apr. 22, 2011 issue

Q A& with Richard Brodhead

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President Richard Brodhead sat down with The Chronicle to discuss the nearly finished school year, campus culture and dealing with press coverage.

The rapidly approaching end to classes presents an opportunity for the Duke community to reflect on a year that at different times attracted desirable and unwanted national attention. In the same year that a PowerPoint raised questions of what values define stu-dent culture, the University received the largest donation in its his-tory— an $80 million gift that will allow Duke to overhaul cen-tral gathering areas for students. The Chronicle’s Julian Spector sat down with President Richard Brodhead Thursday, focusing in particular on his role in helping students shape campus culture.

The Chronicle: There’s been a lot of talk this year about campus culture and redefining campus culture. How would you define campus culture as it is currently?

Richard Brodhead: Let me take a step back. Duke is peculiarly a school that loves itself. People at Duke love Duke to a degree that’s quite remarkable among universi-ties. At the same time, people at Duke also sometimes love to criticize Duke, and especially the culture of Duke. The things that are criticized here are really not that peculiar to Duke. If we talk about alcohol issues, if we talk about gen-der issues and even issues of sexual harassment and sexual abuse, many of these questions came up this past year, but

you know these are not questions peculiar to Duke in any way. But Duke takes them as if they were.

I thought what was so useful about this past year was the extent to which students understood that rather than just grumbling about campus culture and wondering why admin-istrators don’t change it, students understood that campus culture is student culture and the ones who will make it will be students in significant part, with our support to be sure. And I thought there was lots of evidence this year of people stepping forward to become the creators of campus culture.

TC: What specifically stood out to you?RB: I thought that the Greek Women’s Initiative was a very

striking fact. I thought the Duke Student Government took a very proactive role this year on questions of campus culture—the night I went to the forum, the very high level of discussion that was already going on in a pretty intense way.

TC: If you were a student at Duke now, what steps would you take to address campus culture?

RB: That would depend on what student I was. The best culture for Duke or any school would be the one

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Survey reveals happy faculty

by Lauren CarrollTHe CHRonICLe

Duke faculty satisfaction is relatively high compared to that of its peer institutions, Academic Council members learned at their meeting Thursday.

At the meeting, Provost Peter Lange shared the results of the 2010 Faculty Survey Report, a survey administered to faculty members last Spring. The report detailed survey results in terms of school and department within the Uni-versity as well as faculty rank, gender, race and ethnicity. The report also included comparisons to a similar 2005 Duke survey and a 2010 survey of faculty satisfaction at other highly-ranked colleges and universities.

According to the 2010 report, female faculty at Duke are less satisfied with salaries and access to teaching as-sistants than their male counterparts, though men and women are both highly satisfied with most other aspects of their professional lives. Women also found it more difficult to balance career and family life. Also, more women than men found scheduling and “scholarly pro-ductivity” to be stressful. Lange noted that these patterns can also be found at other schools.

“In general, the differences that show up at Duke be-tween genders show up as well at our peer institutions,” he said.

Lange added that overall satisfaction of professional life is similar among faculty members from different ra-cial and ethnic backgrounds. He noted, however, that black and Hispanic faculty members believe that they have to work harder than their colleagues to convince people that they are equally qualified as scholars.

Some of the results, when compared to the 2005 find-ings, reflect how faculty response has changed due to both

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Duke is incoming freshman Lionel Watkins’ dream school, but the debt he will incur during his four years almost kept him from attending.

Watkins is part of a national trend among college students who are subject to severe student loan debt after graduation. The new York Times reported last week that student loan debt will likely exceed $1 tril-lion this year as Congress considers cuts in govern-ment funding for federal aid.

For the first time in U.S. history, student loan debt will exceed credit card debt, according to The new York Times. The Project on Student Debt, a nonprofit research and advocacy initiative, reported last year that the average student loan debt was $24,000, up 6 percent from 2009. With the House of Representatives propos-ing cuts to the Pell Grant Program, around 1.7 million

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The syrian leader also issued a decree that “allows peaceful protests,” state-run television reported Thursday. The measures follow a decree by assad Thursday in which he named a new governor for homs, the site of deadly clashes.

at least 130 people have been killed in the unrest, according to new york- based human rights Watch. syrian forces have tor-tured protesters and it is impossible to verify how many remain in detention, hrW said. activists say the number killed exceeds 200.

The newly appointed Cabinet approved a draft of the decree that scrapped the emergency law.

WashingTon, d.C. — as state legisla-tures adjourn over the coming weeks, new republican majorities backed by gop gov-ernors are leaving their mark in a wave of legislation that reaches far beyond the eco-nomic issues that dominated the midterm elections last fall.

south dakota passed the most restrictive abortion bill in the country, Wisconsin and ohio moved to limit collective bargaining rights of public workers, and kansas, Texas, south Carolina and montana are on the brink of passing measures to impose strict photo id requirements at the polls.

The measures are among the thousands of bills proposed as newly empowered gop statehouses take advantage of their first op-portunity in decades to have such a broad impact on policy. Twenty legislative bodies across the country flipped from democratic to republican control, and the party picked up governorships in 10 states.

New Republican majorities, governors make mark

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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The new Plays Festival was held in Brody Theater Thursday, featuring plays by seniors alex Young and Ben Bergmann for their senior distinction projects.

“‘The craziest things we’ve had were often the quickest ones gone,” says mo-hamed ismail, a sophomore involved with the student sustainability leaders and the environmental alliance. ‘my favorite has been a jelly bean statue to store jelly beans that sang when you opened it. We had a book by dan ariely dropped off and taken within two minutes.’”

