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Trustees adopt endowment policy changes
DukeOpen aims not fully met
by Danielle Muoio THE CHRONICLE
The Board of Trustees made several endowment policy changes at their meeting this weekend. The changes include an expansion to the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility, the creation of a social choice fund and a more streamlined process to review investment-related concerns. These changes were presented by President Richard Brodhead, who held several meetings with DukeOpen—a student coalition that aims to increase the transparency of the Duke Endowment. Although DukeOpen’s proposal for endowment transparency included the creation of a social choice fund, their recommendation for hard-copy, time-delayed disclosure of the endowment’s direct investments was not presented at the meeting. DukeOpen interrupted the meeting Friday to present this proposal, which would allow members of the Duke community to view paper records of the endowment’s direct holdings in an office setting, six months after investments have been made. “We learned that over the past year the Duke Endowment return was [13.5 percent] because of the shrewdness of our investment managers,” Brodhead said. “If we make that public, we lose all of that [advantage].” The ACIR, which oversees and advises on issues of social responsibility related to endowment assets, was previously composed of three faculty members, two students, four administrators and one alumnus. The ACIR will now add one trustee, one faculty member, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. The Board also voted to eliminate the President’s Special Committee on Investment Responsibility, making the ACIR the chief See BOT, page 12
by Emma Baccellieri THE CHRONICLE
30, endowment gains funded approximately 16 percent of the University’s $2.2 billion in operating revenues, according to draft statements provided by administrators. The endowment is professionally managed by DUMAC, an investment group controlled by the University. “Duke is known for its many great assets, and DUMAC is one of those assets,” said Board
Although the Board of Trustees made several changes to endowment policies this weekend, members of DukeOpen were dissatisfied that endowment transparency was not presented at the meeting. Among the reforms are the establishment of a social choice fund, modifications to the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility and a more direct manner of reviewing concerns related to investments. DukeOpen’s request for limited disclosure of the endowment’s investments—an arrangement in which members of the Duke community would be able to view timedelayed, hard-copies of direct holdings in an office setting—was not presented to the Board. DukeOpen interrupted the Board meeting Friday in an attempt to present their full proposal. “I’ve given them an answer, as they well know, which is in accord with the majority of what they asked,” Brodhead said before presenting to the Board. “The part that I did not agree to represents a fairly technical feature. The notion that if I were to agree to that, suddenly everything would be transparent—and that if I didn’t, everything is opaque—is really not the nature of this.” David Rubenstein, Trinity ’70 and chair of the Board, analogized endowment transparency to everyone in the University having access to students’ grades. While it is important for select administrators and professors to view students’ academic records, not everyone should be given access to that information, he said.
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Arthur Holland, a DUPD police officer, instructs DukeOpen members to move away from the door leading to the Board of Trustees meeting.
Duke posts 13.5 percent return on endowment by Yeshwanth Kandimalla THE CHRONICLE
The University reported a 13.5 percent return on its endowment investments for fiscal year 2013, raising the endowment’s value to $6 billion from $5.6 billion. The return was significantly higher than fiscal year 2012, when investments only returned 1 percent and the value actually declined due to withdrawals for the operating budget. For fiscal year 2013, which ends June
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Duke and DPAC host 50th anniversary records celebration of Durham unprecedented donations by Carleigh Steihm THE CHRONICLE
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Mayor Bill Bell discussed how a strong education fundamentally relies on including everyone.
by Aubrey Temple THE CHRONICLE
“In 1963, five black undergraduate students integrated Duke University. Two of the five, Nat White Jr. and the late Mary Mitchell Harris, graduated from Hillside High School. Today we celebrate these trailblazers and the various leaders in Durham who broke segregated barriers to our theaters, lunch counters, ice cream parlors and educational institutions.” These were the words that were printed on the back of the program at the event “Duke Celebrates Durham: Where Great Things Happened in 1963.” This was one of the many events that was put together to celebrate 50 years of black student integration at the University this weekend, which marks a year-long commemoration of desegregation. Attendees included Mayor William Bell, three of the first five black undergraduate students and President Richard Brodhead, among others. The celebration was held at the Durham Performing Arts Center in down-
The development committee of the 50th commemoration of black students at Duke exceeded their one million dollar goal. Chairperson Melvia Wallace, Trinity ’85, presented the check—that contained contributions of over $20,000 from the class of 2004 and $700,000 from the alumni chapters of the National Pan-Hellenic Council—at the culminating program in Page Auditorium Saturday night. The event was part of the 50th commemoration weekend. The funds will aid the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, support the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship and endow the Dean Martina J. Bryant Scholarship, Wallace announced. This year brought in 50 percent more in donations from black alumni than ever before—with 55 percent of alumni from the Zeta Phi Beta sorority donating and the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity alone bringing in over $220,000.
President Richard Brodhead said that the increased number of donors shows that members of the black community are taking ownership of their college experience. “Integration gave opportunities to black students at Duke, but the presence of black students gave opportunities to everyone at Duke,” Brodhead said. He added that the oppression that black students faced before the school integrated is a history that many current students have forgotten. “In this past year, we have recovered and remembered an amazing history,” Brodhead said. The event also featured cultural performances, a performance by NPHC and a presentation on the history of the Black Faculty Initiative. Created in 1988 to increase the representation of black professors, the BFI underwent a strategic revival from 1993 to 2003 in which the number of black See ANNIVERSARY, page 12
town Durham and began with a performance from the 100 Men In Black Male Chorus called “Lift Every voice and Sing.” Marlon West and Alma Jones, Woman’s College ’68, orchestrated the song, which was followed by welcome greetings from Bell and Brodhead. “Durham has really been a community that has grown over the ages,” Bell said. “Our community has a very rich African-American heritage and the good thing is that today we recognize part of it and I’m just pleased to be a part of it.” Following Bell, Brodhead commented on how diversity transformed Duke into an elite institution. “Duke recognized that education is about creating and opening opportunity, it’s not about opening it to some people and shutting it to others,” he said. “It recognized the fact that everybody learns and thrives better in a world SOPHIA PALENBERG/THE CHRONICLE
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Students and alumni in town for the 50th anniversary of desegration watch a multimedia program honoring Duke’s African American legacy.
