Gore: Climate change a ‘moral issue’ Groups OKs 3 new degree programs by Christina Peña THE CHRONICLE Arts and Sciences Council went out with a “major” bang Thursday evening. The council reviewed proposals for three new degree programs at its final meeting of the academic year. Members of the council unanimously approved a new biophysics major, financial economics minor and con- centration for the economics major, as well as an East Asian studies certificate. “We were all very excited,” said Arts and Sciences Chair Ruth Day, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience. “It was a very intense student suggestion-led initiative. It underwent very thorough examination and back and forth revisions. We look forward to seeing students in [the programs].” The objective of the biophysics major is to offer a coherent program for undergraduate students with interests in both physics and bi- ology to receive a B.S. and A.B. degree. Many council members commented on their surprise that the major, dealing with the study of physical aspects of processes that enable cellular, tissue and organismal function and survival, did not already exist. “This field is not new,” Day said. “It has been around for decades. I was surprised to by Eugene Wang THE CHRONICLE Despite leaving public office in 2001, Al Gore still knows how to work a crowd. “I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States,” joked Gore, who unsuccessfully made a bid for the White House in 2000 and served eight years as vice president in the administra- tion of former president Bill Clinton. “I don’t think that’s very funny. Maybe some- day I’ll fully appreciate that line.” Although Gore opened his speech—which was sponsored by the Nicholas School of the Environment—with a few humorous stories from his political career, he spent most of his talk outlining broad solutions to global warm- ing and urging those in attendance to take up the climate change cause. Gore spoke in a packed Page Auditorium and to a few hundred people watching via closed-circuit television in Griffith Film Theater Thursday evening. Gore—who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental activism and penned the bestselling book “An Inconve- nient Truth”—said the tools needed to deal with global warming are already available. He noted that technological advancements in solar, wind and geothermal energy provide alternatives to a fossil fuel-based economy. But ultimately, what is needed to correct climate change is the political will to make harmful environmental practices—like car- bon-dioxide emissions—economically unat- tractive in the marketplace, Gore said. He emphasized that reversing the effects of cli- mate change is a moral imperative and that TYLER SEUC/THE CHRONICLE Former Vice President Al Gore emphasizes the climate change movement as a moral issue during a speech in Page Auditorium Thursday night. Gore cited the lack of political will as the major obstacle of climate reform. Danesh to focus on long-term projects by Shaoli Chaudhuri THE CHRONICLE This year is Kaveh Danesh’s first year as an academic af- fairs senator, but he doesn’t want it to be his last in DSG. The Academic Affairs committee oversees the planning and implementation of projects that address, among other issues, reforming courses and pre-major advising. By running for vice president, Danesh, a sophomore, said he aspires to further commit himself to the committee, primarily by focus- ing on long-term projects and following through with ideas. “Duke academic reform is really something that requires long-term devotion, and I think sometimes people think they can propose an idea and immediately effect change, but it really does require a lot of time,” Danesh said. “The way I plan to address that is to have clear goals established from the start. The things that matter need to be addressed immediately. We need to work on them consistently.” Danesh added that he believes his ideas, devotion and experience in working with administrators qualify him for the vice presidential position. “I know what administrators want and also what students want, and I think I have the ability to implement policy that SEE ACADEMICS ON PAGE 5 Walker’s legacy marked by faith, physics intellect by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE William Walker, James B. Duke professor emeritus of physics, passed away Thursday morning at the Duke Home Care and Hospice, after a nearly 20-year battle with skin cancer. He was 86 years old. Walker has been at the University for 39 years and served as chair of the physics department for six years from 1971 to 1977. Family and friends remember him for his devotion to science and to integrity. “He was the finest man I’ve ever known,” his son Sam Walker, Trinity ’80, said in an interview Thursday night. “[He had] absolutely penetrating honesty to the point of making you uncomfortable. He would call things the way they were.” Walker graduated from Rice University in 1944 and SEE WALKER ON PAGE 6 SEE A&S COUNCIL ON PAGE 8 A&S COUNCIL SEE GORE ON PAGE 8 LAWSON KURTZ/THE CHRONICLE Sophomore Kaveh Danesh, who is running unopposed for Vice President for Academic Affairs, will focus on long-term projects to reform academics. 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Gore: Climate change a ‘moral issue’Groups OKs 3 new degree programs
by Christina PeñaTHE CHRONICLE
Arts and Sciences Council went out with a “major” bang Thursday evening.
The council reviewed proposals for three new degree programs at its final meeting of the academic year. Members of the council unanimously approved a new biophysics major, financial economics minor and con-centration for the economics major, as well as an East Asian studies certificate.
“We were all very excited,” said Arts and Sciences Chair Ruth Day, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience. “It was a very intense student suggestion-led initiative. It underwent very thorough examination and back and forth revisions. We look forward to seeing students in [the programs].”
The objective of the biophysics major is to offer a coherent program for undergraduate students with interests in both physics and bi-ology to receive a B.S. and A.B. degree.
Many council members commented on their surprise that the major, dealing with the study of physical aspects of processes that enable cellular, tissue and organismal function and survival, did not already exist.
“This field is not new,” Day said. “It has been around for decades. I was surprised to
by Eugene WangTHE CHRONICLE
Despite leaving public office in 2001, Al Gore still knows how to work a crowd.
“I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States,” joked Gore, who unsuccessfully made a bid for the White House in 2000 and served eight years as vice president in the administra-tion of former president Bill Clinton. “I don’t think that’s very funny. Maybe some-day I’ll fully appreciate that line.”
Although Gore opened his speech—which was sponsored by the Nicholas School of the Environment—with a few humorous stories from his political career, he spent most of his talk outlining broad solutions to global warm-ing and urging those in attendance to take up the climate change cause. Gore spoke in a packed Page Auditorium and to a few hundred people watching via closed-circuit television in Griffith Film Theater Thursday evening.
Gore—who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental activism and penned the bestselling book “An Inconve-nient Truth”—said the tools needed to deal with global warming are already available. He noted that technological advancements in solar, wind and geothermal energy provide alternatives to a fossil fuel-based economy.
But ultimately, what is needed to correct climate change is the political will to make harmful environmental practices—like car-bon-dioxide emissions—economically unat-tractive in the marketplace, Gore said. He emphasized that reversing the effects of cli-mate change is a moral imperative and that tyler seuc/the chronicle
Former Vice President Al Gore emphasizes the climate change movement as a moral issue during a speech in Page Auditorium Thursday night. Gore cited the lack of political will as the major obstacle of climate reform.
Danesh to focus on long-term projectsby Shaoli Chaudhuri
THE CHRONICLE
This year is Kaveh Danesh’s first year as an academic af-fairs senator, but he doesn’t want it to be his last in DSG.
The Academic Affairs committee oversees the planning and implementation of projects that address, among other issues, reforming courses and pre-major advising. By running for vice president, Danesh, a sophomore, said he aspires to further commit himself to the committee, primarily by focus-ing on long-term projects and following through with ideas.
