The Chronicle THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011 ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, ISSUE 113 WWW.DUKECHRONICLE.COM Foreign language programs suffer from budget cuts, Page 3 Davidson police case goes to NC Supreme Court, Page 3 ONTHERECORD “The posts are anonymous because we feel that way we get more genuine posts.” —Senior Yishin Yang on the Me Too blog. See story page 4 ITOC restricts all travel to Japan by Zachary Tracer THE CHRONICLE The potential for nuclear disaster and other repercus- sions of last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami have led Duke to restrict travel to all of Japan. The decision by the International Travel Oversight Com- mittee means that undergraduates cannot travel to Japan un- der Duke’s auspices, and students currently there are required to return home, ITOC wrote in an e-mail to its listerv Tuesday. Graduate students must sign a waiver to travel to Japan. ITOC decided Sunday to restrict travel to northern Japan, including portions of Honshu—the main island— and the Tohoku region. Duke widened the restriction Tuesday, after reports that several Japanese nuclear reac- tors may be close to melting down, said Gilbert Merkx, ITOC chair and vice provost for international affairs and development. “Essentially the decision reflects the fact that the nucle- ar situation is getting worse,” Merkx said. “The situation could stabilize very quickly, but it could also get worse very quickly, so we think the prudent thing to do right now is to get our people out.” Most of the 36 Fuqua School of Business students who were traveling in Japan when the earthquake and tsunami struck will soon leave the country, said Michael Hemmer- ich, an associate dean for Fuqua’s daytime MBA program. Several students with Japanese citizenship plan to stay in the country to visit their families, he said. Three Duke undergraduates are also studying in Japan, all at Waseda University in Tokyo, Merkx said. He noted that be- cause the school is on break, only two are currently there. The Global Education Office is in the process of contact- ing those students, but no information is yet available on their plans, Margaret Riley, director of the Global Education Office for Undergraduates, wrote in an e-mail Tuesday. Merkx added that as the situation in Japan develops, ITOC will continue to reevaluate the travel restriction. by Julian Spector THE CHRONICLE Eight years ago, a campaign launched by two Duke students helped change the way the University constructs buildings. As sophomores, Justin Segall and An- thony Vitarelli—both Trinity ’05—created the Duke University Greening Initiative, an effort to increase the University’s envi- ronmental responsibility and sustainable building practices. Their presentation to the Board of Trustees—in which they en- couraged the University to implement the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards into the University’s mas- ter plan—led to a decision in 2003 to re- quire all new buildings and renovations to meet LEED standards. LEED, which is administered by the U.S. Green Building Council, promotes sustain- able construction in the American building industry by awarding points to construction projects based on environmental building criteria. Today, the outcomes of DUGI— which was founded as part of an enterpris- ing leaders public policy course—have ex- ceeded all expectations, as the University now has 33 LEED certified buildings. “Our big, audacious goal at the start was to get Duke to commit to only build green buildings in the future, and we were stunned at how quickly the University com- mitted itself to that objective,” said Vitarelli, adding that Duke approved the idea within a year of the initial proposal. All new projects have received at least SEE LEED ON PAGE 9 LEED buildings support campus sustainability goals by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE Seniors who anticipated rapper Lupe Fiasco’s concert at their freshman year LDOC will finally have a chance to see him perform in their last semester. Three years after canceling his 2008 Last Day of Class- es show, the award-winning Fiasco will perform at Duke March 31. The show—which will be held in Erwin Park on Cen- tral Campus—replaces the Cameron Rocks! concert held in previous years. An opening band for Fiasco will also be announced this week, said Karen Chen, Duke University Union Major Attractions Committee chair. “Lupe was considered for LDOC three years back, so it was the perfect opportunity to bring him and have the show we never had three years ago for LDOC,” said Chen, a senior. “We considered a number of artists and we knew Lupe was coming out with a new album in March, so we thought it would be appropriate to bring Lupe to campus.” MICHAEL NACLERIO/THE CHRONICLE Head coach Mike Krzyzewski said yesterday that “there is a chance” the injured Kyrie Irving will return to the Blue Devils in time for Duke’s game against Hampton. PAGE 10 Kyrie-peat? The Lupe fiasco comes to an end COURTESY OF VINCENT & BELLA PRODUCTIONS SEE LUPE FIASCO ON PAGE 6 After cancellations, rapper to perform on Central March 31
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Foreign language programs suffer from budget cuts, Page 3
Davidson police case goes to NC Supreme Court, Page 3
onTherecord“The posts are anonymous because we feel that way we
get more genuine posts.” —Senior Yishin Yang on the Me Too blog. See story page 4
ITOC restricts all travel to Japan
by Zachary TracerTHE CHRONICLE
The potential for nuclear disaster and other repercus-sions of last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami have led Duke to restrict travel to all of Japan.
The decision by the International Travel Oversight Com-mittee means that undergraduates cannot travel to Japan un-der Duke’s auspices, and students currently there are required to return home, ITOC wrote in an e-mail to its listerv Tuesday. Graduate students must sign a waiver to travel to Japan.
ITOC decided Sunday to restrict travel to northern Japan, including portions of Honshu—the main island—and the Tohoku region. Duke widened the restriction Tuesday, after reports that several Japanese nuclear reac-tors may be close to melting down, said Gilbert Merkx, ITOC chair and vice provost for international affairs and development.
“Essentially the decision reflects the fact that the nucle-ar situation is getting worse,” Merkx said. “The situation could stabilize very quickly, but it could also get worse very quickly, so we think the prudent thing to do right now is to get our people out.”
Most of the 36 Fuqua School of Business students who were traveling in Japan when the earthquake and tsunami struck will soon leave the country, said Michael Hemmer-ich, an associate dean for Fuqua’s daytime MBA program. Several students with Japanese citizenship plan to stay in the country to visit their families, he said.
Three Duke undergraduates are also studying in Japan, all at Waseda University in Tokyo, Merkx said. He noted that be-cause the school is on break, only two are currently there.
The Global Education Office is in the process of contact-ing those students, but no information is yet available on their plans, Margaret Riley, director of the Global Education Office for Undergraduates, wrote in an e-mail Tuesday.
Merkx added that as the situation in Japan develops, ITOC will continue to reevaluate the travel restriction.
by Julian Spector THE CHRONICLE
Eight years ago, a campaign launched by two Duke students helped change the way the University constructs buildings.
As sophomores, Justin Segall and An-thony Vitarelli—both Trinity ’05—created the Duke University Greening Initiative, an effort to increase the University’s envi-ronmental responsibility and sustainable building practices. Their presentation to the Board of Trustees—in which they en-couraged the University to implement the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards into the University’s mas-ter plan—led to a decision in 2003 to re-quire all new buildings and renovations to meet LEED standards.
LEED, which is administered by the U.S.
Green Building Council, promotes sustain-able construction in the American building industry by awarding points to construction projects based on environmental building criteria. Today, the outcomes of DUGI— which was founded as part of an enterpris-ing leaders public policy course—have ex-ceeded all expectations, as the University now has 33 LEED certified buildings.