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Founders’ day convocation ties together past, present by Emilie Padgett THE CHRONICLE
Daniel Blue, Law ’73, spoke at the Founders’ Day Convocation Friday evening about lessons from the past and activism in the present day. Students, staff and alumni gathered to celebrate the achievements of individuals at the University over the last few decades, paying remembrance to founders of the University and highlighting others who have defied overwhelming odds and fought for what they believed in. The ceremony was a part of the final weekend of the yearlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the first black undergraduate students to enroll at Duke. Blue currently serves as a senator in the North Carolina Senate and became the first black chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees in 2009 after being elected to the board in 1995. He also served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1981 to 2002 and became the first black Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1991 to 1994. Blue said the first five black students came to the University to better themselves and improve the black community as well. At only 17 XIRUI LIU/THE CHRONICLE and 18 years old, they were prepared to face the challenges of attending a previously seg- This year, Founders’ Day convocation celebrated the 50th anniversary of desegregation. regated school for the rewards a Duke education would bring, he added. “Duke recognized its mistakes, corrected ence to be proactive and follow in the footHe mentioned, however, that looking at its course and then led with great vigor and steps of the first five black students who stood the past too closely can become a deterrent to tenacity and by doing so, it moved onto the up for what they believed in. future progress. stage as a hungry, deserving and great nation“Duke students of today…dive in and do “We cannot allow ourselves to become par- al and international university,” Blue said, not- not let the modern day deny you justice to get alyzed by the past,” Blue said. ing the importance of integration to progress. their way,” Blue said. Blue spoke of the difficulty the University Blue reminded the audience that the the At the end of the ceremony, President had in breaking down the walls of segregation, nation is at a crossroads yet again, with dif- Richard Brodhead presented a number of noting that Duke was one of the last “good” ferent groups around the country still being awards. schools to do so—starting integration in 1963. refused their rights. He encouraged the audiThe Alumni Distinguished Undergradu-
ate Teaching Award was presented to Mohamed Noor, the Earl D. McLean Professor of biology and chair of the biology department. The recipient of this award is chosen through the votes of undergraduate students. In the past, Noor received the DarwinWallace Medal from the Linnean Society in London, which is only awarded every 50 years to recognize “major advances in evolutionary biology.” The Distinguished Alumni Award was given to E. Blake Byrne, Trinity ‘57, an avid art collector and generous supporter of LGBT advancement on campus. He founded the Nasher Museum of Art’s national board of advisors and has supported it through donations of artwork and funds. In addition, he created a scholarship for LGBT students from the Carolinas and a professorship in arts and sciences. “He brought his love of art and love of Duke together to make the Founders Board of the Nasher Museum of Art,” Brodhead said. Blue and Gerald Lee Wilson, senior associate dean of Trinity College, both received a University Medal. The University Medal is given to those who have close ties with Duke and have made lasting contributions. Brodhead noted how much Wilson is admired by students. “[Students] ask Dean Wilson to officiate at their weddings and later at the baptism of their children,” Brodhead said. Sophomore Kalifa Wright said Wilson’s message about seeking to make change in the future was particularly powerful. “I really liked what he said about how staying in the past can be bad,” she said. “We should be pushing for the future. There’s still a whole lot to do, a whole lot.”
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DUKEOPEN from page 1 Members of DukeOpen said that they took issue with the fact that Brodhead was allowed to present on their behalf. “I worry when a group of students brings a proposal to the administration, and the administration says, ‘We’ll represent your interests before the Board,’” said senior Jacob Tobia, one of the leaders of DukeOpen. “I don’t think we gave consent to be represented by President Brodhead today, and he should not claim to represent us or our interests if we haven’t given our consent as a student community to be presented by him.” When asked whether DukeOpen members informed Brodhead that they did not want him to present the proposal on their behalf at this meeting, Tobia said it was “certainly implied, if not explicitly stated.” Several members of the Board noted that DUMAC’s current performance could be compromised by transparency. “DUMAC—our managers—have a special ability to pick and choose certain managers so we can do better than other people,” said trustee Xiqing Gao, president of the China Investment Corporation and Law ’86. “I believe that DUMAC right now is producing enough of the information.” Gao added that he has faced similar questions of transparency as the leader of a sovereign wealth fund. Brodhead noted that the foremost goal of the endowment is to generate money to support the University. “People gave money to support education at this school,” Brodhead said. “We make the best return we can because that allows us to give the most support. The people who gave us the money didn’t
give us the money to make little return.” In DukeOpen’s proposal, it is noted that two of Duke’s peer institutions— Yale University and Dartmouth College—practice time-delayed investment disclosure procedures and have not seen diminished returns. Tobia noted that there currently are not effective ways for students to bring concerns to the Board. Although his role in Duke Student Goverment allows him to serve on the Board’s Business and Finance Committee, he noted that the structure of committee meetings does not always permit student input. “The meeting structures are not set up such as that students can bring up concerns effectively,” Tobia said. “I would have had to interrupt the meeting, even though I’m a member, to really effectively bring it up.” DukeOpen filled the week leading up to the Board’s meetings with campus protests—wrapping the James B. Duke and Benjamin Duke statues in black plastic, hanging a banner reading ‘Transparency Now’ in front of the Allen Building and encouraging students on the Bryan Center Plaza to call Brodhead’s office expressing support for endowment transparency. The group did not receive acknowledgement from the administration at any point during the week, said Bobo Bose-Kolanu, a second-year graduate student in literature and one of the leaders of the coalition. DukeOpen’s appearance at Friday’s Board meeting, however, quickly brought administrative response. “You and I have had many exchanges as recently as the past few days,” Brodhead said to Tobia. “The trustees have heard extensively about this issue.”
The 12 students knocked on the door of the meeting—held in 115 Teer Building—shortly after it began. Brodhead spoke to the group for about three minutes before returning to the Board. “We’re in the middle of a meeting, and I’ve got to get back,” he said. Following their dismissal, DukeOpen members said that they were not satisfied with the response. “When a group that represents over 2,000 students, faculty and alumni that have been campaigning and researching an issue for over a year knocks politely at the door dressed in formalwear and requests a two minute presentation, I don’t think that that disrupts the agenda,” Bose-Kolanu said. DukeOpen members were able to speak with Board members after Founder’s Day Convocation and during the day on Saturday about their proposal and advocacy tactics. “The trustees were generous with their time and genuinely interested in our proposal,” Bose-Kolanu wrote in an email Friday. He noted that Board members remarked how civil and polite the DukeOpen students were, especially compared to student protests in the 1960s when some of the trustees were in college. Lauren Carroll and Danielle Muoio contributed reoprting.
DURHAM from page 2 where everyone is welcome rather than in a world where some are and some aren’t.” After the remarks, there was a panel discussion moderated by Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African and African
American studies. Panelists included Nathaniel White, Superior Court Judge Elaine Bushfan and Rev. William Turner—Pratt ’70, Divinity ’74 and Graduate School ‘84. White, one of the first black undergraduates, said when he attended Duke, Durham was completely separate from the University—a city within a city. “Duke is another city four miles away— it was a complete discovery,” White said. “I can’t express to you enough how much the town that I lived in and the town that I moved to were such separate enterprises—I didn’t know what I was to expect.” Panelist Dr. Brenda Armstrong, Woman’s College ‘70 and Medicine ‘79, noted that it is important to ask questions to enforce change. “If you don’t ask questions, things will remain the same,” she said. Turner emphasized the growing need of intellect within the Duke community. “Our state desperately needs thinking people,” he said. “The issue is not agreeing and disagreeing, it’s the intellect. It’s being able to think. It’s being able to analyze, it’s having a historical perspective and knowing what to do with issues.” Ben Reese, vice president of the Office for Institutional Equity, said he was pleased with the event’s turnout after working for two years to create a memorable tribute to an important milestone. “The whole event was very emotional,” Reese said. “We worked since 2011 to develop an event that would commemorate the 50th anniversary of black students at Duke.”
