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The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life announced via email to its members that Gamma Phi Beta was chosen Duke’s 10th Panhellenic sorority. The Panhellenic AsGamma Phi Beta sociation voted in Spring 2012 to expand in response to an increase in recruitment numbers over the past five years. Three sororities—Gamma Phi Beta, Sigma Kappa and Phi Mu—gave presentations on campus in late March, and Panhel members voted to decide which group should receive an invitation. Gamma Phi Beta will officially join Duke’s Panhellenic community in Spring 2014. The philanthropic focus of Gamma Phi Beta is “Building Strong Girls.” The sorority is partners with Girls on the Run, Camp Fire and Girl Guides of Canada. All three SEE PANHEL ON PAGE 7
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Jon Huntsman, former Utah governor and ambassador to China, speaks about U.S.-China relations at the Sanford School of Public Policy Thursday. See story page 2.
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Andre Dawkins will return to the Duke men’s basketball team after redshirting for a year due to personal reasons.
‘Dre all day begins again in October. Andre Dawkins announced on Twitter that he will return for his senior season after redshirting this season due to personal reasons. He thanked Duke’s fans for their ongoing support and cited his personal growth throughout the season, adding that next season, “you will see a different Andre Dawkins.” Dawkins also announced he will wear No. 34 instead of No. 20, which he wore for his first three seasons with the Blue Devils. His No. 34 was previously worn by Ryan Kelly, who capped off his collegiate career last month. As a junior, Dawkins played 22.4 minutes per game, averaging 8.4 points and 2.0 3-pointers per contest. Dawkins was a member of the 2010 national champion-
ship team as a freshman, when he notably knocked down two crucial 3-pointers in the Blue Devils’ Elite Eight victory against Baylor. Dawkins’ addition to the lineup will give Duke a bevy of talent in the backcourt next season, but could also make playing time more difficult to distribute. The Blue Devils will need to split minutes in the backcourt amongst Dawkins, Quinn Cook, Tyler Thornton and incoming freshman Matt Jones, who like Dawkins is known as a sharpshooter. Dawkins’ size also allows him to play on the wing, which could mean more time for his backcourt mates but less for forwards like Alex Murphy. Dawkins has one year of collegiate eligibility remaining. He will graduate in May and play as a graduate student next year. —from staff reports
Duke does not release reports of studentperpetrated sexual violence, even though legislation does not prohibit the University from doing so. Two education privacy and safety laws— the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Jeanne Clery Act—allow private uninews versities to disclose disciplinary proceedings and analysis crime reports when a student is an alleged perpetrator of violating university policy, though disclosure is not required. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said that in instances of violent crimes or both forcible and non-forcible sex offenses, as defined by the law, Duke historically has not released the name of the student perpetrator. He noted that this has been the case as long as he has been at Duke, and he does not know the reasoning behind this practice. “Duke does not, as a practice, disclose the results to individuals other than the complainant and the accused,” Moneta wrote in an email Wednesday. It is the universities’ prerogative to disclose information about cases, and few take advantage of that opportunity, noted Adam Goldstein, attorney advocate for the Student Press Law Center in Virginia. Most private universities choose not to release the names of sexual assault perpetrators, often to avoid bad publicity, he added. “No one wants to admit that rape happens there,” he said. “Why would they underreport? Because everyone else is underreporting. It’s just one less thing to worry about.” Goldstein said universities may also choose not release the names as an attempt to protect the victims of assault from recognition. So many schools do not follow this practice that it has become common for a university to go unnoticed when they make the choice not to disclose, he said. The Clery Act states that an institution must make timely reports to the campus SEE DISCLOSE ON PAGE 6
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In second talk, Huntsman promotes public service by YunChu Huang THE CHRONICLE
GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman called on students to pursue public service as he outlined major domestic and foreign policy challenges. On Thursday, April 11, Huntsman, former governor of Utah and former United States ambassador to China, completed the second part of his lecture series, called “Today’s Changing Political Landscape: Foreign and Domestic.” In a conversation held in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Huntsman spoke with Phil Bennett, Eugene C. Patterson professor of the practice of journalism and public policy, about the United States’ relationship with China as well as domestic issues. Huntsman also left a few words of advice for aspiring young leaders, urging students to consider public service as a career. “You can only put so many words on your tombstone,” Huntsman said. “I’ve noticed... all they care about is what you’ve done to enhance the lives of others, and the only way you do that is through service.” Huntsman said a person’s legacy is defined by their service and what one does to enhance the life of others. Apart from positive encouragement, he also addressed more tangible issues currently facing the United States. Regarding foreign relations, Huntsman noted that the most profound misunderstanding between the United States and China is a mutual misunderstanding of each other’s intentions. Huntsman sees, however, tremendous opportunity for growth in re-
lations between the two countries as their economic interests align. China now has the second largest economy in the world, and since economic successes are highly linked to party legitimacy, Huntsman noted that China is taking its economic actions into serious consideration. One major consideration is the pivot of China’s economy toward a consumption model, one that the country’s administrators have struggled to accommodate. “They’ve got to stimulate commerce and investment in the future, which means you have to convince the average citizen that now is the time to take out money from under the mattress,” Huntsman said. “In order to do that, you have to have social safety nets.” Along with these economic obstacles, China currently faces a major challenge in terms of accepting the responsibilities of a global leader, a role with which it is still unfamiliar, Huntsman said. For example, China has not been forced into a position where it must take sides in tough international disputes, and although those situations may present China with significant challenges, they also offer many opportunities for the growing country. Domestically, Huntsman said there was a clear lack of healthy community conversation regarding important topics such as immigration and gun control. Regarding the Newtown, Conn. shooting, Huntsman spoke respectfully of President Barack Obama’s response but emphasized SEE HUNTSMAN ON PAGE 7
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Faculty raise concerns about online course plan by Ryan Zhang THE CHRONICLE
Some faculty members have doubts about Duke’s proposed for-credit online course model. Administrators and faculty discussed the University’s potential three-year pilot membership in the Semester Online consortium at the Arts and Sciences Council meeting Thursday. The group of eight institutions will collaborate to develop online courses on a platform created by 2U, an online education program. The partnership will offer academic credit to students at each member institution, in contrast to massive open online courses offered through Coursera. A vote by the council later in the month, however, could scale back the University’s participation. David Bell, professor of French studies, presented the recommendation of the advisory council on online courses, which supported the University’s membership CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO BY PHILIP CATTERALL in Semester Online. He noted that discussions with faculty members have yielded a Provost Peter Lange spoke about online course wide variety of opinions, some supportive credit at Arts and Sciences Council’s Thursday and others very skeptical. meeting. “It was certainly not easy to come to a tial proposals. consensus about what Duke should do in “We felt that we needed to allow crethe context of online courses,” Bell said. ative faculty members to work on develop“This is, after all, new territory for most ing that potential and allow creative stuof us.” dents to experiment with how this might Bell noted that online learning was a enrich their undergraduate studies,” he new phenomenon for many faculty and said. students. The committee believed that Unlike MOOCs, the courses offered interested members of the Duke community should be allowed to explore potenSEE COUNCIL ON PAGE 5
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Ultra-slim contacts case wins Start-Up Challenge by Emma Baccellieri THE CHRONICLE
The $50,000 grand prize of the 14thannual Duke Start-Up Challenge was awarded to Refresh Innovations—the maker of an ultra-slim, all-in-one contact lens case and solution package. Three teams presented their business plans to a group of 15 judges at the competition’s final round Thursday evening. The other two finalists were Camras Vision, which makes a shunt to treat glaucoma, and Refrakt, which offers a portable platform for treating wastewater produced by fracking. The event— held in Geneen Auditorium in the Fuqua School of Business—marked the end of this year’s student entrepreneurship contest, which began in the Fall.
