The three graduate Young Trustees were selected Sunday night. The Graduate and Professional Student Council will elect the candidate at its Feb. 15 meeting. —compiled by Matthew Chase

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Joshua Makaron, second-year MBA candidate

Involvement: Co-Chair of the Duke Conference on Sustainable Business and Social Impact, peer mentor to Fuqua foreign exchange students, career men-tor to Duke undergraduates

What do you hope to accomplish if you are elected Young Trustee? “I would like to include the graduate perspec-tive as much as possible and continue in the building of Duke’s programs in an increasingly competitive market-place.... My goal is to help enhance Duke’s presence and standing globally and ensure that all of Duke’s graduates are considered in the implementation of the strategy.”

Ali Saaem, fifth-year biomedical engineering candidate

Involvement: GPSC Community Af-fairs Coordinator, Duke-Durham Neigh-borhood Partnership, Duke Building Opportunities and Overtures in Science and Technology, member of Sigma Xi scientific research society

What do you hope to accomplish if you are elected Young Trustee? “There are a couple of things that I would want to get done. Firstly, I want to make sure that all of the voices on campus are accounted for. There are issues related to career ser-vices that I feel very passionate about and I believe that Duke going forward needs to be a global leader... [while] also staying involved in the Duke community.”

Jennifer Snook, third-year MBA and Master of Engineering Management candidate

Involvement: Co-President of FuquaPride, Co-Founder and Co-President of MEM/MBA Club, Corpo-rate Sustainability Fellow of the Duke Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment

What do you hope to accomplish if you are elected Young Trustee? “Gener-ally, to fulfill the role of representing the graduate and professional interests. To be a unique voice in the room and I think... right now there is a big push for interdisciplinary studies and I think that I could help provide insight to that as a former undergraduate [at Duke].”

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Open forum sheds light on merger

by Chinmayi SharmaTHE CHRONICLE

A policy aimed to streamline two major student organizations is still a work in progress—and many members of the student body appear to be unaware of the potential change.

In an attempt to alleviate this issue, sophomore Alex Swain, member of Duke Student Gov-ernment’s Rules Committee, organized an open forum for students to learn about the pro-posed merger of Campus Coun-cil and DSG.

Although the event’s goal was to bridge the gap between students and their representatives in campus organizations, attendance at the Monday session was low.

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ESG looks to better serve Pratt students

by Nicole KyleTHE CHRONICLE

Duke engineering students are known for their work ethics and relative indepen-dence, and their student governing body is no exception.

Over the course of the last year, the En-gineering Student Government has made a significant effort to expand its presence and better serve the Pratt School of Engi-neering community, said ESG President, David Piech, a junior who was elected in-ternally to the organization’s top post Jan. 17. ESG’s steady expansion and increased influence in the engineering school is a re-sult of academic assessment initiatives and a shift in programming styles, he added.

“We’re a much more multifaceted, true governing body,” Piech said. “Previously, our main efforts were towards program-ming, but now we’re branching out.”

ESG’s Academic Action Committee is one of the most significant additions this year, Piech said. The subcommittee, which began meeting in October, is responsible for promoting and communicating Pratt

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51 DUKE 87UCONNEmployees, community funds cut

by Ciaran O’ConnorTHE CHRONICLE

After a significant loss of out-side funding, Duke has less money and fewer people dedicated to en-gaging the Durham community.

Late last year, the Duke Endowment decided to stop funding the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership, an organization created in 1996 that works in the 12 neighbor-hoods closest to campus to im-prove quality of life and educa-tional achievement. In response to the funding cuts, along with broad economic pressures, the University chose to eliminate two positions within the Office of Community Affairs, one of which belonged to Michael Palmer,

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amman, Jordan — tarek al-masri, a Jordanian lawyer who studied in egypt, has been following the upheaval there with mixed emotions: happy that the egyptians finally have risen up against an oppressive ruler but worried about a power vacuum in the streets.

“i’m upset by the social problems, the economic problems, the political problems, and the parliament doesn’t represent the people,” masri said. But, he added, “i can-not imagine the country without the royal family. they strike a balance between the people and the government. i trust them.”

the lawyer’s ambivalence is shared by many in this kingdom, where King abdul-lah ii, a key u.S. ally, has come under pres-sure in recent weeks from protests by a coalition of islamists, secular opposition groups and a group of retired army gener-als who have called for sweeping political and economic reforms.

waShington — the strained muscles that affect millions of american workers, from white-collar professionals who spend hours at their computers to poultry workers who process chickens, are proving to be painful as well to the obama administration.

labor regulators came into office vow-ing to press employers to reduce injuries from repetitive motion, an affliction that caused 28 percent of the workforce to miss days on the job in 2009.

But the administration has found itself in a pitched battle with industry, which fears that federal involvement in the matter will result in a massive financial and legal burden.

“we’re angry and we’re disappointed by this,” said Peg Seminario, director of safety and health for the aFl-Cio. “if the administra-tion is going to respond to something that should have been a small deal, we’re quite concerned about what this might mean for things that have a broad impact.”

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“Duke, despite holding the 2010 national championship, was picked fifth in the uSila preseason poll today, behind Virginia, Syracuse, north Carolina and maryland. Virginia and Syracuse were the only teams to receive first-place votes, with eight and three, respectively. the seemingly low ranking most likely comes because of the graduation of ned Crotty, max Quinzani, Parker mcKee and other stars from last year’s team.”

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K2, a drug dubbed as “legal marijuana” that is rapidly gaining popularity, may soon be prohibited in North Carolina. The drug’s active ingredient is believed to be 100 times more potent than THC.

by Kelly ScurryTHE CHRONICLE

For North Carolina residents, the ability to smoke “legal marijuana”—a substance known as K2—and similar substances may soon come to an end.

State Sen. Don Vaughan, D-Guilford,

introduced a bill in the new session of the North Carolina General Assembly last week to outlaw synthetic cannabinoids, the active ingredient in K2. The bill notes that the synthetic chemicals are 100 times

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by Griff WitteTHE WASHINGTON POST

CAIRO — As pro-democracy demon-strators vowed to bring 1 million people to the streets of Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak offered a gesture of conciliation Monday, directing his new vice president to begin talks with his opponents about changes to the country’s constitution.

But Mubarak offered no sign that he is intending to step down, leaving ques-tions about whether the decentralized and leaderless movement that has swept Egypt over the past week can muster the force necessary to topple this nation’s deeply entrenched establishment.

Protesters have already accomplished far more than anyone in this country thought possible, forcing Mubarak to call the army to the streets and focusing glob-al attention on the president’s autocratic 30-year reign. But unlike other successful democratic uprisings, this one lacks char-ismatic personalities and any clear agen-da beyond ousting Mubarak and holding elections to choose a successor.

Appearing on state-run television to discuss his new role, Vice President Omar Suleiman offered no details about the scope or timing of any talks. In an olive branch of its own, the military promised to guarantee “freedom of expression’’ during a march planned for Tuesday, say-ing it recognizes “the legitimacy of the people’s demands.”

Opposition leaders, including Mo-hamed ElBaradei, a Nobel laureate and

democracy advocate, have signaled that they are ready for such a dialogue. Dem-onstrators, however, say that the opposi-tion leaders do not represent them, and that they will be satisfied only with Muba-rak’s ouster.