“Duke academic reform is really something that requires long-term devotion, and I think sometimes people think they can propose an idea and immediately effect change, but it really does require a lot of time,” Danesh said. “The way I plan to address that is to have clear goals established from the start. The things that matter need to be addressed immediately. We need to work on them consistently.”
Danesh added that he believes his ideas, devotion and experience in working with administrators qualify him for the vice presidential position.
“I know what administrators want and also what students want, and I think I have the ability to implement policy that
SEE academics ON PAGE 5
Walker’s legacy marked by faith, physics intellect
by Joanna LichterTHE CHRONICLE
William Walker, James B. Duke professor emeritus of physics, passed away Thursday morning at the Duke Home Care and Hospice, after a nearly 20-year battle with skin cancer. He was 86 years old.
Walker has been at the University for 39 years and served as chair of the physics department for six years from 1971 to 1977. Family and friends remember him for his devotion to science and to integrity.
“He was the finest man I’ve ever known,” his son Sam Walker, Trinity ’80, said in an interview Thursday night. “[He had] absolutely penetrating honesty to the point of making you uncomfortable. He would call things the way they were.”
Walker graduated from Rice University in 1944 and
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Sophomore Kaveh Danesh, who is running unopposed for Vice President for Academic Affairs, will focus on long-term projects to reform academics.
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and russian President Dmitry Medvedev, pledging to cut their countries’ nuclear arsenals by about 30 percent, put their signatures thursday to an arms-reduc-tion treaty that opens a new chapter in relations between the two former cold war rivals.
obama and Medvedev sealed the agreement in a ceremony in Prague. while the two sides are still at odds over u.s. plans to deploy a missile defense sys-tem, obama and Medvedev pledged to keep talking to resolve those differences and build up a relationship that had soured in recent years.
“today is an important milestone for nuclear security and non-proliferation, and for u.s.-russia relations,” obama said in remarks after the signing in a hall of mirrored walls and gilded chan-
deliers in Prague castle. the treaty, he said, “will set the stage” for further cuts in nuclear weapons.
Medvedev called the agreement a “win-win situation” for both countries and an “important step” that will enhance cooperation on other issues.
u.s. officials have said the new strate-gic arms reduction treaty, which replac-es an accord that was signed in 1991 and expired in December, demonstrates the american commitment to reducing the spread of nuclear weapons and will en-courage other countries to work toward that goal.
obama is seeking to use the accord in his effort to build international support for tougher sanctions against iran over its nuclear development program and to get a global consensus on steps to prevent terrorists from getting atomic material.
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washinGton, D.c. — More americans unexpectedly filed claims for jobless ben-efits last week, a jump that may in part re-flect difficulty in seasonally adjusting the data ahead of the easter holiday.
initial jobless applications increased by 18,000 to 460,000 in the week end-ing april 3, labor Department figures showed thursday in washington, D.c. the week leading up to easter and the two weeks that follow are traditionally a “volatile time” for claims, a labor Depart-ment analyst said, making it difficult to discern the underlying trend in applica-tions.
“the trend is still down,” said Jonathan Basile, an economist at credit suisse in new york, who had the highest claims forecast among analysts surveyed by Bloomberg news survey. “i would look for continued gradual improvement as
Rio disaster traps hundredsrio De Janeiro — a landslide outside
rio de Janeiro may have killed 200 peo-ple as rains that started earlier this week continue to saturate the soil of the hilly region home to 12 million people, the state’s civil defense office said thursday.
Firefighters estimate that 50 buildings in a shantytown in the city of niteroi, in-cluding a daycare center and a church, were buried by mud wednesdy night. as-suming there were four people in each structure, 200 people may have died, the civil defense office said. six bodies have been removed from the rubble, and 300 firefighters and police are working to find any survivors.
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Climate change was a hot topic on Duke’s campus Thursday evening.
Neil Lane, who served as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology during the administration of former President Bill Clinton, spoke on the history of American science, cur-rent government priorities and what he believes should be the focus of re-search for the future—fighting climate change. Lane, a Malcolm Gills Univer-sity professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, said that like former Vice President Al Gore, whose speech at Duke was streamed live before Lane spoke, he believes global warming to be one of the greatest challenges hu-manity has faced yet.
Lane gave the Terry Sanford Distin-guished Lecture titled, “The Uncertain Future of American Science—Coping with a Changing Climate and Changing World,” Thursday in the Sanford School of Public Policy
“I can think of no one better to discuss the future of American science,” said San-ford Dean Bruce Kuniholm.
Historically, the government-funded research that kept its people safe, start-ing with physical science and engineering during World War II, Lane said. Today, it also focuses on the National Institutes of Health, providing money for biomedi-cal research to improve the health of the American people.
“Fifty percent of money that the gov-ernment spends on research goes to bio-medical research now,” said Lane, who is a former director of the National Science Foundation.
Despite scientific changes both within the country and around the world, Land said scientific progress is as important as it ever was.
“Technology requires evidence-based policies, innovative approaches and new tools,” Lane said.
He emphasized that scientists should concentrate a majority of their resources and time on fixing the problem of global warming and eliminating the dependence on carbon-based energy.
“Although [President Barack] Obama has placed a high priority on research, new energy technology and education, the future is uncertain,” Lane said.
Scientists combatting climate change face many obstacles, including contradict-ing scientific results, political biases and
distortions caused by the media, he said.“The American public is not yet con-
vinced that climate change should be a national priority,” Lane said. “They are not ready to act.”
Lane described several possible direc-tions he believes the nation could go if it ignores the climate situation. He said the U.S. could be replaced by another country, such as China, as the leader in technology. In such a scenario, the gov-ernment would work to benefit current generations rather than securing resourc-es for future ones. Without support from policy makers, scientists could be discred-ited by the public. And the national debt would increase alongside the dependence on fossil energy, he added.
“All of these things can happen, or we could go in the complete opposite direc-tion,” Lane said. “There are real reasons to be optimistic.”
Lane ended the lecture by discussing the importance of older and younger gen-erations collaborating to create a strong presence in the scientific community. Without this combined effort, he said, scientific reform proposals will never be applied and remain only ideas.
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neil lane, director of the White House office of Science and Technology during the Clinton Ad-ministration, spoke in Sanford Thursday.
In the memory of former Duke professor and acclaimed historian John Hope Franklin, experts on race from across the country have gathered on Duke’s campus for a three-day event titled “From Slavery to Freedom to the White House: Race in 21st Century America.”
During his time at the University and as James B. Duke professor emeritus of history, Franklin was a long-time champion for civil rights as an academic. He died March 25, 2009 at the age of 94. The conference, hosted by the Duke Law School, seeks to honor his legacy even in its title, which is a play on Frank-lin’s most famous work, “From Slavery to Free-
dom, A History of African Americans.”“The people who are speaking are quite
remarkable people. It is really an opportu-nity [to attend],” said Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, law professor at the Indiana University Mau-rer School of Law. “I’ve seen conferences talking about race, but this one... the orga-nizers were able to attract a lot of people.”