“I can’t thank the Duke entrepreneurship community enough,” said Matt Pleatman, a Pratt School of Engineering senior who presented Refresh Innovations. “They’re stellar.” In addition to the finalists’ presentations, the event featured keynote speaker David Cummings, an entrepreneur and Trinity ’02, who announced that he would be donating $500,000 to create an endowment to encourage undergraduate entrepreneurship. The fund will provide $20,000 in grant funding to top undergraduate entrepreneurs each year. “The donation will allow us to really transform the challenge next year,” said Start-Up Challenge co-President Janet Ng, an MBA candidate at the Fuqua School of Business.
DSG VP elections moved to Tuesday by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE
The Duke Student Government election, originally scheduled for Thursday, has been postponed to April 16. Thursday’s voting was supposed to elect students for DSG vice president and senator posi-
tions in addition to electing students to serve on class councils. A glitch with the online voting system prevented voters for casting votes for class-specific positions as well as for senators. All ballots cast Thursday will be discarded. “We are making every effort
Refresh Innovations’ product—the Contact Lens Refresh Card—gives contact lens-wearers an inexpensive, portable way of correctly caring for their lenses. The Refresh Card includes both a case and a vial of solution, yet it is the size and thickness of a credit card and disposable. Pleatman co-founded Refresh Innovations with Collin Walter, Trinity ’07 and an MBA candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Anish Patel, a first-year at Stanford’s business school. He said Refresh Innovations will use the prize money for legal fees, full patent protection and pursuing corporate partnerships, among other things. Several design patents on the product are pending. The Camras shunt aims to improve treatment for glaucoma—a leading cause of irreversible blindness—by offering predictable and adjustable control of the pressure in the eye, as well as a quick, simple surgery. Camras Vision was founded by Lucinda Camras, a Pratt Ph.D candidate. SEE STARTUP ON PAGE 5
possible to ensure every student is given a fair and equal opportunity to vote for all corresponding representative positions,” said junior Sam Marks, DSG attorney general. The Board of Elections met Thursday and limited candidates from campaigning further, Marks added. Candidates can no longer post flyers, posters or messages via social media, but they can talk to students in person. President Alex Swain, a senior, said that she hopes the candidates will be able to maintain enthusi-
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Startup Challenge keynote speaker David Cummings, Trinity ’02, announces that he will donate $500,000 to endow undergraduate entrepreneurship.
asm among their supporters. She added that this year’s candidates are very good campaigners, so it will not be a problem that they have restricted campaigning abilities. Candidates do not need to remove existing campaign material. The University Center for Activities and Events maintains the online voting system. “Our goal was to maintain the integrity of the election,” said David Pittman, UCAE director of student activities. He added that he hopes the
technology glitch does not deter students from voting in Tuesday’s election. “I hope that every student will still exercise his or her right to vote notwithstanding the issues today,” Marks said. Junior Patrick Oathout, executive vice president, said that he is not concerned that the delayed election will negatively impact voter turnout. “At Duke, Tuesdays are good voter turnout days since people will be checking their email and be on campus,” Oathout said.
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Commencements spur Pentagon: North Korea debate about free speech likely has nuclear warhead by Ernesto Londoño by Paul Farhi THE WASHINGTON POST
College campuses are supposed to be marketplaces of ideas. But some ideas, and some people, are less welcome than others these days. Just ask Robert Zoellick and Ben Carson. Zoellick, the former World Bank president, and Carson, the world-renowned Johns Hopkins University neurosurgeon, have withdrawn as college commencement speakers in the past week following protests from students and professors. Zoellick accepted and then turned down an invitation from Swarthmore College — his alma mater — after students objected to his support of the Iraq war and his record at the World Bank; Carson this week reconsidered his invitation from Johns Hopkins after a furor over his remarks lumping together homosexuality, pedophilia and bestiality. Commencement speaker controversies have become so common that they’re practically a springtime ritual, like the opening of the baseball season or the blossoming of daffodils. Figures as diverse as President Obama and actor James Franco, whom some UCLA students knocked as lacking gravitas, have all been the object of graduation brouhahas in recent years. “Overall, there seems to be an increased sensitivity to things that in the past we might have let it roll off our backs,” says Josh Wheeler, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, a First Amendment legal policy group at the University of Virginia. “Nowadays,
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people aren’t afraid to express their objections, which isn’t a bad thing, but people are more willing to censor [speech] to remove the offending speech or language.” Wheeler refers to this phenomenon as “ the heckler’s veto,” the ability of a small but vocal group to limit the choices of a much larger majority. “We shouldn’t ignore [protest] but at the same time to allow a minority to determine what we see or hear is very concerning from a free-speech point of view,” Wheeler said. “Too often, it’s easier to eliminate the problem than deal with the controversy.” Such issues have risen and fallen on college campuses for decades, leading to familiar complaints that the nation’s institutions of higher learning are dens of “political correctness.” The charge is often leveled by conservatives against what they perceive as the liberal orthodoxy of college campuses. In fact, conservative writer Ann Coulter was forced to cancel an appearance at the University of Ottawa in Canada in 2010 after about 2,000 students crowded the entrance to the hall at which she was scheduled to speak and protested her views. Former Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin faced protests from students and controversy over her fees when she was invited to speak at California State University-Stanislaus in 2010, but she went ahead with her appearance. The recent furors over Carson and Zoellick fit this pattern, too. Carson, a selfSEE SPEECH ON PAGE 7
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WASHINGTON — North Korea likely has a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on a ballistic missile, according to a new assessment by the Pentagon’s intelligence arm that comes amid growing alarm over Pyongyang’s warmongering. The conclusion by the Defense Intelligence Agency said the weapon would have “low reliability,” but the disclosure during a congressional hearing Thursday is likely to raise fresh concerns about North Korea’s capabilities and intentions.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., read what he said was an unclassified section of the DIA report while questioning Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a session of the House Armed Services Committee. Lamborn said DIA had concluded “with moderate confidence” that Pyongyang “has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles; however, the reliability will be low.” The reference to reliability presumably reflected concerns about the accuracy of SEE N. KOREA ON PAGE 6
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by Semester Online through 2U will combine prerecorded lectures with live TA sections of 20 or fewer students. 2U currently partners with eight different institutions in offering masters’ programs, Provost Peter Lange noted. The Semester Online collaboration represents the company’s expansion into undergraduate offerings. The University formally announced its membership in November and noted that online courses for credit would be offered beginning Fall 2013. The Arts and Sciences Council will vote to approve the new courses April 25. Lange noted that if the council voted against membership in Semester Online, the University would withdraw and not offer online courses. At the meeting, some skeptical faculty members raised concerns centered on departmental control of credit offerings. Faculty questioned the process through which Semester Online courses could be made to count toward majors. Additionally, some faculty members questioned the need of become one of the first universities to offer online courses for credit. “I’m not sure why early adaptation is an urgency that we should feel,� said Wahneema Lubiano, associate professor of African and African American studies. “I’m not sure why doing this sooner rather than later is good.� Thomas Pfau, Alice Mary Baldwin professor of English and professor of German, encouraged the University to take a more cautious approach to the online course program, using clinical trials as a comparison. “Normally if you produce a new commodity—let’s say a drug—you don’t immediately proceed to human trials,� he said. “The equivalent here is that you don’t initially give credit... or you do it on a limited scale.