Mold complaints spark cleaning on Centralby Margot Tuchler

THE CHRONICLE

Complaints of mold in Cen-tral Campus apartments are not corroborated by recent air qual-ity testing, yet student discomfort continues.

The complaints have raised questions about the quality of Central housing and its effect

on student health. The mold can exacerbate allergic reactions and make breathing difficult for residents.

Sophomore Julie Rohde was one of many students to report unsatisfactory air quality in their apartments on Central since the beginning of the school year, prompting Housing, Dining and

Residential Life to investigate conditions in the apartments.

“The first night I slept there, I woke up and was feeling awful,” Rohde said. “[I had a] sore throat, itchy eyes [like] allergies.”

Multiple reports came from the sorority section on Pace Street where Rohde lives, said Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez.

The complex was recently tested, and the ventilation systems were cleaned in response to reports. Gonzalez noted that testing of the ventilation systems in Central apartments occerurs only in re-sponse to specific reports.

A sample of apartments from Rohde’s section was tested for air quality, Gonzalez said. The

results of the tests indicated that the apartments were safe for resi-dents.

Despite the outcome of the tests, HDRL hired an outside con-tractor, North Carolina-based Af-terdisaster, to clean all the ducts in the Pace section.

Durham Co. defies NC job trends

by pi praveenTHE CHRONICLE

The unemployment rate in North Car-olina is the fifth highest in the nation.

The state’s unemployment rate rose for the second consecutive month in Au-gust to 9.7 percent, an increase of one-tenth of a percent, according to a report released by the state Division of Employ-ment Security Sept. 21. This is down one percent from last year, when it was at 10.7 percent.

North Carolina has the fifth highest unemployment rate in the country, fol-lowing Nevada, Rhode Island, California and New Jersey. The national unemploy-ment rate is 8.1 percent.

Durham County is continuing its strive to improve its job market, Durham Mayor

Duke to start capital campaign Saturday

Police share more details on UNC murder case

by Julian SpectorTHE CHRONICLE

The University will officially launch its largest capital campaign to date at the Board of Trustees meeting this weekend.

The Duke Forward: Partnering for the Future campaign began collecting donations in a silent phase since July 2010, and will go public with about 40 percent of the target amount already acquired. The end goal is expected to be more than $3 billion. The five-year campaign will kick off Saturday at a launch event in the Fuqua School of Business attended by 700 Duke donors from around the world.

“We’ve had a good start,” Board Chair Richard Wagoner, Trinity ’75, said. “We had a specific objective, and we’ve met and perhaps exceeded it.”

Campaign organizers gathered in-put on the priorities from all branches of the University—including the un-dergraduate and graduate schools, Duke Athletics and the Duke Univer-sity Health System, Wagoner said.

“It’s a chance for Duke to speak as a full community, having worked togeth-er, for what could be transformative in all the schools and parts of the Univer-sity,” he said.

Universities typically silently raise funds for a capital campaign two years before it is publicly announced, Execu-tive Vice President Tallman Trask pre-viously told The Chronicle. This makes the campaign goal more attainable by the time it is made public.

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by Lauren CarrollTHE CHRONICLE

Just days after what would have been Faith Hedgepeth’s 20th birthday, police released more information about the scene of her death.

Chapel Hill police released re-cordings of radio traffic from the day Hedgepeth, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was murdered in her apartment at 5639 Old Chapel Hill Road on Sept. 7. Durham police, who were also on the scene, released their recordings earlier this week. Police have yet to provide any in-formation about the status of the inves-tigation. The records give more detail about the nature of the crime scene, though they have been redacted due to a court seal on details of the case.

“Go on and start the investigators out here,” a Chapel Hill officer says in the recording, while what seems to be

the sound of a woman crying is audible in the background.

Friends found Hedgepeth in the apartment at 11 a.m. Sept. 7 and called 911. Both Durham and Chapel Hill po-

lice responded. Cha-pel Hill police are conducting the inves-tigation.

According to the re-cordings, Chapel Hill police also requested “Crisis,” which is a ser-vice of licensed social workers who coun-

sel bystanders, witnesses or victims on scene. Police spokesman Sgt. Joshua Mecimore, said Crisis might respond to any death scene. Before requesting Crisis, an officer said the situation was “Code Green,” which means the scene

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Rove added that he thinks Obama’s internal polling data is showing a far closer race in some swing states, citing the President’s recent influx of campaign spending in Wisconsin as reason to be-lieve Obama is not as comfortably leading in that state as many polls suggest.

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Former Pentagon official defends Obama policies

by Samantha BrooksTHE CHRONICLE

The Pentagon’s Michele Flournoy en-couraged students to try to “see how gov-ernment really works” in her discussion on “American Grand Strategy in a Time of Fiscal Constraint” Thursday evening.