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officials will gather Monday for the an-nouncement of an entrepreneurship initia-tive aimed at supporting high-growth com-panies and creating jobs.

Stephen Schwarzman, chair, Ceo and co-founder of The Blackstone Group, will lead an announce of the endeavor 11 a.m. at the Washington Building of the Ameri-

can Tobacco Campus located in downtown Durham. The initiative will take place in the Research Triangle Park region, accord-ing to a media advisory, though details of the nature of the plans remain unclear.

other speakers at the event include: Gov. Bev Perdue; U.S. Senator Kay Hagan; U.S. Representative Brad Miller; U.S. Chief Technology officer Aneesh Chopra; Duke President Richard Brodhead; n.C. Cen-

tral University Chancellor Charlie nelms; north Carolina State University Chancel-lor Randy Woodson; and Holden Thorp, Chancellor of the University of north Car-olina at Chapel Hill.

The Blackstone Charitable Foundation was founded in 2007 and coincided with the Blackstone’s initial public offering. The foundation has joined The White House to support the “Startup America” initiative, a

public and private collaboration encourag-ing American entrepreneurship.

According to the firm’s website, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation is in the midst of a five-year, $50 million entrepre-neurship initiative. The first major grant established the Blackstone LaunchPad at two colleges in the Detroit area, which helps entrepreneurs turn ideas into busi-nesses that will spur economic growth.

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A judicial complaint was filed regarding the Duke Student Government Senate and class executive elections Thursday night.

According to a release from the DSG Ju-diciary, plaintiff Patrick oathout, a freshman and candidate for athletics, services and the environment senator, filed a complaint against the DSG Board of elections, arguing that Attorney General Ryan Clark, a junior, violated the election bylaws by changing the election rules and regulations without ap-proval from the Senate. oathout currently serves as an academic affairs senator and rules committee member.

Clark had sent an email to election can-didates April 20, which said the due date for reporting campaign budgets was April 21 at 10:30 p.m. According to the election rules, however, specifically in Section II, Part A,

subsection c, the deadline for submission of this material is the day before the election. This was found to be in direct contradiction to the election bylaw, which states that candi-dates have up to 48 hours after polls close to turn in their budget forms and receipts.

The Judiciary found that the election’s rules and regulations originally approved by the Senate were unconstitutional in that it violated the election bylaw at the moment of its passing. The Judiciary also decided that this rule may not apply in the future and that all candidates in the Senate and class executive elections have until April 23, 2011, at 10:00 p.m. to sub-mit their budgets and receipts.

The Judiciary also recommended “that the Attorney General and Board of elections take more time to carefully prepare cogent, cohesive and consistent rules and regula-tions to govern elections in the future.”

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the economic downturn and changes with-in the University, Lange said. For example, almost all faculty members indicated higher satisfaction with their office space in 2010 than in 2005, particularly those who work in buildings that have recently undergone renovations. Also, the results showed lower satisfaction with technology and research staff in 2010, which could reflect cuts made due to financial constraints, Lange said.

The results shared in the meeting were just an overview of the full report, Lange said, noting the importance of analyzing the findings within individual academic depart-ments to create small-scale action plans.

in other business:James Siedow, vice provost for research

and professor of biology, and Vice Dean for Research Sally Kornbluth shared adminis-trative plans for addressing budget concerns that are affecting University research. Korn-bluth explained that costs, particularly in the School of Medicine, are increasing—due to the loss of some very large projects—while federal funding is decreasing. She added that the best ways to overcome these chal-

lenges are reducing expenses, using reserve finances, investing in promising research ventures and increasing additional revenue sources.

“Whether we can find people who are creative in getting revenue is important,” Kornbluth said, adding that the School of Medicine has recently been approached by large pharmaceutical companies inter-ested in financing research.

Although the costs of research are in-creasing, Siedow noted that the number of grant proposals coming from the Univer-sity are increasing, particularly from the Pratt School of engineering.

The council also elected five new mem-bers to the body’s executive committee—Peter Burian, professor of classical and comparative literature; Philip Costanzo, professor of psychology and neuroscience; Warren Grill, chair of the University Pri-orities Committee and Addy professor of biomedical engineering; Cynthia Kuhn, professor of pharmacology and cancer bi-ology, and John Payne, Joseph R. Ruvane Jr. Professor at the Fuqua School of Busi-ness. They also reelected John Staddon, James B. Duke professor emeritus of biol-ogy and neuroscience, as faculty secretary of the council.

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low-income students—a fifth of current Pell recipients—would lose eligibility to the pro-gram, the Huffington Post reported last week. These changes, among other federal spend-ing cuts, have forced universities across the country to reconsider the financial aid pack-ages they are offering incoming freshmen for the upcoming school year.

“My family continues to assure me that they support my decision to attend any uni-versity, no matter the financial situation,” Wat-kins wrote in an email. “I, however, am very apprehensive.... I hope to attend [medical] school after graduation, and graduating with what could potentially be somewhere between $40,000 and $50,000 of debt is frightening.”

lower than averageDuke’s average student loan debt upon

graduation is currently ranked below the na-tional average. In 2010 students graduated with an average debt of $21,884—a decrease from $23,093 in 2009, according to statistics from the Duke office of Financial Aid.

Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of financial aid, said the University has been able to decrease the average stu-dent loan debt every year for the past three years because of the Duke Financial Aid Initiative, which began in 2005 and raised more than $300 million.

