immediately, the University an-nounced Tuesday.

Since his arrival at Duke in 2004, Walsh has served as assistant vice president and controller for finance and has overseen Dukes largest division of central finance. as vice president for finance, Walsh will be responsible for financial components across the University and the Duke University Health System, including accounting, re-porting and other finan-cial functions.

The transition has been great, Walsh said of his recent role as interim vice presi-dent. I obviously had existing contacts from my work here over the past six years... and we have an outstanding team of profes-sionals in finance on whom I was able to rely for support.

Walsh replaces former vice president for finance Hof Milam. Milam left the post in December to become senior vice president for finance and administration and chief fi-nancial officer at Wake Forest University.

During the search for a replacement, the University hired a consultant to con-duct a three-month national search, execu-tive Vice president Tallman Trask said. The University considered approximately 100 peopleall of whom, except for Walsh, were external candidates, Trask noted.

In the end, it seemed clear to me that [Walsh] was the best choice given what Duke needs right now, he said, adding that administrators desired a candidate who understands how Duke works under a period of some stress.

Throughout the past seven years, Walsh has overseen projects such as the Duke ad-ministrative Reform Team, which found ways to save the University more than $60 million annually in recent years. He has also worked on financing the Universitys inter-national activities and increasing transpar-ency through a monthly reporting process of the Universitys financial performance. Walsh has also recently served as chair of the Research administration Continuous Improvement initiative, which supervises the Universitys $800 million research en-terprise component.

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Strong winds caused a large tree on the lawn of the financial aid office to fall onto Campus Drive, around 3 p.m., hitting a moving vehicle and injuring one person.

Fallen tree causes detours, damage

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Within minutes, government censors called the economic observers vice chief editor, Zhang hong, and asked us to delete that post immediately, he said.

in a small act of defiance, Zhang left the story on the site, but he changed the sec-ond part of the headline to read: Salt bu-reau said the stock is sufficient.

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virGinia Fifteen years after banning parole, virginia has defied the nations high recidivism level, returning a lower rate of prisoners to incarceration than many other states, according to the first state-by-state comparison of recidivism.

although the states recidivism levels have edged up slightly since 2000, vir-ginias 28.3 percent recidivism rate for prisoners in the three years after their release in 2004 is well below the nations 43.3 rate percent during the same peri-od, according to the pew center on the States study.

the pew study comes as states battle skyrocketing prison costs amid steep budget shortfalls. corrections spending by states tops $50 billion a year and is the second-fastest-growing budget expense, behind Medicaid, according to pew. vir-ginia has cut prison spending and closed 10 corrections centers since 2009.

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During todays 2011 WnBa Draft, three Duke players were drafted and invited to their respective teams training camps. Senior point guard Jasmine thomas was selected in the first round as the 12th pick by the Seattle Storm, who currently leads the Western conference and won the 2010 title. ive never been to Washington before, but im excited to play in...Seattle, thomas said.

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Budget concerns may force state to cut ALE

by Kelly ScurryTHe CHRonICLe

The streets may soon be clear of aLe. north Carolina is considering eliminating

the state Division of alcohol Law enforce-ment in order to cut costs. The n.C. House of Representatives appropriations subcom-mittee considered a proposal to cut aLealong with 70 other potential cuts to the states public safety and justice programslast Tuesday. The proposal was created by Republican legislative staffers and aims to trim costs, including closing some prisons and drug treatment centers. The proposal went before the budget subcommittee of the Senates appropriations on justice and public safety committee, though it is not yet deter-mined when the committee will vote.

Cutting aLe would save the state ap-proximately $9.5 million and cut 137 jobs, though its elimination could mean more work for the state, as police officers and other resources would have to compensate for the loss of aLes specialization, said Thomas Caves, special assistant to the sec-retary of the north Carolina Department

of Crime Control and public Safety and is a legislative liaison for the department.

In bad economic times, [legislative staff members] look at many options and show legislators ways to save money, Caves said. The aLe elimination would be a hugely problematic option.

according to its website, aLe is primar-ily responsible for enforcing laws regard-ing the sale, transport and consumption of alcohol, though it also enforces tobacco, controlled substances and gambling laws throughout the state.

Much of aLes efforts deal with under-age drinking and undercover work, as the division works with various federal agencies on a variety of security issues, including ter-rorism, noted patty McQuillan, a public information officer for the Department of Crime Control and public Safety.

aLe is unique in having full arrest authority for the entire state, McQuillan said. The cut of aLe would leave a hole in law enforcementits agents have special training that would make

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from Staff ReportsTHe CHRonICLe

Kenneth Knoerr, former director of graduate studies for environmen-tal Sciences and policy in the nicho-las School of the environment, passed

away Monday. The professor

emeritus of hydrology and environmental meteorology served on Dukes faculty for more than 50 years, joining the faculty in 1961 as an assistant professor of forest cli-matology and gaining

emeritus status in 2002. Ken has been a long time and val-

ued member of our faculty, and some-one who had a huge impact on building our school both physically and intellec-tually, said nicholas School Dean Bill Chameides in a statement issued by the nicholas School. He will be missed.

Knoerr was promoted in 1966 to as-sociate professor of forest meteorology and was appointed associate professor of biometeorology two years later. He became professor of forest meteorol-ogy and hydrology in 1972.

In addition, Knoerr was a well-known researcher both at home and abroad. authoring more than 50 peer-reviewed studies, Knoerr was consid-ered an expert in microclimatology,

mountain meteorology, forest fires and watershed hydrology. He was of-ten cited for his research on managing forest lands and his studies helped to clarify how forests interact with the at-mosphere. Knoerr was also one of the first to develop physical models which demonstrate how plants and the envi-ronment interact.

Most recently, Knoerr focused on investigating more than 100 forest fires that have occurred in the United States during the last hundred years. His goal was to use his findings to improve the safety of forest managers and firefight-ers. His research also identified com-mon causes behind these unexpected changesincluding wind behavior in mountainous terrain and the potential flammability of forest fuels.

Knoerr earned his bachelors de-gree in forest management in 1952 from the University of Idaho and re-ceived his phD in forest meteorology in 1961 from Yale University. He also received a Master of Forestry degree in silviculture from Yale in 1955. Before joining the Duke faculty, he served as a research forester in the U.S. Forest Service from 1956 to 1961.