“Our big, audacious goal at the start was to get Duke to commit to only build green buildings in the future, and we were stunned at how quickly the University com-mitted itself to that objective,” said Vitarelli, adding that Duke approved the idea within a year of the initial proposal.
All new projects have received at least
SEE leed ON pAGE 9
LEED buildings support campus sustainability goals
by Joanna LichterTHE CHRONICLE
Seniors who anticipated rapper Lupe Fiasco’s concert at their freshman year LDOC will finally have a chance to see him perform in their last semester.
Three years after canceling his 2008 Last Day of Class-es show, the award-winning Fiasco will perform at Duke March 31.
The show—which will be held in Erwin park on Cen-tral Campus—replaces the Cameron Rocks! concert held in previous years. An opening band for Fiasco will also be
announced this week, said Karen Chen, Duke University Union Major Attractions Committee chair.
“Lupe was considered for LDOC three years back, so it was the perfect opportunity to bring him and have the show we never had three years ago for LDOC,” said Chen, a senior. “We considered a number of artists and we knew Lupe was coming out with a new album in March, so we thought it would be appropriate to bring Lupe to campus.”
Michael Naclerio/The chroNicle
Head coach Mike Krzyzewski said yesterday that “there is a chance” the injured Kyrie Irving will return to the Blue Devils in time for Duke’s game against Hampton. PAGE 10
Kyrie-peat?
The Lupe fiasco comes to an endcourTesy of viNceNT & bella producTioNs
SEE lupe Fiasco ON pAGE 6
After cancellations, rapper to perform on Central March 31
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ToKyo, Japan — Torn up and terrified by a disaster that keeps getting worse, Japan has been transformed in just four days from one of the world’s most com-fortable countries into one of its most distressed.
Thousands of people along the north-eastern coast of asia’s richest country are dead, and tens of thousands have gone days with little food, little water and almost no heat. Their towns have been demolished, with nothing in their place but soggy fields of scraps.
an escalating nuclear emergency has caused panic among stock traders, trig-gered evacuation orders from foreign companies and generated a deep sense of unease among millions of residents concerned about radiation exposure.
The stock market plunged more than 10 percent Tuesday, and the Nikkei 225 recorded one of its largest ever drops.
arliNGToN, va. — a lowly corporal of long ago was buried Tuesday in arling-ton National cemetery, ushered to his grave with all the army’s old Guard sol-emn pomp.
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in a late-day chill, after hundreds of strangers had paid their respects in pub-lic viewings since the weekend, soldiers carried the former doughboy’s flag-draped coffin partway up a knoll and set it on polished rails above his plot, a stone’s toss from the grave of his old su-preme commander, Gen. John “blackjack” pershing.
president barack obama and vice pres-ident Joe biden attended the ceremony. buckles was a rear-echelon ambulance driver in war-ravaged france.
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The Duke Annual Fund hosted The BIG Event in the Bryan Center Tuesday to familiarize students with the organization’s function and purpose. The event featured free carnival snacks and prizes.
“for the first time this year, head coach Mike Krzyzewski expressed some op(toe)mism. in a press conference this afternoon, the coach said, unprompted by question-ing, that there “is a chance” irving will play friday against hampton in charlotte, N.c. he also said irving participated in some parts of practice today. Nolan smith said that irving “looked good” in practice.”
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NC Supreme Court hears Davidson case
from Staff ReportsTHE CHRONICLE
The North Carolina Supreme Court be-gan to hear a case Tuesday that challenges the legitimacy of Davidson College’s police force.
A woman who was arrested and pleaded guilty to driving while impaired is appealing the charges on the grounds that Davidson’s ties to the presbyterian Church make the ex-istence of its police department a violation of the First Amendment. Davidson requires that 24 of the 44 members of its board of trustees be members of the church.
The Court of Appeals unanimously overturned a trial court decision that the Constitution allows Davidson to have a po-lice department. But state law does allow the state Attorney General’s Office to cer-tify police officers at private colleges, both secular or religious, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported.
Assistant Attorney General Amy Kunstling Irene said that although Davidson does have connections to the church, its affiliation is separate from the school’s primary mission to educate students, WRAL reported.
“There is no evidence, no contention that Davidson’s campus police force or campus police act has the effect of advanc-ing religion,” said Bradley Kutrow, an attor-ney representing Davidson’s trustees.
The ruling, which is expected to take
Duke graduate schools gain in rankings
Language faculty express budget concernsby Lauren Carroll
THE CHRONICLE
University foreign language departments are becoming even more pertinent as Duke expands abroad, but continued spend-ing cuts in Durham are causing stress among language faculty.
Lee Baker, Trinity College dean of academic affairs and associ-ate vice provost for undergraduate education, led a forum titled “Curriculum 2000 in 2011” Tuesday as part of the Department of Romance Studies’ annual Language and pedagogy Discussion Series. Although the forum was intended to stimulate discussion about curriculum, the conversation turned to challenges posed by budget constraints and nationwide cuts in foreign language programs.
“The [national] trends are to go against the language require-ments and reduce faculty in language departments,” Joan Clif-ford, assistant director of the Spanish Language program, said in an interview Tuesday. “This is an ongoing concern for us.”
Even though other universities are often quick to cut foreign language departments, Baker said language learning will remain an integral part of Duke’s liberal arts curriculum, especially as the University continues its commitment to globalization.
He added that more undergraduates are studying foreign lan-guages than ever before, noting that “students know, ‘I need a language to do something better.’”Ted KNudseN/The chroNicle
In a forum Tuesday, foreign language faculty members discussed budget cuts’ negative effects on foreign language programs nationwide. SEE curriculum ON pAGE 7
from Staff ReportsTHE CHRONICLE
The newest rankings are out, and many of Duke’s graduate schools are listed among the elite of the nation.
The School of Nursing received its highest ranking in history at seventh, and a number of the other graduate and professional programs were ranking in the top 15 of the list, which was com-piled by the U.S. News and World Report. The 2012 lists were released Tuesday.
The School of Medicine tied for fifth in research and 41st in
primary care, up one spot each from last year’s spots. The Fuqua School of Business climbed two places to 12th.
A number of Duke’s medical specialty programs were recog-nized by U.S. News. The physician assistant program was ranked first; geriatrics and internal medicine ranked fourth; and wom-en’s health ranked fifth.
Some medical specialties dropped in rank, however. AIDS fell from fifth last year to eighth, and family medicine fell
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Student groups turn to blogs for expression
Grant to fund AIDS research and education
by Caroline FairchildTHE CHRONICLE
After hearing a group of female engi-neers discuss discrimination against women during lab, Sunhay You, a sophomore, knew something had to be done to share their ex-periences with the Duke community.
You found a way to voice her concerns by helping create the blog Develle Dish as a part of the Hart Leadership program course “Women as Leaders.” In doing so, You be-came part of a recent trend among student groups at Duke that have turned to blogging to more effectively promote their causes. As blogs gain popularity, groups are creating online forums to generate discussions and promote awareness of their organizations to the Duke population and beyond.
“What happens to us negatively as individ-ual women on campus are all acts of repres-sion,” said You, who is now the editor of De-velle Dish. “There was no avenue for women to talk about their experiences as women at Duke and now it doesn’t matter who you are; now you can get your voice heard.”