The initiative enhanced the need-based undergraduate financial aid program by im-plementing financial guarantees, such as elim-inating the parental contribution for families with institutionally determined incomes less than $60,000 and eliminating loans for fami-lies with incomes less than $40,000.

“From Duke’s perspective, our student loan debt is going to be significantly less than the national average because we are able to meet student need,” Rabil said. “The tuition is

not insignificant and with the funds from the initiative, we are able to cap our student loans and borrowing from families.”

Rabil added that she is skeptical that the University will be able to lower the average graduating senior’s debt for the 2011-2012 academic year.

“I would love to go below $20,000,” she said. “But given the economy, I don’t know if that is going to happen. What seems to be happening is that we limit the borrowing in the package, but... some students do decide to take out the maximum amount of federal support in order to pay for the parent contri-bution piece.”

debt upon graduationJames Johnson, visiting professor of the

practice of public policy, wrote in an email that students could potentially leave Duke with debt that stays with them well into their 40s. Citing a decline in need-based tuition grants, a rise in tuition and weak finances for some families, Johnson said many students must make tough decisions upon graduation.

“Higher student debt could impact... career choice, and might make many stu-dents think twice before committing long-term to a position in the nonprofit or pub-lic sector,” he said.

Katie Henderson, Pratt ’10, is currently working as an energy auditor for small busi-nesses while paying back loans she took out during her time at Duke.

“I didn’t get my job until october after graduation so my grace period worked out for me,” she said. “But if I hadn’t gotten a job, it might have been very uncomfortable.”

To assist students who are graduating in debt without a job or who are in a difficult fi-nancial situation, Rabil said the financial aid office holds exit interviews with all students re-ceiving financial aid to go over strategies and options for repayment.

“If you have several loans, you can always

apply for a deferment and... talk to your lend-ers about what your options are,” Rabil said. “For any kind of federal loan, as long as you let them know that you are not in a position to make the payments, they can give you a for-bearance [on payment] or some sort of flex-ible solution.”

a class struggleThe prospect of high student debt may

deter some students from enrolling at Duke next Fall.

Stefan Gorham, an early decision appli-cant from new York, said he was pleased with the package that Duke offered him. He wrote in an email that Duke provided funding for all expenses aside from a small amount of loans and his expected family contribution, which he called a “very reasonable amount.”

The expected family contribution is cal-culated using an institutional formula that takes into account a family’s income and as-sets and makes allowances for factors such as a family’s living expenses and the number

of children in college. Watkins said he was “shocked” by the Uni-

versity’s calculation of his eFC, as well as the fact that he cannot use outside scholarships toward his eFC. Before receiving his financial aid package from Duke, Watkins received an eFC calculation from Yale University, Stan-ford University, Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania and northwestern University ranging from $750 to $7,000. His expected contribution from Duke is $8,500.

Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy and economics and director of graduate stud-ies, wrote in an email that while households may be less likely to put money toward big-ticket purchases given the current economy, many families still value higher education. Stu-dents see their education as an investment in the future, making the debt worth it, he said.

“For a small number of [students], that means paying tuition at an elite private univer-sity like Duke,” Vigdor said. “We certainly be-lieve that an investment in a Duke education will pay off for our students down the road.”

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The University is actually amazingly eager—very, very willing and eager to help students carry forward the things that give student creativity full outlets. This is a school full of dancing. We know there’s not adequate space for dancing on campus, but we’re trying to figure it out. And I use that just as one of a mil-lion examples. even with this business about the intramural fields. It’s funny, Duke is so well known for athletics, but Duke isn’t overstocked with athletic fa-cilities for ordinary students. It will soon have a lot more of them, as over time, it will soon have a lot more practice space for student artists. It already has ample research space for student scientists and everybody else.

TC: In your email in the Fall about cam-pus culture, you addressed the need for students to lead the change. As president, you are charged with providing the vision

and guiding the University, but you also have the desire for the students to lead the change. How do you find the line between you providing the vision and letting the stu-dents lead it?

RB: not an easy thing. I’ve been very articulate on this campus about the domi-nant value I see for students in their educa-tion, and the word I have found above all for it is “engagement.” I don’t want people to just take courses. I want students to be intellectually engaged. I want their curios-ity and creativity to be the driver of their education. I don’t want students to just en-roll in extracurricular activities. That does not impress me at all. I want students to feel driven to do all the wonderful things that bring students together and open possibilities on this campus. Just for that reason, we also need to understand stu-dents are the age where they are now the responsible agents of their life. It would be neither practicable nor desirable for the adults at the University to set the social life of the University. What you want to say is, let’s try to remember what the sort of dominant values are here, and then you go figure out the best way to live out those values. That’s what I would say.

TC: So is your role in that process as a facilitator of discussion?

RB: I think so. I think it is partly to chal-lenge people and partly to provide support for people in their many efforts. You see things as facts that actually represent collabo-rations between students and the University. I’ll give you one small example. An event I always very much enjoy is the library party.... Well, the library party was dreamed up by stu-dents..... Look at the party this year. The party this year was not an administration creation. It was created by the [Duke Marketing Club], and all the cool stuff that was there from the history of advertising collections, that was all brought out by students. The whole thing was staged by students with the cooperation of the

university. Why? Because it represented the bringing the whole university together kind of event, the demonstration that socializing can be both totally fun and not debauched. Those seemed the values to support.

