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Two bombs detonated near the Boston Marathon finish line Monday afternoon, killing at least three people—including an eight-year-old boy—and injuring more than 140 others, according to media out-lets at 12 a.m. Tuesday morning.

The explosions—which occurred within seconds of each other—were between 50 and 100 yards apart from one another on Boylston Street, a popular thoroughfare in downtown Boston. The blast closest to the finish line exploded in a dense crowd of spectators, followed by a massive cloud of smoke, as seen in a video posted by Bos-ton Globe. Several runners close to the fin-ish line collapsed on the course from the shock of the explosion.

“This is such a huge event for the run-ning world and the U.S.,” said Michael Fuc-ci, a first-year master of public policy candi-date, who participated in the race. “When something like this happens, and you feel close to it, it’s the worst thing that could possibly happen.”

Around 18,000 runners out of the original 23,000 who started the race had

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Sexual reassignment surgery for transgendered students will be covered in students’ health care plans, effective this Fall.

Administrators signed a new contract with Duke’s health insurance provider, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, that will include up to $50,000 to cover sexual reassignment surgery, Dean of Stu-dents Sue Wasiolek confirmed. With this new coverage, she said, all vital aspects of transgender health care—counseling, hormone therapy, and surgery—are now included in students’ plans.

“The addition of sexual reassignment surgery with a $50,000 cap makes Duke’s student health care plan one of the most, if not the most, transgender-inclusive plans in the country,” said junior Sunny Frothingham, the incoming outreach chair for Blue Devils United. “This is a huge step forward for Duke.”

Each year, the Student Health Advi-sory Committee examines the Duke Stu-dent Medical Insurance Plan and reviews how students use the plan to determine if changes need to be made to the bene-fits provided to students, Wasiolek said.

She added that this is the last step in providing complete coverage to Duke’s transgendered community.

“For the past several years, we have considered benefits for transgendered students, looking first at counseling and hormone therapy benefits, then at ‘top’ surgery benefits and most recently at ‘bottom’ surgery benefits,” Wasiolek said.

The additional coverage will have a “minimal” impact on cost to students, Wasiolek said. The coverage will cause a 0.3 percent increase to student costs.

Overall, student health care premi-ums will increase by a total of 8 percent next year, Wasiolek said.

“The plan premium is increasing 8 percent next year, with 4 percent of that increase resulting from taxes associated with the Affordable Care Act,” she said. “The remaining 4 percent is attributed to health care cost trend and benefit en-hancements.”

Wasiolek said the $50,000 cap was set after consulting with the standards of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Caro-lina.

“Our cap is competitive with or higher than our peer institutions,” said junior Jacob Tobia, president of BDU.

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A team of Duke scientists is pushing the boundaries of knowledge about sea turtles caught by commercial fishing processes.

The study compiled over 1,800 re-cords of sea turtle bycatch, the uninten-tional snaring of sea animals by fishers, in all life stages from more than 230 sources globally and by three different fishing gears—longline, net and trawl. The study also tallied bycatch impact scores—bycatch rates, mortality, body size and regional fishing effort—rather than just sea turtle mortality and was published in the journal Ecosphere last month. The results may influence regional conservation and research ef-forts.

“What [we] really wanted to do was advance bycatch assessments… beyond the level of how many sea turtles are killed every year, and really try to do something that would be relevant on a

population level, where we could actually compare impacts of bycatch in different gears,” said lead author Bryan Wallace, chief scientist at the Oceanic Society and adjunct assistant professor at the Duke University Marine Lab.

This study builds off of the goals of Project GloBAL—the Global Bycatch As-sessment of Long-lived Species—a three-year project from 2005 to 2008. Hosted at Duke, this project helped establish Duke as a leader in the bycatch research field, Wallace said. The researchers, from both the Duke University Center for Marine Conservation and the Blue Ocean Insti-tute, focused on researching bycatch of sea turtles as well as additional marine taxa, including marine mammals as well as seabirds.

Project GloBAL sought to compile bycatch data from around the world to get a better sense of the issue of bycatch globally, noted Rebecca Lewison, co-au-thor of the study and researcher at the conservation ecology lab at San Diego

State University. “One of the goals of Project GloBAL

was to say that we need to be looking large-scale,” she said. “We need to be able to look across ocean regions as well as gear types.”

While most bycatch information is re-gional and generally focuses on one gear type, this recent study is the first map-ping effort globally across the three ma-jor commercial fishing gears, Lewison added.

The study found that the highest rates of bycatch occurred in the east Pacific Ocean, some Mediterranean regions and the northwest and southwest parts of the Atlantic Oceans, which were also the areas with the most accessible data. Although the researchers found that longline fish-ing bycatch impact scores were lower than those of trawling and net fishing, they urged further research at the more regional level to fill in data gaps.