Building communityBlue Devils United, Duke’s undergradu-
ate organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning stu-dents and allies, began sponsoring its own blog, Our Lives, in November 2009. Blue
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Duke law professors and students will use a recently-received grant to address issues facing HIV and AIDS patients in North Carolina.
The AIDS Legal project, organized through the School of Law, will use a $58,000 grant from AIDS United to cre-ate policy recommendations and edu-cational resources as well as conduct research with the aim of increasing ac-cess to care for infected North Carolina residents.
“Our program and this new initiative fight a two-front battle,” said Carolyn McAllaster, founder and director of the AIDS Legal project and a clinical profes-sor of law. “We educate the future doc-tors and lawyers of America about the impetus behind this esoteric disease, and we help those who already face this battle survive it.”
To help those already affected, the project hopes to ensure better transpor-tation to treatment centers, make sure treatment programs retain government funding and reduce the stigma about the disease throughout the community, McAl-laster said.
Through the AIDS Legal project, Duke law students have been offering free legal
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People dressed in monkey suits walk around campus to promote the second annual Primate Pa-looza, a week-long celebration of biodiversity conservation featuring a speech by Jane Goodall.
Monkey business
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Sleep deprivation leads to risky decisions, study findsby Amanda Young
THE CHRONICLE
When visiting Las Vegas, beware the temptation to spend a late night in the casinos, a new study on decision making warns.
In a study conducted in Singapore, researchers at Duke and the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School found that sleep-deprived people make riskier decisions based on inaccuracies in perceived gains and losses. This study provides the first evidence that sleep changes how the brain evaluates economic value.
“people who are well rested avoid outcomes that have very high losses,” said Vinod Venkatraman, a primary au-thor of the study and Duke fifth-year graduate student in psychology and neuroscience. “When that same individual is sleep deprived, the individual tends to focus more on the gains and doesn’t care as much about the losses.”
The study, titled “Sleep Deprivation Biases the Neu-ral Mechanisms Underlying Economic preferences,” appeared in the March 9 issue of The Journal of Neuro-science. It featured twenty-nine subjects with an average age of 22.34, who were given win-loss scenarios such as, “[Would] you want to choose an option that gives you a 30 percent chance of making $80, a 40 percent chance of los-ing $50 [or] a 30 percent chance of making $0?”
The subjects answered a series of similar questions twice, once after sleeping between seven to nine hours and once after not sleeping for an entire night.
Researchers found that when sleep deprived, the sub-jects displayed increased activity in the ventromedial pre-frontal cortex, the part of the brain that focuses on positive outcomes when making decisions. These subjects also dis-played decreased activity in the anterior insula, which focus-es on negative outcomes, so that whereas well-rested people generally look to minimize losses, sleep-deprived individuals may instead seek to maximize gain. These variations in activ-ity occurred when subjects made their decisions and after they discovered the financial outcomes of their decisions.
Venkatraman said the effect of sleep deprivation on how people assign value to information is independent from its effect on attention and fatigue, a key discovery in
studies on sleep deprivation and decision making. “For example, if you are tired, caffeine may boost your at-
tention, but this will not necessarily change your evaluation,” Venkatraman said. “Our study is the first to show that.”
Michael Chee, a cognitive neuroscience professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, led this study and a similar study that was conducted in 2007. The earlier study showed differences in brain activation similar to those of the recent study.
“The finding that the brain is responsive to the promise of reward... has now been replicated in two risky decision making studies, which suggests that sleep deprivation has a real effect,” Chee said. “This is important because some other groups have had variable results.”
Scott Huettel, associate professor of psychology and
neuroscience at Duke, led the decision making lab with Chee and said the study reveals more reasons why gam-bling is dangerous.
“Casinos often take steps to encourage risk-seeking be-havior by providing alcohol, introducing flashy lights and sounds and converting money to chips or electronic cred-its,” Huettel wrote in an e-mail. “Sleep deprivation surely exacerbates these effects, making gambling even more tempting for many individuals.”
The study’s findings also have implications that extend beyond gambling.
“Most people consider sleep an optional thing that you can disregard easily, but we beg to differ,” Chee said. “This study should grab people’s attention and show that you are not the same person if you deprive yourself of sleep for one night.”
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A recent study finds that a sleep-deprived person is more focused on positive outcomes in decision making, which could result in greater risks.
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two spots to 10.The pratt School of Engineering gained two spots
in the rankings—as it did last year—and is currently tied for 31st. Duke ranked fourth for biomedical and bioenginnering, receiving the same spot as last year.
Although Fuqua’s overall position on the list rose, its rankings for marketing and executive MBA program re-mained the same as last year—ranked third and fourth, respectively. The school’s international ranking rose from sixth to fourth, but its management ranking fell from eighth to ninth.
In an effort to provide more accurate data on hiring of law students, U.S. News polled 750 recruiters and hir-ing partners at the nation’s high-ranked law firms about the nation’s top law schools. Duke’s law program was ranked eighth on the list—which is new to the publica-tion this year.
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LuPE FIASCO from page 1
Fiasco was originally scheduled to play at LDOC in 2008 along with Third Eye Blind, Journey cover band Frontiers and Carbon Leaf, a North Carolina folk-rock jam band. Fiasco’s agent, however, canceled the concert to allow Fi-asco to tour with rapper Kanye West, singer Rihanna and alternative band N.E.R.D.
Although Fiasco gave a verbal commitment to perform at Duke the following semester, he canceled that show due to financial and logistical constraints.
Chen said DUU is not worried about another can-cellation because the concert is in two weeks. Chelsey Northern, Fiasco’s regional press contact at Atlantic Re-cords, confirmed Tuesday that the artist will be playing at Duke.
“In looking at the calendar now it does say [Fiasco] is performing at Duke,” Northern said, adding that the rap-per is unavailable for comment this week because he is on “voice rest.”
The event has received positive feedback, as more than 1000 students indicated within 24 hours of the announce-ment that they plan to attend the concert on the event’s Facebook page.
Chen declined to comment on the cost of event, noting that those figures are often “kept under wraps for negotia-tion purposes.”
Fiasco’s performance marks the first time Erwin park is being used to host a concert.
“I think this is kind of a test run to see if this space can be used for a concert,” Chen said. “Coming off last year when we had Cameron Rocks!... we realized that after that event the acoustics in Cameron [Indoor Stadium] aren’t that great and also that the audience is restrained to their seats. It doesn’t given them the opportunity to get up and dance.”
Chen said she met with Duke Athletics to secure the baseball field and is now working with Event Management to ensure safety at the event. Chen added that the park can hold a maximum of 5,000 individuals with all gates open, which is comparable to Cameron’s capacity.
The committee announced Fiasco’s concert on Face-book late Monday night. pre-sale tickets for Duke students will be available March 21 and will cost $25 each. The gen-eral public can purchase tickets starting March 23 for $35 each. Tickets sold at the door will cost $40. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. and doors will open at 7 p.m.
