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Even after receiving the largest dona-tion in Duke’s history, the University is struggling to carry out a major renova-tion project.

In March 2011, the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment announced the single biggest gift that the University has ever received—an $80 million contribution designed to be paid over several years, which would fund renovations for Bald-win Auditorium, West Union Building and Page Auditorium. But as the plan-ning process advanced, technical and budgetary concerns have forced Duke to re-evaluate its project. Although the ren-ovations to Baldwin are nearly complete, the Board of Trustees recently rejected the plan for the West Union remodel, prompting a redesign, said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask. Further-more, it is unknown when the full $80 million will be delivered to Duke, and Page will be too expensive to fully reno-vate with the available funds.

“I never did think it would make the $80 million [budget],” Trask said. “We knew we were going to have to provide something else somewhere.”

But the Endowment—a private foun-dation, independent of the Universi-ty—thought the donation would cover “at least almost all” of the costs of the renovations, said Susan McConnell, di-rector of higher education for the En-dowment.

Back to the drawing boardWest Union renovations were sched-

uled to begin this summer and finish in the summer of 2015. Outlines of the renovations had been made public since 2011, and organizations based in West Union began to move their offices out of the building earlier this month. But when the Board of Trustees saw the final plan in early May, they did not approve it, leaving the specifics of West Union’s fate temporarily unresolved.

“We’re going back to redo it, start-ing [Thursday],” Trask said. “Right now, I don’t have a plan and I don’t have a price.”

The Board took issue with “a lot of lit-tle things,” Trask said, including finan-cial aspects of the plan and features of the renovations themselves, but did not specify exactly what those issues were.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate to go

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Duke profs arrested in civil protestby Danielle Muoio

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Duke professors who teach civil rights and civil disobedience have chosen to lead by example.

On April 29, professors hailing from different fields joined members of the NAACP and other activists to protest policies put forth by the Republican-con-trolled General Assembly. That day, the movement ended in thirty arrests, but the acts of civil disobedience have only grown as students and local residents joined the movement to protest legislation that will have major effects for North Carolina resi-dents. Referred to as “Moral Mondays,” the civil disobedience campaigns will con-tinue throughout the month of June.

Among the original crop of protestors was William Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of history, who served as dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences and vice provost for undergraduate education from 1995 to 2004. Chafe was arrested for his participation in the campaign on Apr. 29 at 5:30 pm and was not released until 2 am.

“We saw ourselves as really speaking as people who have worked hard on both documenting and creating the history of North Carolina that this legislature is now trying to dismantle,” he said. “We wanted to set an example of how people with established reputations were willing

Krzyzewski to remain USA coach

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After saying the 2012 Olympics would be his last, Mike Krzyzewski will coach Team USA again in 2016.

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Turns out USA Basketball won’t need to search for a new head coach af-ter all.

In a press conference with USA Basketball Chairman Jerry Colangelo Thursday morning, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski will announce that he is returning as the National Team’s head coach for the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Krzyzewski, who led Team USA to back-to-back gold medals at the 2008 Games in Beijing and the 2012 Olympics in London, has compiled a 62-1 record at the helm of USA Basketball since tak-ing the reins in 2006.

Although the head coach had previ-ously announced that he would not re-turn to coach the team following the 2012 Games, Krzyzewski left the door open when he said “there’s a chance” he would return in an interview with Sports Illustrated’s Pete Thamel Saturday.

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Duke University Press will begin pub-lishing a transgender studies journal in 2014.

The journal—TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly— will be edited by Susan Stryker, associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona, and Paisley Cur-rah, professor of political science at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

“We’re really excited to be working with Duke University Press—they were our first choice of publishers because Duke publishes so many other excit-ing interdisciplinary journals that we hope to emulate, like the feminist jour-nal ‘differences,’ the cultural studies journals Social Text and South Atlan-tic Quarterly, the queer theory journal GLQ, and the film studies journal Cam-era Obscura,” Stryker wrote in an email Wednesday. “Paisley and I were thrilled that Duke saw the same potential in our project that we did.”

This is the first nonmedical journal dedicated to transgender studies, said Jocelyn Dawson, assistant manager of journals marketing at Duke University Press.

“TSQ will be instrumental in devel-oping this growing and vibrant field and will advance the editorial mission of changing the way the world thinks about transgender issues,” Duke Uni-versity Press said in a press release.

Dawson said that Duke University Press already has a large dedication to gender studies journals.

“The publication of the Transgender Studies Quarterly will do an incredible amount to increase the visibility of trans-gender and gender non-conforming people within the Academy,” said senior Jacob Tobia, former president of Blue Devils United. “Personally, I couldn’t be

more proud that Duke is playing such an integral role in its publication.”

The press release said that TSQ will explore the diversity of gender, sex, sex-uality, embodiment and identity. The journal will focus on publishing inter-disciplinary work from fields including cultural studies, political economy, art, health and sexuality studies.

A total of five issues are slated to be printed, each highlighting a different aspect of the transgender community. Topics of the first issues will include the cultural production of trans communi-ties, transgender population studies, transgender biopolitics and problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities.

The journal is being financed through fundraising from the Kick-starter Campaign, which allows anyone to donate electronically. In order to publish the journal, a total of $20,000 needs to be raised by June 13. A total of $15,242 has been pledged by 239 back-ers since May 14.

“Transgender Studies has far-reach-ing implications across many academic disciplines, including not only gender and women’s studies, sexuality studies and LGBT Studies, but also social sci-ences, health, art, cultural studies and many other broadly defined fields,” Stryker wrote on the fundraising page. “The development of transgender stud-ies also makes a politically significant intervention into the lives of trans com-munity members with tremendous un-met needs, by changing what and how we know about transgender issues.”

The financing page noted that Stryk-er and Currah were inspired to start the journal in 2008, when they were invited to co-edit an edition of Women’s Stud-ies Quarterly that focused on special transgender studies.

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by Julian SpectorTHE CHRONICLE

As Duke’s architecture moves from gothic stone to sleek glass structures, the University must look at the environmen-tal threat such a design move poses.

When birds pass through Duke on their annual migrations—heading north for the summer and south for the winter—some of them never make it past the glossy new architecture of the Gothic Wonderland. Birds crash into the windows when they either fail to notice the glass altogether or are misled by the

reflection of the environment in the windows and fly into the glass. Doing so causes the birds to crash and often die, a fate that has encouraged bird specialist and doctoral student Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela to address the issue.