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9 IN A ROW Blue Devils knock off Wake Forest to remain perfect in ACC play by Ryan Hoerger THE CHRONICLE
Duke’s offensive firepower was on display Sunday, as the Blue Devils won their ninth straight match. Sophomore Emily Sklar had 17 kills, junior Jeme Obeime WAKE 0 had 15 and senior DUKE 3 Chelsea Cook added 11 for the Blue Devils as they defeated Wake Forest in straight sets at Cameron Indoor Stadium. “All of our outsides were able to score, and that was huge for us,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “Early on in the match I didn’t think [Obeime] was getting many balls, but certainly when she was, she was doing something with them.” Early in the first set, momentum shifted when junior Maggie Deichmeister recorded back-to-back blocks to give the Blue Devils (13-2, 4-0 in the ACC) an 8-5 advantage. From there, Sklar took over the set. The San Jose, Calif., native had eight of Duke’s 17 kills on just 10 attempts in the opening frame, and also added a service ace. “Blocking is a skill I’ve really been working on,” Deichmeister said. “That was one of our focuses at the beginning of the match, to be disciplined on defensive blocking.” In set two, Sklar continued her hot hitting, but got plenty of help from Cook and Obeime. Duke jumped out to a 3-1 edge, but then the Demon Deacons
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Outside hitter Jeme Obeime registered 15 kills as Duke recorded its ninth straight victory with a win against Wake Forest.
(13-3, 1-3) rattled off six straight points. The Blue Devils fought back to regain an 11-10 advantage, then stretched the lead to 18-11 behind blocks from sophomore Elizabeth Campbell and freshman
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Jordan Tucker, two kills from Campbell and a kill apiece from Sklar and Cook. The Demon Deacons made another surge, fighting back to 21-18 and 24-22, but Obeime would not allow Wake For-
est to take the lead. She had the last four kills for the Blue Devils, and finished the set with seven. See VOLLEYBALL, page 8
FOOTBALL
Duke earns 2nd ACC win Singleton suspended
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Emmie Le Marchand had a goal and two assists in Duke’s win against Wake Forest.
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Duke didn’t need extra time to emerge victorious against the Demon Deacons. The No. 7 Blue Devils came away with a win in their fifth straight game, beating No. 14 Wake Forest 3-1 WAKE 1 at Jack Katz Stadium DUKE 3 Sunday afternoon. Duke (10-2, 2-0 in the ACC) had to manage a quick turnaround after winning against California Friday in double overtime. Head coach Pam Bustin said she pleased with the team’s weekend preparation and response. “They handled it really well. We knew right away on Friday that it was time to get ready for today,” Bustin said. “This team stays together and they stay on task with what our goals are.
Freshman safety Deondre Singleton has been suspended for Duke’s upcoming game against Navy after missing two academic obligations last week. Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said in his weekly teleconference that Singleton left campus early without permission. He has appeared in four of Duke’s five games this season, recording 14 tackles and one forced fumble. DEONDRE SINGLETON Singleton made Freshman safety the first start of his collegiate career in the Blue Devils’ 3831 victory against Troy Sept. 28 in place
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of injured sophomore Dwayne Norman. The freshman from Dacula, Ga., recorded seven tackles in the win, including five solo stops, and forced a fumble. If Norman is unable to suit up against the Midshipmen, Duke will be shorthanded at the safety position. Senior Jacques Bristow is listed third on the Blue Devil depth chart at bandit safety behind Norman and Singleton. Redshirt freshman DeVon Edwards or redshirt senior Anthony Young-Wiseman could also slide over from Duke’s other two safety positions. Cutcliffe also revealed that freshman wide receiver Johnell Barnes broke his right hand in an altercation with a Duke lacrosse player last weekend. Barnes is out indefinitely and will not play Saturday against Navy. Barnes caught two passes for a career-high 73 yards against Troy.
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
Blue Devils fall to BC Road loss damages Duke’s postseason hopes as team enters home stretch “We came out in the second half, and I thought we attacked well from the beginning,” Church said. “Laura did a great job of finishing that goal.”
by Delaney King THE CHRONICLE
Duke’s grip on the postseason continues to slip after a loss to Boston College. After defeating the Eagles in every matchup since 2010, the Blue Devils fell 4-1 to Boston College in Newton Soccer Stadium Sunday DUKE 1 in Newton, Mass. BC 4 Duke allowed four goals in a game for the first time this season and now has dropped four conference matches. “It was a pretty even game, except they scored their goals and we didn’t score ours,” head coach Robbie Church said. Forward Stephanie McCaffrey scored three of the Eagles’ four tallies. She completed her hat trick with a 1-on-1 drive to the goal, chipping the ball safely into the net past goalkeeper Ali Kershner and sealing the win for Boston College (7-6, 4-4 in the ACC). Teammate and reigning ACC Player of the Week McKenzie Meehan was the first player from either team to score, netting a penalty kick in the 21st minute to put Duke (4-63, 1-4-2) behind early. Along with a strong opponent, the Blue Devils faced unfavorable conditions—the game was played on a turf field, an unfamiliar surface for the team, compounded by intense rainfall before the start of the game. “It was a difficult game, no question
“The bottom line is we’re not winning games, so we have to—the door is closing quickly, and we have to win.” ROBBIE CHURCH HEAD COACH, DUKE WOMEN’S SOCCER
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Laura Weinberg scored her third goal in five games, but Duke struggled defensively in a 4-1 loss to Boston College. about it,” Church said. “I thought we handled the environment well, and we really created some good opportunities.” Duke’s only goal came three minutes after halftime. A cross by newly-returned midfielder Rebecca Quinn from the end
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line placed the ball perfectly at the far post. Senior Laura Weinberg was able to touch the ball past goalkeeper Alex Johnson’s hands and cut Duke’s deficit to 2-1. Weinberg’s goal marks her third in five games.
One bright spot in Duke’s loss was Kershner’s performance. The redshirt sophomore had a career-high eight saves in the game. Before Sunday’s game, Kershner was already ranked fourth in the ACC in saves per game. Church said his goalkeeper played very well, despite Boston College’s strong attackers. Earlier in the week, Church said many of Duke’s defensive struggles were the result of injuries that have shifted starters into new positions and brought bench players into the starting lineup. With this loss and a record still below .500, the Blue Devils have a tough turnaround if they hope to qualify for postseason play. All of the remaining regular See W. SOCCER, page 8
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Doubles upset highlights Capra reaches quarterfinal at Riviera Championships ITA All-American by Alex Serebransky THE CHRONICLE
It was a week of ups and downs for the Blue Devils at the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla. After competing through five days of qualifiers, Duke sent four players to the main draw of the tournament. Sophomore Michael Redlicki, junior Raphael Hemmeler and senior Fred Saba competed in the singles draw. Hemmeler and sophomore Bruno Semenzato competed in the doubles draw. Despite getting a large number of players into the main draw, the Blue Devils did not perform as well as they had hoped. “We had mixed results,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “We certainly had some good moments, and we had some tougher losses as well. Overall, there was some good and some not so good.” The highlight of the tournament for Duke was Hemmeler and Semenzato’s defeat of the No. 2 ranked doubles team in the nation, Hernus Pieters and Ben Wagland from Georgia, 8-4 in the first round. “Bruno and [Hemmeler] looked really good in doubles,” Smith said. “Playing together for the first time and beating the No. 2 doubles team in the country was certainly impressive.”
