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Nature photographer James Balog has been announced as the 2014 winner of Duke’s LEAF Award for Lifetime Environmental Achievement in Fine Arts. The award will be conferred Saturday afternoon in the Bryan Center’s Griffith Film Theatre. The LEAF has been presented by the Nicholas School of the Environment every year since 2009. Balog’s best known photographs focus on glaciers melting as a result of global climate change. His work has been featured in National Geographic and in the film “Chasing Ice,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. In 2007, Balog began the Extreme Ice Survey—the largest ground-based photographic glacier study ever done—and he has authored eight books, including “ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers.” He is also the first photographer to be commissioned by the United States Postal Service to create a full set of stamps. He is a founding fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers and has received a number of awards, including the North American Nature Photography Association’s Outstanding Photographer of the Year and PhotoMedia’s Person of the Year. Among past winners are actor Robert Redford, musician Jackson Browne, film director John Sayles and writers Barbara Kingsolver and Alexander McCall Smith. Tickets to the event are free. The
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences will introduce new and redesigned classes in 2015 in which Duke professors team-teach with research partners at other universities. Proposals for the development of collaborative courses that enable faculty to teamteach with their colleagues at other U.S. or international universities are currently under review at the Office of the Dean in Trinity. Three selected proposals are likely to be approved by the end of April, and the collaborative courses will be offered in Spring or Fall 2015. “We are aiming to help faculty do what they love most, and that is to teach their research,” Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton wrote in an email Sunday. The three course projects are expected to come from the three divisions—humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The courses will include both face-to-face teaching and online learning modes such as web conferencing, online tutorials, synchronous and asynchronous discussions and other webassisted learning tools. The selected courses will be offered concurrently to students at Duke and the university where the partner professor teaches. The goal in creating these new courses is to use online technology to facilitate communication between universities. “Duke is fortunate to have brilliant people in the Center for Instructional Technology with considerable technological and pedagogical expertise, who have already
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N.C. fraternity chapters fundraise for domestic violence awareness By Jenna Zhang THE CHRONICLE
The Duke chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity has joined the state-wide Fraternities4Family campaign to increase domestic violence awareness. During the month of April, five North Carolina fraternity chapters will each be fundraising for a domestic violence agency. Duke’s Phi Delt will be raising money for Families Living Violence Free, a domestic violence and rape crisis center in Granville County. The goal is to broaden awareness on Duke’s campus as well as the local community, said junior Edgar Baldridge, president of Phi Delt. “It’s fine and dandy that you get [Prevent. Act. Challenge. Teach.] training,” Baldridge said. “It teaches you a lot of good stuff, but if you don’t take what you learn and put it in
the community—it’s kind of for nothing. We saw it as a way to continue that education, to put it into practical use.” The chapter will be fundraising on the Bryan Center Plaza between April 14 and April 20, accepting both cash and FLEX donations, said Phi Delt member Sam Coons, a freshman. Additionally, members of the fraternity will be speaking to students in the Granville County School District about sexual and child abuse awareness and response. Both Baldridge and Adam Burke, president of the participating Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at North Carolina State University, noted that fundraising efforts have been somewhat dispersed due to time constraints. “Our chapter’s been very busy at the end of the year, so it’s not like we’ve been able to approach this with a great plan,” Burke said. “We’re just doing what we can to help. Next
year, we’ll have a better idea of what we want to do.” The Duke Phi Delt chapter was contacted by the Fraternities4Family campaign in late March and did not have the time to coordinate with other non-Greek groups on campus, Baldrige added. Phi Delt will be competing with other fraternities to raise the most money. The winning fraternity will receive game tickets or signed merchandise from the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team. Although Fraternities4Family has not set a fundraising target, campaign coordinator Marjorie Marr noted that it would be “phenomenal” if the participating groups fundraised $2,000 in total. The idea for Fraternities4Family came from years of experience working with victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the local community, said divorce attorney
Charles Ullman, who spearheaded the campaign. “Over the years, there have been a lot of things I’ve learned and witnessed,” Ullman said. “Women come in and say ‘But it didn’t send me to the emergency room.’ To get it out that that is domestic violence and to do it with fraternities—that’s not something that’s done often.” Ullman noted that it is particularly important for men to begin engaging in dialogues about domestic violence. “I don’t think men talk about domestic violence a lot,” Ullman said. “They are not always aware of what domestic violence is and what to do when it happens. The goal is to get everyone involved and start a conversation.” See FRATERNITIES, page 3
Applied physics institute will bridge Trinity and Pratt innovation by Shangnon Fei THE CHRONICLE
