october 27, 2010 issue

Community to gather for memorial

Scientists prep for trials of HIV vaccine

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Last night at Koskinen Stadium, Duke defeated its final non-conference opponent of the regular season, Furmon, 4-0. The Blue Devils showcased a balanced offensive attack in the win.

Just kickin’ it

by Julia NiTHE CHRONICLE

Researchers are preparing for trials of a new HIV vaccine that accounts for the di-verse nature of the deadly virus’ strains.

An international group of scientists is preparing for human trials of a mosaic HIV vaccine. The team will be led by Dr. Bar-ton Haynes, director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology.

The team hopes to launch a small human trial with approximately 150 participants by 2012, said Bette Korber, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Mosaic vaccines consist of many synthet-ic sequences of proteins that are generated by computer software. Relative to tradi-tional HIV vaccines, this key characteristic helps the immune system respond to the diverse strains of HIV.

“HIV is really very variable,” Korber said. “It plays a cat-and-mouse game with its host.”

The HIV virus is a diverse pathogen and mutates very quickly because it contains an error-prone enzyme that makes mistakes as it replicates. As the body’s immune system fights the virus, the resulting mutations

by Matthew ChaseTHE CHRONICLE

A memorial service remembering se-nior Drew Everson will be held in the Duke Chapel at noon today.

Everson died Oct. 23 after an accidental fall the previous day left him with two collapsed lungs and head injuries. He will be honored at both the memorial service and at a reception fol-lowing the service in the Scharf Commons, which is next to Cameron In-

door Stadium. Both the memorial and reception are open to the public.

At the memorial, three of Everson’s friends plan to offer tributes, and two oth-er friends will read from scripture. Presi-dent Richard Brodhead and Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, will also make remarks at the memorial. Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells will preside over the service.

Family members and close friends will also present certain mementos from Ever-son’s life. Members of Everson’s fraternity,

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Duke receives recognition for encouraging male nurses

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The University’s work in promoting nursing as a course of study for males has earned it the 2010 “Best Nursing School for Men in Nursing.”

by Christine ChenTHE CHRONICLE

Efforts to encourage men to study nursing recently led to national recognition for Duke.

Earlier this month, the University received the 2010 “Best Nursing School for Men in Nursing” award from the American Assembly for Men in Nursing. Catherine gilliss, the dean of the School of Nursing, said she was pleased that the school’s efforts were being recognized but said she was not surprised given Duke’s efforts.

“We have worked to create a more inclusive environ-ment and our faculty, staff and student body are committed to building a community in which diversity is celebrated,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Nursing has sold itself to many of our male students and faculty members.”

gilliss said she thinks the inclusion of men in the field enriches disciplinary perspectives and allows the public to view nursing in a different light.

“Men bring fresh approaches to nursing, just as women brought new insights to the practices of medicine and law,” she said.

Students and recent alumni said Duke’s program is very inclusive of male students, but that reputation was not nec-essarily what brought them to the University.

Robb Holton, Nursing ’09 who will also graduate from

the Family Nurse Practitioner program in 2011, wrote in an e-mail that he chose Duke because of the quality of its research and instruction. The presence of male faculty, though, has also enhanced his experience.

“There are excellent male role-models in the clinical faculty at Duke, and it has certainly provided support and personal growth during my education,” he said.

In recent years, the University has continued to attract more male students, noted Clark Schmutz, Nursing ’09. Schmutz was one of four men in a class of 65 students, but the number of men enrolled in the School of Nursing has increased every year since he joined, he wrote in an e-mail.

“We worked hard to include men in the program,” Schmutz said. “The male faculty at Duke were also really helpful and some of them have continued to be great re-sources in the nursing profession.”

Chris Woods, who graduated with nursing degrees in 2005 and 2008, also said he felt included by the student body as a male nursing student.

“[The School of Nursing] is far advanced in focusing to attract the best students regardless of sex, race or eth-nicity. I never once felt excluded based on my sex,” he wrote in an e-mail.

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Congressional race heats upby Michael Shammas

THE CHRONICLE

President Barack Obama’s popularity in North Carolina in 2008 helped land victories for Democratic congressional candidates across the state. This year, though, Democratic incumbents are facing challenges to defend their posts.

Democratic Rep. Larry Kissell—currently the eighth district’s congressional representa-tive—unseated five-term Republican incumbent Robin Hayes four years ago. One election cycle later, however, Kis-sell is finding himself on the wrong side of anti-incumbent sentiment, ac-cording to Political Science Professor David Rohde, and is facing a strong challenge from Republican candidate Harold Johnson. The most recent poll published by The New York Times

shows the two candidates essentially in a dead heat.Rohde explained that the reason the race has grown

so close is because of the Democratic Party’s current na-tional problems.

“Many voters who are unhappy are holding the Demo-crats responsible for the problems,” he said. “This is true even if they aren’t Republican.”

The Tea Party is also making things difficult for Kissell and the Democratic Party, Rhode said. Although the move-ment is not officially aligned with the Republican party, its members are largely conservative.

“The Tea Party is definitely a resource for spurring Re-publican turnout,” Rhode said. “Both nationally and in the state, Republicans are angry and are extremely moti-vated to vote.”

Eric Heberlig, a resident of the eighth district and po-litical science professor at the University of North Caro-lina at Charlotte, said he believes the Tea Party will give Johnson more Republican support in the eighth district.

“I don’t know if the Tea Party movement is that much better organized here in the eighth district than anywhere

else,” he said. “But it’s probably undeniable that they will affect the election’s turnout, because the movement re-flects the increased national enthusiasm of conservatives.”

A lower turnout of African-American voters would also have a major effect on the race. African-American turnout usually is lower in midterm elections than in presidential elections, he said.

One move frequently debated in the race is Kissell’s vote against the health care bill. Yet Christopher Schuler, the director of communications for Kissell’s campaign, said the vote was the congressman keeping his word.

“A promise that the congressman made to the people of his district [was] that while we do need health reform, he would never vote to cut Medicare,” said Schuler. “Half of Obama’s bill was going to cut Medicare. That’s why he voted against it.”

Nonetheless, many Democratic voters will be “substan-tially less likely to turn out and vote [in this mid-term elec-tion] than in 2008,” Rohde said.

While Kissell continues to try to reassure the eighth dis-trict’s Democratic base, Johnson is working on identifying with the district’s residents. A former sportscaster, Johnson worked for a Charlotte sports channel and was known as “the big guy” among locals.

