by Michael Shammas and Julian Spector THE CHRONICLE Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall has brought her research to Duke. In a keynote address titled “Gombe and Beyond: The Next 50 Years,” Good- all formally announced the transfer of 50 years’ worth of research and called on the world’s youth to protect rapidly van- ishing chimpanzee habitats and the envi- ronment. She spoke Monday to a packed Page Auditorium, with an overflow crowd filling Reynolds Industries Theater. The speech marked the conclusion of the recent Primate Palooza, the week-long festival on primate conservation present- ed by Duke’s evolutionary anthropology department and the Duke and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Roots & Shoots, a local chapter of an organization founded by Goodall to promote people, animals and the environment. “The tragedy is that even as we speak, there are chimpanzee populations being threatened by human development,” Good- all said during a press conference before her speech. “This points to how important it is to preserve and protect chimpanzees.” Anne Pusey, chair of Duke’s evolution- ary anthropology department, and a team of researchers are currently in the pro- cess of digitizing approximately 400,000 documents from more than 50 years of re- search Goodall conducted at Gombe Na- tional Park in Tanzania. Pusey previously worked on the collection at the Univer- sity of Minnesota before coming to Duke about a year ago. Alvin Crumbliss, interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, said in an in- terview that the arrival of Goodall’s docu- ments provides multidimensional benefits to the University, such as introducing new methods of data mining. “If you have 50 years of data, you can digitize that and have it available in a meaningful form,” Crumbliss said. “You can form hypotheses, look for data pat- terns and so on. It’s a wonderful resource on several levels.” Although time-consuming, digitizing the data will make it easier for primate researchers to draw conclusions about trends and patterns, Goodall said. She said jokingly that until recently, her pages of field data remained unexamined, by Sony Rao THE CHRONICLE Two candidates will run for an established DSG com- mittee with a new name. Current Duke Student Government senators Harry Liberman, a sophomore, and Christina Lieu, a junior, will compete to serve as vice president for athletics, services and environment in the organization’s April 5 election. Earlier this semester, DSG changed the name of the committee—which currently exists as the athlet- ics and campus services committee—to reflect internal restructuring. Both Liberman and Lieu serve on the ath- letics and campus services committee this year. Dining, once a responsibility of the committee, now VICE PRESIDENT FOR ATHLETICS, SERVICES AND THE ENVIRONMENT Lieu, Liberman vie for renamed VP spot MELISSA YEO/THE CHRONICLE Junior Christina Lieu plans to encourage student engagement to further Duke’s goal to be green. SEE DSG ON PAGE 4 TYLER SEUC/THE CHRONICLE Primatologist Jane Goodall spoke Monday in Page Auditorium, discussing the digitization of more than 400,000 of her documents on chimpanzees and the need to preserve their habitats. Fifty years of Goodall work to be digitized Duke to end pay freeze for fiscal year ’11 by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE University employees meeting certain performance qualifications will receive pay raises starting in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, President Richard Brodhead officially an- nounced Monday. The raises will go into effect July 1, Brodhead wrote in a Monday email to Uni- versity faculty and staff, who have not received sal- ary increases since 2009, when Duke froze salaries across the University. “The suspension of the annual pay raise for the last two years protect- ed hundreds of jobs at Duke and prevented the widespread layoffs suf- fered elsewhere,” Brodhead said. “But it’s time to return to a more normal approach to recognizing the good work of Duke em- ployees.” Each school within the University will receive a 3 percent increase in funding that deans can use for salary increases and oth- er expenditures, such as promotions and faculty retention efforts, said Provost Peter Lange. Individual employee raises will be at the discretion of each school’s dean and will be based on performance evaluations. “What we announced was that a 3 per- cent pool would be available as a minimum within each school,” Lange said. “Different deans are approaching this differently.” The process for instituting salary SEE SALARIES ON PAGE 5 SEE GOODALL ON PAGE 5 Richard Brodhead Smith named All-American MEN’S BASKETBALL from Staff Reports THE CHRONICLE For the first time in five years, a Blue Devil was named to the AP All-American first team. Senior Nolan Smith received 61 of 65 votes from a panel of national media af- ter a stellar campaign that saw him win the ACC Player of the Year award, ACC Tournament MVP and be named to the ACC All-Defense Team. He averaged 21.3 points, 5.2 assists and 4.6 rebounds Nolan Smith SEE SMITH ON PAGE 8 TYLER SEUC/THE CHRONICLE Sophomore Harry Liberman, also a member of the Duke Debate team, worked to shorten C2 bus routes. The Chronicle THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011 ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, ISSUE 122 WWW.DUKECHRONICLE.COM Duke and Connecticut face off in Elite Eight battle, Page 7 Budget cuts threaten Governor’s School funding, Page 3 ONTHERECORD “Measure the candidates by those criteria, not by what they promise in their platforms.” —Senior Gregory Morrison on DSG president elections. See column page 10
Transcript
by Michael Shammas and Julian Spector
THE CHRONICLE
Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall has brought her research to Duke.
In a keynote address titled “Gombe and Beyond: The Next 50 Years,” Good-all formally announced the transfer of 50 years’ worth of research and called on the world’s youth to protect rapidly van-ishing chimpanzee habitats and the envi-ronment. She spoke Monday to a packed Page Auditorium, with an overflow crowd filling Reynolds Industries Theater.
The speech marked the conclusion of the recent Primate Palooza, the week-long festival on primate conservation present-ed by Duke’s evolutionary anthropology department and the Duke and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Roots & Shoots, a local chapter of an organization founded by Goodall to promote people, animals and the environment.
“The tragedy is that even as we speak, there are chimpanzee populations being threatened by human development,” Good-all said during a press conference before her speech. “This points to how important it is to preserve and protect chimpanzees.”
Anne Pusey, chair of Duke’s evolution-ary anthropology department, and a team of researchers are currently in the pro-cess of digitizing approximately 400,000 documents from more than 50 years of re-search Goodall conducted at Gombe Na-tional Park in Tanzania. Pusey previously worked on the collection at the Univer-sity of Minnesota before coming to Duke about a year ago.
Alvin Crumbliss, interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, said in an in-terview that the arrival of Goodall’s docu-ments provides multidimensional benefits to the University, such as introducing new methods of data mining.
“If you have 50 years of data, you can digitize that and have it available in a meaningful form,” Crumbliss said. “You can form hypotheses, look for data pat-
terns and so on. It’s a wonderful resource on several levels.”