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on longline gear from a com-mercial fishing standpoint,” said Connie Kot, associate research-er at the Duke Marine Geospa-tial Ecology Lab. “There may be a lot more net and trawl fishing that we are not capturing in this study that could affect sea turtle populations as well.”

Researchers hope that this data will inspire additional regional studies in areas with high bycatch rates.

Kot emphasized that solu-tions to the bycatch issue would vary by region, and that switch-ing to one fishing gear would not be practical, as trawl, net and longline all target different fish. For example, in a region where the fishing industry is reliant on trawlers, implement-ing and maintaining turtle ex-cluder devices would be more effective than switching to new equipment, she said.

The research team aims to conduct similar mapping stud-ies in the future with other ma-rine taxa, Lewison added.

“This is really important sym-bolically for the Duke commu-nity. I hope that this will help us remain really competitive as an institution when recruit-ing students, because I know that in the past we have had transgendered students that have been extremely success-ful at Duke, including merit scholars.”

Tobia added that this in-clusion is one step to further ensure that students spanning the LGBT community feel wel-come at Duke.

The updated plan is in line with a Duke Student Govern-ment resolution on the matter

passed in March. The legisla-tion urged the administration to comply with the standards for transgender health as rec-ommended by the American Medical Association, Ameri-can Psychiatric Association and World Professional As-sociation for Transgender Health, all of which have de-clared that comprehensive health care for transgendered individuals must include mental health care, hormone therapy and sexual reassign-ment surgery.

“I am proud of our students for bringing forward this issue and of Duke for making an immediate change to our pro-gram,” said Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta.

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MOSCOW — The Obama ad-ministration wants to find a way to stop the deterioration in U.S.-Rus-sian relations, top Russian officials said here Monday after meeting with Tom Donilon, the U.S. na-tional security adviser.

A letter from President Barack Obama to Russian President Vladi-mir Putin, conveyed by Donilon, “is written in a constructive tone and has a number of proposals promoting bilateral dialogue and cooperation,” the Russian leader’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Usha-kov, told reporters after the Krem-lin get-together.

Ushakov said the White House is sending “positive signals” to Mos-cow, though he noted that Obama has not moved to tamp down the “Russophobia” in other parts of the American government, by which he meant Congress.

Donilon’s visit occurred after a weekend in which the United States and Russia each released lists of of-ficials from the other country who were being barred from visits. The U.S. list, in compliance with the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Ac-countability Act, targets 18 people deemed to be human rights viola-tors. They are also subject to finan-cial sanctions. The White House opposed the Magnitsky measure,

but it was passed overwhelmingly by Congress.

The Russian list, released a day later, names officials associated with the Guantanamo prison camp and “enhanced interrogation,” as well as prosecutors and judges who have dealt with criminal cases in-volving several Russians.

Publicly naming people who are barred from entering a coun-try is highly unusual; the Russians have called it provocative. The release of the lists follows a year of unraveling relations between the two countries, which began as Putin reassumed the presidency last spring. Russia has resisted the United States position on Syria, criticized American support for advocacy groups here, expelled USAID and accused Washington of trying to foment rebellion in the streets.

Passage of the Magnitsky law in December led to a Russian ban on American adoptions of Russian children.

Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, said Donilon went to Moscow to discuss a “full range” of issues, including Syria, trade and nuclear non-proliferation. Russia has already been notably critical of North Korean threats against South Korea and the United States.

“We understand we have dif-

ferences, and we are very clear and transparent and candid about those differences and we engage with Russian officials on those dif-ferences,” Carney said. “But we also have areas where we can co-operate in ways that are useful and in the interest of both Russia and the United States.”

“As for us, we shall follow these positive signals,” Ushakov said.

Monday’s talks included, be-sides Putin, Ushakov and Donilon: U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul; Rose Gottemoeller, assistant sec-retary of state for arms control; James Miller, under secretary of defense for policy; Nikolai Pa-trushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council; Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov; Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Anton-ov; and officials from the Russian Federal Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service.

Earlier Monday, Donilon met with Foreign Minister Sergei Lav-rov. Lavrov afterward told the ITAR-Tass news agency that Doni-lon had reiterated comments made last week by Secretary of State John Kerry when he met with him, acknowledging that there were “ir-ritants” in relations between the two countries and pledging to try to ameliorate them.

“Let’s see,” Lavrov said. “We’ll judge by deeds and not by words.”

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already crossed the finish line before bombs went off around 3 p.m. The re-maining runners were stopped around the 21st mile and were told the race was over, said senior Erin Sweeney, who was watching the race at the 21st mile as her younger sister ran.

“They wouldn’t let people complete the race,” Sweeney said. “They didn’t want more people to cross the finish line, so even as far as Boston College [five miles from the finish], the police formed a wall and wouldn’t let anyone get past.”