The movement that rose up seem-ingly out of nowhere last week to pose the greatest challenge yet to the 82-year-old president has no name, no symbols and no formal infrastructure. Although some students and others are involved in organizing its direction, they deny being its leaders.

Protesters say the absence of a spe-cific platform or a single dynamic figure has been critical to their success, allow-ing them to tap into Egyptians’ wide-spread contempt for Mubarak without allowing the movement to become riv-en by factions.

“There are many talented people who could govern this country. As long as it’s not Mubarak and his circle,” said Ahmed Allam, a 31-year-old accountant, reflect-ing a sentiment that is broadly shared among demonstrators.

Allam was among the tens of thou-sands who jammed Tahrir Square Mon-day night as Cairo’s central plaza took on a joyful atmosphere before the mass mobilization planned for Tuesday. Dem-onstrators waved Egyptian flags and chanted relentlessly against Mubarak. In an indication that they intend to stay,

Egyptian opposition calls for massive protest

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Obama takes on new role of business cheerleaderby Perry Bacon Jr.THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — He used to tour the country touting all the bills he had signed into law. But now, often with safety goggles covering his eyes, President Obama has be-come the host of what feels like a looping infomercial on American innovation.

There he was in North Carolina championing “bio-technology firms that are churning out jobs and busi-nesses and life-saving discoveries.” In New York, they were the “unbelievably impressive” turbines and gen-erators being produced at a General Electric plant. In Wisconsin, the lighting fixtures that were “a model for the future.”

Every once in a while on his roadshow tour of Amer-ican factories, the Harvard-trained lawyer hints at the obvious: He doesn’t know much about what he’s just seen.

“As I was walking through the plant, you guys had put up some handy signs. So I knew what I was looking at,” he joked in New York earlier this month.

In this new stage of his presidency, Obama, once de-rided as anti-business, has adopted a different tone: cheer-leader.

The events are part of a shift in the Obama administra-tion’s handling of the sluggish economy. With the stimulus bill, the tax package that Congress approved in December and numerous incentives to encourage hiring that were in legislation over the last two years, the administration has already put in place many of its policies to spur economic growth. Republicans say those provisions largely haven’t worked.

Voters still rank the economy as their top concern in public opinion polls. So instead mostly promoting major legislation, Obama is hitting the road to rave about com-panies, schools and people who are creating jobs, trying to show he has a vision for improving the American econ-omy.

He will visit State College, Pa., Wednesday to highlight a project there to make buildings more energy efficient, and administration officials will be at events around the

country this week to promote innovation and entrepre-neurship.

“About 10 years ago, Neal had an idea,” Obama said last week in Wisconsin, referring to Neal Verfuerth, president of Orion Energy Systems, a company that creates energy efficient technology. “He calls it his epiphany. It was around 2:30 in the morning, but Neal hopped in his car and drove to the factory in Plym-outh. It was one of those moments when the future couldn’t wait until the morning. And he grabbed what-ever tools he could find—a couple of two-by-fours and

broom handles.”Obama added, “So he started tinkering around until an

engineer showed up. And what Neal had come up with was one of Orion’s signature innovations -- a new lighting fix-ture that produced twice the light with half the energy.”

To be sure, the administration has planned more legis-lation to boost the economy. The White House’s proposals for the federal budget, which will be released next month, are expected to include increases in funding for biomedi-cal research and incentives for companies that work on es-pecially clean energy technology.

The president has long endorsed new technologies, making several stops at plants that produce electric car batteries in his first two years in office. But he used many of those visits to tout legislation such as the stim-ulus or claim credit for its passage.

Now, Obama’s new theme of “winning the future” in-cludes not only the government’s role in improving the country’s economy, but that of businesses, colleges and other private entities.

For the unemployment rate to drop, Obama needs com-panies to start hiring more and schools to retrain people to fill jobs they aren’t currently prepared for.

But whether presidential visits to factories will help per-suade businesses to begin hiring again, the administration also has other goals in mind.

Obama says the trips help him interact with everyday Americans. But it’s hard to imagine how: He usually arrives at a carefully selected factory in a swing state that produces an environmentally friendly product. He goes on a tour with the plant manager or chief executive, poses for pic-tures with a few workers and then heads to the stage to give his formal remarks. He was on the ground at a factory in Upstate New York earlier this month for less than three hours.

For the administration, however, the events communi-cate another message: The president cares about the econ-omy, and you can tell because he’s standing beside a huge white generator, peering closely at the technology and greeting one of the workers producing it. These images emerge on the front page of the next day’s local paper with quotes from an enthusiastic commander-in-chief.

“I wanted to come to Orion. Orion is a leader in so-lar power and energy-efficient technology,” Obama said. “Plus, the plant is just very cool.”

“It was one of those moments when the future couldn’t wait until the

morning. And he grabbed whatever tools he could find—a couple of

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Fifteen students attended the forum—many of whom were already members of the two organizations.

“This was organized because it was im-portant for students to know what was go-ing on and to ask questions and provide comments about something that would affect them directly,” Swain said. “Before, it seemed like a secretive deal, and I don’t agree with that.”

Swain said there was minimal time to plan the event, which could account for the low attendance.

“This was a step trying to involve the Duke student community more,” Swain said after the event. “I wish more people could have come.”

Last week, Campus Council voted in favor of the proposal that was presented at the forum. If the referendum—which would combine dining and residence life under the leadership of a fifth DSG vice president—is passed, it would go into ef-fect Fall 2011. The DSG Senate will vote on the proposal Feb. 8, and the referen-dum could be included on the Feb. 15 student body-wide Young Trustee elec-tion ballot.

DSG President Mike Lefevre, a senior, called the plan an “opportunity for col-laboration,” adding that he hoped the forum would bring student leaders and the student body together to talk about significant changes in the structure of student organizations. Lefevre men-tioned that the plan echoes changes in Duke’s structure and administration, such as the recent appointment of Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of hous-ing and dining, and the development of the house model.

“We are trying to find ways to change

with the administration to consolidate re-sponsibility for resident life and policy into one position,” Lefevre said.

Junior Betsy Klein, Campus Council programming chair and an attendee at the forum, said the council’s general consen-sus was that the plan would result in a more efficient government.

“Yes, there are a lot of details that need to be worked out but I am confi-dent that we will have everything ready to go next year,” Klein said. “I think it is great that Duke Student Government, Duke University Union and Campus Council displayed a united front on these issues.”

Although the organizations have been

collaborating, some East Campus Coun-cil members present at the forum ex-pressed that they had little knowledge of the proposed merger. Freshman Shikha Nayar, president of Bell Tower house council, said the specifics of the plan are unclear, adding that the student body does not realize a major change might take place.

“I wasn’t quite sure what the plan en-tailed but I seem to be one of the only ones to have come to the forum to find out,” Na-yar said.

Although Campus Council supported the proposal last week, many of the or-ganization’s members still had questions about the long-term consequences of

the change. Some attendees expressed the concern that the merger would limit opportunities to participate in organiza-tions, but Lefevre clarified that opportu-nities to hold positions in organizations would not be lost if Campus Council is dissolved.

“We intend to do everything we can to make sure we don’t lose any of the wisdom of Campus Council when it is moved to DSG, because the new committees created will create positions for application,” Lefe-vre said. “We also aim to encourage more ad-hoc members.”