Knoerr was also a member of the american association for the ad-vancement of Science, the american geophysical Union, the american Me-teorological Society and the Sigma Xi honor society.

Knoerr leaves valued Nicholas School legacy

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AHA studies rate of cardiac death in NCAA athletes

by Michael ShammasTHe CHRonICLe

March Madness is over without incident, but ac-cording to recent studies the threat of sudden death in athletes due to cardiac arrest remains too high for comfort.

a study released april 4 from the american Heart association found the rate of sudden cardiac death in nCaa athletes is one in 44,000 a year, with basketball players at the highest risk. The research was spurred by several incidents early this year in which high school athletes hearts stopped during athletic events. The tragedies have spurred cardiologists at Duke and oth-er universities to search for reasons why apparently healthy athletes are suffering from these attacks and to find ways to prevent them.

Dr. Thomas Bashore, cardiologist and Duke profes-sor of medicine, and said electrocardiographswhich measure the hearts electrical activitycould help detect abnormalities that could lead to sudden death when athletes exert themselves.

an eCg helps pick up those [individuals] with a congenital long QT syndrome and those with a lot of premature beats, he said. I think athletes [are re-quired to] get an eCg in Italy, but [they are not] in this country because of the potential costs.

When athletes die due to a stopped heart, it is of-ten sudden and unexpected, as in the case of Michi-gan high school junior Wes Leonard who collapsed in early March after scoring a game-winning shot dur-ing a basketball game. The audiences cheers after the win quickly gave way to panic as the 16-year-old

See cardiac arrest on page 8

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pakistani officials threatened Monday to impose new limits on CIa drone strikes in their country and to expel agency operatives whose missions are not ap-proved by Islamabad, escalating a high-stakes feud be-tween the counterterrorism allies, U.S. and pakistani officials said.

The demands, which were conveyed as top spies from the two countries met at CIa headquarters in Virginia, represent an effort by pakistan to exert more control over the covert CIa war being waged inside its borders.

pakistani officials have expressed mounting frustra-tion with the accelerated pace of the CIas predator air campaign and the expanded presence of agency opera-tives, including a security contractor who fatally shot two pakistani men in Lahore in January.

Still, any new restrictions on the CIas activities in pakistan could have far-reaching consequences for the U.S. pursuit of al-Qaida and its top leaders, who are thought to be based in the countrys tribal belt.

The frictions were the focus of a meeting Monday between CIa Director Leon panetta and the head of pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, Lt. gen. ahmed Shuja pasha.

a senior pakistani official called the tone of the meeting cordial but said pasha made clear that the CIa-ISI relationship had suffered a breach of trust and had to be reconfigured with a clear code of con-duct.

We need to know who is in pakistan doing what, and that the CIa wont go behind our back, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity be-cause of the sensitivity of the issue. There has to be a greater sharing of information, in terms of what the CIa wants and is doing. They have to stop mistrusting the ISI as much as they do . . . you cant have us as your

ally and treat us as your adversary at the same time.pasha asked the CIa for a complete list of its em-

ployees and contractors in pakistan and made clear that some may be asked to leave, the official said. The pakistanis also said that they wanted a reduction in the number of predator strikes and more timely in-formation about intended targets before attacks are launched.

CIa officials sought to play down the disagreement and signaled that joint counterterrorism operations would continue.

Director panetta and general pasha held produc-tive discussions today, and the CIa-ISI relationship remains on solid footing, agency spokesman george Little said. Todays exchange emphasized the need to continue to work closely together, including on our common fight against terrorist networks that threaten both countries.

even so, U.S. officials acknowledged that pasha pushed to restructure the relationship and to impose new requirements on the CIa.

The pakistanis have asked for more visibility into some things, and that request is being talked about, a U.S. official said. The official said there have also been discussions on ways to further expand the part-nership. The bottom line is that joint cooperation is essential to the security of the two nations. The stakes are too high.

For that reason, disagreements between the CIa and the ISI have generally led to more public recrimi-nations than actual disruptions in their joint counter-terrorism work. But pakistani officials signaled Monday that the dynamic could change because of a perception in Islamabad that the CIa has overstepped.

perhaps most worrisome for U.S. officials is the threat to place new limits on the drone campaign,

Pakistanis threaten to impose new restrictions on CIA activities

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Junk in the trunkGadhafi rides out intl pressure, sanctions

By Simon DenyerTHe WaSHIngTon poST

TRIpoLI, Libya Forced on the de-fensive on the battlefield, Libyas rebels are also struggling in the economic war of attrition with Moammar gadhafi, de-spite the backing of the West.

global efforts to isolate gadhafi and cut off his economic lifeline have put significant pressure on his government. But president Barack obama and other naTo leaders may find that sanctions do not bring gadhafi to his knees as quickly as hoped, if at all.

The panic that gripped the Libyan economy at the height of the crisis has sub-stantially abated and the government has implemented a series of measures to cope with the sanctions and the loss of hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.

The economic situation appears more chaotic in the rebel-held east, with the collapse of much of the public sector and the shuttering of oil production.

In the long run, sanctions will be quite devastating, said Mustafa Fetouri, MBa program director at the academy of grad-uate Studies in Tripoli, the capital. But we have had this situation before, and we have the experience to deal with it.

Keeping the economy afloat amid tight international sanctions is costly and Finance Minister abdulhafid Zlitni said in an interview that the govern-ments money might run out in a few months.

nevertheless, the British-educated economist was optimistic that this would buy the government enough timeto probe for gaps in the international com-munitys resolve, to find a compromise that keeps gadhafi in power or to per-suade old friends to help.

Just go back to history, Zlitni said. When sanctions were imposed in the 1990s, africans just broke them. They came over here with their planes and their presents.

The current sanctions are considerably tougher than those imposed by the Unit-

ed nations in 1992 and 1993 over Libyas alleged role in the bombing of a pan am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.

nevertheless, cracks are appearing in the global coalition seeking to isolate gadhafi, after the african Union pro-posed a peace plan this week that called for a cease-fire and dialogue but would seem to leave gadhafi firmly in power. gadhafi backed the plan, but the rebels rejected it.