Flournoy, the former undersecretary of defense for policy under President Barack Obama, spoke before a full audience at the Sanford School of Public Policy with political science professor Peter Feaver as a visiting fellow of the Von der Heyden Fellows Program. The discussion covered topics ranging from decision processes behind military action in Afghanistan to dealing with budget constraints while maintaining a global military presence as Flournoy shared her experiences in creat-ing policies on each issue.

As the undersecretary, Flournoy helped establish policy on issues includ-ing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the America’s intervention in Libya and the government’s response to the Arab Spring conflict. She now serves as a foreign policy adviser in Obama’s re-election campaign.

Feaver began the conversation by dis-cussing the failures and successes of pre-vious defense secretaries, specifically fo-cusing on the transition between Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates. Flournoy ex-plained that Gates’ leadership style in the Pentagon was significantly different from that of his predecessor. Whereas Rumsfeld brought a very close group to work with him at the Pentagon, which isolated him from other staff members, Gates entered

“essentially on his own,” Flourney said. This allowed him to be more involved in different departments and foster a good work ethic.

“He treated the military relationships not just as his stakeholders but as his part-ners in making the tough calls and doing the right thing,” Flournoy said. “That filters down. When people see the top relation-ships as collegial, professional, productive, respectful, that all filters down in terms of how people deal with each other.”

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Michele Flournoy, the former under secretary of defense for policy, spoke with political science pro-fessor Peter Feaver at the Sanford School of Public Policy Thursday afternoon.

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is safe, and the code might also have indicated that no more of-ficers were needed, Mecimore added.

According to Durham re-cordings, authorities found Hedgepeth in her bedroom—dead on arrival—and there was blood. Additionally, the record-ings indicate that by the time officers arrived, it was believed that someone had been in the apartment.

Some of what can be heard in the Chapel Hill police re-cordings might be unrelated to the murder because calls about other cases might have been made on the same channel dur-ing the time of the recording, Mecimore noted. The Chapel Hill recording includes brief in-teractions about a car accident, contacting a “subject” in Carr-boro, an incident at a shopping mall and a police escort, among others. These are likely not connected with the Hedgepeth case, he said.

Mecimore declined to com-ment on the state of the inves-tigation, noting that investiga-tors are not yet ready to publicly share any new information about the case since it was sealed two weeks ago. He added that he has not yet seen a report from the medical examiner, but the length of time it takes to exam-

ine a body varies case by case.“It’s ongoing, and that’s as

much as I can say about the cur-rent status,” Mecimore said.

Information about the case—including details of the crime scene, the 911 call and the manner of death—are sealed because widely circulating this information could disrupt the investigation.

Mecimore noted that the Chapel Hill-Carrboro-UNC CrimeStoppers tip line is still receiving occasional informa-tion from citizens. The UNC Board of Trustees is offering a $25,000 reward for information that could lead to an arrest. The Haliwa-Saponi American Indian tribe, of which Hedgepeth was a member, and Hawthorne at the View are each offering an addi-tional $1,000.

Hedgepeth, who was from Warrenton, N.C., was a biology major and Gates Millennium Scholar at UNC. She also became actively involved in the UNC American Indian Center during her freshman year. She worked at Red Robin restaurant in Dur-ham, and friends say she wanted to become a pediatrician.

On her would-be 20th birth-day Wednesday, Red Robin held a fundraiser to benefit the Faith Hedgepeth Scholarship Fund. Friends and family re-cently started the fund to sup-port a high school student from Hedgepeth’s hometown.

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Bill Bell said. The Mayor’s office is gathering information about locally unemployed people, such as age group and skill sets, which will be presented at City Council workstations in October.

“This will help recruit new business and industries,” Bell said. “[It] provides a picture of our workforce to employers.”

The county had an unem-ployment rate of 8.2 percent in July, putting it among the dozen counties in the state with the lowest unemployment rates, according to data from the Em-ployment Security Commission of North Carolina.

Bell attributed Durham’s eco-nomic force to a combination of local industries, including health care—especially driven by the Duke University Health System—software and dining.

The statewide numbers, how-

ever, may not represent a change from past economic trends.

“Nothing seen in these re-ports is any different from the general pattern over the past two years,” said John Quinter-no, principal at South by North Strategies, a research and com-munications firm in Chapel Hill that specializes in economic and social policy.

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With elections coming up in six weeks, however, the is-sues concerning the economy are moving to the forefront of voter’s minds, Bell said.

Numbers for unemployment in the Triangle areas will be re-leased Friday.