“A bird that has flown 18,000 km, surviving hawks and the weather and ex-haustion, can just hit a window and die,” Ocampo-Peñuela said. “Think about if you sailed around the world and passed all these obstacles and you get to the

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Woodpeckers, brown creepers, warblers, cedar waxwings and hummingbirds are among those which died after colliding with Duke windows.

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Budget cuts to the Duke Center for Civic Engagement have raised questions about the direction of “knowledge in the service of society” at the University.

The DCCE will receive only 40 percent of its initial budget request, said Bob Korstad, interim director of the DCCE and co-direc-tor of the program on history, public policy and social change. The future of the DCCE remains uncertain, as administrators decide how to reorganize the center.

“We have from the provost that DCCE is not going to go out of existence,” Korstad said. “[The center is] going to retain its mis-sion [though] it may be a little bit more lim-ited because of the budget restrictions.”

The cuts are likely a part of general budget cuts made across campus, but also may stem from concerns about the size of the center’s staff relative to the amount of programming and work done by the cen-ter, Korstad said. He noted that he does not know what the intentions of those manag-ing the budget are in cutting funds for the DCCE.

Created in 2007, the DCCE is dedicated to furthering collaborative civic participa-tion in order to make the world better as a part of the University’s core mission of pur-suing “knowledge in the service of society,” as elaborated in its strategic plan.

The DCCE staff is now working in con-junction with Provost Peter Lange and Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki to investigate the best way for the center to proceed with reorganizing operations,

Korstad said. The entity is considering reas-signing some of its current tasks and duties to other groups under the Provost’s office, such as DukeEngage. Lange and Nowicki could not be reached for comment.

Eric Mlyn, executive director of DukeEn-gage could not be reached for comment.

“At this point we haven’t worked all of that out,” Korstad said. “I don’t know what’s going to [happen]…we’re pretty wide open.”

Korstad noted that there have been some speculations that these budget cuts may be a step towards ultimately eliminating the DCCE, but that currently there has been no word from the Provost’s office about com-plete elimination.

“From what I understand, that’s not something that’s being considered at this point,” Korstad said.

Some students are concerned about the long-term fate of the DCCE.

In an email April 28 addressed to student leaders on campus, rising senior Sonam Ai-dasani asked students to mobilize to “save the DCCE” if they felt it was an important entity and referred them to rising junior Adrienne Harreveld, the administrative in-tern at the DCCE and a writer for Recess.

Harreveld said it has been difficult to mobilize students because the enter was no-tified the day before the Last Day of Classes when many had already left campus or were stressed about exams and also because the decision about the cuts had already been made.

Duke cuts 40 percent of DCCE budget

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by Carleigh StiehmTHE CHRONICLE

Of the 22 Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarships offered this year to incom-ing freshmen, eight were accepted.

This yield is a decrease from the 15 students who accepted the 23 scholar-ships offered in 2012, said Alex Rosen-berg, director of the A.B. Duke Schol-arship Program.

The A.B. Duke scholarship covers full tuition, room and board and man-datory fees for four years at Duke. In addition, the recipients are awarded a six-week study abroad program at the University of Oxford in England. The

Duke Office of News and Communica-tions reported that A.B. scholars are also offered up to $5,000 for research or other educational enrichment pro-grams. An A.B. Duke scholarship is worth more than $200,000 per student during their four-year career at Duke.

“The number of A.B. Duke schol-ars has fluctuated between eight and 16 over the past decade,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “This year the students who chose not to ac-cept our offer all enrolled in either Harvard, Stanford, Princeton or MIT, whose financial aid programs in recent years have matched, or in some cases exceeded, even those of the A.B. Duke program.”

Rosenberg said that the program’s leaders are not concerned with the decline in scholarship yield. He said fewer students who were offered the scholarship required financial aid than in past years. Many did not need the merit scholarship to pay for college.

“Basically, the A.B. Duke Scholar-ship is competing for the first time with other universities, not on finan-cial value but on the value of the pro-gram,” Rosenberg said.

He added that one of the students who was offered an A.B. scholarship wanted to take a gap year, and Princ-eton University offered to finance

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into details,” Vice President for Stu-dent Affairs Larry Moneta said when asked about the Board’s decision.

A new plan should be completed within two or three months, Trask said, but the Trustees will not vote on the renovations until they reconvene in October.

Moneta noted that this does not necessarily mean that all construction is delayed until the Fall. The Executive Committee of the Board will meet over the summer and can approve certain parts of the renovations in order to al-low work on the building to begin in some capacity. He added that the basic plan for the renovations is still intact and the project still has the opportu-nity to operate on schedule.

“I hope to get most of this resolved over the summer,” Moneta said.

Still waiting on the moneyDuke initially requested $100 mil-

lion for the renovations, Trask said. But discussions with the Endowment took place as the foundation was beginning to suffer from the economic downturn, and the University settled for $80 mil-lion instead.

Although the gift was always in-tended to be paid over several years, no fixed schedule of payments was ever established, Trask said.

To date, the University has received $17 million—an initial 2011 payment of $10 million and $7 million given lat-er, McConnell noted. Another payment is expected before the end of the year, this one between $6 and $8 million.

“It’s kind of being played by ear,” McConnell said. “The market fluctu-ates, so our ability to make a payment varies year by year.”

She added that the Endowment an-ticipates that the money will be paid over eight to 10 years.

Trask, however, spoke of a shorter time frame—four or five years.

When this disparity in timelines was brought to his attention, Trask noted that the economic downturn had likely affected the payment schedule.

“We will get it when we get it,” he wrote in an email Wednesday. “Duke can handle the cash flow issues in the interim.”

He added that since the announce-ment of the $80 million gift, Duke has been working to procure additional funds for the renovations. The Univer-sity has thus far been successful in se-curing nearly $20 million through vari-ous gifts, Trask said, though he could not specify donors or figures.

Page left unturnedThe University began the remod-

el project in Fall 2011 with Baldwin renovations, which are scheduled to be ready for the 2013-14 school year. The renovations costed $15 million of the $17 million that the University has received from the Endowment, Trask said. Despite the progress with Bald-win, Duke cannot begin to plan for Page until a definite price is fixed to the West Union project, he added.

A number of possibilities have been discussed as potential renovations for Page, which was built in 1930.

“Part of the problem now is that it’s just ugly,” said Trask. “The other prob-lem is that Page was designed before codes existed, but it was designed to violate every code known to anyone.”

Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts, noted several issues with the au-ditorium—poor stage visibility, an un-comfortable balcony, the steep pitch of the seats and the outdated sound and lighting.

