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Council VP elected to be next president by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE

successful,” Hendrick said to a standing-room-only crowd. “It’s the human capital inside the company that’s so important. The companies that don’t believe human capital is important don’t last.” Hendrick’s team-first business philosophy allowed him to transform what was originally a struggling car dealership in South Carolina into a multi-billion dollar private company that, in 2011, features 90 dealerships

The Graduate and Professional Student Council has elected its new leaders for next year. Felicia Hawthorne, current GPSC vice president, will serve as president of the student group. At its meeting Tuesday night, the GPSC general assembly elected the fourthyear doctoral candidate in genetics and genomics to head the body, which aims to represent the interests of students in Duke’s nine graduate and professional schools. “I am very excited—I have been thinking about this a lot,” Hawthorne, who ran for the position last year, said after the meeting. “I learned a lot being VP this year. I learned about the interactions of GPSC.” Hawthorne defeated Yuvon Mobley, a Board of Trustees academic affairs committee representative and former GPSC vice president. Each candidate gave a brief speech and fielded questions from general assembly members. Few students ran for other positions on the executive board, resulting in only one other contested race. In her platform, Hawthorne, who previously served as co-chair on the GPSC Basketball Committee, emphasized improving campus safety, advocating for mental health services, establishing a graduate student center and expanding communication between GPSC and the graduate student body. Safety was one of the president-elect’s priorities, especially in light of recent robberies on or near campus.

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Bard College President Leon Botstein leads a discussion with undergraduates detaling the shortcomings of career-focused education.

Hendrick stresses value of employees by Nicholas Schwartz THE CHRONICLE

One of North Carolina’s most successful businessmen gave away a few prized trade secrets Tuesday evening. Rick Hendrick, chairman of the Hendrick Automotive Group and owner of Hendrick Motorsports, stressed the importance of taking care of his employees in order to maximize their effectiveness and improve business in a discussion at the Fuqua School of Business. “You don’t have to be ruthless [as a company] to be

University uses new technology to deliver information by Maggie Spini THE CHRONICLE

Duke is making efforts to stay technologically savvy, one pixel at a time. Students may have noticed quick response barcodes on ePrint stations as well as event and student group posters around campus. QR codes—black and white pixelated symbols common on advertisements and billboards—can be scanned by mobile devices to give the user instant, handheld information. QR codes available at ePrint stations give students up-to-date messages about the ePrint system, including which printers are working and the closest working printer to a student’s location. “We thought we would try them because we envisioned users coming up to the ePrint station, not with their computer running, but with a smartphone,” Stephen O’Donnell, senior communications strategist at the Office of Information Technol-

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ogy, wrote in an email. “We hoped that the QR code would lead those smartphone users to the ePrint status and locations page.” QR codes have become recently popular outside the University as well, gracing the pages of print advertisements within magazines and other periodicals, on buses and in airports. The codes were originally developed in Japan to track parts in vehicle manufacturing but are now used in marketing, targeting mobile phone users. Codes can be generated online at a variety of free websites. In order to link to QR codes, students must install and launch a QR application on their smartphones and point their phone’s camera at the barcode, which will instantly direct users to websites, photos, videos or text. OIT does not yet have enough data to See qr code on page 7

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“Head coach Mike Krzyzewski gave his players some unusual advice Monday afternoon—he told them to stay up late. In order to adjust to the three-hour time difference in Anaheim, Calif., Krzyzewski told his players to fight off sleep Monday in order to actually feel like going to bed after a late meeting on Tuesday night. Duke will play Arizona Thursday at 9:45 p.m.” — From The Chronicle’s Sports Blog sports.chronicleblogs.com

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Obama admin. rejects US officials suspect corporate pay restrictions North Korean illicit acts FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear of Kentucky has given lawmakers fewer than two weeks to approve his plan to come up with $165 million for Medicaid or he’ll cut payments, which he said may devastate the state’s health-care system. The first-term Democrat who took office in January 2008 faces a local variation on a problem vexing governors across the country: when Kentucky lawmakers approved an $18 billion biennial budget last year, they overestimated federal Medicaid funding. That created a $165 million hole that balloons to $600 million this year with the loss of federal matching aid. To fill the gap, Beshear wants to tap next year’s Medicaid budget, which is fully funded, and private-sector-style managed care to cut costs. The state has notified doctors that absent the transfer, it will be forced to cut their payments by 35 percent.

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Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions On view through August 14, 2011 Opening reception Thursday, March 16. Free for all. The Nasher Museum celebrates its 5th anniversary with an exhibition of its most important acquisitions. This exhibition features work by 41 contemporary artists from around the world and includes painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video and installation.

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TOKYO, Japan — Crews at the heavily damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant reached a milestone Tuesday as they finished connecting external power to all six of the facility’s reactors. Workers will now test the plant’s internal electrical and cooling systems to see whether they can cool the overheated reactors and prevent further meltdown and releases of radiation. Crews have been using external pumps to send seawater into three of the facility’s six reactors after the facility’s cooling systems failed in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Concerned that the highly corrosive seawater might have damaged equipment, the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power, was “checking each electrical device on each unit,” said Taro Ishida, a representative of the Federation of Electric Power Companies in Japan.

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Bard Pres. wants focus on humanities by Kotoe Oshima THE CHRONICLE

American students are entering the adult world without morals, self-discipline and maturity—all because of modern education, said Bard College President Leon Botstein. Botstein spoke about the shortfalls of the education system in a panel discussion with Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education; junior Taylor Clarke; and seniors Erin Cloninger and Andrew Schreiber. Botstein was the first visiting scholar to participate in the Duke Colloquium, a new initiative developed to connect the humanities and the professional world. Botstein emphasized America’s desperate need for educational reform. He said that undergraduate institutions should strive to instill integrity in their students that remains with them throughout their career, particularly in popular professions such as finance and engineering. Because high school and university students are so focused on their future achievements, he noted, they do not take the time to understand the values and morals that would lead to an ideal society. “Many undergraduates go to college with the understandable desire to pursue a profession in medicine, law and business,” he said. “What does higher education See botstein on page 6

