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LDOC planning gets going Unemployment drops in Triangle by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE
Unemployment in the Triangle area does not reflect the broader weakness of North Carolina’s economy due to the region’s knowledge economy, officials said. The North Carolina Department of Commerce released economic reports through August 2012 showing that the unemployment rates for the Durham-Chapel Hill area stand at 7.6 percent, the lowest of the major metropolitan areas in the state. Unemployment
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Musician Basshunter waves a Swedish flag while performing for a crowd at the Spring 2012 LDOC celebration. This year’s LDOC committee just began meeting to plan the Spring 2013 celebration. by Margot Tuchler THE CHRONICLE
The Last Day of Classes is nearly seven months away, but discussions have begun on what the 2013 event will hold. The Duke University Union LDOC committee has initiated planning for this academic year’s final concert, to be held April 24. Senior Bo Triplett and Sophomore Izzy Dover, LDOC
committee co-chairs, said they are looking to build on last LDOC’s emphasis on daytime programming and to bring a cohesive program of performers. Triplett noted that since artists take time to secure, the committee is already researching performers. Dover added that the committee wants to develop a vision for the event before more
specific details are put in place. “We’ve really been talking about bringing in a group of artists that kind of fit together well, to make it a cool concert festival experience rather than just having a hodge-podge of different genres and different price ranges,” Triplett said.
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statewide ranks at 9.7 percent, the fifth highest in the nation. “We continue to see development in this area because it is a knowledge and technology driven region,” said Charles Hayes, president and CEO of the Research Triangle Regional Partnership. “Nowhere else in the world do you have three top research universities in such a close proximity.” The report cited Durham County’s unemployment rate at 8.0 percent, down from 9.0 in August 2011. This was the tenth lowest rate of the state. Hayes noted that the reputation of the Triangle as an international center for knowledge and innovation will continue to draw in new residents and businesses. Since there are many people that want to live in this area, there will be many opportunities for work. He added that with more than 20,000 new college graduates in the area each year, the job market has been forced to adapt to accommodate to their growing careers and lifestyles. The skilled workers spur demand for housing developments and commercial spaces like restaurants. The Triangle area consistently
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CEO lauds potential DukeEngage adds several of free online courses new programs for 2013 by Kristie Kim THE CHRONICLE
Online education programs can not only provide opportunities for the underprivileged but may also be powerful resource for students around the world, said Daphne Koller, professor of computer science at Stanford University and co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera. Founded in 2011, Coursera is a California-based online education company that provides the global community with free access to video lectures, quizzes and message boards from notable institutions. Currently, Coursera has more than 1.5 million registered users and a selection of 198
classes. Coursera partners with 33 institutions, including several peer universities such as University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. As part of the lecture series titled “Online Revolution: Education for Everyone,” Koller addressed a crowded audience about the potential benefits of online education. “This sets the stage for a new wave of innovation,” she said. “By giving people access to education any time that they might want to learn something about astronomy, philosophy or poetry, they would be able to take advantage of [this resource].”
DukeEngage is expanding its domestic and international programs for the 2013 year. The multiple additions include a Durham “Sister Cities” project that will allow students to focus on doing service in the city of Durham and its sister city, Durham, England. The trip is unique in that it allows students to aid both the regional and international community. Other new projects include an initiative in Boston, Mass., focusing on social issues and one in Togo, Africa, with an emphasis on
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Conor Irwin combines football with research, Page 2
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Two students developed a computer center in rural Togo, which has inspired a new DukeEngage program in the same village. This is one of several new DukeEngage programs this year.
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“I am American, but I am also Jewish... I felt as if I were playing in the community I grew up in....” —Jeremy Gould in “Alums suit up for Israel.” See story page 6
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Football player tackles Path to nylon found athletics and research in brain tumor study by James Silberstein
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Senior Conor Irwin uses Duke’s resources to combine brawn and brains—he balances his time playing as an offensive lineman on the Duke football team and conducting medical research that he aims to publish in a peer-reviewed journal. Irwin has compiled research on medial collateral ligament injuries, which particularly affect offensive linemen, and is in the process of editing a review paper for publication that seeks to streamline the literature and provide a comprehensive source for the sports medicine community, he said. An evolutionary anthropology major, Irwin pursued an independent study focusing on the nature of MCL tears in athletes with Dr. Claude Moorman, director of sports medicine and professor of evolutionary anthropology. The study commenced in Fall 2011 and is ongoing. “Football has afforded me an amazing opportunity to play at an ACC school, and study at a great institution,” Irwin said. In order to alleviate his workload during football season, Irwin started class during the summer before his freshman year. He took EVANTH 101: Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology and was immediately sold on the discipline. He said it piqued his interest so much that he went on to pursue the major and then
In the unlikeliest of places, Duke geneticists have created a much coveted enzyme required for the production of eco-friendly and cheap nylon. While studying a lethal form of brain cancer, Zachary Reitman, a research associate who recently completed his Ph.D. at Duke’s Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center focused on the enzymes coded by cancerous genes. Slight mutations in these cancerous genes can have cascading effects that create prolific tumors, and Reitman realized this mutation could be applied outside the scope of cancer research. The genetic mutation creates an enzyme that has long been missing in the creation of adipic acid, a vital component in the synthesis of nylon. Reitman and his team’s findings provide more eco-friendly and efficient possibilities for adipic acid to be created out of cheap sugars, rather than from fossil fuels, said Dr. Hai Yan, assistant professor of pathology and senior author of the study. “Cancer geneticists are using knowledge to help patients, but this is out of the box thinking,” Yan noted. “People have been looking for this enzyme for many, many years.” The missing enzyme was not discovered on a whim, Reitman said. He had long been discussing it with his friend and research partner Bryan Choi, a fifth year MD-PhD candidate in pathology. “Since then, we would always talk about this idea during our runs,” Choi said. “We kept on blowing it over. But then one day we
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Senior Conor Irwin is conducting research on medial collateral ligament injuries, often sustained by offensive linemen—the position he plays on the Duke football team. the independent study, in ad- gain a broad understanding dition to his football training of how the medical commuschedule. nity approaches MCL injuries. “Your experience here will Irwin then began writing a be much more rewarding if research paper that best inteyou pursue all of your pas- grates the available knowledge sions and take advantage of and practices. The paper is unthe opportunities here,” he dergoing editing, after which said. “It’s all about finding a it will go to peer review. balance.” Irwin said he is seeking to MCL injuries are particu- submit his paper to the Journal larly common among offen- of the American Academy of sive linemen due to sharp and Orthopaedic Surgeons within unexpected lateral motion the next five years, and hopes that can cause unnatural knee that it can be used nationally movement. When Moorman to help standardize surgical suggested to Irwin a project and rehabilitative procedures studying MCL injuries, Irwin for MCL tears. was intrigued by the crossover, The lineman’s achievement he said. on and off the field led MoorHe spent the past year man to call Irwin “everything combing through studies that that a Duke student-athlete go back as far as the 1950s to
were like, ‘Why don’t we just do it?’ We have the training. Why don’t we see if this hypothesis is true?” Starting in 2008, a team led by Yan identified IDH1 as a gene that, when mutated, can lead to development of the brain tumor glioma, a finding that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. While devoting special attention to a mutant strain of IDH1, Choi and Reitman found that the enzyme the gene codes lends itself to the creation of nylon. A five-carbon molecule is produced that is very similar to the six-carbon molecule needed for the process of creating adipic acid, which is an intermediate step in the process of fabricating nylon. Nylon, the ubiquitous silky material found in stockings, toothbrush bristles, rope carpet and a host of other industrial uses, relies on adipic acid, which is manufactured using fossil fuels. An alternative source for adipic acid production could cut back on the greenhouse gases released during that process. Reitman’s enzyme does this by allowing adipic acid production using sugar. The cleaner production of nylon, however, will still require a tremendous undertaking, Reitman said. Although the team does not plan to continue working on this nylon project, the importance is that the findings were published, which makes them accessible to people in relevant fields, he added. “We used an insight that cancer has provided for us,” he said. “We put our multidisciplinary skills to the test. And one of the many great things about Duke is that we have experts in many different techniques.”