“Johnson’s popular here,” said David Black, chairman of the eighth district’s Republican Party. “Kissell promised to give our district more jobs and he failed.”

Johnson is using his local popularity to run as an out-sider against politicians in Washington DC.

“Harold Johnson is a family friend,” said sophomore Jil-lian Becker, who is also from the eighth district. “He knows a lot of people around Charlotte.”

Although Kissell faces a tough election, his campaign believes he is the best man for the job.

“The congressman’s got a record of standing up for his district,” Schuler said. “He’s been voted one of the most moderate members in Congress. He has no party lines. And most importantly, he’s a former textile worker and school teacher who understands the needs of normal working-class people.”

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by Anna KoelschTHE CHRONICLE

At its meeting Tuesday night, the Duke University Union outlined ideas to reinvent Joe College Day as a celebration of the first week of classes.

Sophomore Nathan Nye, Joe College Day program-ming chair, said event attendance has been steadily de-clining in recent years. Nye attributed the event’s lack of popularity to an unappealing lineup of bands and a minimal level of marketing.

“The big reasons I heard for why people didn’t come [this year] are they didn’t like the music, had a mid-term or were going out that night to party,” Nye said.

Nye proposed moving Joe College Day to the first week of classes to attract a larger crowd. He said re-naming Joe College Day may also help better market the event to students but added that he wants the event to retain a “mellow, laid back” feel. He also sug-gested allowing larger student groups to set up tents at the event.

The artists this year were chosen after a long art-ist selection process. Cute is What We Aim For—the headlining band for this year’s Joe College Day—was meant to be “reminiscent” of middle school for Duke students, Nye said. Typically chosen artists are edgy and on the rise, but Nye said this year’s headliner was not ideal according to these criteria.

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Investors use scandal to press banks to buy back securitiesby Jia Lynn Yang

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Since the financial crisis broke out two years ago, un-happy investors in mortgage securities have struggled to organize themselves and achieve a common goal - force big banks to buy back loans that went bad because of shod-dy lending practices.

Now, widespread reports of the banks botching their loan paperwork have breathed new life into the efforts by investors, and they say they are organizing their most ag-gressive legal offensive yet against the biggest bank in the country, Bank of America.

Once run by a loose group of hedge funds, the inves-tors’ campaigns have bulged in size in recent weeks, turn-ing them into a force that could recoup tens of billions of dollars from Bank of America and other large lenders and act as a major drain on their earnings.

Previously, this group struggled to force the banking industry to hand over data critical to their lawsuits. Now with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the regula-tor of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and some of the world’s largest funds on board, the investors may be able to compel banks to reveal more about their lending practices.

The newly energized investors present a troubling scenario for the big banks that packaged loans and sold them as securities. On top of fighting off lawsuits from ho-meowners seeking to challenge foreclosure proceedings, these companies could face months of bitter and costly liti-gation as angry investors finally unite.

On Wednesday, a team of attorneys leading the charge is holding a conference in New York about fail-ures by banks to properly service loans and their prac-tice of hiring “robo-signers” who signed off on thou-

sands of foreclosure files each month without verifying their accuracy.

The prospect of more lawsuits has already spooked Wall Street. On Monday, Bank of America’s stock hit a 52-week low.

“If you think about people who come back and say, I bought a Chevy Vega, but I want it to be a Mercedes with a 12-cylinder, we’re not putting up with that,” said chief ex-ecutive Brian Moynihan in an earnings call last week. “We will diligently fight this.”

Still, the foreclosure debacle represents a turning point for mortgage investors who have long accused banks of misrepresenting the mortgages they issued. For instance, some investors have accused banks of overstat-ing how many loans were taken out by borrowers using their properties as primary residences, which made the mortgages seem less risky than they actually were.

The robo-signer issue is one more piece of evidence, say investors, that the banks have failed to keep their end of the bargain.

“I think the robo-signers are a battle in a long war,” said Bill Frey, chief executive of greenwich Financial, which filed a suit in 2008 against Countrywide, now owned by Bank of America.

So far, investors have faced two major hurdles in their battle against the banks.

First, the plaintiffs have to prove in court that they hold more than 25 percent of the mortgage securities that they say have problems. This has been tough be-cause investors can’t easily find one another. Mortgage securities were sold by banks to investors all over the globe and the names of the buyers are not publicly dis-closed.

And, added Isaac gradman, an attorney in San Francis-co, “The big issue was originally that investors did not want to come forward to reveal what their holdings were.”

Earlier this month, New York state Supreme Court Judge Barbara Kapnick in New York County tossed out greenwich’s lawsuit against Countrywide for failure to gather enough investors to meet this 25 percent mark.

In recent weeks, the headlines about shoddy lending practices has drawn more investors out of the shadows. Many have begun exploring whether they should join on-going lawsuits.

“The level of interest has just risen dramatically,” said Tal Franklin, a Dallas-based attorney representing inves-tors. Franklin said he has been receiving two or three calls a day from new clients. Franklin has organized a clearing-house through which investors can band together and yet keep their holdings private.

The other barrier for investors has been proving ex-actly how banks have broken the contracts attached to the sale of the mortgage securities. The investors are seeking specific information on how loans were under-written, including whether the bank checked to see if borrowers were being truthful in their income state-ments, and whether banks lived up to the promises they made to investors in prospectus materials attached to the mortgage securities. The trouble is that banks hold that information and have been unwilling so far to hand any of it over.

Franklin said investors are making progress in this re-spect. They’re analyzing public records and now getting phone calls from attorneys representing homeowners who are offering information on how banks have handled indi-vidual loans.

Also, in July, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, acting on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, issued 64 subpoenas seeking documents on private mortgage securities bought by the government-controlled firms. That information, if shared, could prove critical to in-vestor lawsuits.

Estimates range widely on how much banks stand to lose from investor lawsuits. Analysts at Compass Point Re-search & Trading estimate that the total liability for such private securities is likely to be $133 billion, with a worst-case estimate of $179 billion and a best-case estimate of $55 billion.

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Sophomore Chloe Rockow is the president of Duke Quidditch, a club that brings the magical sport from J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series in the real world and on Duke’s Gothic campus. The team, which was officially recognized by Duke Student Government in the Spring, played its first match of the year against North Carolina State University Sunday. Although the team lost the match, Duke Quidditch has lofty goals for the year and for its burgeoning membership. The Chronicle’s Sarah Zuk sat down with Rockow to discuss Quidditch in the “muggle world” and the team’s plans for the future.