TC: Looking back over this year, it’s hard to do that without certain names coming to mind—Karen owen, Anil Potti and oth-ers. They brought scrutiny from the outside world but also a chance for us to look in at ourselves. How do you think we as a university learned from the scandals of the past year?

RB: every university has its scandals, and every university thinks its own are the worst scandals in the world. But other people don’t always care about them to the same extent.

In the case of the PowerPoint thing, I was sorry for all the national attention that got. It seemed to me a relatively freaky thing and just the kind of thing the American public loves to drool over. As a reflection of Duke, let me just ask you: Do you regard that as a reflection of daily life at Duke? So why were people here so quick to accept that as if it were an index of Duke? Because they recog-nized grains of things in it that not ev-eryone is comfortable with. And that led to the whole culture discussion, which I think will have many positive outcomes.

As for Dr. Potti, there it seems to me that the main takeaway is the problems of Dr. Potti’s work derive form a new phase in the history of medicine. The attempt to take genomic work into practice in new therapies introduces com-plexities people haven’t typically dealt with be-fore. The computational complexities aren’t within the skills of many well-trained scientists. I think that the lesson of the Potti thing is just we and every university need to take a big step back and figure out what kind of oversight and regulation needs to be done A for the science and B for the clinical implementation of the science of this new work with this far higher degree of computational complexity.

TC: And with Tailgate?

RB: Well, Tailgate was a custom loved by many and abused by some. I never heard anyone tell me otherwise. Some of the facts that came together this Fall just made it in-evitable that we couldn’t continue to have Tailgate in that form. You could minimize it, but the danger to life that we saw staring us in the face just meant you couldn’t have this continue in this form. I have to believe that students as ingenious and sociable as Duke students can dream up forms of fun that will be highly communal and highly delightful and avoid the excesses of Tailgate.

It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? But every year is quite a year!

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>>Summer read: “The best book I just read is Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser. It’s about the meaning of cities.”

>>Durham restaurant: “Watt’s Grocery is probably my current favorite, with many competitors.”

>>Hidden spot on campus: “Well, by definition the president is never hidden. My office is my secret spot. Duke Gardens is the place where I go as a sanctuary.”

>>Musical selection: “The last thing I listened to was Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks.’ I was on an airplane and just by arbitrary chance it was on the selection.”

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Clinching the No. 2 seed and getting a first round bye in this week’s ACC tour-nament, Duke plans to take full advan-tage of its well-rested team to come away with an explosive performance Friday against No. 3 North Carolina at 7 p.m.

The tournament, which is being held at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C., started on Thursday with the Cavaliers fac-

ing the Tar Heels and Virginia Tech against Boston College.

“We feel great and are really ex-cited about the po-sition we put our-selves in, getting an extra day of rest this week and basically spending all week

tuning up our game,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We’re not necessarily putting in a whole lot of new or exciting things, and we’re just trying to get better at what we’re doing.”

When Duke (13-2, 4-1 in the ACC) faced

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The Blue Devils’ quest for an ACC tournament title begins tonight at 7:30 at Konskinen Stadium, as they will face Virginia for the second time in one week, after defeating the Cavaliers last Saturday, 13-11.

The contest seems like déjà vu—the teams will play in the same sta-dium they did last time, only with strangely reversed roles. While the Blue Devils (10-4, 3-0 in the ACC) were considered the underdogs one week ago, they have regained their confidence and acquired a newfound poise. The Cavaliers, on the other hand, have found themselves in a slump, look-ing for answers and players to step up.

Key to this entire matchup is the fact that Virginia may again be missing their best player, Steele Stanwick.

“We recognize they were not playing with their best player,” head coach John

Danowski said. “In order for us to be suc-cessful we’re going to have to play much, much better on the defensive end and we’re going to be much more attentive on the wings and on the faceoffs.”

Stanwick, a finalist for the Tewaaraton Trophy and a member of the All-ACC team, has been one of the most electric attackers in the country, anchoring an of-

fense that ranks No. 1 nationally with 13 goals per game. Duke clear-ly benefited last weekend as the Cavaliers’ scoring efforts lacked the incisiveness and touch of Stan-wick.

His presence in this upcoming game may a deciding factor. At the moment, Stanwick is listed as day-to-day and it will be a game-time decision if he plays.

Regardless of whether Stanwick plays, Virginia (8-4, 1-2) will rely on its depth to defeat the Blue Devils.

Duke is in a similar position, looking for

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The Blue Devils will make the short 20-minute commute to Cary, N.C., this weekend to participate in the

ACC tournament. As the No. 1 seed in the field, Duke received a first-round bye and will play its first match against

N.C. State Friday at 9 a.m. The Blue Devils (21-3, 10-1 in the ACC) easily defeated the Wolfpack (15-7, 5-6) 6-1 in the regular season.

The Blue Devils have every right to be confident about their ACC tournament prospects this weekend. After all, they did seem to steamroll over conference opponents this year, only dropping one ACC matchup against Florida State to close the reg-ular season. Duke’s résumé included

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more players to contribute. “Anybody can step up at any time,” Danowski said. “We

rely on no one [player]... but we rely on everyone to make the play that is available to them.”

Last week it was midfielder Robert Rotanz who had one of the best performances of his career, with five points off four goals and an assist. Other players who will be expected to con-tribute include junior CJ Costabile and freshman Jordan Wolf, both of whom were named to the All-ACC team yesterday.

Senior Zach Howell, the only starting attacker from last year’s national championship squad, and the other up-perclassmen will be looked on to provide leadership and game-winning experience.