Fucci had finished the race about an hour before the bombs went off, along-side Laura Mortimer, also a first-year master of public policy candidate. From a safe distance, Fucci watched news cov-

erage of the blasts.“I was terrified because—having liter-

ally just been there—it felt so close,” Fuc-ci said. “I was really appalled.”

He noted that security was heightened at Boston Logan International Airport, and he was surprised that the airport did not cancel flights.

“I thought it was fireworks or some kind of cannon,” said Jenny Kelemen, Trinity ’11, who could hear the explo-sions from her apartment. “I didn’t think it was anything bad. I thought it was cel-ebratory.”

Kelemen left her office in downtown Boston around lunchtime Monday to watch runners approach the finish line on Boylston Street. About two hours be-fore the explosions, she headed home to her apartment three blocks away and stayed there the rest of the day.

Kelemen added that all the Duke-af-filiated people she knows in Boston were accounted for and safe on Monday.

She said the area—a central location in downtown Boston—was “bizarrely qui-et” in the immediate aftermath of the ex-plosions, even though it is normally buzz-ing with tourists and shoppers.

“It’s an area where otherwise I’ve al-ways felt extraordinarily safe,” Kelemen said. “No one would have expected some-thing like this would have happened here because it’s so friendly and bustling.”

Shortly after 6 p.m., President Barack Obama addressed the nation in a tele-vised news conference. He explained that the person or organization respon-sible for the attack is still unknown, but that FBI and Department of Homeland Security resources are being deployed to “investigate and respond.”

“Make no mistake—we will get to the bottom of this,” Obama said. “And we will find out who did this. We’ll find out why they did this. Any responsible individu-als, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice.”

Obama also noted that Monday was Patriots’ Day—a Massachusetts holiday that commemorates the battles of Lex-ington and Concord—and many had the day off from work and school. Patriots’ day celebrates the “free and independent spirit” that Boston has displayed since its earliest days, Obama said.

“The courageous acts of the first re-sponders and others who rushed to the aid of the injured remind us that they are the true patriots today,” wrote Vice Presi-dent for Student Affairs Larry Moneta in an email to students Monday night.

Yue Jian, Trinity ’12, currently works in Boston, and noted the courageous acts of many who were nearby the incident. Some runners continued past the finish

line straight to the hospital to donate blood, he said.

Google established a “People Finder” search engine shortly after the incident, where information can be posted and up-dated as specific people are confirmed safe or missing. As of 11 p.m. Monday night, over 4,700 records were being tracked on the search engine. A Google Doc, titled “I have a place to offer” is also available online with hundreds of phone numbers and emails addresses of Boston residents able to take in runners or spec-tators for the night after the tragedy.

“I have an extra bed and a couch,” reads one entry. “Available for as long as needed. I can come pick the person/people up in Boston. Call, email, or text me if I can help. God Bless.”

Students from the Massachusetts In-stitute of Technology, Harvard University and Northeastern University, among oth-ers, also signed up on the page to share their dorm rooms for the night.

Kelemen said after the blasts, messages started to flood her phone, so she looked at Twitter to see what was happening. Her cell phone service was shut down, so she emailed her parents and posted on Face-book to let everyone know she was safe.

LC Coleman, Trinity ’10, who lived in Boston for a year after graduation, noted the power of social media in connecting those who might be uninformed or un-reachable during the unfolding circum-stances.

“I have best friends in Boston and New York and San Francisco, and tragedy that’s happening however many hours drive away is still a lot more tangibly con-nected to you than it would be 20 years ago,” she said. “This happened in Boston, but these are my people.”

Lauren Carroll, Raisa Chowdhury and Margot Tuchler contributed reporting.

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No one expected them to be this good. In the fall, Duke head coach Ramsey

Smith paired sophomore Raphael Hem-meler with senior Henrique Cunha to form a potential doubles team for the fall season. Smith’s thought process: he knew their styles of play, and he knew that Cunha would enjoy playing with a good friend.

“Basically, we were thinking about Cunha for his last year, and his best shot to do well with someone,” Smith said. “And really the initial thing for the fall was, ‘Who was he going to have the most fun playing with?’ That was pretty clear-cut. [Hemmeler] is pretty fun to play with, and [we knew] that they would gel well and have good chemistry.”

Then the pair began winning. “I wasn’t quite expecting them to be

as dominant as they are,” Smith said. “I knew their games would complement each other, and that they would be a re-ally good returning team.”

Ever since the departure of Reid Car-leton, Cunha’s doubles partner the first two years of his Duke career, there has been some flip-flopping of pairings on the team.

Replacing a half of a former No. 1 doubles team was by no means easy, as Cunha played alongside Fred Saba and Chris Mengel for stretches of last season. Hemmeler primarily played at the No. 3 doubles position last year.