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Forty-three percent of Americans say they have prejudice against Muslim people, said Amaney Jamal, associate professor of politics at Princeton University. Jamal, a Carnegie Scholar who is well known for her research on democratization and civic engagement in the Middle East, kicked off the “Citizenship,
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Princeton University professor Amaney Jamal spoke at Duke Monday about Islam and the 2012 presidential election.
Democracy and Elections” lecture series Monday evening by discussing the implications Islamophobia has on the upcoming elections. In her address, she noted that although Islamophobia is a political issue that must be tackled, it is taboo for politicians to express their support of the Muslim-American community because anti-Islamic sentiments have become “patriotic.” Some deem Obama’s reaction to recent protests and riots in the Middle East as supportive of extremist Arab rioters. But Jamal said the president has shifted American policy from maintaining the status quo in the Middle East— supporting governments that are already in place, even if they are oppressing their citizens—to considering Muslim public opinion in policy decisions. “Obama has done something that is quite different from previous administrations—he’s transgressed from previous policies” Jamal said. She said she believes that the current administration’s decision to react in this way is due to a mixture of public tensions between Arab and non-Arab Americans that are magnified by social media and the Democratic Party’s platform, which emphasizes inclusion. But, in a society where anti-Muslim jargon is considered a form of patriotism, associating with the MuslimAmerican community is a liability for any political party. It is politically safer for all
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Band and Fun!, as well as a variety of electronic artists and rappers, such as Childish Gambino. Junior Jillian Williams, who works as a college marketing representative for Universal Music Group, said she thinks an electronic dance music performer would be a good fit, given its wide appeal. “Right now EDM is huge—it’s getting bigger all the time—infiltrating pop music,” she said. “[It’s in] everything from mash-ups [like] Girl Talk to 3LAU to Nicki Minaj to Justin Bieber.... The key is that you need it to be upbeat... whatever genre it is.” Apart from the music, Dover said the committee wants to uphold the precedent set by last year’s LDOC in terms of daytime programming, which included student performances, a barbecue in Krzyzewskiville and a silent disco. Triplett added that various subcommittees are working to garner additional funding and develop security plans for the event so that students can safely enjoy themselves. The past three LDOC events have had a constant improvement in safety and quality of planning, DUU President Nathan Nye, a senior, noted in an email Monday.
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The committee has been researching musical acts that have come to Duke in previous years for LDOC performances and other events, Dover said. She added that there have been many hip-hop performances in recent years. “We’re not necessarily trying to stray away from that, but we’re trying to serve the population of Duke that isn’t being served in their musical interests,” she said. Triplett referenced acts that came to Duke over the past decades as inspiration for this year’s concert. Examples included Bruce Springsteen concerts in the ’80s, concerts in Cameron Indoor Stadium by musicians like Bob Marley and Dave Matthews, and more recent ones such as the Third Eye Blind LDOC in 2008. “We want to bring back that same vibe rather than just a big name pop artist,” he said. Students surveyed by The Chronicle on Facebook pitched a wide variety of acts they would like to see. Popular selections included the Black Keys, Mumford and Sons, Dave Matthews
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represented counties with rates much lower than the state average. Orange, Chatham and Wake Counties all recorded less than 7.7 percent unemployment. “The Triangle is fortunate in that it contains a tremendous diversity of employment opportunities ranging in industries in areas such as health care, education, clinical trials, technology and a growing number of venture and startup opportunities,� wrote Vice President of Administration Kyle Cavanaugh, who handles human resources and employment policy at Duke, in an email Monday. Hayes credited some of the continued success of the job market in the Triangle to the ongoing efforts the region’s “triple helix model.� This model for promoting business growth and competition focuses on uniting three areas—government, academics and business—in order to continue developing techonology and creating jobs. Within the Triangle region, Duke, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are the largest employers. Duke, including its health system, is the largest employer in Durham County. It is also the second largest private employer in the state. “Duke continues to be considered an outstanding employer, and we have individuals from our local communities to around the globe interesting in working with us,� Cavanaugh said. “We track our application flow very closely. Currently we are averaging nearly 14,000 individuals applying for work at Duke every month.� Unemployment dropped in 72 of North Carolina’s 100 counties, compared to July statistics.
working with local youth to resist their migration to other African countries and provide job opportunities within their villages. DukeEngage has also restored its program in Hyderabad, India, after a two-year long hiatus. “What we’re trying to do is constantly expand the mix of DukeEngage programs so that the range of student interest can be fed by those programs,� said Stephen Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. All three programs are led by professors who have specific connections with both the location and the material being covered. In Togo, Charlie Piot, Creed C. Black associate professor of anthropology and African and African American studies, will serve as leader, whereas the Boston program will be led by Tony Brown, professor of public policy and sociology. The Hyderabad program will be headed by Leela Prasad, associate professor of ethics and South Asian studies and faculty director of Duke Center for Civic Engagement, who is returning to the program. “The original idea of DukeEngage was that faculty at Duke would be the leaders for the vast majority of them and that is, more or less, what we’d like,� Nowicki said. DukeEngage also gives students the chance to submit their own proposals and go on their own self-created DukeEngage service programs. Nowicki noted that students definitely take advantage of this opportunity and are present throughout the world. “A couple of years ago, my wife and I went to Iceland,� Nowicki said. “Turns out when we were there, there were a couple of DukeEngage students who had found [a
nongovernmental organization] that was running a women’s clinic.� Two programs held in past years, one located in Tanzania and the other in Cambodia, will not take place summer 2013. The former, the Literacy Through Photography program, is being replaced by its counterpart in Hyderabad and will return for the summer of 2014. The program in Cambodia, on the other hand, was discontinued because DukeEngage did not finalize a contract Projects Abroad, the organization who helped to facilitate the excursion, by its Oct. 1 deadline, said Eric Van Danen, director of communications for DukeEngage. DukeEngage was started in 2007 through two gifts of $15 million each from the Duke Endowment and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This funding has allowed students to join community service programs in other parts of the United States and around the world, with 450 students participating in 2012.