“[Senior leadership], it’s huge this time of the year,” Danowski said. “The hope is that we learn from last year’s experience and those guys can show the way.... It’s about your seniors and their sense of urgency.”

This time around, Duke hopes to avenge a loss suf-fered to Virginia in the ACC tournament last year. Odds are good that, under the leadership of Danowski, the Blue Devils will be able to accomplish this. Duke has a strong record against the Cavaliers, losing only one of its previous 11 meetings against Virginia.

Tonight the Blue Devils will look to continue that hot streak.


CJ Costabile has taken the majority of the faceoffs for Duke this year, winning 55%. Danowski identified faceoffs as a key factor in Friday’s game.

North Carolina (10-4, 3-2) earlier this season on April 15, the Blue Devils came away with an 11-10 victory at home. It was just one of many one-goal margins the two teams have seen in the past number of years.

“We’ve played them so many times over the years and had so many one-goal games that we would expect nothing less than a full-on battle for 60 minutes, and they would ex-pect the same,” Kimel said. “A couple of years ago, the roles were reversed, when UNC had a bye in the first round, and we had a first-round game and turned around and beat them 14-4. We’re well aware that anything can happen in the tournament, and we’re prepared to do our best.”

Throughout the season, the Blue Devils have seen many of their players go down, notably seniors Sarah Bullard and Caroline Spearman, both of whom came back in the last few weeks.

But with their return, Duke is looking stronger than ever, especially having a young defense that has grown im-mensely this year.

“I think that certainly the injured players coming back into the mix has helped on both sides of the field, and I think we’ve definitely bolstered our defensive side of the ball and have more experience back there,” Kimel said. “In general, I see where we are based on our last game, and we fought really hard and showed a ton of hustle.

“I’m looking forward to building on that perfor-mance and playing a sharper game going into [the semifinals]. That’s what we’ll need to do if we’re look-ing to continue Sunday.”

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The rivalry between the Tar Heels and Blue Devils has included some wars in the recent past, including an 11-10 Duke win on April 15.


marquee road wins over then-No. 3 North Carolina and then-No. 5 Miami.

“We’re playing to win [the tournament]. All of our preparations this week have been to be victorious,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We put ourselves in a really good po-sition, getting a bye.... Our goal is to win it. We’re as battle-tested as anybody.”

Ashworth also explained that Duke is well-equipped to handle high-pressure situations that characterize tournaments. Four of the squad’s eight members are seniors, and three have seen this tournament in years past. Reka Zsilinszka, Ellah Nze and Elizabeth Plotkin were also pres-ent when the Blue Devils took home the confer-ence and the national title two years ago.

“We have a confident group of girls who believe in themselves. I think if it were a young group, things might be different,” Ashworth said. “But we have four seniors, and I think they understand what we need to do this week to get things done.”

given this experience and success in the regular season, the Blue Devils are the heavy favorites to win the tournament. The path will not be easy, however. The ACC is widely considered to be the best conference in the country, now boasting seven teams in the top-25. This number even reached double-digits at one point in the season.

Even Ashworth was quick to note the po-tential for his squad to stumble early.

“It used to be the case if you were the No. 1 seed and you played the No. 8 seed, it was an easy match,” Ashworth said. “But honestly, there are no easy matches. There are five or six teams in the tournament that pose a serious threat to us.”

Looking forward, perhaps this tour-nament provides an opportunity beyond bragging rights in the ACC. Playing against such a talented field will not only give Duke confidence, but also reveal any weaknesses to improve upon before competing for a national title. After all, if the Blue Devils can compete against anybody in the ACC, they will likely also be able to stand their ground against anybody in the country.

“Look at the past couple of years at the NCAA Tournament, we always had to get by ACC teams,” Ashworth said. “There are going to be ACC teams in the tournament, and to keep getting wins of that caliber is a perfect way to spring into the tournament. It can do a lot for our team.”

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The spring has treated the Blue Devils well this season, and it doesn’t appear as though anything will change anytime soon. Since the official start of the spring season on March 20, Duke has won two of their last three tournaments, including the team’s best stoke play finish of the sea-son at the Irish Creek Collegiate two weeks ago. Brinson Paolini (13th), Wes Roach (14th) and Tim Gornik (17th) finished the regular season all ranked in the top 20 in the ACC.This weekend, the ACC tournament will be played at the Old North State Club for the 15th time overall. The Blue Devils not only have momen-tum on their side, but history as well—in their last ACC title win six years ago, the team won on the Old North State Club.

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The spring has treated the Blue Devils well this season, and it doesn’t appear as though anything will change anytime soon. Since the official start of the spring season on March 20, Duke has won two of its last three tournaments, including the team’s best stroke-play finish of the season at the Irish Creek Collegiate two weeks ago. Brinson Paolini (13th), Wes Roach (14th) and Tim gornik (17th) finished the regular season all ranked in the top 20 in the ACC in stroke average.

This weekend, the ACC tournament will be played at the Old North State Club in New London, N.C. The Blue Devils not only have momentum on their side, but history as well—in their last ACC title win six years ago, the team won on the very same course.

The course, a 7,102-yard track, is only three yards longer than the Club at Irish Creek, where the Blue Devils played some of their best golf of the season.

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RGAC scores can have no place in the house model. For the house model to work, the administration must stick to the value-free fit principle and work to ensure that the assign-ment process is free of bias.

The RGAC evaluations are a poor basis for housing as-signments. RGAC scores are currently a composite of “sec-tion stewardship” and “com-munity interaction” scores. This is a vague and contro-versial rubric. But worse, the

process applies value judge-ments to living groups—and, by implication, to the areas that they are placed in.