The chronicle: How did the game go against N.C. State?

chloe rockow: The final scores of the games were like 180 to 60 and 170 to 70, which is kind of embarrassing, but we caught the Snitch!

Tc: So how do you adapt Quidditch to the real world?

cr: There is an International Quid-ditch Association—they have a very intense rule book.... There is a World Cup every year. It’s way more involved than I thought it would be when we got involved.

Tc: How did you get involved in Quidditch?

cr: [Junior] Mia Lehrer, our vice presi-dent started it as a freshman [in 2008-2009]. Then I came and told her I’d help her out. This year we went out to the Student Ac-tivities Fair and had over 250 people sign up. We started having practices and over 80 people showed up.

Tc: So what is Quidditch like?cr: It’s a mix between soccer and dodge-

ball, with a football [and] rugby element. It’s a lot more physical than I thought it would be. A guy from N.C. State broke his rib! The snitch has to be fast. It’s usually a cross coun-

try runner. We can’t fly, which is depressing, but we have brooms. It is a heavy contact sport, so there’s tackling. You can only tack-le people of your same position. Beaters use dodgeballs to tag people out.... We have a competition team, and then we have Hous-es, and then we have our listerv, [which is] our general membership. For people who come out and actually play at our practices, you’ll get sorted into a House. People who are really dedicated and can devote more time are on the competition team. So any-body who wants to be on anything can be, it’s just how much time you put into it.

Tc: How many local schools have Quid-ditch teams?

cr: We are a member of the Intercol-legiate Quidditch Association of the Caroli-nas, which has about 15 schools involved.

Tc: How do you plan to grow the Quid-ditch team at Duke? What are your long-term goals?

cr: We are planning a Carolina Cup, so we are going to host at Duke all the schools from North and South Carolina for one day and just have a round robin tournament to determine the winner of the Carolinas. Mia [the team’s vice president] is Oliver Wood

and she wants to go to the World Cup before her senior year. Since next year is her senior year, our goal is to get to the World Cup.

Tc: What do you win at a Quidditch match?

cr: We actually had a little trophy for the [N.C. State] game. We have an artistic director [sophomore Rebecca Kuzemchak], and she is fantastic. She designed our tro-phy for this [the N.C. State] game. It was a little Dumbledore figure and on the back of his cape it said ‘Pack-Devils Dual 2010’ and the date. She’s going to make little trophies for each of the games and at the Carolina Cup we will have an official trophy.

Tc: Which Hogwarts House would you be in and why?

cr: I feel like if I was actually at Hog-warts I would be in Ravenclaw. I’m one of those major overachievers, super orga-nized, and I feel like that’s very Ravenclaw, kind of witty and very organized. But every-one wants to be in gryffindor.

Tc: Who is your favorite Harry Potter character?

cr: I’m going as Luna Lovegood to [the new Harry Potter movie]. Well, I kind of look like her, obviously. She is so quirky and funny—she could be my favorite character.

Tc: What other aspects of your life does J.K. Rowling significantly impact?

cr: She went through so much hard-ship. Thinking about how she overcame so much adversity and did what she wanted to do with her life. She writes books, [and] I want to write books but that’s hard for me to admit because it’s not a profitable or practi-cal thing to do.... I think it’s great she fol-lowed her dreams and did what she wanted to do, and that’s inspirational to me.

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Sophomore Chloe Rockow, president of Duke Quidditch, and the rest of her team bring a real-world adap-tation of the “Harry Potter” sport to Duke’s campus. The club was officially recognized by DSG last Spring.

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Pi Kappa Phi, will sing a song to honor Everson, and a vo-calist and a cellist will perform.

“I am sure there will be a very good showing [Wednes-day],” said Associate Dean of Students Todd Adams.

The Chronicle’s editorial pages today feature letters submitted from Everson’s friends and family members. Additional letters have been published online. Everson was a columnist for The Chronicle during his sopho-more year, and his final column is also published on the editorial pages.

In a letter submitted to The Chronicle, members of Everson’s family described him as “truly a Renaissance man with passionate interests spanning sports, comedy, politics, public speaking, writing, finance, film and fashion.”

A member of the Duke Debate Team, Everson also coached student members of the East Chapel Hill High School debate team and was a four-year member of his high school debate team at Mauldin High School in greenville, S.C.

Everson was also a “true Cameron Crazy” who be-came a line monitor and attended the 2010 Final Four to witness the men’s basketball team win the national championship.

He was involved in many other student organizations, including the Inside Joke comedy troupe, Campus Council and other campus committees.

In addition to his heavy involvement on campus, Ever-son achieved a 3.8 gPA. He spent the last summer in New York interning with goldman Sachs and was deciding be-tween job offers at the time of his death.

The Everson family added that “Drew’s final departing gift” was his status as an organ donor.

“A piece of him will live on in many others who are des-perately clinging to life,” the family wrote.

Editor’s note: Following today’s service, The Chronicle will write an obituary honoring Drew’s memory. Our thoughts are with Drew’s family and friends.

MEMORIAL from page 1

Global extinction crisis looms, study saysby Juliet EilperinTHE WASHINgTON POST

A growing number of creatures could disappear from the Earth, with one-fifth of all vertebrates and as many as a third of all sharks and rays now facing the threat of ex-tinction, according to a new survey assessing nearly 26,000 species across the globe.

In addition, forces such as habitat destruction, over-exploitation and invasive competitors move 52 species one category closer to extinction each year, according to the research, published online Tuesday by the journal Science. At the same time, the findings demonstrate that these loss-es would be at least 20 percent higher without conserva-tion efforts now under way.

“We know what we need to do,” said Andrew Rosen-berg, senior vice president for science and knowledge at the advocacy group Conservation International and one

of the paper’s co-authors. “We need to focus on protected areas, both terrestrial and marine.”

The survey, conducted by 174 researchers from 38 countries, came as delegates from around the world are meeting in Nagoya, Japan, to debate conservation goals for the coming decade.

The researchers analyzed the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s “Red List” - a periodic account-ing that classifies mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish along a spectrum of how imperiled they are.

While many industrialized countries have undertaken conservation efforts at home and helped fund this work overseas, “the reality is we’re still exporting degradation across the world” by taking food and other resources from the developing world, said co-author Nicholas Dulvy.

“We’ve transformed a third of the habitable land on Earth for food production,” said Dulvy, who co-chairs the

IUCN’s shark specialist group. “You can’t just remove that habitat without consequences for biodiversity.”