Duke faculty in physics and engineering departments are developing an applied physics institute to turn fundamental physics into viable technological prototypes. Tentatively named Program in Future Technologies, the project is headed by Daniel Gauthier, a physics professor with a secondary appointment as a professor of electrical and computer engineering. The institute is being planned as a graduate degree-conferring program in which graduate students can conduct research in fundamental physics and use these concepts to develop new technologies. The program is a collaborative effort between the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the Pratt School of Engineering, Gauthier said. “It’s taking fundamental ideas that come out of physics and combining them with more applied ideas that come out of Pratt,� Gauthier said. “We’re trying to straddle the boundaries between engineering and physics.� The program will also involve coursework in market analysis so that students can acquire the entrepreneurial skills to turn their innovative prototypes into successful business ventures. Such a program will train engineers to be well-poised for either continuing academic research or transitioning into industry, said Jungsang Kim, an electrical and computer engineering professor also involved in the development of the institute. “Having people that can make fundamentally new discoveries and take those ideas and turn them into prototypes is a very large national need that isn’t very well met.� Kim said. Gauthier said companies tend to value people with a physics background for their broad expertise, whereas a more specialized engineering background often leaves employees vulnerable to market trends relating to the projects they are assigned to. “Having this applied physics background where you’ve got a mix of both engineering and fundamental science will
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hopefully be very appealing to companies.� Gauthier said, noting that the students will have both the specific knowledge required for the projects and the adaptability to make well-rounded contributions to the table. The program can gear physics students up for industrial jobs and show others that there is more to physics than just the academia, said Chris Flower, a sophomore physics major planning to pursue a Ph.D. in physics. Kim said this fully integrated approach to physics from basic research to entrepreneurial assets is what will set Duke’s program apart from more established programs in applied physics. Typical academic research professors tend to have specialized individual undertakings rather than collaborative and integrative systems-level research, Kim said. However, Duke’s physics program is in the unique position in which many of its established faculty have already accomplished major breakthroughs in applied fundamental physics. The faculty that are involved in this new institute have already raised over 80 million dollars in research grants since 2011, Kim said. The accomplishments made by these faculty include high-profile research in metamaterials, acoustic and visual cloaking, gigapixel camera devices and quantum computing and communications devices, Kim added. Because Duke already has the brainpower and history of success necessary to start this program, all that remains to be completed is to amass this energy towards a tangible degree-granting program that can compete with other established institutions, Kim added. Many other universities already have applied physics programs of their own, but Duke does not plan to follow their model, Gauthier said. Other programs tend to focus on the physics of a particular area, whereas Duke’s institute will encourage an integrative approach from the basic physics See PHYSICS, page 3
Allegations of voter fraud emerge in North Carolina
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Evidence shows that more than 35,000 voters in the North Carolina 2012 general election were registered under the same information as voters in another state.
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A report showing potential evidence of voter fraud in North Carolina is fueling new flames in the debate on mandatory voter identification. Last week the North Carolina State Board of Elections presented a report with evidence that more than 35,000 people who voted in the N.C. 2012 general election had the same name and birthdate as voters registered in another state. There were also 765 voters who matched social security numbers in addition to first and last names and birth date with someone who voted in another state. The Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck program conducted the report, which was presented to the Joint Legislative elections Oversight Committee. Some point to these new findings as justification for the controversial law passed last summer requiring voters to register with a photo ID. “This is a revelation for North Carolina,� said Susan Myrick, election policy analyst at the North Carolina Civitas Institute. “This
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to the entire finished system. “Many of us are thinking about how we can eventually become an institute that everyone wants to replicate—as in, how are we going to jump ahead of the curve of the current powerhouses in physics and engineering like Stanford and MIT.” Kim said. “If we want to leapfrog ahead of them, we really can’t play the same game they’re playing.... So yeah, it’s risky, but if it does arrive, then I think we’ll be in the lead.” Because the institute is still in its planning stage, Kim and Gauthier have yet to decide how or when it will extend to include undergraduates. However, a certificate program, a five-year combined Master’s program or a major spanning both Trinity and Pratt have all been discussed. “As far as undergrads go, I think it would also be a great way to introduce more physics to interested people,” Flower said. “The majority of undergrads who get any physics at all stop after basic mechanics and the Electricity and Magnetism course, which are important, but ideally they should have the chance to see physics in a wider range of places.” Gauthier said that he will be working with faculty early this summer to begin the proposal process for the program, and that they may be able to officially launch the new institute in the next two years. Many students as well as much of the central administration in Trinity and Pratt have already expressed positive responses to the effort, Kim said. “It’s not like we’re proposing a wholly new idea, we’re already doing this kind of research extremely well,” he said. “The next step is to capture this energy and establish it into a coherent institute.”