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Bruno Semenzato and Raphael Hemmeler recorded an upset victory in doubles at the ITA All-American Championships.
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A 10-day stint on the West Coast gave Duke a taste of top-tier competition. After playing in the San Diego State Fall Classic last weekend, the Blue Devils headed north to Pacific Palisades, Calif., as four players competted in the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships. Sophomore Beatrice Capra qualified for the main singles draw and made it to the final eight. In doubles, Ester Goldfeld and Annie Mulholland reached the second round. Senior Hanna Mar fell in the singles draw before advancing to the final eight in the consolation bracket. Winning five straight matches in the main singles draw of the tournament, Capra showed she was ready to compete again after a suspension last spring. Advancing to the quarterfinals by defeating 12th-ranked Petra Niedermayerova of Kansas State 6-1, 6-0, Capra fell against top seed Robin Anderson of UCLA in three sets, 7-5, 3-6, 6-1. All three of Capra’s previous matches with Anderson went three sets. “We have always had battles. We were both the number one and number See W. TENNIS, page 8
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Sophomore Beatrice Capra headlined Duke’s showing at the Riviera Championships, reaching the quarterfinal round.
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CROSS COUNTRY
Bottorff wins, Duke places 10th at Notre Dame by Ali Wells THE CHRONICLE
Graduate student Juliet Bottorff was unfazed by jet lag, humidity or a crowded field when she claimed the title at the Notre Dame Invitational Friday, but her teammates failed to overcome these challenges. Bottorff dominated the field in South Bend, Ind., but the less-experienced Blue Devils fell further back in the pack, giving Duke a 10th-place finish overall. Crossing the finish line in a time of 16:43.8, Bottorff was nearly ten seconds ahead of the race’s second-place finisher, junior Colleen Quigley of Florida State, who won the race last year. Bottorff and Quigley were the only runners to finish the 5,000-meter race in less than 17 minutes. “She looked honestly as good as I’ve seen her race in a long time,” said head coach Kevin Jermyn of his top scoring runner. “She looked really smooth. She ran nice and patient in the early going. I think it was the best race I’ve seen out of her so far.” Even though this 5K time was slower than Bottorff’s 16:28.9 at the Adidas Challenge, Jermyn attributed the pace to humid and muddy conditions, which he said showed in all the Blue Devils’ times. Unfavorable weather didn’t stop the Seminoles from showing why they are
the second-ranked team in the nation according to the most recent U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll. Finishing all five scoring runners in the top 30, Florida State accumulated only 77 points. New Mexico, ranked 15th, gave the Seminoles close competition, scoring 82 points. San Francisco, BYU and Princeton rounded out the top five, all scoring less than 200 points.
“[Bottorff ] looked really smoth. I think it was the best race I’ve seen out of her so far.” KEVIN JERMYN HEAD COACH, DUKE WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Duke scored a total of 314 points. Competing without freshmen Wesley Frazier and Hannah Meier, who missed the race due to illness, the Blue Devils’ score was not quite where the fourthranked team would have hoped. Duke’s second and third scoring runners in this race—sophomore Anima Banks and junior Julianna Miller—finished 25th and 59th, respectively. “Anima is right where or a little ahead of where we hoped she would be, being that in the first race she was our fourth
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Graduate student Juliet Bottorff ran away with a victory at the Notre Dame Invitational, but a shorthanded Duke squad placed 10th. or fifth scorer,” Jermyn said. “Julianna had a great race. She’s continuing to get better as the season progresses.” Jermyn stressed the importance of his younger, less-experienced runners using this race as a building block for future meets. “If they can gain experience and be more ready for that environment, and be able to push themselves, it can certainly
be valuable,” Jermyn said. “Ultimately, we’re going to see what they do with it going into our next week of practice and see improvement in how they handle running in large, competitive packs.” The Blue Devils will return to action at the Royal Challenge Friday in Charlotte, N.C., where they will hope to run a full lineup of healthy athletes.
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Blue Devils debut large freshman class by Madeline Carrington THE CHRONICLE
Duke’s largest freshman class in recent memory got their feet wet Saturday in the team’s season opener. The Blue Devils got an early start to the 2013-14 campaign when they competed in the second annual All-North Carolina Invitational at UNC-Greensboro against 13 North Carolina teams, including N.C. State, East Carolina and
Davidson. Duke captured one relay title as well as five individual first-place finishes at the meet. The informal meet was an opportunity to scout some of Duke’s regional opponents, senior Christine Wixted said. “It’s a fun meet to dip our toes in competition-wise,” she said. “N.C. State is definitely one of our big rivals, so it was nice to get a preview of them.” The women’s team of sophomore
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Senior Lauren Weaver led Duke to a comeback victory in the 200-meter medley relay at the All-North Carolina Invitational in Greensboro.
Chelsea Ye, Wixted, freshman Maddie Rusch and senior Lauren Weaver took home first place in the 200-meter medley relay, beating out the Wolfpack. On the relay’s final leg, Weaver overcame a deficit and pulled ahead to secure the win for the Blue Devils. “It felt really good anchoring [the team],” Weaver said. “I watched [my opponent] dive in and then was able to get in the touch ahead of her.” The meet was a first taste of collegiate competition for the team’s 24 freshmen, which Weaver called the program’s “best recruiting class ever.” Rusch took first place in both the 100-meter freestyle— where she secured an invitational-record time of 51.40—and 100-meter butterfly, and freshman Dylan Payne placed third for the men in 100-meter butterfly. With a college race under his belt, Payne said his class is excited about the program’s current trajectory. “Bringing in 24 swimmers and divers is a way to hit the reset button on the team,” he said. “We can really take the team in any direction we want. [Head coach] Dan Collela is doing a great job in setting a new tone. He’s setting the bar high for what we would like to achieve. We’re recruiting a new level of swimmer, and I think it’s exciting where Duke swimming could end up if we all put our minds to it.” The freshmen have already added extra enthusiasm to the team, Wixted said. “The energy’s just up exponentially,”
she said. “Just having that many more bodies on the sidelines and cheering for the team makes a huge difference.” Duke’s team of Payne, senior Hunter Knight and freshmen James Peek and Joey Maginnis came in third in the men’s 200-meter medley relay. “After training with all these people, I knew we were talented,” Payne said. “I would like to do better obviously—everyone wants to get first, but I think third is good in that now we’re hungry for it. We lost to N.C. State, and now we’ve got to beat them. Going after them is going to fuel our training sessions.” With only a few weeks of practice under its belt, Duke had tempered its expectations heading into the weekend’s comeptition. In addition, the team is at the most intense point of its weight training cycle, leaving some swimmers in less-than-ideal physical condition for competition. “We’ve only been in the pool for a month, so it’s important to keep it in perspective,” Weaver said. “We realize that we probably didn’t swim our very best.” As the Blue Devils’ young roster continues to mature, the team hopes to build on this weekend’s performance and grow its reputation in the conference. “It sends the message that we’re ready to escalate the ACC ladder,” Wixted said. “We’re an underdog, but I think we’re going to surprise a lot of people this year.”