Among today’s conference events are a discussion moderated by President Richard Brodhead, titled “Race as Institution and Metaphor: A View from the Humanities.” The entire conference concludes Saturday and is free to the public, but registration
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Chafe awarded Rosenzweig honorThe Organization of American Historians selected
William Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin professor of history, to receive the 2010 Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Ser-vice Award. The honor recognizes individuals’ contribu-tions to American history.
Chafe will receive the award in Washington, D.C. April 10. The selection was announced in an OAH news re-lease Thursday.
Chafe has chronicled race and gender equality in America, and his books include “A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America” and “The American Wom-an: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920-1970.”
“He has been a path breaking scholar, one of the few who can write both brilliant monographs and critical and influential syntheses,” the statement reads.
Chafe has been an OAH member since 1980, serving
as president, a member of the executive board and on various committees.
“He incarnates the combination of public service and scholarship that this organization at its best rep-resents,” the release reads. “He is the kind of aca-demic citizen at large that this organization needs in order to thrive.”
The award, which was first given in 1981, is usually granted to scholars or officeholders who have worked with the OAH, according to the organization’s Web site. Respected historian and civil rights leader John Hope Franklin, former James B. Duke professor emeritus of history who passed away last year, received the honor in 1995 and 2002.
Chafe has also received the Robert F. Kennedy, Sidney Hillman and Lillian Smith Book Awards.
—from staff reports
Council reflects on year, renews focus on Edens
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by Nicole KyleTHE CHRONICLE
At their meeting Thursday, members of Campus Coun-cil reflected on accomplishments of the past year and looked to the future.
The Facilities and Services Committee presented proj-ects to come under new leadership. The committee works with the dean of Residence Life and Housing Services to improve the quality of housing for students on campus.
“We have a lot of money to spend on very tangible things,” said Facilities and Services Chair, Douglas Hanna, a freshman and member of The Chronicle staff. “My vision is continuing to seek feedback and make ideas happen.”
In its presentation, the committee highlighted proj-ects like Edens Quadrangle bridge access, which will al-low students better access to all floors. A card swipe will be installed on doors that can provides access to higher floors from the outside, said Campus Council Vice Presi-dent John Pryor, a junior. Pryor added that the doors will help connect Edens buildings and foster a better sense of community.
The stairwell doors are only the first of proposed im-provements, as the long talked about 24-hour eatery in Edens might soon become a reality, said Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a junior.
“After Mill Village, Edens is supposed to be one of the next priorities,” Temple said.
Campus Council also plans to install ice machines, which will cost up to $50,000 for six machines including installation costs, Pryor said.
Reverse vending machines, which recycle cans in front of the user and may provide a monetary incentive for those who use the machines, are also coming to campus. The
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Scott Horton, admitted joking-ly, that he is no Al Gore. But those who attended his talk Thursday knew they had stepped into the right room.
Horton, a journalist, lawyer, professor and contributing edi-tor of Harper’s Magazine, spoke Thursday on his extensive re-search regarding Guantánamo Bay. His talk, immediately after the former vice president visited campus, was a part of the confer-ence “Weaving a Net of Account-ability: Taking on extraordinary rendition at the state and region-al level.”
Through extensive research with law students in New Jersey, Horton published an exposé in the March issue of Harper’s Mag-azine about the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
On the evening of June 9, 2006, three prisoners died sud-denly at Guantánamo. The U.S. government asserted that their deaths were suicides, but Hor-ton’s research regarding the inci-dent contends otherwise.
Horton interviewed several witnesses, sergeants and guards who worked in the camp and later came to the conclusion that the prisoners’ deaths were the re-sult of severe torture by camp offi-cials. He noted that the public an-nouncement that the deaths were suicides was simply a government
cover-up.“The thing I thought most
amazing about researching this is when I actually succeeded in identifying and interviewing pris-on guards—they all took it as a matter of given that of course the government’s story isn’t true. Ev-eryone knew that,” Horton said. “They all, in fact, stated that they had been ordered not to contra-dict this official statement even though of course you know it’s not true.”
Although the prison in Guan-tánamo Bay was originally de-signed to contain high-risk ter-rorists, specifically al-Qaeda members, to obtain information, the U.S. government has deviat-ed from their originally targeted prisoners. Horton noted that the key to enemy detainment is to be sure that the detainee is actually a hostile combatant.
“If you seize them on the battlefield somewhere, they are. But if you seize them shopping in a grocery store in France, be-cause you think that they made some contribution to a char-ity that funded the hospital that once gave aid to a terrorist, and therefore they are subject to be-ing detained—and believe it or not, the U.S. Department of Jus-tice had made that argument—that’s not an enemy combatant,” Horton said.
Horton’s main topic of discus-sion Thursday pertained to the
Guantánamo prisoners’ mistreat-ment, which he said was unconsti-tutional. Horton noted that Presi-dent Barack Obama’s promise as a senator to close the Guantánamo Bay detention camp was not real-ized after he took office.
“Barack Obama voiced strong criticisms of Guantánamo in his story of campaign to the presiden-cy but his impressive oratory has only been reflected in key policy choices,” Horton said.
Most of Horton’s research was derived from those who were in Guantánamo before Obama took office—those who said they were silenced by the George W. Bush administration, but spoke out after Obama promised to
close the camp. One of Horton’s key wit-
nesses, Joseph Hickman, who was an Army staff sergeant at Guantánamo the night of the three deaths, said he gave his accounts with the assurance that he would not be silenced by a new administration.
“[Hickman] told me he re-ally felt when he saw [Obama’s speech] that he was now free to talk about this,” Horton said.
Although the event was not well attended by Duke students, several members from sponsor-ing organizations like the Uni-versity of North Carolina at Cha-pel Hill School of Law were in attendance.
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is wanted and needed by both groups,” he said.
He emphasized the issues of advising and registration, saying he was interested in re-forming the pre-registration system and setting up networks for incoming freshmen to con-sult with current students on course registration decisions.
“It’s almost ridiculous that students that have been ac-cepted at Duke go through the same registration process as se-niors, and I don’t think that’s nearly enough [help] for fresh-men who’ve never seen so many courses in their life,” he said.
Danesh said he will continue to work toward standardizing Writing 20 courses as well as push for more interdisciplinary edu-cation and “synergy courses.”
“Basically, synergy courses are a list of courses that accompany each major that would not tradi-tionally be seen as courses taken by students of that major,” he ex-plained. “[This is] a big part of where education is headed.”
Junior Will Passo, DSG vice president for Durham and re-gional affairs, attested to Danesh’s capability, calling him “the most qualified person for the job.”