Southeast Asia’s animals have experienced the most severe hit in recent years, stemming from a combination of agricul-tural expansion, logging and hunting. Species in parts of Cen-tral America, the tropical Andes of South America and Austra-lia have also all suffered significant population declines, largely due to the chytrid fungus killing off amphibians. Forty-one per-cent of all amphibians are now threatened with extinction.

Norway’s environmental minister, Erik Solheim, who is attending the talks in Nagoya, said in an interview that this sort of accelerating biodiversity loss, coupled with climate change, should compel nations to act boldly: “Very clearly, there’s an increasing sense of urgency here,” he said.

The grim study underscores the failure by parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to fulfill a 1992 pledge to achieve “a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level” by this year. The convention’s 193 signatories meeting this month in Japan will set a conservation target for 2020; a U.S. delegation is attending the two-week session even though the United States has not ratified the pact.

Environmental groups are pushing for a goal of pro-tecting 25 percent of all land on Earth and 15 percent of the sea by 2020. At the moment, roughly 14 percent of terrestrial areas and less than 1 percent of the ocean enjoy some degree of environmental safeguards.

The new study documents the impact of such policies - 64 vulnerable species have begun recovering due to con-certed conservation efforts, the article says. It provides a snapshot of how the world’s birds, mammals and amphib-ians has evolved over three decades.

Two American species that had become extinct in the wild, the California condor and the black-footed ferret, have both made gains after being reintroduced, while sev-eral island species have boosted their numbers after hu-mans took steps to shrink populations of invasive preda-tors that were targeting them. The global population of the Seychelles Magpie-robin, for example, rose from fewer than 15 birds to 180 between 1965 and 2006 after the is-land’s brown rat numbers came under control.

In some instances, policymakers and scientists are just beginning to grapple with the challenges faced by some species - such as sharks, skates and rays. Jack Musick, pro-fessor emeritus at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, helped oversee a global study that suggests roughly 33 per-cent of cartilaginous fishes are threatened.


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Members of Duke University Union discussed the Duke Laser Tag tournament they will host this Saturday. Equipment for the event has already been ordered, and turnout is expected to be high.

Vice President of Internal Affairs Elliot Johnson, a senior, said timing also signifi-cantly affected the success of this year’s Joe College Day.

“There was nothing we could do about it this year because it was football game, foot-ball game, homecoming,” Johnson said. “No-body can compete when we play Alabama.”

This year, Joe College Day featured a beer garden, which allowed students 21 and older to sample three local beers for free and purchase two additional beers on food points. DUU members agreed that the beer garden setup was “alienating” to the majority of students.

Duke Student Broadcasting President Maddie Burke, a senior, said changing the

feel of Joe College Day to something similar to LDOC may increase the event’s success.

“I think a more LDOC model of this as a big social event, seeing your friends and in-teracting with music playing,” Burke said. “That could change the mission [of Joe College Day].”

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Nov. 17 in Page Auditorium. Tickets go on sale for students and employees Nov. 2.

Innovations Committee Chair Dustin gamza, a senior, said the Duke Laser Tag tournament is scheduled for this Saturday, Oct. 30. He said hundreds of people have already signed up and more are anticipat-ed to register the day of the tournament. Equipment ranging from laser guns to gre-nades have already been rented.

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may evade the immune system and then take over.A mosaic vaccine tends to account for the diversity of

these forms. For the past 25 years, Korber has led a team of researchers in collecting hundreds of thousands of se-quences of the global HIV epidemic. That data has been analyzed by a computer system and used to create the mo-saic genes contained in the vaccine.

By switching different portions of the HIV genome, the computer tries millions of combinations until it obtains the most common sequence out of all the known data-bases, Haynes said.

“Computational analysis [has generated] an envelope of genes that has the best coverage over several natural HIV genes,” said Dr. Hua-Xin Liao, research director of HVI and developer of the vaccine.

Mosaic vaccines are expected to result in better out-comes than their traditional counterparts. In trials con-ducted on monkeys, mosaic genes generated a broader and better immune response than any natural gene.

In addition to the synthetic genes the group will use the NYVAC vaccinia vector, a part of the smallpox vaccine. It has already been tried in humans and gives an anti-HIV immune response, Haynes said. A trial of more than 16,000 volunteers from Thailand generated an anti-HIV immune response, having a protection rate of 31 percent.

Using the NYVAC vaccinia vector in the mosaic HIV vaccine may induce better immune responses from hu-mans, Liao said.

Together, the trials give researchers hope that their work might yield positive results for humans.

“All of the vaccine candidates up until today that have been tried have not addressed at all the diversity of the virus,” Haynes said. “If this trial is successful in inducing more broad responses, then we think it will have the pos-sibility of improving upon the good results [indicated in the Thai trial].”

The next two years will primarily be spent on designing the initial phase of the clinical trial for the mosaic vaccine. Funding for the trial will come from the Bill & Melinda gates Foundation and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a part of the National Institutes of Health.

“It is one of several good ideas out there… [and] it has a chance of working,” Korber said.

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Although many male nurses said they felt the Uni-versity provides an inclusive atmosphere, they said the perception that nursing is mostly a female profession still exists.

Amato said throughout nursing school he was asked if he was a doctor or in medical school by his patients and their family members. But men can find a place in the profession.

“There are plenty of manly nurses,” he said, add-ing that he objected to the stereotypes. “The job can be full of heart-pumping, testosterone-pumping mo-ments.”

For some male nurses, it takes a bit of time to get used to being a man in a female-dominated profession. Schmutz said although it required getting adjusted to, he does not think about it as often anymore.

Holton said men are often always visible in nursing but work everywhere from intensive care units to emer-

gency rooms, management and Duke Life Flight, a criti-cal care transport program.

For Woods, serving as an emergency medical techni-cian in the armed forces helped him see the presence of men in nursing as “more of the norm than the aber-ration.”

He said that the public’s perception of the profes-sion likely limits the number of qualified men willing to pursue a career in nursing. But working in neona-tal intensive care—where he is one of three men in a group of nine nurses—Wood said he has never felt like he did not belong.

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As the 2010 football season opened, a follower of Duke football would not have expected to see redshirt-junior kicker Will Synderwine and junior punter Alex King atop the special teams depth chart. But the duo is there, combining to form a stabilizing force in the kicking game.

For Synderwine, a rugby and soccer player while at the Landon School in Bethesda, Md., football was not even on his mind until midway through his fresh-man year of college. That was when Ted Roof, Duke’s head coach in 2007, placed

an ad in The Chronicle announcing an open tryout for the kicking position. At the time, Synderwine was on the club rugby team and was coaxed into attending with a few of his friends from that squad.