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Through a series of questions, Feaver grilled Flournoy on the different areas of friction between the president and various officials when making strategic decisions about ac-tions in Afghanistan. He specifically referenced a portion of Bob Woodward’s 2010 book, “Obama’s Wars,” closely following the approval of the Afghan surge in which the members of the defense department were warned that the president would have a “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” moment if he were to be asked by defense officials to authorize the deployment of even more troops.

In the face of the impending Afghan elections and se-curity reports from ground operations, the president au-thorized the movement of troops, Flourney said, though she noted that at no point was there pressure against de-ploying troops.

“One of the things you have to learn is don’t believe everything you read in Bob Woodward books…” Flournoy said. “But having been one of the co-chairs that knew, I will tell you there was no predetermination, and I never felt any pressure in terms of ‘do not come and ask for more troops.’”

Feaver continued to stress the controversies surround-ing the Afghan surge, criticizing the timing of the military’s announcement of its plan.

Flourney defended the decision to announce the surge with a timeline, explaining that it sought to communicate that the increased troop activity was not a permanent com-mitment. She added that the plan also sought to prevent Afghan cultural dependency.

“‘We’re not here to occupy and rule you, we are here to help you secure your territory, and we will leave it in your hands with continued support.’ That was the message that was attempted,” she said.

Feaver turned the conversation to the current policy developing around “strategically balancing” the declin-ing military presence in the Middle East and plans to increase military occupation in Asia Pacific. Flournoy ex-plained that as available military resources are expected to increase, Southeast Asia is the most logical place to position them.

“As we envision the transition out of Afghanistan and the end of more than a decade of war, we have some choic-es with available bandwidth and with available resources,” she said. “Where do we want to place our bets?”

Despite these plans, should the president be re-elect-ed, his first priority will be to establish a new budget deal, Flournoy said. Once a balanced budget is determined, the Pentagon will have a better understanding of the policies that need to be made.

“His number one priority is putting that in place so we have the predictability to unleash and unlock the private sector investment that we really need to get the economy moving,” she said. “That is what will clarify the parameters for defense.”

Flournoy has been active in defense policy throughout her career. She served as the principle deputy assistant sec-retary for strategy under the Clinton administration, after which she left and co-founded a research think tank titled the Center for New American Security. She re-entered the Pentagon as the undersecretary of defense policy in 2009 as part of Obama’s transition team, where she remained until February 2012.

Flournoy left her post as undersecretary in February to join Obama’s campaign. When asked to name one of GOP opponent Mitt Romney’s most fair criticisms of the defense strategies under Obama, she said she could not name one.

After the discussion, Feaver said he was pleased with how it went, given that Flournoy had been “high on his wish list” of fellows to invite to Sanford for a long time. The most important part of her message was explaining the plans for military placement in the future, given the budget cuts.

“There’s still a feeling that the world is a dangerous place, and that a world with a weak American military pres-ence is more dangerous,” he said.

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“We felt this was one way we could try to take action that could hopefully make an important difference in terms of how people felt about their environment,” Gonzalez said.

Prior to the air quality testing and duct cleaning in several apartments, Rohde said she had already contacted HDRL soon after moving in to her apart-ment in August. She noted that HDRL’s response to her initial complaint and maintenance request was not helpful.

“All [the maintenance worker] did was spray Tilex on the outside part—the cover—[of the duct] so obviously that did nothing,” she said.

After she was left unsatisfied by the work done by the maintenance staff, Rohde independently hired an outside company, AdvantaClean, to come in and inspect her apartment. The company vacuumed out the dust and mold from the vents, Rohde said.

The receipt for the cleaning service in-cluded remarks written by the inspector.

“The system is around 20 years old. Looks like it was never cleaned. Also found mold along with excessive dust build-up,” it read.

Gonzalez noted that the cleaning recently completed by Afterdisaster in Rohde’s house was the first air duct cleaning to happen “in some time” in the Central apartment buildings, which are nearly 40 years old.

“It might be time to take some of those steps,” he said in an interview ear-ly September, prior to the cleaning by Afterdisaster.

Junior Rachel James, who lives in a different section on Central from Roh-de, noted that she became ill on her first day in her apartment.

“The day I moved in I was totally fine in the morning—we started at 8 a.m.—and then around 3 or 4 [p.m.] I really

started to notice that my head and my throat both felt really swelled up,” she said.

James noted that multiple other stu-dents living in her building were sick around the same time, but she said she cannot be sure that she and her house-mates’ illnesses were definitely a result of air quality in the apartments.

Although her illness is no longer a concern, James said she wonders if she has simply become accustomed to un-clean conditions.