Duke University Union President Yi Zhang, a senior, said that Campus Coun-cil’s “small- to medium-sized program-ming” would move into DUU’s purview if it is ultimately dissolved. If students wanted to remain involved in programming in-stead of policy making, Zhang said, they should join DUU.

For those students who wish to pursue policy-making positions, Campus Council member Kate Schisler, a senior, expressed her concern that DSG is unapproachable.

“DSG is only as approachable as the people in it,” Lefevre responded.

In response to a question about poten-tial candidates fearing student-body elec-tions, Lefevre said opportunities for partic-ipation remain for those who do not wish to run a public election.

Despite general support for the pro-posed merger, most students at the forum indicated that some details of the policy need to be ironed out.

“Being around Duke for a long time I can understand the benefit of the merger, but it is important to make sure that it is done well if it is done at all,” Schisler said. “So that is why it is necessary to raise a lot of questions to ensure that the benefits of Campus Council are incorporated into the new DSG.”

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FRANCES HASSO (ICS AND WOMEN‟S STUDIES) “THE JASMINE REVOLUTION:

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AZEDDINE CHERGUI (AMES) “MOROCCO”

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“THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE JASMINE REVOLUTION”

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Students participate in Monday’s forum, designed to clarify the DSG-Campus Council merger. The event addressed such issues as opportunities to participate in organizations and pursue policy-making positions.

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The Kenan Institute for Ethics hosts a launch party for Team Kenan’s new blog “The Devil’s Dilemma” in West Duke 101 Monday afternoon. The blog presents ethical questions in everyday news.

Ethical devilmore potent than THC, the active ingre-dient found in marijuana, and that the abuse of the substances is “gaining in pop-ularity at an alarming rate” among college and high school students.

K2, which is also sold under the names spice, demon or genie, is commonly la-beled as incense but has been increasingly used as a synthetic and legal alternative to marijuana. K2 has recently been reported to have more serious side-effects than marijuana, said Ryan Butler, Vaughan’s legislative director, who added that the studies were what had originally alarmed Vaughan and prompted his introduction of the bill.

“Sen. Vaughan had heard the reports that the ‘high effect’ is the same as many other controlled substances,” Butler said. “Research also suggests that [K2] may have long-term effects.”

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Adminis-tration issued a statement Nov. 2010 re-garding its intent to temporary control five chemicals for at least a year so that the substances can be further studied. Since that time, cities and states through-out the country have pursued outlawing the substances.

If the bill is passed, synthetic cannabi-noids will become a Schedule I controlled substance—as is marijuana— and would become illegal Dec. 1. Twenty-one states in total have introduced legislation concern-ing synthetic cannabinoids so far in 2011, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

“[The bill] has received broad public support.” Butler said. “People fear that kids will not know that K2 is stronger than mari-juana and may be more dangerous.”

The K2 compound was first created

in the lab of John Huffman, an organic chemist at Clemson University, in the mid-1990s. At that time, the effects of the substance were tested on mice who were euthanized at the end of the ex-periment.

The long-term repercussions for hu-mans relatively unknown. K2 is known to produce side affects that are not associat-ed with marijuana use. These can include anxiety, increased heart rates and blood pressure, panic attacks and paranoia, ac-cording to the DEA.

On campus, levels of support and oppo-sition vary among students.

“Synthetic drugs should be banned because they are synthetic and are trans-formed into a completely crippling prod-uct,” freshman De’Shaun King said.

However, freshman Prashanth Kama-lakanthan, who admitted to trying the substance once, said he disagreed with the ban.

“The illegalization of K2 would be like prohibition [of alcohol in the 1920s],” Ka-malakanthan said. “All it will do is drive [the drug] underground.”

K2 from page 3

“[The bill] has recieved broad public support.

People fear that kids will not know that K2 is stronger than marijuana and may be

more dangerous.” — Ryan Butler,

State Sen. Don Vaughan’s legislative director

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they distributed large quantities of food and water, established first-aid stations and even set up satellite television service so they could keep up with news from outside the plaza.

Egypt’s organized political opposition was caught off guard by the past week’s protests and has struggled to catch up. The outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest opposition group, acknowledges that it has played only a marginal role.

ElBaradei was picked by opposition leaders on Sun-day to lead any possible negotiations with the govern-ment. But when he spoke to demonstrators later that evening, many in the crowd ignored him.

Still, ElBaradei, 68, could be a crucial figure if the offer by Suleiman, who is also Mubarak’s long-time intelligence chief, proves genuine. ElBaradei has called for Mubarak to step aside, and has said he has the “political and popular support” necessary to form a unity government while the nation transitions to a democracy.

At a meeting on Monday in the Cairo district of Dokki, representatives of about 30 groups agreed to work as a united coalition and to support the call for 1 million people to turn out for the march Tuesday, spokesmen for the organizations said. ElBaradei and other protest leaders were scheduled to convene again on Tuesday at the downtown headquarters of the Wafd Party, a traditional opposition group.

The political opposition to the ruling National Democratic Party in Egypt has never been terribly popular. The groups tend to be oriented around ex-treme ideologies, and they rarely cooperate with one another. Many have been tainted by perceptions of complicity with a government that has moved rapidly to suppress any group or individual that poses a true threat to its power.

“These demonstrations not only signal the death of the Mubarak regime, they also signal the death of Mubarak’s traditional opposition because they all failed to get on this train,” said Hisham Kassem, an Egyptian political analyst. “This movement is very real, and un-like any previous caricature of an opposition.”

EGYPT from page 3

students’ academic interests and concerns to the admin-istration. The committee’s nine members have established connections with directors of undergraduate studies and serve as a resource not only for students but also for fac-ulty, he added.

“We’re at a point where we have deans and faculty e-mailing us to ask for our input on academic action,” Piech said. “That’s actually a huge improvement for us—it’s a re-ally big step.”

The committee has already influenced decisions made by the Pratt administration. In the Fall, the organization helped to halt the closing of a computer lab in Hudson Hall, said ESG Publicity Chair Dianna Liu, a junior. The committee polled students and presented their data to the administration, convincing them to keep the lab open in late November, Liu added.

“This really made students trust us more,” Liu said. “This was a visible thing, and it really made a statement.”

ESG is also looking to revamp its programming and presence beyond the University. ESG Community Service Chair Emily Sloan, a sophomore, has also spearheaded the Student Mentoring Association for Recruiting Tomorrow’s Scientists program, which began in the Fall and allows Pratt students to volunteer as Science Olympiad coaches in Durham middle schools.

ESG will also work to improve its programming this Spring. It will hold small Engineering Socials, or E-Socials, as informal networking events with various outside employ-ers and larger E-Socials monthly that will feature four or five student groups, Piech said. In addition, ESG is work-ing to strengthen Pratt’s peer-advising network.

At its meeting Monday night, ESG also announced that the annual E-Ball will be held at an off-campus location for the first time in three years but declined to publicly an-nounce the specific venue.

Piech also met with DSG President Mike Lefevre, a se-nior, and other DSG representatives Sunday to discuss the dynamic between the two groups now and in the future. Piech noted that ESG is committed to maintaining its in-dependence from DSG.

“We’re two different organizations working pretty well in our current state,” Piech said. “At this point, there’s re-

ally no need for a deeper collaboration—nor does ESG necessarily want to have a huge collaboration—but at least now we have a means of communication.”