IRWIN from page 2 should be.� Back on the field, Irwin is seen as a strong leader, said senior Jackson Anderson, a fellow offensive lineman and Irwin’s long-time roommate. “Conor has a great work ethic, and being a senior, is really looked up to on the team,� Anderson noted. This winter Irwin will graduate and return home to Knoxville, Tenn., where he will complete his pre-medical requirements at the University of Tennessee. Although he will be busy applying for medical school and seeking publication for his research, Irwin emphasized that he hopes to remain close to his teammates and coaches on the football team. “I will always treasure my camaraderie with those guys,� he said.
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ISLAM from page 3 parties to stay away from anything Muslim, she said. The community of eight to 11 million Muslim Americans still does not feel empowered by the U.S. government, Jamal said. But the Obama administration has continually demonstrated support for the Muslim community throughout the term with acts such as his 2009 speech in Cairo, in which he expressed interest in forging a new beginning between the U.S. and Muslims. “There is not much going on to defend Muslims at the elite level,” she said. “Many of the key MuslimAmerican organizations are disappointed that there aren’t more positive public statements coming out of the White House or other units of government to counter this Islamophobia.” Some Muslims feel they have never received validation form government leaders, Jamal added. Despite
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feeling silenced, the Muslim American community is very engaged she reported—86 percent of MuslimAmericans say it is important to be politically active, according to a 2004 survey from Muslims in the American Public Square. Jamal noted that three main factors cause Islamaphobia: government policies, irresponsible statements made by government officials and mainstream public opinion. “International and domestic issues are converging” Jamal said. In order to move forward with the current administration’s goal of supporting democracy in the Arab world, Obama has to both counter Islamophobia on the homefront and remedy anti-Americanism in the Middle East, she said. “Our anti-Muslim sentiment fuels anti-Western views, and I think that is something that many Americans and Westerners ignore,” said freshman Christie
Lawrence, who attended Jamal’s lecture. “More communication has to occur between both sides so that the media... doesn’t simply fuel these opposing views and perceptions. We forget that drone strikes kill citizens over there almost daily, and although we don’t publicize those events, they do. On the opposite end, we don’t publicize the Libyans who died trying to save [Ambassador Chris Stevens].” As the lecture concluded, the audience, which included Carol Durham, clinical associate professor of nursing at the Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Abdulkader Sinno, associate professor of political science and Middle Eastern studies at Indiana Univeristy, debated whether or not treatment of the Muslim community in America will get better if Obama wins a second term. Sinno will be speaking as part of the lecture series this Thursday evening. “I found it a very useful program,” Durham said “She was direct, informative and clear in her opinions.”
COURSERA from page 1 Duke recently initiated a partnership with Coursera and launched its first online course Sept. 24. The course, entitled Bioelectricity: a Quantitative Approach, will be taught by Roger Barr, Anderson-Rupp professor of biomedical engineering. The course already has over 11,000 students enrolled. This experimental approach to education provides for an improved classroom experience for on-campus students—a notion often overlooked by those attending prestigious institutions, Koller added. She cited many benefits of incorporating Coursera into a lecture setting, including the individual tailoring of the flow and pace of the course, the opportunity to create a less threatening environment for students and the immediate feedback and mastery of challenging material. Provost Peter Lange added that the uptake of Coursera into the University setting enriches the innovative teaching already undertaken by many faculty members. “We are learning more about the strengths and limitations of incorporating online content into courses and how social networking tools might enrich the classroom experience,” Lange said. The growing popularity of the platform attests to the high demand of education, Koller said, noting that some of Coursera’s courses have more than 100,000 students. She added that at any given time during the day, there are approximately 7,000 students logged into the online platform. “Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately necessary,” she said, quoting Thomas Friedman’s New York Times column published May 15. Koller emphasized the discussion-based aspect of Coursera. The platform has a forum to enable dialogue between peers, professors and community teaching assistants in order to foster support—similar to discussion sections or office hours in a college setting. “Counterintuitively, having a larger class is beneficial,” Koller said. “If you post a question—even if it’s three in the morning—one of those 7,000 people logged into the platform... may be looking at the same forum.” She added that the collaborative environment of Coursera allows for a mere 22 minute median response time to a post. Ashley Young, a doctoral student in history, noted that Duke is using more technology in the classroom setting, adding that the methods Coursera offers will reinforce knowledge retention and the acquisition of information for University students. “[Coursera] will give students the opportunity to reciprocate and continue the discussion with their professor,” she said. “An online component [to classes] can prove to be more engaging than standard lectures.” The platform also provides an opportunity to scout raw talent in places bereft of the resources needed for conventional academic cultivation. “You don’t know where the next Albert Einstein or the next Steve Jobs is currently living and maybe they’re living in a remote village in Africa,” Koller added. “If you gave them access to this kind of education, they might be able to come up with the next big idea and make the world a better place.”