Although time-consuming, digitizing the data will make it easier for primate researchers to draw conclusions about trends and patterns, Goodall said.
She said jokingly that until recently, her pages of field data remained unexamined,
by Sony RaoTHE CHRONICLE
Two candidates will run for an established DSG com-mittee with a new name.
Current Duke Student Government senators Harry Liberman, a sophomore, and Christina Lieu, a junior, will compete to serve as vice president for athletics, services and environment in the organization’s April 5 election. Earlier this semester, DSG changed the name of the committee—which currently exists as the athlet-ics and campus services committee—to reflect internal restructuring. Both Liberman and Lieu serve on the ath-letics and campus services committee this year.
Dining, once a responsibility of the committee, now
vice president for athletics, services and the environment
Lieu, Liberman vie for renamed VP spot
MElissa YEo/ThE ChroniClE
Junior christina lieu plans to encourage student engagement to further duke’s goal to be green. SEE dsg ON PAGE 4
TYlEr sEuC/ThE ChroniClE
primatologist Jane Goodall spoke monday in page auditorium, discussing the digitization of more than 400,000 of her documents on chimpanzees and the need to preserve their habitats.
Fifty years of Goodall work to be digitized
Duke to end pay freeze for fiscal year ’11
by Matthew ChaseTHE CHRONICLE
University employees meeting certain performance qualifications will receive pay raises starting in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, President Richard Brodhead officially an-nounced Monday.
The raises will go into effect July 1, Brodhead wrote in a Monday email to Uni-
versity faculty and staff, who have not received sal-ary increases since 2009, when Duke froze salaries across the University.
“The suspension of the annual pay raise for the last two years protect-ed hundreds of jobs at Duke and prevented the widespread layoffs suf-
fered elsewhere,” Brodhead said. “But it’s time to return to a more normal approach to recognizing the good work of Duke em-ployees.”
Each school within the University will receive a 3 percent increase in funding that deans can use for salary increases and oth-er expenditures, such as promotions and faculty retention efforts, said Provost Peter Lange. Individual employee raises will be at the discretion of each school’s dean and will be based on performance evaluations.
“What we announced was that a 3 per-cent pool would be available as a minimum within each school,” Lange said. “Different deans are approaching this differently.”
The process for instituting salary
SEE salaries ON PAGE 5SEE goodall ON PAGE 5
richard Brodhead
Smith named All-American
men’s BasketBall
from Staff ReportsTHE CHRONICLE
For the first time in five years, a Blue Devil was named to the AP All-American first team.
Senior Nolan Smith received 61 of 65 votes from a panel of national media af-ter a stellar campaign that saw him win the ACC Player of the Year award, ACC Tournament MVP and be named to the ACC All-Defense Team. He averaged 21.3 points, 5.2 assists and 4.6 rebounds
nolan smith SEE smith ON PAGE 8
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sophomore harry liberman, also a member of the duke debate team, worked to shorten c2 bus routes.
The ChronicleThe independenT daily aT duke universiTy
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011 ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, ISSUE 122www.dukechronicle.com
Duke and Connecticut face off in Elite Eight
battle, Page 7
Budget cuts threaten Governor’s School funding, Page 3
onTherecord“Measure the candidates by those criteria, not by what
they promise in their platforms.” —Senior Gregory Morrison on DSG president elections. See column page 10
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ToKYo — Takayoshi igarashi has spent much of his career railing against Japan’s pub-lic-works spending culture. now, he’s advocat-ing what could become the nation’s biggest investment in urban planning in decades.
Two days before Japan suffered its record earthquake and a devastating tsunami on March 11, Prime Minister naoto Kan appoint-ed igarashi as a Cabinet adviser on coping with Japan’s population decline and rural-region decay. igarashi says the disaster has made clear the nation must reduce the role of its capital city to avert an even greater catastrophe.
“i told the prime minister that nation-wide dispersal is the first thing we need to do as we rebuild,” igarashi, a professor at hosei university in Tokyo, said in an in-terview after meeting with Kan last week. “We have no idea when the big one’s going to hit Tokyo, but when it does, it’s going to annihilate the entire country because everything is here.”
FlinT, Mich. — inside the Genesee County health Department, Mark Valacak gestures to a darkened office that until a few months ago housed a clinic provid-ing free baby formula and diapers to poor mothers. “You used to always hear the cry-ing babies,” before the clinic was closed and services moved to a suburban clinic, says Valacak, the county health officer.
around a corner is another empty waiting area. it’s Tuesday, one of the two days of the week the sTD clinic is closed because of bud-get cuts, and Valacak worries that the service cutback could lead to an increase in syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases.
in cities and counties across the na-tion, the housing bust has hit health care. in Genesee County, where housing pric-es have plunged and foreclosures have been widespread, property tax revenues have declined by 15 percent over the past two years.
Housing bubble busting critical health services
Japanese company’s CEO vanishes
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people
falling in love.— Albert Einstein
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souvenir easter eggs for the annual White house easter egg roll sit proudly on display. traditionally, only those lucky few who stood on the south lawn with the president received one of these eggs, beginning with president reagan. however, since the clinton admnistration, the souvenir easter eggs have been for sale by the White house histoical association, and in the past five years, by the national park foundation.
“senior nolan smith received 61 of 65 votes from a panel of national media after a stellar campaign that saw him win the aCC Player of the Year in a runaway and aCC Tournament MVP and be named to the aCC all-Defense Team. he averaged 21.3 points, 5.3 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game and assumed primary ball-handling duties while freshman point guard Kyrie irving was sidelined for 26 games.’”
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Tuesday 3/29/2011Event: Rick Anicetti
Location: West CampusTime: 7:00P.M. – 10:00P.M.
Event: Conservation is…Art: Event: Conservation is…Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to
Biodiversity through ArtLocation: Bryan Center
Event: Autism Awareness DayLocation: Plaza
Event: Panel on Development Event: Panel on Development Organization Models: International
Non-ProfitLocation: FFSC 2231
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Middle East UprisingsMiddle East UprisingsLocation: 1st floor Few GG Commons
Time: 6:00 P.M.