Gonzalez noted in a more recent inter-view that HDRL is currently making plans to clean the ducts in apartments across Central Campus, likely to happen next summer. An outside company will likely be hired to perform the work, he said.

HDRL is also formulating plans to complete other renovations next sum-mer in some apartments on Central—which may include new flooring and added light—and the ventilation clean-ing may coincide with those renova-tions, Gonzalez added. He noted that test results have not led HDRL staff to believe that more immediate cleaning is necessary.

The reports on Central may relate to both an uptick in complaints about al-lergens and air quality and the growing prevalence of allergies among the Duke student body, Gonzalez noted. The large number of window air conditioning units used on East and West campuses is another indicator of this trend, and this academic year was not an exception.

“I can’t explain why some students felt like they were suffering some symp-toms when they moved in, whether it’s due to elevated sensitivity or due to something that did get addressed when we cleaned the ducts,” he said. “It’s clear that a number of women felt like they had some kind of health reaction.... We wanted to do everything we could to as-sure all students that they’re living in an appropriate place.”

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donate money to Duke each year, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. The 700 attending the campaign launch are alumni, parents and others repre-senting Duke’s “most passionate, loyal and generous supporters,” he said.

The Board will also review the annu-al financial statement for the Univer-sity’s endowment. The annual change in the endowment’s assets has not yet been released.

Although the endowment has not seen double-digit growth in the years since the financial crash, Wagoner said the University has managed to safe-guard its finances this year, as it has in years past.

“Sometimes you win by not losing,” Wagoner said.

In other businessKyle Cavanaugh, vice president for

administration, will brief the Board on the Clery Act, a federal statute that regulates reporting of crimes and other incidents on college campuses. Schoenfeld noted that the Board is interested in how Duke complies with federally mandated crime reporting, following the child abuse and cover-up scandal at Pennsylvania State Univer-sity that came to light last year.

“Sometimes people misread the Clery report as solely a police report, but it’s really an institutional docu-ment,” Cavanaugh said. “So you’ll certainly have policing data but infor-mation that comes through student af-

fairs, as well.”Duke is unique compared to most

universities in that the campus bound-aries for Clery reporting also include the Medical Center and its extensions. For example, that if an assault occurs in Duke Hospital, it must be noted in Duke’s Clery report. This year’s report is due Oct. 1 to the U.S. Department of Education, Cavanaugh said.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag will present on the newest class of undergraduates and admissions trends. He will lead the Trustees in what Wagoner called a “mini-retreat” simulation of the admis-sions decision process, in which they will role-play admissions officers decid-ing whom they would admit among a group of hypothetical candidates.

Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of DUHS, will discuss ongoing institutional planning, which is intended to help the health system adapt to the changing na-ture of health care. DUHS has complet-ed the first phase of the enterprise-wide planning, in which committees of senior staff, doctors and nurses investigated possible institutional improvements in areas such as research optimization and educational design. Those groups have developed their initial recommenda-tions, some of which are already being implemented, Wagoner said.

The Board will also hear updates on Duke’s new Coursera online courses, the implementation of the house mod-el, the Innovation and Entrepreneur-ship Initiative, Duke Kunshan Univer-sity and ongoing renovations on West Campus.

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by Jay SullivanTHE CHRONICLE

In a controversial defeat Tuesday against UNC Wilmington, head coach John Kerr received a red card during a critical ex-change late in the game.

Without Kerr on the sideline, Duke will strive to make a statement in the ACC with a home victory against the reigning national champion North Car-olina (6-1-1, 2-0-1 in the ACC) Friday at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium.

The Blue Devils (3-4-1, 1-1-1) played at a high level for the majority of Tues-day’s loss, only conceding two goals on a penalty shot and swift counterattack

late in the second half. This lapse in the usually strong back line has been a focus heading into Friday’s matchup, especially for senior goalkeeper James Belshaw.

“Concentration is the key,” Belshaw said. “As a back four, myself included, we’ve been solid all year. We’ve not made mistakes, and we’ve defended well. We can blame our excuses on the referee or whatever, but we weren’t good enough on Tuesday night. “

Although the defense has focused on regaining its top form, Kerr has stressed the importance of a detail-oriented approach.

“We’ve kept everything positive and made sure that every-one is on the same page,” Kerr said. “We’re getting our little details right with set plays, and how we’re going to work on transition and making sure that defensively we’re where we need to be. We did a good job today [in training] and were on the same page.”

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Entering its first ACC matchup of 2012, Duke is halfway to its first bowl bid since 1994. If the Blue Devils wish to break their bowl drought, they will likely need to snap another infa-mous streak this weekend.