“My freshman year, they were having struggles in the kicking game,” Synderwine said. “My friends and I came over for the tryout, and I hit the ball pretty well that day.”

The coaching staff was impressed enough that their

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On April 8, 2009, Dr. Hunt Willard and four of his stu-dents met David Cutcliffe in his office. The topic of the

90-minute talk was not game plans or football strategy, but genetics: how to predict athletic success by studying gene codes, and how to prevent inju-ries by identifying particular genes.

The discussion was new to the Yoh Football Center, and it promised a col-

laborative—if improbable—future between Duke’s football program and the Institute for genome Sciences & policy.

“[Cutcliffe] was very forthcoming and said he was a big believer in it,” said Willard, the Institute’s director. “He said

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prior to the game, head coach John Kerr said Duke needed a “spark.” It got just that from veterans Matthew Thomas, Chris Tweed-Kent and Cole grossman, who stepped up to provide energy and lift the Blue Devils past Furman 4-0 last night at Koskinen Stadium.

Although the paladins (7-5-4) came into the game with strong wins under their belt, including a victory

over No. 25 College of Charleston Oct. 22, they failed to contain an invigorated Duke offense that scored twice in both halves of the match.

The No. 24 Blue Devils (7-4-4) first got on the scoreboard in the 13th minute when redshirt-senior Thomas put away a corner kick from sophomore Ryan Finley for his second goal of the season. Finley’s service into the box was batted around by Sebas-tien Ibeagha and Andrew Wenger before Thomas finally put the ball past goalkeeper Alec Kann.

“We got the first goal, which is always key for us,” Kerr said. “If we get on the scoresheet early, it always gives us a little more confidence and our movement was a little bit better tonight.”

The Blue Devils’ improved movement was evident later in the half when gross-man increased Duke’s lead to 2-0 after he poked in a cross from Chris Tweed-Kent. He also assisted both goals in the second half, and he has a team-leading nine assists on the season.

The Blue Devils, coming off a disap-pointing conference loss to Clemson, knew that establishing an early presence was critical.

“I think we all feel the added pressure,” grossman said. “I don’t have too many games left, so there’s definitely some add-ed intensity. I wanted to definitely get on the scoreboard.”

part of Duke’s early success came from their physical play, resulting in nine first half fouls that stagnated the Furman at-tack. perhaps more notable were the non-calls throughout the half that drew the ire of coaches and players from both teams. Finley received a yellow card in the 28th minute for arguing a foul call outside the Blue Devils’ box. Fortunately for Duke, the paladins could not convert as freshman midfielder Josh Fusan’s free kick skimmed off the post.

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new kicker was dressed and on the sideline for that week’s game. Snyderwine wouldn’t see game action in either the 2007 or 2008 season, but he still stuck with the team.

His efforts would eventually be rewarded, though, as he became the starting kicker early in the 2009 cam-paign after then-starter Nick Maggio struggled. The former rugby star rewarded the coaching staff’s faith, connecting on 17-of-20 field goal attempts and nailing all 24 of his pATs. With a five-field-goal game on his re-cord and a 51-yarder against Wake Forest, Synderwine garnered some national attention and was a Lou groza Award semifinalist.

Even with all of his success last season, Snyderwine stum-bled a bit this spring, and his struggles continued over the summer, perhaps due to his increased focus on kickoffs. In fact, after missing a chip shot in the Blue-White scrimmage, Synderwine was passed on the depth chart by Maggio.

“There was definitely a time when I lost the job,” Synder-wine said. “Fortunately, Coach Cutcliffe gave me another chance, and I think I’ve made him proud.”

The Thursday be-fore the season opener against Elon, Snyder-wine was informed that we would be that week’s starter and nev-er looked back. On the season, he has booted of 11-of-12 field goals and made all 18 of his extra points. After miss-ing a 47-yarder in the opener, he has convert-ed on nine consecutive attempts. Additionally, he has already record-ed more touchbacks this year than last and even successfully con-verted two onside kicks in the last two games.

“I don’t know of a better kicker in the country,” Cutcliffe said. “He has a great repertoire as you can see with his onside kicks, and his range is spectacular.”

King took a similar indirect route to the

job of a Division I punter. After high school, King attended an extra year of

prep school with the dream of playing either basketball or football at the next level in the ACC. Duke football would be the only program to express any interest, and he soon found out he would not be able to play his pre-ferred position, quarterback, in Durham.

“pretty quickly I realized that I wasn’t going to be good enough to play quarterback here,” King said. “I’ve always punted, so I knew that I had a chance to do that. Coming from a small school, I ended up having to do it all.”

Last season against georgia Tech, King got his first start with regular punter Kevin Jones struggling. But he didn’t perform well enough and soon ended up back on the bench. After being outplayed by Jones in spring ball, King didn’t expect a great deal of opportunity this year. However, Cutcliffe was more optimistic.

“Alex has really exceeded expectations,” Cutcliffe said. “We always knew he was somewhat of a factor. We gave him a shot last year, but this year he has taken it

and run with it.”As a result of the

offense’s struggles this year, King has been busy. Having already recorded 36 punts since taking over for Jones midway through Duke’s loss to Wake Forest, King posts a respectable average of 42.1 yards per attempt. More impressively, he has pinned the opponent inside their own 20-yard line on 12 differ-ent occasions.

Just like his kicking partner Snyderwine, King has had exposure to the game of rugby. He now incorporates the rugby punt in his regimen, allowing him to confine the danger-ous returners in the conference.

While there has not been a lot of consisten-cy associated with the Blue Devils this year, one area that has ex-ceeded expectations is the kicking game. Not bad for two walk-ons.

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lot better tonight than it was at Clemson.” The Blue Devils came out a little flat in the sec-

ond half and seemingly coasted along, until Duke eventually scored two goals within 29 seconds of each other—the first by grossman, the second by Finley—to give Duke an insurmountable 4-0 lead. Finley’s goal ties him for the Division I scoring lead with 14 on the year.

Yet, while the offense will receive the majority of the credit for their four-goal performance, the defense de-serves much of the praise as Duke pitched its sixth shut-out of the season.

“For us, I think like most teams in Division I college soccer, it starts with our defensive intensity,” grossman said. “We just didn’t have any of that for most of the Clemson game.”

Indeed, the Blue Devils will have to continue with that intensity as they finish regular season play with two consecutive ACC games, first at Virginia Tech and then at home against Wake Forest.