Wednesday 3/30/2011Event: Autism Awareness Day
Location: Plaza
Event: Aloha Shirt and Mochi SocialLocation: Duke Multicultural LoungeLocation: Duke Multicultural Lounge
Time: 6:00P.M. – 8:00P.M.
sday 3/31/2011Event: Kurosawa and Philosophy: A
Retrospective
Thursday 3/31/2011Event: Kurosawa and Philosophy: A
the humanities lab held an open house in smith Warehouse monday for undergraduates to learn more about the study opportunities offered by the haiti lab and two others, coming in 2011-2012.
open door policy
by Alejandro BolívarTHE CHRONICLE
Attending Governor’s School of North Carolina the summer after her junior year in high school gave sophomore Elena Bo-tella a unique perspective on learning, and she called the program “one of the best ex-periences of her life.” Yet North Carolina’s state deficit may signal the educational pro-gram’s demise.
Governor’s School is a six-week sum-mer residential program designed to give gifted rising high school seniors opportu-nities to study specialized subjects at ei-ther Salem College in Winston-Salem or Meredith College in Raleigh. The North Carolina General Assembly suggested the complete defunding of Governor’s School this month after releasing the proposed education budget in its efforts to reduce the projected $2.4 billion state deficit for fiscal year 2012.
The program has touched students at Duke as well as across the state. Botella said the program was instrumental in making her loyal to North Carolina.
“I want to live and work in North Caroli-na, and I don’t think that would have been true had I not gone to Governor’s School,” she said.
The general assembly currently allots $849,588 to Governor’s School to cover the program’s costs, and its budget for this year is considered safe from the cuts. Gov-ernor’s School was funded entirely by the general assembly until last year, when the body cut its budget by $475,000 forcing of-
ficials to charge a $500 per student. Now, in an effort to cut the state’s deficit, the gen-eral assembly has proposed eliminating all money for the program and funding Gov-ernor’s School entirely through tuition by charging a fee of $1,700 per student.
Gov. Bev Perdue’s Press Secretary Chris Mackey said the final version of the education budget will be signed by the end of the fiscal year, no later than June 30. The budget, which was written by the education subcommittee, will go from the North Carolina House to the Senate before being presented to Perdue, who has veto power.
Mackey noted that education is a pri-ority for Perdue and she has not targeted Governor’s School in cuts, but the magni-tude of the budget deficit will force Perdue to look at the budget as a whole.
[Governor’s School] is very impor-tant for her, but it’s a lousy budget year,” she said.
The program was founded in 1963 by Gov. and Duke President Terry Sanford. Participating students are nominated by teachers, principals and counselors in their schools, and the school district’s su-perintendent or then determines which students should submit applications to a statewide selection committee. Two spots are guaranteed for representatives from each school district.
Mary Watson, director of Governor’s School of North Carolina, said she does
SEE governor’s school ON PAGE 4
TYlEr sEuC/ThE ChroniClE
ray morgan, chief executive of the Woking Borough council in the United kingdom, spoke in Gross chemis-try laboratory monday on Woking’s role as a leader in sustainability measures despite budget constraints.
Woking on the green
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Andrea Elliott is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. Since joining The Times in 2003, Elliott's stories have included an examination of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, a series on the lives of Muslims in the military, an investigation into the radicalization of more than 20 Somali-Americans from Minneapolis and special reports for The New York Times Magazine on the lives of Moroccan suicide bombers and the journey of an American jihadist from Alabama to Somalia.
Ms. Elliott has received awards from the Overseas Press Club, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the New York Press Club, among other journalistic honors. In 2008, she was a final-ist for the National Magazine Award. Her work was featured in Best Newspaper Writing of 2007. Before joining The Times, Elliott worked as a reporter at The Miami Herald.
Cosponsors: Duke Islamic Studies Center, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy
not think the program can continue without legislative funding, and added that the elimination of Governor’s School would be detrimental to statewide education. Pro-viding educational opportunities to advanced students is key to helping North Carolina improve its economic envi-ronment, Watson said.
Governor’s School was recently forced to decrease its enrollment from 800 total students to 600, with 300 on each campus, according to the program’s website. Al-though the program received 18,000 applicants this year, Watson added that many students were discouraged from applying because of the tuition fee. As a result, she believes the program’s current population and applicants have be-come more economically elite.
“We’re still a quality program, but we’re not able to reach students who are not financially able,” she said.
Jim Hart, president of Governor’s School Alumni As-sociation, said in an email Friday that the program helped ease the state’s transition from an economy based on to-bacco and textiles to one focused on high tech industries. He compared cutting Governor’s School funding to “de-ciding to stop putting fuel into the economic engine that has made N.C. one of the best places to live and work in the world.”
Hart added that he thinks Governor’s School has compensated for the poor job North Carolina high schools do with gifted students’ education. He said schools focus on getting as many students to graduate as possible and teaching only the things on which students will be tested.
“GS does not teach facts,” wrote Hart, who attended the program in 1979. “It teaches theories, how to gener-ate them, how to challenge the ones that are currently in vogue, and how to think critically about situations. No other school in the state does that.”
Botella also said Governor’s School’s interdisciplin-ary curriculum—which features courses in subjects such as ethics and philosophy—enabled her to learn “more in those weeks of the program than in many years of academ-ic study.”
Because the budget is not yet finalized, Watson said she remains optimistic that the program will continue. On the other hand, Hart said that while the Gover-nor’s School Alumni Association is considering hold-ing a rally in support of the program or purchasing advertising to raise awareness, its voice is “only one of hundreds and many of those other voices come with well-funded PACs.”
Benjamin Ward, associate dean for student develop-ment at Duke, said he is “unequivocally opposed” to the budget plan, which he called “very short-sighted.” In addi-tion to his post at Duke, Ward taught at Governor’s School at Salem College for more than 12 years. He said the pro-gram was “the highlight of his teaching career” and added that it provides opportunities students may not otherwise receive in their hometowns.
For some Governor’s School alumni, the experience of the program has lasted well beyond the six-week ses-sion. Sophomore Ethan Mann still keeps in touch with friends he met at Governor’s School of North Carolina nearly three years ago. Mann called Governor’s School “a huge part” of his life, as it enabled him to learn about topics he could not be exposed to in a traditional school environment.
“Its something I want other kids to have the opportu-nity to have,” he said.
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falls under the residential life and dining committee, a new unit formed as a result of the merger of DSG and Campus Council. Environment now appears in the committee’s title to reflect one of the committee’s existing missions, to consider the implications of policy on the environment, said DSG President Mike Lefevre, a junior.
“We’re not creating a new purview for the committee, but we’re highlighting something that has always been a part of the work that they’ve done,” Lefevre said.