Baldridge added that fraternity men often have the reputation of being disinterested in issues of violence against women. “Particularly being fraternity men, we do recognize that, for better or worse, we can get that kind of reputation of being least willing to help with a program like that,” Baldridge said. “Whether that’s true or not, people think of us like that. It just kind of made sense for us.” Although fundraising yields were unlikely to be significant in the campaign’s first year, there is potential for growth in the future, Ullman said. “I wanted to go with what we had, instead of waiting for it to be perfect,” Ullman said. “If you can just help a couple people, that’s worthwhile. Domestic violence happens everywhere. It goes across income, culture, educational cultures, and gender lines. We just want to make people aware of what it is.”
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LEAF from page 1 award ceremony will be followed by a reception in Environment Hall—the new home of the Nicholas School of the Environment, located behind the Levine Science Research Center. Tours will be given during the reception. Environment Hall will be dedicated in a ceremony Thursday. The $40 million building is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified at the highest level and was built with a number of advanced sustainability features. It includes five classrooms, an auditorium, 45 private offices, 72 open office spaces, a computer lab and an environmental art gallery, as well as conference rooms and common areas, according to a Duke News press release.
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FRAUD from page 2 of State, which is responsible for the Crosscheck program, has not provided evidence that anyone has been legally charged as a result of the matching information. Frye also argued that some people simply share the same name and birthday or could be listed twice as a result of slow registrar processing. “There are all kinds of reasons people might have filled out multiple registrations,” said John Aldrich, Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science. “It’s possible that there’s lots and lots of overlap, so we have reason to be suspicious [of the numbers].” The constant flow of people traveling through North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia for work or between multiple residences could account for some of the instances of double voting, Myrick said, as well as various complexities in registration
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processes and databases. Aldrich explained that people are not individually responsible for removing their names from voting registration lists when they change residences or move across state borders. If the state does not remove them, they may remain incorrectly on a registration list. Also, redistricting could change the county in which people are registered to vote without the residents physically relocating. Requiring voters to show a photo identification would not necessarily prevent people from voting illegally in two different states, Myrick said. However, it would prevent people from taking on others’ identities and voting for them. “Absolutely voter ID will help in [identifying] that kind of fraud and definitely has a role to play,” she said. Last week’s data release by the state board is the first instance in which North Carolina has looked into voting fraud in this capacity.
Myrick noted that a state’s decision to partake in the Crosscheck program is entirely voluntary. Twenty-eight states’ voting records have been reviewed so far, but notable omissions are the those of the four most populous in the country—California, New York, Texas and Florida. Until the new data is further investigated and attempts are made to prosecute people who have voted illegally, it will not be clear what is and what is not definite fraud out of these numbers, Aldrich said. “This is just the beginning of the research,” Myrick said. “The next step for the state board is to step in and say, what other data can you give me on this?” Further investigation will take a long time in order to come to more conclusive evidence of fraud, but the numbers given so far are grounds for suspicion, Myrick said. Aldrich also said he would be surprised if more than 3,000 of the 35,570 potential cases were actually fraudulent in some way, and voter ID requirements would do little to curb the fraud already happening. Individual lawbreakers are few and far between, and people who intend to act illegally will just work around any further restrictions that are put into place, he said. Additionally, Aldrich argued that individual instances of voter fraud are rare and are usually organized on a much larger scale, such as when coordinated by political parties or super PACs. “It is parties who organize fraud,” he said. “That’s always been the case.”