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Q&A with Phil Bennett Four New York Times journalists were released by the Libyan government Monday after a week in captivity. One of the reporters, Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid, worked under Phil Bennett, a Duke professor who, at the time, was The Washington Post’s assistant managing editor for foreign news. Bennett was later promoted to managing editor of the paper and is now the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke. He is also a member of the Duke Student Publishing Company’s Board of Direc-

tors, which publishes The Chronicle. Staff writer Michael Shammas spoke with Bennett about the challenges of keeping reporters safe in war zones. The Chronicle: As a journalist, have you ever run into trouble abroad? Have your co-workers? Phil Bennett: I started my career covering wars for The Boston Globe in the 1980s in Central America. Being in the middle of a conflict changes your life in ways that can take a long time to understand. Several

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close colleagues have been killed over the years. Literally dozens, far braver than I ever was, put their lives on the line routinely in the service of an important story. As an editor, I can say that it can be as anxietyprovoking to send somebody into harm’s way as it is to work there yourself. Either way, it’s important to keep in mind that as a journalist on the front lines you are only sharing the risks experienced by the thousands, or more, people who live there. You are not the story. They are. TC: How dangerous is it for journalists to be in Libya at this time? PB: In any crisis or conflict, whether in Libya or Japan or Afghanistan, it’s critical that journalists are present to witness events, talk directly to participants or other witnesses and carry those words and images and observations to the outside world. There’s no substitute for first-hand experience, especially in an armed conflict, where truth is, if not the first casualty, an early and easy target for all sides. The job of journalists is not only to record what is happening, but to provide context and the elements to understand events. Being there doesn’t mean that journalists will get everything right. But it improves the odds. As we’ve seen, this can carry a high price for the journalists. Libya is especially dangerous today—the Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 13 journalists are missing or in custody, and others have been killed. But it is by no means the only place where journalists are at risk. TC: One of the missing reporters was Anthony Shadid, who you worked with at See bennett on page 6

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Q&A with Timur Kuran by Alex Zempolich THE CHRONICLE

Timur Kuran is a Duke professor of economics and political science and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies. His recent book, “The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East,” has garnered acclaim from around the academic world, earning high praise from, among other publications, The New York Times, The Economist and The New Yorker. The Chronicle’s Alex Zempolich spoke with Kuran about his research on the economic trajectories of Europe and the Middle East and what they mean for globalization. The Chronicle: Could you summarize the findings of your book? Timur Kuran: The basic message is that Islam mat-

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tered to the economic trajectory of the Middle East in that it promoted economic growth, but was an obstacle subsequently. But the mechanism has nothing to do with conservatism or traditionalism, or animosity to commerce. Certain institutions of Islam that are part of the Sharia, the holy law of Islam, unintentionally prevented the transition from a personal economy based on small-scale and short-lived organizations to a predominantly impersonal economy based on large and long-living organizations that could sustain large, long-term investments and accumulation of wealth. The institutions [that were] needed to jump start the stalled Middle Eastern economy came from the West. They were transplanted during the colonial era and modern commercial systems were instituted and all the basic ingredients needed for modern economic growth

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are now present in the Middle East. Islam is, by and large, not an obstacle to economic growth today as the necessary institutions have now been established. Those countries that started the transition earliest— Turkey, for example—are the most modernized and industrial today. TC: Although your book pertains to historical barriers to economic growth in the Muslim world, what laws or customs hinder growth in the region today? TK: Yes, there are still institutions that are problematic. One is the prohibition of apostasy. There is no freedom of religion in many Muslim countries. This discourages innovation and limits freedom of discussion because people are afraid of being perceived as challenging the religion. It basically has a chilling effect on discourse and people who are innovative and creative leave the Middle East. The other problem is the lasting effect of an atomistic private sector. Now you have some corporations, but traditionally the region has had an atomistic private sector—that is, many small-scale companies. Dealing with small-scale companies of short duration means economic exchanges were personal. In the West, exchanges tend to be predominantly impersonal, when we buy things on the Internet or at the department store, we deal with people who don’t know us––we don’t know the salesman personally. We are essentially dealing with a company, which is an impersonal entity. This is starting in the Middle East as well, but people still feel uncomfortable with impersonal exchanges. The transition from personal exchange to mostly impersonal exchanges took millennia in Europe. The Middle East started this transition about a century ago and it will take a few more generations for people to feel comfortable with dealing with corporations. This is one historical reason why I am pessimistic about the immediate future of the region, economically and politically, but I am optimistic in the long run. There will be more bumps in the road as we are seeing now. TC: Speaking of trusting the institution versus personal exchanges, do you think that, with the current pro-democratic revolutions, people will begin to place more belief in impersonal systems that could aid growth? TK: I think they will. Democracy is a system that involves trust in institutions versus trust in the individual. An autocratic system involves trust, or if it’s a bad autocratic system, mistrust, in a particular individual. There is a dictator and presumably all good and all bad flows from the person at the top. He takes all the credit if things go well and the blame for everything that does not. In a democracy, it is an entire system. We don’t See kuran on page 8

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Investments in early education paying off, study says by Stephanie Tsimis THE CHRONICLE

Thanks to two state-run programs that provide early education funding to lowincome families, third graders in North Carolina are scoring higher on standardized tests and are less likely to be placed in special education, according to a recent study conducted by Duke researchers. Kenneth Dodge, director of Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy, conducted the study with Helen Ladd, the Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and a professor of economics at Duke, and Clara Muschkin, director of Duke’s Children in Contemporary Society certificate program, to determine through their research whether money put into More at Four and Smart Start resulted in positive outcomes for all children in participating counties. “We are interested as researchers and policy analysts in whether the investment that the state of North Carolina has made

in early childhood initiatives yields positive dividends,” Dodge said. More at Four, implemented as a pilot program in 2001 and expanded to 23 counties in 2004, provides qualified low-income families with money to send their children to highquality preschool. Smart Start, initiated in 1993 and expanded statewide by 1999, provides funds aimed at offsetting the costs of child care and improving health and family support services for children from birth to age five. Since their inception, spending has averaged $1,250 per child per program. According to the results, both programs resulted in higher math and reading standardized test scores and a 10 percent lower probability of special education placement among current third graders—and not just the ones who qualified for the programs. The researchers said non-participating students benefitted from a “spill-over effect.” In other words, Dodge said, participating students were less likely to need special at-

tention, enabling teachers to devote attention “more broadly to other children.” While previous studies of these programs compared enrolled children to their classmates from within the same counties, Muschkin said she and her colleagues based their comparison on dollar allocation. The study sought to determine whether increased funding for the programs—some counties received more dollars per capita than others—resulted in higher tests scores and lower special education placement overall. “Most programs track the progress of children who have actually participated in that program. We are looking instead at the impact of investment at the community level and at what that impact will be for all children residing in that community,” Muschkin said. The study also confirmed the theory that More at Four and Smart Start complement one another. “Each program has individual effects that together provide more benefit than

one alone,” Muschkin said. “If you help the students who are most disadvantaged it’s going to lead to a better classroom environment once children enter the public school system.” The study concluded that $1,000 of investment per child in any particular county results in benefits equivalent to two months of schooling, she added. Tracy Zimmerman, communications director for Smart Start, said the Duke study proves the program’s effectiveness. “[Smart Start] was created to solve the problem that children were coming to school not prepared to learn. We see from these results that clearly Smart Start makes a difference and it does so for all children in the community. It’s pretty exciting,” she said. The researchers plan to expand their ongoing analyses to include health and behavior outcomes. Muschkin said the team will extend their study to analyze student performance through graduation.