However, Piech added that the two groups could work together in the future on projects that mutually benefit both groups.

Pratt Dean Tom Katsouleas said he thinks it is important for ESG to continue to improve and develop in order to shape the best possible student experience for engineers.

“In order to move Pratt forward and to offer the best education possible, we need all the members of the com-munity to take ownership of the school—faculty, staff and students,” Katsoleas wrote in a Jan. 26 e-mail. “There is a characteristic of the Duke experience that students who come here are shaped by the University, but also forever re-shape it for the next generation. I welcome ESG’s ambi-tion to contribute with broader impact to shaping Duke.”

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who served as assistant vice president for community af-fairs and managed the partnership since 1999.

The office now finds itself with considerably less re-sources available for community engagement.

Phail Wynn, vice president for Durham and regional af-fairs, said the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment, a private foundation that seeks to support social welfare programs throughout the Carolinas, had provided the partnership with about $677,000 annually—a substantial portion of the community affairs budget—before it decided to terminate funding.

“Essentially, that was all of our program and com-munity engagement monies,” Wynn said. “What we’re doing in the neighborhoods, what we’re doing in the schools, that was program money being provided by the Duke Endowment.”

Wynn said he is concerned that the loss of fund-ing could limit the Neighborhood Partnership’s abil-ity to function in Durham at the same level it has in past years. Still, he noted, he is grateful for the endow-ment’s 14 years of funding and remains hopeful that the partnership can continue to locate alternate fund-ing elsewhere.

In a community newsletter released after the cuts were made public in December, Wynn praised Palmer as a dedi-cated servant to the community and lauded his “commit-ment to the revitalization of the surrounding neighbor-hoods and to improving relations between the University and the neighborhoods.” Wynn said the other eliminated position belonged to a staff assistant who took another po-sition at the University, though he declined to name the individual.

Palmer’s dismissal, he said, was prompted by the Duke Endowment’s decision to stop funding the partnership.

The endowment declined to comment on the reason-ing behind its decision, but Vice President of Communica-tions Charity Perkins stressed that 15 years is an unusually long time for the endowment to support a single grant.

palmer speaksPalmer said in an interview he was “disappointed but

not shocked” with Duke’s decision to let him go.

He said he understood universities’ need to balance priorities when confronted with economic challenges but expressed concern that a smaller Office of Commu-nity Affairs will not be able to operate as it did before. He noted that during his time at Duke, the office distributed resources to approximately 300 other organizations; now, he said, it no longer has that capacity.

Palmer stressed that Duke’s fate is inextricably tied to Durham and noted that progressive universities recognize the importance of improving their communities.

He added that he refused the alternate jobs offered to him by Duke after his position was elimination because he felt they would limit his ability to work in Durham. He said he continues to work in the Bull City and sits on the boards of several non-profit organizations geared toward commu-nity development.

“I’m still working in Durham,” he said. “I’m just not wearing my Duke hat anymore.”

durham’s reactionBull City residents have received the cuts with disap-

pointment. Calvary Ministries, which partnered with Duke to run an

after-school program for Durham students in kindergarten through sixth grade, has received “$6,000 or $7,0000” less in funding since the cuts, said its executive director, Re-becca Oats.

“This year, we’ve not been able to provide enrichment for the kids,” she said. “We used to try to give them expe-riences in [educational] enrichment activities—we’ve had to cut back considerably on those.”

Community leaders were also disappointed with the Uni-versity’s decision to downsize the Office of Community Affairs and expressed particular dismay with the loss of Palmer.

“Unless they find someone to do what he was doing—and it takes a personality to do that—I think it’s a tremen-dous loss, personally,” Durham Mayor Bill Bell said. “I understand that organizations have to do what they have to do, but I think [Palmer] brought a great credibility to the [partnership] and more importantly, he had the sup-port of the community that Duke was serving—and I think that’s the loss.”

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, who is the Uni-versity’s chief administrative and fiscal officer, declined to comment on Palmer’s departure and referred all com-ments on the cuts to the Duke Endowment.

Pastor Fredrick Davis, who preaches at First Calvary Bap-tist Church in Durham and worked extensively with Palmer in the community, sent a letter in December to President Richard Brodhead and others expressing his “disgust and disappointment” with Palmer’s dismissal and the University’s failure to properly acknowledge Palmer’s work.

“Words cannot truly express how saddened and dis-heartened I am by this situation,” he wrote. “In the 19 years I have served in this community I have never heard of such an appalling state of affairs.”

The pastor described Palmer in an interview as a “true servant and warrior of Durham, North Carolina.”

“He brought to that position a sensitivity and a cultur-al understanding that was beyond the conception of the [partnership],” he added.

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by Danny NolanTHE CHRONICLE

STORRS, Conn. — It wasn’t hard to find flaws in the Blue Devils’ game Monday night against Connecticut. Most areas did not go

Duke’s way, but the Blue Devils’ struggles on the offensive end were where the game was lost.

From the start of the contest, the Huskies brought a defensive on-

slaught, setting the tone for the rest of the game and creating problems in the half-court offense. Connecticut held Duke to 1-for-20 from the field, and 0-9 from beyond the arc, in the game’s first 13 minutes.

This initial defensive surge was spurned by the Huskies full-court pressure, which resulted in a 14-to-6 advantage in fast break points as a team. This strategy not only forced turnovers, but also took away a lot of time off the shot clock, making it increas-ingly difficult for the Blue Devils to run a set in their half-court offense.

“We knew we had to have a really good

start, because when you have a really good team in your place, you don’t want them to think they can get in the game,” said Connecticut’s Maya Moore, who scored 29 points in the winning effort.

Even Duke’s top guns could not escape a poor shooting night. Senior leader Jasmine Thomas led the team with 13 points, but shot 25 percent from the field. The starting five shot a combined 28 percent from the field, 12 percentage points lower than their season average.

The Huskies’ speed on the defensive end made it difficult for Duke to get open on offense. Although the Blue Devils at-tempted 13 more shots in the game, they had nine different possessions where there wasn’t a shot until there were 10 seconds or fewer left on the shot clock.

The poor shots put up by Duke had an effect on perhaps the most important sta-tistic in the game: the rebounding differ-ential.

The shorter amount of time on offense hurt the shooting accuracy of Duke, which

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Connecticut broke out with a 23-2 lead and cruised to a dominant 87-51 victory last night in Storrs, Conn.

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Maya Moore was unstoppable all night, scoring 29 points and grabbing nine rebounds.

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by Andrew BeatonTHE CHRONICLE

STORRS, Conn. — It was hyped as the biggest game of the season. It turned out to be the biggest loss the women’s basketball program has faced in over a decade.

In a game in which Connecticut domi-nated from the first minute, the No. 3 Blue Devils fell to the No. 2 Huskies 87-51 at gampel pavilion last night. The loss ended Duke’s undefeated season and the 36-point margin is Duke’s largest loss since a 1993 contest against Virginia. Connecticut (21-1), whose record 90-game winning streak ended at Stanford earlier this season, saw its four-year home winning streak stay intact.

“Connecticut came out punching, and we just completely stepped back or took the punches,” head coach Joanne p. McCal-lie said. “We didn’t do anything to counter punch or anything to fight back early.”