“The principle problem is the audi-ence experience,” Lindroth said.

Regardless of West Union’s price, the University will be unable to do a complete renovation of Page—Trask estimated that a total overhaul would cost $75 million.

“That was never really in the cards,” he said. “Now it’s just trying to figure out what version of the lesser improve-ments needs to happen.”

Trask added that the renovations would likely not be particularly exten-sive, but he said that some degree of repair would be done.

Despite the financial obstacles, it is imperative that steps be taken to im-prove Page, Lindroth said.

“It’s the largest venue on campus aside from the Chapel,” Lindroth said. “It’s an important venue for us, an op-portunity for us to put our best foot forward.”

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to demonstrate their conviction that the legislature is pursuing a totally wrong di-rection.”

Lawmakers in the General Assembly have proposed cutting unemployment benefits, money for pre-school education and Medicaid funding, among other wide-ranging policy changes, all of which have served as the impetus for the civil disobe-dience campaigns, Chafe said.

“This was all cruel and malicious,” he said. “It was designed to hurt people.... We are protecting against this determination to hurt people and destroy the common good.”

Far-reaching policy changesThe civil disobedience campaigns were

born out of a need to protest harmful legislation that undercuts economic and social progress, said Bob Korstad, profes-sor of public policy and history, who was arrested at the May 6 protest.

“The primary policy that the Republi-cans are putting in place is a policy of aus-terity—that the government should be as small as possible, taxes as low as possible and that a disengaged government is one that provides the most freedom for citizens and, in their view, the best opportunity for economic growth and development,” he said. “From a historical viewpoint, I think that is an inaccurate understanding of how economic growth and development take place in a complicated capitalistic so-ciety such as ours.”

In April, North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature rejected expanding Med-icaid to cover 500,000 uninsured people in the state, Chafe said, adding that the cut endangers many people when it would not cost the state a penny for the first two years it went into effect.

“There was no logical reason for them to do that,” Bruce Orenstein, a professor at the Center for Documentary Studies who was arrested Monday for protesting, said of the Medicaid cuts. “That is some-thing that really violates my values.”

Chafe added that denying benefits to the unemployed punishes those who may have gotten laid off for reasons outside of their control. The cut reduced unemploy-ment insurance benefits from $535 per week to $350 in late March.

In addition to health care cuts and re-strictions to unemployment benefits, leg-islators are also looking to make radical changes to education, Orenstein said. He emphasized the issues with a voucher pro-gram—House Bill 944—that would spend $90 million of taxpayer money to subsi-dize private school tuition. The bill will take money away from the public school systems that need it more than private

schools, he said.“Every legitimate independent study

that has been done on whether vouchers work show that they do not make a dif-ference and yet the General Assembly is moving forward with a plan that will hurt funding for public schools,” he said.

The House of Representatives also gave preliminary approval to new income limits for the preschool program in early May. Chafe referred to such cuts as “insane.”

“If you’ve ever learned anything about cognitive development, the first five years of a child’s life is more important for be-ing successful,” Chafe said.

Korstad also raised particular concern with a bill that could require voters to show photo identification before going to the polls. He noted that such a bill, along with potential restrictions that could limit the length of time people can vote, are “mean spirited” and heavily impact low-income North Carolina residents.

The array of changes encouraged the professors to take a role in the Monday civil disobedience campaigns, and many more have either participated already or plan on doing so.

“They are going in the totally wrong direction,” Korstad said of the General As-sembly. “It will take them a long time to get the ship going back in the right direc-tion.”

Under arrestAll of the professors who have partici-

pated in Moral Mondays have been arrest-ed for second degree trespass and failure to disperse on command.

Chafe referred to his short incarcera-tion as a “great time” that allowed the pro-testors to make new friendships and have wide-ranging conversations. Additionally, the protestors all sang together through-out their eight to 10-hour stays in prison.

Korstad, however, did not recall the ex-perience as fondly.

“It was not fun,” he said. “I spent two hours with these plastic bracelets that they use to tie your hands behind your back, and they were tightened up so badly I have bruises around my wrists.”

The protestors were very diverse across race, sex, age and socioeconomic status, Korstad said. He noted that such diversity is indicative of the wide array of support behind the cause.

Police officers treated the protestors with respect and were very friendly, Oren-stein noted. Orenstein recalled one black officer thanking him because he “would not be here” if it weren’t for civil disobedi-ence. Another female police officer then chimed in and said the same.

“I’m not one to go out and get arrest-ed, nor are many of the people who did,” Orenstein said. “But that’s the only path forward that seems to be left.”

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port and someone shoots you.”Birds, for Ocampo-Peñuela, consti-

tute both a personal and professional fixation. She wears puffin earrings and has a patch of the colorful cotinga bird sewn onto her backpack. She published two papers on birds as an undergraduate based on her birding club experience. For her thesis, she studies the conserva-tion of threatened birds in her native Colombia, the nation with the most bird species.

Building-related bird deaths are a mostly unquantified phenomenon, but it is estimated that as many as 1 billion birds die every year from crashing into windows, according to the National Audubon Society, a natural conservation group that focuses on birds.

Fewer birds means fewer creatures helping to pollinate, disperse seeds and eat pests, among other ecologically important activities, Ocampo-Peñuela said.

Ocampo-Peñuela tackles the issue at Duke by gathering evidence of bird col-lisions and working with administrators to make the University’s windows safe for Duke’s feathered friends.

In order to document the frequency of bird-window collisions on campus, Ocampo-Peñuela and her colleagues have begun collecting the bird carcasses that they and their friends encounter.

“We have about 40 birds in the freez-er that we know are from bird-window collisions, but that’s without making an effort to find them all,” she said.

Efforts to document the full number of bird deaths are complicated by the presence of feral cats on campus, Oca-mpo-Peñuela said. Collisions frequently

happen in the early morning, and the cats eat the birds before anyone notices they are there.

The Events Pavilion, a glass-walled structure that will house food vendors during the West Union Building renova-tion, could pose a threat to birds migrat-ing through campus. Ocampo-Peñuela contacted Stephen Carrow, who is in the Events Pavilion planning group, and was told that some windows will be “fritted”—a technique that embeds a pattern in the glass so birds can see it. Still, much of the glass will remain clear.

“Even though this is better than no fritting, I do not think this will be enough to avoid collisions,” she said.

From there she went to Larry Mone-ta, vice president for student affairs, who is involved in planning the West Union renovation project.

By that time, the windows had been installed in the Events Pavilion, Moneta said.