working with faculty teaching the collaborative courses to address possible challenges, which might range from scheduling to facilitiating meaningful interaction or projects across campuses. “There are certainly difficulties associated with teleconferencing technologies, such as the speed and reliability of the connections,” Walther said. “But the good news is that they are getting better all the time.” The office has received five course proposals so far and more faculty have expressed interest in designing cross-institutional courses in the future, Walther said. Thomas Robisheaux, Fred W. Schaffer Professor of History, said that although he did not have time to turn in an application this year, he would love to develop a reserach seminar course with colleagues in Hungary, Germany, Norway and Iceland in the future. “Duke faculty are often at their best when they teach their research interests,” Robisheaux said. “Add this to the chance to teach with a partner at another university and you have a recipe for a very exciting experience for students.” Patton noted that there are no collaborative programs of the same scale at peer institutions. “We are a leading university when it comes to undergraduate research,” she said. “Why not take it to the next level?” Robisheaux said that the collaborative teaching initiative will not only allow faculty to teach what they love, but it will also facilitate undergraduate learning and education. “This would be a beautiful way to expand research and learning opportunities for students,” he said. from page 1 Patton added that the program allows students involved in undergraduate research to been helping faculty to offer courses in which better understand partnership and collaborastudents collaborate across campuses,” wrote tion across institutions. Ingeborg Walther, associate dean of curricu“We hope to deepen our culture wherelum and course development for Trinity, in an by teaching research is at the center of our email Tuesday. classroom lives as well as our scholarly lives,” She added that the advisors at CIT will be Patton said.
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Speed kills. Football head coach David Cutcliffe knows this saying rings true as ever in today’s explosive, 80-plays-per-game style of football. And as important as speed on the field is, it’s the speed at which a program is able to improve in the offseason that can separate programs. After some personal reflection time following the loss to Texas A&M in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl, Cutcliffe decided Duke football needed something extra, a new edge. looking to give five of his fastest players a chance to become even faster, Cutcliffe turned to Director of Track and Field norm ogilvie. Cutcliffe made the decision to have the annual Spring Game moved up more than a full month to March 1. Following the completion of spring practice, wide receivers issac Blakeney, Anthony nash and ryan Smith, alongside running back Josh Snead and defensive back DeVon edwards, took on a bit of a sport change—they went from being football players to sprinters. “[Cutcliffe] threw the idea out there and with so many benefits out there, you kind of had to take it,” Blakeney said. “All of us out there are team guys. So when he explained all of the benefits of what would happen, if you
say no, you kind of feel like you’re shortening the program. he’s trying to start something new and trying to get that edge.” The group began training immediately with sprint coach Shawn Wilbourn to work as Duke’s new 4x100 relay team, and although the training took some getting used to, the players have already begun to see the effects. “i’ve only been running for two weeks, and i feel a lot faster and lighter on my feet,” Blakeney said. last Saturday’s 4x100 relay at the VertKlasse Meeting at high Point University was the pinnacle of the group’s hard work. After struggling to consistently stick baton handoffs and nail down their timing in practice, the team of Blakeney, Snead, edwards and Smith showed what it could really do in front of an audience as the Blue Devils finally timed up their steps correctly and won the relay by a convincing four-tenths of a second with a time of 41.32. With the school record set at 41.06, ogilvie is confident that his new athletes will be able to break the record by the time the season concludes and they head back to the gridiron. “i didn’t think they were going to pull off the win, but they’re great athletes, so i think they’re going to get a lot better,” ogilvie said. “The 41.3 is just the beginning. i expect them to break 41 later in the season, which is very respectable on a national level.” But a first-place finish against Maryland-eastern Shore and n.C. Central is not reason enough to celebrate for the squad. With ACC outdoor Championships, Penn
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Running back Josh Snead (left) and wide reciever Issac Blakeney (right) have teamed up with three Duke football teammates to compete with Duke track this spring. relays and Virginia Challenge all looming, the group has carried its competitive nature from the football field to the track. “We ran 41.3. The record is 41.06. i honestly felt like our race was pretty sloppy,” Blakeney said. “obviously, i’m glad we got the win but there’s a lot of things we can improve on. As we get in better shape, we’ll finish stronger.” Cutcliffe’s 2014 cohort is not the first bunch of skill players to come out and find success in ogilvie’s track program. From 19871991, randy Jones was a standout kickoff returner for former football head coaches Steve Spurrier and Barry Wilson as well as an accomplished sprinter for ogilvie. Jones’ success in both sports drew the attention of the United