� As a positive aspect, expanding the University’s online reach could help attract prospective students, said Mohamed Noor, Earl D. McLean professor and associate chair of biology. Noor taught a MOOC last Fall and is currently teaching his class Genetics and Evolution in a “flipped classroom� format. But certain departments, especially those in science, may benefit more from the program than others, Pfau noted, adding that the majority of support for the proposal came from faculty in science departments. For humanities departments, the style of teaching used by online courses may be less effective. “Learning really requires the presence of the student inside the classroom and outside the classroom, sitting down and going over papers,� Pfau said. “It is unreasonable to suppose that this will be enhanced by online learning.� Other concerns raised by faculty members involved the potential harm collaborating with less prestigious schools could have to the value of a Duke degree. The other member institutions include Boston College, Brandeis University, Emory University, Northwestern University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Notre Dame and Washington University in St. Louis. Duke currently offers two credits through prematriculation classwork, two transfer credits, four study abroad credits, and, under the new proposal, up to four Semester Online credits, noted Richard MacPhail, co-director of undergraduate studies and associate professor of chemistry. “That’s 12 credits out of 34 that could potentially be coming from other institutions,� MacPhail said. “I don’t know that that’s a bad thing or a good thing, but somewhere there might be a line as to what constitutes a Duke degree with Duke students and Duke faculty.� Faculty members in smaller departments, whose classes would likely not be offered through Semester Online, also raised concerns that enrollment in their classes could drop. This could hurt smaller departments, which generally have more difficulty attracting students than larger departments with more funding. “The logistics of thinking about who’s going to be offering what are a nightmare,� said Mary Boatwright, professor of ancient history. “What happens to departments that cannot offer one of these courses? Are they going to be left behind? Our students won’t even be taking [Semester Online courses]—this doesn’t work for someone taking third-year Greek.�
Refrakt proposes a modular way to treat wastewater obtained from hydraulic fracturing, colloquially known as fracking—a method of increasing the yield of oil and natural gas from wells. Refrakt’s founders are Daniel Chow, Mark Panny, and Victor Smith—all graduate students in the Nicholas School of the Environment—and Judith Winglee, a Pratt graduate student. This year’s voting procedure was different from last year’s—instead of weighting the audience’s text messaging vote 20 percent and the judging panel’s vote 80 percent, the panel’s vote alone was used to determine the
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winner. The audience was still given the chance to vote, however, with the understanding that their vote would be used as a tie-breaker if the judges could not reach a consensus. “It shouldn’t be a popularity contest,� said senior Ting-Ting Zhou, co-president of the Start-Up Challenge and last year’s winner. Thursday’s event was the culmination of months of preparation, which showed in the presentations, said Lawrence Boyd, associate director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization and adjunct assistant professor of biomedical engineering. “The field was tough, really outstanding,� Boyd said. “Everybody clearly had prepared very well.�
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DISCLOSE from page 1 community on crimes considered a threat— including but not limited to forcible and non-forcible sex offenses—in order to prevent similar future occurrences. Moneta said Duke complies with this policy. But John Dailey, chief of the Duke University Police Department, said Duke typically does not send out timely warnings about instances of sexual assault because too much time passes in between the incident and when it is reported. This process does not occur within the time frame implied by
N. KOREA from page 4 the ballistic missiles in North Korea’s arsenal as well as the technical difficulties of miniaturizing nuclear devices. Still, nuclear weapons experts said the assessment is the most specific attributed to the U.S. government on North Korea’s ambitions to develop a nuclear weapon that could reach U.S. troops deployed in the region. “This is the clearest, most direct statement that North Korea has a miniaturized warhead,” said Jeffrey Lewis, a North Korea expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He said, however, that the finding is “consistent with a series of statements that have been made in the past” by U.S. government officials. In his first remarks since the new tensions on the Korean Peninsula, President Barack Obama called on North Korea on Thurs-
the Clery Act, he said. “It probably wouldn’t meet the definition of a timely warning,” Dailey said. “But each case must be looked at individually.” The imprecision of the Clery Act’s language allows universities to individually interpret what crimes constitute an “ongoing threat” to a campus community, Goldstein said. Dailey explained that students who are alleged perpetrators of a forcible or nonforcible sexual offense would go through the Office of Student Conduct, which would deliver appropriate sanctions on the student, whether suspension or otherwise. The alleged perpetrator could also be analyzed
day to end its belligerence. Obama also pledged to take “all necessary steps” to protect the United States from any North Korean aggression. “Now is the time for North Korea to end the kind of belligerent approach that they’ve been taking and to try to lower temperatures,” Obama said after an Oval Office meeting with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday they believe North Korea’s rhetoric represents an effort by the country’s young leader, Kim Jong Un, to show he is firmly in control, and should not be construed as a genuine appetite for war. They cautioned, however, that discerning the young leader’s intentions is difficult. Kim took power in December 2011 after the death of his father, and U.S. officials have limited evidence to assess his thinking. “I think his primary objective is
to consolidate, affirm his power,” James Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, told the House Intelligence Committee. “Much of the rhetoric — in fact, all of the — of the belligerent rhetoric of late, I think, is designed for both an internal and an external audience.” U.S. officials take the threats seriously enough to have beefed up missile defense systems on the West Coast and on the Pacific island of Guam. Last month, Adm. James Winnefeld, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that North Korea’s NK-08 missile “probably does have the range to reach the United States.” Lamborn, who failed to draw a substantive response from Dempsey, said in an interview after the hearing that he chose to slip the assessment into the public domain because he worries the Obama administration is not investing enough in missile defense. “My whole goal in bringing this
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by the Student Behavioral Assessment Team or given no-contact sanctions or restraining orders to protect the victim. “We absolutely analyze every incident, every report and attempt to make a determination if it qualifies for timely warningappropriate properties and whether there is an ongoing threat,” Dailey said. “Even if there is not a timely warning, that doesn’t mean other procedures are not put into place.” Although Goldstein noted that it is possible to violate the Clery Act by failing to send out an appropriate timely warning, it is also rare that universities would be charged or fined with a violation by the Department
of Education if they do not do this, due to a lack of regulation. “Violating the Clery Act is easier than jaywalking,” Goldstein said. He noted that changes to the system of auditing universities are underway. Currently, the FBI audits branches of campus law enforcement to ensure that they are following policies such as the Clery Act. The Department of Education will “piggyback” the audits to more thoroughly investigate each university’s disciplinary procedures when changes come into effect in 2014. “It’s better than doing nothing, but it doesn’t change the basic framework of the problem,” Goldstein said.
to light was to make sure we don’t cut missile defense spending,” the congressman said. “At the worst possible time, the president’s budget does exactly that.” Lamborn said he had great confidence in U.S. missile defense technology, but said Winnefeld’s statement and the DIA conclusion “taken together represent a serious potential threat.” Lamborn said he received the one-sentence conclusion of the DIA’s assessment from a contact at the Pentagon intelligence agency. Lamborn said the portion he cited was an unclassified excerpt from the classified report. His office shared it with The Washington Post. Pentagon spokesman George Little said he could not discuss the report in detail because it was classified, except for the passage the congressman disclosed. He added, however, that “it would be inaccurate to suggest that the North Korean regime has fully tested, developed, or demon-
strated the kinds of nuclear capabilities referenced in the passage.” Dempsey was reluctant to comment on the report, telling the congressman: “I can’t touch that one,” and noting that “it hasn’t been released.” In December, North Korea tested a long-range rocket and two months later it conducted an underground nuclear test. The U.N. Security Council tightened economic sanctions against North Korea in response, and since then, the government has threatened war against the United States and South Korea. Secretary of State John Kerry plans to hold crisis talks with South Korean officials when he arrives in Seoul on Friday and follow up by lobbying China to toughen its warnings to the North, U.S. officials traveling with Kerry said. “We have known for some time that North Korea is preparing a launch of missiles,” said a senior State Department official.