This flies in the face of house model principles. The

house model aims to make residential life

at Duke more equitable. But this cannot happen as long as some areas—Central Cam-pus, Edens Quadrangle—are stigmatized as undesirable. By moving groups with low RGAC scores to these areas, the administration will only perpetuate these stigmas.

The assignment process must be value free. The ad-ministration should create a computer program that places living groups based on group size, not their conduct from the previous year. This

program will possess none of the bias of the Approval and Removal Committee.

The program should as-sign space based solely on two variables: the number of beds in the living groups and its group type: greek or non-greek. The program will then randomly assign each living group to a section ap-propriate to its size. The ran-domization process should be constrained to preserve geographic diversity and to guarantee that there is a healthy variety of groups in each area. A simple guide-line might be to have a fixed number of beds separate any two groups of the same type.

For this process to work, students must feel the assign-ment process is truly random. The administration could

create a website or even host a public event to ensure that process both is and appears to be without bias.

Once assigned its section, a living group should remain in that location for the long-term. For the house model to work, houses must be an-chored to their location. A constant reshuffling of hous-ing assignments will under-mine the ultimate goal of the house model: to foster loyalty and community within each house. Students will bond over the unique characteris-tics of their houses’ locations.

Furthermore, given their at-tachment to their sections, stu-dents will strongly advocate for improvements in and around their houses. This will be espe-cially constructive in areas cur-rently considered undesirable,

like Central Campus. The implementation of

the new house model presents many logistical problems but also opportunities to better cur-rent residential policy. Value judgments should be reserved for living group conduct boards. These bodies could issue pun-ishments that have nothing to do with location, like prevent-ing delinquent groups from reserving space and obtaining programming funds.

To ensure the success of the house model, RGAC must go and a new objective system must take its place. Such a system must treat all residential groups—residen-tial locations—equally, re-gardless of their pasts. Such equity is absolutely compul-sory if the house model is to get off to a good start.

I’m a self-described complainer. Just your av-erage, worst-case scenario person. After Toe-gate back in December, I would have told you

Kyrie “Kerrie” Irving was down for the count, if not due to some cos-mic retribution from Matt Howard, then due to excessive Dougie-ing. For the first two years of my colle-giate career, my friends and family were on the receiving end of this venting, or as they have been coined, “Epic Margie Truwit Freakouts.”

But, to be fair, I had a lot to complain about. My internship search freshman year proved fu-tile, which clearly meant I was destined for a lifetime of unemployment and mediocrity (as of press time, I have yet to find full-time em-ployment, so take note, freshmen). “The Great Computer Crash” of sophomore year resulted in a freakout akin to Hansel’s “Where did all the files go?!” (Thankfully for me, I had Tail-gate to drown my sorrows #RIP #betterlucknext-timehansel). But at the end of sophomore year, I discovered perhaps the greatest thing since commercial-free airings of “Titanic.”

And that, dear readers, is the Twitter. No longer would my friends have to endure my freakouts—at least, not in person. In an even greater moment of fortune, I discovered the hashtag (or to you Twitter-illiterate, the pound sign). Initially conceived as a sign for a “trending topic,” the hashtag is often a “trend-ing problem.” Although #whitegirlproblems continues to define my life, I’ve found other hashtags to be equally important in my passive-aggressive rants to the Twitterverse. Here are a few of them, ripped directly from my over-utilized Twitter account.

1. #dukegirlproblems: I lost the mayorship of Shooters II. There are no study rooms left in Per-kins. LoYo ran out of punch cards. Why in the world is the poli sci department located up three flights of stairs? We’re actually in Perkins on a Friday. I just ran into the Grinch in Vondy, liter-ally. I’ve only been to Sushi Love once this week.

2. #chrongirlproblems: Do you srsly need a graphic? What do you mean we’re not sending anyone to the Maryland game? Is the Fresca but-ton still broken? How are things in Azkaban? Can we run one more photo of Kerrie? Is spell-check installed on these computers? They are so awkward. Can we LOLChron?

3. #seniorspring: Must half the countries in-volved in my thesis be in the midst of srs politi-

cal upheaval? Ritz, then Shooters? eRecruiting needs to stop advertising jobs I don’t want. I need to save this five-dollar bill for the weekend.

We need to go to the ABC store again. Did we watch “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” again last night?

The hashtag has united my stream of complaints into a less-than-coherent chronicle of my Duke experience, and yes, my #dukegirlproblems. I’ll be the first to admit that my #dukegirlproblems have consumed me at times, often resulting in rants on wearing heels in von der Heyden or sparkly Toms shoes. But maybe, just maybe, these problems aren’t prob-lems at all #rebeccablackseatquandary.

Over the last few years, “The Epic Margie Truwit Freakout” has transitioned from a self-in-duced panic to a steady stream of laughter. Sure, it wasn’t exactly optimal to drive back and forth to Greensboro for the men’s and women’s bas-ketball ACC Tournaments for a grand total of 12 schleps on I-85. I may have even tweeted about said hajj to Greensboro, followed by #dukegirl-problems. But I sure did get some laughs out of it, even making a list of the “Top Things to See on I-85 Between Durham and Greensboro” #buyj-eff. I won’t lie and tell you spending Spring break in Perkins writing my thesis was all that fun ei-ther. But getting kicked out at 6:00 p.m. was sure worth some lulz. With the help of the hashtag, the Twitter and some fantastic friends, I’ve found that almost every ridiculous event in my life, even Chronrage gone wrong, is worth a fit of laughter. These last four years could have been as stress-ful and difficult as a mid-season, non-conference road game (#stjohns), had I panicked about ev-ery mediocre grade, every back-focused basket-ball photo and every Cook Out cashier who tried to steal my change. But being able to laugh at these things has made my Duke experience all the more memorable. And hey, don’t you burn calories laughing anyway? #dukegirlproblems. So will I ever stop kvetching? Probably not. But it will always be followed by some srs lulz. And don’t forget the hashtag.