Fiasco’s most recent single “The Show Goes On” from his latest album “Lasers” is currently ranked 39 on Billboard’s Hot 100 list. The rest of the “Lasers” album was released March 8 and sold 204,843 copies in its first week, accord-ing to Hits Daily Double. Fiasco’s single “Superstar” from his 2007 album “Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool” reached number 10 on the list, making it his highest charting single.
Several students said they are excited about the event and its unique location.
“I’m always excited when a new artist comes to Duke,” said freshman Caroline Hall. “I think it’s actually a good thing to bring more people to Central... to see there’s a lot more to it than housing.”
Fiasco’s unique lyrics and social activism make him a great fit for the student audience, sophomore Bo Triplett said.
“He’s probably one of the best up-and-coming artists right now. It’s huge for Duke and it’s huge for Lupe,” Trip-lett said. “Lupe’s known for his lyricism and message for social change and it will have a good impact especially with all of the stuff going on in Japan. He already has a couple songs out about it.”
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assistance to low-income, HIV-infected clients on and off campus since 1996.
Some HIV and AIDS patients travel across county lines to get treatment in order to keep their status private from neighbors, a habit some give up because of high expenses, McAllaster said. Medicaid does not currently fund transportation, she added, so the project will aim to find solutions for patients who need funds to travel for treatment.
To ensure continued funding for HIV and AIDS pa-tients, the project hopes to work with legislatures to ensure equal rights for patients of the disease as well as continue state subsidized treatment for those who cannot afford it, McAllaster said. The AIDS Drug As-sistance program, for example, provides critical drugs to low-income HIV patients but faces a budget shortfall that has prompted political debate over the program.
“There are people such as [State Representative] Larry Brown who hope to cut state funding to this program,” she said. “We are for the first time in 100 years working with a Republican controlled legisla-ture, but [Congressional] Senator [Richard] Burr, also a Republican, is a strong supporter of ADAp, so we have hope that we can work with them in making policy recommendation when the health care reform is carried out.”
North Carolina is one of 11 states with waiting lists for HIV and AIDS treatment, according to the North Carolina AIDS Action Network website. Last year, ADAp was closed to new enrollees due to a lack of funding, resulting in the longest waiting list in the country, McAl-laster added.
“ADAp is one of the programs that is extremely important in the fight against AIDS in that it offers life-saving medication,” said Ian palmquist, executive director of Equality North Carolina, an organization which aims to ensure legal and judicial equality for HIV and AIDS patients. “If we cut funding to it then people will go without treatment and die. It would also run the risk of creating vaccine immune virus strands, which is dangerous because the number of vaccines out there is already limited.”
Education about the disease and confidentiality laws is vital to reduce discrimination, McAllaster noted. One of AIDS Legal project’s new policy’s steps will be to lead legal education seminars in North Carolina.
Negative connotations and prejudice has been widely regarded as the single greatest challenge fac-ing HIV and AIDS patients, palmquist said. He at-tributed a large part of this to “careless breaches” in confidentiality.
“There was a case when a woman, acting as a character witness for her son, revealed to their lawyer her HIV posi-tive status,” McAllaster added. “When put on the stand, the lawyer announced it to the whole court with the in-tention of getting sympathy.”
McAllaster said these mistakes are not made mali-ciously, but the repercussions are potentially dangerous for the patient.
“Yes, it has gotten easier for people to be honest about their status, but it is still a risky leap of faith to take,” said Sherryl Broverman, associate professor of the practice of biology who has spent time studying the dis-ease in North Carolina and Kenya. “people have gotten fired from jobs, rejected from their families, suffered depression and kicked out of their apartments when so-ciety finds out the truth.”
Although faculty members are pleased that student interest in foreign language classes remains steady, they questioned whether budgetary restrictions will prevent departments from fully accommodating students’ needs, especially with class size regulations.
Currently, language courses taught by non-regular rank faculty members must have at least eight students enrolled or the class is canceled. Baker said funding a class with less than eight students is an irresponsible use of resources.
Deborah Reisinger, assistant director of the French Language program, said in an interview Tuesday that these restrictions have the potential to put professors in a position where they cannot pay their rent. If a class is unexpectedly canceled because of low enrollment, the University can change the professor’s contract, she explained.
“The caps of enrollment in courses affect what you can and can’t do,” she said. “That’s your livelihood. You were expecting a certain salary, and the University reserves the right to change your salary.”
Carolyn Lee, director of the Chinese Language program, praised Duke’s study abroad programs for keeping students involved with their languages but added that the financial constraints make it difficult to maintain high-quality programs both in Durham and abroad.
“Division of labor has become a very challenging situ-ation,” Lee said. “You’re compromising human resources when it comes to the budget.... How are you going to work within the constraints of the program and still get the meat of the instruction?”
Baker called the language departments’ challenges a “tug-of-war” of resources, noting the difficulties of balancing quality of professors with quantity. He reas-sured faculty members, however, that language instruc-tion will remain an important part of the Trinity Col-lege curriculum.
“If you want to really have an impact, language acquisi-tion and learning is critical,” Baker said. “Duke has made a commitment to internationalization and globalization, and that’s not going away any time soon.”
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Devils United president Ollie Wilson, a junior, said the blog has grown into an expansive forum of communication un-der the leadership of Chris perry, a senior. With topics ranging from coming out to friends and family to the latest political policies concerning the LGBT communi-ty, Wilson said Our Lives is serving its mis-sion of highlighting LGBT life at Duke by educating readers about the community’s rights and issues.
Wilson said the blog has become one of the most forceful mediums of communica-tion for Blue Devils United and its causes.
“I think the power of the Internet is that you are able to access a broad audi-ence that is thousands of miles away,” he said. “If you write something it’s always up there and people are able to get pen to paper and talk about what their individual experience is like at Duke.”
Blogs are built for expressing this kind of personal narrative, sociology professor Nan Lin said. Currently teaching a course titled “Cyber Networks and the Global Village,” Lin described blogging as an “egocentric study” and a one-way form of communica-tion. Although he said the messages on blogs are often “hit or miss,” he thinks blogging is generally a healthy personal exercise.
“I think it is a good sign that people want to create group identity and collectivities and it is the easiest way to form groups and to share opinions and ask others to join,” Lin said. “As a result you are going to have very diverse groups and diverse opinions.”
The Me Too blog is another online fo-rum started by Dukies looking to share their experiences, in this case geared toward cre-ating a space for students to promote a sup-portive campus community. An anonymous blog, Me Too publishes a variety of posts in-cluding students descriptions of feeling like outsiders on campus to students discussing falling in love after sexual escapades.
Seniors Bhumi purohit, a Chronicle columnist, and Yishin Yang have been prominent organizers of the Me Too blog. Yang said they have been impressed by the lively personal accounts that have come out of the blog so far.
“The posts are anonymous because we feel that way we get more genuine posts,” Yang said. “If your name is there you don’t want to complain about a certain aspect of Duke that would be defying. We are try-ing to create a forum where students can identify with each other and relate to each other and anonymity is key to that.”