“He’s an incredible commu-nicator,” Passo said. “He’s a really genuine person. He knows an in-credible amount about academ-ic affairs.... He has a great sense of how Duke works and how to navigate the bureaucracy.”
served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy where he worked in the physical optics division of the Naval Re-search Laboratory in Washington, D.C. until the end of World War II. In 1949, he earned his doctorate in physics from Cornell University and then conducted post-doctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley. Shortly after, he joined the physics department at the University of Wisconsin, eventually serving as its chair. For his work, Walker was recognized as a Max Mason Distinguished Ser-vice Professor at the University of Wisconsin and as a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Walker had an illustrious career as a physicist and pro-fessor after completing his education. In the 1950s, he pioneered equipment for the study of subatomic particles, leading the team at Argonne National Laboratory in Ar-gonne, Ill. that constructed the 30-inch hydrogen “bubble chamber”—a vessel filled with superheated liquid to detect electronically charged particles. Years later, he co-discov-
ered the “rho meson,” one of a handful of sub-atomic par-ticles then known to exist. These discoveries allow scien-tists to have a broader understanding of how the universe came into being, Sam added.
In 1971, Walker transferred to Duke as chair of the physics department. He was named a James B. Duke pro-fessor of physics in 1990 for his outstanding research and service to the University.
“On a personal level… he was kind, he was friendly. He was intelligent and was always a pleasure to work with,” said Thomas Phillips, associate research professor of physics. “I will certainly miss him.”
Walker was one of a few devoted Christians within the physics department, Phillips said. Although he was an atheist for most of his life, he “returned to faith” in his mid-30’s, according to Sam. After studying theology at the University of South in Sewanee, Tenn. in the 1960s, Walker was ordained in the Episcopal Church. He later became an elder of The Church of the Good Shepherd in Durham.
“I remember one particular night, lying in bed, think-ing about physics and essentially the Lord said ‘okay, are
you going to turn your life over to me?’ We argued back and forth, back and forth. Finally, I said ‘okay’ and that was it,” Sam quoted his father as saying. “Things changed… I had a change of character. I became intensely aware of the Lord’s presence in my work.”
Last year, the physics department held a recognition ceremony for Walker, honoring his achievements in phys-ics and education.
“He has always been one to explore new ideas in our field rather than follow the current research fads,” Al Goshaw, James B. Duke professor of physics, said at the ceremony. “Bill has been a leader at Duke in the physics department and University.”
Walker is survived by his beloved wife of 35 years, Con-stance Walker, a senior research scientist in the physics de-partment, as well as three children, ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, April 17 at 2:00 p.m. at The Church of the Good Shepherd in Dur-ham. Donations in Walker’s memory can be made to the church or to Duke Home Care and Hospice.
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through the Duke Law Web site is required.As part of today’s events, Brent Staples, a New York
Times Editorial Board member, spoke about Franklin’s legacy. He called Franklin both “fiercely patriotic” and “fiercely critical of the nation” and detailed the discrimi-nation the scholar faced throughout his lifetime despite his outstanding academic credentials.
“John Hope Franklin’s mission was this: There was no history of the United States without the Negro people,” Staples said in his speech.
Today’s events included discussions called the “Stories, Narratives, and Citizenship: Race with History” and “The Construction of Racial Discrimination.” In the latter, the panelists spoke about how racial discrimination still exists in the nation today.
Panelist Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Scholar and a professor of law at the University of Iowa, said that after President Barack Obama was elected, a new form of racial discrimination emerged in the country. She noted that the election of a black president can be used to falsely claim that America is a post-racial society.
“Here was proof that the playing field had been evened,” Onwuachi-Willig said of doubts that racism still exists.
Citing examples such as the popular movie “Guess Who,” the panel discussed the perception that racial dis-crimination is being turned on its head with whites becom-ing the new victims of racial prejudice.
The panel noted that some individuals who perpetuate discrimination are unaware of the effects of their actions.
“Most people who discriminate are not conscious that they are doing it,” Onwuachi-Willig said.
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first machine will be located in Wannamaker Quadrangle, and the council is still finalizing the incentives it will offer.
A photo printing machine will be added to McClendon Tower next year. Most of the money generated will go back to RLHS, but how students will pay for the printed pictures is yet to be determined, Pryor said.
Campus Council also discussed a new mission for public relations. The group currently has just one public relations director, but voted Thursday to form a temporary commit-tee to work under him.
“A lot of the big groups on campus that you constantly hear about like [The Panhellenic Association, Duke Uni-versity Union,] etc., it’s not just one person, it’s a commit-tee,” said former public relations director Christine Hall, a junior. “We want to expand PR so we can have communica-tion and dialogue with students.”
Campus Council Treasurer Leslie Andreani, a sopho-more, presented a breakdown of the council’s budget and spending this past year. This year, Campus Council had a $146,482.55 budget, with $37,000 rolled over from last year’s unused quad council funding. Ten percent of the budget was spent on programming first semester, and 39 percent was spent on second semester events. The finance committee used 27 percent of the budget to fund other groups and events, 22 percent was allocated for Last Day of Classes celebrations and the remaining two percent went to miscellaneous purchases.
in other business:Programming Chair Betsy Klein, a sophomore, an-
nounced two upcoming events. Grand Central, the grand opening celebration for Mill Village, will occur from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Friday on Central Campus. The event marks the official opening of Mill Village and the new Devil’s Bistro restaurant. The event cost Campus Council about $3,000.
“It’s going to be really great,” Klein said. “We have a henna artist, a photo booth, performances with Edie Well-man and the jazz band, as well as giveaways and President [Richard] Brodhead giving a toast.”
The council’s second big event is Old Duke, which takes place April 16 in Keohane Amphitheater. The event is a $4,100 project that offers free food and T-shirts, and fea-tures artists including Mat Kearney, Howie Day, Brendan James and Wellman, a junior who is taking the semester off to pursue music.
Residential groups also have the opportunity to receive funding for benches lost to the men’s basketball NCAA Championship victory celebration.
The Finance Committee announced that it is helping 21 different groups, including six residence halls on East Campus, replace their benches. The benches must be built before LDOC. Campus Council gave these groups $300 each, half of what it costs to replace a bench. RLHS will also provide $300 to groups that apply, Temple said.
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members of Campus Council review the group’s progress during its meeting Thursday night. With the completion of mill Village, the council will turn its attention to improving edens Quadrangle through a project that aims to increase accessibility and foster a sense of community in edens.
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ignoring the problem will only imperil future generations.“Make no mistake, this is not just a political issue, not
just a market issue, not just a national security issue, not just a jobs issue,” Gore said. “It is a moral issue.”
He briefly outlined the recent history of climate change, noting that human contribution to global warming has acceler-ated during the past 150 years as the world population grew ex-ponentially. In addition to demographics, Gore attributed the changing relationship between humans and nature to changes in technology and a lack of attention to ecological change.
Even though some commentators still question the va-lidity of the science behind climate change, Gore said the evidence in favor of a warming trend cannot be dismissed.
“The science is as solid as science ever gets,” he said. “Maybe gravity is more firmly established.”
It has been difficult to find workable solutions because the effects of climate change are realized long after the damage is done, Gore said. He noted that an array of dangerous prob-lems—including deadlier tropical diseases, stronger hurri-canes and deeper droughts—may emerge if nothing is done.
He added that the political process favors large corpo-rations, many of which have lobbied against concerted ef-forts to address climate change.