States Bobsled team, which would go on to recruit him and include him for three straight olympic Games. his 2002 performance in the four-man event earned his team the silver medal, the first medal for the U.S. in men’s bobsledding since 1956. As Jones showed, whether it’s pushing a sled, handing off a baton or bowling through a defender, the combination that allows an athlete to do any of these things is size and speed. As naturally gifted athletes who spend their off-hours in the weight room year-round, football players are not always able to benefit from the intense speed training that takes See Track, page 9
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After a quiet weekend against Georgia Tech, the Blue Devils’ bats woke up and made plenty of noise. Duke cruised past n.C. Central 9-1 Tuesday night at Jack Coombs Field thanks to an early offensive outburst. The Blue Devils tallied eight runs in the NCCU 1 first three innings afDUKE 9 ter scoring just one run across the final 24 frames of their weekend series against the Yellow Jackets. “i thought our offensive approach was very good in the first three innings,” head coach Chris Pollard said. “it was good to see us have some good at-bats against a left-handed pitcher because that’s been something that has really victimized us.” Duke (18-16) jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first against eagles starter Andrew Wilson. The left-handed Wilson has struggled with control for most of the season—he entered the game having issued 18 walks in 32.1 innings pitched— and it cost him right away against the Blue
Devils. he walked the first batter he faced— Duke center fielder Aaron Cohn—which came back to haunt him when Cohn scored the game’s first run on Chris Marconcini’s two-out liner to right. “We did what we needed to do to score runs [early] in the game,” Pollard said. “Marconcini did it in the first inning. That’s a recipe. in the games that we haven’t done well, it’s because we haven’t come up with that hit.” n.C. Central (14-18-1) answered right back with a run in the top of the second to even the score at one apiece. First baseman Christian Triplett and left fielder Bryant Battle started the inning with back-to-back singles up the middle, putting Blue Devil starter Kevin lewallyn in a tricky spot with nobody out. The freshman southpaw then induced a double play from designated hitter eric Kimber, leaving a runner on third with two outs. it looked as if lewallyn was going to wiggle his way out of the jam, but a blooper off the bat of second baseman Jake Cagle found the grass in short right field to bring in Triplett from third. Duke wouldn’t let the game stay tied for long, however. leading off the bottom of
the second, redshirt senior ryan Deitrich was hit by a pitch and stole second to put himself in scoring position. Deitrich scored on a double into the right-field corner by second baseman Andy Perez—who went 2-for-3 with a walk—that put the Blue Devils back on top. Duke tacked on two additional runs in the frame on a wild pitch—Wilson’s seventh of the season—and a sacrifice fly from catcher Mike rosenfeld to push its advantage to 4-1. The Blue Devils continued to pile on in the third inning, pushing four more runs across the plate to increase their lead to 8-1 and effectively put the game out of reach. Duke used a sacrifice fly to chase Wilson, who was replaced by reliever Grant Cain. Cain allowed three runs to score on another sac fly and a two-rBi single by rosenfeld, leaving Wilson with a final line of seven earned runs in just 2.1 innings. “That second and third inning you could definitely, in my opinion, feel a big sigh of relief come out of the dugout,” Pollard said. “i thought our team, if i’m being honest with you, was a little bit tight early on. But i think once we pushed those runs across
in the second and third, our club loosened up, and i thought we had a pretty good approach from that point forward.” The Blue Devils went with an unconventional look on the mound, opting to piece the game together with several relievers instead of relying on a traditional starter. nine different pitchers saw action against the eagles, none of whom tossed more than 2.1 innings. The patchwork strategy worked well, as the Duke staff combined to allow just six hits while picking up 14 strikeouts. Junior Sarkis ohanian (1-1) picked up his first win of the season for Duke, rebounding from a loss against liberty last week. ohanian kept the n.C. Central hitters off balance with a very effective breaking ball, which he used to record five strikeouts—including four consecutive batters before he was lifted from the game—in 2.1 perfect innings. “i thought he was lights-out,” Pollard said. “Sarkis had what i would characterize as a rough outing up at liberty. i thought his stuff was good, but he left a couple balls up [then].... i thought [tonight] was a really good bounce-back effort.”