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anonymous entries from their contribu-tors as well. Some of these anonymous posts on Develle Dish have touched on po-lemic past campus issues such as fraternity progressive parties, while recently on Our Lives a gay member of the ROTC commu-nity at Duke expressed his or her beliefs concerning “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Wilson said although the blog editors prefer that a majority of posts are not anonymous, he thinks anonymity is an im-portant aspect of the blog.
“We see dual spaces to this,” Wilson said. “The importance for anonymous points is that there are people who have something to say but because of their circumstance they have to remain anonymous.”
Lin, however, said there is a danger in ad-mitting anonymous posts to a blog. Although he acknowledged there are certain situations in which anonymity can protect the safety of a writer, he said in today’s society it is impor-tant that blogs aim for complete transpar-ency and full information disclosure.
“In certain social systems, true identity has to be hidden or you will get in trouble with authorities,” Lin said. “But with our open society anonymous sources create more con-
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several months, could have implications for other institutions of higher education, including Duke. Two local attorneys filed a motion Nov. 23 challenging the arrest power of the Duke University police Department, citing Duke’s ties to the Methodist Church.
The defendant in the case in question, who was arrested Oct. 11 for driving while impaired and for underage consumption, is scheduled to appear in court July 19.
In November, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and govern-ment relations, told The Chronicle that Duke’s historic ties with the church differ from the connections between other uni-versities and religious institutions.
“The circumstances at Duke are differ-ent from the other cases in which this has come up so as to not make this a valid com-parison,” he said at the time.
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Blue Devils united President Ollie Wilson said the group’s blog has grown significantly in the past year.
flict. I do not endorse the practice for campus groups using anonymous sources to network.”
Anonymous posts or not, Wilson said it is impossible to deny the positive and encourag-ing feedback he has witnessed since Our Lives was created. From prospective Dukies to the parents of current students, Wilson said the blog has created a lively community of con-tributors that continues to grow.
“Reading the messages and the comments we get from people saying the blog has affected them has been a powerful experience,” Wilson said. “From the 2015 student who said he is much happier to apply to Duke as a gay student now after seeing this blog, or from the alumni who says how glad he is [to see] how much prog-ress has been made or from the parent who says that he is proud of his son and the comments he has made [on the blog], that is really important and shows that it really has made a difference.”
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Certified, the most basic LEED standard, but many have received Silver status, a few have achieved Gold and one has attained platinum. Buildings are evaluated in categories includ-ing sustainable sites, energy and atmosphere, water efficiency and indoor environmental quality. The Certified standard requires at least 40 points out of a possible 110 —Silver requires 50, Gold requires 60 and platinum requires 80.
“Justin and I saw universities as unique envi-ronments in which green buildings were likely to be created, because they have long-time ho-rizons when making decisions,” Vitarelli said. “So we thought Duke... would be interested in a more sustainable campus and buildings that were cheaper to maintain in long run.”
president Richard Brodhead said the LEED certification system is an integral part of the University’s commitment to environmental consciousness.
“We have done a ton of building, and every choice you make, you can make in a way that promotes the goals of sustainability or that is taxing to the environment,” Brodhead said. “The point of the LEED movement is just to make us mindful of the choices we have and the differential impacts of those choices.”
Executive Vice president Tallman Trask said Duke currently has 21 certified LEED buildings and 12 going through the certification process. This adds up to 2.5 million square feet of LEED certified space, which places Duke in the top
ranks among American universities, Trask said. Other top institutions include Arizona Statue University, Harvard University, the University of Florida and the University of Washington.
Duke currently has more than two dozen Certified and Silver buildings and two Gold—the East Campus Steam plant and the Ocean Science Teaching Center at the Marine Lab in Beaufort, N.C. The single platinum building is the Smart Home—which became the first resi-dence in the world to gain platinum certifica-tion in 2008.
Trask noted that because buildings gener-ate a major portion of the University’s carbon footprint, sustainable construction and opera-tion plays a key role in keeping those emissions down.
“It’s more avoidance of new [carbon emis-sions] than reducing existing [emissions],” he said. “The buildings are the biggest carbon emitters there are, so being able to hold those numbers down on new buildings doesn’t get us toward neutrality, but it doesn’t make the prob-lem worse.”
Sustainable architecture also has financial benefits for the University— especially when energy is used more efficiently. Cash Davidson, manager for planning and engineering for Fa-cilities Management, said that Certified and Silver buildings are especially cost effective. He noted the additional construction cost for these projects can run as low as 2 percent and that this is recuperated in energy savings in the long term.
“Duke is not a developer,” Davidson said. “We’re here for the duration, so our buildings
are expected to last 50 to 75 years. So, certainly over the 50 year life of a building we’ll more than pay back any additional cost of Certified and Silver.”
Davidson explained that planning for LEED certification begins early in the design process for a building, with engineers and designers dividing the possible points on the scorecard into categories of Yes, No and Maybe. The en-gineering team then runs a cost-benefit analy-sis of the Maybe points, to determine wheth-er or not they should attempt to meet those requirements. At the end of the day, David-son said the University focuses on the points within the LEED program that will provide a sound payback.
Trask noted that, in any building project, the University must balance possible environmen-tal savings with additional building costs.
“At the Gold and platinum levels, it’s a fairly expensive proposition and the payback is less clear if not uncertain,” Trask said. “At Certified and Silver levels it’s both environmental and economic.”
Upcoming LEED construction projects in-clude Duke’s new Kunshan, China campus, which Trask said is on track to receive Silver certification, and the recently announced reno-vations of page Auditorium, West Union and Baldwin Auditorum, sponsored by an $80 mil-lion grant from The Duke Endowment.
“This is not a marginal concern of ours,” Brodhead said. “It has become one of the es-sential things we consider when we make archi-tectural choices.”
Joanna Lichter contributed reporting.
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In three games at the aCC tournament, miles Plumlee took advantage of a starting role, scoring 8.7 points and grabbing 6.7 rebounds per game.
by Harrison ComfortTHE CHRONICLE
Last year, Jon Scheyer, Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler fueled the Blue Devils’ scoring output. But it was big men Brian Zoubek and Lance Thomas who unexpectedly emerged as essential contributors to the Duke title run.
This season, junior Miles Plumlee has the potential to serve as this year’s catalyst to spark the Blue Devils to make another deep run in the NCAA Tournament.
Especially given his breakout performance in last week’s ACC tournament.
“Miles has been great,” Smith said. “He’s playing so athletic on both ends of the court and that’s what we need from him. He’s been an animal for us.”
Plumlee began the year in the starting five, but fell out of favor at the beginning of the ACC season, los-ing playing time in the months of January and Feb-ruary. He was benched in favor of Ryan Kelly in the Jan. 15 Virginia contest, and didn’t crack the starting lineup again until last Friday’s conference quarterfinal matchup against Maryland.
But now the junior forward has emerged as a force on the offensive glass, using his size and athleticism to cre-ate second-chance opportunities. Making a smooth tran-sition back into the starting lineup, Plumlee averaged 8.7 points and 6.7 rebounds per game in Duke’s three con-tests last weekend, including a career-high eight offensive rebounds against the Terrapins.
With the team’s arsenal of capable shooters, Duke re-lies heavily on 3-point baskets to initiate and maintain scoring sprees. Plumlee’s rebounding prowess, then, al-
lows him to score easy baskets around the rim and make outlet passes to the team’s guards on the perimeter.
