Sept. 30, 2011 issue

T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y

The Chronicle

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH YEAR, ISSUE 27

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Ambassador has hope for Iraq’s future

Hub removed, converted to visitor’s center

Strikers stymied

by Julia Ni THE CHRONICLE

“I remember Baghdad as a child,” Sumaida’ie said. “It was peaceful, orderly—a city in which people tended their gardens, looked after their children.... By and large, the country was coming up in the world.” He acknowledged the difficulties that stand between the Iraq of today and the state that its citizens want it to become. “Iraqis suffered the losses, but we

This Fall, students have had to say goodbye to The Hub. Starting in August, the Office of Student Activities and Facilities decided with Event Management to convert The Hub, which provided the Duke community with discounted tickets to local cultural events, into strictly a Visitor’s Information Center. The conversion was born of the ongoing reorganization of the two campus administrative offices. Under the new changes, the information desk will become a separate entity and students will be able to purchase discounted tickets for Durham and Duke events at the University Box Office, OSAF Assistant Director Kyle Fox said. “We felt like if we redirected our efforts, we could have a win-win situation by providing services for [visitors to Duke] and maintaining Hub services for students,” OSAF Director Chris Roby said. Marcy Edenfield, systems manager for the University Box Office and Information Systems noted that Hub offerings have always been met with fantastic responses from the Duke community. Students’ overall positive response to The Hub factored into the decision to maintain its services while creating the Visitor’s Information Center. “We’re maintaining the spirit of what the Hub offered in the past, and I think that’s a good thing,” OSAF Program Coordinator Janicanne

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by Lia Cromwell and Jack Mercola THE CHRONICLE

Despite nearly a decade of American military presence, a functioning democracy has still not manifested itself in Iraq, at least in the opinion of the Iraqi ambassador to the United States. Samir Sumaida’ie, who was appointed as Iraq’s ambassador to the U.S. in 2006, spoke to a group of Duke students and faculty at White Lecture Hall Thursday evening. He addressed a range of issues related to Iraq—from the country’s origin to its future political standing. “In America, 100 years is a long time—in Europe, 100 miles is a long way. In Iraq, neither is true,” Sumaida’ie said. Sumaida’ie— exiled from Iraq in under Saddam Hussein’s regime—shared his beliefs about Hussein’s effect on the Iraqi people. “I saw a completely shattered city— not only the infrastructure, [but] the people had changed,” he said. “It was a great mistake the Americans made in not finishing off Saddam Hussein’s rule in 1991.” Sumaida’ie recounted the horrors produced by Hussein’s Iraq, noting that

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Freshman forward Kelly Cobb had two shots denied by the crossbar as No. 4 Duke was held to a 0-0 draw by ACC rival No. 14 Virginia at Koskinen Stadium. SEE STORY PAGE 9. there have been nearly 2,000 suicide bombings in the country since 2003. He also spoke of his return to Baghdad after 26 years in exile. “I did not recognize it,” he said. “[Baghdad] was a shadow of its former self.” Although Sumaida’ie noted the devastation Hussein caused to Iraq, he said there is hope the country will return to its former glory in future generations, recalling the flourishing Iraq that he knew in his youth.

WISER panel discusses program impact Duke adds global advisers by Patton Callaway THE CHRONICLE

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

Duke undergraduates now have global advisers to match the University’s growing international presence. In the last month, almost 100 students have attended oneon-one counseling sessions with one of Duke’s three new global advisers. The advisers help students choose between study abroad and DukeEngage, fit global programs into their curriculums and integrate themes from past global experiences into the rest of their Duke career. “We want all Duke students to be engaged as global learners, whether that means participating in international study or service or engaging in study and service activities locally in Durham, elsewhere in the United States or through a class at Duke,” global adviser Leslie Grinage wrote in an email Thursday. Although the advising program has “global” in its title,

A major Duke initiative is helping to change the lives of many women and girls in Kenya. A panel from the Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research discussed the program’s outreach efforts in Muhuru Bay, Kenya Thursday. WISER co-Founder Sherryl Broverman, associate professor of the practice of biology, said the program has had a positive impact on the women in the community since its inception in 2010. Broverman and other WISER members have helped 60 girls move from disease and poverty stricken areas to the WISER school to receive an education. In the discussion, she noted the difficult circumstances facing women and girls in Muhuru Bay, a region near Lake Victoria in Kenya. The lake serves as both a blessing and a curse—the community depends on the fishing industry for food and trade, but as a large body of water, it fosters the spread of malaria and draws fishermen—many of whom are HIV positive and exploit

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WISER student Floviance Akoth discussed her experiences in Kenya in the Sanford School of Public Policy Thursday evening.

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Doctors using MRIs to detect breast cancer, Page 4

ONTHERECORD

“You must put the needs of their clients first.... If you don’t, then your career will be short-lived.” —Patty Jones on financial advising. See story page 3

Particular gene may increase risk of post-surgery death, Page 5