Duke (3-1, 0-0 in the ACC) will venture away from home for its first conference test as it takes on Wake Forest (3-1, 1-1) Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at BB&T Field in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Demon Deacons, fresh off a 49-37 win against Army last Saturday, have had Duke’s number in recent years—the Blue Devils have lost 12 straight contests against Wake Forest dating

back to Nov. 13, 1999.Duke head coach David Cutcliffe has not shied away from

this daunting streak in an effort to make his players aware of the history between these two schools, which have played a number of close matchups in recent years, including a 24-23 contest at Wallace Wade Stadium last season.

“We’ve had a lot of guys that have played in a lot of games versus Wake Forest,” Cutcliffe said. “In conference play it’s fun to know something about your opponents. This is real football, and they know that and they’re ex-cited about that challenge.”

Led by quarterback Tanner Price, Wake Forest boasts a dangerous aerial attack. Although the junior signal-caller has completed just 58.9 percent of his throws this season, he has excelled in his ball control, throwing just two interceptions in the first four contests.

Price’s top target is redshirt junior wide receiver Michael Campanaro, who has amassed a conference-best 36 recep-tions for 421 yards and three touchdowns this season. No

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Blue Devils trounce Tigers 3-0 Field hockeyFull preview online—No. 21 Duke will take

on Boston College and Kent State this week-end and will do so with the addition of six play-ers who return to action after playing in the Junior Pan-American Games.Women’s soccer

Full preview online—After shutting out Clemson 3-0 Thursday night, the No. 5 Blue Devils continue ACC action Sunday in Char-lottesville against the No. 3 Cavaliers. Women’s tennis

Full preview online— Following a strong showing last week at the Fab Four Invitational, Duke heads to Pacific Palisades, Calif. for the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships, slated to begin on Saturday with pre-qualifying singles and doubles.Women’s golf

The No. 21 Blue Devils will play Sunday through Tuesday at the Olympia Fields Coun-try Club in the Fighting Illini Invitational. Duke, which is coming off a win at the Tar Heel Intercollegiate two weeks ago, looks to improve on this championship-caliber per-formance as it heads north to take on a field of teams that includes No. 8 Arkansas, No. 11 Stanford, No. 12 Florida, No. 16 Florida State, and No. 24 Clemson. Cross country

The men’s and women’s teams will go sep-arate ways for the weekend as the men head to nearby Cary, N.C. for the Great American Cross Country Festival and the women trek to the Greater Lousiville Classic.

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Junior Laura Weinberg netted two goals in the first half to secure a 3-0 win and post a personal best of 11 goals on the season.

No. 5 Duke (8-2-1, 2-1-1 in the ACC) took on Clemson (5-5-2, 0-4-0) at home, stretching the Tigers’ losing streak to four

games and extend-ing its unbeaten streak at Koskinen Stadium to 20.

With no games this past weekend, the well-rested Blue Devils came out with energy, determined to win an ACC matchup after tying No. 10 Maryland 2-2 last week in double overtime. Duke did not give the defense-oriented Clemson team a chance in the first half, keeping the majority of play around the Tiger goal, eventually outshooting them 22-1 in the first 45 minutes.

“We really did a god job of attack-ing the flanks,” head coach Robbie Church said. “The execution up the field and the way we ran it was re-ally good, I think there were some more goals we could have put it, unfortunately some hit the cross-bar, some hit the keeper, some were wide, but it wasn’t from the lack of effort.”

In the 17th minute, fresh-

man Cassie Pecht drove a ball straight at the goalkeeper, who was not able to con-trol the catch. The rebound was collected by Laura Weinberg, who put it away for a 1-0 advantage and notched her 10th goal in 11 games. She has now scored a point in six of the last seven games.

Just seven minutes later Weinberg did it again, keeping her composure in the box and finding the right corner of the goal off an assist from juniors Gilda Doria and Kait-lyn Kerr. This marked her seventh career multi-goal game, tying her for second in Duke history.

“It feels awesome,” Weinberg said. “Freshman year I had 10, and

last year I had eight, so it has been amazing to just improve on that and get the goals this year.”

With a slower start to the second half, the Blue Devils kept up both their offensive and defensive

pressure, but allowed Clemson to get closer to the goal. Regardless,

the Tigers could not find the back of the net, and Duke

finished the game outshooting them 31-4 and took 13 corners to Clem-

son’s zero. Senior goalkeeper Tara Camp-bell recorded one save in the shutout, giv-ing her 29 shutouts in her career.

“We have to put 90 minutes together,” Church said. “It’s hard when you dominate so strong in a half to get back, I understand that as a player, but we have got to compete all the time. “

Sophomore Katie Trees’ goal in the 78th minute, off of a feed from the end line by Pecht, secured the victory for the Blue Devils.