From the very beginning, it was clear that Connecticut was playing on a differ-ent level than the Blue Devils (20-1). They jumped out to an early 11-0 lead, which they quickly extended to 23-2 by the 9:42 mark in the first half.

In the game’s opening minutes, Duke missed its first 12 shots until Shay Selby fi-nally broke the ice with a lay-up five min-utes into the game.

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The defending champion men’s lacrosse team ranks 5th in the USILA preseason poll

Duke Women’s Tennis topped Texas A&M, 6-1, in Sheffield Tennis Center yesterday

One full weekend student ticket to the 2010 NCAA Tournament Final Four: $25.

One full weekend student ticket to the 2011 ACC Tournament: $396?

At the beginning of the spring semester, the Cameron Indoor Sta-dium ticket office invited students to enter into a lottery for an ACC Tour-nament all-session ticket—access

to all 11 games throughout the w e e k e n d — f o r the price of $396. For a student like myself used to not having to pay out of pocket for basketball games, at first glance the

cost seemed exorbitant.And in fact, the lottery is advanta-

geous for neither the students nor the administration. Without it, the athletic department can offer tickets to more of the people who give large sums of money toward the operation of Duke’s teams, and students can already find cheaper tickets online without com-mitting to attend the full tournament weeks in advance.

Cheaper tickets can be found online and, most likely, from scalping, because Duke offers no discount to students for the ACC Tournament. In this way, it appears that the athletic department is only making a token gesture toward encouraging students to make the trip to greensboro. If Duke really wanted its students’ support during their spring break, it would offer heavily dis-counted prices in the lottery, just as the NCAA did last spring. Last year, Duke students were offered tickets for the two Blue Devil games in Jacksonville for $72 each, which was comparable to the price given to the general pub-lic. However, prices shrunk drastically as the NCAA Tournament continued. Students could go to all three games of the Houston regional for just $190, less than half the cost to everyone else. And despite sitting below the court in Indianapolis, $25 is still hundreds of dollars—if not thousands—cheaper than seats in the very upper deck of Lucas Oil Stadium.

True, the NCAA has an easier time giving student discounts on tickets in the cavernous arenas where the later rounds are played—Houston’s Reliant Stadium holds over 70,000 fans while greensboro Coliseum seats a compar-atively small 23,500. Making matters worse, fans of eight teams compete for tickets to the first weekend, while only four teams make each regional. Dozens of 2011 full-session Final Four tickets

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by Nicholas SchwartzTHE CHRONICLE

After rolling past Brown 6-1 on Sunday, Duke had less than 24 hours to prepare for a talented Texas A&M team. Fueled by another strong doubles showing and the dominant singles performances of Rachel Kahan

and Elizabeth plotkin, the No. 7 Blue Devils fought through fa-tigue to win 6-1.

With the win, Duke (4-0) earned a spot in the round-of-16

of the ITA Team Indoor Nationals, to be held Feb. 18-21 at the University of Virginia.

“It’s always good to be pushed a little bit,” senior Ellah Nze said. “We maybe didn’t play our best tennis today, but the fact that we were able to still find a way to win... is a true testament to what we can do.”

The No. 4-ranked doubles team of Nze and senior Nadine Fahoum had little trouble with Janelle Cuthb-ertson and Christi Liles, breaking Texas A&M (1-2) in its second service game and holding onto the advantage throughout the match. With Nze serving a match point at 7-5, Fahoum delivered a smash winner late in the point that split the two Aggies and secured an 8-5 win for the Blue Devils.

Senior Reka Zsilinszka and freshman Hanna Mar were deadlocked at 6-6 after Mar’s service game was broken by Texas A&M, but Duke won two straight games to win 8-6. Though Mary Clayton and Monica gorny dropped their match 5-8—the first time the pair has lost at the No. 2 position all year—head coach Ja-mie Ashworth was pleased to see his team contend with quality opposition.

“It’s going to take a good effort for someone to beat

us two out of three doubles matches,” Ashworth said. “I think today was the first time we’ve had pressure on us in doubles.... But we needed to be put in those situ-ations.”

In singles play, Kahan snatched Duke’s second point of the match at a blistering pace, dispatching an over-matched Cuthbertson 6-1, 6-0. plotkin breezed through her match with Christi potgieter as well, punishing pot-gieter with her forehand to the tune of a 6-2, 6-3 win.

With the Blue Devils up 3-0 and Mar in complete con-trol of her singles match, up 5-1 with a set in hand, it looked like Duke was cruising toward its third win of the year, but Sheri Olivier broke Mar’s serve and sparked an Aggie rally. Inspired by Olivier’s resistance on the ad-jacent court, Liles won consecutive games against Nze and had a chance to push the match to three sets. Mean-while, Duke’s No. 25 Fahoum struggled against No. 17 Nazari Urbina after winning the first set 6-2.

Fahoum lost control of her serve early in the second set and double-faulted twice in a single game to drop to 1-3. Unable to place the ball with both her forehand and backhand and visibly shaken, Fahoum dropped the second set 3-6.

Mar closed out Olivier 6-4, however, and the Blue Devils began to rebound. With the overall win already in hand, Nze stormed back from 3-5 down to win 7-5, notching her 100th career victory in the process. Fa-houm jumped out to an early 4-0 advantage in the tie-breaker, but Urbina won 8 consecutive points and hand-ed Fahoum her fourth singles loss of the year.

“We got up on people and we let them hang around,” Ashworth said, “It’s a learning process, [but we have to un-derstand] that if you’re up a set and 2-0, people aren’t go-ing to give you the match.”

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Reka Zsilinszka and her doubles partner Hanna Mar won two straight games to win 8-6. Duke won its meet against Texas A&M 6-1.

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Scenes like this (at the nCAA Tournament final) will not be found at the ACC Tournament this year due to high student ticket prices, Chris Cusack writes.

leaving thousands of fans stuck with tickets that they likely no longer want. Attendance at the ACC Tournament in greensboro has declined 13 percent since 2006, leaving rows of empty seats in the semifinal and championship games.

Students could easily take advantage of heavily discounted tickets from those fans fleeing the scene of their schools’ losses.

At the end of the day, encouraging this type of lottery reflects poorly on Duke as

a whole. It pushes students away from at-tending games close to campus while also painting a portrait of the administration as unconcerned about the welfare of the general student body. Eliminate the lot-tery once and for all.

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on Stubhub.com are already listed cheaper than students would have to pay for the ACC Tournament through Duke.

It would be a shame for Duke to forget the massive historical effect of the stu-dent fans—those Cameron Crazies who put Duke basketball on the map hand-in-hand with the teams of the 1980s.

But if the administration insists on continuing to operate this nonsensical lottery, students ought to realize that it is silly to even enter the process at all. By the eve of last season’s ACC Tourna-ment, full-session ticket booklets were selling on Stubhub.com for half of the list price, and the opening round game between N.C. State and North Carolina could be seen for as little as $13. With Duke on pace to finish well into the top quarter of the conference standings, the Blue Devils won’t play on the first day of games, jumping straight into the quar-terfinals.

Thus, by the time their first game is played, at least four teams will have been already eliminated from competition,

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resulted in several defensive rebounds for Connecticut. The Huskies had 34 defen-sive rebounds, allowing them to run out the clock for most of the second half to put the game away.