To counteract this political reality, people should de-vote themselves to sustainable living and speak out in favor of climate change solutions, Gore said. To end the approx-imately hour-long speech, Gore reiterated his argument that solving climate change is a moral obligation.
“The real solution is you,” Gore said to the hundreds of students in attendance. “You are capable of making a tremendous difference.... But to those who are closer to my generation, they need us to take leadership.”
After the lecture, some students said they enjoyed the speech and appreciated the passion with which Gore de-scribed climate change and its possible solutions.
“I liked how he framed it as a moral issue, because we’re beyond the debate about whether it’s happening, and we need to go and really look at the moral perspective,” said Allison Herren, a masters student in environmental man-agement at the Nicholas School.
Nicholas School Dean Bill Chameides said he found Gore especially entertaining and passionate about the top-ic. Chameides spoke briefly at the start of the event before Democratic state Sen. and Board of Trustees Chair Dan Blue, Law ’73, introduced the former vice president.
“I was blown away,” Chameides said in an interview after the event. “He does a great job of getting into people’s heads and connecting with them.... Clearly he feels very passionately that this is an ethical choice.”
But not all of those gathered on the Chapel Quadran-gle after the event agreed with Gore’s positions on climate change. A group of about eight individuals protested the lecture with signs and posters. The group was not affiliated with the University, nor were they invited by a student group, said Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta.
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see it wasn’t here before.”Keith Whitfield, professor of psychology and neuroscience
and chair of the curriculum committee, noted that biophys-ics is a growing field and that the links to the medical school would make it easy to use the technology and expertise there.
The council members also approved a financial econom-ics minor and major concentration, which was a result of ob-servations drawn from the financial markets in the past year.
The minor and concentration narrow the scope of ex-isting courses and investigate the financial sector and its interactions with the “real” sector of the economy, accord-ing to the proposal submitted by Patrick Bayer, chair of the economics department.
“There is a huge demand for these types of courses,” Bayer said. “We want our students to be different when they go to Wall Street.”
Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs of Trinity College, noted that the proposal put a “distinct Duke stamp” on the broader liberal arts approach.
“Grounding the proposal in the liberal arts tradition was smart,” Baker said.
The math-intense program also hopes to better comple-ment Pratt students interested in economics.
The third newly approved program, an East Asian cer-tificate, will address the strong student demand for educa-tional programs about China, Korea and Japan.
According to the proposal, the Asian and Middle East-ern studies major focuses primarily on language and lit-erature, but does not offer courses in sociology, political science, economics or other social science disciplines.
The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute hopes to build the program on Title IV funding received from the Depart-ment of Education.
in other business:George McLendon, dean of the faculty of arts and sci-
ences, gave a presentation discussing the major accom-plishments of the last five years including the improve-ment of faculty quality and curricula.
He noted that from 2005 to 2010, 130 faculty members were replaced and extensive recruiting of faculty led to the improvement of mentor-student relationships.
“This is where people really wanted to be, so we gave them a chance to do it—not for bragging rights, but for the students,” said McLendon.
He added that major goals for the next five years include a greater commitment to liberal arts, the enhancement of Duke’s global presence, defining and leading intellectual paradigms and engaging students to form a community of scholars.
“We need to be fully aware of what the national trends are, but need to not get too caught up in them,” McLen-don said. “There are a lot of things that are right and we need to celebrate them.”
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by Jacob LevittTHE CHRONICLE
Duke will face off against Boston Col-lege in its penultimate conference game Saturday at Koskinen Stadium with a point to prove. Despite their impressive record and lofty ranking, the No. 5 Blue Devils haven’t been able to put it all to-gether against conference foes as well
as they have in re-cent years. In fact, a loss on Saturday would give Duke three ACC losses for the first time since 1997.
No. 19 Boston College (8-3, 1-3 in the ACC) boasts a balanced offensive
attack. The Eagles join Duke (10-3, 1-2) as the only teams in the conference with three players in the league’s top 10 in points. The Blue Devils have never lost to Boston College, going 7-0 against the Eagles since their first meeting in 1997.
The Blue Devils have struggled at times during this homestand, entering their March 27 match against Virginia coming off a full week of rest after a 19-10 defeat of Navy. Duke lost a tight 8-7 game to the Cavaliers and missed a chance to build mo-mentum going into a showdown with No. 1 Northwestern, the defending national champion. Duke fell 19-14 to the Wildcats before it managed to stop its slide by dis-mantling Davidson, 19-6.
The Blue Devils will try to stay on track by finishing the season strong against ranked opponents. So far, Duke has gone 5-3 against ranked teams this season.
The Blue Devils may struggle to keep from looking ahead as they try to avoid their first losing ACC season since 2002. They will have to follow a win against Boston College with a victory Wednes-day over No. 3 North Carolina in Cha-pel Hill.
by Jason PalmataryTHE CHRONICLE
After a tough series against ACC Coast-al Division leader Georgia Tech resulted in three lopsided losses last weekend, the Blue Devils will get a shot at redemption as ACC Atlantic Division leader Clemson comes to Durham Bulls Athletic Park for a weekend set.
In those three devastating losses to the Yellow Jackets, the Duke pitching staff failed to get hitters out with any kind of consistency and gave up 43 runs over the
course of three games. While Duke (17-12, 3-9 in the ACC) enters this se-ries in a bit of a tailspin, the No. 11 Tigers (22-8, 9-3) have been victorious in four of their last
five outings.“Clemson is a very good team, having
another terrific year and they’re a really aggressive team,” head coach Sean McNal-ly said. “But our focus is really on us, we haven’t had good results lately... so we’ve got to perform better.”
In order to have a chance to compete
with the ACC’s premier programs, the Blue Devils need to get more consistent starts from their rotation and then follow up those efforts with solid relief outings from the bullpen. To this point in the season, McNally has yet to solidify the weekend ro-tation, having gone with six different start-ing pitchers in as many games.
Against Clemson, McNally will first turn to senior lefthander Christopher Manno, who has started the last two weekend openers and recorded a loss and a no-decision. Those are Manno’s only starts on the season, but he has been very effective out of the bullpen as opponents are hitting just .190 against him this season.
“A couple of years ago he made his de-but against Clemson and pitched really well,” McNally said. “Our expectation is he goes out there, throws strikes and goes af-ter their batters.”
On Saturday, junior righthander Dennis O’Grady will get the ball. Even though he has yet to record a win this year, the workhorse has been one of the team’s most reliable starters, working deep into several games. McNally has yet to name a starter for the series finale.
Last weekend, reliever after reliever
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Past experience is always helpful to lean on when facing challenges seen in previous years.
No. 6 Duke (9-3) started off slow-ly last season after suffering tough losses to top opponents Harvard and Maryland early on in its regular sea-
son slate. This year proved no different for the Blue Devils.
After dropping early matches against the likes of Notre Dame, Maryland and North Carolina–all top 20 teams
in the country–Duke faced the familiar challenge of having to turn its season around after experiencing some set-backs.