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two recruits coming in for our year and I knew it was going to be a really tough match going forward,” Capra said. “I was really happy with the way I played. [It] gave me confidence in going forward that she was the number one player in the nation, and I was right there with her.” Mar was defeated by ninth-ranked Julia Elbaba of Virginia in the quarterfinal of the consolation draw, 6-3, 7-6. She lost her Round of 32 match in the tournament’s main draw to Baylor’s Emma Burgic in three sets, but won the next contest in the consolation bracket against Lorraine Guillermo of Pepperdine. “It was a difficult tournament. I went out there expecting I was going to be playing some really tough opponents which I was, as it is the nature of the tournament,” Mar said. “I was happy with how I played. Even though I lost [the first match] I felt pretty positive about it because I felt like I was doing things well, and I can say that I lost that match because she beat me.” Goldfeld and Mulholland won their first-round match 8-7, winning 8-6 in a tiebreaker. They dropped their second match to Texas Tech’s Kenna Kilgo and Samantha Adams 8-6.
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Despite playing just eight matches as a doubles pairing last season, Goldfeld and Mulholland’s play continues to impress head coach Jamie Ashworth. “They compliment each other really well. Ester returns really well, and Annie can finish at net,” Ashworth said. “They did get a little bit nervous because they were out of their comfort zone a little bit, as far as in getting to the quarterfinals and the semis or even further. That’s something that they just have to learn from and get better from if they stay together.” After back-to-back tournaments in California, the Blue Devils hope to learn from their successes and shortcomings as the team prepares for ITA Regionals Oct. 17 in Chapel Hill. “I thought it was a really good tournament,” Capra said. “This was our first big tournament of the season. It is considered one of the greatest ones in college tennis. So I thought the whole team did a really good job of competing in all their matches.”
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season games are conference matches for Duke, including tilts with No. 3 Notre Dame and No. 6 North Carolina. The Blue Devils are now winless in their last six contests and have not notched a victory since Sept. 12 when the team topped Miami 3-0. Duke’s road does not get any easier, as the team prepares to hit the road next weekend for a trip to College Park to take on Maryland. “The door is closing. Obviously we’re definitely not out of it,” Church said. “The bottom line is we’re not winning games, so we have to—the door is closing quickly, and we have to win.”
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“We play Wake a lot, and they have a lot of fight. They just came off of a five-set comeback, so we really wanted to get this done right away,” Obeime said. “We were running a lot of options offensively and changing things up every set, so I knew I could get some open looks and swing for them and put them down.” Another highlight from set two involved the ball ricocheting off a Duke player up and into the basketball hoop hanging above the court. The ball came down through the net and Duke was able to continue the rally before Wake Forest recorded a kill. The Blue Devils pounced all over Wake Forest at the start of the third set, jumping out to an early 7-1 edge before Wake Forest called timeout. Sklar and Cook added two kills apiece and Campbell recorded another block. True to form, Wake Forest climbed back into the contest. Nursing a 17-14 lead, the Blue Devils called timeout, and when play resumed, Obeime came up large again. The Carmel, Ind., product recorded three consecutive kills to give Duke some breathing room, and then tallied two more kills down the stretch. Sklar finished the match just how she started it, putting down a kill to give the Blue Devils a 25-19 victory. “[ACC wins] are all so valuable,” Nagel said. “Wake Forest always fights hard, and I’m happy that our team was able to hang tough and not let too many points get away from us as they were doing that, because they are a good defensive team and they are a scrappy team. I was pleased to see our team able to stop some of those runs.” Although senior Kylie Hargreaves and sophomore Matalee Reed led the Demon Deacons’ offense by tallying eight kills and seven kills, respectively, they were unable to bounce back. Last year, Duke started ACC play 0-4 and finished the season with just six conference wins. The Blue Devils will travel to North Carolina and N.C. State next weekend looking to match that total. North Carolina and Duke will meet Friday evening on a collision course. The Tar Heels have yet to drop a set this year in conference play, and Duke will put its nine-game winning streak on the line. “The two of us are one of the few teams undefeated in the ACC, and Duke and Carolina is obviously a big thing for everybody, so we’re really excited,” Obeime said. “We’ll be ready on Friday.”
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of staying a little more patient and finishing the attack.” Duke would add to its lead shortly after halftime when Le Marchand was credited with a goal that appeared to bounce into the cage off the leg of a Demon Deacon defender. Le Marchand would finish the game with five shots on goal and two assists in addition to her tally. “Emmie’s play just keeps getting better and better,” Bustin said. “I could not be more proud of her energy and presence out there. She is a team player right now and that is making her better individually.” The Blue Devil defense also put forth an impressive performance, especially in the first half, as Wake Forest was not able to record any
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That gave them the motivation today with a conference game in front of us and we had to show up and take care of it.” Both teams got off to a slow start offensively, with neither team able to put the ball in the cage until sophomore midfielder Aileen Johnson sailed the ball over Wake Forest (8-4, 0-3) goalkeeper Valerie Dahman’s head in the 28th minute off of a pass from senior forward Emmie Le Marchand. “We had some great looks, we hit some crossbars and their goalkeeper made some great saves,” Bustin said. “It was just a matter
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shots on goal. Although absent from the stat sheet, senior defenders Brenna Rescigno and Paula Heimbach’s play was crucial to preventing Wake Forest from getting shots on goal. “I was really proud of our defense and [redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Blazing] made some great saves,” Rescigno said. “Paula and Amanda [Kim], our two center backs, and Hannah [Barreca] and myself, we just did a great job at outletting around the backfield and getting it up the sidelines, which was basically why we generated so much attack today and were so successful with shots.” The Demon Deacons would have more success against the Duke defense in the second half, managing four shots, including a goal by Wake Forest senior Molly Murphy, who put the ball in from eight yards out to cut Duke’s lead to one. After winning ACC Player of the Week for her performance against North Carolina and Longwood last weekend, Blazing recorded three saves in the second half. “Wake changed their personnel in those areas in the second half and they were able to put a little bit more pressure on us and got a couple of corners,” Bustin said. “They kept on task and didn’t overreact to anything. Lauren Blazing made some great saves to take some of the pressure off.” Less than three minutes after surrendering a goal, the Blue Devils sealed the victory when sophomore Barreca took the pass from Le Marchand and scored her second goal of the season. This put the Blue Devils in firm control during the final minutes of the game. “I wasn’t trying too hard to think about scoring, with the 2-1 lead we had them and we were playing solid,” Barreca said.”But it was nice to finish it and top off the score.”