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HUNTSMAN from page 2 the need for a roundtable conversation with representation from Second Amendment supporters and mental health experts. Huntsman indicated that the lack of lobbyists for mental health interest groups not only makes public funding for mental health programs more susceptible to budget cuts, but also incurs the social consequences of neglecting the needs of this interest group. At the structural level, Huntsman pointed to fundamental problems present in American society that may dim the country’s prospects as foreign powers like China threaten to surpass U.S. economic performance in the near future. He said that such attitudes could be unhealthy for domestic confidence. “To see another country crawl closer and closer to where we are is frightening,” Huntsman said. “[It] gives us a sense of disparity.” Huntsman believes that finding a solution to all these problems must begin with having an optimistic leader with a strong and insightful strategy. Only a president with the mandate of the people—one who can deliver issues in a uniform and effective way to Congress—can serve this role, he said.
PANHEL from page 1 organizations focus on the empowerment of girls in local communities. “We wanted to choose organizations that were in line with the University’s goals,” Sarah Loge, program coordinator for the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, told The Chronicle in February. Senior Kelsey Woodford, former president of Panhel, told The Chronicle in October that Panhel was optimistic about
Huntsman called upon students to be public servants, even amidst a volatile political arena. Having been raised in a family driven by social impact, Huntsman promoted service and problem solving as agents of real growth. Furthermore, Huntsman urged students to remain positive. “Don’t let cynicism invade your brain,” Huntsman said. “Stay focused on the positive aspects of our nation’s balance sheet, and dedicate your life to service and problem solving.” He told the audience to appreciate just how fortunate they are to be studying at an elite institution like Duke. Huntsman said that the Duke network is valuable tool for Duke graduates, who are incredibly capable of propelling social change, he said. Following the talk, both professors and students spoke positively about the event. “It was a marvelous talk, as would be expected of Jon Huntsman,” said Patrick Duddy, diplomat-in-residence and former United States ambassador to Venezuela. Anand Raghuraman, a sophomore, said Huntsman’s tone was very appropriate for the topic. “He has a way of disagreeing with you without being disagreeable,” Raghuraman said. expanding to include more women in the greek system. “It’ll be really good for the community,” Woodford said. “We’re really excited about it.” Duke has had nine Panhel sororities since 2008, when Alpha Omicron Pi left campus. Gamma Phi Beta, founded at Syracuse University in 1874, has not had a chapter before at Duke. Phi Mu had a campus chapter from 1934 to 1987. Sigma Kappa had a campus chapter from 1931 to 1967.
SPEECH from page 4 described Christian conservative, apologized for remarks he made in a Fox News interview in March in which he said “no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality” had the right to change the traditional definition of marriage. Students at Hopkins protested his remarks and took up a petition for a new speaker. Despite another apology, Carson decided to withdraw on Wednesday. “My presence is likely to distract from the true celebratory nature of the day,” Carson wrote in an e-mail to the dean of the university’s medical school, Paul Rothman. “Commencement is about the students and their successes, and it is not about me,” Zoellick, a George W. Bush administration official, was to have received an honorary degree at Swarthmore, but he also pulled out this week after students mounted a campaign on Facebook calling him an “architect of the Iraq war” and a “war criminal” for his support of the 2003 invasion. Although Zoellick did support the war, he did not plan it; he was Bush’s U.S. trade representative and later worked to resolve the conflict in Darfur as a State Department official. He ran the World Bank from 2007 until last year. As the attacks on Zoellick mounted last month, Swarthmore’s student newspaper, the Daily Gazette, exercised its own free speech by mocking the controversy. In an April Fools’ Day edition, it wrote that the school “would not be offering degrees to any member of the Class of 2013 who does not intend to found a vegan coffee shop after graduation, calling other professional choices ‘antithetical to Swarthmore values.’ But figures on the left have received simi-
lar treatment, as well. Weeks of protest by anti-abortion advocates, for example, preceded Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame University in 2010. Also that year, the University of Wyoming canceled a speech by former 1960s radical William Ayers after hundreds objected. Meanwhile, protests flared this week at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law in New York after it gave its “International Advocate for Peace Award” to former president Jimmy Carter on Wednesday. A group of Cardozo alumni set up a website calling on the school’s graduates to withdraw their financial support to protest Carter’s criticism of Israel. At the least, the current climate of protest strikes former university president Robert O’Neil as reasonably civilized. When O’Neil headed the University of Wisconsin in the early 1980s, a student group invited former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver to speak. His first appearance was canceled because of security concerns; a second appearance led to violence between rival student groups and eight arrests for disorderly conduct. Cleaver cut his speech short. “What people see as evidence of political correctness [today] is not what’s going on,” says O’Neil, who also ran Indiana University and the University of Virginia during his academic career. “The harshest thing I see is that we engage more in self-censorship, but that’s a long way from succumbing to political correctness. It’s not PC to make a special effort to respect people’s beliefs and to try to accommodate them.” Rather than viewing the campus climate as evidence of growing censorship, O’Neil sees it as more hospitable to open debate. “The discourse is more orderly,” he says. “There’s more willingness to reason. People don’t always agree, and they can disagree aggressively, but that’s how the marketplace of ideas works.”
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Eli Manning said he and his brother Peyton haven’t slept in the same household for a few days since Peyton was back in college and would come home to visit. But when the two NFL star quarterbacks reunited this week, it wasn’t where they grew up in New Orleans or where they play in New York or Denver. They came to Duke to live and train with their former college coach, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe, who has known Peyton since he was 17 and Eli since “he was going to the theater to see the Lion King.” “It’s a home away from home,” Cutcliffe said. “We come out here, and it comes right back to coaching them. That’s the relationship, but now we can walk off the field, get in the car and become the best of friends.” Cutcliffe was the quarterback coach and offensive coordinator for Peyton when he played at Tennessee from 1994-97. There, he first met a 13-year-old Eli, who he later mentored as the head coach at Ole Miss from 2001-04. Both are now Super Bowl MVPs and will make a combined $40 million for the 2013 season but came back and asked Cutcliffe to coach them as if they were freshmen in
In two weeks, Conner Vernon hopes to hear his name called at the NFL Draft and take the first steps of his professional football career. But Vernon’s first taste of the NFL came this week, when he had the opportunity to work out with two of the league’s top quarterbacks: Eli and Peyton Manning. Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe ran a three-day mini camp with the Manning brothers at Duke’s football practice facility this week in preparation for the start of organized team activities next week. The duo brought with them a group of the NFL’s top receivers, including Wes Welker, Demaryius Thomas, Eric Decker, Victor Cruz and Hakeem Nicks. For Vernon, it was much more than a chance to catch passes from two of the NFL’s elite quarterbacks and run alongside some of the game’s top receivers. It was an opportunity to see what the professional future may hold. “It’s kind of surreal to be working out with the Mannings, let alone the group of receivers they brought,” Vernon said. “You have Pro Bowl receivers here and NFL veterans who have done it for a long time—Super Bowl champions. I’ve definitely gained a lot out of this, and it’s definitely going to give me a taste of what it’s going to be like at the next level.” ELYSIA SU/THE CHRONICLE
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David Cutcliffe has mentored New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning since before his college days.