Steve Jobs ordered to testify in iTunes lawsuit by Hayley Tsukayama THE Washington Post

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs was ordered by a U.S. judge to testify in an antitrust lawsuit that alleges the company prevented music files sold by competitors from playing on its iPods. Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple since January, can be deposed for no more than two hours, according to the court order issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd in San Jose. Attorneys who filed the class-action complaint on be-

half of consumers can ask him only about changes the company made to its software format, which made it impossible for iPods to play songs that were not from Apple’s iTunes store. The court ruled that Jobs has “unique, non-repetitive, firsthand knowledge” of the issues and must testify. The magistrate denied requests from the plaintiffs to question Jobs on other matters related to the case. After the success of the iTunes store, a company called RealNetworks created music files that could be played on the iPod

without iTunes. Apple then reworked its software to keep RealNetworks’ songs and others off its devices. Apple says the software change was ostensibly a measure against piracy. But plaintiffs contend that it allowed Apple to have dual monopolies in the markets for digital media players and audio downloads. Sheldon Klein, a shareholder at Butzel Long who specializes in antitrust cases, said that it’s not unusual for chief executives to be called to testify, though plaintiffs must prove that the executive

is the only one with knowledge of the issues in the case. “Usually CEOs don’t have a lot of firsthand knowledge of the things that are in litigation and so if you’re representing the corporation, you’re arguing that this is just to harass the company and the CEO,” he said. “The magistrate judge very specifically found that Steve Jobs had specific knowledge and limited the subject of the deposition to that narrow scope where he was the best, if not the only, person to be able to testify to it.”

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botstein from page 3 contribute to the redefinition of these professions?” Botstein added that education in the United States is preventing students from having a global competitive edge, prompting Clarke to ask what American students are lacking today. “What do we need to know in order to compete in the global workplace?” she asked. Botstein listed several areas in which American students have room to improve, such as discipline, hard work and a sense of responsibility to the community. Many tend to be apathetic toward schoolwork and are getting too used to a “leisurely” and “painless” lifestyle, he added. “Living without anxiety is the American disease with the notion that life is painless. There’s no aspirin for life, no Advil, and if it existed, it wears off,” he said, adding that he believes this almost explains why so many American students are involved with drug abuse. Schreiber asked why Botstein has said in the past that

he thinks many college students are immature. Botstein replied that because the current education model does not help students develop a moral compass, it prevents American youth from becoming sophisticated adults. “American culture is an embarrassment and slightly hypocritical,” he said. Bringing laughter to the discussion, Botstein proposed a radical change to high school education: graduation at age 16. He explained that children are maturing faster than ever before because of their social environment and improved health care, noting that the current graduation age of 18 is outdated. “Eighteen years old today is the biological equivalent of 16 years old during the [Great] Depression, when education age was kept high to keep the young adults out of the workforce,” Botstein said. Additionally, Botstein said that most of the last two years of high school are unnecessary, and students could spend that time doing something more productive such as an internship or service work. Senior Cloninger, however, argued that her high school’s Advanced Placement program

was enriching and effective. “AP is a fraud,” Botstein replied, noting that AP students focus so much on high test scores that they are unable to fully grasp the subject beyond simple fact memorization and exam preparation. “Colleges don’t accept AP credits because we see it as a way of students showing how smart they are.” Botstein called on Duke students to be pioneers for education reform, both as policy makers and instructors. He hopes that Duke students will look beyond prestige and potential salary and become public school teachers. “In the senior class of this fabulous university, I wager that the minority of the graduates want to make a career in the public classrooms below university level,” said Botstein. “The best people are not in teaching, and we are not recruiting them.” Botstein concluded by noting that higher educational institutions and politicians have a responsibility to develop solutions that incentivize students to become teachers so that they can implement positive education reform, adding that the programs currently in place are just a start.

bennett from page 3 The Washington Post. Have you heard anything about his condition? PB: Anthony and I worked together closely at The Washington Post. I hired him early 2003, just before the United States invasion of Iraq. He was one of the few journalists who remained in Baghdad at the start of the war and won a Pulitzer Prize for this work, the first of his two Pulitzers. We’ve remained very good friends. I’m overjoyed that he was released and appears to be in good health. He’s a journalist of monumental courage and talent; both are part of his success. He takes risks mindful that he is doing something very important: bearing witness, getting the fact right, telling the stories of people who otherwise would not have their voices heard. TC: What steps can journalists reporting from conflict zones take to ensure that they are safe? PB: In those cases, experience counts, and if you don’t have any it’s good to stick with someone who does. Knowing the language can be critical. Thinking ahead, and clearly. Figuring out whom to trust. Knowing what the story is and doing just enough to get it. Having a Plan B. The risks can also vary depending on what kind of journalist you are. Writers can often hang back and reconstruct events after they’ve happened. If you’re taking photographs or making video, you have to be there when the action occurs, and often the closer the better. This takes incredible skills and bravery. Three of the four captured Times journalists were shooting images—and each has a very long track record in working under fire. TC: What motivations do governments have to capture journalists? PB: In the case of the New York Times journalists, it looks as though they were taken at a roadblock during fighting between government forces and the opposition. In those situations, it’s often less a decision by the government to hold journalists than the independent actions by soldiers during a chaotic situation. That makes it extremely dangerous; from published accounts, it looks as though the Times journalists faced an immediate threat of execution. They were bound, punched and abused. Later, when higher ranking Libyan officials became involved, they were flown to Tripoli and treated better. But there were fears then that they would be used as pawns in negotiations between the government and the United States. Thankfully it did not play out that way. TC: Are there any international conventions stipulating how journalists are treated in war zones? PB: The most important protections afforded journalists in war zones are those that apply to all non-combatants, protections provided in the Geneva Conventions. However, we are living in a period when civilians are frequently the targets of armed groups or “collateral damage” of military operations. Attacks on civilians that once produced outrage now seem commonplace. Along with respect for civilian lives, I think, the respect for the role of journalists in war zones has eroded greatly. I think it has become much more dangerous to be a journalist working in a conflict area—whether you are a foreign correspondent or a local reporter. And that can affect the quality and depth of information that gets out to the public, whether the story is like Libya, the focus of attention or an ignored crisis where silence allows violence or suffering to persist.