Like Zoubek, Plumlee uses his physicality to set strong on-ball screens and create driving lanes for the likes of Smith and Singler. Recently, he has shown the ability to score with his back to the basket, developing a repertoire of post moves that includes a hook shot and drop step.
“[Miles has] added a physicality to our team and ath-leticism that made us better and gave us different looks,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I think he seems really relaxed at who he is…. He’s reacting better.”
On defense, Plumlee has started challenging oppos-ing team’s post players with his strong 6-foot-10 frame and leaping ability. In the ACC championship, Plumlee did not allow North Carolina center Tyler Zeller to get into an offensive rhythm.
His help defense, in which he uses his speed to bring weak-side assistance, was on display Saturday in the semi-final game. Plumlee served as a secondary defender to Virginia Tech forward Jeff Allen, who was covered by Sin-gler and only scored two points in the contest.
Although Plumlee has shown flashes of his talent over the course of his career, the ACC tournament marked the first time this season he has posted a string of solid performances. And if Plumlee plays as consistently as he did last week, he can become a key contributor to an-other Final Four appearance for the Blue Devils.
“With his aggressiveness. Miles is an athletic, physical person, and he’s very unique in that regard,” Singler said. “He’s playing really well right now so if he can keep on doing what he’s doing it would be big for us.”
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For the first time this year, head coach Mike Krzyzewski expressed some op(toe)mism.
In a press conference yesterday afternoon the coach said, unprompted by questioning, that there “is a chance” Irving will play Friday against Hampton in Charlotte, N.C. He also said Irving participated in some parts of practice yesterday.
“Kyrie practiced a little bit with us today,” Krzyze-wski said. “And we’ll see how he feels tomorrow. There is a chance that he will play. But that decision won’t be made until another few days. We have to see how he does over a period of time.”
Nolan Smith said that Irving “looked good” in prac-tice. The senior added that he wasn’t worried at all about Irving showing rust on the court.
“He’s a player,” Smith said. “If you give him a ball, he’ll figure out what to do with it.”
Neither Krzyzewski nor Smith were concerned about problems integrating Irving on the floor. The freshman’s enthusiasm on the sidelines has been well-documented, and his celebrations after Duke buckets
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Joe Pedevillano turned in a career per-formance and Dillon Haviland pitched five innings of two-hit ball to propel Duke (14-4) to an 11-3 victory over visiting N.C. Central (1-15) yesterday afternoon.
Pedevillano, who has been a spot start-er in the Blue Devil outfield the past two seasons, exploded at the plate Tuesday af-ternoon. The junior went 3-for-3 with five
RBI, including a two-RBI double to right-center field in the eighth inning which glanced off
the Eagle right fielder’s outstretched glove. Pedevillano also laced a frozen rope to right field in the fourth, capping off Duke’s six-run inning that pushed the score to 8-0.
The junior continues to impress at the plate and has now pushed his season average to a team-high .400 with a mini-mum of 25 at-bats.
“Joe’s taken advantage of his oppor-tunities this year,” head coach Sean Mc-Nally said. “He’s a hard worker and can do a little bit of everything. He can run, is a really good defender out there and he’s got some pop. Today he swung it well and we hope he keeps it up.”
In addition to Pedevillano, sophomore Jeff Kremer and freshmen Chris Marcon-cini and Anthony D’Alessandro continue to impress at the plate. The three have an-chored the middle of the Blue Devil lineup while Will Piwnica-Worms, who did not
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In 13 years of play, Duke has never lost to Virginia Tech. And if last week’s results are any indication, the No. 5 Blue Devils
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named the ACC offensive player of the week following her five-point outburst in the win over Boston College. Kimel cau-tions that Emala and the Hokies’ quick tempo style of play will be a test for the Duke defense.
“Virginia Tech likes to run and gun, so that presents a different set of challenges. Winning the draw will be critical, as will hav-ing the ball and being very efficient with our offense. Playing our style is important.”
The Blue Devil defense is coming off its best performance of the season, in which the squad allowed just five goals, its low-est total in two years. Junior goalie Mollie Mackler was named ACC defensive player of the week after her career-best 15-save performance against georgetown. Mack-ler missed most of last year due to injury, but according to Kimel, has made enor-mous strides this season.
“Out of everyone on the team Molly has made the most progress,” Kimel said. “georgetown is a pretty prolific offense, and for her to have her career game against them is a testament to how hard she’s worked.”
Mackler is quick, however, to deflect praise to the Duke defense as a whole.
“The defense as a unit has come a long way in terms of confidence and working together.” Mackler said. “We’ve had a lot of good experiences together that we’ve grown from, and it’s bred a lot of confidence.”
The key matchup will be between the two ACC award recipients, but Mackler feels she already has an advantage.
“Defense is a unit after all,” Mackler said, “so it’s always better than one.”
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play Tuesday, struggles offensively with a .221 average and no home runs. On the day, the trio went a combined 6-for-9 and scored five runs.
“[Their production] has been really important. Those three guys were all un-proven coming into the season... It has been nice to have four-to-five [other] guys in the middle of the order that have been hitting consistently all year. That’s certainly been helping us score.”
With the support of Duke’s offen-sive production and three untimely errors by N.C. Central, Haviland easily handled the Eagle hitters. Throwing an efficient 60 pitches, the lefty uti-lized a mid-80’s fastball topping out at 88 mph coupled with several off-speed pitches. With the lead securely intact, though, McNally chose to remove his promising freshman after he had picked up the victory.
“Dylan was the sharpest I’ve seen him pitch since he had elbow sur-gery in the fall,” McNally said. “We’ve brought him along slowly and he’s been primarily in a relief role, but he’s comfortable starting. I think he mixed his pitches well and there was a lot of progress today.”
Although the Eagles appeared over-matched throughout much of the game, especially given that typical Blue Devil starters Piwnica-Worms, Marcus Stro-man and Dennis O’grady got the day off, McNally stressed the importance of non-conference tune-up games to prepare his club for more challenging opponents. That starts tomorrow when Duke square off against 12-3 Charlotte, who earlier this year lost to No. 17 North Carolina in a hard fought 4-2 battle.
are a constant visual on TV.“The thing is, all the guys, if he’s
able to play, would welcome him back,” Krzyzewski said. “Throughout the whole season, he’s been the best guy ever on the sideline with his teammates. It would be different if he wasn’t that way. That’s a smooth transition.”
Irving has not played since his now infamous injury against Butler on Dec. 5. The injury was initially listed as day-to-day, but soon Irving and Duke found out it was much more serious. Krzyzews-ki said on Dec. 8 that the freshman was “out indefinitely,” and then the coach said repeatedly during the season that he didn’t expect him to return.
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“He’s not going to start, if he did play. And he wouldn’t play for extend-ed minutes at any one time,” Krzyzews-ki said. “That’s how he practiced today. You don’t want to get to where he gets hurt and hurts something else because you extend him.”
The news spread instantly through-out the college basketball world. ESPN analyst Jay Bilas jokingly asked if he “could change his bracket.”