“I passed on what seems to be an im-portant and reasonable concern to the construction teams,” he noted. “They as-sured me that much of what was raised has been taken care of in the Pavilion designs.”

She also met with Nicholas School of the Environment leaders regarding the new Environment Hall, which is sched-uled to open next March with a wall of windows extending out of the existing Levine Science Research Building.

The new building had the potential to be “a pretty significant issue” for birds, said Prasad Kasibhatla, senior as-sociate dean for academics of the Nicho-las School, who has worked with Dean of the Nicholas School Bill Chameides on finalizing the building design. The issue resolved itself, though, because of the environmentally sustainable win-

dow design selected for the structure. The fritted glass chosen to reduce direct sunlight —and therefore thermal heat— from entering the building, also makes the windows visible to birds.

The design was inspired by a leaf pat-tern found in a grille in Duke Chapel, Kasibhatla said.

“It’s bird safe, it’s energy efficient,” he said. “The dean and I were working with the architects to find what pattern best exemplified what our school was about, but also our connection to Duke and our history.”

For new glass buildings, it is possible to order windows with a UV coating on one of the glass layers that makes pat-terns visible to birds without obstructing human vision, Ocampo-Peñuela said. These windows could be installed in the glass component of the remodeled West Union.

Moneta noted that the glass for the West Union has not been chosen yet, as the design team is still working on the base architecture. He added that he con-veyed the information on bird safety to “everyone involved in the West Union project.”

A different procedure, however, is needed to convert previously installed windows to bird-safe windows.

“You can put a pattern on it, but it has to be no more than 10 cm apart or it won’t work,” Ocampo-Peñuela said. “People that work with buildings and the ones that donate the money want the building to look pretty, and if you put dots on all the windows it might not look as pretty.”

UV paints exist that can be applied to windows to deter birds, but they are not commercially available. Ocampo-Peñue-la sees this as an opportunity for inter-disciplinary invention. Teams from the

environmental school could work with engineering students to design a sub-stance that would warn birds away from windows without obstructing the view.

“I see it as an opportunity for Duke to pioneer in something that hasn’t been taken care of in a lot of universities, or even a lot of places,” she said.

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“In the fall when we get back, a more concerted effort will start and the plans for the DCCE will be cleaner,” Harreveld said.

A letter to administration has been draft-ed with support from several student groups, but the concerned students are waiting for more detailed information about the future of the DCCE before proceeding.

“Many feel their efforts are unsustain-able and difficult to integrate into their lives once their participation in a program ends,” a letter draft from the center included in Ai-dasani’s email read. “As Duke plans to ex-pand ‘knowledge in the service in society,’ it keeps not only failing to address this is-sue, but also compounding the problem…. Organizations like the DCCE aim to merge scholarship, the arts, service and engage-ment to produce long-lasting, sustainable…. What message is Duke sending when it de-cides to cut a Center created with the same mission it is trying to promote?”

The center, which formerly oversaw Du-keEngage, underwent a major restructuring in 2010, separating the two organizations and repurposing the DCCE to coordinate civic engagement opportunities across cam-pus.

In the future, Korstad wants to focus on bringing civic engagement opportunities to students earlier in their college careers and identifying and working with more student groups across campus involved with civic en-gagement that are not already working with the DCCE such as selective living groups, so-rorities, fraternities and Duke Student Gov-ernment. He hopes to encourage students to continue in civically engaged activities af-ter graduating by more thoroughly defining it during their college experiences.

Thus far, he said that the DCCE has most-ly focused on coordinating staff and faculty

engagement programs.Current programming by the center

includes Civic Thursdays, a series of lunch discussions, funding Studios—year-long interdisciplinary projects in which partici-pants can collaborate on new approaches to creating positive social change— and overseeing the Clinton Global Initiative University, a program that brings together university students from around the world to work together on innovative solutions to world problems.

Korstad is hopeful about the future of the DCCE.

“Even though this is going to be a hard-ship and it’s a difficult thing for us to figure out what to do, we’re going to do it and we’re going to do it in a way that doesn’t diminish the work that the Duke Center for Civic En-gagement does,” Korstad said. “This doesn’t represent any kind of diminution of the en-ergy and the work we’re going to do.”

DCCE from page 3

his activities during that year but Duke could not.

Rosenberg said that potential stu-dents could have been deterred from choosing Duke because the weather on campus was “horrible” during Blue Devil Days. He added that the bombings at the Boston marathon could have resulted in an increase in students choosing to go to Harvard. Harvard was forced to cancel its accepted students weekend following the bombings.

“Students who would have otherwise spent the weekend at Harvard and seen how the reality was different from the ideal image of Harvard, were unable to visit, and made their choice based on an image in their head,” Rosenberg said.

He said that often smaller classes of A.B. scholars perform better in gaining international recognition than larger classes.

The classes of 2011 and 2012 each had nine A.B. scholars, and included one Rhodes Scholar, three Marshall Scholars, three Faculty Scholars, three Goldwater winners and three Fulbright winners, said Melissa Malouf, director of the office of undergraduate scholars and fellows.

In total, the scholarship’s alumni in-clude 18 Rhodes Scholars and 13 Mar-shall Scholars, including the renowned writer and Duke English professor Reyn-olds Price, who passed away last year; Pu-litzer Prize-winning novelist Anne Tyler; NASA project scientist Hal Weaver; and Dr. Lynt Johnson, chief of transplant surgery at Georgetown University Medi-cal Center.

She added that the program generally tries to attract 15 scholars, but they are

“thrilled” with the eight that they have. “We have no reason not to expect

great things from the class of 2017,” Malouf said. “In other words, quantity is not the same as quality.”

Schoenfeld said he is happy with the selection of students that have accepted their scholarship offers.

“The students who will be attending are exemplary additions to Duke Uni-versity and the A.B. Duke tradition, and we look forward to welcoming them to campus,” he said.

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They received more than 200 submis-sions for publication, but they were only able to publish 12 of them.

The two professors saw a need for a venue where the transgender community can publish its concerns.

“Five years later, there is still no place to accommodate the kind of conversation we want to foster on transgender issues,” the Kickstarter page reads.

Stryker wrote that they chose to col-laborate with Duke University Press be-cause of its well-respected reputation.

“We are determined to produce a jour-nal that demands to be taken seriously—Duke gives transgender studies a lot of credibility,” she wrote on the website.

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With a mile-wide tornado bearing down on her home, Anastasia Hunt climbed into her family’s above-ground storm shelter. Seven terrifying minutes later, her house was gone.