Improving transportation is a top goal for Liberman. The lack of buses at night remains an issue, he noted, but he has experience pushing for policy change. In the Fall, he worked on the legislation that made the C-2 bus route shorter at night, which allows buses to pick up students on Central Campus more frequently. Liberman also hopes to make campus more friendly for bikers, which will encour-age students to take advantage of bikes available for rent at the Outpost.
To improve Tailgate, Liberman said that he would like
to focus on incorporating traditional activities to Tailgate. He noted that there were some aspects of Tailgate that were positive, but the event did not fit with the administration’s view of how the event should be connected to football.
“[Tailgate’s] virtue was that it was inclusive—it allowed people from different areas to get together. I want to make sure that Tailgate continues to do this.”
Liberman also hopes to support environmental reform on campus, a topic he hopes to continue to learn more about.
Finally, Liberman hopes to increase communication be-tween DSG senators and the organization’s executive board. He hopes to have committee members reach out to students and play an increased role in shaping DSG policy.
“One person alone will not be effective in reforming student policies,” he noted.
Lieu said she hopes she can improve the student expe-rience and allow undergraduates to have a voice in policy changes.
“Whether you are taking the C-2 over to West [Cam-pus], going to club soccer practice or recycling an empty water bottle, athletics, campus services and the environ-ment are a constant presence on campus and contribute
to our experience as Duke students,” she said.Lieu’s vision for athletics includes changes to Tailgate,
Krzyzewskiville and renewing student engagement in ath-letics. In reference to Tailgate, Lieu’s platform acknowl-edges the reasons why many students liked Tailgate—in specific the sense of community it created—but suggests changes that include moving the event closer to Wallace Wade Stadium and having students walk to the game with members of the team. In an interview, Lieu cited the re-sults of DSG’s recent survey as evidence that students sup-port reform but recognized that there students have a vari-ety of opinions on the event.
“Because there isn’t a unified student opinion, it is impor-tant looking forward to see how we can best integrate these different aspects into a cohesive set of ideas,” Lieu said.
Lieu also supports improvements to transportation, in-cluding changing bus routes and publicizing the Bull City Connector, which allows students to explore Durham.
A member of Duke’s Environmental Alliance, Lieu said she plans to make environmental issues a priority for DSG. The administration’s emphasis on having a green campus is not possible without student engagement, she added.
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“chewed up by mice, termites and leaf-eating insects.” Still, she said parting with her research will be a “bitter-
sweet” experience. Much of it was painstakingly collected in handwritten notes that she worked on in the field while she was in her mid-20s.
“These amazing things that are now happening are go-ing to make it so easy compared to what I had to do, which was all by hand and on paper,” she said. “Coming back and seeing what is going on makes me quite homesick for the days when I was doing that, [but] it’s wonderful to know that this data is being analyzed and that we will gain an-swers from analyzing it.”
Goodall’s keen interest in animals dates back to her childhood. She recalled one day when, charged with pick-ing up eggs on a farm, she hid in the hay of the henhouse in order to figure out how an egg could possibly come out of a hen.
She began observing chimpanzees in July 1960 at the age of 26. While in Gombe, Goodall revolutionized pri-mate studies when she overturned the dominant anthro-pological belief at the time that the use of tools set humans apart from animals. The discovery also paved the way for National Geographic funding, allowing Goodall to contin-ue her research. She went on to relate some of her nota-ble discoveries about the behavior of chimpanzees, which spanned from brutality to altruism.
Although Goodall acknowledged the many imminent dangers facing chimpanzee populations from loss of hab-itat, hunting and global climate change, she ended on a note of optimism—citing the accomplishments of Roots & Shoots organizations, the potential of human intellect for correcting self-destructive policies, the resilience of the environment and “the indomitable human spirit, the people who tackle seemingly impossible problems and never give up.”
Goodall demonstrated a similar spirit, appearing at Duke despite recently breaking her arm after taking a fall.
Goodall also drew a sizable audience from beyond the Duke community.
“As a teacher, it was really helpful to hear how she’s working with kids [about threats to the environment]—I’ve felt that factor, too, of we’re just scaring the hell out of them, and how do you teach conscientiousness with-out scaring kids?” said elementary school science teacher Kirsty Lubicz-Nawrocka, who traveled from Atlanta. “I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to see somebody more in per-son than [Goodall].”
increases for University staff will be similar. Administrative managers—who will also receive a 3 percent increase in their funding pool—will be able to determine individual pay raises for administrative staff, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.
The announcement does not pertain to Duke Univer-sity Health System employees—whose pay operates on a different calendar—or to employees covered by collective bargaining agreements.
The announcement of the increase comes almost two months before the Board of Trustees meeting in May, when Trustees will officially approve the pay raise. The University received pre-approval for the increase during the Trustees’
February meeting in order to give administrators time to plan for the change, Schoenfeld said.
“Since salary increases are effective July 1, the work and recommendations have to come soon,” he noted.
No University employees have received raises since the suspension announced in March 2009 with the exception of a select group of employees below a certain pay grade. Those who made $50,000 or less in fiscal year 2010 and $80,000 or less in fiscal year 2011 were granted one-time payments of $1,000 in each respective year if they received satisfactory performance reviews.
Although Brodhead’s email officially announced the salary increase, public talk of pay raises began in the Fall. Brodhead referenced plans for a “modest salary increase” in a Sept. 22 email to employees when he also revealed the 13 percent re-turn of the University’s endowment in fiscal year 2009-2010.
“Everybody is feeling very pleased that we’re in a position, based on all the aggressive cost management that’s gone on over the past two years, to reinstate our performance-based salary increases,” said Vice President for Human Resources Kyle Cavanaugh, who came to Duke in February 2009, short-ly before the suspension of pay raises. “Now we’ll return to the more normal, performance-based system.”
The combination of “reviving financial markets” and cost-cutting measures led to the increase, Brodhead wrote in his email, adding that the University will still need to be cautious in the future due to the uncertain nature of its revenue sources.
“It is appropriate that the whole Duke community should benefit from our improving financial circumstanc-es, since you helped to create the improvement,” he said.
Zachary Tracer contributed reporting.
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Whether Kyrie Irving will return is just one of the questions Duke fans will be faced with in the future.
When it comes to sports, I’m painfully and naively optimistic.
That comes about from a decade of rooting for the worst baseball team in america (the Detroit Tigers) and a life-
time of rooting for the most pathetic professional sports franchise in the world (the Detroit Lions). after every loss, every injury and every season, something in me
still maintained hope that next year would be the year that we would win a championship.