“I think that coming in we had a lot of high expectations for ourselves and we didn’t handle the pressure very well,” senior captain Parker McKee said. “In losing, it allowed us to relax more and from those games we started doing
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Henrique Cunha, the freshman who took down no. 1 steve Johnson this year, will face Georgia Tech saturday.
by Tim VisutipolTHE CHRONICLE
As the end of the year approaches, Duke enters a crucial stretch of its con-ference schedule. The Blue Devils will
play two ACC oppo-nents this weekend and aim to build on their victory over Wake Forest Wednesday.
No. 20 Duke (12-6, 5-1 in the ACC) will host No. 24 Georgia Tech at 1 p.m. Satur-day and Clemson at 12 p.m. on Sunday,
both at Ambler Tennis Stadium.Duke will hope this weekend that its
freshman phenom and four-time ACC Player of the Week Henrique Cunha con-
tinues his fine form in singles as well as doubles, where he is paired with junior Reid Carleton. Cun-ha has won his last ten singles matches, a run which includes a victory over the No. 1 collegiate player in the country, Steve
Johnson, of Southern California.Cunha’s doubles pairing with Carleton
has been equally successful, with the duo claiming victory in their last 13 competi-tions. The Blue Devils are expecting that success in doubles Saturday, not only from the third-ranked pairing of Cunha and Car-
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leton but also from at least another pair, having won the doubles point in their last eight matches.
“We want to continue our strong dou-bles play,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “It has been the focus of our season.”
Clemson (17-5, 3-4) should pose little threat compared to that of the Yellow Jack-ets (15-3, 6-1). The Tigers lost 7-0 to Geor-gia Tech on their trip to Atlanta March 31. On the other hand, the Yellow Jackets are also on an eight-match winning streak, a streak they aim to maintain.
However, Duke has also played good tennis, winning seven of its last eight con-tests, the sole loss being a close encounter against No. 1 Virginia last Sunday.
The Blue Devils will need to use the momentum gained in the win against Wake Forest as a springboard toward a strong finish to the season. The victory against the Demon Deacons showed the resilience of the team, as many players stepped up. Notably, Luke Marchese won the deciding singles match, Cunha saved four match points and Carleton came from a set down to give Duke the win.
“We just have to keep things rolling, and continue to work on our composure and our positive attitude out there,” Smith said. “We have no time to relax.”
The team currently sits third in the conference standings, a half-game be-hind Georgia Tech. A win against the Yel-low Jackets this weekend would put them in a tie for second.
And with only five matches left in the ACC schedule, the Blue Devils know time is increasingly not on their side.
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for Duke saw baseballs shelled all over the yard. However, that is a bit of an excep-tion for a unit that had been one of the best in the conference until that demor-alizing series. Particularly impressive for the Blue Devils has been righty Ben Grisz, who leads the squad in appearances and boasts a 2.93 ERA to go along with his 2-1 record. Also, freshman Marcus Stroman, who doubles as a starting infielder, has provided quality innings on the mound and has a 3-1 record.
If the Blue Devils’ pitching staff can
baseball from page 13quell the Tiger bats, Duke will look to steal a couple of games behind what has been a very timely offense. On the year, the team is hitting .301 with runners in scoring position. As of late, infielder Jake Lemmerman and outfielder Will Piwnica-Worms have been carrying the offense. Lemmerman is riding a 13-game hitting streak and has four home runs in his last six games. He also is currently batting .327 during the streak.
If these hitters and others can stay hot, the Blue Devils will have a chance to sur-prise the conference-leading Tigers.
But, as always in baseball, it will start with the performance of the guys on the mound.
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Duke, seen here celebrating after a win at DbaP, returns to its home turf this weekend after a rough road trip.
things a lot better as a team and individually, and that has given us a lot of confidence.”
The Blue Devils bounced back after their middling start last season and went on to win nine out of their last 10 con-tests. With many of the same players back in a similar situation, including McKee and fellow captains Max Quinzani and Ned Crotty, Duke has managed to turn its season around.
Since this year’s mediocre 2-3 start, Duke has responded ferociously and man-aged to put together a seven-game winning streak, which it will look to extend today at 7 p.m. when it hosts Presbyterian (1-6) at Koskinen Stadium.
And once again, the Blue Devils will en-ter familiar territory.
“We are at the exact same spot that we were at one year ago,” head coach John Danowski said. “One year ago we had lost to Harvard and Maryland and we were 9-3 at this time of the year. We are now 9-3 one year later. We worked hard and kept our poise… and everyone has stayed on task.”
Duke is playing its best lacrosse of the year and seems to have peaked at the perfect time with just two games left on its regular season schedule. During their winning steak, the Blue Devils have scored over 14 goals per contest. Quinzani and Crotty have fueled the spark in offensive production with each netting a hat trick in their team’s most recent victory, a 16-7 win over Jacksonville.
The defensive side of the field, however, is where Duke has seen its most rapid im-provements. Over the same streak, the Blue Devils have allowed just 7.2 goals per game, developing a sense of consistency not pres-ent in their early season struggles. And while the team is not immune to giving up a high goal total, it has challenged its oppo-nents to earn every goal they score.
“The goals we’ve given up now versus before are a lot better [than before],” McKee said. “It sounds weird, you never want to think of giving up goals as a good thing, but we are giving them up in the right situations. We are sliding to the ball and we are creating hard shots for them to make…. We have excelled at making it harder for teams to score and push their skill limits to the max.”
Despite Presbyterian not possessing the same skill level as most of the teams Duke has faced this season, the match still pro-vides an opportunity for the Blue Devils to focus on what they need to do to finish out the season strong.
“Being healthy is always number one at this time of year,” Danowski said. “And learning from all of the experiences we have had so far, we need to be confident and have fun… just go out there and be poised and determined. That’s going to be the goal at the end of the year.”
At this point last year, Duke went on to win its final two games and the ACC Tour-nament. This year’s squad hopes to reach similar success.
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In 2000, billionaire in-vestor Julian Robertson donated $24 million to cre-ate the Robertson Scholars Program, a joint scholarship program between Duke and the University of North Caro-lina at Chapel Hill. The mission of the program is to recruit and de-velop high-quality students and to foster collaboration between the Duke and UNC communities.
Ten years later, the pro-gram is on a path to success, although recent develop-ments could improve its ef-ficacy and bring Duke and UNC closer together.
Indeed, the Robertson Program appears to be attract-ing bright students to Duke and developing them into
budding social entrepreneurs with tremendous potential. Although many past scholars fit this bill, Andy Cunning-ham, co-founder of the Wom-en’s Institute for Secondary
Education and Research in Muhuru Bay,
Kenya and Dan Kimberg, founder of the Student U pro-gram in Durham, stand out as prime examples.
The Robertson Scholar-ship, like the B.N. Duke and A.B. Duke scholarships, has proven a useful tool to re-cruit outstanding prospective students. But unlike its peer merit scholarship programs, the Robertson has distin-guished itself by developing strong leaders and providing the support for civically en-gaged students to turn their
ambitions into real, impact-ful projects.