“[The win] gives us a lot of confidence, and we feel good about what we’re doing,” Kerr said. “Coming off a bad loss against Clemson, this really helps get our mo-rale and team going again.”


Defender Matthew Thomas struck first for Duke, scoring his sec-ond goal of the year 13 minutes into the contest against Furman.

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he can sort of see the kids who have an in-born talent.”Few tangible results for Duke Football, though, have

come from the meeting. The more immediate issues await-ing the football program and the rigors of a 12-game sea-son have taken precedent with the program and the ath-letic department.

But a unique opportunity awaits Cutcliffe and his team. One day, given the Institute’s early data, the football pro-gram will be able to look at athletes’ gene codes and iden-tify the injuries to which they are most susceptible. This in-formation could change the way all of Duke’s varsity teams train, practice and play.

“[Hunt] is a pretty phenomenal individual,” Cutcliffe said. “If [the plan] prevents injuries then I’m all for it.”

From success prediction to injury preventionWillard is a lithe man with a body more suitable for a

running track than a football field. He was a realist about his football talent, knowing it would take him no farther than high school, and he would have to get his football fix in the future by rooting for his beloved Boston (now New England) patriots.

All of this—other than the rooting allegiances, per-haps—would not change if he had been dropped on the doorstep of, say, Archie and Olivia Manning as an infant, he said. He would have grown up in an environment that fostered football excellence, but his body would never al-low that level of success. Willard’s genes simply are not sup-portive of someone who is a high-level football player.

He denied, though, that simply looking at genes allows someone to see whether an athlete will be successful. Intel-ligence and work ethic, not to mention the sheer number of human genes, ensure that.

“I think genetics plays a role in our physical abilities, but I think there are thousands of genes that contribute to that,” Willard said. “So testing for them is naive.”

predicting the degree of success an athlete will have in a given sport is such an imperfect science, in fact, that Willard and his students began to move away from it early in their studies. Instead, they began focusing on injury prevention.

“[The genome sciences] have limited capability for pre-dicting athletic ability,” said Sally Liu, a student in Willard’s capstone class and Marshall scholar who is now a first-year medical student at the University of pennsylvania. “I think from a medical standpoint, it can have an impact on the type of training you can do.”

Around the same time that Willard’s students set up a meeting with Cutcliffe, the doctor identified 18 genes with variants related to athletics. Willard found the gene C0L1A1 relates to ACL tears—it manufactures collagen, the protein crucial to keeping ligaments strong. If an ath-lete has a “wonky” version of this gene, in the words of Willard, he has an increased risk of injury.

“They’re not going to bother you walking around,” he said. “But when you’re putting stress on [the knee], there’s an increased risk that it might tear.”

Another gene identified by Willard was the Ap0E gene, which has implications for athletes suffering from head injuries. A variety, TT, may increase the risk of dementia and long-term neurological damage, especially if a football player takes repeated hits to the head. Another variance, Ap0E4, may contribute to early-onset Alzheimer’s.

Willard said he never sees a day when those who test positive for the variance are not allowed to play football. He does, however, believe that if testing becomes com-mon, these athletes would have to sign a liability waiver.

“The genetics angle is much trickier with concussions,” he said. “If someone came to me and said, ‘Your kid is at a genetically increased risk for suffering early memory loss or early dementia,’ I’m buying the kid a tennis racket.”

possible drawbacksThe scientific findings had the athletic department ex-

cited. The overall health of the athletes could rise with the project, and the school would have an impressive recruit-ing tool.

“He got me fired up... on a level of the welfare of the kids and doing what we can to prevent injuries,” Deputy Director of Athletics Chris Kennedy said. “It’s a lot cheaper to prevent injuries than it is to treat them, and it’d be a heck of a recruiting thing. High school kids and their par-ents see we’re on the cutting edge of this stuff, and that’s attractive.”

High costs, however, have contributed to that attractive idea from becoming a reality. Like other projects, includ-ing some detailed in the 2008 strategic plan, the injury-prevention program has been curbed, in part because of the economic recession.

“For us right now, everything is about cost. We got out of the last budget year in the black, which is a miracle,”

Kennedy said. “Since Hunt did his initial blitz, I haven’t had much to do with it so I’d have to go back and look and see where we are and what’s changed.... But in theory, I’m pretty excited about it.”

The sum of the program’s costs are difficult to calcu-late. Athleticode, a company that Willard co-founded with former NFL player Jim Kovach, charges $450 for a whole-body genetic test. It identifies the Ap0E gene involved with concussions and looks for gene variances related to other muscle tears. giving a test like Athleticode’s to 100-plus football players would give the athletic department a sig-nificant new cost.

As with testing for the sickle cell trait, some have privacy concerns about athletes’ genetic information becoming known for the wrong reasons.

“I think that if we lived in a world where this informa-tion was only used for the good, then it wouldn’t be a prob-lem at all,” said Doraine Coleman, co-director of the Duke School of Law’s Sports and Law Center. “If it doesn’t mean the athlete doesn’t get the job, it just means accommoda-tions are made.... I think what people worry about is that is

not the world we live in.”privacy concerns also hit home for retired NFL player

Lennie Friedman. Friedman was a three-year starter for Duke in the late 1990s and played for eight seasons in the NFL as an offensive lineman. Now a student at the Fuqua School of Business, Friedman was a part of a sample group tested by Willard for genetic predisposition to injuries. He admired the study but worried about how private the find-ings would be for others in the future.

“You certainly want to be careful about the privacy is-sue,” he said. “You don’t want athletes not getting playing time or not getting drafted because of their injury tests.”

After all the privacy concerns and controversies about genetic testing are put aside, though, one fact remains: In-juries will still never be fully eliminated from football. It is simply the nature of the sport.

“Football is an extremely violent game,” Friedman said. “I think there’s a genetic component, but anytime you play a sport like football, there is the risk of injury. That’s just the game.”

Jason Palmatary contributed reporting.

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Last weekend the Uni-versity suffered the devastat-ing loss of a gregarious and promising student.

Drew Everson, a senior, passed away Saturday night after suffering an accidental fall on campus.

The loss of a student is a tragedy for the entire Uni-versity community, and in Drew’s death we face a loss that has touched every cor-ner of campus.

Drew took advantage of vir-tually everything that college life had to offer, and the list of organizations he committed himself to is staggering.

Drew’s energy and clever-ness were on display in his improv performances for Inside Joke. His intellect and

charisma made him a skilled debater and team member for Duke Debate.