For the Tigers, the second half was char-acterized by eight fouls, in what became a physical game.

“We were able to keep the ball really well,” Weinberg said, “and just possess and play our game and knock it around, which we are used to doing. We were able to play around all their tackling, just keeping the ball was our big thing this game.”

At the end of the first half, sophomore Kelly Cobb suffered an ankle sprain that sidelined her for the remainder of the match. Cobb, who is playing in only her second game since her return from the U-20 World Cup, is still dealing with a knee injury she sustained abroad. Fresh-man Kelly McCann injured her knee to-ward the end of the second half. She will undergo an MRI tomorrow to see the

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other Wake Forest receiver has recorded more than seven receptions in 2012. As a dual threat, the Demon Deacons have used Campanaro out of the backfield as well this season. The junior has car-ried the ball nine times for 54 yards and one additional score on the ground.

“He’s strong, he’s physical, he’s got great speed and loves to compete. He’s got great hands,” Cutcliffe said. “He’s a dangerous guy, and when he catches a screen or a ball across the middle, he’s such a good runner with the ball that he can turn something ordinary into something special. You better tackle well if you’re going to tackle him in space.”

Facing a dangerous Demon Deacon passing attack, the Blue Devil secondary appears to be the healthiest it has been all season. Despite losing safety Chris Ta-varez to a torn left meniscus this week, Duke will welcome August Campbell back to the lineup. Campbell will join Walt Canty, Brandon Braxton and Jordon Byas in the safety rotation for Duke, which has yet to play a game in 2012 with all four of these players on the active roster. The Blue Devil secondary also dodged another bullet when cornerback Lee Butler, who left last week’s 38-14 win against Memphis with an injury, was listed as probable for Saturday’s game and will likely start.

Although Wake Forest’s passing offense has been a point of emphasis for Duke, one of the biggest differences for this year’s De-mon Deacons is their success running the

football. Running backs Josh Harris and Deandre Martin each topped 100 yards and found the end zone twice in Wake Forest’s victory against Army last weekend. The pair have combined for more than 450 rushing

yards and seven touchdowns this season. They will face a Duke run defense coming off a dominating per-formance against Memphis, in which

the Blue Devils allowed just 71 rushing yards on 28 attempts.

After failing to force a turnover for the first time this season in last week’s win against Memphis, Duke will face a Wake Forest team that takes excellent care of the football. In addition to Price’s two in-terceptions this season, the Demon Dea-cons have only fumbled the ball three times and have recovered all three. After surrendering four turnovers to the Tigers last weekend, Duke hopes to find itself on the right side of the turnover margin this weekend against Wake Forest.

Despite the absence of Kerr on the side-lines, the team is confident in the coaching staff and their game plan.

“We have two other great coaches in coach Brady and coach Amos that are lead-ers,” Belshaw said. “Coach Kerr has pre-pared us like a normal game. We’re going to miss having him on the sideline, but we can’t dwell on that.”

As for key matchups on the pitch, Kerr was quick to praise the Tar Heels’ talent at multiple positions.

“They can come at you from all angles,” Kerr said. “We’re very aware of their strengths and we’re hoping to match them in work ethic defensively, and we’ve got to come alive

offensively.”Kerr maintains that the key to defeating the

Tar Heels will be finding an effective offensive game plan to break down their back line.

“It is essential to make sure that we’re keep-ing UNC on their toes—make sure they’re defending and having to work hard,” Kerr said. “We have to do a better job of keeping possession and understanding their pressure, because they’ve got good defenders and they move very well together in terms of pressur-ing you. So we’re looking at opportunities to break pressure and get at them.”

And playing against the rival and No. 8 Tar Heels, there is always an added level of pres-sure and excitement.

“I mean, it’s North Carolina,” Belshaw said. “[Games like this are] what you come to Duke for. [It’s] the biggest game of the year for us.”

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extent of the injury. Heading to take on No. 3 Virginia

on Sunday, the Blue Devils are happy to start the weekend doubleheader with a victory.

“This was a huge game for us,” Wein-berg said. “It was a turning point, we knew we had to get this win going for-ward so we are really looking forward to Virginia, but we are happy we got these three points today.”

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I’ll probably never see him again. You can almost be assured. The exchange was simple, all but 10 minutes. It was among the millions of transient

exchanges I’ve had with perfect strangers.He is one of those people—you

know the kind—who could not be made old by any number of wrinkles, or any heartache. He is a little kid forced into an aging body, jovial and unspoiled by what lies beyond the rosy days of childhood. But it was his eyes—the sparkle dulled by pain—that gave him away.

“Don’t become too smart,” he said.