Which is why it pains me to admit that I don’t feel the same way about Duke’s chances next year.
now let me clarify, making predic-tions eight months before the 2011-12 Blue Devils begin practice is premature to say the least. and even if we do make predictions, Duke by any measure will
still be very good. austin Rivers will likely be the best freshman in america, and Duke should still compete for the aCC title. But as we all know, expectations at Duke—fair or not—are always a national championship, even if the program is a mere season removed from last reaching that summit.
Immediately after the Blue Devils’ painful loss to arizona last week, I start-ed to hear the same words fluttering around campus—”It’s oK, we’ll win it next year.”
It’s time to temper those expecta-tions, folks.
Unless something major changes, next year’s Duke team will be a near carbon copy of this year’s, but with less experience and talent. The Blue Devil backcourt will once again be loaded, with Seth Curry, Tyler Thornton and andre Dawkins joined by Rivers, the no. 1 recruit in the country, along with five-
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pHILaDeLpHIa — When Duke first faced Connecticut in late January, the Blue Devils weren’t ready for the match-up, coming away with their first loss of the season, 87-51.
“We got thumped. There was no game,” head coach Joanne p. McCallie said. “We got hit hard there.”
But two-seed Duke took the loss as a learning experience and proceeded to beat then-no. 18 Miami 82-58.
“[Connecticut] was a game where we were obviously outplayed,” senior Jasmine Thomas said. “and you learn things from that game–you watch film, you practice and you work on things to get better. You’ve got other opponents, so you can’t just think about that UConn game for the rest of the season.”
But that was almost two months ago. To-night, when the Blue Devils step into the Liacouras Center in philadelphia, they will come out as a seasoned—albeit young—team boasting a very deep bench that has experienced one of the hardest schedules
in the nation.“This is a great opportunity for any
team, and we have a great bench and ter-rific young players, and I’m hoping that we can get more involved in that,” McCal-lie said. “I think that speaks to playing 40 minutes, going beyond the way we played against Depaul and growing from there.”
although many of the younger Blue Devils—including all five members of Duke’s freshman class—have seen signifi-cant playing time, only three of the team’s 11 members competed in the elite eight last year against Baylor, something McCal-lie sees as a weakness.
“We’re quite young relative to experi-ence, and our seniors have done a good job trying to cover that up,” she said. “We’re still developing, and hopefully we can do that quickly and ignite those young kids be-cause we’re going to need them.”
Two of the team’s freshmen, forward Haley peters and guard Chelsea gray, started in Sunday’s matchup against the Blue Demons, contributing a combined 20
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per game and assumed primary ball-handling duties while freshman point guard Kyrie Irving was sidelined for 26 games. Smith, who is also a finalist for the naismith award given annually to the top college basketball player, fin-ished second in voting only to Brigham Young guard Jimmer Fredette. Fredette received 64 of 65 votes from the panel after leading his team to a 30-4 record and a trip to the Sweet 16, and is one of the three other finalists for the nai-smith award.
The two other finalists for the na-ismith—ohio State freshman phenom Jared Sullinger and Connecticut junior Kemba Walker—also earned all-amer-ica honors. Sullinger, the Big 10 tour-nament player of the year, averaged a double-double this season and shot over 58 percent from the field for the
Buckeyes, who earned the no. 1 overall seed in the Tournament. Walker burst onto the national stage with an MVp performance at the Maui Invitational in november and recaptured the na-tion’s hearts as his Huskies won five games in five days en route to winning the Big east tournament.
Walker is averaging 23.5 points, 5.3 re-bounds and 4.3 assists and is the only all-american to still be playing in the nCaa Tournament. He and Fredette figure to be Smith’s primary competitors for the naismith award.
Senior JaJuan Johnson of purdue was the final member of the all-american team. The senior was the Big 10 player of Year after averaging 20.5 points and 8.2 points per game and carrying the Boilermakers in the absence of Robbie Hummel, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in preseason. Johnson and Fredette were both named to the ap preseason all-america team.
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star perimeter players Quinn Cook and Michael gbinije—but Duke will conceiv-ably be starting two freshman in Rivers and Cook, and there won’t be a senior guard on the team. The frontcourt will have another year of experience—but it’ll be led by the same players that were outrebounded 25-9 by a much shorter arizona team during the second half last week.
Blue Devil fans will be hounded by the same questions all season—whether Duke lives by the three and whether the plum-lees (now all three) will ever become legiti-mate big men, as opposed to just men who happen to be very big.
But what if Kyrie Irving comes back, you might say? even though there’s a miniscule chance of that happening, given Irving is a consensus Top-5 pick despite only playing 11 collegiate games, how would that team be any different? Despite Rivers’ abundance of talent, a freshman and a committee of Curry, Dawkins, and gbinije can’t replace two of the best players in Duke history in Kyle Singler and nolan Smith.
and even if they could, the Blue Devils
would still be burdened by the same issues down low.
no one player is to blame for the ari-zona annihilation. The Wildcats could not have played any better. But being out-rebounded definitively by a team that was 193rd in the country in that category is a rather humbling statistic. all season, we’ve heard that all the Blue Devils needed was for Miles and Mason plumlee to fill the roles of Brian Zoubek and Lance Thomas as rebounders and defenders—but when it mattered most, they showed little evidence that they ever will.
Still, though, we’re eight months away from the season. Duke fans have time to beg Irving to return for one more season, salivate over Rivers’ enormous potential and analyze the development of the plum-lees, Ryan Kelly and Josh Hairston down low. Who knows—Irving could shock the world and return for his sophomore year, Rivers could actually be a basketball mes-siah and Duke’s frontcourt could put on a collective 100 pounds of muscle and de-velop consistent post moves.
perhaps Duke can win its second nation-al title in three years.
oh no. I’m doing it again.
points and seven rebounds. But the fresh-man class will have to step up even more if Duke is looking to upset the one-seed Hus-kies, who boast only one loss for the season as well as top player Maya Moore.
“I don’t think I can expand on any-thing except to say that [Moore] is the best women’s basketball player in the world,” McCallie said. “I think she obviously has a tremendous work ethic, plays really hard, has a smooth jump shot... and she will just absolutely get you on the boards.”
To combat this, the Blue Devils will rely on better rebounding and a stronger pres-ence in the post, as well as an aggressive at-titude on both sides of the court.
“Rebounding is always a critical com-ponent of every game, and being able to control the glass allows you to dictate the tempo on the offensive and defensive end,” said forward Karima Christmas, who will be one of Moore’s primary matchups dur-ing the game. “That’s something we’ll be working on—to allow ourselves more than one shot on the offensive end and to allow UConn only one shot at the basket.”