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gpsc from page 1 A graduate student was robbed as he walked to his car on Circuit Drive March 11, and another graduate student was robbed at gunpoint near East Campus Jan. 19. Hawthorne said she would work to improve on- and off-campus safety. “I think that we would really need to press for an active increase in presence in these areas and for [the Duke University Police Department] to work more closely with the Durham police,” she said at the meeting. “We have had graduate students really eliminated from on-campus housing, and we have more students living off campus and we have a lot of graduate students without cars.” Hawthorne added that the University should allow students to move their cars closer to main buildings on campus late at night and increase lighting to address safety issues. She also spoke of the need to push for a graduate student center, though she noted that doing so may be difficult. The University’s recent $80 million donation from the Duke Endowment to improve select campus buildings may make her goal more feasible, she noted. GPSC also needs to do a better job advertising the group’s campus services when students first arrive, Hawthorne added. “They will see that there is reason to actually pay attention and to know that there are services here,” she said. “I think it’s more difficult to draw people in who have been here for a few years.” Although two people ran for the position of president, few students pursued other positions on the executive

board. Many GPSC representatives declined nominations throughout the second half of the meeting. Allison Schmitt, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in chemistry and current co-chair of the Basketball Committee, edged out Duke law student Amanda Pooler for the role of attorney general. The races for vice president, treasurer, executive secretary and academic officer were uncontested. Bill Hunt, a third-year graduate student in the English department, was elected vice president; Philip Weissman, a law student, was elected treasurer; Stacey Turner, a second-year Ph.D. candidate in chemistry, was elected secretary; and Bethany Stafford, a first-year doctoral candidate in psychology, was elected academic officer. Hawthorne said the lack of interest and competition in many of the positions is “definitely an issue of concern” that she thinks increased marketing might be able to solve. She added that many students have a lot of work this time of the year and that some graduate students are just returning from two-week breaks, which may have contributed to the lack of interest. “I think we need to increase our advertising of the posi-

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qr code from page 1 know if—and to what extent—students are utilizing the QR codes, O’Donnell said, though he noted that many students have smartphones and consequently could take advantage of the technology. Lynne O’Brien, director of academic technology and instructional services for Perkins Library, wrote in an email Monday that she thinks QR codes will become increasingly common. In a Nov. 23 blog post on the University’s Center for Instructional Technology website, O’Brien listed the potential uses of QR codes in academic settings. Codes could launch virtual tours of laboratories or link to videos showing how to operate equipment. O’Brien also noted that there are potential uses in social situations. “At the start of your course or when hosting an event where people don’t know one another, name tags with a QR code could provide an introduction and a quick way to download contact information,” she said. Students groups are also using QR codes to advertise and promote events on campus. ChangeWorks, a student-led social innovation competition, recently placed QR codes on its flyers, which were distributed around campus. Although the ChangeWork’s website does not have data on the number of students using QR codes, sophomore Samir Rao, a member of the ChangeWorks team, wrote in an email Tuesday that the group did notice a spike in total page visitors. “I still think that QR codes are a great idea,” Rao said. “Next year, we plan on making them more integrated in our site.”

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tions,” she said after the meeting. “I am hopeful that there will be more interest for the rest of the positions.” GPSC will elect student life co-chairs, communications coordinator, University affairs coordinator, student group liaison, community outreach coordinator and career development chair at its next meeting March 29.

Six months after Hurricane Katrina, Alex Harris drove to New Orleans. He created this series of triptychs of the abandoned and battered Gulf Coast. The exhibit is on the first floor of Rubenstein Hall.

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Felicia Hawthone, current GPSC vice president and fourth-year doctoral candidate, was elected to serve as student council president next year.

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GPSC elected six members to its executive board at its meeting Tuesday.

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hendrick from page 1 across 11 states. After becoming the youngest Chevrolet dealer in the country in 1976, Hendrick revitalized a “broken dealership” and quickly rose to the top of the industry. Hendrick’s pursuits in the motorsports arena have also been successful. Breaking into the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing’s top flight— then called the Winston Cup Series—as a car owner in 1984, Hendrick began with a single car and just five full-time employees. Twenty-seven years later, his industry-leading Hendrick Motorsports Rick Hendrick team has won 195 races and 10 drivers’ championships at NASCAR’s highest level. Hendrick noted, however, that none of it would be possible without the continued loyalty of his team. “I have a great respect for people. I never lose sight of

the fact that I didn’t get here by myself. There’s a lot of people that have dedicated their life [to the success of the organizations], and they all believe that we win together,” Hendrick said. “Most companies say they take care of their customers first. We take care of our employees first.”

“Most companies say they take care of their customers first. We take care of our employees first.” — Rick Hendrick, chairman, Hendrick Automotive Group The emphasis on employee satisfaction has generated a devoted corps of reliable employees, Hendrick said, which protects the company in times of crisis. Due to the lack of employee turnover, the Hendrick Automotive Group has suffered only minimal losses during the current recession.