In the fall, Cunha and Hemmeler captured the USTA/ITA National In-door Championship, a tournament that features the best players from across the country and is considered one of the

most difficult competitions of the sea-son. This win boosted their confidence and assured them of how good a pairing they actually were, as they held onto a 16-game win streak in the fall. They are currently riding a 10-game win streak and have so far notched an overall re-cord of 30-3, last losing Feb. 17 against then-No. 5 Pepperdine.

More than being good, they’re fun to watch. Their style is aggressive and quick. Poaching and net play help the pair to end points almost as soon as they begin.

“We are pretty aggressive, we return well and have good hands at the net,” Cunha said. “We are really consistent. We are making the returns, making our serves and making the other guys play. On the court, we don’t put a lot of pres-sure on each other. We just support and help each other.”

What makes it all work is their close relationship.

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Coming off a weekend series in which the Blue Devils were outplayed and swept by No. 7 Florida State, Duke will look to rebound 6 p.m. Tuesday when it hosts North Carolina A&T at Jack Coombs Field.

“We need to regroup and come out playing hard,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said.

The Blue Devils were outscored 32-10 by the Seminoles, though Duke (21-17) recorded at least eight hits in each game. Se-nior Jeff Kremer led the Blue Devils at the plate, collecting seven hits and four RBIs.

Mark Lumpa, a junior, added five hits, extend-ing his hitting streak to nine games.

“[Lumpa] has had great at-bats recently for us,” Pollard said. “He’s continued to provide a spark on offense.”

The matchup with North Carolina A&T (13-23) is the teams’ second of the season. Duke coasted to a 15-1 victory March 27 in Greensboro in the opening game against

the Aggies.In that game, James Marvel got the win

for Duke, giving up one run on three hits in five innings. The Blue Devils used a four-run third inning and seven-run fourth inning to bust open the game against Aggie starter Tim Jones.

The outburst was a balanced team effort—all nine Duke starters reached base and scored at least one run. Third baseman Jordan Betts had two hits and four RBIs, while first base-man Chris Marconcini had two hits and three RBIs. The redshirt sophomore also scored three runs.

Neither side was clean defensively in the game—both Duke and North Carolina A&T committed two errors. Pollard expects a much better showing from the Aggies in game two.

“They didn’t play well when we played them down at their place, but they’re playing much better of late,” Pollard said.

While the Blue Devils were being beaten soundly in Tallahassee, the Aggies spent this weekend winning two out of three games against Gardner Webb. They are 6-6 in 12

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Duke basketball guard Seth Curry un-derwent successful surgery on the “right lower extremity injury” that he dealt with the entire season.

According to an official press release from the team, Curry will be out 10-12 weeks. That means Curry will likely miss the entire period before the NBA Draft, on June 27, in which he may be a late pick.

The injury was diagnosed before the sea-son but Curry played through it, leading the Blue Devils with 17.5 points per game. Cur-ry was a first-team All-ACC selection by the league’s coaches as the conference’s second-leading scorer. He was also second in the conference in 3-pointers with 2.7 per game and a 43.4 percent clip from beyond the arc.

After transferring from Liberty after his freshman season, Curry scored 1,394 in three seasons with the Blue Devils while practicing with the team during the the 2010 national championship run.

The Charlotte native finished his career third in Duke’s all-time record books with a 3-point field goal percentage of 42.0 per-cent in his three seasons.

Curry also helped to set an NCAA re-cord this season. With a combined 4,736 points in their careers, Curry and his old-er brother Stephen became the NCAA’s

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Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to at-tend a cardiothoracic workshop hosted at the Duke School of Medicine. Along with a host

of other undergraduates, I crowded around the ster-ile examination table and listened attentively as medical students and a resident in cardiothoracic surgery explained the basics of the cardio-pulmonary physical exam. First, look at the patient. Do you see any abnor-malities at fi rst glance? Is she breath-ing normally? Next, check her vital signs—temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate. I watched as the resident swiftly moved his stethoscope across different points on the student’s chest, seamlessly checking to see if all portions of her heart sounded normal, and then her back, listening to the rhythmic fl ow of air through her lungs. The entire exam took about three minutes.

After asking the rest of us if we had any questions, the resident thanked us and let the medical students take it from there. During the next portion of the workshop, I was paired with a third-year medical stu-dent, J., and another undergraduate to try out the techniques—on each other. As I fumbled with the stethoscope for the fi rst time, I clumsily put the ear tips in the wrong way. “No,” J. chuckled. “The tips point inward, toward your ear drum. And make sure you fi rst palpate the area where you’re going to be lis-tening—you want to be above tissue, right in between his ribs.” Humiliated, I reoriented the ear tips cor-rectly, hesitantly pressed the diaphragm against my partner’s back and listened. I didn’t hear anything. I pressed again, and still I didn’t hear anything. Just as I began to think that I was going to be a terrible doctor, I heard a soft “whooshing” sound, like the sound of air fl owing over a bird’s wings—just barely detectable over the sound of the other students’ voices in the room. I was listening to the sound of air fl owing into his lungs and back out again, bringing oxygen and life to his body. It was beautiful. I calmly asked my partner to take a deep breath in and out, methodically mov-ing the stethoscope in a number fi ve pattern across his back and around his sides. I repeated this process for the cardiothoracic portion of the exam. Wincing at the clamorous, amplifi ed sound of my nervous fi n-gers on the chest piece, I fi nally oriented the stetho-scope right above my partner’s carotid artery to listen to his heartbeat—a steady lub-dub—confi rming that the valves in his heart were opening and closing cor-rectly. The entire process took me 20 minutes.