Overall, Duke was outrebounded 49-28. Connecticut freshman center Stefanie Dol-son had a game-high 12 rebounds along with eight points to help the cause. Karima Christmas was the lead rebounder for Duke with seven, followed by Krystal Thomas with six. According to head coach Joanne p. Mc-Callie, the poor effort on the glass as well as the lack of consistent ball movement was the breaking point for the team.

“games are won with rebounds and as-sists,” said McCallie.

Statistically, Duke was outplayed in near-ly every category, struggling on both sides of the ball. The mechanics and game plan-ning can both be fixed, however, the true test for this Blue Devil team will be how they recover emotionally, after suffering large deficits in back-to-back games.

“We didn’t come out ready to play,” Jas-mine Thomas said. “We dug ourselves a hole, and we didn’t stay together to get out of it.”

“We didn’t compete,” senior guard Jas-mine Thomas said. “We dug ourselves in a hole and then didn’t fight hard enough and stay together to get out of it.”

Maya Moore single-handedly out-scored Duke in the first period of play 16-15, and her team racked up a commanding 41-15 halftime lead that they would never relin-quish. Moore finished the game with 29 points, nine rebounds and seven assists.

“Everything is on Maya’s shoulders,” Mc-Callie said. “She carries it well, she scores, she had nine rebounds. When you have a player of that magnitude, the effect is pure relaxation for others.”

The Huskies’ early charge was also led by sophomore Kelly Farris, who nailed two treys as a part of her team’s game-opening run. The guard ended up with 14 points off of 4-for-6 shooting from downtown. Connecti-cut dominated from the perimeter, shoot-ing 50 percent from long range compared to the Blue Devils’ meager 23.5 percent.

The Huskies’ control was not limited to the perimeter, however. Freshman center Stefanie Dolson owned the paint, bully-ing Krystal Thomas and Allison Vernerey all night. Dolson finished with only eight points, but added 12 rebounds and two

blocks. Connecticut out-rebounded Duke 49-28, and Dolson had more defensive rebounds than all of her opponents com-bined.

“Stefanie Dolson is getting a lot better by the day,” Huskies’ head coach geno Au-riemma said. “Stefanie was a high school kid, and then somewhere along the lines, she became a college player.”

Fortunately for the Blue Devils, the sec-ond half was far more competitive than the first. They even pulled within 18 points with 14:32 remaining, only to see Connecticut then respond with an 11-0 run that sealed off any hope of a Duke comeback.

“The way they played in the second half is more what I expected,” Auriemma said. “When we went into halftime, I told [associ-ate head coach] Chris Dailey I’m not really comfortable with this [lead], because I’ve seen them come back from 20 down.”

The bright spots for Duke were scarce, with Jasmine Thomas leading the team as the only double-digit scorer with 13 points. She shot only 4-for-16 from the field, however. McCallie was adamant that the team can learn from the game

despite its catastrophic nature. “We’ll learn a ton from this, and it will

be positive,” she said. “We will make it posi-tive.”

This one game is a deviation from con-ference play for the Blue Devils, who now play eight consecu-tive conference games to finish out the regular season. Auriem-ma dismissed any notion that this loss precludes Duke from being considered elite, noting that they beat Texas A&M earlier in the season.

“If you’re going to be a championship team, you have to have great guard play, and they’ve got maybe the best point guard in the country,” he said. “I didn’t see any-thing tonight that would lead me to believe that on a neutral court in the NCAA Tour-nament, there’s anybody they can’t beat.”

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Duke’s loss to Connecticut gave the nation’s final undefeated team its first loss of the season. A bevy of schools now sit with one loss

Amid the roars of a rowdy crowd in Storrs, Conn., the Huskies went off on a quick start, outscoring the Blue Devils 23-2 in the game’s first 11 minutes

According to ESPN Stats & In-formation, the loss Monday was Duke’s third-worst in the history of the program during the NCAA era

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A SILVER LININGWhile the Blue Devils’ first half left much to be desired, they battled back in the second half to score 36 points against a tough Connecticut defense

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Depression and other men-tal health problems have been on the rise across college cam-puses, according to an August 2010 study presented at the American Psychological Asso-ciation’s annual convention.

The study found that of students who sought college counseling, 34 percent had moderate to severe depression in 1997. That number in 2009 was 41 percent. Moreover, 11 percent of students were on medication in 1998 for anxi-ety, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, compared to 24 percent in 2009, according to an APA news release.

John Guthman, the author of the study, stressed that the rise in numbers can be at-

tributed to an increase in the number of students seeking help from counseling services. Furthermore, Guthman stat-ed that more students with se-vere mental illness have been

able to attend college, due to increased

awareness of childhood men-tal problems.

Although these trends are concerning, the overall cur-rent state of mental health on college campuses is even more alarming. According to The New York Times, the Ameri-can College Counseling As-sociation found that while the majority of students who con-sult college counselors pres-ent identity and relationship problems, about 44 percent of these students have serious psychological illnesses.

At Duke, mental health problems are likely aided by the competitive academic environment and social pres-sures. The challenging atmo-sphere can certainly exacer-bate the typical feelings of homesickness and aimlessness that college students face.

The University’s Counsel-ing and Psychological Services are an important factor in students’ health, and CAPS is active in providing care for students suffering from mild problems as well as severe dis-orders. There is a concern, however, that the service might be understaffed, as it seems that it is often difficult for students to get immediate help. Nationally, on average, college mental health services have not grown in proportion to the size of the student body

in 15 years, according to The New York Times. As the men-tal health trends indicate, in order to provide college stu-dents with the services they in-creasingly need, these centers cannot be overburdened.

The numbers also provide a rationale to expand the work carried out by student groups such as the Healthy Devils Peer Health Advocates Program. Peer advising can be an effective method in im-proving access to psychologi-cal care for students. It can also be critical in bringing a student’s mental health status to the attention of specialists.

Moreover, peer counselors are invaluable in decreasing the stigma attached to seeking mental health services, as some students may feel more com-fortable consulting a peer first.

Despite the negative find-ings, there is a silver lining in the APA study. Guthman said 26 percent of college students who sought psychological counseling in 1998 had report-ed having suicidal thoughts within two weeks of the exami-nation. Only 11 percent of stu-dents fit these criteria in 2009, according to the release. The author asserted that better and more timely mental health ser-vices have aided in decreasing these numbers.

Thus, Duke should contin-ue its practice of providing stu-dents with excellent psycholog-ical counseling, ranging from stress management to mental disorder treatment. Students themselves should battle the stigma attached to mental health disorders, so that those who need help seek it.

They exist to provide a forum in which students can seek redress. They serve as a check on the other two branches of government. They

stand for impartiality, fairness and the rule of law.Most students have little idea of

what the Duke Student Government Judiciary does. Of those that do, many have conflicting opinions about it, particularly after its Fall 2009 restruc-turing. Foremost among those who seem ambivalent is The Chronicle’s own editorial board. In September 2009, they welcomed the proposed reform of the Judiciary, writing: “A reform of the DSG judiciary will allow for its more efficient operation as an independent oversight body.”

In April 2010, however, the same board flip-flopped. Without acknowledging its previous posi-tion, the board argued that the reforms gave “un-precedented” power to the justices and that Chief Justice Matt Straus used the new power to “actively assert [the court] in student politics.” The whole sys-tem was “dangerous and irresponsible.”