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Hebrew Nationals: Alumni suit up for Israel by Jackie Klauberg THE CHRONICLE
Nate Freiman and Jeremy Gould have never visited Israel. Yet last week, the pair of former Blue Devil baseball players joined another ex-Duke player, Jake Lemmerman, in suiting up for Israel’s national baseball team for the World Baseball Classic Qualifiers in Jupiter, Fla. On the opposing team, representing Spain, was former Duke lefthanded pitcher Chris Manno. Freiman, Gould, Lemmerman and Manno all currently play in the minor leagues and were all teammates at Duke. Team Israel, dubbed ‘The greatest Jewish team ever assembled’ by its general manager, only has three true Israelis on the squad. The vast majority of the players are Americans with Jewish roots, now playing in the major and minor leagues in the U.S. Team Israel’s manager, Brad Ausmus, a former MLB catcher who is himself Jewish, was the influencing factor that convinced Freiman to join the team. Freiman, who currently plays with the San Diego Padres’ double-A affiliate after being selected in the 8th round of the 2009 MLB Amateur Draft, said he was extremely grateful that Ausmus reached out to him with this unique opportunity. “[I was] definitely really proud to put on the Israel jersey,” Freiman said. “It was definitely different playing for a country rather than a minor league team or even the Duke team. It was a really cool experience playing for the country like this. I’d never done anything like it.” It was simple word of mouth and flyers posted on a bulletin board that caught Jeremy Gould’s eye. After emailing back and forth with the team for about five months, Gould’s spot seemed to be secured to head to Jupiter in
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Nate Freiman was one of three former Duke baseball players to compete for Israel in the World Baseball Classic Qualifiers in September. September. However, things did not go as smoothly as he had hoped. “It worked out that 10 minutes before the team got together, [Ausmus] told me that I was not going to be on the team,” Gould said. “But he said I should follow up in a week and make sure that nothing had changed. Three days later,
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Cannon launches from Blue Devils get down writing to coaching to Gangnam Style by Brady Buck THE CHRONICLE
Butler head coach Brad Stevens has spent plenty of the last few seasons trying to compete with Duke. His team faced the Blue Devils in the 2010 NCAA title game and again the following December in a non-conference matchup. But this summer, Stevens has drawn on Blue Devil expertise, adding Duke class of 2012 graduate Drew Cannon to his coaching staff in August. “It is great [working for Stevens],” Cannon said. “He is a pretty outstanding person.” Cannon’s entrance into the college basketball world occurred six years ago by pure coincidence. Steve Long, Cannon’s childhood neighbor in Raleigh, was the lawyer for Dave Telep, who is a senior recruiting analyst for ESPN.com and one of the most respected experts in college basketball recruiting. One day, Cannon’s father Jim got the opportunity to meet Telep, and he mentioned his son’s longtime passion for college basketball. “Jim pulls me aside and says, ‘My son is really into statistics and basketball and kind of odd ball things with numbers,’” Telep said. “So I said to bring him over and I’ll meet him.” Soon after Drew met Telep, he became Telep’s intern and worked with him for the next six summers. As the right-hand
man for one of the most respected recruiting minds in college basketball, Cannon studied trends in recruiting, profiled players and meticulously analyzed the various factors that made programs and successful in converting high-school talents into collegiate stars. “We were kind of the CSI of basketball behind the scene,” Telep said. “[Drew] did some cutting edge stuff.” Working alongside Telep, Cannon gained a wealth of knowledge and developed a knack for evaluating talent. “[I learned] how to be a scout,” Cannon said. “[I am] able to walk into a high school game, watch ten minutes of basketball and have some idea of who has a chance to play college basketball.” Simultaneously, he enhanced his writing skills. During his sophomore year at Duke, he began seeking out other opportunities to publish and share his work. He authored pieces that were published by College Basketball Prospectus, KenPom.com and eventually ESPN. He became a household name among college basketball junkies. By this point, Cannon had developed unique arsenal of talents—the ability to identify talent, write, analyze statistics and make advanced projections on high school and college players with high levels of certainty. SEE CANNON ON PAGE 8
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Move over Harvard—“Call Me Maybe” was so last semester. Just as the Crimson baseball team created a parody video of Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit song last year—which has since garnered more than 16 million views on YouTube— the Duke wrestling team made a video of its own, satirizing South Korean pop sensation Psy’s “Gangnam Style.” “We’ve been hitting up all the sporting events trying to get the Duke wrestling name out,” redshirt sophomore wrestler Brandon Gambucci said. “We’re trying to do a lot of big things this year.” The original video for “Gangnam Style” p has become increasingly popular in the United States and now has more than 340 million views on YouTube. Tube. And now it has found a special home in hen it is Duke culture, beyond when played at Shooters II. nior and For Julia Park, a junior native of Gangnam—a neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea—it has been amusing to see how the song has become so popular pular in the United States. “I thought it was really interesting that the American students dents at Duke were taking it upon n themselves to make a parody of the vid-
eo, even before the Korean students did,” she said. “In Korea listening to American pop songs was really popular, but I never thought at Duke a Korean pop song would get this popular.” The wrestling team has wanted to make a parody video as a publicity stunt since last year, and thought the popularity of “Gangnam Style” provided the perfect opportunity. The video, which was originally the brainchild of redshirt freshman Trey Adamson and sophomore Tanner Hough, features members of the team dancing around Duke’s campus in their wrestling unitards, led by one person in a blue body suit. The wrestlers insisted on keeping the person in the body suit anonymous, though g the tightness of the suit only leaves his face to the imagination. imagina “Blue Stee Steel’s identity is a mystery to everybody on campus,” Gambucci said. And in the effort to make the video a hit, hit members of the team did a not hold anything back. The video features plenty ple of gyrating, gesticulating and grinding across Duke’s camgri add pus, in addition to Psy’s now-famous “Gangnam Style” dance. “We have hav a lot of provocative individuals on the t team,” Gambucci said. The video vide was filmed prior to the SEE GANGNAM STYLE ON PAGE 8
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Duke Law prof. talks NFL referee lockout by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE
After three weeks of an NFL referee lockout, the officials and league commissioner Roger Goodell came to terms with an agreement, ending a controversial start to the season with replacement referees. The Chronicle’s sports editor Andrew Beaton spoke to Duke Law professor Paul Haagen, an expert on sports labor law, about the lockout and its effect on the league. The Chronicle: Are you surprised it took this long for the lockout to end? Paul Haagen: No, I’m not. Basically, the NFL has been attempting to redo its labor situations and labor relations—obviously most importantly with the players, but just in general—and used the lockout as a tool to do that. I expected that [the NFL] was going to negotiate and negotiate hard. I think what the NFL didn’t actually calculate on is that the game officials would show that much solidarity and stay out that long and be that organized. I also think they didn’t credit the importance of the officials to the game. TC: Do you think the NFL thought the officials were replaceable commodities and the replacements would not have a big impact on the game? PH: I think they thought that it would be close enough that it would actually give them substantial leverage and get the officials to agree to their negotiating position. Not that they thought there was no difference—they clearly spend an enormous amount of time evaluating officials and one of the negotiated points was to try and create more officials so that the less good ones could be disciplined, incentivized or replaced. So, clearly they know there is a difference. I think they weren’t quite anticipating how big the difference would be in public perception in the sense of the quality of the game. Mostly, I have to assume, that [the
NFL] thought they were going to win and win much earlier in the negotiating process—June, July, August, something like that. TC: Do you see a clear winner in the agreement? PH: I actually haven’t seen enough of the terms to know and I’m not sure I’d trust what I’ve seen. The league clearly had to give a lot from its negotiating position, but I’m not sure the term ‘winner’ or ‘loser’ makes a lot of sense. TC: Maybe if both sides think they lost then it’s a fair deal? PH: Well, sometimes that’s a sign that everything is wrong. I know that’s a [former Indianapolis Colts general manager] Bill Polian line. But clearly there were a number of things that the league was asking for, where what they were really doing, is putting their relationships with the officials in line with what is current labor relations—defined benefit type plan kind of issues. But the other side is just money. And that’s a question of what are we worth, what do we bring the game? And you find that out by can you be replaced, how expensive is it, what does it do to the product, how bad is the disruption and how much do we miss our paychecks? TC: Is there any question in your mind that the NFL’s hand was forced
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by the game-deciding call between Green Bay and Seattle on Monday Night Football? p in PH: I have no doubt that it had a significant impact encouraging them to do a deal. “Hand is forced” is ccertainly more than I know…. I don’t think there’s any ques question it played it role. That was a terrific embarrassment an and one of the things that the NFL projects is that image of incredi ible confidence and being very well run, and this was a pretty big challenge to that. TC: Do you think, especially with th the salaries of other peopl people such as the league’s commissioner, th the officials showed they are worth the money d during the lockout? PH: Yes, exactly. Their value added to the game in terms of it moving quickly, creating a level of o trust among the players, decisiveness, and then just sheer competence I think became clear. And then the question is how do you respond to that?