Besides learning about the cardiothoracic and pulmonic parts of the physical exam (and fi nally understanding what doctors were doing to me all

these years), I witnessed another essential part of medicine—its learning hierarchy. Just from my work-shop, I witnessed the fl ow of information from the more experienced residents, to the medical students,

to us undergraduates. Medicine es-sentially operates by a “see one, do one, teach one” motto. However, an uncomfortable dilemma arises when attending physicians are confronted with the choice of providing the best possible care for patients or allowing a fi rst-time resident or medical student to have hands-on practice, knowing that the patient may suffer as a con-sequence. There is no question that patients would be better off under the more experienced hands of at-tending physicians; however, if future physicians aren’t trained, everyone will be harmed. We see evidence of this learning machine in every clinical setting—surgeons using a new surgi-

cal tool after practicing once on a pig, new residents sewing together a colon for the fi rst time, newly jack-eted medical students sticking in their fi rst IVs. There simply is no way to educate future physicians without letting them practice on patients.

As a daughter to parents and grandparents who will likely need invasive surgeries and procedures in the future, I cannot honestly say that I would feel com-fortable with a fi rst-time resident cutting around their aortas or stapling one vessel out of fi ve similar ones in an area. But when I, or anyone else, walk into the doc-tor’s offi ce, we simply have no way of knowing wheth-er the person to whom we’ve delivered our loved ones will be able to ensure their safety and recovery back to health. I can only ask that all pre-medical and medical students, residents and practicing physicians remem-ber this: Guard against your most human fallibilities and remember that the family in front of you has en-trusted you with the life of their loved one.

After playing doctor myself, I have begun to un-derstand why medicine is called a “practice;” and consequently, I’ve developed a greater appreciation for the responsibility that comes with this fi eld. Just like anything else, being a doctor requires skill and confi dence learned through experience. As Dr. Atul Gawande said, “Like the tennis player and the oboist and the guy who fi xes hard drives, we need to practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: It is people we practice upon.”

Georgia McLendon, Trinity ’14, is a Duke pre-med. This column is the 13th installment in a semester-long series of weekly columns written on the pre-med experience at Duke, as well as the diverse ways students can pursue and engage with the fi eld of medicine.

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vitalize Durham’s Southside neighborhood through a part-nership between the Duke and City of Durham. The Southside Housing Incentive Program allows Univer-sity and Uni-versity Health System employees to purchase housing in Southside through subsidized costs and forgivable loans from Duke for use on the down payment. We commend the University and Durham for this collaboration, which addresses the needs of both communities.

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cline started with the demoli-tion of several buildings in the area in the 1960s as the city cleared space for the construc-tion of the NC-147 highway. Since then, the area has had

low home own-ership and high crime and pov-

erty rates. Successful redevel-opment of this area will likely benefi t Durham by reducing the crime rate, bringing in new businesses and increasing tax revenue. We believe that the well-being of both Durham and the University are inextri-cably linked, and this project rightly belongs within Duke’s scope of concern.

We support Duke’s part-nership with Durham in this venture both for the benefi ts it will bring to the city and the opportunities it creates

for University employees. Duke has successfully taken on similar projects since the creation of the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership in 1996, which aimed to provide structured support to revital-ize neighborhoods in Durham near campus. We laud the Uni-versity for continuing to follow through on this program’s top objectives, which include pro-viding affordable housing.

University employees also stand to gain from the hous-ing subsidies. For those who could not otherwise afford housing in this area, this pro-gram could be a boon. Short-er commutes will likely result in a better quality of life for employees, a stronger Univer-sity community and a lower impact on the environment. Moreover, the Southside

neighborhood is within walk-ing distance from downtown Durham and public transpor-tation terminals, making it convenient for residents and worthwhile to redevelop. Hav-ing Duke-affi liated residents in Southside also promises to promote healthy and ami-cable town-gown relations.