Indeed, the court was “in need of serious re-form.” Again.

This pontification was, no doubt, occasioned by the DSG Judiciary’s involvement in several high-profile, and highly political, disputes in Spring 2010. First, they had to rule whether or not the Young Trustee Nominating Committee followed ap-propriate procedure during the inaugural YT elec-tion. (Full disclosure: I was a plaintiff in that case. I lost.) Then they had to rule in a dispute between the DSG Attorney General and candidates for DSG office about ballot eligibility. Finally, as many well know, they became the preeminent student body charged with sorting out the claims of harassment filed against the Duke College Republicans (which they did in both the Spring and Fall 2010).

No wonder some folks are pissed off. None of those cases were ones in which all sides could be placated.

Disagreement, dissention and anger with the Ju-diciary are not the products of a broken system. They are the products of a functioning system. When im-portant disputes are settled—when our sometimes shoddy system of student governance is held to its constitutional duties—people aren’t always happy.

But who is this demonic, ambitious, power-hun-gry activist, Chief Justice Matt Straus? He’s now a junior, a statistical science and mathematics double major, and a manager for the men’s basketball team. He’s from Chicago. And none of the previous adjec-tives accurately describe him.

And who are the other six justices? They’re students just like you, with similar inter-

ests and aspirations, passion for Duke and a special reverence for the rule of law. They include members of the Investment Club, Army ROTC, Duke Partner-ship for Service, Center for Race Relations and a vet-

eran of the Singapore Armed Forces. In an interview, Straus told me that “almost everyone at Duke could [be a good justice], if they wanted to.”

The DSG Judiciary, in Straus’ words, certainly does not exist to “fix” problems with the system, but rather “to make sure that policies are carried out according to what’s prescribed in the [DSG] constitu-tion.” Straus explained to me that, under this document, the court is

“there to decide cases between student groups and DSG, between members of student groups and their student group, between different branches of DSG and [cases concerning DSG] executive im-peachment. The goal is that we will have a certain degree of impartiality... so that we can ensure that [the rules are followed].”

The DSG Judiciary is the only body in our student government dedicated solely to the enforcement of the rules. Playing by the same rules is the fundamen-tal precondition of fair play. Even though you may not always like what the Judiciary decides, the rules are the rules, and one day, you might find yourself needing to avail yourself of them, too.

Recently, DSG leaders mooted the idea of a DSG Senate Judiciary Committee. This committee, to be headed by Executive Vice President Pete Schork, a junior, and presented by DSG Chief of Staff, Andrew Schreiber, a senior, would have the power to sub-poena, discipline students and student groups and publicize the relevant documents and information.

I wholeheartedly oppose such a scheme. In the first place, the DSG Judiciary already has these pow-ers and is the appropriate venue—being unelected and apolitical—to settle disputes and issue findings of fact. The Senate must not seek to become a court. They are manifestly unfit for such duties. The Sen-ate’s Judiciary Committee plot has all the hallmarks of existing only to make public that which has been deliberately kept private in recent cases.

Students would do better to trust in existing, ef-fective processes.

Straus says that “with every decision we make, it seems like we’re hurting someone. And we’re really cognizant of that.” Better that an apolitical body of experts serve as jurors than a committee vulnerable to political grandstanding.

Particularly when, inevitably, justice hurts.

Gregory Morrison is a Trinity Senior and former DSG Executive Vice President. His column runs every Tuesday.

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Four decades ago, Duke looked a little different than it does now. Tailgate was a suit-and-tie gathering before football games, the word “Krzyzewski” was just a random collection of bad Scrabble letters and, oh yeah, every student had a Y chro-mosome.

A mile and a half away from the gothic sprawl of West Campus, the la-dies got their learning at the Women’s College, a separate institution housed on what is now East Campus. But by the end of the 1960s, that separate-but-equal model had butted heads with second-wave feminism and the student movement, and suddenly rigid sex segregation began to look like a pretty old-fashioned idea. So in 1970, the Duke administration offered up a revolutionary plan, giving students of different genders the chance to share the same living space.

That Fall, two years before Duke itself became coeducational, the University launched its first pilot program for coed housing, known as Student Housing for Academic and Residential Experimentation, or SHARE. The program was placed in a building of former fac-ulty apartments on East—now the Wilson Residence Hall—where it could be divided into single-sex suites that shared floors and com-mon spaces.

But despite the progressive nature of that living arrangement, the students of SHARE refused to simply settle for what the administra-tion gave them. In their first year of existence, the group nominated a man for homecoming queen and staged repeated “sleep-ins,” where members crammed their mattresses into the dorm’s common room to protest their inability to choose opposite-sex roommates.

Although these jabs at the administration irked the people at the top, the idea of coed housing took hold, and over the next few years, several more dorms—not to mention the University itself—ditched the single-sex model and went coed.

But that’s where the housing revolution came to a screeching halt. In the 41 years since the establishment of SHARE, Duke’s policy to-ward gender and housing has remained nearly exactly the same—even Central Campus apartments are still divided by sex.

Earlier this year, however, Campus Council voted to approve a proposal that would begin to change that policy, allowing for limited forms of “gender-neutral” housing—students of different genders sharing apartments (but not bedrooms) on Central and coed hall-ways (again, not bedrooms) on West. Now, Residence Life and Hous-ing Services stands on the verge of approving the policy, and if all goes as planned, the pilot program will begin next year.

For anyone who thinks adult students should have the freedom to choose the gender of the person they live with, this should come as encouraging news, a credit to both the students and administrators involved. And at a university with a historically poor track record for making space for alternate sexualities, gender-neutral options are a valuable, albeit small, step forward.

In other ways, however, the new policy does little to advance the fractured state of Duke housing. On a campus where West is the un-disputed RoomPix Holy Grail, the administration has chosen to keep true gender-neutral housing on Central, where it will remain out of the public eye, discounting its importance for the student body at large. On West, gender-neutral communities and the students who choose them could be a valuable counterweight to the prevailing pow-er of single-sex fraternity life. And what are we worried about exactly, that opposite-sex roommate pairs will challenge the sanctity of same-sex roommates, that it’s a slippery slope and before we know it they’ll start demanding marriage? Wait a second…

Of course, I understand why the current policy doesn’t go further. This is a test run, and the University rightly wants to gauge both stu-dent support and community pushback before it tries anything fancy. But that is all the more reason for students who care about the issue to throw themselves behind the program.

The recent past has shown that our administration is receptive to student demands for changes in the housing model. After decades of sororities and independent women alike bemoaning their lack of social and residential group space, last year two student-initiated wom-en’s housing options emerged nearly at once, the Women’s Housing Option on West and the Panhellenic Association section on Central.

Why did that suddenly happen now? It’s simple: Students finally asked for it.

A similar logic holds for gender-neutral housing. If few of us dem-onstrate interest in this cause, it will continue to advance at approxi-mately the pace of a snail waiting in line at the West Campus Subway. But if we let the administration know how much a lot of us care about this issue, we stand a good chance of forcing them to listen. And after all, we’re just asking for the same thing a group of Duke students de-manded 41 years ago. This time, let’s make sure we get it.