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GANGNAM STYLE from page 6 homecoming football game against Memphis and shows the athletes dancing on the main quad, in front of the Duke Chapel, in Perkins Library, in the elevator of the Schwartz-Butters Building and on the Bryan Center Plaza. They did not, however, take the elevator all the way up to the top floor to dance in men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s office, as much as video director Dak Adamson, a senior, would have liked to do so. “It would’ve been cool to get a clip of us dancing in his office,” Adamson said. People witnessing the filming clearly got a rise out of the antics. One scene—which Adamson said was not originally planned—involves a female spectator pointing repeatedly to Gambucci’s thrusting hips in a close-up shot. Another scene shows the wrestlers dancing in and around an unsuspecting tour group. “We rampaged them,” Adamson said. “A couple of people were mad but one guy actually pulled out his phone and started filming us…. Who doesn’t want to come to a school where ‘Gangnam Style’ is all over the place?” The video now has nearly 40,000 views on YouTube and has been featured a number of other places. The Huffington Post embedded the video on its website with a short article and Flowrestling—one of the biggest wrestling media outlets—separately uploaded it, which accounts for an additional 15,000 views, Gambucci said. Gambucci worked at Flowrestling this past summer. Gambucci also tweeted the team’s video at Olympic gold medal wrestler Jordan Burroughs, who then retweeted it to his 56,000 followers and added, “Who needs Harvard Baseball when we have Duke Wrestling!?!” Gambucci said they also submitted it to “Tosh.0,” a pop-
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The Duke wrestling team filmed themselves dancing to Psy’s “Gangnam Style” across campus, including in front of the Duke Chapel. ular show on the Comedy Central network that features online content, but they have yet to hear back. Although the video is goofy by nature and popular by nurture, it fosters a camaraderie that is at the core of the team, first-year head coach Glen Lanham said. Additionally, he said it could help with recruiting efforts by showing that Duke’s wrestlers are student-athletes who find the right balance between their social, athletic and academic lives.
“It’s a great group. They all fit in well together. No one is exactly the same but they embrace each other’s differences,” he said. “Duke is the total package—it’s everything.” Lanham—who blamed a “bad hip” for being unable to be in the video himself—added that even if he might not have felt right for the video, he is happy his team did. “I can’t do all the gyrating. I don’t think my wife, or the [athletic director] would like that,” Lanham said.
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“A few years ago Brad Stevens and I were talking...and I think I brought up Drew’s name and what we were doing behind the scenes and sparked a real interest in him,” Telep said. Now, Stevens, one of the rising stars in the coaching profession, has one of the brightest young basketball minds at his disposal to analyze, scout and break down Butler’s performance as well as its opponents’. Stevens has shown a high level of trust in Cannon from the outset, surprising even Cannon himself. “There are many college basketball programs that would not have given me much respect if I had walked into the door and started spitting numbers at them,” Cannon said. “But that’s not what happened at Butler at all.” After he completes his two-year term on the Bulldog staff, he hopes to choose between several different career paths in college basketball. He eventually may return to journalism, join a professional organization as a talent evaluator, or end up as a Director of Basketball Operations for a university. Regardless, the sky seems to be the limit. “I don’t know [where Cannon will be in the future],” Telep said. “I just hope I’m working for him someday.”
Last year, though, after graduating from Duke in May, Cannon’s future in basketball was very much uncertain. “I was a couple weeks from getting a bartending gig in Chicago and writing on the side for a year,” Cannon said. Cannon began running a scouting service to analyze the statistics of high school players competing in the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League, one of the premier summer leagues for aspiring college basketball players. Butler was one of the first schools to subscribe to his service, and not long after that, Cannon received a call from Stevens, who wanted to discuss recruits. Two weeks later, Stevens’ next phone call to Cannon was about recruiting of a different kind. He wanted Cannon to join Butler’s staff as a graduate manager. “I [was] really excited to not have to get a real job,” Cannon said. “I am really happy someone is willing to pay me enough money for rent just to do what I do.” Cannon’s first mentor may have planted the seed with Stevens some years ago, when the ESPN analyst mentioned Drew’s ability to the Butler head coach.