After the rushing winds of the EF5 twister that struck Moore, Okla. Monday afternoon had subsid-ed, Hunt climbed through the rubble to view what was left of her home.

It wasn’t much. The room where the junior de-fender for Duke’s women’s soccer team hid out with her mother, Doreen, was the only piece of her house still intact.

“When it was over, I just grabbed my mom and told her how much I loved her,” Hunt said. “I was crying and she was praying. I just held onto her as tight as I could. I didn’t think we were going to make it, but we did.”

Hunt’s home was one of 2,400 that were leveled by the tornado’s winds, which exceeded 200 mph. But although Hunt lost the majority of her personal belongings in the storm, she said it was the encour-agement that she received from her Blue Devil team-mates that helped her to survive the ordeal.

“The outpouring of support I received has been absolutely amazing,” Hunt said. “I know that we could go anywhere, and any of my teammates would open their doors for me and my family.... It’s really

Hunt’s house leveled, teammates take action

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Richa Jackson is one of Duke women’s basketball’s more physical players—the rising senior rarely shies away from a challenge, and she often tussles in the paint against much larger defenders.

But even one of the Blue Devils’ strongest play-ers was not prepared to be tossed around by the EF5 tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla. Monday afternoon.

Jackson, a Midwest City, Okla. native, was visiting her cousin in Moore when the tornado—with winds as high as 210 mph—touched down and barreled through her cousin’s home.

“It sounded like we were on the train tracks and the train was coming straight at us,” Jackson said. “You could feel the heavy wind coming.... I could hear everything collapsing and falling. It was so loud.”

When she heard the house’s alarm system signal that the front door had been ripped open, Jackson said she knew the tornado had struck the house.

After nearly a half hour seeking shelter in a clos-et with her cousin’s fiancé, Marcus Dockings, and the couple’s two children, the Blue Devil forward emerged from the wreckage of her cousin’s house unscathed.

“We looked at the house we had just come out of and we were just so thankful,” Jackson said. “We were so grateful that we got out because you would not

Jackson survives storm, gains new perspective

SEE HUNT ON PAGE 8 SEE JACKSON ON PAGE 8

TRACK AND FIELD

Blue Devils set to compete in NCAA Preliminariesby Danielle Muoio

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For some, this weekend’s meet could mark the final races of their Duke ca-reer. For others, it could be a stepping stone to the NCAA Championships.

The Blue Devils will send 27 com-petitors to the NCAA East Preliminary Round in Greensboro, N.C. this week-end with the hope of qualifying for the NCAA Championship in Eugene, Ore.

Qualifying athletes had to hold one of the top 48 individual marks or one of the top 24 relay marks in the East Region. Following this weekend’s com-petition, the top 12 athletes from each event will be chosen to compete in the national championship June 5.

“Everybody at this level believes they can go [to the NCAA Championship],” Duke head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “They are all very good and they are not separated by a lot. It’s going to be a great competition and the people best prepared will get to move on.”

Redshirt junior Curtis Beach is ranked third in the nation in the decathalon, au-tomatically qualifying him for the NCAA Championship in Oregon. Beach—who competed at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Tri-als last summer—will use this weekend as what Ogilvie calls a “tune-up” before

the NCAA Championship, and could possibly qualify in another event as well.

Not every Blue Devil competitor has a guaranteed spot to compete for a na-tional championship. Others will fight over a matter of inches to make it to the final meet of the season.

Junior Erica Brand is the No. 4 seed in the women’s discus, and senior Austin Gamble is the No. 9 seed on the men’s side. Ogilvie said that despite their high rankings, Brand and Gamble still have a tough challenge ahead of them if they hope to qualify for the championship.

“They must compete still—there’s not a lot of difference between the No. 1 guy and the 48th guy,” Ogilvie said. “They are separated by inches here or there.”

Gamble, who is also a linebacker for Duke’s football team, took time off from the discus last year to focus on his oth-er sport. He last attended the national championship in Oregon as a freshman.

All-American honoree Cydney Ross, a senior, has the greatest chance of ad-vancing to the national championship in the 800 meters, Ogilvie said. James Kostelnik, a fifth-year senior, also could qualify in the 5,000 meters.

Ogilvie noted that the meet this week-end is exciting because the Blue Devils will be represented in a wide array of

events.“What’s great about this years Duke

track and field team is that they are

so well spread out over a number of events,” he said. “I’m really excited for this weekend.”

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Twenty-seven Blue Devil athletes will compete for spots in the NCAA Championship this weekend.

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touching to know that we’re not alone.”As soon as the storm had passed, Hunt

reached out to her father, who works at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. She also texted her roommate, fel-low defender Tabria Williford, to let her know that she and her mother were un-harmed.

Moments later, cell phone reception in Moore went down when the area’s cell towers became overloaded with ac-tivity. When Hunt was finally able to use her phone again, it had been inundated with an outpouring of support from her Duke teammates.

“Every single person on my team has reached out to me some way or another,” Hunt said. “I’ve talked to many of them. I’ve gotten at least one text from every single one of them.”

In addition to the support she has re-ceived from her coaches and teammates, a number of Duke administrators have reached out to the Hunt family in the aftermath of the tornado, including Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Mon-eta and Vice President and Director of Athletics Kevin White.

In a stroke of luck, the Hunt family did not have to search for a place to stay. Anastasia’s father, Alvin, manages a number of rental properties, one of which was vacated last Sunday and was unharmed by the tornado.

Wednesday was the first day Hunt and her family had been to her house to view the devastation the tornado had left in its path. Police and other first respond-ers had cordoned off Hunt’s neighbor-hood for search and rescue efforts. Hunt said that her family has yet to decide whether to purchase another house or attempt to rebuild on their land.

“It’s a weird feeling, to know that you are technically homeless right now,” Hunt said. “I don’t know how to describe it.”

Hunt’s teammates have already be-gun to reach out and offer to send the family supplies and provisions for the coming weeks, and the athletic depart-ment is preparing to organize fundrais-ing efforts.

“I’m just very proud of our players. They were all very concerned for the safety of the Hunt family and they were all very relieved to hear that they were unharmed,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “We’re a big family, and when somebody goes down like this everybody really steps forward to help

HUNT from page 7

have thought that someone could have made it out of that house.”

Jackson said the closet in which they sought shelter was one of the only rooms in the house left standing.

“We looked up, and we were almost out-side,” Jackson said. “Some of the roof had come down and could have crushed us.”

With the storm bearing down on her cousin’s home, Jackson said she didn’t even think to bring shoes with her into the closet.