As this program takes ef-fect, we question how the re-lationship between Duke and its employees might change. Because incentive programs can sometimes put undue pressure on employees to ac-cept unfavorable loan condi-tions, Duke must ensure that programs like this do not use employees as a means to a larger end or inadvertently tip the balance of power any fur-ther in favor of the employer. While important to consider,

these issues are unlikely to prove serious—as Duke has been successful with such proj-ects in the past, the program is entirely voluntary, and the incentives are not so grand as to be coercive. Worries about the crime rate in this area are also mitigated because the city has a well-crafted, holistic ap-proach to redeveloping South-side that will likely address this problem over time.

We hope that this pro-gram, like those before it, will produce a fruitful collabora-tion between Duke and Dur-ham. As the city assists South-side residents fi nancially and socially, we look forward to the revitalization of this area and hope that it will prove to be a positive experience for the University employees who take up the offer.

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For one, I consider the lack of affordable dining options both now and certainly in the future to be of greater concern than the fact that Duke will be buying less local beets.

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pre-med seriespremeditations

Three years ago, I had no idea what the future had in store for me. I was just a regular boy from Southern California who wanted to try some-

thing new. I looked at schools throughout the coun-try and decided to just give college a shot! While re-searching schools, I came across Duke and pretty much ruled it out imme-diately. I thought, “Why in the world would I possibly end up in North Carolina and enroll at a school that I have never even heard of?” It just seemed ridiculous. I visited Duke during the Black Student Alliance Invi-tational, and, even though other institutions were on the table, enrolling at Duke just seemed like the right thing to do.

Attending Duke has been the experience of a life-time. I have had so many highs and lows that have taught me valuable lessons about myself and about life. Prior to coming to Duke, I did not know what I wanted in life. When I came to this institution, I changed my mind so many times because I was afraid of expressing my true passions and interests. There is something about this place that challenges you no matter what you stand for. For me, this school challenged me to be a risk taker in all aspects of my life. From writing and publishing two books during the first semester of my sophomore year to developing a passion of dance, Duke has made me bolder and fearless.

I used to be afraid of failing, but failure is unavoid-able at Duke. You develop relationships that turn out to be something other than what you expected, and you get grades that make you question your level of intel-ligence and ask why you’re even here. Sometimes you think you’ve put forth your best, but it turns out that it’s actually your worst. During the rough weeks, there were several nights when I just had to cry it out. The whole idea of reaching the end and not being able to go further has been a recurrent one for me. But every time I thought it was all over, I found a way to keep going. I survived one struggle bus after another and developed a tougher skin as time went on. I’ve also had some of my best memories at this school. Moments just walking with a friend on the Plaza at midnight and taking in the beauty of this school. Experiences when I exceeded my own expectations and felt good about myself.

As I anticipate leaving this Gothic Wonderland in a couple of days, I am so eager and excited to get into the real world. It is not going to be easy and there will definitely be challenges on the way, but I have already experienced it all at Duke. I’ve tested my limits and ex-panded my horizons. I know that when I set my mind to something, I am unstoppable.

Having a platform like Duke is not a guarantee for success. In fact, this institution does not promise suc-cess. Duke is a place where people come to find one thing and end up discovering something completely different. Students come here to discover themselves—some succeed at it, while others do not. Looking back on my time at Duke, I have discovered myself in all as-pects of my life.

Growth is a beautiful thing, and I have transformed from a boy into a man. I have met some of the most in-teresting, smart and funny individuals here. Individuals who challenge you and make you aspire to be a better person. These are the people I can now call lifelong friends, regardless of where we might be in the world.

From the wide array of classes I took to the organiza-tions I have been involved with, my Duke experience has been unconventional. I have developed a sense of curiosity that will follow me throughout my life. Look-ing back, my Duke career has been about asking ques-tions. Sometimes I have the answers to these questions, and sometimes I’m completely clueless. Whether or not I have all the answers beside the point. The most impor-tant thing is that I am seeking solutions to the things that I am truly passionate about.

Tegan Joseph Mosugu is a Trinity senior and former Chron-icle columnist.

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lettertotheeditorResponse to “Rethink online courses”

I am grateful to the Editorial Board for sup-porting Duke’s efforts to be a leader in online education in their April 15 editorial. With our venture into online education, we seek to create opportunities to enrich our current offerings and to help improve what we already teach. The po-tential benefits to Duke students and faculty are considerable.

It is, however, important to note that Semester Online is not intended to, nor should it ever, sub-stitute for small seminars that are an essential and distinctive element of a Duke education, regard-less of one’s major. Indeed, more than two-thirds of Duke classes have fewer than 18 students, and more than 80 percent of all courses have 30 or fewer. Our commitment to the intensive, interac-tive, personal, educational experience permeates every part of the curriculum.

What Semester Online will make possible is something that we are not always able to provide: larger survey courses with discussion sections. These courses introduce subject matter, especially

in the humanities and social sciences, which can then be more deeply explored in the small semi-nar format by our own faculty. Semester Online courses will supplement and enrich, not substi-tute for, what we are currently teaching. These courses will operate in a way that is both rigorous and convenient, with classes only being taught by Duke professors themselves or by qualified in-structors to be selected, trained and supervised by Duke faculty.