“If it comes down to a dollar or a person, I’m going to pick the person,” he said. “Then, when you go through tough times, people are going to stick with you.” Hendrick’s devotion to his employees came as a surprise to some students in attendance given the enormity of his role as chairman and owner of two lucrative companies. “He seems to value his people, and he takes the time out of his busy schedule to know his staff,” Fuqua student Jay Lapham said. “You just don’t see that in big businesses and firms.” Those familiar with Hendrick, however, are not surprised by his success. Junior Paul Harraka, a NASCAR prospect who competed last year in the K&N Pro Series West, said Hendrick’s gracious manner and professionalism makes him a revered individual in the racing community. “Mr. Hendrick is undoubtedly looked up to in our sport in so many ways, not just for the fact that his race teams have won the [Sprint Cup Series] the last five years, but for the way that the man runs his organization,” Harraka said. “There is not a person in our sport who would not love to go work at Hendrick Motorsports.”

kuran from page 4 hold Obama responsible for everything that goes right or wrong; we understand there is a lot he cannot control and there are a lot of checks and balances. Authority is more diffuse. We also have faith in certain institutions. We know if we go the post office, whether Obama or McCain goes to the post office we will be treated the same way. TC: Just as the West exported capitalism, are there customs or ideas that the Muslim world could ingrain in western culture in the future? TK: Anyone who lives in the Middle East will find that communal relations are much closer in many domains. On the street that you live on, you are likely to know at least a few families very well. If you need help, it is quite acceptable to ask for help and you are likely to be given it. That is something that is not the case in the United States now, and I think the United States could benefit now that we’ve gone to an extreme where we hardly know our neighbors. There is a part of globalization that dictates that influences go both ways. Just as interactions among the nations of the world have led to many American institutions, like American hotels being established all across the world, Americans have borrowed things from abroad as well. Ethnic cuisines are a good example, certain sports as well. I think we can expect that as the Middle East opens up and more Americans and Europeans visit, we will increasingly see influences going the other way. TC: Moving from the Muslim world to the United States, we tend to see our growth as derived from cultural ideals—for example, American work ethic. Are there more subtle cultural attributes we have missed? What are contemporary hindrances we may face? TK: One of the great sources of American prosperity has been its openness to the outside world and its willingness to assimilate immigrants. Many ideas that have been critical to American prosperity have been associated with immigrants or their children. I think one danger looking forward is the anti-immigrant sentiment that is quite widespread in the United States. It threatens to make the United States a less creative, dynamic place. Another potential problem is that the United States is becoming an increasingly old society, which means a larger proportion of the population will be non-productive and in need of being supported by those who are. That is a threat not only to productivity, but also creativity. The larger the retired population, the larger the proportion of the electorate that will be in favor of coasting and protecting the status quo and their privileges, rather than promoting an economic environment conducive to innovation and new ideas. Countries that insulate themselves from future waves of globalization will ultimately lose. Western Europe became very prosperous partly because it was very open to trade. Most of the global trade was within Europe or between Europe and the outside world—there was very little trade between China and India and between China and the Middle East. That was not the case in the middle ages. The Middle East was, at the time, central to the global trading system and did very well. Whatever the exchanges are, it is helpful to be at the center of it. If the United States cedes the position as a global trading power because of protectionism or conservatism generated by senior citizens, it will ultimately lose.

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Ohio wins Blue Devils with late rally win Collegiate Match Play by Alex Young THE CHRONICLE

Wild pitching, inconsistent fielding and poor clutch hitting doomed the Blue Devils last night at Jack Coombs Field as Duke fell to Ohio 6-3 and extended its losing streak to four. The Blue Devils (15-8) squandered opportunities with men in scoring position and gave the Bobcats (11-9) several free passes—including walking and hitting batters with the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth. “Guys didn’t execute and 3 DUKE it cost us,” head coach Sean OHIO 6 McNally said. “If we don’t play well, if we’re not sharp, we’re not going to win. We don’t have a margin over any team that we play. Ohio outplayed us, so tip your hat to them.” Junior southpaw Eric Pfisterer started for the Blue Devils, picking up his second loss of the season. He wasn’t sharp, but he utilized a plus changeup to battle through six and a third, allowing five hits and three earned while punching out five and walking four. After a leadoff walk, triple and sac fly in the fourth pushed Ohio’s lead to 3-0, Pfisterer and freshman Drew Van Orden—who pitched the final two and twothirds—held the Bobcats’ bats quiet until the ninth. Marcus Stroman answered Ohio’s initial rally with two RBI singles in the fourth and sixth to cut the deficit to one. Eight straight balls and a sacrifice bunt put the tying runs on second and third with one out in the sixth. A hit-by-pitch loaded the bases for Stroman’s single, but back-to-back strikeouts ended the threat with the Blue Devils still trailing. Stroman roped a double through the left-center gap to start a two-out rally in the eighth. An infield single and walk loaded the bases, but Duke again failed to push across that tying run after Joe Pedevillano flew out on a soft liner to left. “We had tons, and tons and tons of opportunities,” McNally said. “We just didn’t get the big hit today.” Ohio didn’t fare better over the first eight frames, See baseball on page 11

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Starting pitcher Eric Pfisterer held Ohio to only five hits, but the Bobcats still managed three runs off the southpaw.

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Could the stall offense hurt Duke? There are lots of ways to blow a lead in a basketball game. Sometimes your shooters go cold and the shots stop falling. Sometimes the opponent catches fire and can’t miss. And sometimes, like Duke did Sunday, you just hold the ball for far too long. Clock management is one of the most important facets of basketball strategy, for coaches and players alike. Duke’s teams are usually good enough to attain big leads, and when they do, there’s nothing wrong with taking the air out of the ball and time off the clock by stalling. But in order for that strategy to work, you’ve got to have the right Tom combination of score and time remaining so that the time running off the clock will assuredly destroy your opponent’s chances to catch up. Against Michigan on Sunday, head coach Mike Krzyzewski initiated the stall offense without that combination. And stalling is dangerous: It shortens the shot clock, puts increased pressure on the backcourt to create shots and takes the team completely out of its offensive rhythm. As the clock approached the eight-minute mark in the second half, Michigan went into a 1-3-1 zone designed to counter any potential Duke efforts to run out the clock. CBS commentator Clark Kellogg noted that it’s a defense “which can flummox opponents if [they] don’t attack it with the dribble aggressively.” It didn’t cause problems right away. Early penetration by Kyrie Irving with 8:00 on the clock led to a beautiful

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Sophomore Brinson Paolini won all four of his matches as Duke won the Collegiate Match Play Championship this week.