After the heavy winds had subsided, the rising senior walked through the rubble of her cousin’s house barefoot, in what she could only describe as a state of shock.

“I never thought that it would ever ac-tually really happen to me,” Jackson said. “You look outside and the whole neigh-borhood was just gone.... I couldn’t be-lieve what had just happened.”

Forced to wander on foot in an effort to find cell phone service, Jackson final-ly found that she had missed a call from head coach Joanne P. McCallie. Jackson then made an effort to contact her par-ents, but the area’s cell tower had been damaged in the storm.

When she had finally been picked up and transported from the devastation hours later, Jackson said her phone was

JACKSON from page 7 flooded with missed calls and text mes-sages from her Blue Devil teammates and coaches.

The first message she responded to was that of her classmate and point guard, Chelsea Gray. When Jackson re-gained service, more messages followed.

“All of a sudden my phone kept blow-ing up,” Jackson said. “I called my mom and my father first and then I started re-sponding to all my teammates and every-one on the staff.”

Jackson said her teammates’ well-wishes helped her initial shock subside.

“At that point it made me feel so much better,” Jackson said. “Afterwards I was in complete disbelief and was really shaken up. But then they started calling me and texting me, and it made me feel so relieved to know that they are really there for me—not just with basketball but with anything in life experiences.”

Now staying with her father, Jackson continues to assist her family in their re-covery efforts and said she will continue to lean on her teammates and coaches for support. She also said her tornado experience has helped to change her outlook on life.

“You can’t take life for granted,” Jack-son said. “It was such an eye-opener for me to experience that because you never think you’re going to be the one in that situation.”

ELYSIA SU/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO

Senior forward Richa Jackson was in her cousin’s home when it was leveled by the tornado in Moore, Okla.

each other.Dealing with natural disasters has

been difficult for collegiate athletes in the past due to NCAA rules that pre-vent them from accepting impermissible benefits. But Wednesday night, Church said that the athletic department’s fund-raising efforts have been approved by Duke’s compliance department and are ready to proceed.

“The NCAA in the past 10 years has been much more flexible about finding ways to help student-athletes in emer-gency situations,” said Deputy Director of Athletics Chris Kennedy. “It’s very early, so we have people brainstorming and try-ing out ideas about ways we might go.”

Planning to remain in Oklahoma with her family for the remainder of the summer, Hunt said thanks to the efforts made by the Duke community, the pro-cess of rebuilding now appears much less formidable.

“It’s just things—they can always be re-placed,” Hunt said. “You can always have a place to live but it’s the people you’re with that make your home a home. Your home is where your heart is.”

Athough Krzyzewski will likely re-turn as Team USA’s head coach, it ap-pears the squad will still undergo some changes before it begins preparation for the 2014 World Cup. Krzyzewski’s staff previously included Los Angeles Lakers’ head coach Mike D’Antoni, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Nate McMillan and Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim. In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Boeheim said it was “probable” that he would be brought back as a part of the staff for Team USA. A report from the New York Post Wednesday said that D’Antoni would not return as one of Krzyzewski’s assistant coaches.

The U.S. Men’s National Team is set to hold its first mini-camp July 22-25 in Las Vegas. The squad will have more than a year to prepare before the FIBA World Cup, where the team’s stiffest competition will likely be the host na-tion of Spain. Krzyzewski’s only loss at the helm of USA Basketball came in this tournament—formerly known as the FIBA World Championship—in 2006 when Team USA fell to Greece.

KRZYZEWSKI from page 1

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Junior defender Anastasia Hunt’s home in Moore, Okla. was destroyed by Monday’s tornado.

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Uni should openly discuss renovationsWith Baldwin Auditorium

reconstruction nearing com-pletion, Duke’s three-part ren-ovation plan is well underway. However, fi nancial and admin-istrative complications have hindered some plans and left others severely underfunded. These issues are indicative of a broader issue of gaps in communication.

As today’s Chronicle re-ports, West Union renovations have been slowed as adminis-trators go back to the drawing board after the Board of Trust-ees rejected the initial proposal in May. The Board’s rejection of the proposal illustrates a con-cerning gap in communication within the upper echelons of the University’s decision-mak-ers. Although Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said

the plans will be completed in two to three months, the fact that the Trustees will not touch the subject or vote on the mat-ter until they reconvene in Oc-tober seriously delays progress.

This uneccesari-ly bureaucratic system hinders

progress for a very important University project that affects students and faculty.

That the University de-clined to comment on the Board’s basis for rejection dem-onstrates another problematic gap in communication, this time between administrators and students. From the student perspective, such large-scale renovation projects may not seem as pressing to the student experience as installing air con-ditioning systems for all dorm rooms or improving living

spaces on Central Campus.The Charlotte-based Duke

Endowment, which is com-peltely independent of the University, gifted the $80 million for the renovations. Although we recognize that the Endowment played a role in deciding how the funds would be spent, we ques-tion the University’s planned sequence of renovations—starting with Baldwin Audi-torium, then moving to West Union and lastly to Page Au-ditorium. Given the fi nancial constraints surrounding the projects—the estimated total cost for the renovations were projected at $100 million, of which the University received only $80 million—prioriti-zation should have fallen to projects that stand to have the greatest impact on the

most students, namely Page Auditorium.

As the largest venue on campus aside from the Cha-pel, Page Auditorium is an important venue for the Duke and greater Durham commu-nity for a variety of events, from cultural showcases like Awaaz to invited speakers. These events foster communi-ty awareness and celebration that greatly enhances the stu-dent experience on campus. Yet the venue is riddled with problems—Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts, pointed to uncomfortable seating, poor stage visibility and the outdated sound and lighting system as just some issues facing the auditorium. Improvements to the facil-ity could greatly improve the experiences of those students

and community members who utilize the space.

Certainly, taking Page Au-ditorium offl ine for renova-tions would hamper student activity—one of the original considerations when fi rst un-dertaking Baldwin construc-tion. However, this is the lesser of two evils, as the present situation leaves insuffi cient funds to make the necessary improvements.

Ultimately, renovations to all three venues are important for current students and for at-tracting prospective students. We urge the University, how-ever, to maintain open com-munication with the Board and students as it continues forth, and in doing so, to take into consideration the student experience. The fi rst step is open communication.

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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then re-treated back to their money or their vast careless-

ness, or whatever it was that kept them together …”How did they manage? I wondered.

How could Daisy leave with Tom as Gatsby lay dead in the mansion built for her? How could she make him wait so long for her call? How could Tom say he never knew his mistress as she laid torn open on a dirty table, tears still streaming down her cheeks?