Duke has been, and will continue to be, an in-novator in teaching and learning. We do this in many different ways—by adapting and creating technology in the classroom, by enabling students to research and create new knowledge, and by developing new models, like DukeEngage, that themselves have become examples for others. Se-mester Online is a chance for Duke to extend that spirit of innovation to something that we already do well and seek to do even better.

Peter LangeProvost

Every semester, undergraduates give Duke Stu-dent Government approximately $120 in “Stu-dent Activity Fees” as part of their tuition. In

the aggregate, this $120 from each student funds DSG’s budget, which is then reallocat-ed to groups and programming events through the Student Organization Fi-nance Committee and the DSG Senate. If the hypothetical Duke Basketweaving Society (let’s call them “BS”) wanted to raise awareness via a “Stop Pottery” concert in Page Auditorium, they could approach SOFC with a funding request to cover the rental costs of the venue. SOFC would only fund the event if BS promised to keep the event free and open to all undergraduates. The idea is that undergraduates have already paid for the event via their tuition—if they were required to purchase tickets they would essentially pay for the event twice.

This rule complicates the aim of many student groups that seek to raise funds for donation. If BS wants to host the “Stop Pottery” concert to raise money for basketweavers across the world, it will dis-cover that its options are limited. Since SOFC fund-ed events must be free and open to all undergradu-ates, BS cannot charge for tickets. It could charge for concessions, but only if those concessions were not funded by SOFC. It could invite corporate spon-sors, but administrative policy and high-minded aims stringently restrict private involvement. So the group has few options available.

Unfortunately, many student groups have found a loophole that raises funds while keeping the event superfi cially free: suggested donations. Groups hand out tickets to their events while concurrently ask-ing students to give a suggested donation. Students could still hypothetically attend the event for free. More often than not, the suggested donation is ex-plicit: “We suggest a $5 dollar donation to attend.” One might think that $5 is the cost of attendance, if the ‘suggested’ bit is excluded from the pitch.

This fundraising structure does not just exist for events—suggested donations are also rampant on the Bryan Center Plaza. Last week, while walking from the Main Quad to the Bryan Center, I donated to four dif-ferent groups in the span of two minutes. I do not remember a single one of the causes I donated to, nor did I attend any of the events for which I bought tick-ets. I just remember being implored to donate. The best ask was when someone offered me a free cupcake, but then suggested I donate $3. Cupcake in hand, how could I say no? The fundraising requests came so quickly, and they were all so small, that only later did I realize how much money I had spent.

It is hard to say no when someone asks you for a suggested donation. Especially when the request comes from a friend. I always feel guilty and uncom-fortable, and that guilt drives my donation. I make a weak attempt to learn about the cause to which

I am donating, but mostly I just want to get out of there. Of course, that guilt is only there if the ask comes with the ‘suggested’ caveat. Many groups do not tell students that their event has been funded by

SOFC and just say that $5 is the price of the ticket. Any time I buy a ticket for an event that has been funded by SOFC, I have essentially paid for the event twice.

The worst part is that the funds raised by these suggested donations, if they are explicitly phrased as a do-nation, are not necessarily followed through to the cause. The donated funds go directly to the group’s univer-sity account. Those funds could linger there forever, or they could hypotheti-

cally be used to fund other group-related events. If the funds are spent on a cause, the funding pathway is rarely explained to me in the pitch. A donation to support basketweavers could end up only funding the overhead costs of some ineffi cient organization. Or it could be used to purchase mosquito nets for a group that really needs jobs or infrastructure devel-opment. I guess it is my responsibility, as a donor, to ask where my money is going. But sometimes I just want to assume that the Duke student who is asking me for money is doing it for the right reasons.

SOFC has cracked down on suggested donations in the past few years, often requiring groups to de-lineate non-intimidating procedures for fundraising. But quite often, groups just lie. I have seen several groups charge tickets for an event funded by SOFC. It is true that DSG should have a more expansive, effi cient and robust auditing program. But again, sometimes we just want to assume that our peers will do what they say.

I am a huge proponent of philanthropy, espe-cially when it is effi cacious. I am also a big fan of student involvement in any sort of advocacy because I think there are lessons to be learned from focused involvement on a specifi c issue. I am not sure, how-ever, what ‘suggested donation’ fundraising does to further any of those goals. Donors learn little about the causes and the money is often redirected inap-propriately. Most of all, I am not sure that the event organizers themselves are learning anything either. Fundraising in the real world is hardly so easy. The most successful non-profi ts raise money because they have compelling causes and the potential to make a signifi cant impact. The money they acquire through government grants or recouped through tax exemp-tions allows them to expand their services and truly raise awareness. At least, that is how it is supposed to work. I wish student groups strove for that brand of philanthropy.