Ryan Brown is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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Last Friday, the highly scrutinized merger of Comcast and NBC Universal (now rebranded to NBCUniversal, because why not?) became a reality. The finalization of the largest media deal in recent memory gives Comcast, already the nation’s largest cable operator and home Internet pro-vider, a 51 percent controlling stake in an international media and entertainment company that owns everything from tele-vision stations to film production studios to theme parks.

This unprecedented vertical integra-tion of media production and distribu-tion has many waxing apocalyptic, with fears running rampant about the robber baron-esque hijacking of our beloved open Internet and the potential throttling of any sign of industry compe-tition. These fears may not be unfounded, as it is easy to envision a scenario where a company that owns the media pipes and a large portion of what goes through them would be likely to favor its own content over that of its competitors.

And with the broad reach of Comcast’s power and its intentions already called into question, it is unsettling to know that its history of playing nice is dubious at best. In 2008, the cable and Internet giant came under the eye of federal regulators due to claims that Comcast regularly disrupted the connections of peer-to-peer file-sharing services to stop users from placing large burdens on bandwidth.

As recently as November, Comcast began charging a distribution fee to Netflix’s streaming video partner, Lev-el 3 Communications, in a move decried by net neutral-ity supporters as anti-competitive and, in more extreme rhetoric, as evidence of Comcast’s global domination ambitions.

But with all the shrill hollering about monopolies and historically unmatched corporate power, people seem to have overlooked the potential for the Comcast-NBCU deal to create unprecedented awesomeness for lovers of television and film. If Comcast plays its cards right, it could simultaneously become the world’s largest media conglomerate and the greatest innovator of the way we consume media.

Let’s examine just a few of the limitless possibilities by which Comcast could shake up television for the bet-ter—to XFinity, and beyond!Make NBC not suck

Even before the acquisition of NBCU, Comcast was a content producer, owning channels such as the E! Net-work, Style and Versus, while also having a hand in the film production companies of MGM. Having a parent company that knows a thing or two about the television industry could be a sign of better days for NBCU, whose former parent, General Electric, is known primarily for producing microwaves and underwriting subprime mortgage loans.

But this is about more than just efficient manage-ment. Comcast is now a cable operator and an owner of a large broadcast network—two industries that are becoming increasingly at odds. As such, Comcast is po-sitioned to pull some extraordinarily dastardly maneu-

vers that could have far-reaching consequences for the future of broadcast television and potentially glorious results for the consumer.

Consider this: In recent years, NBC has become an unwieldy and unprofit-able endeavor with poor programming and an old-fashioned business model. It owns several television stations in ma-jor markets and distributes elsewhere through nearly 200 affiliate stations. Comcast knows that almost 60 percent of Americans have cable anyway, so why not cut the barely profitable local sta-tions and affiliates and turn NBC into your flagship cable network? Though

this is not a casual suggestion, as it would signal momen-tous change for broadcast television, it is now a very real possibility.

This would be a major slap in the face to the Federal Communications Commission, who would no longer have regulatory powers over the content, and the con-sumer could now see edgier, cable-style content with a network budget. In addition to the limitless potential for great content, the network might then be able to sell the extraneous airwave licenses for its owned and oper-ated stations for exorbitant sums (the rules are murky), which it could then reinvest to... Create an actual competitor to ESPN

It’s no secret that Comcast has been eager to get into the sports game. (Remember Comcast’s $66 billion at-tempt to buy Walt Disney and gain control of ESPN?)Well, they now have access to a broad array of sports pro-gramming, combining their already successful broad-casting of NHL games and Tour de France coverage with the NFL, golf and Olympic programming of NBC Sports. This could loosen ESPN’s stranglehold on cable providers (it’s the one channel that no one will buy a cable package without), and the competition could actu-ally lead to reduced prices for certain packages.Deliver unparalleled VOD service

Cable is getting anxious about Netflix’s head start in the streaming content game, but as it stands now Netf-lix’s model is unsustainable. Sooner or later they’ll have to charge more for streaming video, and they simply don’t have the delivery infrastructure or the content ownership that someone like Comcast has. In other words, you can’t stream Netflix without paying for Inter-net first, and Netflix won’t be able to keep giving you other people’s content at low prices forever. Comcast, on the other hand, can now create a vast library of on-demand content cheaply delivered right through your cable box and computer.

I’m not blind to the dangers of monopoly, and I know the arguments against unbounded corporate in-tegration—I’m simply suggesting we take a look at the potential for much-needed innovation in the television industry before casting anyone as the corporate villain. And even if they are evil, where would the railroads be without robber barons?

Derek Speranza is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith inNew York City,1957-1965Opening EventWednesday, February 2, 20117:30 – 9:30 PM

Reception with live jazz.

LEFT: W. Eugene Smith, Zoot Sims, c. 1957-1964. Collection of the W. Eugene Smith Archive, Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona and © The heirs of W. Eugene Smith.

The Nasher Museum presents The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965, an exhibition of photographs and recordings of some of the jazz world’s greatest legends. In the late 1950s, W. Eugene Smith lived and worked in a New York City loft building with an amazing list of visitors–jazz musicians, filmmakers, writers and artists. In photographs and audio recordings, Smith documented an era and rare moments with Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Norman Mailer, Salvador Dali and others, presented here in photographs, video and audio. The exhibition is on view February 3 – July 10, 2011

Upcoming Events All events are free with admission and open to all in the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Lecture Hall at the Nasher Museum, unless otherwise noted. Co-sponsored by Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. For complete listings, and the latest information, please visit our website: www.nasher.duke.edu.

Feb. 3 First Thursday: Gallery talk by Sam Stephenson, curator and author of The Jazz Loft Project, 5:30 PM cash bar, 6 PM talk.

Feb. 6 Free Family Day, Noon–4 PM. Made possible in part by Duke Medicine, Nordstrom and RBC Bank.

The Jazz Loft Project at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University was made possible through the generous support of the Reva and David Logan Foundation, with significant additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The Grammy Foundation), the Duke University Office of the Provost, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Ken and Amelia Jacob, and Kimpton Hotels.

At Duke University, major support for the exhibition is given by David Lamond, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass, the Robert K. Steel Family Foundation, Sally and Russell Robinson, Bruce and Martha Karsh, Charles Weinraub and Emily Kass, Drs. Victor and Lenore Behar, Barbara T. and Jack O. Bovender Jr., G. Richard Wagoner, the Bostock Family Foundation, Laurene M. and Scott M. Sperling, and Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. Additional support is given by William H. and Lorna Chafe, John A. Forlines Jr., Tom and Margaret Gorrie, the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Duke University, Peter and Debbie Kahn, Patricia and John Koskinen, Peter Lange and Lori Leachman, Ann Pelham and Robert Cullen, Barry Poss and Michele Pas, Tom Rankin and Jill McCorkle, Alan D. Schwartz and Nancy C. Seaman, Mary D.B.T. Semans, and Courtney Shives. We also thank Patty Morton, Joy and J.J. Kiser, Cookie and Henry Kohn, Michael Marsicano, Susan M. Stalnecker, Sallyan Windt, Karla F. and Russell Holloway, Jim Roberts, Robert J. Thompson, Jr., James L. and Florence Peacock III, W. Joseph and Ann Mann, Charles and Barbara Smith, Louise C. and Waltz Maynor, Joy and John Kasson, Dr. Assad Meymandi, Leela Prasad, and Alan B. Teasley.

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