They were careless people. I’ve often wondered what makes

a classic like “The Great Gatsby.” I’m beginning to suspect it has something to do with a timeless story whose rel-evance leaps with urgency from the pages, seeping into our own dialogues and stories even as they un-fold before us.

“The Great Gatsby” has it all. There is the always-relevant theme of love¬¬—crazy, all-consuming love. We see a deepening tension between beauty and goodness. Lana Del Rey’s whimsical melody whirls in the background as Gatsby and Daisy sneak away from his party to neighbor Nick Carraway’s yard: Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beauti-ful?

Much like Gatsby’s phony accent—a North Dakota man trying to fi t the Northeastern part—the sound-track seems misguided at fi rst. Beyonce and Florence + the Machine playing in a 1920s scene is somehow anachronistic, we think. The blend of the much-be-loved storyline coupled with pop music disorients us. But as song after song tumble to our ears, Gatsby’s accent and the songs all fi t. They all fi t, drawing us in, disorienting us, but this time with our permission.

The imagined characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald bask in the opulence of a stranger’s extravagant party. Cars of the 1920s roar up the gravel drive, passengers swaying and dangling from the topless Model Js. The alcohol is bottomless. Confetti and music fi ll the air.

Gatbsy’s world reminds me of a place I always wanted to write about. It is a place of money—mysteri-ously begotten and explained in whispers. “Mr. Smith works in investments” or “manages stocks,” when, in actuality, he is the heir to some oil company or the orchestrator of Wall Street conquests past.

Tucked into the eastern shoreline of South Florida is this place, the little town of Sewall’s Point. It owes its history to the failed fruition of corporate plans. In years past, it was hoped to be a port, a stretch of Flagler’s railroad, even a pineapple plantation. All these efforts fell through. None bore any fruit. But it and its neighboring Sailfi sh Point now serve as winter homes to corporate greats like the Kiplingers, Bloom-ingdales, Carnegies and Walgreens.

I now live “within and without” this world of mon-ey and privilege, but I can remember a time when my part could only be described as intimately within. I was often allured by the gatherings thrown by faceless

hosts; I took part in the peacocking and pomp whirled inside the youth and privilege.

I can remember Homecoming, when some of our Calculus classmates drew with paint pens on their more modest cars in the school parking lot. Alongside “Go Team,” “#6” and “Beat County” were drawings of me and other insiders as a form of strange decoration. My sketch, denoted “G,” was a faceless girl with a high-waisted skirt and headband. We giggled, sang

a song, deeming any critiques to be some shade of jealous.

We were within that rich, charmed world, so vastly unaware of how all others might perceive it.

We were careless people. I can remember discussing whether one misstep

of a friend was grounds for cutting all ties and ban-ishment from the inner circle. I can remember want-ing so desperately to be within this small, elite group and more secretly, more desperately, to be without. Like Nick Carraway, I felt trapped in limbo, within and without, a third wheel to my own story. I was too young, too within, too drawn in and too consumed to break away. I confused greatness with goodness time after time after regrettable time.

Time away from this beautiful place allows us to see it as others once did. It has taken a true break for me to disentangle the warm fondness for this place as the site of my childhood with the ugly truth of who I was in adolescence here.

With each return, I cannot help but remember whom I once wronged with my carelessness and who had wronged me with their own. I cannot help but realize how my circumstances clouded my self-aware-ness, making everything feel distant, expendable.

Those were some of my more formative and con-fused years, but I come here now only for summer and time off. With each visit, I gaze out to the white-speckled blue of the inlet. And in these moments, I share with Gatsby a conviction of hope that Nick Car-raway so admired. I feel the promise of a life lived more carefully, and I question the problems of such a semi-charmed place. I hope that others may tread more carefully, understanding sooner than I the im-plications and pitfalls of privilege. I hope that others might see the danger in carelessness and be drawn back home, but never again consumed.

Gracie Willert is a Trinity senior. Her second summer col-umn will run on June 13.

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I turned 21 last month. Not gonna lie: It’s great to be legal. I love a cold Yuengling or a drink at the on-cam-

pus bar (farewell, fair Dillo). I know al-cohol can be a healthy part of social life. But when you look around campus on a weekend or Wednesday night, you see way too many people stumbling off the C-1 and chundering (a.k.a. vomit-ing in the bushes). We all know about the unbear-ably high costs of heavy drinking: car crashes that have killed our classmates, situations where sexual as-sault is more likely, the EMS calls that are routine on Duke’s campus. A friend once said something revealing at a party: “If I wasn’t in college, they’d call me al-coholic. Man, I love college.” He wasn’t making an ironic reference to the Asher Roth song. How does our drinking cul-ture get this messed up?

I would argue that heavy drinking is not unique to Duke, as much as we like to think that Duke is elite and has its own, elite problems. It’s a widespread problem for college students and young people not in college. According to the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, almost exactly half of people 18 to 20 years old drink, and a full 20 percent were “heavy drinkers,” meaning they had fi ve or more drinks on fi ve or more different occa-sions in the 30 days preceding the survey. Full-time college students are more likely to drink than other 18- to 22-year-olds (63.9 percent vs. 53.5 percent). So we can’t simply blame the Duke administra-tion for the drinking culture—although I do question the harsher enforcement that is driving parties off campus and away from any supervision. Heavy drink-ing is a broader problem that especially affects college students.

Teenagers need to know how to con-sume alcohol responsibly before they get to college. But how can they learn? I think our parents can teach us.

Moms and dads take almost two de-cades to teach their kids how to eat healthy. My mom tirelessly preached the gospel of “everything in moderation” when it comes to desserts. My parents let me have cake and pie for special occa-sions, but they taught me to have a slice rather than gobble the entire thing. By the last semester of high school, I knew how much was safe to have and why it was bad to have too much. I had experi-mented a little bit and learned from it: Chocolate pie for breakfast tastes great but feels awful later. As high school graduation approached, I more or less knew how to handle desserts. But not alcohol.

So I convinced my parents to let me have a glass of wine with them at dinner. And then I convinced them to let me have a beer when we grilled on the back porch. And then I convinced my grand-mother to pour me a gin and tonic. My parents didn’t want to encourage me to start drinking, but we all knew that col-lege loomed ahead along with its abun-dant opportunities for consumption. This was the logic: If they treated me as an adult, maybe I would drink like an adult after leaving home. I learned that a single Heineken tastes great without being followed by another six beers and that a mixed drink can be an accompani-ment to a conversation rather than the focus of attention. And even if someone is drinking to get drunk, they would be better off knowing their limits and stop-ping before going too far. Based on my

experience, I think that more parents can sow the seeds for a healthier rela-tionship with alcohol.