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performer for the Blue Devils throughout the tournament, making it to the final round of the qualifying singles draw along with the strong performance in doubles. “Bruno’s playing with more confidence than I’ve ever seen,” Smith said. “He’s really finding his rhythm, and he’s really showed us this week that he can play with some of the top players in the country, in both singles and doubles.” Although Saba, Redlicki and Hemmeler all had good spells of tennis, only Saba was able to make it past the first round of the main draw. Injuries also played a key role in Duke’s struggles during the week, as several players battled ailments. Junior Jason Tahir was not able to participate in the tournament due to a nagging elbow injury, which caused Duke to have only one doubles team in the main draw instead of the two that originally qualified. Saba struggled through his second match, and Redlicki had to withdraw after going up a set in the consolation round both due to illness. Hemmeler also battled a wrist injury. “We definitely struggled with some injury and health problems,” Smith said. “Some unfortunate things happened, but there were still some positives.” Although the results were mixed, the tournament will serve as a learning experience for the Blue Devils as they move forward with the rest of their fall schedule and prepare for the spring. “It’s certainly a great learning experience, even the matches we lost. I think guys can take away where they need to get better,” said Smith. “It definitely showed that we have a lot to do to get to where we want to be.”
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Bending towards justice In the Fall of 1963, the first five black undergraduates enrolled at Duke. This year, Duke has been commemorating the 50th anniversary of desegregation with a series of performances, lectures and celebrations. Last Friday, North Carolina state senator Daniel Blue, Law ‘73 and Duke’s first African American trustee, used his Founder’s Day speech to remind us of Duke’s past progress and future challenges. “The moral arc of the universe does indeed bend toward justice, but it doesn’t always bend on its own,” Blue said at Founder’s Day convocation Friday, referencing a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. Indeed, higher education has taken enormous strides in equity and diversity. For example, there are 3.5 times as many black students enrolled in college as were enrolled 50 years ago, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Yet persistent gaps remain. African Americans overwhelmingly enroll in for-profit and two-year colleges, and the degrees earned at these schools lead to higher debt and lower earnings than students who receive bachelor degrees from four-year colleges. Even at Duke, a prestigious research university, the work is still incomplete. Problems with our social culture— such as incidents of students dressing in blackface—
continue to create tension. Although there has been a growing percentage of black faculty members since 1999, there is room for growth. For example, at both the Nicholas School of the Environment and Fuqua School of Business, black faculty members constitute less than one percent of the faculty.
Editorial Admittedly, these are not just Duke-specific problems. Racial disparities at Duke reflect racial inequalities in American society. The racial composition of Duke’s administrators differs starkly from that of Duke’s service staff, for example, hinting at the power of complex histories, socioeconomic trends and politics that play out in the rest of the country. Duke should continue to engage with these issues. We commend organizations like the Center for Multicultural Affairs and Common Ground that attempt to create understanding and cooperation among ethnic and cultural groups that do not often interact. After all, how are we to reap the benefits of a diverse student body if that diversity is not nurtured, explored and re-conceptualized?
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To address broader social trends, Duke should marshal its academic resources to discuss race in new intellectual spaces. Bass Connections provides a promising opportunity for this kind of scholarship. We can imagine innovative conversations about race led by historians, economists, sociologists and researchers in other fields. Our hope is that these conversations are more productive and less hostile than similar conversations that take place after eruptions of racial tension. Although academic research has not always produced neutral analyses of race issues—indeed, Duke contributed money to eugenics studies—we believe that these questions, when placed in careful and responsible hands, will produce new insights and valuable knowledge. Duke has come a long way since its early days of desegregation. Marches, sit-ins, protests and even an occupation of the Allen Building have made the University more diverse, inclusive and fair. As Sen. Blue reminds us, however, we have a long way to go. “The moral arc of the universe does indeed bend toward justice—but it doesn’t always bend on its own. That’s our job as members of the Duke family,” Blue said. We urge Duke to do the bending that will make us an even stronger university 50 years from now.
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adies and Bros, this is the end. In a momentous decision, Congress has resorted to fixing our failing government by turning it off and back on again. Funding to national parks has been ceased, and Smokey the Bear, himself, has been seen scrounging for change in Washington, D.C. phone booths. Thousands of invaluable government workers have been furloughed, causing general anarchy. With all of the government’s most fundamental aspects relinquished, all hell has broken loose. Fear not for our politicians, however. Good old Uncle Sam made sure that each and every member of Congress, the ones who could not agree on a budget in the first place, got their due pay. I mean, it’s not like cutting their budgets in the same way they did 700,000 government workers would prompt them to find a solution more quickly. We can all thank George W. Bush for this situation due to his controversial “No Child, No Adult Acting Like a Child, Left Behind” initiative. Unlike in the real world, where the government cannot do its job properly, we shut down everything until they can learn to do it better. In the aftermath of one of the greatest American crises since Y2K and the Asia Prime scandal, Duke’s campus has fallen from grace and regressed into a post-apocalyptic wasteland that would make Katniss Everdeen cringe. While politicians disagree in the nation’s largest fiscal pissing contest, society as we know it has crumbled, reducing structure to chaos and ushering in a new era of anarchy. The fall of government has induced rampant illegal activity at Duke. Students, now emboldened and with little or no regard for the law, have turned to campus-wide underage drinking and drug use. While, before, campus was a utopian community geared towards pure academic prowess, it now has alcoholic ragers Tuesday through Saturday. Other drugs like mary-ja-wana, an extremely dangerous Schedule 1 drug, run rampant across East, West and Central Campuses. With the police force currently at capacity fending off hordes of rowdy Durhamites, students continue to rage face in our dystopian home away from home. Students have resorted to forming and living in gender-specific, tribe-like communities. Labeling themselves with an archaic Greek language, these tribes compete across campus to gain access to fertile mates. The men and women have found it beneficial to separate themselves into a social hierarchy, with the fastest, strongest and best individuals at the top. In this way, the best specimens only breed with members of comparative social rank, thus keeping the gene pool in line and the gays out of the good
New Jersey families. The best genes stay at the top amidst the alphas, while the pitiful tribes consisting of lesser Betas commune only with other lower tribes of the opposite sex. In some
Monday Monday MEAN BOY rare cases, lower specimens with vast wealth and resources have been known to rise to top rank simply because of their money. As with any post-apocalyptic world, there are terrorist organizations looking to attack what little stability remains. Thus far, multiple politicallyoriented guerilla attacks have occurred around campus. The alleged organization DukeOpen has made it very clear that they are unhappy with the current Duke regime. Flying behind the flagship of budget transparency, they wrapped both the statues of James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke in black plastic and large signs saying DukeOpen, probably inscribed in blood. In a boast very similar to ripping down statues of Saddam Hussein after his fall from power, DukeOpen tried to create a rig to pull down the statues, realized they didn’t have any engineers or science majors among them and went home in defeat. After publicly displaying President Brodhead’s phone number on the plaza and urging enraged students to beleaguer him, it is clear that this organization will settle for no less than revolution. For personal survival through this pandemic, I recommend proper use of the buddy system, drinking your own urine to stay hydrated and staying absolutely still when encountering a gaggle of bros. Their vision is based solely off movement, and they will quickly disregard those unfit for mating, even if you do have “such a great personality.” As all form of government and administration around us crumbles, Duke culture has certainly adapted well to the end of the world. For now, all we can do is survive and hope that we remain safe from DukeOpen’s next attack, pondering the big questions such as “Why are they doing this?” “Will budget transparency actually do anything?” and “Once they finally achieve budget transparency, will they just continue attacking something else because they’re bored?” If we band together and don’t end up eating each other, we just may be able to survive the time Congress stood still. Mean Boy has adapted to anarchy by operating as a one-man wolf pack and online binge-shopping, so that when he goes out, he goes out in style.