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The Blue Devils may have entered the Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championship seeded 10th out of 16, but it would seem nobody told them that. Duke cruised to victory at Hawks Ridge Golf Club, defeating fourth-seeded Illinois 4-1 to take home the tournament’s crown yesterday afternoon. “They played well all week long from absolute start to finish. From the mindset they had when they stepped on the ground there at Hawks Ridge, they were in a great place,” head coach Jamie Green said. “They were ready for anything in terms of that tournament and took care of business.” Like the rest of the tournament, Duke came out victorious in the championship match with relative ease. Senior Wes Roach, who won three of his four matches in the tournament, won one-up and helped provide veteran leadership to the squad comprised of the senior and four underclassmen. “There’s no doubt he leads by example—there’s no doubt about it in his preparation and certainly how he played today,” Green said. The tournament began with the teams playing two matches on Sunday, and the Blue Devils wasted no time in setting the tone for the tournament. They shut out Texas in the tournament’s first round 5-0 and proceeded to defeat East Tennessee State 4-1 for a whopping nine out of ten wins on the day. The Longhorns and Buccaneers were seeded seventh and 15th respectively. Freshman Austin Cody led the early success and delivered the most commanding victory of each of the first two rounds for Duke with a first round six-and-five victory and a follow-up win of four-and-three. See m. golf on page 10

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Duke watched its lead slip late in the Michigan game due in part to its stall offense, Tom Gieryn writes.

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play you get to start all over and it’s important to do that every time you step into the tee box,” Green said. “You’ve “A lot of them have had a good bit got to have a good frame of mind and of success in match play before getting forget what was going on in the past here, and so any chance you have to build and take the new hole as it comes.” confidence is a good thing,” Green said. Duke returns to stroke play, however, “They’ve been when it travels practicing hard to the Hootie and playing pretat Bulls Bay ty well leading up Collegiate to this.” in Awendaw, The semiS.C. next finals against weekend. 11th-seeded The team will Southern Calihave the mofornia provided mentum of the most diffithis big victocult challenge to ry propelling the Blue Devils. them when While Cody ralthey attack lied to halve his the savannahs match despite at Bulls Bay trailing after 14 Golf Club. of the 18 holes “Anytime and sophomore you walk away Tim Gornik fell with a trophy, one-down, the and you’re other three golfdriving home ers prevailed for in a van with Duke resulting some posiin a 3-1-1 win. tive vibes and Overall, the excitement, Blue Devils won you’re goa remarkable ing to look 16 of their 20 forward to matches while the next oponly losing p o r t u n i t y, ” three. SophoGreen said. mores Brinson “You almost Paolini and Juwant to jump lian Suri won right out all four of their there and get Chronicle file photo matches. it going right “In match Senior leader Wes Roach won one-up on his Illinois opponent. away.”

GIERYN from page 9 assist to a cutting Ryan Kelly to put Duke ahead 62-54. Nolan Smith was fouled with 28 seconds left on the shot clock on two of the next three possessions. With 6:25 to play, he drained two free throws to put the Blue Devils up 68-56. Duke would score just once, though, in the ensuing five minutes, and couldn’t stop the Wolverines on defense. With just under six minutes on the game clock, the stall goes into effect, and Duke stops moving on offense. Kyle Singler and Andre Dawkins take up positions in the corners while Ryan Kelly goes to stand on the low block. Smith and Irving pass the ball back and forth 40 feet from the basket. This continues for nearly 20 seconds before Irving throws an overhead pass to Dawkins in the corner, who promptly throws up, and bricks, a long 3-pointer. Scarcely anyone has moved. And with three guards on the court, Singler marooned in the corner, and only Kelly in the same zip code as the rim, there’s little reason to expect an offensive rebound. A Wolverine basket, a Duke turnover and a Michigan miss put the ball back in Duke’s hands up by six, with 4:02 left on the clock. Four minutes. Plenty of time for the Wolverines to overcome a six-point lead. Eighteen seconds fall off the shot clock, though, before any Duke player moves. With nine seconds to shoot, Smith is still dribbling nearly 30 feet from the hoop. He passes to Irving, who has little time to do anything but step up for a 15foot jumper, which clangs off the back of the rim. Fortunately for Duke, Michigan’s zone has left Kelly alone, and the ball falls right into his hands for an easy

putback. From there, Duke’s fortune would run dry. Kellogg recognizes it. “That’s exactly what Michigan wants you to do. They don’t want you to attack. They want you to have the ball over your head and play standing up,” he says on air. Michigan scores to come within six, and the Blue Devils use another possession to stall and jack up a last second three. Then, Michigan scores again, and the lead is four with 2:22 to play. The Blue Devils wait around for a full 26 seconds before starting to run their play this time, including a full ten seconds of Irving standing at midcourt, holding the ball. When Duke finally does try to move toward the rim, Singler gets trapped on the baseline and Irving dribbles out the remainder of the shot clock without ever even getting close to shooting. The ensuing 3-pointer by Tim Hardaway, Jr. slashes the Duke lead to one, and Krzyzewski calls timeout to dictate his offensive strategy. Irving starts toward the hoop earlier than usual—with 16 seconds left to shoot—but all offensive patience has evaporated, and he kicks to Dawkins, who wastes no time in firing yet another 3-pointer. Fortunately, Michigan tips the long rebound out of bounds, and the Blue Devils get another chance. Again, they wait 23 seconds to start any sort of offense, but this time Irving’s quickness is too much for the exhausted Wolverines, and he scores to put Duke back ahead by a three-point margin. The thrilling shot ended a game that was never supposed to be that close, as the quest to run out the clock sucked all the excitement, and most of the points, out of Duke’s offensive possessions. The Blue Devils didn’t pay for it this time—but they might soon.

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BASEBALL from page 9 but added three key insurance runs in the ninth. Two frozen ropes and a seeing-eye single loaded the bases with one out for the Bobcats. Van Orden rebounded from a 3-0 count on the ensuing hitter to induce a groundout, but a hit-by-pitch, error and walk gave Ohio all it needed. The Blue Devils tacked on a run in the ninth but it was too little, too late. They

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stranded 12 runners, failing to capitalize with the tying run in scoring position in the sixth, seventh and eighth. Duke looks to stem its losing streak this weekend when it travels to Chapel Hill to face No. 18 North Carolina for a threegame series. “We’ll have two good days of practice and then we’ll hit the road,” McNally said. “That’s the great thing about college baseball. There’s always a game around the corner.”

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wholly rolled over or was wholly duped by the administration. Last Fall, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta announced the supposed one-time increase in the dining plan contract fee would not be reassessed until the dining deficit was eliminated. During last year’s campaign, Lefevre took credit for negotiating this fee as a desirable temporary alternative to “directed choice.” But as president his priorities were elsewhere. The dining fee, which will continue until at least fiscal year 2013, is a witness to Lefevre’s failure to fight administrators over dining. In November, the administration announced its decision to cancel Tailgate after a frightening incident involving a heavily intoxicated child.