Patrick Oathout, DSG executive vice president, is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Patrick on Twitter @patrickoathout.

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me pretty well, so I know how he is mov-ing on the court, and we are really con-fident at the moment,” Hemmeler said. “We have a strong mentality, we enjoy playing together, and we just try to enjoy every match.”

As a pair, the duo forms a rare dou-ble-lefty team. Compared to what people note as the ideal situation of a righty-lefty combination, this varied match-up gives the team a slight advantage during match play—especially on serves, when their ball spins the opposite direction of a right-handed player, making it more difficult to return and keep in play.

“Cunha is unbelievable with return-ing and serves well,” Smith said. “And Hemmeler is great around the net. Their personalities mesh really well on the court. Hemmeler is the energy guy, and then Cunha is the steady, stable, you know what you’re going to get, making balls player. It has been a special combo. They win the big points.”

Now, with the end of the regular season closing in, and tournament play about to begin in just a few weeks, it is key that every player and doubles team begins to peak at the right time. The No. 1 pairing in the country has improved throughout the course of the season beginning with the fall and seems to be on track.

The pressure associated with the top team doesn’t seem to trouble the duo.

“[The pressure of being on top] is a motivation, actually,” Cunha said. “It is an extra motivation to win each match because we know we have a higher rank-ing than anyone.”

Smith noted that the pressure was something that the pair have always faced both individually and as a team.

“They both have been winners all

games since their first meeting with Duke.Freshman Michael Matuella will start on

the mound for the Blue Devils. In his last out-ing, Matuella pitched five innings to earn the win against UNC Greensboro, giving up two runs on five hits while striking out two. Matu-ella’s record now stands at 3-2 on the season with a 3.23 ERA.

Tuesday’s tilt against the Aggies could be a trap game for the Blue Devils, who are in the midst of a brutal stretch in ACC play. After facing North Carolina A&T, Duke will travel to nearby Chapel Hill this weekend to battle the No. 1 team in the country: North Carolina.

Pollard knows his team will need to come to play Tuesday to regain some mo-mentum before taking on the top-ranked team in the nation.

“We can’t be looking past [North Carolina A&T] to the weekend,” Pollard said.

The Blue Zone breaks down the latest news on the incoming class and gives the scoop on Duke’s top targets for the class of 2014.

>>Duke signee Jabari Parker earned co-MVP honors at the Jordan Brand Classic game Saturday as a member of the West squad, sharing the award with Kentucky commit Julius Randle.

>>Joining Parker to defeat the East squad 102-98 in Brooklyn, fellow Duke committ Matt Jones notched 14 points on just fi ve shot attempts.

>>Head coach Mike Krzyzewski made an in-home visit to Tyus Jones, the No. 1-ranked point guard in the class of 2014 as ranked by ESPN.

>>Krzyzewski also visited Houston small forward Justise Winslow, who has mentioned his interest in playing with Tyus Jones and the No. 1 player in the class of 2014, Jahlil Okafor.

>>Duke’s coaching staff expects to make in-home visits to Okafor, Kevin Looney, Trey Lyles, Devin Booker, and Grayson Allen in the next few weeks.

>>Stanley Johnson, a Southern Cali-fornia wing who ranks 15th in the class of 2014, included Duke on his list of prospective schools via Twitter last week.

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CURRY from page 4

highest scoring brother duo this season.“Seth showed tremendous toughness,

both mental and physical, this season while playing through the injury,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in the release. “He had an amazing season even though he was held out of a majority of our practices. This surgery will further stabilize the leg and help the healing process as Seth prepares for a bright professional career.”

The operation took place at Duke Uni-versity Medical Center and was performed by Dr. Robert Zura, who was assisted by Dr. Claude T. Moorman, Duke’s Director of Sports Medicine. Among Zura’s clini-cal interests are “acute fractures of upper and lower extremities,” according to Duke-health.org.

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Head coach Ramsey Smith found a good match when he paired Cunha and Hemmeler this fall.

their lives, so they are used to winning, and they handle that pressure really well,” he said.

Looming beyond how the pairing fares at the end of this season, a bigger question facing the team is who will re-place Cunha in next year’s campaign. Cunha, who is currently undefeated in singles play at the top position, is seem-ingly irreplaceable as one of the best players that has come through Duke.

Yet, just like Smith had to reshuffle with the departure of Carleton, he will have to do the same next fall.

“I am trying to enjoy every match I get to watch Cunha play,” Smith said. “Two more home matches left, I am going to try to soak it all in and appreciate what he is doing and how well he is playing and how dominant he has been at No. 1. We have a lot of options [for next year], we have a lot of really good doubles play-ers and a good freshman coming in. But [we will] focus on this year, and then worry about the next.”

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