WBC from page 6 So Gould booked his flight, packed his mitt, cleats and baseball cap and hit the road to compete for the Israeli National Team in its first appearance in the World Baseball Classic. Although he has never been to Israel, the 6-foot-4 pitcher feels a deep connection to the country. “I am American, but I am also Jewish,” Gould said. “I grew up in a Jewish community and went to a Jewish elementary school. I felt as if I was playing for the community I grew up in and the elementary school that I went to.” Gould, who was drafted by the New York Mets in the 28th round of the 2010 draft and currently plays for a New York Mets affiliate in Savannah, Ga., chuckled when asked what connection he felt to Israel. “This was definitely an issue that other people were talking about all tournament long and other players were asking us about,” Gould said. “But I definitely feel a connection to the country as part of my heritage…. I was very excited to represent Israel…. [It was especially great playing with Freiman and Lemmerman]. We hadn’t played together in three years [or so]. It definitely brought back a lot of great memories of playing at Duke.” Those memories included playing with Freiman and Lemmerman, who was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the fifth round of the 2010 Draft, and currently dons a Chattanooga Lookouts jersey as part of the double-A Southern League. And they played against Manno, who currently plays for the Cincinnati Reds-affiliated Pensacola Blue Wahoos. The four Blue Devils took the field in their respective national uniforms when the teams lined up to play one an-
other in one of the qualifying rounds for the World Baseball Classic, which took place Sept. 23. Though the Spanish red and yellow came out on top, the Israelis did not go down without a fight. After a 10-inning, five-hour epic, Spain advanced past Israel with a 9-7 win in the qualifyinground final. Since baseball is currently not an Olympic sport, the World Baseball Classic looks to step in to fill the void for international baseball competition. The tournament is sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation and was created by Major League Baseball in coordination with the Major League Baseball Players Association and other baseball associations around the world. The tournament, which takes place in March, is strategically dated to allow for the game’s top prospects to participate in the international competition while there is a bit of a lull in the lives of Major League and Minor League players. The Classic, which was founded in 2005, has only seen one winner in the past two showings—two-time gold-medalist Japan. The Japanese took the title in 2006 in San Diego and again in 2009 in Los Angeles. In its third year in existence, the tournament has for the first time ever had these qualifying rounds, with 28 teams competing as opposed to 16 in the past. Although Israel did not advance to the Classic, Gould enjoyed the experience and was encouraged by the positive atmosphere around the dugout and on the field playing for Israel. “Playing for Israel was special,” Gould said. “Everyone was always rooting for everyone else. There was a lot of chemistry and camaraderie. We were all just playing for each other and out there having fun. It was really a great experience. I felt a great sense of pride.”
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Eliminate the statute of limitations Duke’s statute of limita- the Office of Student Contions for sexual misconduct vi- duct for failing to communiolations, reduced last January cate effectively about a policy from two years to one, contin- that has profound effects on ues to vex many on campus. students’ lives. After investigating the policy In the past, administrators change, a task have cited the force assembled need to match editorial by Duke Sturecommendadent Government has drafted tions issued by the Department a well-reasoned proposal to of Education. The recommeneliminate the statute of limita- dations stipulate that statute tions entirely, citing conduct of limitations for reporting policies of other universities sexual harassment and assault and the unique trauma asso- must be the same for both stuciated with reporting sexual dents and employees, which assault. means one year at Duke. When we examined this isThe DSG proposal, which sue last year, we emphasized amends only the reporting the need to strike a balance policy for students, would between protecting victims make it easier for the Univerand ensuring the rights of sity to remove perpetrators the accused. We maintain this of sexual assault from camposition, and we support the pus, even if several years have DSG proposal and condemn passed since an incident. Giv-
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four years maximum. Because any other reporting window would create an arbitrary cutoff date, the task force has adopted the most logical policy. Moreover, University administrators remain unable to adequately defend the current one-year statute of limitations. In a message to DSG, Ben Reesem, vice president for institutional equity, said he was unable to provide the specific details that may have been the impetus for the change in the statute of limitations. Reese has shrewdly avoided citing the statistic that only 4 percent of victims report after one year. But Reese’s failure to justify the current policy still hints at its arbitrariness. Although we support the new proposal, Duke should continue to consider the rights
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have a long, long list of teams I hate. I hate those but the only reason that argument sticks with us is teams for a variety of reasons. Just as a few ex- because we see our program as clean. It wouldn’t be amples, I don’t like the New York Yankees’ phi- the same if we made up a stereotype that Carolina losophy of attempting to buy a World students are all left-handed: We don’t Series ring, I don’t like the Indiana define ourselves as a right-handed Pacers’ dirty style of play, I don’t like campus, so why do we care if they’re the Chicago Cubs as a crosstown rival left-handed? of the White Sox, and I don’t like the But this explanation doesn’t satisfact that Carolina is an abomination fy me, either. I have no doubt that it’s against humankind. I’ll hate some of true, but I don’t think it’s complete those teams for all of my life, whereas enough. It seems to me that this “othothers are just temporary grudges jordan deloatch er-ization” of the enemy would rethat I’ll probably forget a few years quire some sort of separation beyond never just a game down the line. And I think that this just the fact that we prefer a different hatred helps define me as a sports fan shade of blue. In the Duke-Carolina more than anything else, except for tents and body rivalry, or for other classic rivalries such as Auburnpaint. Alabama (war eagle), part of the fun is the lack of Let me clarify what exactly I mean by “hate.” Ha- separation. It’s the fact that you can go to Target, tred in the context of sports doesn’t mean the same buy a Duke-related item, and get into a little backthing as hatred in virtually any other aspect of life. I and-forth with the cashier who seems to prefer the might abhor the concept of a given team, but that triumph of evil over good. It’s the fact that you can doesn’t mean I would ever wish any harm against meet someone for the first time and—just because any of its players. It might be fun to watch them lose, they happen to be wearing Red Sox gear—get into but that’s essentially where the line is drawn. On the some sort of sadomasochistic argument about which field, the opponent is the enemy. Off the court, he Sox team has had a worse season. More broadly, it’s or she is just another person trying to make some- the fact that you can instantly connect with someone thing out of life. you’d never otherwise know precisely because you When it comes to the other teams’ fans, though, hate that person’s team. “off the court” means nothing. I’ve lived in Tobacco The most important thing to remember about Road territory for 10 years now, and I would engage sports hatred is the fact that the fans of any two in smack talk with fans of N.C. State or UNC any day teams have more similarities than differences. Carwe play each other, any day we’re about to play each olina’s our neighbor, they’re consistently good at other or any day the sun rises in the east. Part of the basketball, and they’re almost as academically elite thrill of beating Carolina was the fact that I had un- as Duke. We’re supposedly always at each other’s mitigated bragging rights the next day. That is such throats, yet Duke students party with Carolina stuan irresistible prospect that even the threat of Caro- dents. Duke students date—or at least hook up lina fans doing the same to me next time around with—Carolina students. We have a bus that runs isn’t strong enough to stop me. between our campuses every half hour, and we have A lot of people who aren’t quite as intensely into students who study at both campuses. sports as I am wonder why I hold this much animosThe camaraderie between Duke and Carolina is ity for other teams. The first reason is that arguing forged in our mutual sports hatred. We hate each with other fans is just a lot of fun. I’m not satisfied other because we respect each other, and we rewith that explanation, though: Why do we take plea- spect each other because we hate each other. Most sure in these rivalries? importantly, Carolina fans are the only ones we can The next reason that jumps out is the argument look in the eye and smile at while offering a hearty that we set up our rivals as “others.” We create a char- “GTHC.” acter that encompasses everything we dislike about our rivals and use that character to define what we Jordan DeLoatch is a Trinity sophomore. His column are not. We like to make fun of Carolina students runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Jordan on Twitter for their ongoing academic and athletic scandals, @jstorm64.