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Both candidates for the po-sition of Duke Student Gov-ernment vice president for student life—Ebonie Simp-son, a junior, and Michael Habashi, a sophomore—are p e r s o n a b l e , well spoken and have a good grasp of the social is-sues that affect students.
We endorse Simpson for the position of vice president for student life because she has more experience under her belt and a skill set more specifi-cally tailored to student life.
Simpson’s platform is solid and obviously informed by her diverse experiences as a resident assistant, her lead-ership within the Black Stu-dent Alliance, her work with the Women’s Center and her three terms as a DSG senator.
As a senior next year, Simpson will have the knowledge from previous committees and the experience in management roles required to lead the stu-dent life committee.
H a b a s h i demonstrated a broad knowl-
edge of the position and seemed to be focused on re-sults. But he attributed most of his leadership experience to founding and chairing the DSG commission that pro-duced a campus survey this semester—the value of which is still unclear.
Both candidates are inter-ested in collecting and com-municating student opinion, but Simpson’s idea to create action-based focus groups comprised of student life senators and student lead-
ers who are invested in these issues seems to be a more substantive way to forward campus dialogue and, as the name implies, encourage ac-tion on behalf of students. Campus-wide surveys, like the one championed by Ha-bashi, while useful in gaug-ing attitudes and opinions, do not produce meaningful answers about how to fix the problems themselves.
That said, we suggest that Simpson limit the number of action-based focus groups she plans to form and instead focus on instituting a few pro-ductive and efficient groups. The knowledge gained from these specialized action-based focus groups can then be used not to limit or compartmen-talize thinking about student life at Duke, but to influence
our thinking about the differ-ent aspects of student life as a whole. We also appreciated Simpson’s desire to speak with students rather than go straight to administrators.
Simpson and Habashi would both benefit from more focused goals and more concrete ideas for change. Although the scope of this position is wide-ranging, a concentrated effort to ad-dress key issues will produce better results than trying to address every campus culture issue within one year.
Simpson, for example, writes in her platform that she wants to “work with CAPS to find creative ways to allow students to be served more frequently with less waiting,” but does not outline how she intends to do this. At the same
time Habashi wants to “work to secure more facilities for performing arts groups and club sports,” but does not of-fer any suggestions on tack-ling this issue.
Michael Habashi is a young senator and we be-lieve he could be a good can-didate for this position in the future. Simpson will have a steep learning curve, but she separates herself through her longstanding involvement with the student life commit-tee and her varied experienc-es across campus.
The Chronicle’s indepen-dent Editorial Board formally endorses Ebonie Simpson for vice president for student life.
Precious Lockhart and Kath-erine Zhang recused themselves due to their roles in DSG.
Although you might not know it, we’re in the middle of the campaign to decide who will be the next president of Duke Student Govern-
ment. Election day is April 6. The DSG President is the single most important student when it comes to policy making at this University. Current DSG Presi-dent Mike Lefevre, a senior, said of the job: “It’s such a huge opportunity; [the president is] the most empowered stu-dent at the University.”
The president of DSG serves two roles. Lefevre told me that good DSG presidents “[are] not buddy-buddy with the administration. They are lob-byists.” He also noted that a good president must have a firm command of “grand management and longevity.” In other words, the DSG president is the advocate-in-chief for students but must also be a manager of a 100-plus person organization re-sponsible annually for more than $600,000.
I’ve worked with the past three DSG presidents pretty closely. Each had a distinct style. Each had successes. Each suffered setbacks.
Jordan Giordano—who was president in 2008-2009—recognized that the number of student groups was growing much faster than the funds available to sustain them. He sought approval from the student body for an increase in the student activities fee. The increased fee was to pay for ad-ditional funds for student groups, Zipcars, student legal services and a bus tracking system. The stu-dents rejected his proposal in a major early setback. During the rest of his term, Giordano found other ways to pay for student legal services and Zipcars. He also oversaw a reform of the budgeting process for student groups that extended the solvency of student group funds. Giordano recovered from an early setback to deliver better services to students.
Awa Nur—who was president in 2009-2010—un-der whom I served as executive vice president, en-tered office when the central administration was ramping up its efforts to close a University-wide budget shortfall of $100 million. Nur had to throw out her platform. During the recession, the DSG president didn’t lobby for new programs. She had to lobby simply to keep successful existing ones going. Her defining moment was, perhaps, when she told the DSG Senate that there was “no way in hell” students would accept a directed choice solution to the multi-million dollar dining deficit. Circumstances forced upon Nur a very different presidency than she campaigned to have. Her adaptability —and poise in meetings, what Lefevre termed “a strong sense of meeting etiquette”—meant that students were largely sheltered from drastic service cuts.
Mike Lefevre, the current DSG president who served on the executive boards of both Giordano and Nur, campaigned on his ability to protect Tail-
gate and to end the so called “emer-gency” dining fee. The disappoint-ments suffered on those fronts hardly make his administration a failure. He oversaw the merger of Campus Council and DSG. The merger reduces redundancy and improves the quality of representa-tion available to students. Surely, that improvement is a legacy worth having.
What is clear from these exam-ples is that what the candidates say to you in their campaigns will probably not be the major issues of their presidency. Indeed, DSG presidents are handi-capped because they work on shorter time frames than the other major policy makers at the Univer-sity. Giordano noted that, “One of the most difficult things is that a DSG president is on a one-year hori-zon whereas the administration is really in a multi-year time frame. Being aware of that, in terms of the disconnect between the two, is really important. If you operate on their horizon, you can really make a difference.”
There is no cookie-cutter candidate who will have all of the right answers either. As Giordano told me, “To be honest, different styles and differ-ent methods work for different people in different atmospheres.... Being student government presi-dent under lacrosse is very different than being student government president during the reces-sion and dealing with all the budget issues.” Elliot Wolf—who was president in 2006-2007—and Nur were drastically different in their approaches to the job, but each style was generally appropriate to the task at hand.
A good DSG president shows perseverance in the face of adversity, adaptability and the ability to seize opportunities when they present themselves. When electing our next DSG president, measure the candidates by those criteria, not by what they promise in their platforms. We will get the govern-ment we deserve.
To the candidates—Ashley Jordan, Isaac Mizra-hi and Pete Schork—Giordano offers this wisdom: “At the end of the day there is nothing in student government that is life or death. Everyone is there for the same reason: Everyone wants Duke to be a better place.”