When it comes to the sec-ond part of the Robertson Program’s mission—bringing together Duke and UNC—its progress seems to be more symbolic than substantive.
Of course, the Robertson Scholars bus that provides regular service between Durham and Chapel Hill is a highly visible connection between the two campuses. Yet aside from this physical connector, it is less clear how, where and when the program fosters collaboration between the universities.
In particular, the “semes-ter switch,” in which scholars spend the second semester of their sophomore year at the other institution, can be more disruptive than con-
structive. Sending Duke stu-dents to Chapel Hill for a semester can interrupt the unique West Campus “sopho-more experience” and place an undue burden on their academic schedules.
In general, it is hard to judge the “semester switch” as positive or negative, as so much of the experience is de-pendent on each scholar’s atti-tude. Overall, though, it is safe to say that the impact of this as-pect of the program is felt on an individual rather than col-lective level. Scholars may feel better connected to the other university, but the switch has not brought any large-scale change to the Duke and UNC communities.
Recently the program an-nounced that it would solic-it applications from current
Duke and UNC freshmen who desired to become Rob-ertson scholars. This is a de-parture from previous years, but it has the potential to be a promising change.
The collegiate environ-ment is very different from high school, and selecting a handful of scholars after they have matriculated al-lows students to demon-strate a proven track record of success at college.
As he assumes the direc-torship of the Robertson Scholars Program from Tony Brown, Alex Perwich should continue to pursue creative ways to improve the pro-gram, build on its success over the past 10 years and continue to strengthen the relationship between Duke and UNC.
Sport, that great anachronism. An exhibition of passion and will, a struggle of endurance, a demonstration of teamwork in an age of
individualism, all culminating in a championship. The story of the 2009-2010 Duke men’s basketball team was transformed into a heroic epic as the last nerve-wracking sec-onds ticked away leaving only Duke still standing.
But when the Homeric story ended, the world didn’t take much time to snap back to normalcy. A couple of class cancelations may have prolonged the celebration, but soon enough it was back to the daily grind. The remnants of the game survived in the form of two new questions heard around campus: “Where did you watch the game?” and “How did you celebrate?”
These are more than innocuous questions. They are gasps for air, probes for weak points in the modern psyche that permits no room for pro-longed celebration. Our world is one of binary op-positions: Be rich or suffer poverty; be skinny or suffer obesity; be successful or suffer failure. And success is defined through the constant accumula-tion of more; rest for too long and you will miss out on the gravy train.
On the surface, this value system doesn’t seem much different than that of the sports world. You either win or you lose. But sports are different, mostly because of their ends. Athletic competition, unlike that of the marketplace, is not about accu-mulation. In seeing Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski show that much emotion after winning a fourth championship, it’s obvious that the number of tro-phies doesn’t matter.
It’s about something more, about the magic produced when a group of people band together to achieve a common goal and then realize their collective dream. We revel in sports, in stories of achievement, even in fairy tales like those of “Har-ry Potter” because we can clearly see the underly-ing purpose of it all.
We watch a movie about some epic achieve-ment, and we leave the theater comforting our-selves by compartmentalizing the experience: “It’s just a movie.” Is that because we have be-come too tame to dream big? Or is it because we wander through life aimlessly—every time a purpose rears its head, do we shrink from taking on the task because it is too bold, too fantastical, too much?
These heroic tasks invariably seem to benefit oth-ers. The hero in Greek mythology may have been seeking individual glory, but such glory could only
be achieved through service. Present-day heroes are often chosen from a select group of individuals dedicated to serving the community. The immortals
among athletes are those who bring their team success—many individ-ual hall of fame considerations, for example, take into account champi-onships won.
But we’re supposed to be self-ish, we are told, thanks to Adam Smith. To some extent, we have even tried to classify heroic acts as somehow self-interested. But per-haps we were told the wrong story
about Smith. Nobel Laureate Ama-rtya Sen spoke at Duke two weeks ago about the misinterpretation of Smith’s system. Smith, the proto-architect of the way we live our lives, expect-ed more heroism from humankind. Self-interest will certainly motivate some actions, but we must also always keep in mind the needs, wishes, hopes and dreams of others.
Before you buy into the individualistic philoso-phy of an Ayn Rand, consider for just a moment whether you felt anything at all when you saw Duke cut down the nets, or, on the flip side, when you saw a dejected Butler team collapse emotion-ally. Then ask yourself why.
There is an old Rabbinic teaching that captures Smith’s point well, although it precedes Smith’s work by almost 1,800 years. Rabbi Hillel asked, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
With semester-concluding decisions upon us, we cannot fall into the trap of selfish abandon. It’s tempting to believe the myth that purely self-inter-ested individuals will make choices that benefit so-ciety as a whole. Sometimes, that’s true. But even Smith couldn’t imagine a system that disregarded social responsibility, and Rabbi Hillel described a purely selfish individual as a “what” rather than a “who.” Selfishness infringes on our very humanity.
This isn’t to say that we should all drop every-thing we have planned to join the Peace Corps. Some of the most socially responsible people made their riches first and then looked for ways to benefit the community. But every minute of every day will present you with an opportunity to help someone else, to be a responsible member of the society you wish to see.
At the precipice of action, you must ask yourself, “If not now, when?” May the dedication to ask that question be the legacy that the Blue Devil’s athletic achievement has on the Duke community.
Elad Gross is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Friday.
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Never have I ever climbed to the top of the Duke Cha-pel, burrowed through the East Campus tunnels or camped out in K-ville with 11 of my closest Crazies.
Never have I ever vis-ited Duke’s Lemur Center, eaten a Pauly dog from the Plaza or uh, “danced horizontally” in Perkins’ stacks. Never have I ever driven around the traffic circle backwards, danced in the cage at Shooters II or “FLUNCH-d” a professor to score some free grub.
Never have I ever dated a Tar Heel or a Hokie or a Terp or a redhead. Never have I ever lost a fistfight or eaten yellow snow. Never have I ever dyed my hair.
Never have I ever streaked across Main West, skinny-dipped in the Central Campus pool or hijacked a C-1 bus. Never have I ever painted an East Campus bench or run for DSG.
Never have I ever finished a Friday crossword puzzle, aced a math test of any sort or taken more bin candy than I could physically eat. Never have I ever had a coke with Coach Cut.
Never have I ever scaled Mount Kilimanjaro, run a mara-thon without shoes or ridden a horse backwards, blindfolded, without a saddle… but I bet you haven’t done that either.
Never have I ever tried escargot, seen the Great Pyramids of Egypt or celebrated a double-digit birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. Never have I ever met the Pope or Obama or Brod-head or Santa.
Never have I ever changed a baby’s diaper, milked a cow or gone more than three days without a can of Diet Coke. Never have I ever swum with dolphins or sharks or killer whales. Never have I ever joined the circus or been invited to a Seder dinner.
Never have I ever witnessed the debauchery of a Mardi Gras in New Orleans or a New Year’s Eve in Times Square or an Oktoberfest in Munich. Never have I ever been to the Super Bowl or the World Series or the Stanley Cup. Never have I ever eaten a twinkie.