In the international arena, we are seeing a lot of interventions to find an end to this, and this is what makes me optimistic this is going to end soon, Zlitni said.

In the meantime, sanctions are clearly having an effect in the areas under gad-hafis control, though his government appears to have found a way to manage.

In Tripoli, fuel is being rationed to a tank a week, while cash withdrawals from banks have been capped at the equiva-lent of $400 a month. Interest rates will be doubled this week to attract money, much of which is traditionally kept at home, back into the banking system.

The government has increased pub-lic-sector salaries by 50 percent to en-courage Libyans to fill the gaps left by the exodus of a substantial proportion of the workforce.

That exodus left fuel pumps un-manned and bakeries, normally run by egyptians, shuttered. But Libyans are gradually stepping in. The huge lines at gas stations reported a week ago have all but disappeared, and bread shortag-es have eased after young women were enlisted to help. on the black market, the Libyan dinar shot up to 3 against the dollar, from 1.3 before the crisis, before pulling back to less than 2.

Hospitals are functioning, but many factories and shops remain closed, con-struction work has stalled, and imported foods are starting to disappear from store shelves. The price of cooking oil

See libya on page 12

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WaSHIngTon, D.C. president Barack obama plans this week to respond to a Republican blueprint for tackling the soaring national debt by promoting a bipartisan approach pioneered by an independent presidential commission rather than introducing his own detailed plan.

obama will not blaze a fresh path when he delivers a much-anticipated speech Wednesday afternoon at george Washington University. Instead, he is expected to offer support for the commissions work and a related effort under way in the Senate to develop a strategy for curbing borrowing. obama will frame their approach as a responsible alternative to the blueprint unveiled last week by House Republicans, according to people briefed by the White House.

Letting others take the lead on complex problems has become a hallmark of the obama presidency. on health care, last years tax deal and the recent battle over 2011 spending cuts, obama has repeatedly waited as others set the parameters of the debate, swooping in late to cut a deal. The tactic has produced significant victories but exposed obama to criticism that he has shown a lack of leadership.

Like the House gop budget plan, the Senate effortled by three Democrats and three Republicans known as the gang of Sixaims to cut around $4 trillion from the debt over the next decade. But the group is looking to reduce spending in all categories, while urging a rewrite of the tax code that would raise revenue. The House budget would cut spending on domestic programs while protecting the military and preserving george W. Bush-era tax cuts, including those for high earners.

The work of the gang of Six is modeled on recom-mendations of the fiscal commission obama appointed last year. asked Monday about their work, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the commission had cre-ated a framework that may help us reach a deal and a compromise.

The fiscal commission showed that you need to look at entitlements, you need to look at tax expendi-tures, you need to look at military spending, you need to look at all of these issues, Carney said. You cant simply slash entitlements, lower taxes and call that a fair deal.

everyone, he said, must share in the burden of bring-ing our fiscal house into order.

While lawmakers in both parties say they support the principle of shared sacrifice, its particulars are proving no less thorny than any other deficit reduction strategy. The gang of Six has been struggling for weeks to reach agreement on a framework for budget changes that would leave policy details to be worked out in legislative committees.

aides say the group is very close to an agreement, and administration officials had hoped one could be announced this week. But two Republican members, Sens. Tom Coburn (okla.) and Saxby Chambliss (ga.), said Monday that no deal is likely to be announced until after lawmakers return in May from a two-week easter recess.

Itd be pretty hard for [obama] to hitch himself to something that doesnt exist yet, Coburn said. Theres nothing Ive agreed to that could be announced this week.

Democrats briefed on obamas speech said its pur-pose is to seize the initiative from Republicans as Wash-ington turns from a bitter but narrow debate over spend-ing cuts in this years budget to the broader matter of how to reduce the size of the government in coming years. The White House and congressional leaders in both parties are particularly concerned about a looming vote to raise the legal limit on government borrowing, set at just under $14.3 trillion.

Treasury Secretary Timothy geithner has warned that Congress must raise the limit by early July or the Treasury Department will default on its obligations, destabilizing global financial markets and inviting a new recession. Republican leaders, who recently won the single largest spending reduction in U.S. history in the fight over the 2011 budget, say they will be unable to muster the votes needed to help raise the limit unless obama offers what they deem to be a meaningful plan to cut future spending even more deeply.

The White House has been pressing for a stand-alone debt limit bill, but no one thinks such a bill could pass the House. By offering a vision for deficit reduction that goes well beyond his most recent budget blueprint, ad-ministration officials said, obama is acknowledging that a more serious conversation about entitlement spend-ing and taxes will be required to persuade Republicans to lift the limit.

While Carney promised that the speech would of-fer explicit targets for reducing deficits over the long term, people briefed by the White House said they expect obama to lay out a general approach with few details.

So far, neither party appears to have a clear strat-egy for the debt limit vote. House Budget Committee Chairman paul Ryan, R-Wis., told the Chicago Tribune on Monday that his party wants to see statutory limits on federal spendingand ideally a framework for rein-ing in the skyrocketing cost of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaidin exchange for Republican support.

Democratic strategists say they think independent vot-ers crucial to obamas re-election next year want him to function as a centrist consensus-builder.

Independents abandoned the party last year as concern grew about government deficits and spending. But obama also must worry about his liberal base, which views pro-tecting entitlement programs central to Democratic party orthodoxy.

one liberal group, the Campaign for americas Future, began mobilizing Monday to ramp up pressure on the White House in advance of obamas speech.

The group sent an e-mail alert asking its members to contact the White House and warn against cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

Roger Hickey, co-director of group, said many on the left fear that obama will try to find a middle ground with Ryaneliminating the Democrats ability to present them-selves as the saviors of Social Security.

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WALSH from page 1RUSHDIe from page 1Walsh said his biggest challenge as

vice president for finance will be to bal-ance the Universitys many diverse pri-orities, including its administrative re-search practices, its academic missions and the growth of the University health system.

We have to support all three of those missions every day, he said. They all have their unique priorities and we have to help them achieve them.

Walsh added that the University has effectively used technology in its core business processesa practice it should continue to utilize in the future. He noted that the University has, for example, established an im-aging system which was able to elimi-nate millions of pieces of paper each year.