@Mtru23 served as Sports Photo Editor for Vol-ume 106, and in addition to the Twitter, would like to acknowledge her family and friends, and in par-ticular, the bbm group and Google Doc crew #real-lygoodatsocialmedia. and Tasti D-lite, for its nutri-tional value.

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We entered college four years ago as a class eager to experi-ence self-exploration and growth together, excited to take full advantage of the University’s myriad programs. By the

time I exit just a few weeks from now, that transformation will have been re-alized, but to a different degree and just from a single experience that spanned a career.

To outsiders, my Duke experience could be considered three years of confinement and one year of probation-turned-release come senior year. I’d prefer to call the former voluntary surrender. Through junior year, my friends had already ingrained an image of me shackled to my desk at The Chronicle for 70-to-80-hour workweeks.

Anyone who has been in my position at the paper, or any com-parable one for that matter, can attest to its thankless, under-appre-ciated and unforgiving nature. The only immediate gratification is from the stunning and always error-proof product you pick up on newsstands Monday through Friday. The only recognition is from the vitriol of critical online comments and emails received the day a story runs.

I went into it knowing that, and not only left it with no regret or resentment, but rather an unparalleled experience that I wish upon every undergraduate at Duke. The hours were long, the efforts di-rectly thankless, but the lasting results were the sanctity of a brother-hood that forever intertwined my life with those who became both my colleagues and my family.

I never had a plan and likely never will. But my years at The Chronicle gave me direction. I entered Duke with major “unde-clared,” and walked into The Chronicle’s attic office during orienta-tion week expecting nothing more than something to do in my free time. I would later learn, to both my dean and my academic advisor’s dismay, that classes would soon become this so-called “free time.”

Some of the wisest words alumni and fellow journalists have shared with me apply to so many Duke students: Journalism is about the reveal, it’s about telling the hard truth. It’s also about creating community and conveying why we, as citizens, should care.

My hard truth is that my Duke education came from beyond the classroom with three years at The Chronicle and one year emeritus. When my term as news editor concluded and I sashayed out the heavy wooden doors of 301 Flowers a year ago, I didn’t realize that my personal graduation had just passed.

But my final year away from the office allowed me to reflect on the effervescence that were the years prior. My work may not have been clearly lucrative, but the community we’ve created comes in layers: our Chronicle family, our network of sources, and you, our readers.

V. 105 was both my rock and my momentum. Will and Hon, there isn’t enough I could put in these thin pages about you both, but you have my eternal gratitude and appreciation for the work we’ve done together. I couldn’t be more proud of how far we’ve come and where we’re all going. V. 105 DHs, I’m extending to you the public thanks that you so belatedly deserve. V. 105 babies, you’re always going to be my freshmen—and I’m so incredibly proud of you for the perseverance you’ve shown. Jarvis, thanks for not forgetting me. EBSAK for life.

Finally, my completely unqualified and unsolicited message to those who still have the benefit of more than a few weeks left at Duke: Take your experience beyond the classroom and that 350-page textbook. Choose one, or a few, activities to be dedicated to, but choose ones that you’re truly passionate about. Let them offer you the direction my activity gave me.

Commit and learn to be selfless. For some reason, the greatest copy editors always find immense satisfaction in seeing the result of hours of editing, never to see their own name in the byline. I’ve real-ized that my senior year has been one of searching to assuage the void that was once filled by my leadership at the paper. Simply put, creating tangible results and nurturing the future of my organiza-tion was more satisfying than “living up senior year,” regardless of the dearth of explicit appreciation or gratitude.

Yet, through such drought, the true value of a craft is realized. A legacy is carried out by the future leadership of the organization, by the apprentices who stayed and performed for an implicitly re-warding erudition, toward an increasingly worthwhile goal. That’s incomparably more touching and telling than any thank you note one could ever receive.

This isn’t a plug to join The Chronicle. Rather, it’s a push to find passion outside of the four-walled, blackboarded classroom you’re so familiar with. I sincerely hope that your Duke experience is as unique as mine and that you can realize success and satisfaction through self-less dedication. Build your own community and tell your hard truth; show, through your own work, why your successors should care. This dexterity is where we Duke students stand out and where our once quixotic ambitions become reality. It is how we come together to build our network of communities and work toward a greater good.

Emmeline Zhao is a Trinity senior. She is the former news editor and former university editor.