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track from page 8 place on the track. With the foundation set for the foreseeable future, Cutcliffe has now created an opportunity to work on shaping the fastest possible athletes by having his players work with the sprint coaches—a tactic already in place at elite programs such as oregon and Florida State. “Most football players are guys with lean [muscle] that can push a sled and run at the same time,” Snead said. “That’s what you get from a football player. We’re not your average-size track guys that are really small. Being able to have the muscle and speed is very beneficial.” Although this year’s football-to-track crossover group consists of only five players,
it allows for recruits hoping to be dual-sport athletes at the next level to have a middle ground. Should the Blue Devils’ crossover experiment continue, it will provide a chance for those players who wish to compete in both a top-25 football program and in track to do just that, which Snead noted would help the program. This two-sport option suddenly makes Duke an even bigger draw for top-tier athletes looking to make the most of their college experience. But it is not just the recruits who will be drawn to the crossover opportunity. Current players outside of this spring’s five-man crew showed interest in running, but Cutcliffe decided to keep the trial group small, just in case things did not pan out in competition. But with Saturday’s victory in the books, Duke’s
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platform showcases more concrete and achievable policies that we believe would significantly improve the independent housing experience. We appreciate Temple’s focus on internal leadership within independent houses and his strong track record of engaging in housing issues. Duke will be
Editorial well-served with either candidate. Social Culture We now turn to the Social Culture Committee—a committee whose mission we find somewhat nebulous and whose jurisdiction, besides Tailgate, often seems to overlap with others. Both candidates presented similar platforms. We felt Basil Seif presented a better understanding of the issues at hand—the need for a new tailgate model, the funding and staffing shortfalls hampering the Women’s Center and more universal Prevent. Act. Challenge. Teach. training. However, his attendance record in DSG Senate meetings is cause of deep concern. For this reason and others, we endorse Tucker Albert. His criticism of the lengthy process for students registering on-campus
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standards while simultaneously pushing out qualified applicants. This undercuts the public’s faith in the merit driven nature of higher education. Fareed Zakaria, a noted academic, has written that College Athletics are the “single largest deviation from merit in America’s best colleges.” There is no doubt
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events hits an important nail on the head, and his proposal to shorten the registration deadline will allow greater flexibility and bolster campus activity. Albert’s current position as a senator of Social Culture lends him important institutional knowledge that will serve him well as a VP. Whoever wins, we hope they will better define the committee. Durham and Regional Affairs Students will choose between two great candidates for VP of Durham and Regional Affairs. David Robertson presents a number of genuinely cool, new ideas for engaging directly with Durham, as well as a push for more internship opportunities in the city. His focus on rebranding Durham in the minds of Duke students comes from a genuine appreciation for the city and a belief that it has a lot to teach us as well. However, we felt that his opponent Ben Salzman presented a more comprehensive platform covering a wider swath of policy initiatives. Salzman seeks not only to improve Duke-Durham relations—in particular between students living off-campus and surrounding neighborhoods—but also to encourage students to engage in local politics, a timely issue considering the upcoming elections. Either way, the future of Durham and Regional Affairs looks bright.
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my experience has already been said so I’ll spare my readers this impulse. But, as long as I have the opportunity I would like to contribute one last suggestion directed at the University itself. College athletics are dangerous. The devotion and obsession to Division I success threatens a much more important foundation of this University. It’s fun to be a fan but Duke was here long before Coach K was born and will be here long after he leaves. Athletics are an important part of our student culture, as far as they promote a healthy mind and body, but they should never come at the expense of academics. I see the scandals rocking UNC and I’m worried for Duke. Worried that someday corners will be cut to admit students in a way that harms the integrity of this university. Unfortunately, in some respects that day has already come. Scores of free tutors service the athletics department and a parallel world separate from the rigor most students expect in the classroom applies to some of our fellow students. National championships will come and go but commitment to academic excellence should never waver. Our reputation for scholarship is what will endure throughout the years and that is far more important than any banner on a wall. It is the most powerful currency a university has and it’s currently being diluted by the preferential admissions standards applied to recruited athletes. This is not to disparage the men and woman who admirably balance their academic and athletic commitments here and at universities across the country. Duke has a large number of truly remarkable students who succeed on and off the field of their given sport. It is possible to do both academics and athletics extraordinarily well. Students at Duke do this and this column is in no way an indictment of their enriching presence at this University. Yet the cult of personality surrounding some of these semi-pro athletes is disheartening and threatens to undermine the true role of academic institutions across the country, which is to educate. The mission statement adopted by the Duke University Board of Trustees calls for the school “to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students” but makes no mention of athletics in this vision. The expansion of college sports threatens the integrity of our University by lowering admissions