As a line monitor, Drew led the Cameron Crazies with his unmistakable presence,

Viking acces-sories and un-matched en-

thusiasm.Additionally, Drew was a

valued contributor to Cam-pus Council and a commit-ted brother of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. He authored a column for The Chronicle in 2008-2009 that he titled “Why so serious?”

In short, Drew represent-ed what being a Duke under-graduate is all about.

He was a brilliant mind deeply engaged in the world around him, but he always

made sure that having fun was a priority. Last summer Drew interned for Goldman Sachs. He was bound for a career on Wall Street, yet he was in no rush to get there too quickly. Drew’s youthful exuberance was evident in the Play-Doh key chain he carried with him everywhere, and his affable nature rubbed off on all who knew him.

Drew’s death comes as a sudden shock to all of us. It is difficult to understand how a young man with so much potential could be gone so quickly.

We can never forget him, but we can begin to cope with his passing by envisioning what he would want his legacy to be at the University.

“I love finding reasons to celebrate anything. When anything remotely good hap-pens, I use it as an excuse to celebrate,” Drew wrote in his Oct. 16, 2008 column for The Chronicle. “It’s fun to love life. So join me every day in celebrating whatever it is you want to celebrate.”

That outlook of celebrat-ing life and living every mo-ment to its fullest potential is the legacy that Drew will leave at Duke. Even as we reach the lowest points of our grief and struggle to fathom this loss, Drew’s words remind us that there will be “days worth cel-ebrating” yet again.

Drew’s optimism and posi-tive outlook left its mark at Duke. If we can begin to feel that we are joining him when-

ever we celebrate and value of every moment of our own lives, we can carry on his legacy.

Drew Everson, you made your warm presence felt at The Chronicle, and your vi-brant spirit touched every part of Duke’s campus. You will be sorely missed and for-ever remembered.

The University will host a memorial service in the Cha-pel at noon today to honor Drew’s memory, followed by a reception in the Scharf Com-mons. The memorial will be open to the student body.

The Chronicle will continue to accept submissions of remem-brance throughout the course of this week. Remembrances will be published on www.duke-chronicle.com

Let’s admit it: We’re all overachievers here. We worked hard to get here, and we work hard now that we are here. I would even say

that we work too hard. Rather than treat college like they do in classic movies like “Animal House” or “Van Wilder,” we schedule lunches like we’re already in the real world.

It all boils down to one question—a question that I’ve asked myself be-fore writing every column. Why so serious? As writer Brendan Gill tells us, “Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”

Ask any alum about his or her Duke stories. Their experiences are nothing like ours: shooting fireworks across the quad. Burning furniture to celebrate a fraternity getting kicked off campus. Driving to UNC to pick up random girls to drive back to epic parties where nobody was yelling, “Get in rooms!” Tailgate with cars! Life just sounded more fun and less serious back then.

No, these days we’re so stressed out that we need a special branch of student health to deal with it, like The Oasis in Bell Tower, a room with massaging recliners and fish tanks in the bottom of a dorm. We’re so wound up we could really use a drink. Oh wait, that’s illegal for most of us.

Many blow off stress by going to the gym. But even in the gym people aren’t usually trying to en-joy themselves, they are just trying to reach some end of attractiveness. That’s not very relaxing.

Then we have student groups that take them-selves way too seriously. First are the service orga-nizations. I’m all about helping people, but your organization cannot save the world. Chill out and enjoy helping those people; you may learn some-thing from them. Second are the entertainment or-ganizations. These organizations get anxious about putting on a show, causing tension and arguments.

Instead, these organizations should stop taking things too seriously and remember that they are putting on a show for students’ enjoyment. If the

group is enjoying itself, the audience will enjoy the show way more. Third are semi-competitive organizations, to which I have to say, working hard-er won’t make you win. It will only waste more of your precious college time, causing you to lose out on way more than just a debate trophy or club sports championship. Learn the lessons the organization is trying to teach you without allowing it to take over your life.

Then there is politics. We drive each other crazy, shouting about the national hot-button issues (most of which will be embroiled in the status quo as a result of this passionate debate where both sides are so inflexible that they can’t come to a consensus). Oh, and the small fraction of the Duke population that actually cares about campus politics takes it way too seriously.

I am not against passion or hard work. We just need to realize that everything we do in college must be taken with a grain of salt; college is just one stage of our life, and an early one at that.

Duke is about preparing and learning to enter the global community and make an impact. Don’t be afraid to be young and stupid while we work to-wards graduation. Enjoy college, because life just might get real after we leave the Gothic Wonder-land. Whatever you do, don’t ever, ever take life too seriously.

Drew Everson was a Chronicle columnist from Fall 2008 to Spring 2009. This column originally ran April 9, 2009 and was his final column for The Chronicle. Weekly columnist Metty Fisseha will return to the opin-ion pages next week. She donates this space in loving memory of Drew’s contributions to The Chronicle.

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remembrancesDrew was the light of our lives and made our hearts

beat with joy and pride. He had a zest for life that was unquenchable and his passionate interests in so many diverse areas were contagious to everyone around him.

We had the good fortune to create many wonderful memories with Drew over the past 21 years, but we are devastated that we can create no more. Every parent strives to raise a child who will make the world a bet-ter place, and Drew was fulfilling that potential and had so much more to give before his life was abruptly ended a few days ago. Everything has changed for all of us who loved him so dearly.

He was our source of endless happiness, love, enter-tainment, conversation and laughter. We cannot begin to express the emptiness and sadness that his senseless passing has created in our hearts. We are so extraor-dinarily proud and honored to have had Drew as our beloved son.

We love you tremendously and will miss you every minute of every day forever son.

Mom & Dad

As I sit down to write this remembrance of Drew, all that I think is, “I wish he were here right now to help me write it.” He would know exactly how to make it smart, meaningful and a little bit funny.

Drew was a uniquely special individual. He had so many talents, and it is a shame that he was only able to share his infectious personality for a short 21 years.

He was the best little brother anyone could ever ask for. I looked up to him so much, and I am unbelievably proud of the amazing person that he turned out to be.

I love you so much, and will think about you every single day for the rest of my life.

Your Big Brother,

AJ Everson, Pratt ’09

As Drew’s roommate for the past two years, I have

had the pleasure of seeing him almost every day. I’ve been able to do so much with him, everything from visiting the Pi Kappa Phi monuments at the College of Charleston in bowties to jumping into a fountain in Indianapolis at 4 a.m. after winning the national cham-pionship. Our daily interactions normally consisted of me saying something stupid and Drew promptly calling me out on it with his typical “Pat, really?” His involve-ment with the debate club and local debate teams made it completely impossible to ever win an argument against him, and I’ll miss being consistently frustrated.