Just make sure you elect the person who can work most effectively toward that goal.
Gregory Morrison is a Trinity senior and the former execu-tive vice president of DSG. His column runs every Tuesday.
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In a 2008 New York Times Magazine article titled “The Moral Instinct,” Steven Pinker asks who is the more moral character: Bill Gates or Mother Teresa? By con-
ventional, Judeo-Christian, rich-people-can’t-get-into-heaven morality, it appears to be black and white: One is the world’s richest man and the other is a poverty-vowing nun on the fast track to saint-hood. But Gates’ munificent donations to malaria preven-tion have saved countless lives around the world, even though he has still kept bil-lions for himself. Mother Teresa’s missions were well pub-licized and superficially pious, but they subjected many pa-tients to substandard medical care and debatably backward methods of diagnosis.
With an eye toward the ongoing efforts to raise aid money for Japan, we must be sure to ask ourselves an im-portant question: To what extent is the righteousness of charity judged by intent, and to what extent is it judged by outcome? If I donate $100 to an earthquake relief ef-fort and ask nothing in return, but Milburn Pennybags offers to donate $1 million for every person who comes into his store, which is more morally acceptable? My do-nation is more in line with traditional altruism, to be sure, and Pennybags’ is likely to be seen as exploitative of a tragedy for publicity gains. But if the ultimate con-cern is indeed for the victims, it would seem that my gift of a few dollars would fall short of a larger donation’s philanthropic potential.
This hypothetical manifests itself in real terms on a daily basis in the form of cause-related marketing. Most recently, Microsoft found itself under intense criticism after its Bing service (via Twitter) offered to donate a dollar to the Japanese relief effort for every retweet of their offer, up to $100 thousand. The seemingly benign offer caused somewhat of an uproar, with many people claiming that Microsoft was trying to seek marketing gain in the wake of disaster.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an article with the headline “Cause-tied marketing requires care,” which examines the various ways corporations were approaching relief efforts and the potentially dangerous questioning of intentions that is likely to occur with any cause-related marketing. Critics asserted that if companies were really trying to help the cause, they should have simply donated the money without making gifts conditional on the success of marketing ploys. Others contend that the use of social media helps to spread awareness as well as donations.
The important thing to realize is that all donations are made with personal gain in mind—and that’s not a bad thing. In fact, acknowledging the self-interested aspect of charity is far from a cynical critique. Instead, people should accept this reality as the grease that allows all private charity to function. Whether it is Walmart’s gain from a generous donation, which is likely to come in the form of improved public relations, or an individual’s gain from helping the relief effort, which comes from his ability to feel good about himself, it is a mutually beneficial exchange. Every consensual transaction is mutually beneficial—or else peo-ple wouldn’t consent to it.
People must accept that placing moral judgments on a company’s philanthropic efforts is more of an in-sult to the intelligence of the consumer than it is to the company. When you cry, “They should have just donated the money,” what you are really saying is not that they shouldn’t seek personal gain from charity, but that they should be better at and less obvious in seeking personal gain from charity. In essence, you would prefer that they more convincingly trick you into appearing more self-less. This does not only attach a strange form of dishon-esty to philanthropy—it may well be a disincentive for companies to act charitably. Consider this: If I am wary, as Microsoft now doubtless is, that the way in which I choose to give away my fortune is going to be criticized, I might just keep it for myself.
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In defense of BSAIReading Brandon Locke’s March 28 letter to the
editor, I was astounded by his obliviousness. The Black Student Alliance, and their Invitational week-end, does not act to the exclusion of anyone. Locke failed to recognize that not all BSA members and BSAI hosts are black. This past weekend, I hosted a truly impressive young woman who is eagerly anticipating her first semester at Duke this Fall. I signed up for the weekend after attending several BSA meetings and events. I proudly count myself as a member. And I am white—as pale as they come. I joined BSA because I support their mission of “promot[ing] academic achievement and intellec-tual pursuit, cultivat[ing] dynamic leadership and
striv[ing] to eliminate social barriers for all.”The problem here is not that BSA and the BSAI
weekend exclude non-black students. It’s that the Duke community has already decided to exclude its black students. Everyone was welcome to the open events—color was no determinant for admission. Do not push the blame of the color line onto mem-bers of a group who only seek to assert themselves in full. If you worry that BSAI weekends foster segrega-tion and fail to truthfully reflect the campus, then change it by involving yourself, not breaking down such a positive tradition.
Carrie Mills Trinity ’12
What would Geraldine do?
In July 1984, Geraldine Ferraro stood on the podium at the Democratic National Conven-tion to accept her party’s nomination for vice
president—the first woman in U.S. his-tory to see her name on a major party presidential ticket.
Although she never actually made it to the White House, Ferraro—who died Saturday at the age of 75—did something audacious. She issued an unforgettable challenge to the presi-dency’s long-standing program of af-firmative action for white, straight men. You may have heard of it. It’s called Basically the Entire History of the World.
That white-dude-industrial complex proved so formidable that it took over two decades before another woman managed to put her own Alaskan soccer mom-shaped crack in the Oval Office glass ceiling. But on the day Ferraro died, there still had never been a woman in our nation’s highest office.
Welcome to American politics (or as Will Smith once said, bienvenidos a American politics), where we’re nothing if not awkwardly low on women in high places. In 2011, 27 years after Ferraro’s histor-ic run, women make up only 17 percent of the U.S. Congress (22 percent in North Carolina’s General Assembly). In fact, the United States currently ranks 72nd in the world for female political representa-tion, sandwiched between a couple of other inter-national beacons for democracy, Turkmenistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
But before I came to Duke, I have to admit these statistics always felt to me a little like John Boeh-ner’s tears—pretty meaningless. As far as I could tell, those numbers were the last remnants of an era when women like Ferraro and Shirley Chisholm and Hillary Clinton had taken heat for simultaneously possessing a hunger for political power and two X chromosomes. But now that they’d kicked the crap out of all the stereotypes about female politicians, I thought, it was going to be smooth sailing for the women of my generation.
That logic held up great until it smacked straight into this annoying thing called reality. As it turns out, most of those older female politicians got their start when they were in college. In fact, more than half the women in Congress today served on their university or high school student governments. (Elizabeth Dole, who you may know from such blockbuster roles as Being Your Senator (2003-09), was president of the Women’s College student gov-ernment at Duke in 1958.)