that a different admissions standard is applied to recruited athletes. The disparity, however, is disturbing and wider than one might imagine. According to a Chronicle column from 2007, in the entering class at Duke, the 42 recruited male athletes had an average SAT of 1172, out of 1600, while the rest of the male class averaged a 1438. Among women the average SAT score for non-athletes was a 1404 while the female athletes average was a 1258. I wish I had more recent statistics, but the admissions office told me that they didn’t have them on file. There is an argument to be made for the presence of athletics on our campus based on the beneficial impact it has on student cohesion and the revenue it brings in for the wider community. K-Ville is a unique experience that draws together the student body in a way that few other activities do. Yet is that worth the double standard of admission that undeniably eliminates worthy students from the applicant pool year after year? The commitment to merit is an incredibly important component of the integrity of this institution and the deviation from it in order to secure top sports prospects is unacceptable. The problem of unmerited admission is endemic in the college process, whether you look at legacy students or alumni from top tier private schools, but it seems particularly acute in this instance. In a time when Duke’s regular decision admission rates are starting to dip below 10 percent, do we feel comfortable granting exceptions based on athletics? Is it right to deny worthy applicants the chance to study at one of the nation’s best universities because they can’t put a small ball through a hoop? We can be better. There is no need to compromise the academic reputation of this university by admitting students who deviate greatly from the averages the rest of us are compared too. It creates a separate class of students and this is inherently unfair. So to my alma mater, for the sake of future generations, please rethink your policy of preferential treatment for athletic contributions. I think Duke would be best served by a policy that favored academic promise in evaluating worthiness for admissions to what is first and foremost an academic institution. Colin Scott is a Trinity Senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.
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in Washington D.C., and we were in Connecticut. The teacher on lunch duty called the police to report that I had been kidnapped, straight from my lunch table, by a crazy blonde woman in leather pants. I coped with this craziness the same way any angsty kid would—I rebelled, albeit bizarrely. Since my family consisted mainly of boisterous, liberal, rule-breakers, I decided to become a prude, goody two-shoes, rule-follower. When my mother insisted on teaching
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family was a bit different. At least to me, they’ve always been louder, quirkier, and kookier than most people. This especially bothered me when I was a younger. Back in the day, I was a pretty weird kid with an ugly haircut, an unfortunate fashion sense and not many friends. I always felt like the odd one out. As such, I spent way too much time yearning for my homogenous classmates’ acceptance and approval. This just about always backfired, especially when my family got involved. While my classmates’ mothers wore khakis and sweater sets, my mother was infamous for her crop tops and leather. While they whipped up tasty sweets for PTA bake sales, she organized a petition against the trans fats in the cafeteria food. While they packed lunches of turkey sandwiches and Doritos, she sent me to school with tuna tartare and tempeh. While they braided their daughters’ long hair, she chopped mine off because I hated brushing it. While they encouraged their daughters to try out for the cheerleading team, she forbade me from any activity that objectified women. As you can imagine, my youth was chock full of family-related embarrassing moments. In fourth grade, my dad chaperoned my class’s field trip to the science museum and spent at least 20 minutes bragging to my peers about how good I was at catching and gutting fish. This earned me my most cherished nickname “Icky Sawicki.” I vividly recall grandparents’ day in sixth grade, when my grandmother told my math teacher to “remove the large pole from [his] derriere” after he scolded two students for spelling “boobies” on their calculators. In seventh grade, my mother stormed the cafeteria during my lunchtime and violently dragged me to her car at lightning speed. Moments before, she was listening to the radio and heard news of a bomb threat in all schools—what she didn’t hear was that this bomb threat referred to all schools
me to drive at age 10, I threw a tantrum and emphasized my fear of the police. I even threatened to call them. When my dad pulled me out of class on a beautiful spring day to go fishing, I b--ched about not wanting to fall behind on my schoolwork. When my parents suggested a family vacation to the Costa Rican rainforest, I instead suggested Disney World for its modern infrastructure and lack of poisonous snakes. However, by the time I reached high school, I realized that nobody wanted to hang out with the prude, goody two-shoes, rule-follower. Because, let’s face it, she really wasn’t any fun. Why rebel against my family when they were interesting, hilarious, packed me lunches of tasty tuna tartare and taught me to drive at age 10? When other kids spent their spring breaks visiting grandma in Ohio, I was zip lining in Costa Rica, so why complain? I was such an idiot for not realizing how cool my childhood was. I was so concerned with conforming to the status quo and fitting in with my (very boring) classmates that I neglected to fully appreciate how awesome my family is. The more friends I made in high school, the more I learned that everyone complains about and is embarrassed by their family so it’s no use fussing over. I’ll admit that I’m still a bit worried about unleashing nine of my brethren on campus (if anyone has any extra Xanax, well, I won’t say no), but that doesn’t mean I won’t be grateful, filled with love and thrilled to see them all. I certainly won’t put on my goody two shoes in protest, though, because then I might miss out on all the fun. I’d also like to apologize in advance for any Sawicki-related shenanigans. You’ve been warned.