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Looking at Duke’s weekend series with No. 7 Florida State from an MLB alumni perspective, the Seminoles would win by a landslide. Buster Posey, J.D. Drew and Deion Sanders headline a list of 63 Florida State players who have cracked major league rosters. By contrast, Duke’s most prominent baseball alumni include Dick Groat, Chris Capuano and Quinton McCracken. Although the games will be played on the field and not on paper, Duke (21-14, 8-7 No. 7 in the ACC) will likely FSU still need heroic efforts vs. from its starting pitchers and a continuation Duke of its recent offensive outburst to hang with FRIDAY, 6 p.m. Dick Howser Stadium the Seminoles (27-6, 10-5) at Dick Howser Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla. this weekend. “It’s a fun opportunity for our kids,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “This is why you go play baseball in the ACC, to have the opportunity to go play against teams like Florida State.” After plating just six runs against then-No. 15 Georgia Tech in the entirety of last weekend’s series, Duke’s offense exploded in its two games this week. The Blue Devils tallied 17 runs on 18 hits in Tuesday’s win against
UNC Greensboro and followed that up the next day with 12 hits in an 8-3 victory against N.C. Central. Sophomores Andy Perez and Grant McCabe combined for seven of Duke’s 12 hits against N.C. Central. Junior Mark Lumpa extended his hitting streak to six games with a pair of hits. Pollard credited hitting coach Mark Hayes with helping Duke make in-game adjustments, noting that its increased offensive production has taken pressure off the team. “We’ve had some big innings and put some crooked numbers on the board, which has relaxed our pitching and defense because they know they don’t have to be perfect,” Pollard said. “We can score runs.” Offense may be harder to come by for the Blue Devils against the Seminoles, who boast a dominant pitching staff. Collectively, the Florida State rotation has a gaudy 2.61 ERA. Sophomore right-hander Luke Weaver—who is 3-0 on the year with a 1.42 ERA and leads the team with 45 strikeouts—will open the series for the Seminoles. Florida State has not posted its starters for the other two games, but Pollard suspects that the Blue Devils will face sophomore Brandon Leibrandt Saturday and senior Scott Sitz Sunday. Sitz, a senior righty, is the ace of the staff, with an unblemished 6-0 record and a 0.57 ERA in 47 innings. SAM JACTEL/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO
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After recording two convincing road wins last weekend at Clemson and Georgia Tech, the No. 9 Blue Devils (18-4, 6-1 in the ACC) return home Sunday to take on Sunshine State foe Miami (13-8, 2-4). Sunday’s match marks one of Duke’s last three regular-season contests before the ACC Tournament in two weeks. Coming off a 7-0 shutout of Boston College in Coral Gables, MIA Fla., the Hurricanes vs. will get their dose of No. 9 blue this weekend at Duke North Carolina Friday night before traveling SUNDAY, noon Ambler Tennis Stadium down the road to face the Blue Devils. “I think [having just one match to focus on this week] has been really beneficial,” Duke head coach Ramsey Smith said. “Especially later in the season… to have only one match during a week, it gives us extra time to work on a couple more things. I feel like we have been taking advantage of it. I expect us to be fresh and eager [when we take the court Sunday].” Miami currently has no singles players ranked in the top-125 in the nation according to the collegetennisonline.com polls. The Blue Devils, on the other hand, have five players within that range in No. 3 Henrique Cunha, No. 26 Fred Saba, No. 43 Michael Redlicki, No. 71 Raphael Hemmeler and No. 112 Chris Mengel. Duke also boasts three doubles tandems ranked in the top-90 in the nation. Cunha and Hemmeler are currently ranked No. 1 in the nation and have been for a few weeks now. Redlicki and Jason Tahir are ranked No. 17, while Mengel and Saba sit at No. 61. Despite Miami’s absence in the national rankings, Smith knows that there is no reason to count out the Hurricanes. “We are absolutely not going to overlook them,” Smith said. “Every ACC match counts the same… for seeding purposes.” Miami’s singles players have an overall record of 74-49, and its doubles teams have gone just 26-32. Cunha, on his way to a groundbreaking senior season and career for that matter, is currently undefeated in singles play this season. SEE M. TENNIS ON PAGE 12
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Duke lost a handful of household names when the 2012 seasons drew to a close. Gone are the days of Sean Renfree and Conner Vernon, the reliable aerial connection that helped guide this team escape its troubled past and reach its first bowl game since 1994. A new crop of Blue Devils will take the field Saturday as the program hosts its annual Spring Game at 4 p.m. at Wallace Wade Stadium. The game will be nationally televised on ESPN3.com. Redshirt junior Anthony Boone will lead the squad for the first time as the team’s new starting quarterback, hoping to show off his timing with Duke’s arsenal of young receivers. “I think Anthony has really taken care of the football, and at the same time he has always had this ability to create and make plays. I think he’s gotten better at that without taking risks with the ball,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. Although Boone was named the No. 1 starter by head coach David Cutcliffe as the team entered spring practice, he was expected to be challenged by redshirt freshman Thomas Sirk for the starting job. All that changed when Sirk ruptured his achilles and underwent surgery Wednesday, an injury that could keep him sidelined for the entire season. This leaves the Blue Devils with an interesting dilemma for Saturday’s Spring Game. Under normal circumstances, redshirt junior Brandon Connette would move up to No. 2
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Anthony Boone saw action in 11 games last season, but will now be Duke’s full-time starting quarterback. on the depth chart and slide in to start for the second unit in Saturday’s scrimmage, but he has missed the entirety of spring practice after offseason surgery. The same goes for freshman Parker Boehme, who enrolled early at Duke before sustaining an injury of his own. He will be the Blue Devils’ third quarterback option once healthy. That will likely leave two walk-on signalcallers—juniors Mackenzie Sovereign and Rob Collins—to quarterback one of the teams
in Saturday’s contest. Cutcliffe spoke highly of both quarterbacks throughout last season, praising them for their work ethic and abilities on the field. With Sirk now out of the picture, this is unquestionably Boone’s football team. Luckily for the Blue Devils, he appears not only poised and prepared, but also eager, to lead this team into the 2013 campaign. SEE SPRING GAME ON PAGE 12
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Duke and Virginia both have one last ACC matchup left on their slates. Winless in conference play, the Cavaliers hope to snap their five-game losing skid against the No. 8 Blue Devils Friday at Koskinen Stadium at 6 p.m. “It’s a great rivalry, it’ll be a great crowd and Virginia will come out with a UVA lot of energy when vs. they play,” Duke junior Jordan Wolf No. 8 said. “We just have Duke to match that intenFRIDAY, 6 p.m. sity and execute our Koskinen Stadium gameplan.” Unranked for the first time since 2004, the Cavaliers (5-6, 0-2 in the ACC) are more talented than their losing record indicates. In a 9-7 loss
to No. 1 Maryland and a 10-7 defeat at the hands of No. 6 North Carolina, they demonstrated their ability to contain high-octane offensive units. Virginia is one of just two teams to limit Maryland—which ranks third in the country in scoring offense— to fewer than 10 goals in a game this season. The Cavalier defensive averages 9.73 caused turnovers per game, good for eighth in the nation. “They’re very competitive and right in there in their games,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “Defensively, they’re athletic, long and lean, so if we’re not fundamentally-sound offensively, they can cause turnovers and create transition offense.” As strong as Virginia’s defense is, it has been difficult for teams to find an
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Junior attack Jordan Wolf will lead the Blue Devil offense against a stingy Virginia defense.