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The “F” word
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Is it true that a lot of gays are in frats?” Not sure when I had become the ambassador for homo bros, I chuckled a bit as I received the message on Grindr, a gay social messaging (read: hook-up) app. Having just returned to Chapel Hill to see my old chapter for Alumni Weekend—which happened to coincide with North Carolina Pride—I knew I wanted to write this week about being gay and greek. Now my muse had come in electronic form, simultaneously naïve and inflammatory, an entrée into a prickly house of pride and prejudices. The short answer: It’s a secret. The first time I had tried to integrate into a group of guys my age, it didn’t go so well. Rocks in my sleeping bag and a crudely drawn sketch of a naked woman declaring “I love heteros” greeted me one summer afternoon when I returned to my tent at Boy Scout camp. Despite pledging to follow the Scout Law (to be trustworthy, friendly and kind, among other things), no one admitted to that act of pre-teen cowardice. And given the Boy Scouts of America’s old-fashioned attitudes towards gays—not that I realized I was one then—I found no solace from the adult leaders. Subsequently, I dropped out of the retrogressive private organization, despite being just a year away from the Eagle Scout rank. The whole incident built character, I suppose, and, in retrospect, older, stronger and more confident, I decided I would never let anyone dictate how I feel about myself or where I go. Some years later, while trying to decide where to enroll for college, I happened across the webpage for one particular fraternity and, reading about its values, knew that it was the house I wanted to join. Unfortunately, it didn’t exist at UNC at the time. Casually rushing some of the greek organizations during my first semester, the other houses didn’t feel quite right. Fraternities aren’t necessarily thought to be very gay-friendly, and those not matching the archetypal “bro culture” of sports, chasing girls, beer, pot and prep-school couture (croakies, Oakleys, Rainbow sandals, popped collars and fluorescent short-shorts) may not feel like they “fit in” besides. Nonetheless, my heart was stubbornly set on it, and, given the unique and serendipitous opportunity to help re-found my fraternity’s chapter that Spring, I jumped at the chance. The night before inducting our first pledges, the Alpha class, I decided I needed to come out. I didn’t want to put on airs or mislead my brothers. I needed to know they would still support me. (I did lose friends from this, but I’m happy to report none of them were from my fraternity.) Perhaps I was the one who made the biggest deal about it, actually. In fact, at the end of my undergraduate tenure, when an openly-gay guy pledged my chapter, I took an instant disliking towards him. I worried that, being more “obvious” in his appearance, his out-outwardness would reflect badly on our house—that we would be viewed as less manly and that gay brothers such as me would be emblazoned with a new stereotype. Eventually, I realized this was a manifestation of my own self-loathing and part of my coming out process. Over the years, I’ve come to know at least seven other gay greeks. After coming out, these guys seemed either to become key members of their fraternities or to quietly fade into the background. At best, having a house full of brothers made
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coming out easier, as it was a “built-in” support network. At worst, it rendered the brother an effective castrate: “Once you tell your brothers that you like dudes as opposed to girls, they have no choice but to act fine with it,” one newly out fraternity member told me recently. “That being said, they will never acknowledge it again. They won’t ask you if you think a girl is hot anymore, they won’t ask you if you hooked up with anyone recently, and every time someone substitutes the
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I’m so disappointed. You should have been there. You should have been there when your father died. But you left.” These are the words of someone I have come to know and loathe. This phrase seethed out from her tired lips to my disbelieving heart. These are the words that have me, in my senior year of college, knowing exactly what I never want to be. These are the words of someone I am told I am supposed to love but cannot. These are the words of my grandmother, who will never be my family. This was not the first time such a cruel assertion had been made, oh no. Second or third, I understand.
Benjamin Silverberg
Gracie Willert
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word gay for stupid, all eyes will be on you.” It’s a step up from outward discrimination, but I would also wager it will be a very long time coming before you see a Pride flag waving from the window of a fraternity house. Greeks and non-greeks, gays and non-gays, we all have our own stereotypes about one another and elevated views of ourselves. Greeks think their detractors are just jealous. Non-greeks who disparage the exclusivity of fraternities and sororities by calling their members “fraggits” or “sorostitutes” are just betraying their own superiority complex by calling others something they deem to be lesser sexually. In talking with others about this article, one gay non-greek complained to me that gay greeks are “vicious,” driven by sex on the DL (“down low”), and, in counterpoint, a gay greek said the gay community “is filled with a group of gossip-spreading… selfinvolved pricks.” Regardless of all this partisanship and divisiveness, I was still filled with enormous pride to return to my alma mater last weekend to see how my chapter had grown since I was an undergrad. I also felt like a bit of a legend: I was one of the fraternity’s re-founding fathers. During pledging, everyone had to learn my name. Guys came up to me that night and said it was an honor to meet me. In truth, it was I who was honored to meet them, my progeny of sorts, and to be invited to participate in the dedication of their new house. So when one brother referred, in passing, to something bad as “gay,” I corrected him, gently and without fear. He was embarrassed and apologized profusely and we moved on. I was the gay relative, the one you hardly knew, but who, like Macklemore’s gay uncle, might provide the impetus for a socially progressive world view. But the next morning, when a recent alumnus referred to someone as a “fag,” both of us remained strangely silent. Clearly we both still have a lot of work to do, with ourselves and with our friends. Tomorrow is National Coming Out Day, and we have the chance to do just that. I encourage my fellow LGBTQI greeks to stand proud, to take the mystery out of our subculture and hope others will support us, too. Our straight friends can still “come out” as allies. No, I’m not a “faggot.” I’m a gay fraternity brother. And we’re all family. Benjamin Silverberg is a second-year graduate student and practicing physician. His column runs every other Monday. Send Ben a message on Twitter @ hobogeneous.