But there has been exactly one female Duke Stu-
dent Government president in the last decade—and only seven since the University went coed in 1972. Only 25 percent of current DSG senators are wom-
en, and three women were appointed to the 13-person executive cabinet for this academic year. There are five vice presidents this year, and five of them are men.
Don’t get me wrong, I think that most of the day-to-day functions of DSG are highly pointless. As in Writ-ing 20 pointless. Ugg boots in May pointless. Trying to convince Duke students that they don’t need to dress like they’re on a yacht all the time pointless. But if this is the field from
which our generation’s female politicians are being drawn, it’s worth thinking about who we’re choos-ing to represent us, and why. Because right now, it’s slim pickings.
And the thing is, diversity at the top does make a difference. When Ferraro was asked about abortion during the 1984 vice-presidential debate, she was the first candidate in the history of that position who could begin her response, “If I were pregnant ...”
Here at Duke, it was Nan Keohane, the Univer-sity’s first and only female president, who launched the Women’s Initiative, one of the most sweeping attempts to reform structural gender inequalities in the school’s history.
A man could have done that, too, but it was a woman who finally did.
During the 1984 presidential campaign, Barba-ra Bush once infamously referred to Ferraro as a “I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.” Those are fighting words, but I like to imagine Ferraro took it as a challenge. If getting ahead in politics meant being aggressive and no-nonsense, she was all for it. She later wrote that her candidacy “said to the world that no longer in this country would people be kept from participating in national leadership because of gender.”
But that’s not something you can just say once. It takes people making it happen over and over and over again, until it doesn’t even warrant a sec-ond glance when a woman is DSG President. Or a congressperson. Or even President of the United States.
I don’t know about you, but I think having wom-en that well integrated into our political landscape would be ... oh, I can’t say it, but it rhymes with shmawesome.
Ryan Brown is a Trinity senior. Her column runs ev-ery other Tuesday.
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12 | TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011 THE CHRoniClE
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All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. W = Richard White Auditorium, N = Nasher Museum Auditorium,P = Perkins Rare Book Room.
3/31 IKIRU (JAPAN, 1952) (W)Cine-East: East Asian Cinema—Kurosawa and Philosophy.
4/5 LARS AND THE REAL GIRLKenan Ethics Film Series. Discussion to follow.
4/6 SANTIAGO (W)BRAZILIAN FILM SERIES.NC premiere of the award winning film! Q&A to follow.
4/7 TURNING POINT 1977 (China, 2009) (W)Cine-East: East Asian Cinema. Panel discussion to follow.
4/10 RASHOMON (Japan, 1950) (W)Cine-East: East Asians Cinema. Panel discussion to follow.
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The Laramie ProjectBy Moisés Kaufman & Company
The landmark play about the reaction to the 1988 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. Directed by Jeff Storer, Theater Studies faculty.
Thursday, April 78pm. Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. $10 general public; $5 students/Sr. citizens. This show will aslo take place on April 8 and 9 at 8pm and on April 10 at 2pm.
EXHIBITION. Sparkle and Twang. Marty Stuart’s American Musical Odyssey. Country music icon Marty Stuart’s photographs of some of the most famous stars in American music. Through March 31. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.
EXHIBITION. Philanthropist, Environmentalist, Collector: Doris Duke and Her Estates. Through April 3. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.
EXHIBITION. Stacy-Lynn Waddell: New York. Curated by Jennifer Brody. Thru April 15. FHI Gallery-Bay 4, first floor, Smith Warehouse.
EXHIBITION. Al Margen: Photographs by Petra Barth. Through May 1. Perkins Library Special Collections Gallery. Free.
EXHIBITION. Jazz in New York. A Community of Visions. Spanish photographer Lourdes Delgado documents in spectacular detail the lives and personalities of
contemporary New York jazz musicians in their homes. Through July 9. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.
March 31MUSIC. Faculty Recital. Randy Reed, classical guitar, with Ariel Reed, soprano and Catherine LeGrand, flute. Piazzolla, Histoire du Tango; Frank Martin, Drey Lieder; Seiber, Four French Folk Songs; Giuliani, Gran Duetto Op. 85. 8pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.
EXHIBITION. Photography archivist and historian William Johnson on W. Eugene Smith. In conjunction with The Jazz Loft Project exhibition. Reception to follow. 7pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.
April 1TALK. American Uprising. Lecture and book signing by Daniel Rasmussen about his bestselling account of the largest slave rebellion in American history. 4pm. Perkins Library, Rare Book Room. Free.
FILM. April Fools on the Quad. Outdoor screeing of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” on the East Campus Quad. Popcorn and beverages provided. 8:15pm. East Campus Quad. Free.
April 3MUSIC. Mendelssohn’s St. Paul. This grand oratoriao presented by the Duke Chapel Choir and Duke Chorale with full orchestra tells the dramatic story of a founding church father. 4pm. Duke Chapel. Free for Duke Students, $5 other students, $15 gen. admission.
MUSIC. Duke New Music Ensemble [dnme]. David Kirkland Garner, dir. Music from the 20th and 21st centuries. 8pm. Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building. Free.
April 4MUSIC. Graduate Composers Concert. New works by graduate student composers. 8pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.
April 7FILM. Working with Words: The Films of David Gatten. Screening of three short films by award-winning filmmaker David Gatten and discussion with the filmmaker. Reception, 6:30pm. Program, 7pm. Perkins Library, Rare Book Room. Free.
April 8MUSIC. Neil Lerner (Davidson College). Searching for the Origins of Video Game Music, 1975-1983. 4pm. Room 101, Biddle Music Building. Free.
MUSIC. Wind Master Class with Laura Gilbert. 5pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.
MUSIC. Duke Jazz Ensemble. John Brown, dir. Notes From Home, highligting outstanding regional musicians, with guest artist Jon Metzger, vibraphone. 8pm. Baldwin Auditorium. $10 general/$5 students/seniors.
FILM. Scrappers. Set in Chicago’s labyrinth of alleys, a vérité portrait of Oscar and Otis, two metal scavengers who search for a living with brains, brawn, and battered pickup trucks. With filmmakers Brian Ashby & Ben Kolak. 7pm. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.
April 10ART. Free Family Day. Gallery talks, gallery hunt, make-and-take crafts, live entertainment. Noon-4pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.
April 12MUSIC. Duke Jazz Combos. 7pm. Mary Lou Williams Center. Free.
LECTURE. Salman Rushdie. Public Events, Private Lives: Literature in the Modern World. 6pm. Page Auditorium. This is event is “SOLD OUT”.