I volunteer for the Ronald Mc-Donald Family Room in Duke Children’s Hospital. Most Sundays involve extricating myself from the cozy folds of a sleepy Sunday morning to come in for a three-hour shift. And until today, it was just that to me, a shift. Clock in and out, log the hours and skedaddle off to whatever else needs fi nishing. Three hours to start my week off right, to feel pro-ductive, to convince myself I am somehow useful. Somehow giving back. Whatever that means.

The entire concept of volunteering has always been confusing to me. It’s an activity that in my own experience has been full of waiting, of good inten-tion untapped, of great promise and little return. I’ve made a habit of going through the motions and meting out the hours. I always feel too underquali-fi ed or inexperienced to help in the way I’d like.

But today, the Family Room showed me other-wise. It is a place where the families of the hospi-tal’s most feeble children can come for some down time—to do the laundry, take a hot shower or sit and think before returning to the onslaught of cruelty and unfairness that awaits them just down the hall. “Where do I fi t in?” I’ve wondered. “And what possibly can I—privileged, healthy me—do to console?”

“Don’t become too smart,” he said.Most family members enter quietly with baggy

eyes and a small hello. They are bone-tired and numb. Today after months, one fi nally lifted his head to admit that everything wasn’t okay and hadn’t been. And that I could help.

“Don’t become too smart,” he said.It was today that I met the “he” you’ve been won-

dering about. He is a grandfather of nine. Couldn’t

be a day past 60. “Hello,” he mouthed. He shook me from my reverie. “I’m Gracie,” I said.

“Thanks for volunteering here today, Gracie. Why do you volunteer?”

Yikes. A loaded question before noon on a Sunday. Ummmm.

I was scrambling, grasping for straws. “I want to be a doctor some-day. A pediatrician, I think.” The good old generic answer to the res-cue.

At that he pulled up a chair and told me. He told me about his 3-year old granddaughter who had spent more time in the hospital than in her own home. She had a heart

transplant in April and was born with upside-down insides. His granddaughter, at 3, has no surviving friends with the same problem.

And then, with a tired twinkle in his eye, he leaned in, as if to reveal a secret. “Don’t let your heart be hardened. Don’t ever become too smart that you forget to be human.”

Just earlier this year his granddaughter was re-covering from the transplant. Her parents pleaded that something was not right. No, no the doctors said. She’s in recovery, she will be fi ne. No tests were run, the parental intuition left unheeded. Protocol upheld. Within the hour, she coded, and this grandfather received a phone call that she had died.

Don’t ever become too smart.“I’m telling you this not because I blame the

doctors,” he said. “But because one day that will be you. You will be calling the shots. And I hope sci-ence doesn’t make you deaf.”

I’m not there yet, not even close. I have the MCAT and a gap year and dozens of exams un-til I’ll be really, truly med-school bound. And yet, already Duke has hardened me. Built up calluses where things once rubbed raw. Taught me to fail and to rise up. Once I was coddled, now I am test-ed. Pushed down, not downtrodden. Weary, not defeated. But sometimes very close. Pre-med is the ultimate gut check.

As for the heart check? Don’t ever become too smart.

Gracie Willert is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday.

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The Board of Trustees corporately addresses the University community that it governs in three ways. First, it lets Duke news re-leases spin flattering sto-ries about its deliberations. Second, it al-lows reporters a short brief-ing after meetings to ask a few necessarily superficial questions. Third, every once in a while, one if its members will give a speech at a University event, usu-ally one arranged for an entirely different purpose.

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There is no reason not to do this. Providing public justification for major deci-sions allows the Duke com-munity to understand the rationale for and contrib-ute to major decisions. It

is in the Board’s interest to publish justifications—the University community can only buy into projects to which it feels connected.

The introduction of the Duke Kunshan University project, first conceived in 2010, is a perfect example. Neither the administra-tion nor the Trustees ever properly justified the proj-ect. The grim result was a Duke community that com-plained for years about the vague project foisted on it. Suspicion could have been assuaged by strong justifi-cation at the outset.

The Trustees’ justifica-tions must take a certain form. Official Duke news outlets simply name a non-substantive feature of a decision—that it is ground-

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the requisite free range stamp. But as I dutifully jotted down her order, I wanted to ask: What exactly do you mean by that?

Do you know that the USDA defi nition of “free range” liter-ally just means that the chickens have access to the outdoors? That “access to the outdoors” could easily be a tiny fenced-in patch of gravel for fi ve minutes a day. Of course, Ms. Free Range could be well-informed of these facts and making a conscious choice about her preferred poultry lifestyle. On the other hand, she could be another green consumer swayed by a feel-good label that promises more than it delivers.