Just the thought, the gut-twisting thought that a daughter would leave her father knowing he would die days later was enough. It was enough, and yet she had chosen to say it. To put it out there for all the world to hear. To put it out there while she slouched in that hospital bed, as I watched its weight strike the daughter to whom it was directed. To put it out there after I had given her a reluctant second chance. Enough. My mother is kind to a fault, a giver of second, third, fourth and fifth chances. She is a peacemaker and a healer. But she, this she with whom I cannot make amends, had chosen to be the middle man, pitting her daughters against each other, spinning her web of guilt, sulking in her narcissism. That was her way. And still is, from what I understand. After round one of these utterances, I wrote a note explaining my absence from dinner. I wrote of my disgust with her handling of family issues. I wrote in protest of her conniving forced encounters between estranged sisters. I wrote demanding long overdue apology. No apology was made, but a lunch invitation was extended. I obliged. Perhaps I had more of my mother in me than I knew that day. 10 minutes in: “Your father, Gracie, is not a good man. Stop crying. Look, the waitress is embarrassed for me.” With that, I had had enough once more. With a flick of my wrist, I tossed a $20 bill on the table, my face swollen with anger, tears rushing past my clenched fists. These are the words of someone I never intend to hug again and yet will probably have to see twice a year until the day she dies. These are the words of someone who makes a habit of tearing down the kindest, most well meaning people I know. My father is the best man I know, in fact. He is kind and gentle and hilarious. I can’t remember a time he missed one of my volleyball, basketball or lacrosse games. I can’t remember a time he ever doubted I would hit the moon if I shot. He is an amazing doctor and a best friend. He is not a good man, but a great one. I write all this in my poison of pen that only private letters and past lovers have seen. And I will admit that I hesitated at first to make such a sentiment so public. I hesitated, and then I remembered something. I may not be the kindest person. In fact, I know I’m not. I make mistakes. Friendships of mine have ended on my account. I have treated people poorly. I have been jealous, and I have been wrong. I may not be so kind as to accept ongoing emotional brutality to keep peace. I may not be so kind as to forgive people even when they are not sorry. I am not always kind, but I hope to be. But I am the kind to stare evil in the face and reject it. So there we were. “I’m so disappointed. You should have been there. You should have been there when your father died. But you left.” “Enough. Let’s go.” I started for the door and remembered I had forgotten something. I slid my hand over the railing grasping its cold metal edge slightly, peering down into her incredulous beads of coal and murmured so only she might hear, “You are evil.” Enough. Gracie Willert is a Trinity senior. Her biweekly column will run every other Monday.
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BOT from page 1 advisor to the president and DUMAC—the investment group controlled by the University that professionally manages Duke’s endowment. The ACIR will also begin meeting regularly, rather than meeting on an ad hoc basis, though the frequency of its meetings has not been determined. University donors who contribute to the endowment will now be able to make a contribution to the social choice fund— an account within the University’s endowment that supports socially responsible companies by investing in funds that follow socially responsible criteria. David Rubenstein, Trinity ’70 and chair of the Board, said that though donors may make contributions to the social choice fund, it is still not a popular choice among investors. Rubenstein is the co-founder and co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. “It’s a very, very small portion—it has grown modestly, but it is still an infinitesimally small part of the investment community,” he said. Bobo Bose-Kolanu, a second-year doctoral student in literature, said he still considers endowment transparency a high priority even though it was not discussed at the meeting. Brodhead emphasized that Duke has a fiduciary responsibility to maximize the financial return on resources and that making endowment disclosures public could put that responsibility in jeopardy. “The point you always have to start with is that people give money to [Duke’s] endowment to support the University, and we have an ethical value to keep our word to the donors,” he said. “There might be moments where we must override our obliga-
tion to make the maximum return, but we have a system in place for that.” Rubenstein analogized the situation to students’ personal transcripts, noting that not everyone should have access to them, but relevant individuals do. Duke formally adopted guidelines on socially responsible investing in 2004, which has allowed administrators to respond to student concerns. In 2008, Duke ceased investing in companies involved in business with the Darfur region of Sudan, and in 2012, the University adopted voting guidelines for investment in companies that could be connected to conflict minerals. The trustees were also informed that DUMAC has achieved a 13.5 percent return on Duke’s long-term pool, which is the primary investment vehicle for the university’s endowment assets, for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2013. The market value of the University’s endowment was $6.0 billion as of June 30. In other business: The Board of Trustees also discussed the Duke University Health System in light of federal budget cuts and the Affordable Care Act going into full effect Oct. 1. “We are living in a time where pressures of change has made it prudent to think about [DUHS’] future,” Brodhead said. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said a significant portion of the Board’s discussion on Friday centered on the future of health care because it is a “big part” of what Duke does financially. He added that it is too soon to tell how DUHS will be affected by the penalties and the lower hospital reimbursements, but that there have been cost reduction strategies implemented over the past several years to prepare for any change.
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The Board also discussed the progress of Duke Forward, the capital campaign to raise $3.25 billion over seven years. Rubenstein noted that Duke Forward is in “good shape,” having made more than 50 percent of its goal. He added that one purpose of a capital campaign is to get more people to donate annually, and that there has been an increase in the amount of donors since Duke Forward was launched. Presentations were also made by Tracy Futhey, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, and Richard Hays, dean of the divinity school. Schoenfeld said that Futhey discussed the large volume of attacks on the Duke network and the importance of protecting Duke from them, especially with Duke medical information. Futhey could not be reached in time for publication. Schoenfeld noted that the Divinity School is doing well considering it did not charge tuition until 40-50 years ago and that the endowment for the Divinity School is smaller than the ones from other universities with divinity schools. Hays could not be reached in time for publication.
ENDOWMENT from page 1 of Trustees Chair David Rubenstein, Trinity ‘70, who is co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. Duke’s endowment slightly outperformed several other peer universities, with Harvard University and Dartmouth College registering an 11.3 percent and 12.1 percent return, respectively. Endowments and foundations posted a median 11.28 percent return on investments for fiscal year 2013, according to Wilshire Associates.
Major market indices generally yielded a higher return in the most recent fiscal year. The S&P 500, which tracks U.S. equities, saw an 18.5 percent gain for the period ending June 30. The MSCI All Country World Index, a global equity measure, rose 16.6 percent. On an longer-range annualized basis, Duke’s endowment has beaten a traditional 70 percent stock/30 percent bond portfolio, generating a 10.6 percent return on a 10-year annualized basis for fiscal year 2013. Universities, under the “endowment model,” have become known for investing more heavily in alternative, more illiquid assets, including private equity, real estate and hedge funds, to generate above-market returns. The value of Duke’s holdings in alternative assets represented nearly half the value of its total investments in fiscal year 2013.
ANNIVERSARY from page 7 faculty members doubled. In 1993, there were 44 black faculty members. Today there are 135, though they still represent a small portion of the over 3,000 total faculty, said Maurice Wallace, associate professor of English and African and African American studies. Junior Sarah Scriven, a recipient of the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship, introduced a multimedia presentation about the creation of the Mary Lou. In the presentation, Chandra Guinn, director of the Mary Lou, spoke to both the strengths of the center as well as the obstacles it still faces. “One of the most frightening comments I have heard from a student…was if we would take black out of the name, maybe more black students would be interested,” Guinn said in the presentation.
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