Milam said he applauds Dukes deci-sion to hire Walsh, adding that he has strong organizational skills and was ef-fective while working with DaRT.

It was a huge project that was criti-cal to dealing with the budget gap at Duke, and it required an unbelievable amount of coordination, analysis and patience, he said. It was a very chal-lenging project.

Walsh added that his experience leading DaRT was important because it emphasized the need to develop rela-tionships across Duke.

We dont want to operate as inde-pendent silos, we want to operate as a single University, he said. Duke is uniquely positioned to collaborate. We want to build on the existing re-lationships across Duke in order to maximize the positive outcomes for our faculty, staff and students.

aravamudan, dean of humanities and an english professor.

For over a 30-year writing period [Rush-die has] transformed the history of the nov-el, altered and enriched the aesthetic pos-sibility of the english language, Baucom said. [He] promises to continue and build on that rich tradition of challenging and opening common addresses, which our previous [FHI] guests have established.

In the past, novelists served as news gatherers for society in bringing national issues to public attention, said Rushdie, pointing to authors like Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe who used their works to expose the evils of slavery. In the modern world, Rushdie said novels can continue to serve an integral role in tell-ing meaningful stories and uncovering cultural conflictsas opposed to some contemporary news sources, which he said have ulterior motives that affect their abil-ity to remain objective.

We have a situation where opinion polls tell us the most trusted news network in this country is Fox news. This makes one feel worried about the american people... if they actually want the news or prefer the precarious fiction that appears on the Fox news program, Rushdie said. Literature is the place where you find truth.... Its a level of news which is much more profound than whats being offered in the so-called news media.

Rushdie also addressed literatures pow-er to showcase individuality, as it imbues characters with uniqueand sometimes inconsistentqualities to reflect human nature. In an era where some influential figures promote conformity, Rushdie said the novel can act as a vehicle for both per-sonal development and the establishment

of common ground with others. The novel understands that the human

self is plural, contradictory, fragmented, awkward and sometimes irreconcilable with itself and is changeable and mutable, he said. Yet we live in an age where the growing power of identity politics tries to urge us into... much more narrow, fixed, solid and unitary ideas of the self.

Rushdie closed his speech by urging students to push out boundaries and be-come active in movements for change. He connected this to his own literary struggles when Iranian religious leader and politi-cian ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwaor call for murderagainst Rush-die for The Satanic Verses. amid this threat to his life, Rushdie never faltered in his original intent to speak about hard-ship associated with Islamic identity and religion.

The problem with the world we live in is that there are those who dont want the universe opened a little more, Rushdie said. The counter force can be very pow-erful and very hard to resist and sometimes the consequences for the writer can be very serious... all of us do this kind of work knowing the risks, would still say it has to be done because thats the job.

after his speech, Rushdie responded to questions from the audience. When asked about his thoughts on multiculturalism, Rushdie said he fears that the mixing of cultures is becoming confused with cul-tural relativismthe ability of individuals to claim preferential treatment based on their different values.

When you go down that road youve created not just a morally indisputable situ-ation but [also] a divisive one, he said. In any open country, it must be possible to ar-gue about value and practices, not to ring a fence around communities by virtue of their culture.

Senior Karan Chhabra, co-president of Diya, said he felt the author provided valuable insights and connected well with the audience.

I was very pleased with how well he able to bridge the intellectual and the personal, Chhabra said. He managed to comment critically on work, politics and society, but was also [able] to engage the audience in a very human way and con-nect with students who have never heard of him as well as scholars who have studied him for years.

The event was sponsored by the FHI, Diya, office of the president; office of the provost; office of the Vice provost for the arts; office of the Dean and Vice provost of Undergraduate education; Center for philosophy, arts and Literature; Duke Is-lamic Studies Center; north Carolina Con-sortium for South asian Studies; and the John Spencer Bassett Memorial Fund.

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became unresponsive and fell to the floor. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

Despite the risks, many athletes with undetected heart problems continue playing sports until they suffer cardiac arrest. They are often unaware of the increased danger of heavy physical activity because many routine physicals are unable to detect the underlying problems that cause car-diac arrest. abnormalities are also subtle and difficult to detect, Bashore said.

The most common underlying problem with the ath-lete who has sudden death during exertion is... a profound thickening of the heart muscle, he said.

Bashore said he does not know how the athletics De-partment screens athletes for heart problems.

I would guess that Duke does an eCg and probably an echocardiogram on their athletes, but I actually do not know that, he said. I suspect they use someone in sports medicine or the undergrad clinic to do their screening.

Several members of the athletics Department did not respond to requests for comment.

Sophomore georgie Kerber, who played football last year, said the University did routine physicals to ensure football players were healthy when he was on the team.

I know we definitely had to do a physical where they checked our hearts, he said. I know that they monitor us pretty closely every day [and] everyone always has to go check in with [football Director of athletic Training Hap Zarzour]... to make sure that everything is physi-cally okay.

Kerber said he cannot remember whether or not Duke required players to have an eCg taken.

Sophomore Mary nielsen, a member of the field hock-ey team, said she thinks the University takes adequate mea-sures to screen its athletes.

We get our blood pressure and pulse taken in physi-cals, then if you tell your trainer about your symptoms, you get eCgs, echocardiograms and stress tests, she said. My teammate actually got diagnosed with [a heart condition last week]... her heart would stop or beat ex-cessively fast at random times. She cant play again until a heart electrical specialist talks about potential surgery with her.

Ultimately, no matter how often screening occurs, sudden cardiac death cannot be completely prevented, Bashore said. athletes often subject their bodies to great amounts of physical stress, and much of this burden is placed on their hearts.

although the thought of cardiac arrest is frightening, the heart is a persistent muscle, and the probability that it will stop beating is extremely small, he noted.

The sudden death incidence is very low, Bashore said. [The reason they] quickly make the news [is] because it affects an apparently healthy young person.

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it costly to train local police officers and sheriff deputies. Caves said aLe will likely experience some cuts, though

he noted that if the entire division is eliminated, its duties and responsibilities may fall on the shoulders of local and county law enforcement.

although aLes elimination would likely affect the Dur-ham community, it would have a negligible effect at Duke, as enforcing the Universitys alcohol policy on campus would remain in the jurisdiction of the Duke University police Department, said DUpD Chief John Dailey.

aLe doesnt spend a lot of time on campus, Dailey said. [The agency] predominantly enforces alcohol use off campus.

Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek also said that if aLe is eliminated it would have more of an impact off campus, but she added that students must recognize that every time they break the law, on or off of campus, they are taking a risk.

Currently, the office of Student Conduct receives com-munication from aLe when a student is cited by an aLe officerusually off campus, said Stephen Bryan, associ-ate dean of students and director of the office of Student Conduct. He added that there is currently only one aLe agent for Durham County.

Duke has joined forces with aLe agents in giving edu-cations programs for fraternities, sororities and other or-ganizations on state and University policy on alcohol con-sumption, Bryan said, adding that it is unknown whether students will change their behavior and whether this will increase the prevalence of underage drinking if students believe they would have a smaller chance of exposure.

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An American Heart Association study has revealed that basketball is the NCAA sport with the highest rate of sudden cardiac deaths. Overall from 2004-2008, 1 in 11,394 NCAA basketball players suffers a sudden cardiac death.

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The relationship between college golfers and equip-ment companies may be closer than the casual fan knowsbut it isnt likely to change anytime soon.

The financial burden of playing golf, combined with amateur rules that allow and even encourage golf suppli-ers to provide players with reduced price or free equip-ment, has led to an unusual NCAA-sanctioned system that allows elite teams to receive better equipment from manufacturers. Its all thanks to college golfers being allowed to maintain prior relationships with club manu-facturers while competing at the collegiate level.

What tends to happen, head coach Jamie Green said,

is that the better the player is... the more likely a company is to offer the player equipment, without charging the uni-versity for the equipment.

An uneasy relationship?While NCAA regulations prohibit companies from di-

rectly sponsoring or providing equipment to individual players while they are in college, suppliers are allowed to supply equipment to their favorite players. They do this at reduced or no cost, via athletic departments, who loan the equipment to players for use while at the uni-versity, according to Duke Assistant Director of Athletics

The spring semester is coming to an end. The sun is out, the birds are chirping and preparations for LDOC are finally beginning in earnest.

Yet despite the cheery atmo-sphere, Im betting that most of you still feel empty. For the first time in months, something is missing from the life of every Duke studentcollege basket-ball.

Yes, Duke was unceremoni-ously knocked out of the tourna-

ment more than two weeks ago. But even in the teams absence Blue Devil fans still had something to cheer forfirst anyone that was playing North Carolina, and then for (or, in a surprising number of cases, against) Butler in the Final Four.

Then students had a week of Kyrie Irving will-he-or-wont-he speculation to devour. But even that came to a close last week, albeit not with the ending Duke fans, who dreamed of an Irving-Austin Rivers mega-backcourt, envisioned.

There are no more games to be played, no more statistics to be analyzed, no more questions to be asked. Except for the one no one wants to answerwhat now?

At a school where life revolves around basketball even more than that impending Chemistry midterm or semi-formal, its a hard question to answer. How does one make use of the extra time once spent waiting in line for hours in K-ville? What do you talk about now that the brackets are complete and Irvings decision

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freshman Robert Huber won his fourth game of the season last night, pitching six innings and only allowing three earned runs.

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It only took one out for freshman Chris Marcon-cini to set the tone in last nights victory over Da-vidson (16-16). Working with a 1-0 count, the Duke right fielder launched a solo home run over the right-center field wall.

The Blue Devil offense never looked back, leading Duke (20-16) to a solid 7-5 victory.

I think that really set the tone for the first half of the ball game, head coach Sean McNally said. Chris was aggressive on a fastball. He put a great swing on it.... [It] certainly gave us a jump start with one swing of the bat.

Marconcini has been on fire as of late. Despite the fact that Duke dropped two of three from Boston Col-lege this weekend, Marconcini hit .538 in the series and had five RBI.

The Blue Devil attack was not a one-man show, however, with fellow freshman Jordan Betts joining the long ball club. In the third, after an infield single by Will piwnica-Worms, Betts hit an opposite-field, two-run homer that cleared the right field fence by

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is made? Many Duke fans will utilize the tired-but-true just

wait until next year approachfilling the void left by actual basketball news and competition with inane speculation and dreaming. That method serves its pur-pose, but loses effectiveness rather quicklyone can only salivate over Rivers potential or analyze the plum-lees improvement for so long while retaining his san-ity.

Blue Devil diehards can turn to other Duke sportsthe mens lacrosse team is defending their national championship, both mens and womens tennis are once again Top-25 programs and Jack Coombs Field is once again home to baseball this season. But the la-crosse season doesnt truly heat up until tournament time, tennis is an individual sport and the Blue Dev-ils are struggling on the diamond this year. In short, Dukes spring slate of sports will satiate only a niche of sports fans.

What about the world of professional sports? The NBA is full of former Blue Devils, and the best team in the Eastern Conference, the Chicago Bulls, is home to both Luol Deng and Carlos Boozer. But Duke basketball is defined by effort and teamworkqualities that are a rarity in the star-powered NBA. That will leave most Blue Devil fans wanting more.

Other leagues, perhaps? The most highly contested two-month period in sport, the NHL playoffs, is about to beginbut even this hockey nut can admit that only the Northerners and playoff-beard lovers among us will navigate to Versus to catch a midweek playoff matchup. Baseball season is also underway, but it is hard to invest the same energy into the first 20 games of a 162 game season that students did into every game in Cameron.

So, what now? There are a lot of answers, but Im guess-ing for most fans none of them are too satisfying. At this point, all there is to do is sit back, relax and enjoy the love-ly Southern weather.

Oh, who am I kidding. Can we begin the countdown to Countdown to Craziness already?

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baseball from page 9several feet. The home run was the freshmans first ca-reer long ball and pushed Dukes team season total to seven.

On the mound, the Blue Devils were led by freshman Robert Huber, who battled for six innings, surrender-ing three runs while striking out six Wildcat batters. The right-hander, however, ran into trouble with two outs in the top of the fourth inning. After conceding a walk, Huber gave up an RBI double to Davidsons nine-hole hitter Daniel Gerow followed by an RBI single to center by lead-off man Seth Freeman. Huber was able to limit damage, though, as he got Forrest Brandt to fly out to centerfield for the final out.