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SPRING GAME from page 11 “That’s just naturally who Anthony is,” Cutcliffe said. “I don’t think Anthony has fear. He loves competition, and I think his confidence level is warranted.” Boone’s confidence is one of his defining qualities in the huddle, but off the field his boisterous personality can make him an unforgettable figure. Unlike some of Duke’s previous gridiron leaders, who preferred to take on more stoic personas, Boone’s lighthearted tendencies could help to keep his teammates loose next season. “Just being able to be a positive force and somebody that everybody else can feed off of is my thing,” Boone said. “I’ve been trying to be more vocal because I’m the quarterback. On and off the field everybody is always going to be listening to you.” But Boone will have to do more than lead if he wishes to replicate the team’s offensive success from last season. He will also need to concentrate on his accuracy in the intermediate passing game and develop timing with Duke’s young receiving corps, a unit that lost two of its top producers to graduation last season. Although this will be Boone’s first appearance as the Blue Devils’ full-time starter under center, he has seen a fair bit of game action during his collegiate career. Boone played in 11 games for Duke last season, appearing in a variety of short-yardage packages and taking over for Renfree when he struggled with injuries. Boone’s most notable performances in 2012 were against Wake Forest when he entered for an injured Renfree in the fourth
quarter and led two touchdown drives to give Duke the victory and his lone start of the season against Virginia, when he threw a careerhigh four touchdown passes in a blowout win. Now that Boone is the undisputed No. 1 starter, it is his job to prove that he can perform week in and week out. Duke’s new starting quarterback said he is confident he can handle that challenge. “They gave me a chance to prove myself last year and show that I can lead a team in a game and handle the tempo in big situations. I think it’s a trust thing,” Boone said. “Once you get somebody’s trust they trust that you’re going to be able to get people in the right positions to win games.”
M. TENNIS from page 11 “It’s been a really special year for Cunha,” Smith said. “He is playing his best tennis and puts a lot of pressure on himself to perform well, especially his senior year. He feels really fresh this year. He has managed himself well and has been working incredibly hard off the court and is in a really good place right now. I’m happy for him.” When the teams met in Coral Gables last season, Duke hammered the Hurricanes 7-0 on their home court. The Blue Devils hope to repeat last year’s success and protect their undefeated record at home. “This match counts just the same as Virginia,” Smith said. “I am not worried about the guys not being focused [when they come out to take on Miami]. Our guys know that [the Hurricanes] are very good.”
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VERNON from page 10 Vernon’s performance alongside a group of NFL veterans drew handfuls of praise from the professionals. Eli seemed particularly unsurprised, noting that he saw Vernon’s NFL potential long before his senior season. “Over the years I’ve worked out with Conner a little bit and run routes with him,” he said. “I was throwing with him in 7-on-7 a few years ago, and he just kept getting open. I kept noticing that I kept going his way.” The week’s workouts also gave Vernon the opportunity to study some of the NFL’s top receiving talent. This provided the former Blue Devil receiver with an interesting juxtaposition, lining up alongside Broncos wideout Wes Welker—a player to whom Vernon has drawn many comparisons. Despite the constant comparisons to Welker, Cutcliffe said that he sees Vernon’s game align more with another wide receiver at the camp. “I think Conner can play inside or outside and I think [he and Welker] a little different in their approach,” Cutcliffe said. “Eric Decker came in here and worked, and worked and worked. He was great with Conner, and I’d say they are somewhat similar.” Throughout the week, Vernon was expected to keep up with the professionals in all of the timing and agility drills that Cutcliffe and the Duke coaching staff laid out for them. He
looked poised and confident running routes Thursday morning, reeling in darts from two of the NFL’s top quarterbacks. Peyton Manning offered his perspective on what Vernon’s journey will be like in the coming weeks, adding that he thought the ACC’s all-time leading receiver would be a good addition to an NFL roster—high words of praise coming from a signal-caller that has set the bar for quarterback play for the past 15 years. “It can be an anxious time for a player getting ready for pro football. You don’t know what is going to happen,” Manning said. “But the hay is kind of in the barn for him—he has done everything that he can do. NFL teams can be kind of funny. You can have 30 teams not really like you but one team really likes you and that’s all you need to know.” Cutcliffe added that regardless of whether Vernon is selected in next month’s NFL Draft, the receivers that surrounded Vernon at this week’s camp were prime examples of how trivial draft position can sometimes be in the long run. Welker and Cruz are among the league’s best receivers but both went undrafted. “That tells you something,” Cutcliffe said. “I think Conner is going to be drafted, but you don’t know when and you don’t know where. I think the beauty of that is every player on our team sees and watches these guys and knows that it is a process if you’re willing to come in and work.”
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a meaningful way. They can employ inherited tools to create something new, develop problem solving skills that transcend reductive methodology and imagine novel solutions that deviate from the status quo. Perhaps the greatest value of creative thinking lies in its ability to promote mental flexibility. Real-world problems rarely mirror those encountered in the classroom, and a rapidly changing society produces issues that cannot be resolved by conventional methods. Students trained to think creatively can devise solutions to these problems. Some students appeal to creative license as an excuse for intellectual laziness, and we should take care never to divorce creativity from effort
or academic rigor. Indeed, because creativity requires hard work and a willingness to take chances, students often avoid seeking creative or novel solutions in order to avoid risk. Fearing the consequences of diverging from the most direct path, many students forgo the creative solutions in favor of the conventional ones. To avoid producing both intellectual indolence and a stifling aversion to risk, undergraduate major programs should better sequence their courses to ensure that students receive the requisite skills to make novel discoveries in a field. While introductory courses should focus on teaching skills, later courses should encourage divergent thinking. In this model, students seeking creative approaches
to their field’s questions are guaranteed to possess an adequate understanding of their discipline and a wide enough tool kit to tackle its deeper issues. In the process, they will acquire an appreciation for the field’s subtleties as well as the confidence that accompanies a broad base of knowledge. This, in turn, will help students become more comfortable taking risks, allowing them to approach problems in ways that may not have been initially obvious. We have endorsed more rigorous course sequencing in the past and, although we believe that Duke often teaches creativity well, maintain that slight curricular changes could significantly increase students’ opportunities to engage in creative thinking.
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Welcome back, Class of _______!” commencement. We’ll be deep within textbooks The campus has been groomed, accommo- and notebooks, enduring the final push before dations for returning Blue Devils blooming. the Duke Chapel bells chime for our departure For every white-roofed tent built atop the still war- in May. Too soon, the Chapel will be a distant, torn Krzyzewskiville lawn, students are reminded shrinking blip in the rear view mirror of our that they’re one year closer to doncars, packed with the textbooks ning a name tag and mingling with we once buried ourselves in, the other alumni below their shade. clothes we danced on the ShootAs this year’s alumni gathering apers bar in and the beds we called proaches, we move another weekhome for four years. end closer to final exams—another The unimaginable title of Duke year completed at Duke. Another alumni, college graduate—seems year closer to the end of our days at a day we’ll never see the light of, this Gothic Wonderland. ashley camano but as our alumni return this weekIt’s difficult to imagine life beend, we’re forced to acknowledge going camando yond this place, even if you’ve that one day, we’ll be those faces in got internships or job offers, your the crowd. We’ll be the ones scanname waiting to be inscribed eloquently on a ning the name tags and reminiscing about the line next to the X. Maybe you’ve secured your professors and the parties, the good stories and future at some global firm; maybe you’re fur- the gossip. Come May, we’re another year closer thering your brainpower and expanding your to that side of academia, but we’re another year education at some even higher institution. May- deeper and richer in memory and experience to be you don’t even know what couch you’ll be reminisce when we’re here for our 10th or 30th sleeping on post-commencement this year, or or 50th reunion. next year, or in three years. Regardless, there As final exams and papers loom over your is often an incomprehensible surrealism associ- sinking eyelids, understand that the work always ated with the clichéd implications of entering gets done. So many students have a very real, very “the real world.” powerful fear of failure. Competition and stress I can’t imagine, as many would agree, that are bountiful, seemingly unavoidable, and in the this collegiate experience is akin to any societal foggy and demanding home stretch of academia, livelihood I will ever again endure. Regardless of too many students turn their days into 24 excruwhether I’d chosen to be at Duke or AnywhereU. ciating hours within a living hell. People stop I can’t imagine myself five or 10 or 30 years from holding doors for you as you trail them by mere now, for my sake and my parents’, swiping a card feet. People push powerfully to ascend into the inked with an unattractive portrait of myself, at- C-1 bus, as if there wouldn’t be another arriving, tached to an account of food points that feed me headed eastbound in mere minutes. People seem three meals a day like Monopoly money. I can’t to lose their humanity in this period of intensity, imagine myself sharing a bathroom with people failing to realize there is more than this small I don’t know. I can’t imagine myself with black- subset of time. Life is the big picture and the rest inked X’s on my hands dancing atop the humid of the world. Life will work out, and losing your Shooters bar, listening to America’s top 40 hits mind for two weeks every April won’t get you accompanied by crying girls behind bathroom there any sooner. doors. These things (or some of them) feel like Soon enough you’ll be back here, after second nature to the 18-22 year old, but college you’ve walked in Wallace Wade, donning cap is hardly a microcosm for what’s increasingly and gown with an earful of Pomp and Cirreferred to as “real life,” or rather, legitimate cumstance. And so will the girl you barreled responsibility and full-time employment. Life through to get a seat on the C-1, and so will the beyond bearing the title of intern. Life beyond guy whose face was slammed against the door the act of shadowing. The doing. The being. The you didn’t hold. You might come back with the incomprehensible, far-flung other end of “what memory printed on your transcript, the GPA you want to be when you grow up.” you earned or maybe the job you’ve worked— As the faces of Duke’s past return to our be- but there’s nothing better than returning to loved campus, as the once-undergrads weave the memory of your humanity. through the Gothic arches in the pleasant Durham air—we current Blue Devils will be hunched Ashley Camano is a Trinity junior. Her column over laptops, our fingers typing out papers in runs every other Friday. You can follow Ashley on quick cadence so we may get to the other side of Twitter @camano4chron.