Never have I ever ridden a motorcycle, been in a play or snorted wasabi. Never have I ever squeezed my own orange juice or pierced my naval. Never have I ever worn white after Labor Day.
And after this weekend, never have I ever been more excited to be a Duke student. Sure, there are a lot of things that I’ve never done and probably never will, both in and away from Duke. I have, however, been given the opportu-nity to express my opinion to Duke Nation, or at least to those who read The Chronicle every other Friday, about what I have done at and because of Duke. So, here goes.
I have hiked through the Duke Forest, spent a lazy af-ternoon in the gardens and seen Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower. I have procured enough Tailgate clothes to costume a small army for the next 10 years, embarrassed myself at more than one fraternity formal and sat front row at a Mike Posner concert. I have color-coordinated my dorm room closet, pulled an all-nighter and lazily bought all of my Christmas gifts from the University store on FLEX.
I have sorority-squatted in 784 facebook photos, met Dan Marino on spring break in Palm Beach and learned how to write persuasively. I have drunk an entire Loop milkshake (and the whipped cream!) all by myself and rented enough DVDs from Lilly to put Blockbuster out of business. I have heard Al Gore lecture, Kid Cudi sing and Third Eye Blind perform in front of a live student audience. I have even STI-ed a test, despite not being exactly what you might call “sick.”
And, drum roll please: I have skipped three days of class to road-trip to Indianapolis with eight of my closest friends. I have cheered on the men’s basketball team in Lucas Oil Stadium, twice, and seen Duke University win its fourth National Championship under Coach K. I have seen real tears, from players and fans, at an emotional tro-phy presentation at the Hilton. I have scored free drinks from many a wealthy alum and high-fived total strangers in the bathroom just because they too were wearing that infamous Duke blue. And, last but certainly not least, I have admitted to the every other Friday’s readers that I am now Cameron’s newest Crazie. Go Duke.
Molly Lester is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday.
I appreciate the frank sentiment expressed in Viviana Santiago’s April 8 letter “NPHC apology not enough” regarding Omega Psi Phi Fraternity’s con-duct and fully agree that the apology’s focus on the “perceived” offense is unacceptably vague.
But I also want to note that such an offense is not problematic only for potential “black LGBT-iden-tified students.” Offensive speech targets any of us who regard a culture of respect as a baseline commu-nity standard. All who embrace this standard would take offense not only at the speech itself and the fail-ure to address it during the performance, but also to the frank offense of Omega Psi Phi’s “apology” that pleads its case even as it arguably and meagerly conforms to some judgment imposed by the Greek Judicial Board.
This event and our understanding of it point to some of the complex issues that emerge from identi-tarian politics and practices. We would do well to un-
derstand the consequences of this complexity, even as we appropriately address the event that happened during the step off and understand the way in which it addresses the cultures of our university.
Karla HollowayJames B. Duke Professor of English
Keep NCAA at 64 teamsWhat a thrilling win by Duke! I can’t imagine the
NCAA basketball tournament being any better. Well, actually, I’d like to see it go back to 64 teams in-
stead of 65. And what a bad idea it would be to expand it to 96! It seems unfair to me to make some teams have to win seven games in a row, whereas others “only” have to win six to be the national champions.
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“Tiger, I am more prone to be inquisitive, to pro-mote discussion. I want to find out what your thinking was. I want to find out what your feelings are. And did you learn anything?”
These are the words of Earl Woods, contextually manipulated (ironically, the audio of the elder Woods comes from a 2004 interview in which Earl was discussing his wife Kultida, also nick-named Tiger) and spun for commercial purposes by Nike. In the background stands a part defiant, part somber Tiger. The ad is both Nike’s and Tiger’s tacit acknowledgment that this major is dif-ferent from all other majors. Why it’s different needs no introduction.
The “Earl and Tiger” ad is a profoundly disturbing commercial that’s manipulative at best and politically correct at worst. No one is lauding this 30-second Nike plug. In spite of how shameless the masterminds in Or-egon may be, it certainly passes the Malcolm Gladwell stickiness test and is one of a huge number of non-golf-related reasons to watch the Masters this weekend.
Of course, you forget to remember Tiger’s un-seemly past when he’s covering 1,100 yards of green in six strokes, like he did yesterday at Augusta (eagle on eight, birdie on nine). The world of sports is kind of transcendent (for lack of a better word) in this respect: we forget about exactly who we’re watching. Investiga-tive journalism, be it Outside the Lines or Vanity Fair, is relatively powerless to emasculate athletes because it can’t keep them away from their sports. For all the beatings Tiger took courtesy of a rabid, albeit justified, media, he was greeted with raucous applause at his 1:42 p.m. tee-off. And when he started to crawl up the leaderboard—a walloping drive on two, an incredible hook shot on eight, a great swing with a nine-iron on 12 (after an extended standing O)—that applause only continued.
Much of this applause no doubt was a function of the squeaky clean Masters audience. Yet, this overwhelm-ingly positive reaction is still a fair reminder that the Tiger saga will likely pass in a few years time, just like most infidelity-themed scandals predating the 14-time major champion. In fact, it’s probably fair to say that a good number of us are no longer interested in talking about Tiger Woods the adulterer. It’s Tiger Woods the
golfer most of us are interested in this weekend. If yes-terday was any indication, there will be no shortage of things to discuss.
So, for all the miscues Team Tiger made in rebounding from Thanksgiv-ing 2009, it appears that one nearly mis-take-free round of 68 can compensate for a litany of mistakes in the eyes of at least the weekend TV browser. Fortu-nately for Woods, winning over the guy who has a passing interest in golf prob-ably is more important than wooing the guy in the Callaway hat with a framed picture of Phil Mickelson.
Even more fortunately for Woods, he has a weekend to work his magic where virtually nothing else sports-related is happening. The Masters, at least from the college-aged male vantage point, is the de-facto event to watch this weekend with the college basketball season over (who won that thing again?) and the NBA playoffs not tipping off until next week. It’s the old grow-closer-by-proximity thesis. For men who like sports, it’s Tiger and a six-pack for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A romance made in heaven.
Ultimately, then, Tiger Woods’ redemption will be due to a lack of things to do on a weekend in April (as well as an otherworldly short game, but that’s another column entirely). America will likely fall for Tiger once more for the same reasons all of us get suckered into rooting for people that might not completely deserve our approval. If they keep appearing on your television screen again and again doing something marginally in-teresting, the logic goes, they must be all right. If it can work for Gossip Girl, it certainly can work for Tiger.
Unlike a teen drama that producers try to ram down your throat, however, Tiger finds his way into dorm rooms because he’s unbelievably good at what he does. Eldrick currently sits two off the lead and is a six-to-one favorite to win the green jacket. For that reason, any New York Daily News report of another mistress or painfully tasteless Nike spot isn’t going to deter our in-fatuation with Tiger’s pursuit of Jack Nicklaus.
Indeed, I’m more prone to be inquisitive and pro-mote discussion about golf.
Ben Brostoff is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Friday.
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