Im really pleased with his growth and development, McNally said. Hes doing everything better and better each time up. Commanding his fastball, mixing his pitches and using his breaking ball and his change-up. You see his confidence growing.

In the bottom of the eighth, holding onto a slim 6-4 lead, the Blue Devils added a crucial insurance run, using their typical small-ball approach to extend their lead. Sophomore Marcus Stroman laced a single to left field. He then proceeded to steal second and score on Aaron Cohns opposite field poke through the hole past the outstretched glove of the Wildcat second baseman.

I thought the run was huge, McNally said. It gave us the cushion we needed. We knew the heart of their order would get up and battle us to the end. It ended up being a crucial run for us.

Despite a perfect one-two-three 8th inning, junior Joe pedevillano struggled in the final frame, giving up a two-out triple and double. After walking the clean-up hitter Danny Weiss, closer David putman closed out the Duke victory, striking out Andrew Barna looking on beautiful 1-2 curveball.

After the victory over the Southern Conference foe, the road gets significantly harder for the Blue Devils. This weekend Duke will travel to Charlottesville, Va. to face the class of the ACC in No. 2 Virginia.

Virginias going to be a tough series, McNally said. Theyve got a great team and a great program. If we play well, well have an opportunity to win. We played well tonight so we think that will help us get on the right track, [but] well have to be at our best this week-end, no question.

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golf from page 9for Compliance Todd Mesibov.

Additionally, players will normally communicate both with the companies and the university to get their pre-ferred equipment from their preferred supplier.

Lets say ping wants to give a set of irons to one of our players, and our player would benefit from that, Green said. The company sends that equipment to us, to Duke, and then we distribute that equipment to the player. Thats kind of the way it needs to work under the NCAA umbrella.

The university may act as a middle man between sup-pliers and players, but the motivation for the arrangement exists in part for companies benefit. Duke sophomore Brinson paolini holds no illusions about companies rea-soning for supplying equipment.

paolini, who plays ping clubs and has done so for at least four years, is thankful that the system, combined with Greens policy of not forcing any brand of equipment on his players, has allowed him to continue playing with the equipment he is comfortable with. But he also acknowl-edges that companies expect players loyalty, both now and during their future careers, in return for equipment.

From the suppliers standpoint, theyre developing these relationships for a reason, paolini said. Theyre try-ing to make us branded. Theyre trying to make me brand-ed to ping for the rest of my life, so if I turn pro hopefully theyll want to sign me, but for the rest of my life theyre going to want me to buy ping clubs and the people around me to buy ping clubs.

According to Green, many programs, Duke included, will encourage said relationships to allow players to com-pete with the best possible equipment.

Sometimes well even have equipment companies bring equipment for the guys to try and test, Green said. Obviously the goal there is to try to find the best fit for the player. So there is some relationship building there.

While it would seem that this conflicts with the NCAAs amateur mission, Mesibov said that regulations regarding golf equipment are no different than those for other sports.

The equipment that our players get is not equipment the suppliers are giving them, it is equipment that Duke University is letting them use for participation on the Duke University [team], Mesibov said. The golf pro-gram loans the equipment to our players the same way our basketball program gets basketballs.

An uneven playing field?The impact of suppliers on the college game goes beyond

their relationship with players, however. Both Green and paolini acknowledged that companies are more likely to pro-vide equipment to schools or players who are more success-ful, and can display the equipment to a greater degree.

paolini offered an example how the other company he deals with, golf giant Titleist, provides performance-based incentives.

If youre playing well theyre going to give you stuff that only tour pros can get, paolini said. Titleist gives tour putterstheyre impossible to getbut theyll give them to top amateur and college players.

Whats more, higher profile amateurs who are ex-posed to potential suppliers before college will have more options and likely access to higher quality equip-ment. The combination gives the elite schools an added advantage over the competition in their equipmentin golf, the quality of clubs and balls has a much greater impact on a players ability to compete than equipment in other competitive sports.

Its a huge benefit to be able to have your clubs completely dialed into your characteristics as a golfer, paolini said.

While such disparities in equipment quality do exist, Green said that theyre simply a result of the infeasibility of supplying expensive golf equipment to every college and amateur golfer.

And among the top schools and golfers, he said the dif-ference is often negligible.

When you talk about every single player in college golf... at that point is it a little unfair? I think at that point

the answer is probably, yeah, Green said. It probably does create an environment where theres a bit of haves and have-nots.

There might be a slight advantage, but in the end, I think its kind of negligible. It comes down to getting fit for the right equipment.... Our sport is such that the guys that come in and play, most of them play at courses at home that give them the chance to try different types of equipment.

While Mesibov acknowledged that such disparities ex-ist, he maintained that the NCAA treats golf no differently than any other sport, and likened the difference in equip-ment quality to programs having different quality practice facilities and even Southern schools being able to practice more often thanks to cooperative weather.

All sides, however, acknowledged the inherent discrep-ancies in the system, not only on the course but off it. Giv-en the nature of the game, though, there doesnt appear to be another alternative.

Its kind of a loophole in the system, paolini said. But were not getting extra benefits by getting these clubs, be-cause we need them.

Theyre trying to make me branded to Ping for the rest of

my life, so if I turn pro hopefully theyll want to sign me.

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has risen more than fourfold, as has the cost of a packet of spaghetti.

But Libya has more than a decade of experience living with, and subverting, sanctions. And the harder they bite or-dinary people, the easier it will be for Gadhafi to blame the West, as he is do-ing with some success, Fetouri said.

In the east, the fighting and the temporary partition of the country have all but destroyed the economy. Most of the countrys oil comes from the east, but Gadhafis forces have worked hard to disrupt production, which has halted. Rebels shipped out a tanker of crude last week, with Qa-tar acting as middleman, but just two tankers worth of oil remain in stock.

The vast majority of Libyans in the east work in the public sector and were paid out of Tripoli before the fighting began. Rebels have managed to keep salaries coming, but money is running out. Electricity is cut off for two hours a day, and unless oil production re-sumes, the diesel needed to power the generators will run out within two to three months, officials say.