“Three months is a long time,” Bilas told The Chronicle in a phone interview. “You never know how a young player is going to adjust to being off three months, especially in an NCAA environment. get-ting to play in a 1 vs. 16 game, though, is the best possible scenario.”
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Claire Gilhuly, Gini Li, Ina Li, Spencer Li,Christin Martahus, Ben Masselink,
Emily Shiau, Mike Sullivan, Kate ZeligsonCreative Services Student Manager ...........................Christine HallCreative Services: ..............................Lauren Bledsoe, Danjie Fang,
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Does the stigma of living on Central Campus still hold true? A recent survey conducted by Campus Council suggests no.
The results of the Central Campus Satisfaction Survey in-dicate generally positive attitudes among Central’s denizens toward their experi-ence. Of the 233 students who responded, approximately 70 percent indicated they would live on Central another year. Combined with the recent an-nouncement by Duke Univer-sity Union Major Attractions committee that rapper Lupe Fiasco will perform on the campus March 31, the survey results indicate improvements in fostering a more attractive living community.
Improved attitudes toward the Central experience reflect
increased administrative atten-tion to the problems raised by residents, specifically to the lack of a sense of community. Commitment to fostering so-cial programming paired with
amenities up-grades, such as the construc-
tion of athletic fields and the introduction of an eatery, have increased the viability of Cen-tral as a social space. Cosmetic improvements make Central a more appealing setting and contribute to positive feelings toward living there.
As encouraging as the sur-vey results are, there are still tangible concerns for stu-dents living on Central.
Student dissatisfaction with the convenience and consis-tency of bus routes underscore the physical isolation from
West, a distance that can trans-late to feelings of social isola-tion and logistical frustration. The frequency of complaints about lighting is also trou-bling, considering the history of criminal incidents in the surrounding area.
Further, the survey may pa-per over differences in attitude among Central residents. Stu-dents in selective living groups on Central, where community is already established, may feel more positively about their ex-perience than unaffiliated stu-dents, who lack an organized residential structure. Addition-ally the disparity in facilities be-tween apartments on different streets can exacerbate feelings of physical isolation from West.
DUU’s decision to host the Lupe Fiasco concert in Erwin Park highlights the im-
provements made in the past year on Central—and also raises some of the same con-cerns expressed in the recent Campus Council survey.
Getting an established, renowned artist like Lupe to perform on Central sig-nals a University-wide com-mitment to Central Campus programming and highlights an underutilized area at Duke. Having students ex-cited about an event on Cen-tral can decrease the stigma non-Central residents have regarding the campus.
At the same time, there are risks involved in staging the concert in the proposed loca-tion. Considering the large expected turnout, the appar-ent lack of adequate lighting and transportation is particu-larly troubling. Beyond logis-
tics, there is reason to worry in terms of how the University will manage such an influx of people, Duke students and non-students alike, into an area where feelings of security are already questionable.
In the end, both the sur-vey and the concert signal improvement when it comes to Central Campus. The con-cerns expressed in the survey, and associated with the stag-ing of the concert, also reflect a Duke reality—that for all the improvements, the living ex-perience on Central will always be different than that on West, with its own unique set of chal-lenges and opportunities.
Ideally, the lessons we have learned on Central will be heeded when the transi-tion to New Campus finally happens.
A woman dressed as the carnival queen looks up longingly at drunken men, wom-en and gender-ambiguous individuals
swarming a balcony on Bourbon Street as she stares at the object of her attention—a strand of spar-kly beads. She playfully teases the people on the balcony, and more and more onlookers become inter-ested until she finally lifts up her shirt. Her reward? The coveted beads.
This is the Mardi Gras expe-rience we are familiar with, but this past week in New Orleans, I learned that many people actually get their beads as gifts from others. I’ll never forget the time I jumped up in the air to snag a strand of the famous Zulu beads only to come up inches below the hand of a bedraggled, emaciated man behind me who reeked of tobacco and alcohol. A second later, however, I felt him tap me on the back as he handed me the prized treasure. I’ll always remember the look of surprise and gratitude on a Christian evangelist protester’s face when my drunken friend placed a couple strands over his head.
As Louisiana native, 15-time Mardi Gras at-tendee and Duke senior Amol Sura said, “Get-ting beads is really easy, and you usually end up throwing them away, but the ones you end up bringing home are the ones that evoke a special memory.”
The personal touch of a stranger “beading” you is infinitely better than snatching beads out of the air. The altruistic gesture of handing over your hard-won gems to a child standing with his family is infinitely more rewarding than parad-ing them around Bourbon hoping to catch a glimpse of a topless woman.
That is the beauty of Mardi Gras—amidst the hustle and bustle and drunken revelry emerges the fundamental human characteristic of com-passion. Complete strangers thrust into a shared environment—even for a couple of intoxicated days—develop a sense of community and begin to empathize with one another.
In New Orleans, being given the gift of beads has an added level of significance. The act, re-peated over and over again by countless New Orleans natives, reveals how a city struck by so much tragedy, including plagues, hurricanes,
and political scandals, still derives joy from giv-ing what it can. According to Sura, “If they can give you a bead and make your day a little better,
all the better for them.”Though most of us at Duke
didn’t make the trek down to Lou-isiana last week, many of us have shared in that same experience of fighting for a prize, only to feel more satisfaction in turning that same prize over to someone else. We all derive a fundamental plea-sure from helping others in small yet meaningful ways.
At Duke, we are more isolated from the community outside of college than at UNC due to our physical distance from and at times, turbulent relationship with, the town of Durham. Our relative seclusion makes it imper-ative that we truly care for one another.
Perhaps that’s why it’s not uncommon here for someone to offer notes to a classmate who was sick or to offer directions to a new student who is lost on campus. Perhaps that’s why some mystery student places artistic tin foil creations throughout campus, each one bringing a smile to the faces of hundreds of passersby.
When I volunteered my time at a legal assis-tance office in New Orleans during the summer of 2008, the lawyer I worked for regretted not be-ing able to pay me but told me that his city hoped to make up the debt by showing me a good time. Now, New Orleans has more than paid me my due. In addition to the great food, world-class jazz and beautiful ambiance, I have also been gifted by simple experiences like being handed a string of beads by a homeless stranger.
In a similar way, we here at Duke owe each other. We, blessed with our own distinctive tal-ents and gifts, each have our own unique ways of bestowing “beads” on each other. Like New Orleans residents, we have each also faced our own hardships and can benefit from oth-ers’ simple acts of kindness. March 8 may have passed, but we can recreate the true essence of Mardi Gras here at Duke if we just remember that the truest pleasure often comes from the simplest acts of compassion towards others in our community.
Chris Edelman is a Trinity senior and a Robertson scholar. His column runs every other Wednesday.
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I decided I wanted to attend Duke Jan. 17, 2001. I was watching my Maryland Terrapins play against (and ultimately lose to) the Blue Devils at Cameron
Indoor Stadium. As the teams played, I watched the students going crazy in the bleachers, and knew I had to be a part of that.