Why let high school students drink? Abstinence from alcohol is undeniably

the safest option. But if 63.9 percent of college stu-dents drink, then they must have learned how to drink from someone. Would you rather they learn from a swaggering upperclassman at an off-campus party dur-ing orientation week or from their parents? I think parents can teach their children to enjoy alcohol

in moderation the same way they teach them to enjoy desserts in moderation. Of course, I respect every family’s very personal decision. A history of alcohol-ism in the family completely changes the discussion. If parents themselves don’t drink—one of every three drinking-age Americans abstains from alcohol—then of course they won’t teach their kids to drink. But if mom and dad have a Bud-weiser while watching the game or sip merlot with dinner, I think they can pour a glass for their college-bound high school seniors.

Worried about the law? Yes, the drink-ing age is 21 in every state. But accord-ing to the federal Alcohol Policy Infor-mation System, 31 states allow parents to serve their underage children in private residences. These states range across the country and the political spectrum from Texas to Connecticut to my home state of Maryland. (Unfortunately, North Caroli-na has yet to see the light.) And for the 19 states and the District of Columbia that technically do not allow any under-age drinking, I doubt any police offi cer would barge into a private residence and cart parents to jail for putting an extra wine glass on the table.

Wondering what the academics have to say? Major studies provide some sup-port for family drinking. In 2009, Rob-ert Turrisi, a professor of biobehavioral health at Pennsylvania State University’s College of Health and Human Develop-ment, found that “the only signifi cant predictors of teen drinking behaviors in college were gender and parental limit setting.” There was a highly signifi cant correlation between “the number of drinks parents set as a limit during high school” and the quantity and frequency of their teens’ college drinking. When their parents set low limits, college stu-dents were more likely to drink respon-sibly. I think parents can set those limits by letting their children drink modestly at family events.

Turrisi also conducted a random-ized experiment with 1,900 rising col-lege freshmen and their parents. Some families were assigned to talk about al-cohol consumption, why students drink and alternatives to drinking before the students left for college. The teens who spoke with their parents were signifi cant-ly less likely to drink dangerously once they got to campus.

So, if you’re a parent whose child is starting college this Fall: If you teach your kids to drink while they’re at home, they might drink more responsibly in college. Drink with them at the dinner table. Set low limits. Talk about your ex-pectations. If you’re a student headed to college, ask your parents how they deal with alcohol. If they’re enjoying a beer, ask them to open one for you.

Andrew Kragie is a Trinity junior. His sec-ond summer column will run on June 13.

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Anger, shame and other drugs

The tiny, yellow pills were spilled all over the big pouch of my book bag.

At first, I thought I forgot to close the pill bottle correctly the last time I’d taken my medication. As I continued to look through my backpack, I realized that half of my prescrip-tion for Ritalin, a stimulant drug, was gone. I poured the contents of my book bag onto the floor of my room, frantically looking for the pills and the other bottle of medicine. I tried to convince myself that the medicine hadn’t been sto-len, but there was no other explanation. I considered calling the Duke Police, but the embarrassment of admitting I had Ritalin prevented me from doing so.

Ritalin helps me focus and offers me aid with the working memory issues that are caused by my ADHD. The effects of the medicine are clear: Without it, I need a pen and paper to solve basic arithmetic, and I cannot complete mun-dane tasks like writing a logical para-graph.

The anger I felt toward the person who stole my medicine consumed me for a few days. I was upset with the thief. I was upset with myself for needing the medication. And I was upset with the people who abuse prescription drugs on a regular basis.

As my anger grew, I became horri-fied that someone would do something so shamelessly. I myself am ashamed of my ADHD. I was disgusted that someone who likely did not have ADHD would not feel ashamed enough to stop his or herself from taking the pills.

Admitting that I need to fill a pre-scription in order to achieve my full po-tential is at times as exhausting as the ADHD itself. Even when I am taking the medication, I am not able to process in-formation as quickly as the majority of my peers and often struggle with work-ing memory issues. It’s a detriment to my pride when I have to admit that, without these stimulants, I probably would not be as stable as I believe myself to be. There has been more than one occasion when I’ve stopped taking my medica-tion in an attempt to rid myself of my unjustifiable shame of ADHD. Despite a clinical diagnosis, it’s difficult not to feel like I’m cheating or giving myself an unfair advantage. The embarrassment I feel when I need to ask for extra help or tell my group members to slow down in class is terrifying. All these emotions consumed me as I began to think about the person who stole those tiny, yellow pills. I was devastated that someone was

probably going to be taking this medica-tion to attain an unfair advantage, and I was in a situation where all I could do was accept what had happened.

While refl ecting on the incident, a close friend suggested that the desperation of some-one who steals medicine not prescribed to him is probably more concerning than that person’s thievery. Once the initial anger had passed, I became worried about the emotions of that someone who is willing to take such drastic measures to reach potential success. Adderall and Ritalin are

dangerous drugs that can have deadly side effects when used improperly. If stu-dents are consciously willing to take these drugs because they are ashamed of their abilities, and if they have self-effi cacy that dangerously low, then there is more than the issue of drug abuse at hand. On more than one occasion, I have overheard in-furiating conversations about Adderall on campus. This time, I came to realize that there has to be a bigger issue at play. There is something in society or in this school that makes perfectly capable stu-dents feel as though they need external and arguably unethical methods of assis-tance.

As a Duke student, I realize that the pressure to succeed is overwhelming. Each one of us feels insecure about our intelligence at times, and the average workload can sometimes feel unmanage-able. It’s easy to forget that, just to get into Duke, we all demonstrated some quality that made admissions officers believe we were capable of succeeding here. It’s important to doubt ourselves so that we don’t become complacent, but it’s equally important to stay grounded in the strengths that allowed to us to get to Duke in the first place. .

I came to realize that the shame that sometimes made me abstain from taking my medication is the same shame that would motivate someone to steal those yellow pills in the first place.

I hope that the student who stole the medication from my book bag, and any-one else who’s ever felt the need to en-hance him or herself in a way that could become harmful, recognize that insecuri-ties are common to many of us. If feel-ings of shame and guilt are enough that they become hurtful and blinding, then maybe it’s time to refl ect more conscious-ly on how to lead our lives in ways that al-low us to see our strengths more clearly.

Nourhan Elsayed is a Trinity sophomore. Her second summer column will run on June 13.

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