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y older brother got married over Spring good seat—even though he clearly didn’t see it break, which was awesome. Making the that way—for the rest of the flight. 25-hour journey to and from Singapore I’m not telling this story to amuse you, but twice in one week was less awesome, rather to share with you what it so I’m very thankful that—to minimade me realize: We, as Duke stumize my traveling discomfort—my dents, often behave just like Man generous brother and dad decided A, although we’re rarely aware of to pay for my business class ticket it. The underlying reason for Man on Singapore Airlines. A’s behavior was that he, or maybe It was the first time I’ve ever his company, had paid four times flown business class, and the experithe coach fare to fly business class, ence was mind-blowingly amazing. I hence he felt entitled to a perfect daniel wong don’t intend this as a plug for Sintraveling experience. Similarly, loving life, gapore Airlines, but here are some many times we feel that because things that made the flight unforwe’re paying roughly $50,000 a year loving lives gettable: a 15-inch LCD screen, an to attend Duke, it should provide us assortment of the latest movies and with a perfect college experience. music on-demand, noise-canceling headphones Since we’ve chosen to go to Duke, instead of and four reading lamps (each with a dim and another institution that doesn’t cost nearly as bright setting). I had a choice of seven interna- much, we feel like we’re “flying business class.” tional newspapers and 30 magazines, two USB Our needs should be completely taken care of, ports so I could listen to music and view photos, a and we should constantly feel like we’re getting special dock for my iPod and an electrical outlet. I our money’s worth. was given three pillows and two coat hooks, and I I believe it’s this line of thinking that drives ate cuisine created by world-famous chef Gordon some independents (I’m one, so don’t hate on Ramsey (one selection from the menu: broiled me) to say things like, “My social life isn’t all halibut with orzo, celeriac puree and smoked red that great. Duke, what are you doing about it?” wine sauce). There was a free flow of wine and Other students complain endlessly about the curchampagne and a leather seat that could be con- riculum, housing model, party scene or dining verted into a fully flat bed. Oh, it also felt pretty plan. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s important nice to be addressed as “Mr. Wong” throughout to fight for policy changes that will benefit the the journey. student body and the University. Yet if we continBest. Flight. Ever. ually blame others for our less-than-ideal Duke Interestingly, despite the sophistication and experience, we fail to take full responsibility for luxury of business class, I observed a number of our own lives. Taking full responsibility doesn’t passengers acting like adult spoiled brats. For mean we control the outcome of every single instance, one man (I’ll call him Man A) got to situation, but it does mean that we take ownerhis assigned seat and, five minutes later, realized ship of 100 percent of our problems and recogthere was another seat available that he preferred. nize our ability to choose how we respond to our He requested a change, and the flight attendant circumstances. It requires that we acknowledge granted it. we’re completely accountable for the way things Nothing wrong with that. turn out. No blaming our parents, our past, our After a couple of minutes, Man A spotted an- friends or Duke. other seat he would rather have—but this one had The high cost of our college expenses, about already been assigned to another passenger. This $200,000, doesn’t entitle us to four perfect years. passenger was traveling with his wife, and they It might sound extreme, but I would say it really were sitting side by side. Man A, however, was un- doesn’t entitle us to anything. It’s entirely up to deterred. He called the flight attendant over and us to create that fantastic college experience we said that he wanted a second seat change; the cou- dreamed of when we were in high school. Let’s ple could just change their seats. The flight atten- focus on the “business class amenities” we have dant refused politely, but I could tell that the un- access to at Duke rather than on that “preferred reasonable demand had made him incredulous. seat” we can’t have. Let’s assume absolute responThat’s not the end of the story. sibility for our lives so we can fully enjoy the luxuTo the flight attendant’s dismay, Man A furi- rious experience that is Duke. ously got up, walked up to the couple and asked them to swap seats with him. Not unexpectedly, Daniel Wong is a Pratt senior. His column runs every they said no, which left Man A with a perfectly other Wednesday.

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Match Day

hen I started medical school, I used to claim, quite frequently, that this or the other aspect of med school or of being a doctor was entirely unique. “Medicine is the only profession,” I’d say, “where you are forced to keep learning for your whole career because the rules of the game change at such a rapid pace.” “ That’s ridiculous,” my then-girlfriend-now-fiancée would say, “there are new laws and court decisions all the time.” “ OK, “ I’d counter, “medicine is the only profession where you can alex fanaroff never leave work until you’ve tied up farewell tour all the loose ends.” “Wrong,” Rebecca would say, “Walmart cashiers have to balance their registers before clocking out.” My lawyer-fiancée’s unsurprising ability to demolish me in debating notwithstanding, I can confidently assert that nothing in the world compares to Match Day— possibly because she said it first. Match Day is the day that graduating medical students all over the country (and the world) find out where they will begin their internships and/or residencies in July. A brief overview of the Match, for some background: In September, graduating medical students all over the United States (and the world) filled out a general residency application. With the help of advisers, we chose residency programs and sent our applications (along with copies of our transcripts and test scores) to those programs. In September, October and November, our chosen programs invited us to visit their hospitals for job interviews. In November, December and January, we flew all over the country for these job interviews, during each of which approximately 25 of us sat through information sessions about the structure of each program and the high points of each city before two half-hour sitdowns with members of the intern selection committee. In February, with a lot of thought and the occasional fit of tears, we ranked the programs at which we interviewed from favorite to least favorite. The programs, in turn, ranked us the same way. All of our preferences are entered into a supercomputer which spends three weeks churning through the data before filling each program’s internship slots with the appropriate number of graduating medical students, giving preference to the students’ rankings over the programs’. Finally, shortly after noon on some Thursday in the middle of March (the 17th this year), nearly every graduating med student receives an envelope enclosing a sheet of paper with his or her internship assignment. Duke’s tradition is for all of the students to simultaneously open up their envelopes (with fancy letter openers given to us gratis and/ or paid for a thousand times over by our tuition dollars and future donations). Afterwards, there is pandemonium as everyone celebrates. Two of my friends, after finding out they had matched at the same place, executed an impressive pairs figure skating maneuver— I think it was an axel lift. Everyone else asks everyone else where they matched, trying to avoid excessive congratulations until they know how the other person feels about where he’s going. Making matters still more complicated, various faculty members and department chairs come to the Match Day ceremony, so it’s possible that immediately after finding out that you matched at your eighth choice, you have to look happy about it when you talk to your boss for the next several years. Then you have to spend an entire day partying, which was easy enough four years ago, but now presents more of a challenge. (Just kidding. Anyone can party all day.) For me, Match Day had considerably less drama. After traveling the country looking for an internal medicine program I liked more than Duke’s, I decided there wasn’t a program like that out there, and I ranked Duke first. I was fairly confident that Duke felt the same way about me, and it would’ve been a shock to match at any other program. But for me, and for everyone else, Match Day feels like the day where we officially become doctors (even though we won’t earn the title until graduation day). I have a job for the next year and a real plan for my life. I’m even starting to get mail addressed to Dr. Fanaroff. On June 30, I’ll actually be someone’s doctor. And for the first time, I can feel that way without simultaneously feeling ridiculous. Somewhere in the midst of the letter-opening, friend-spinning, chairman-schmoozing and all-day-partying, Match Day managed to convince me I was actually going to be a physician in a way that four years of medical training never could. Alex Fanaroff is a fourth-year medical student. His column runs every Wednesday.