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Long live freedom
ast Saturday, I attended the gala for the tive, purposeful and tangible results. If we had 100 launch of the capital campaign, christened percent participation from Duke students in Duke “Duke Forward: Partnering for the Future.” Forward, imagine what that would tell the world. It was surreal—Cameron Indoor StaStudent philanthropy would propel dium was converted into a posh, laserus forward. beam club. But the party atmosphere I can’t think of any other school wasn’t the best part. Throughout the that has robust student philanthropy. night, I met several Duke alumni who How could Duke cultivate student phihad pledged and donated their monlanthropy? One might turn to Duke ey to our University. Some donated Student Government to do it. DSG because they wanted Duke to blaze a could convene a committee, call a fonew path forward to the future. Oth- patrick oathout rum or even pass a resolution. ers donated because they wanted to But I don’t think that’s the answer. realpolitik with ensure that no financial boundaries Philanthropy is rarely top-down—it patrick prevented qualified students from starts with individuals who care and attending Duke. But most wanted to have the ability to do so. That’s why give back to an institution that had given them (or I think a culture of student philanthropy has to their children) so much. start with individuals. One student could donate Duke alumni have started booming companies, $5. Another student could pledge to donate a cerled the most renowned organizations and innovated tain amount in the future. And yet another student ideas we take for granted. But none of them did might decide to start a new student group, “Dukies it alone. Whether it was inspirational professors, for Philanthropy.” Duke Student Government, or state-of-the-art facilities, or generous financial aid, the administration, could give student philanthropy all of these alumni got to where they are because a nudge in the right direction. But they can’t do of Duke. And by Duke, I mean the collective—the anything without an individual’s spark. vast contributions of ingenuity, determination, amI returned to my room after the gala and went bition and philanthropy from individuals genera- to www.dukeforward.duke.edu. I clicked on the tions before. They were individuals who didn’t just orange “Make a Gift” button. There were options dare to dream, but built their dreams and who later to designate my gift to certain schools. I selected sought to pay their privilege forward. They built this six entities: the Sanford School of Public Policy, University together. need-based financial aid, teaching and mentoring, I left Cameron in awe, amazed by the philan- DukeEngage, the Sarah P. Duke Gardens and the thropy of those who had come before me. I couldn’t University Libraries. I entered an amount—$15— help but think, “I hope I’m successful enough one but then I deleted what I’d entered. If there was day to give back.” As I imagined the sorts of gifts ever a time to be bold, it was now. I doubled my alumni of the future might endow (A monorail! contribution to $30 and submitted the gift. A new Luxurious residence halls! Free tuition for all!), I window popped up with some information: My $30 paused under the Crowell archway. Why did I have contribution had been divided equally among the to wait for that ‘one day’? Why couldn’t I give back entities I’d selected. The Sanford School of Pubto my University now? I already donate to non-prof- lic Policy, need-based financial aid, teaching and its, religious organizations and the various student mentoring, DukeEngage, the Sarah P. Duke Gargroups that table on the plaza. Why couldn’t I start dens and the University Libraries were now $4.29 now, with a $15 pledge to Duke Forward? closer to each of their Duke Forward goals, courteI hope every student dreams of giving back to sy of Patrick Oathout. That $30 will partially fund a Duke one day. Perhaps most think they can only do future speaker on international policy, a student’s it if they’re tremendously wealthy later in life. But financial aid, a Global Health professor, a DukeEnwhy do philanthropists have to be millionaires? Why gage stipend, an orchid in the Duke Gardens and can’t philanthropy and service to our University a new book on mollusk shells in Perkins. Duke was start when we’re students? It doesn’t have to wait. moving forward, and I was now part of that moveImagine what student philanthropy could look like: ment. something much more than a senior gift, a cause we could all agree with. A mission without the inefPatrick Oathout, DSG executive vice president, is a ficiencies of small-scale movements and the limits of Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You foreign aid. A goal with great intentions and effec- can follow Patrick on Twitter @patrickoathout.
ars honked their horns, voices of laughter resonated throughout the streets, and the sound of constant footsteps increased in volume as Hassan approached the front door of his household. Zaina ran outside before her two siblings to welcome her father back home after Friday prayer. Her mother, Mona, watched in admiration as the children jumped onto their father’s legs. She folded her arms across her chest, leaned mousa alshanteer along the side of the doorway, you don’t say? looked up at the light-blue sky with tears in her eyes and proclaimed with solemn appreciation, “praise be to God.” Later that evening, the family was happily conversing over dinner when a sudden knock on the back door revived the imminent fear that was thankfully but temporarily suppressed during the prolonged period of civil unrest. Hassan motioned for his family to remain seated and left the dinner table to investigate the disruption. A few minutes later, a loud explosion shattered the silence of the summer night in Qusayr, Syria. The children ran outside in search of their father. Mona suddenly ran after them, overlooking the religious custom of wrapping a hijab around her head and instantly fell to her knees at the sight that would utterly ruin the rest of her life. As the smoke faded, Zaina threw herself upon the newlydiscovered lifeless body and shook her father back and forth in an effort to awaken him from an endless sleep. While her siblings trembled with fear and her mother slowly concealed her wet face with bloodied hands, Zaina ran across the street in an effort to find assistance. The sound of recurring gunshots broke the shortly established silence of the night. The children wept even louder, and as soon as Mona noticed that the sound of her daughter’s footsteps had faded, she collapsed near her daughter’s body and lifted her hands up to the sky to question why she hadn’t been taken instead. The mother who had been praising God on the exact same day had been emotionally and physically devastated after this nightmare of an occurrence. Tears streamed down Mona’s face as she began questioning her very faith. She called out, “What have I done? What have I done to deserve this?” That very night, Mona miserably decided to escape the violence in Syria with her remaining children. Her family currently resides in Lebanon in a two-room apartment with three other families. The situation that Mona and her family face is only one of many that highlights the political situation unfolding in Syria. For the past two years, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have unwillingly left their belongings and centuries of history to burn with their houses; all the while, the hundreds of strong-willed civilians who refused to leave were likely unwillingly drafted into the armed opposition, arrested on the spot or left to die in their homeland. The fact of the matter is that the Syrian civilians, and others across the Middle East, are fighting for freedom and democracy. Though we don’t live under the same circumstances, we should be thankful that we prosper in a country which guarantees us the same rights that people like Mona are deprived of. We should appreciate the very fact that our representatives don’t hold office for five decades, but for terms between two and six years at a time. We live in a country where men and women risk their lives on a daily basis to ensure that freedom is appreciated by all citizens. We live in a country that allows its citizens to shape and formulate a democratic identity—a country that permits each and every civilian to extract from its tradition the values and resources that build a just and moral society. We must learn not to take our rights and privileges, such as freedom and democracy, for granted. Despite the recent challenges and inadequacies, our democracy is thriving and flourishing. For the people who are engaging in anti-government protests and demonstrations, our country remains a strong symbol of optimism, opportunity and prosperity—an emblem that people like Mona hold near and dear to their hearts on a daily basis. Democracy and freedom are privileges that should be appreciated every second of our lives—privileges that are prayed for by the people who are dictated and suppressed by abhorrent leaders on a daily basis. Mona said it best when she told me over a phone call that though she had lost her daughter and husband, her soul remained strong. I will continue to say, until I take my last breath, long live freedom.