in Columbia blue robes. There were speeches followed by one last celebratory wave of applause. The grads flipped the tassels on those silly little caps and then rushed off to find their families in the busy streets of Manhattan. I gave my older brother a big hug. My “regular dysfunctional” family smiled in a bunch of pictures. Snapshots. Memories. Milestones. And a week later, there I was at home, sitting in that chair at the kitchen counter mindlessly scrolling, clicking, and reading. There was this essay circulating at the time, as all viral essays are wont to do. This one was no exception. Everyone was reading it. Posting and reposting. Pictures of this girl in a mustard yellow peacoat began cropping up one after the other on my newsfeed with a link to her essay, “The Opposite of Loneliness.” At first glance, it seemed like any soon-to-be college graduate’s last word, a senior’s last column of inspired musings and nostalgic anecdotes. In a sense, it was perhaps exactly that. It was Marina Keegan, a Yale senior, putting language to the acute sense of fear that makes our shifting and restless twenty-something lives seem so permanent. Her essay is absolutely striking. Stunning, really. It’s sharp and on point. She writes in just a few hundreds of words what’s so energizing and suffocating about trying to figure it all out. “We’re so young. We’re so young,” Marina writes, “We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time.” “What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.” Five days after Marina Keegan graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, and the day this essay appeared in the special commencement edition of her college daily, she was killed in a car accident. All year, I’ve been working on my senior thesis, which critiques the way Sylvia Plath’s work has been fi ltered through her death. All year I’ve been mulling over the slippery
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Chelsea Sawicki is a Trinity senior. Her column is part of the weekly Socialites feature and runs every other Wednesday.
interconnectedness between art and life, life and art. All year, I’ve been thinking about how a writer’s death impacts our reading of their words. It’s undeniable that death affects us in profound ways, but for a writer, it has this lasting impact on how we ultimately approach their work. In some respects, it’s impossible not to register the sadness of a young writer’s death, but I like to think that I would have stumbled across Keegan’s remarkable essay because it was and is remarkable. And yet, in a devastating and very human way, I read it because it went viral in the days following her death. That’s how we deal with tragedy. We pick it
apart and obsess over this horrific thing that has happened. We try not to dwell on the sadness. We do. We try. But it creeps up here and there where once hopeful little gems now read, in retrospect, as so utterly tragic. When she died, Marina was a 22-year-old writer about to begin her illustrious literary career with a job lined up at The New Yorker. She was already a gifted writer. The tragedy of her death is that she was robbed of realizing her own “sense of possibility.” The tragedy is that Marina couldn’t live what she wrote. Still, even as her passing was a devastating loss, it wasn’t her death that continues to make her writing so powerful. It’s the rawness of her words and of her heightened awareness for the present—right here, right now—that makes her writing exceptional. When I read Marina’s essay two years ago, I was only halfway through college. I wasn’t graduating. I didn’t feel attached to Duke the way she expressed such gratitude for Yale. I hadn’t written much at that point—surely not enough to consider myself a writer. The truth is, I don’t know why it resonated so deeply for me or why I had such a strong, visceral reaction to the writing. All I know is that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this piece of writing. I keep returning to it, every few months, or when I get an email alert with new (and old) readers responding to the essay in the comments. Every time I read Marina’s piece—line by line—I get chills, and a lump forms in my throat just like that afternoon in the last week of May two years ago after my brother’s college graduation. Even though Marina was killed instantly at the scene, her mother managed to recover the hard drive and Marina’s writing from her shattered computer. This past weekend, Marina’s picture popped up on my newsfeed once again, but this time with an excerpted essay from her posthumous collection—The Opposite of Loneliness. The collection was just released yesterday. Danielle Nelson is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday. Send Danielle a message on Twitter @elleeenel.
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