Across the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, city engineers, doctors, law-yers and businessmen sit at home and wait for the violence to end. Lines for bread and gas are lengthening.

Gadhafi loyalists retain control of Ras Lanuf, home to the countrys larg-est refinery, and there is continued fighting over the oil town of Brega. Rebels still believe they have the stron-ger hand economically as long as they control the border with Egypt and re-ceive international support.

But for now, securing the oil fields is our biggest source of concern, said Ali Tarhouni, finance minister in the Transitional National Council, the self-appointed rebel government.

In Tripoli, Zlitni is trying to make a virtue out of a necessity, arguing that western Libya will just have to live without oil.

Oil is not always a good thing. It is a depleting asset; one day it will stop, he said. If people dont realize this and pull up their socks, there is going to be a disaster.

Oil revenue has made many Liby-ans lazy, he said. If you have children, sometimes you have to smack them to make them behave themselves. You dont like to do it, but you have to.

Correspondent Leila Fadel contrib-uted to this report from Benghazi.

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The CIA carried out 118 drone strikes in Pakistan last year, more than in all the previous years of the program combined, according to independent estimates. The campaign has been more sporadic this year, possibly because of CIA-ISI frictions, with the most recent strike conducted March 17.

Pakistani officials said they plan to press the CIA to restore the rules that were in place at the beginning of the program, when strikes were intermit-tent and the agency typically gave no-tice to or sought permission from the Pakistani government before a missile was launched.

The process was revised toward the end of the George W. Bush adminis-tration. Amid worries that Pakistan was not pursuing al-Qaida aggressively enough, the CIA ceased providing no-tifications and dramatically acceler-ated the pace of airstrikes.

More recently, Pakistani officials have expressed alarm over the scope of the CIAs presence inside their country, as well as an alleged expan-sion of agency operations aimed at gathering intelligence on Pakistans nuclear program as well as militant groups with links to the ISI.

The arrest of CIA contractor Ray-mond Davis heightened suspicions that the agency was conducting unilat-eral operations deep inside Pakistan. The possibility that the country might seek to expel some CIA officers was first reported by he New York Times.

The CIAs station in Islamabad is one of the agencys largest in the world and is thought to employee hundreds of operatives, analysts and contractors. The actual number of CIA employees there is classified.

Largely because of the Davis case, a U.S. official said, they want us to have less of a footprint, less ability to maneuver and not to have operational capabilities in their cities and watch over what theyre doing.

Pakistan was also angered by the tone of a progress report issued by the White House last week. The report praised the Pakistani military for con-fronting militants but concluded that there was no clear path toward de-feating the insurgency in Pakistan.

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Last week, indie-pop duo The Cataracs sent the Last Day of Classes Committee a disappointing messagethe group had decided to cancel their scheduled LDOC per-formance to at-tend an awards show instead.

This development, which seriously threatens the integ-rity of the entire LDOC lineup only two weeks before the show, highlights a series of lackluster results from the LDOC com-mittee and calls the structure of the group into question.

In the past LDOC has been planned by an independent committee and jointly funded by Campus Council and the Duke University Union, along with an allocation from the student activities fee and fund-raising. But, now that Duke

Student Government and Campus Council have success-fully merged, the composi-tion of the LDOC committee needs to change. In the future LDOC should fall under the

sole purview of DUU, whose broad experi-

ence will ensure the commit-tee can pick and hold on to top-notch performers.

The Cataracs cancellation is disappointing, though it may have been unavoidable. But it highlights shortcomings in the LDOC planning process and in the structure of the LDOC Committee itself.

In recent years, the LDOC committee has tended to se-lect one easily recognizable headline act and filled out the remaining docket with lesser known filler bands. The name

recognition that comes with these primary artists can gener-ate excitement. But these big name artists too often turn out to be heavy on style and short on substance, leaving students dissatisfied with the seemingly disinterested performers.

Instead of emphasizing name recognition or populari-ty for its own sake, the commit-tee should place greater prior-ity on the live performance prowess of the artists that they book. In order to accomplish these aims, we propose that DUU plan the logistics and ex-ecution of LDOC festivities.

The LDOC committee currently seeks applicants from the entire student body to fill some spots. The intent behind this is admirable. But even partially separating the LDOC committee from DUU

ignores the valuable resources and experience DUU mem-bers can and should provide.

DUUs considerable expe-rience and access to resources make it uniquely suited for the substantial undertaking that is LDOC. DUU members are genuinely committed to and well versed in student program-ming initiatives. DUUs track record on recent performanc-es is excellent. It has brought Lupe Fiasco, John Legend and Chiddy Bang to campus in the last year, with much suc-cess. These events are similar to LDOC, and we expect the group will be able to execute LDOC to similar acclaim.

The new LDOC subcom-mittee of DUU should focus on staffing the committee with individuals who are intimately familiar with live shows. These

students have invaluable knowl-edge about which performers will put on the best live shows, irrespective of name recogni-tion of the potential acts.

The committee also needs to select students who have ex-perience in dealing with music executives and drawing up con-tracts. Including these sorts of students could help avoid the cancellations that have hurt re-cent LDOC efforts.

The DSG-Campus Coun-cil merger has created an op-portunity to improve one of Dukes most exciting and en-joyable annual events. To en-sure that LDOC continues to provide students with the end-of-year experience that they are looking for, DUU needs to take the lead on coordinating and executing LDOC festivi-ties from this point forward.

When I look back at the time we have shared here at Duke, I see moments of great joytaking the woman or man of our dreams to the formal, discovering the beauty of a Shakespeare play and burning benches after winning a national championship. There have also been instances of great sorrow when we have lost friends and loved ones, when we have failed to get the grade or the job we wanted and when our romantic relationships havent worked out the way we envisioned. But we have overcome these setbacks and most of us will remember the positive experiences and the successes more than anything else. Perhaps the sum of all these experi-ences amounts to what many adults call the happi-est four years of their lives.

But I dont think thats the case. I also believe that this nostalgic thinking hinders our ability to fully enjoy the pleasures in life outside of Duke both as students and after graduation. As Duke stu-dents, we have been bombarded with an onslaught of opportunitiesopportunities to study and en-gage abroad, to join a dozen different groups and to teach courses to other students.