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lettertotheeditor Trinity curricular coding an important issue In the Sept. 26 editorial “Curriculum auditing is crucial,” The Chronicle Editorial Board addressed an important issue: how Trinity curricular codes are monitored. The editorial was incorrect in its assertion that “there is currently no comprehensive, centralized system to determine which academic courses should be designated as MOI or AOK.” This is one of the primary tasks of the Arts and Sciences Committee on Courses, which evaluates hundreds of proposals for new courses and course changes each year—including requests for Areas of Knowledge and Modes of Inquiry. However, the editorial is correct that to date there has not been a mechanism in place to review curricular codes once they are granted. This issue has, in fact, been the subject of much discussion in the Courses Committee over the past year, and, last spring, the committee took steps to begin to address this issue. We initiated a process of sending instructors emails calling attention to the codes their upcoming courses carried, asking them to take action to change the codes if these were out of alignment with how the course was currently being taught. We also asked all directors of undergraduate studies to systematically review the codes carried by courses in their departments.
As we take these steps, the committee continues to look for additional, practical mechanisms to promote accurate coding for courses. To that end, the committee was unanimous in its support for the concept proposed in this editorial— to add questions about the accuracy of curricular codes to the end-of-term course evaluations. Because plans are currently underway to move to an online evaluation system and to revise our current course proposal forms to include more specific learning objectives, this is an opportune moment to adopt the idea. Therefore, the courses committee plans to send a formal proposal to the Arts and Sciences Council to include such questions on the new course evaluation forms. We feel strongly that such data will be a valuable resource to ensure that codes are appropriately assigned. More precise coding will help students choose courses that better contribute to their liberal arts education at Duke. The Committee on Courses applauds the Editorial Board for its initiative and intelligence on a matter of such importance to the University. Cary Moskovitz Susan Wynn Co-chairs, Arts and Sciences Committee on Courses
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Mousa Alshanteer is a Trinity freshman. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Mousa on Twitter @ mousaalshanteer.
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October 2 - 8 EXHIBITIONS Coney Island 40 Years. Thru Oct 27. Center for Documentary Studies. Free. Student Action with Farmworkers: 20 Years of Growing Farmworker Activists. Thru Dec 9. Perkins Library Gallery. Free. Documenting the Politics of Food: Photographs from the Rubenstein Library Collections. Thru December 10. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free. Eat, Pray, Weave: Ancient Peruvian Art from the Permanent Collection. Nasher Museum of Art.
ONGOING Duke Arts Festival 2012 deadline to submit coming up! Ten days left for Student visual artists and performers to sign up for the Duke Arts Festival. Deadline October 12. arts.duke.edu/festival Across The Threshold. Now accepting proposals for papers, panels, workshops or lecture-demonstrations for the 2013 interdisciplinary conference. Deadline October 15. danceprogram.duke.edu/threshold
EVENTS October 3 Flag Wars. A documentary by Laura Poitras. Part of the Barbaralee DiamonsteinSpielvogel Visiting Filmmaker Series. 7pm, Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. Free. Duke Symphony Orchestra. Harry Davidson, dir. Haydn, Mozart and Schumann’s ‘Eroica’: Haydn, Symphony No. 103 in E Flat Major, “Drum Roll”; Mozart, Concerto in D Major for Violin, K.218, featuring selected soloists from the violin section of the DSO; Schumann, Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op. 97, “Rhenish.” 8pm, Page Aud. Free. October 4 First Thursday. Gallery talk on Eat, Pray, Weave. Hosted by Duke student curators of the exhibition. 5:30pm. Free. Curator’s Talk. Sarah Stacke discusses turn-of-the-century photographs from the CDS exhibit Keep All You Wish by Durham photographer Hugh Mangum. 6pm, CDS. Free. Art for All. Following a gallery talk, celebrate Time Capsule with live entertainment and refreshments. Hosted by the Nasher Student Advisory Board for the Duke and Durham communities. 7-10pm. Free. October 5 Faculty Recital. Hsiao-mei Ku, violin and R. Larry Todd, piano. Sonatas by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Elgar, and pieces by Ma Sicong. 8pm, Nelson Music Rm., East Duke Bldg. Free. Movies on the Lawn. Full Frame and American Tobacco present Shut Up and Play the Hits on the American Tobacco lawn. 9pm. Free.
October 26 – November 4
October 8 My Country, My Country. A documentary by Laura Poitras. Part of the Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Filmmaker Series. 7pm, Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. Free.
SCREEN/SOCIETY
All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (ED) = East Duke 108. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium. (SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium.
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Rocking Horse (Israel, 1978) (W) Tropes of Home: Films from the Middle East
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Our Brand is Crisis (SW) Rights! Camera! Action!
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Flag Wars Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Filmmaker Series
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The King and the Clown (S. Korea) (W) Cine-East: East Asian Cinema
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Two Americans (USA, 2012) (W) Q&A to follow w/ Daniel DeVivo, dir. NC Latin American Film Festival
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To Stay or Go? Voices From Oaxaca (USA/Mexico, 2012) (4pm, W) NC Latin American Film Festival. Q&A to follow w/ Elva Bishop, dir.
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Y tambien la lluvia/Even the Rain (Mexico/Spain/France, 2010) (W) NC Latin American Film Festival
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My Country, My Country Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Filmmaker Series
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arts.duke.edu/festival Call For Submissions Open Deadline to Submit October 12 Sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, Duke Alumni Association, Duke Career Center, Duke University Union VisART Committee. Images: (top, left to right ) Manuela Mejia, Yun Jian, Huanbing Xu; (center) Maria Isabel Arroyo This message is brought to you by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Music Department, Duke Performances, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University Libraries, Screen/Society, Department of Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.