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A case of earworms

couldn’t concentrate. Here I was, staring down at nati, is of the opinion that earworms result from a certain my neurobiology exam, the one that I had stayed in song or tune that has “properties that excite an abnormal on Saturday night to study for, a test that I needed reaction in the brain.” Music that fits this description is to do well on, and of course, my brain most often repetitive and simple, yet has had decided to go on vacation. What besome qualities that the brain subconfore were words with meaning now just sciously considers to be remarkable or looked like shapes with no purpose othnoteworthy. Thus, in order to scratch this er than to befuddle me. I looked around “cognitive itch” and process this piece of at the other students bent over their music, the brain may repeat the music papers, their eyes focused and alert. over and over. And over. Returning to my exam, I gathered all of One can see the potential this remy remaining brainpower and focused search has for marketing. How awesome milap mehta it, like a laser beam, on the question at would it be if marketers could find that hand. It worked. The words on the page what i think i think golden verse or jingle? All they would had started to make sense again. Microneed to do is play it once, and their work tubules. Axons. Yes! I was back, baby! Just as I was about would be done! The brains of unsuspecting consumers to begin crafting my brilliant response to question 4c, would replay it again and again, like a never-ending adsomething unexpected hit me like a freight train ... vertisement. Free commercials, inside the very brains of “Cause baby, you’re a FIIIIIIIIIIIIREWORK!!!” My customers! “Nationwide is on your side! Nationwide is body gave an involuntary shudder. Crap, I thought. Not on your side! Nationwide is ... ” again. Ms. Perry, stop tormenting me. Can’t I have a betThe more I thought about it, the more I realized ter song stuck in my head? Something nice, like some that the subtleties of advertising are also applicable James Taylor or something. Anything but that God-for- to music. Instead of being art, music today goes for saken song. some catchy factor that is likely to be popular to “No fireworks? Not a problem,” my brain replied. I audiences, a trait that is characteristic of television breathed a sigh of relief. commercials. I understood then that “Firework” was “FRIDAY, FRIDAY, GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRI- stuck in my head so often because I came to associate DAY!!!” This time I threw my pen down and started rub- the chorus with the music video. Imagine my shock bing my eyes. You have got to be kidding me. when, right after Ms. Perry sang a line, a large burst of What is it about crappy songs that make them so sparks emerges right from her chest! Fantastic! What freaking, impossibly catchy? Why must the fossils of could be catchier than that? I also reasoned that “Frithe playlist at Shooters II nestle comfortably in my day” was circulating through my brain because of my brain, picking the most inopportune moments to be displeasure at hearing the banshee-like wailing of the unearthed? I left class shaking my head at the grade chorus as I wondered why something so heinous had I was about to receive for the incoherent responses I received millions of views on YouTube. Although I had hastily scribbled. I found myself thinking: Damn had the urge to run for cover, some people obviously you, Rebecca Black ... damn you. find Ms. Black’s voice appealing. I had a case of earworms. Up to 98 percent of us get Our brains are susceptible organs. The majority of them. Earworms are the annoying and endless repeti- what we process is subconscious, and as neuroscience tion of a couple seconds of a song you used to like but and psychology research progress, the secrets of the now would do anything to get rid of. It turns out that I mind will continue to be unlocked. Whether we like it was suffering from a common ailment, known scientifi- or not, commercials, advertisements and even modern cally as “involuntary musical imagery,” pretty much the music find their way inside our minds and leave marks technical description of a haunting melody. Earworms that are hard to erase. I found out the hard way, ironipester most of us, but they are actually quite useful if you cally in the midst of a neurobiology exam, that these are a marketer looking to sell a product or an executive marks can be more harmful than you think. in the music industry looking to get rich off the next pop sensation. Milap Mehta is a Trinity junior. His column runs every James Kellaris, a researcher at the University of Cincin- other Wednesday.

lettertotheeditor Reconsidering Duke’s iPod program The March 17 editorial, “Incorporate iPad selectively,” criticized Duke’s 2004 iPod program as a “failed experiment,” for reasons that have little to do with what we were trying to accomplish and that overlook the successes that have been noted by many inside and outside of Duke. We weren’t trying to get all faculty and students to begin using iPods in their classes. We were trying to get people to think differently about how information gets disseminated, where and how learning happens and how we will integrate technology with everyday life and learning in the future. That is, after all, what we’re about here at Duke. We are here to encourage experimentation, divergent thinking and new ways of looking at the world. Here are just a few ways the iPod experiment supported those goals: Faculty and students across multiple disciplines moved from being consumers of media into creators of media. Our work building DukeCast, an early repository for all that media, led to our pioneering work with Apple on the creation of iTunesU. Finally, the iPod experiment led to the establishment of the Duke Digital Initiative, providing audio and video equipment via thousands

of individual loans each academic year, and the Multimedia Project Studio, which makes multimedia editing software and workstations available around the clock. In short, the iPod program played a significant role in building Duke’s reputation as a leader in the use of technology in higher education and as an early innovator in putting academic content on mobile devices. And while handing iPods to every incoming freshman gave technology-focused learning a jump start here at Duke, we also learned from it to proceed in small steps. That’s exactly what we’re doing with iPads, 3-D video, WordPress and every other technology we look at nowadays. When you take the long view, the effective use of multimedia in academics at Duke and our reputation in higher education circles as a leader in this space make the iPod program a success. Lynne O’Brien Director, academic technology and instructional services for Perkins Library Samantha Earp Director, academic services for the Office of Information Technology

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