The accomplishment of my academic career that I’m probably most proud of is really just a bit of stunt work, or maybe not: I wrote a

5,000-word sentence that, comprising the second chapter of my tripartite se-nior thesis, took me hours and hours to create, hours I received credit for and spent bent over like a scrivener a coffee table purchased from TROSA in downtown Durham for a comically low price, maybe twenty dol-lars, I know it was at a discount—my roommate and I grabbed it along with a plaid couch, ironic in its college ugliness and an octagonal, yessir, octagonal nightstand, upon which sits a pile of overdue nov-els checked out from Perkins Library where, in case you didn’t know, a fantastic selection of fiction has been collected, books of comic obscurity that they’ll get to you in a couple days at most; I swear, if you haven’t checked out a novel or book of poems from the library before, you should go ahead and do so just for the sheer esoteric challenge of it, try and decide on the most rock-covered forgotten book of some literary value you can and I bet you they’ve got it barcoded and stacked away in the Library Service Center—and bent over this table I’ve downed with the faith of a monk Mr. Coffee-brewed coffee out of a white ceramic mug as I hammered together clumsily and slowly a short novel, my thesis for distinction in creative writing; this 5,000-word sentence might have been mere stunting and goofing around because surely I didn’t need to write something so long, I could have broken it up with periods and made it far more readable, but then, this is the point, the point of the sentence and the point of me being here at Duke and the point of what I’m going into the world stumbling and unmoored to try and do—if I had just written that second part like I did the first and the third then that sentence would be only a brick wall in my brain except, instead of a wall, it would be a pile of bricks, it would be unbuilt, untried, it would

be a stutter-step toward my own end zone, a move that I’ve pulled more than once after getting too en-chanted with my own tiny quickness like I’m some

sort of fleeing cat, catching the foot-ball and dodging laterally then trying to curl around, running straight into one of my bigger fraternity brothers because they’re all bigger than me,

except for maybe one, and he’s not stupid enough to play tackle football, which by the way is one of the most enjoyable things in the world along with playing pickup basketball even though just a couple weeks ago I launched a shot over the backboard, I’m just inconsistent is all; but writing that 5,000 word sentence became the most challenging and enjoy-able and satisfying thing I’ve ever done, even if it doesn’t stand on its own but is instead an integral part of the crowning achievement of what I largely studied here to do, which is try and write a book, try and write in general whether I’m writing shorter sentences or longer ones like this that The Chroni-cle would never, ever otherwise let me publish, and I know I mentioned the point already but I think I got a little off track, the point of this is this: Figure out what your long sentence is, everyone has their project that they don’t necessarily have to complete before they graduate but, let’s face it, if they don’t at least give it their best try then they are deserting an unfinished act, not only whatever the unfinished act might be but also their time at Duke, the opportuni-ties here, the chances they—you—have that might not ever be as easily achievable again; so part one, figure out the manic or stupid or idiosyncratic thing you want to do, part two, work hard and develop the skills and knowledge you need to pull it off well and part three, get it done and then graduate like you know it’s time to go.

Kevin Lincoln is a Trinity senior. He is the Recess editor and the co-editor of Towerview magazine.

letterstotheeditorThe rights of the accused

As a law school faculty member who occasion-ally serves as a faculty advisor to students before the Undergraduate Conduct Board, I share the concerns expressed by Mike Lefevre, Duke Stu-dent Government President. Students before the UCB face career-altering charges that, if pros-ecuted in criminal court, would be felonies. The current “clear and convincing” evidence standard, while probably too low given the nature and con-sequences of some UCB charges, ought not be lowered to the greater weight of the evidence used in civil courts. If the goal is the accurate adjudica-tion of rights and begins with a presumption of innocence, surely a higher standard than greater weight is required. If Duke should have learned anything from the lacrosse fiasco, it is the impor-tance of the presumption of innocence.

Lefevre is also correct about the UCB’s confu-sion in role between adjudication and education. Each time I appear with a student before the UCB, I learn that some right that previously existed has been abolished by administrative fiat, further weak-ening the accuracy of adjudications. For more than 25 years, students who wished to appeal were en-titled to a copy of the tape made of the proceed-ings, so that they could have it transcribed (at their own expense) and be able to quote from it for their appeal. Literally, today, I learned that students no longer have that right. They may only listen to the tape in an administrator’s office. While I could un-derstand that a rule limiting what a student could do with a tape and requiring its return could be necessary, the current rule throws an unnecessary hurdle before a student exercising his or her right to appeal an erroneous determination.

In a world where what appears on a transcript stays with a student forever, for serious charges ad-judication must be kept separate from education. The time for education comes before the alleged offense or after final adjudication. In between, we must safeguard the rights of the accused.

Donald H. BeskindProfessor of the Practice of Law

Studet commencement speakers not representative

In a few weeks, current Duke Student Govern-ment President Mike Lefevre will continue a long legacy of white male student speakers at Duke’s com-mencement ceremonies. A student speaker should be both engaging and speak on topics that resonate with and reflect upon the thousands of graduates in attendance. Given these basic qualifications, one would think over the course of a decade these speak-ers—selected by a committee of students, faculty and administrators—would at least somewhat mirror the demographics of Duke’s student body. However, in the past 10 years all student speakers were men, and only one was non-white. The most recent female student speaker was in 2000 during Nan Keohane’s presidency, and at the time she was the fourth con-secutive woman selected for this honor.

The number of white men who have been se-lected as student commencement speakers inac-curately portrays Duke graduates. It is problem-atic that a university supposedly committed to diversity has indicated over and over again that a white man is a better representative of Duke’s graduating students than a woman or a person of color. Although we know that Lefevre is an articu-late speaker and a prominent campus leader, we feel that his voice has been heard enough and, more importantly, that his selection continues the trend of an unsettling bias. By choosing yet an-other white male as the student commencement speaker, this year’s selection committee missed an important opportunity to select a student that better recognizes Duke’s diverse graduates.

Becki FeinglosTrinity ’11

Anne MoriarityTrinity ’11

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