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cience can be scary. Good God, if John Ham- Paul Broun of Georgia, who has described evolumond’s scientists can clone a triceratops tion and the Big Bang Theory as “lies straight from from a mosquito fossil and the ‘valids’ in the pit of Hell” and tried to make 2010 “the year Gattaca can take over the world, we clearly have of the Bible.” Oh, and he’s a ranking member of a lot to look out for, right?! But serithe House Committee on Science, ously folks, the advancements of toSpace and Technology, as was Todd day’s technologies can easily be offAkin. You remember Todd Akin, the putting. Stem cell research, cloning, shining star of the GOP who noted GMOs—unless you were raised in a that in cases of “legitimate rape” lab sucking on a double-helix-shaped pregnancy rarely occurs, because baby bottle, it’s easier to have a vis“the female body has ways to shut ceral and irrational reaction to putthe whole thing down.” Science. ting a fish gene in a strawberry than This column is not meant to dislindsey barrett it is to react rationally. This is particrespect or belittle the Christian faith impolitic ularly true in the United States. For or any other religion that might a country as massively advanced as lead an adherent to believe that huours, a substantial portion of our citizenry seems mans and dinosaurs lived at the same time (sorry, to be trapped in the Stone Age when it comes to Flintstones). But there’s a reason that Thomas Bio 101. I’m not talking about differentiating a Jefferson wrote that there should be a “wall of quark from a hadron, I’m talking about knowing separation between Church and State”—private how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around religious beliefs have no business fueling the the sun, a question which boggles the minds of policies of the United States government. Faith 47 percent of Americans. This isn’t just shocking and scientific policy must be separate, not only or embarrassing, it’s incredibly dangerous. The si- to avoid undue favoritism of one religion over anmultaneous advancement of remarkable technol- other, but because right now faith-driven beliefs ogies and remarkable idiocy has driven our coun- are the ones behind political-scientific discourse try to a precipice, and we need to take action to on a national level. If Broun wants to declare 2013 ensure that we don’t fall head first off that cliff. the year of Deuteronomy and walking on water, You need only turn on Jersey Shore to know that’s fine. But he can’t do it from behind the that the imbecilic are pretty well represented in desk of a U.S. congressman, and he can’t dictate the good ole’ US of A. But the extent of the Amer- scientific policy for the U.S. government. We need ican population that has little to no understand- to differentiate science from religion, and we ing of the most basic science is greater than you’d need to increase scientific awareness, not just to think. Almost half of Americans reject the idea of make sure we’re even remotely globally competievolution entirely and think that the Earth is less tive in a world increasingly reliant on science and than 10,000 years old; fewer than one-third know technology, but to make sure our citizens don’t that there is a link between DNA and heredity; 10 go around sticking their fingers in electrical sockpercent know what radiation is, and 1 in 5 think ets. Issues like climate change, stem cell research that the sun revolves around the Earth. Consider- and the efficacy of vaccines cannot be argued on ing that geocentricity hasn’t been in vogue since the basis of faith, and they cannot be argued at muskets or slavery, it’s more than slightly disturb- all if the debater doesn’t have the slightest idea ing that a good 20 percent of Americans call it what they’re talking about. Scrutiny is healthy, fact. but blind rejection based on an entirely separate This stems (ha, get it? STEMs) from the failure domain of inquiry is nonsensical, and it defeats of our education system to provide a decent basis the purpose of debate. of comprehension in science or math. Globally, Albert Einstein said, “Only two things are infiwe’re ranked 20th in science and 25th in math— nite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m and it’s a small wonder. We need to emphasize not not sure about the former.” This doesn’t have to just scientific education, but basic scientific liter- be—and shouldn’t be—us. acy to ensure the safety of our country and its citi*If you didn’t get it, STEM is the acronym that zens in an increasingly scientific world. You can’t abbreviates science, technology, engineering and follow the debate on stem cells if you don’t know math in educational discourse, and I’m rarely as what a cell is, or why stem cells differ from other funny as I think I am. kinds of cells, like 48 percent of Americans. But there’s no scientific litmus test to determine who Lindsey Barrett is a Trinity junior. Her column can vote. Someone who doesn’t know what stem runs every other Friday. You can follow Lindsey on cells are is empowered to elect someone like Rep. Twitter @lambchop212.