And if you are anything like me, you probably had a hard time deciding which opportunities to pursue and which to pass up. (In fact, I was having such a hard time that I actually designed my own major in Decision Science to try to figure it out!) It is exceedingly hard to accept the notion that you might never get to do something again if you pass it up.

Yet the fear of passing up a temporary oppor-tunity makes us unwilling to choose options that might be the most beneficial for us. Though we may know that a particular choice is best, all too often, we pass it up in favor of another that we know will vanish soon. Anybody who has ever enrolled in classes that are only offered during a single se-mester knows what I mean. Anybody who has ever passed up the more practical romantic partner for the one who plays hard to get understands what Im talking about.

The solution? We must abandon our fear of dis-carding possibilities that will vanish. That means selecting the job we really want rather than the one that wants us to decide by next week. That means passing up on an exotic vacation to honor a commit-ment to be there for a best friend. And most of all,

it means abandoning the premise that these four incredible, fun-filled and richly rewarding years at Duke will be the best four years of our lives.

Over the run of this column, I have tried to provide insight into why you should consider pursuing a breadth of opportunities at the University of North Carolina at Cha-pel Hill now, even though it seems like they will be there next weekend or next semester or next year. Its a challenging personal choice, but liv-ing my life in two different shades of blue has enhanced my college expe-rience tremendously.

When we graduate, a door will close to usper-manently. But countless other doors will open, and it will be up to us to choose which ones to enter and which ones to close for good. This involves riskrisking reshuffling our priorities, risking missing out on beneficial experiences and, ultimately, risking making the wrong choice.

We have all led unique lives here that have chal-lenged us and rewarded us in ways we could never have imagined. We all shared moments that will look great when we look at each others Facebook pages and try to make sense of our experiences.

But the best is yet to come. Starting over summers in college and continu-

ing after graduation, each one of us will begin our lives away from Duke. They will take place in dif-ferent locations and be filled with different peo-ple, but they will contain hints of our past as well. The memories of our times here at Duke must re-main because anyone that has ever loved, anyone who has ever made a friend or lost one, anyone who has ever stayed up all night cramming for a big exam (or had an all-night conversation with a good friend when they should have been study-ing) has been changed by those experiences.

But we cannot remain in these moments. So whether we will soon leave Duke for the summer or for good, lets celebrate our time together here, but, more importantly, lets celebrate our futures apart. Lets celebrate our ability to discern between the vanishing options and the best options and choose the ones that are best for us, whether that means taking a different job or simply taking a trip down the road to Chapel Hill.

Chris Edelman is a Trinity senior and a Robertson scholar. This is his final column.

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Well, its April, and that can only mean one thing. Its time for campus to be invaded by a myriad of high school seniors with obnoxiously large name tags and the enthusiasm that so often characterizes those who have yet to become jaded by the pressures of col-lege. Although some students here tend to find tour groups filled with inquisi-tive parents and overwhelmed students irritating and bothersome, I personally consider them my favorite part of the West Campus scenery. Seeing them re-minds me of my first visit to campus and of every reason why I love this school so much. It reignites in me the excitement that I had upon first stepping into the Duke Chapel. And thats exactly why Ill be hosting two prospective freshmen during this weeks Blue Devil Days.

After spending a while at a school, it becomes all too easy to point out the negatives and forget about the posi-tives. Certainly, Ive written my fair share of disparaging critiques in past columns. Despite its flaws, I still firmly believe that Duke is the best school out there and the best school for me. I can only hope this article reaches a few of the p-frosh coming this week. To enlighten those of you not blessed to have me as a host, this is why I love Duke.

Im from Southern California, and I went to an inde-pendent Catholic high school. With that combination, it was almost assumed that Id be going to Georgetown University, the University of Notre Dame or the Uni-versity of Southern California. Indeed, as I began the process of applying for college, all of these schools were considerations, but one stood above the rest: Stanford University. All the best students from my school went there, and I strove to be listed in those ranks. For at least five years, every student who had been admitted to Stanford had accepted, including those also admitted to Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy.

As I toured the country looking at colleges, I kept thinking about what everyone had told me, When you

see the right school, youll just know. Walking through Stanford, it was easy to see why so many of my predecessors had chosen it. Its a beautiful school with stellar academ-

ics and championship athletics, very much like Duke. But something was missing, and I concluded my tour uncertain. Months later, remembering a suggestion from my college counselor, I decided to visit Duke on a whim. No one from my school had gone to Duke in almost 10 years. My path to becoming a Blue Devil was certainly not an expected one. But after setting foot on campus, I knew Duke was where I wanted to be. Like Stanford, Duke had all the tangibles: academic, athletics and atmo-

sphere. But it was the intangibles that really sold me. Most schools attract a certain type of student. If you

make the wrong choice and arent that certain type, it can be hard to find your place and make friends. Duke isnt one of those schools. We are incredibly diverse and em-brace our differences. We make connections with people unlike ourselves and develop exceptionally strong bonds based on the tight-knit community for which Duke is fa-mous. If youve spent any time in the freshman dorms on East Campus or in Cameron Indoor during a game, you know that the Duke community is alive and well. I believe it is that strong community aspect that is the fi-nal ingredient for a perfect school. In short, Duke has it allit is the quintessential college experience.

If there is one thing to take away, know this: Youll hear people say that Duke is second tier or that its a place for people who got denied from the Ivies. We dont really care about the people who say those things. Duke is an absolutely amazing academic institution, but it is so much more than that. It is a spirited community filled with friends that will be a part of your life forever. The energy is contagious. Its what I felt when I visited as a high school senior. Its why there are people who turn down Harvard, Yale or Stanford to come here. Im one of them.

Scott Briggs is a Trinity freshman. This is his final column of the semester.

In 33 days, Ill no longer be a student at Duke for the first time in eight years.Since Im staying at Duke for residency, I wont be leaving, but I have a feeling it wont be the same. Ill never have an excuse to come to campus, park in the Allen Building parking lot, sit on the plaza eating a Loop burg-er, stand on Main Quad lis-tening to a concert or watch-ing a bonfire burn.

Now, when I walk around campus, my own memories call out to me.

I remember pulling up in the parking lot in front of Blackwell on my first day, walking into the common room to pick up my room key. I remember painting the bridge underne