My dad and I visited Duke’s campus later that spring on a truly beautiful Dur-ham day. After the obligatory info session and campus tour, we drove over to Cam-eron. We parked in front of the entrance near Wallace Wade Stadium and walked up to the door. Surprisingly, it was open. Even more surprisingly, the door that led into the seating bowl was open. We walked in. It was dark and the student bleachers were tucked away under the stands. Directly across from us (now moved) hung the retired jerseys—Ferry, Laettner, Hurley, Hill. Above us hung three national championship banners. Earlier that day, the tour guide had taken us to the Chapel, but Cameron Indoor felt a thousand times more sacred. This was my place.
Of course, I wound up applying early decision to Princeton and getting deferred (and eventually reject-ed). But as I watched the Blue Devils on ESPN, I knew that I didn’t belong at Princeton anyway. I belonged at Duke. More specifically, I belonged at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
I went to Cameron again during October of my freshman year for “Cameron 101,” a “class” to teach freshmen all of the cheers they would need to know. We sat on the bleachers as upperclassmen went through the basics—jump and yell all game, “Rip ’em up, tear ’em up,” etc. I spent most of the session looking around in awe; more than my first lecture in Gross Chem, more than my first fraternity party, this felt like my initiation as a Duke student.
There were other moments over the next eight years: when Jason Williams (maybe nine months removed from the motorcycle accident that almost killed him) appeared under a spotlight at center court at Midnight Madness my freshman year; the first time the Cameron Indoor crowd was so loud that I couldn’t actually hear myself screaming; when Chris Duhon’s almost-buzzer beater beat Florida State from right in front of Duke’s bench; when Coach K started a walk-on named Patrick Davidson against Wake Forest, simply to agitate Deacon star Chris Paul; when UNC’s Jackie Manuel leapt into the stands after a loose ball and landed on me; when my friend convinced UNC’s Rashad McCants to let him take a shot from the bleachers during warm-ups; when
J.J. Redick anticipated the Tar Heels’ last play, and the ball bounced out of bounds, and the Blue Devils up-set the soon-to-be national champions, 72-71; all the
times when we used to count Redick’s consecutive three-pointers during warm-ups; when Sean Dockery hit a three-quarter-court shot to beat Virginia Tech; when Lee Melchionni, tears in his eyes, kissed the court on senior night; when I, tears in my eyes, put my arms around my friends and listened to the alma mat-er after the last game I attended as an undergrad; when Brian Zoubek threw down a nasty tip-dunk against Maryland; when Coach K singled me out in front
of the entire student body at the pep rally prior to the UNC game and told me that he didn’t agree with my columns; when Duke beat UNC 82-50, in a game that wasn’t even as close as the final score indicated; when Gordon Heyward’s shot was a couple inches long, and the ball bounced away, and I stood there with the Thomas Hill Face of Disbelief for a full five minutes; when Ryan Kelly hit that three, and Nolan Smith did that dance, and the Blue Devils came from 16 down to beat the Tar Heels and Cameron Indoor sounded like a jet engine for a full 60 minutes.
In eight years, I went to well over 100 games in Cam-eron Indoor Stadium. I can count the number of times that I was available and chose not to attend a game on one hand, if not on one finger. Aside from Blackwell and Few Quad (where I used to live) and the hospital (where I basically live) and maybe the Armadillo Grill bathroom, I’ve spent more time in Cameron than any other place on campus. And that’s not even counting the hours I’ve spent waiting outside of Cameron to get in, or the hours hatching a plan to wait to get in or the hours wishing it were basketball season so I could wait to get in.
As I walked out of the stadium after the game against Clemson two weeks ago, I thought about the fact that I would never watch another game from the student sec-tion. It felt like the end of an era— or more specifically, the end of my Duke student experience—in a way that I doubt my second graduation weekend will.
So, a bit of advice: Find those people, places and things that are meaningful to you. Make them priori-ties in your life. Celebrate every moment with them. Remember that in the end, those moments will be all you have.
Alex Fanaroff is a fourth-year medical student. His column runs every Wednesday.
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Last year, Newsweek ranked Duke as the eighth most diverse school in the country. To most students, this probably doesn’t mean much, especially when com-pared to our academic and athletic accolades. Never-theless, a school’s level of diversity is a very telling factor. It should come as no surprise that of the top 10 national universities (as ranked by US News and World Report), eight are also listed amongst the 25 most diverse. At the mod-ern university, learning is expected to occur both inside and outside the class-room with the anticipated result of developing well-rounded and globally aware students.
In short, we learn from the experiences and practices of others. As a white male, I am probably a poor example of this theory. However, the wisdom of the Duke Office of Un-dergraduate Admissions would seem to suggest otherwise. So, in the spirit of Lent, I will try to suggest something that can be learned from your average, run-of-the-mill Christian here at Duke.
In the tradition of many Christian denominations, Lent is the 40-day span prior to Easter characterized by almsgiv-ing, fasting and self-denial. To satisfy the “self-denial” com-ponent, followers are usually encouraged to give something up or take something on for the duration of the season. The purpose of this practice is, in theory, to bring oneself closer to God during this time of preparation for Easter. In reality, though, it tends to become an act in futility with even less significance and potency than a New Year’s Reso-lution. Giving up soda, chocolate or ice cream tends to be the favored route. While I’m not exactly sure how these “sacrifices” accomplish anything aside from possibly help-ing us fit into our clothing better, I have certainly falling into similar traps over the years. But over Spring break, one of my friends reminded me that this practice should be of greater value than merely preventing an otherwise inevi-table guilt.
This year, she has decided to do three things: stop dwell-ing on the past, stop worrying about things over which she has no control and stop depending on others for her own happiness. At first, this seemed to me like a bit of a cop-out. After all, there is no way to physically measure one’s success with regards to any of these goals. When I brought this up to her, she responded, “Lent is supposed to be about doing something that improves my relationship with God. I can’t do that if I don’t have a good relationship with myself.”
As hard as it is for me to admit this, she was right, and I was wrong. The Lenten tradition is not about doing the bare minimum, nor is it about making yourself look like a better Christian in the eyes of others. It’s about doing something that is personally meaningful.
My point in this article is not about the Christian aspect of the tradition. It should be relevant regardless of one’s views on religion because everyone has things that are im-portant to them. No matter how much something means to us, it is easy to get complacent. We begin completing tasks in mindless repetition, either because we feel obligated to do them or because we’ve simply gotten into the habit of doing them. But what do actions really mean without a sin-cere motivation?
Probably not much. In fact, actions that seem pointless to others but carry great personal significance can be a much better use of your time. So whether you’re Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, agnostic, atheist or anything in between, you could try spending the next 40 days the way I’ll be spending mine: reevaluating what’s really important.
Amidst all the craziness of daily life, it can seem time-con-suming to dwell on the intellectual mechanisms of actions that can normally be done with minimal thought. However, you might find that you’re wasting your time on projects that mean nothing to you. You may rediscover your passion for a previously fading interest. More likely than not, you will come to a greater level of self-awareness that allows you to improve and renew your personal relationships.
If nothing else, at least I know it will be a better use of my time than agonizing over self-inflicted chocolate depra-vation.
Scott Briggs is a Trinity freshman. His column runs every other Wednesday.
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