hen it comes to grades, many of us would be heartbroken if we were awarded a C+. It looks like Duke may be heartbroken, as well. Last week, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, an international non-profit student group, released the first-ever Global Health Impact Report Card. The project was endorsed by Doctors Without Borders and Paul Farmer, a Duke professor, alumni and trustee. Duke received a C+. Drawing on both self-reported and public data, the report card evaluates the 49 top-funded U.S. and five top-funded Canadian re- duke partnership search universities using 14 metrics for service to assess universities’ impact on think globally, global health on the basis of innovation, access and empowerment. act locally Specifically, the report card addresses a university’s commitment to neglected disease research, to adopting socially responsible policies that expand access to their biomedical discoveries worldwide and to fostering academic opportunities in global health. Each school is scored on all three measures with a sub-score and a calculated cumulative grade. As a core member of the team that developed the metrics, I was very curious about what grade Duke would receive. After all, global health is not only the newest addition to the long list of majors that Trinity College offers, but also a subject many Duke students are committed to through the Duke Global Health Institute or programs such as Duke Engage. Duke as an institution has shown a commitment to global health, but how far reaching is its impact on global health and how does that commitment manifest itself? With an overall grade of C+, Duke is ranked seventh behind the University of British Columbia, Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University, but ahead of 47 other schools. Most of us would not be pleased with a C+, and the grade may come as a surprise to many people since we have always been proud of Duke’s reputation in medical research and civic services. Duke received a B- in the categories of student empowerment and technology access and a C+ in innovation. The ranking, however, does not capture the entire story. The report card acknowledges Duke’s significant contribution to innovation in global health, especially for neglected diseases, which account for nearly 10 percent of the global burden of disease. Almost 8 percent of the University’s National Institute of Health budget is devoted to neglected diseases, which is relatively high compared to other universities. Duke was also credited for providing a plethora of academic opportunities in global health, as well as coursework focusing on the role of intellectual property on access to medical innovations. On the other hand, Duke did not score well on critical components of the accessibility metric. Although Duke publicly committed to promoting greater access to its medical discoveries in developing countries by signing the statement of equitable dissemination of medical technologies in 2009, there is little transparency or knowledge shared by Duke about whether they have followed through with this commitment. Duke’s Office of Licensing and Ventures is reluctant to release the figures about the global accessibility of Duke-developed technologies or reply to the surveys used for the report card. The global access principle is also difficult to find in the OLV policy or on its website. With a significant number of pharmaceuticals and medical devices developed on this campus, Duke has the responsibility and ability to ensure there is global access to its technologies and discoveries. It is possible to achieve this by compelling firms licensing Duke’s technologies to remove the financial barriers that greatly diminish access to Duke’s biomedical discoveries, especially in lowand middle-income countries. Emory University, ranked above Duke in the report card, has drafted a Technology Transfer for Global Access Guiding Principles document, which can be readily found on the website of the Emory Technology Transfer Office. Transparency about technology licensing would be a good first step to improve Duke’s grade and ensure Duke technologies can actually get to the hands of those who are in need. Duke has committed to “help those who suffer, cure diseases and promote health,” as stated in the Mission Statement of Duke University. Duke demonstrates a potential to not only be a leader in global health but also the leader in global health by virtue of its dedication to global health. Nonetheless, the report card is a wake-up call for Duke University and its students to realize that other than innovation itself, expanding access to these innovations is equally important to really change the status quo.
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MANNINGS from page 10 college again. “That’s the way he’s always coached me. That’s why we come back here,” Eli said. “It’s always a great source to have and somebody to talk to, who tells you the truth—not what you want to hear but you need to hear.” Eli was last at Duke two years ago during the NFL lockout. Peyton was in Durham more recently, spending parts of five months living at Cutcliffe’s home and training as he rehabbed from a serious neck injury that kept him out for all of the 2011 season. A free agent at the time, he wanted to work with somebody he trusted to oversee his rehab and return to the NFL. More than a coach, though, he sought a teacher. “There’s some coaches that coach, and there are some that coach but also teach, and he’s always been a great teacher,” Peyton said. “That’s really why I came to work with him last year, and why we chose to work with him this year.” The Mannings are part of Cutcliffe’s family while in town, staying at his house with his wife, Karen, running the ship. Cutcliffe noted Peyton apologized to Karen for leaving his room slightly messy, but it was no worry—Karen already had someone coming in to take care of it. Eli joked that his brother could have done more to chip in after staying with the Cutcliffes for so long last year. “I asked if he was paying rent, who was doing laundry or if he was helping out with any of the bills and whatnot,” Eli said. “We have a lot of fun, and it’s really nice of them to host us for a few days.” Both Manning brothers brought teammates to join them for the mini-camp in Durham, and they worked alongside a
handful of graduating Blue Devils. Peyton came with Bronco wide receivers Eric Decker, Demaryius Thomas and newlyacquired Wes Walker. Eli was joined by Giant wide receivers Victor Cruz, Louis Murphy and Hakeem Nicks. Blue Devils Jackson Anderson, Jordon Byas, Tony Foster, Desmond Scott and Conner Vernon joined the star-studded NFL crew. Vernon, a wide receiver, is expected to be the first Blue Devil taken in the NFL Draft since 2004 and had the opportunity to work closely with the Manning brothers and their elite wide receiver teammates. The pros weren’t just at Duke to enjoy the 80-degree Durham weather and hang out—they had two-a-day practices on Tuesday and Wednesday before finishing off with a morning practice Thursday that they took more lightly after the rigors of the first two days. “We got everybody so tired and sore that we didn’t want to overdo anything [Thursday],” Cutcliffe said. “They like the fact that the reps are full speed here. It’s demanding.” Working with their teammates and the Blue Devil coaching staff, the Manning brothers focused on their fundamentals. Cutcliffe equated their work together to a golfer going back to an old swing coach. The difference between when they were in college and now is that they argue a bit more, though Cutcliffe gets to play by his rules. After all, they’re staying in his house. “When we’re in Denver or New York that might be different,” Cutcliffe said. “I’m feeding them and housing them.” The Mannings’ praise for Cutcliffe as a coach, friend and teacher was nothing short of effusive. More importantly, he gave the brothers a second home and a rare chance to bond. “We don’t get much time together so we cherish it,” Eli said.
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BASEBALL from page 10 “They’ve had a lot of [pitchers] step up,” Pollard said. “They’ve juggled their rotation a few times this season, and it seems that they’ve been right every time they’ve done it. That’s a credit to [head coach Mike] Martin and his staff.” If the Blue Devils can’t score on the Florida State starters and take a lead into the late innings, rallying could be a problem. The Seminole closer, junior Robby Coles, has seven saves on the year with a 0.87 ERA. Duke will roll out its usual trio of weekend starters—sophomore Trent Swart and junior Drew Van Orden and Robert Huber. The threesome has been prolific in their own right of late, giving up just two runs in three games last weekend against Georgia Tech. Containing a balanced Florida State offensive juggernaut will not be easy, as the Seminoles average about seven runs per game. Ju-
M. LACROSSE from page 11 answer for the Blue Devils’ attack in recent games. In addition to a high scoring output—Duke averaged 16.75 goals in its last four outings—the Blue Devils (9-4, 1-1) rank sixth in the country in assists per game with 7.46. Duke’s unselfish play has been the key to its offensive success. “We’ve been working extremely hard in practice. Every single day has been a challenge,” Wolf said. “Offensively, we’re sharing better.” Duke’s improvement has not been limited to the offensive end of the field. In the team’s seven-game winning streak—including signature wins against North Carolina and then-No. 4 Loyola—the Blue Devils have proven themselves defensively. Their defense will be critical against a relentless
nior Marcus Davis, a junior college transfer, is the Seminoles’ leading power threat with five homers on the year. Freshman DJ Stewart and redshirt junior Stephen McGee also present dangerous matchups for the Blue Devils— each has four homers and a batting average over .300. The Blue Devils have shown that they are not intimidated by highly-ranked opponents this season. Duke bested then-No.13 Florida in its season opener and took two out of three games from then-No.24 Miami and Georgia Tech. Florida State sits atop the ACC’s Atlantic Division, while Duke is in fourth place in the Coastal. But Pollard said his team’s confidence will make the weekend series a very exciting affair. “I think one of the cool things about [the series] is that it’s meaningful,” Pollard said. “Both teams are coming into [the weekend] playing well and playing with confidence. [Florida State is] one of the best atmospheres in college baseball.” Cavalier attack that has outshot its opponents 513-350 this season. Virginia has five double-digit scorers in juniors Mark Cockerton, Nick O’Reilly and Rob Emery, senior Mark White and sophomore Ryan Tucker. Cockerton leads the team in scoring with 32 goals, and O’Reilly ranks second with 18. O’Reilly is also the Cavaliers’ assist leader with 21 on the year. “O’Reilly is their quarterback, and they’ve got five dynamite offensive players,” Danowski said. “There’s a reason they’re so successful year after year. They have tremendous high-end talent.” Before Duke sets its sights on the conference tournament later this month, it must first survive its final ACC test. “It’s going to be a great challenge,” Wolf said. “We’re prepared, and we’re really excited.”
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