Drew also had some peculiarities. Drew rarely slept. He was extremely jealous that I could fall asleep within 20 seconds, and I was extremely jealous he was able to watch so much television. He was the only person I know who worked at a restaurant like Ap-plebee’s, which has a variety of foods from different food groups, yet only ate variations of bread, cheese and marinara sauce. The majority of my meals last year had pasta involved, which should be easy to make, but Drew, of course, found a way to almost burn our apartment down. Nice.

The apartment feels empty without him, and all the little things he did to make this a happier (and most definitely goofier) place will be dearly missed. Due to the decibel count of his laugh, my hearing may also be impacted for years to come as his lasting legacy.

I wasn’t able to see you much the past few weeks because you were constantly at Super Days: every-one wanted Drew at their company (and for good reason). I’ll never forget our time together, even if it was so short. You lived the life the way it was supposed to be lived—it was refreshing knowing somebody who made sure he didn’t ever, ever take life too seriously.

Yours in Pi Kappa Phi,

Patrick Rutter, Trinity ’11Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity

Dear Drew, We know your secret: You promised your hand in

marriage to not one, but two girls. Well, guess what? We have found each other, and we’re okay with that. After all, that’s just what you do: you bring people to-gether. We know this arrangement makes you quite happy, seeing as you have wanted us to become best friends for some time now. And while the circumstanc-es are certainly not ideal, we have come to recognize the sheer beauty of your plan. Having spent so much time together these past few days, we realize why each of us fell so deeply in love with you. Only you, Drew Everson, could make the two most neurotic, crazy, clin-ically insane women at Duke want to cast caution to the wind and simply enjoy life—rather than stress about it. For that, we will be eternally grateful, and, most impor-tantly, we will be eternally bonded. Hell, at this point, the two of us could just marry each other. Who needs a stubborn, brilliant, hilarious, devastatingly charming, unconditionally loyal husband anyway?

You have given us so much happiness and so much joie de vivre we cannot even begin to describe, but—you know us—we’re damn well gonna try. Whether it was convincing three fathers and a group of friends to jump into a fountain that happened to be a state monument to celebrate a national championship or just casually sipping Macallan and watching every Zac Efron movie ever made while all the other Duke students were desperately cramming for finals, you showed us what it means to truly live. While your su-perior intellect and convenient insomnia allowed you to eventually ace those finals (without even cracking a book), we, on the other hand, tended to receive less than mediocre grades. Normally, this would be upset-ting to two girls as obsessive and anxious as us, but, in the end, we learned more procrastinating with you than we could ever learn from any book.

We will never ever love a man the way that we have loved and will always love you. You are our everything. Enjoy that scotch while you watch over us, Drewbie :)

Edie Wellman,Trinity ’11Lauren Haigler, Trinity ’11

As a family, we used to make a traditional Irish toast to each other: “May you be in heaven a half hour be-fore the devil knows you’re dead.” In present circum-stances this could bring a lot of pain into our hearts. But we know that if the devil did ever come for Drew, two things would happen: He would convince the dev-il that hell did not exist and invite him for a glass of scotch in heaven.

Drew, we always knew you had that special abil-ity to make the impossible seem within reach. We never were able, however, to fully appreciate just how many members of the Duke community you touched with your gifts. While all of your commitments made scheduling family dinners difficult, your great sense of humor, constant positivity and witty honesty made getting together so much fun.

You are absurdly intelligent, but of course you know that. It will always be shocking to us how much you were able to accomplish academically and in the numerous organizations with which you were involved. You are an inspiration in Guinness, oops, genuineness, and have always set a great example in being true to yourself and your beliefs. You are always Drew.

Because neither he nor we had a proper chance to say goodbye, we are left to imagine that it would play out just as countless encounters before: filled

with laughter, a big goofy smile, a bear hug and some esoteric jargon that we might half understand.

Drew has left a legacy that Mu Family will never forget:

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.... This is the com-fort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.” —William Penn

Tyler Donahue, Trinity ’12Ryan Knowles, Trinity ’10

Chris Brown, Trinity ’13Matt Schoen, Trinity ’13

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Mu Family Forever

As the rest of these letters undoubtedly express, it is still difficult and painful to even fathom the occasion of our remembrance. More challenging still is to give a singular description that does justice to how amazing it was to know Drew Everson. He was an anomaly in the best sense of the word: Drew found the things in his life that he cared about and that interested him, and he involved himself in them out of a genuine love for each new day. Though Drew defied convention in so many ways, most uplifting among them was his mood, which never strayed far from the upbeat smiles that we will all undoubtedly remember him by.

I think what many of us loved most about Drew was that he relished the perfections of life and was refresh-ingly aware of the absurdity of the rest. Drew looked at the world with an inquisitive heart and open mind that embraced our society for its imperfections and was al-ways willing to share a minute with anyone who wished to explore those boundaries with him—including the readers of these very pages as a columnist. I for one will miss his intelligent and satirical love for all aspects of the human condition and his unique ability to make the lives of those around him better simply by sharing his time.

All of us at Duke who were lucky enough to spend time with Drew—be it as an editor, a co-worker, a fraternity brother, a classmate, a Crazie or best, as a friend—collectively share a memory of a young man with doors opening to all the possibilities of our world. As someone who knew Drew in all of these capacities, I am proud that the memory that will live on for me is of an individual who lived his life to the fullest every day with the distinct intention of sharing that passion with all who surrounded him.

Austin Boehm, Trinity ’10Editorial Page Managing Editor and Editorial Board

Member, The Chronicle

I knew Drew Everson was a special person when I met him, now a lifetime ago, our senior year of high school. I was lucky to grow closer to him in college, traveling to debate tournaments with him, sharing late night heart-to-hearts, joking, laughing, daring and adventuring. I can’t remember a single time when I was not uplifted by Drew’s presence. Even when we talked about our troubles, he never tended toward anger or despair. His life was a celebration, full of passion, charisma and love freely given and returned. I am still inspired now by Drew’s good hu-mor and perspective. I am also grateful to be sur-rounded by people who knew and loved him as I did. That none of us are alone in our grief is a gift and a testament to his spirit.

Drew, your bright spirit will continue to shine with-in us. I miss you deeply.

Swapanthi Nagulpally, Trinity ’11

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