Everyone asks different questions when choosing what to eat. Our preferences are based on a wide range of criteria: taste, price, appearance, means of production, moral values, cultural values, tradition. The problem is, the adjectives we use to inform these decisions are often misleading, nebulous and politicized to the point of being meaningless. Think about the labels attached to food products. Organic. Local. Whole grain. Genetically modifi ed. Natural. Fair trade. Pasture-raised. What do these terms mean to you? You may think of farmers markets, expensive grocery bills or “Frankenfoods.” You may associate some labels with a healthy diet or sustainability. You may seek out certain labels, avoid some and ignore others. As college students, we may eat by certain criteria while at home, but fi nd that our preferred options are hard to fi nd on campus.

If you’re like me, you aspire to eat with a particular set of values in mind, but fi nd it diffi cult to choose the “right” foods. My value-laden questions have few simple answers. Does local produce always have a lower carbon footprint than imports? Are the purported health and environmental benefi ts of or-ganic worth the higher prices? Where can one buy humanely produced beef in the Triangle Area? How can I be sure that my vegetables aren’t products of exploitative labor practices?

I’ve tried to solve some of these dilemmas for myself. I have been vegetarian for the better part of three years, originally for environmental reasons. For a long time, a meat-free lifestyle satisfi ed my conscience. Then I learned more and more about our food system’s many rotten secrets. Now I’m still vegetarian, but I view it as more of a convenient cop-out than a compre-hensively “right” mode of operation. I would love to be the perfectly conscientious eater, carefully weighing the ethical, environmental and health implications of each bite. But like most college students, I am still rationally ignorant about much of my foods’ origins. It would take me longer to fi nd out where my breakfast comes from than it takes to eat it. So I settle for generalized, easy-to-follow rules. No meat, no seafood—check. What’s that you say? This Dole banana might be complicit in the pesticide poisoning of workers in Nicaragua? Oh, well! It’s not animal fl esh, so it’s still on the menu!

Overwhelmed yet? Yeah, me too. Some days I wish I could go back to eating indiscriminately, unbothered by notions of toxic agricultural runoff and sick cows. But I know I can’t simply look away. I know that I vote with my dollar and my fork. I want to vote for “real” food. But how?

Individual consumers are confused, and for good reason. We don’t have the time or resources to educate ourselves about every food item we pick up. Some progressive companies and organizations have begun to recognize that we need help. Food-ucate, Good Guide and Better World Shopper are examples of guides that have compiled the health, sustainability, ethical and safety ratings of various brands and items. Many of the guides include apps that scan barcodes, making it even easier to evalu-ate your edibles.

But be honest—how many of us are going to whip out our EDF Pocket Seafood Selector in a restaurant and quiz the kitch-en staff about the sushi? Trust me, eye rolls ensue. These guides are great if consumers actually use them, but systemic change would be even better. I’d like to see our federal government take more responsibility for the far-reaching effects of the in-dustrial food system it subsidizes and regulates.

Eating is more complex than we’d like to admit. Certain food choices are better than others, but right now it’s hard to parse the information we need to make those decisions. We need food vocabulary that actually means something—legally, ethically and practically. More transparent, standardized label-ing is a crucial step in creating a food system that is better for people, animals and the Earth.

Hannah Colton is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Friday. You can follow Hannah on Twitter @ColtonHannah.

Eating our wordsThe problem with humanities majors

Parties at Julliard are undeniably awesome for guys. With an average partying demographic in which may-be 80 percent of people are girls, 60 percent of guys

are gay, and a major proportion of all attendants have ex-hausted their school’s potential mates, the chances of any guy “getting lucky” that night are quite high. (Equally high is the chance that any person turns out to be some inter-national touring soloist).

More than that, though, Juilliard par-ties are awesome because the students are extremely special. Almost everyone I’ve met there has an incredibly mature awareness of the space they occupy, both mentally and physically. Unlike what you’d expect from ones so deep into their art, I’ve found little dogma in most of them and, in fact, wind up mostly talking about science or philosophy.

Here’s why I think this is. In the music world, there’s a fairly clear and binary measure of failure. So success means a different thing: It means survival. In order to reach a level of musicianship necessary for success, students have to ap-proach art from a very analytical angle. There is nothing in Juilliard’s curriculum that lets the student doubt that it’s ultimately sweat—and lots of it—that will carry them for-ward. Thus, six or seven hours are spent a day in the prac-tice room concentrating on effectiveness and effi ciency of technique. And this, as a result, imparts a meditative matu-rity to everything they do.

In general, the theme is fairly similar with work in the hard sciences. Most of Duke’s hard science majors have lower GPAs than their counterparts; success and failure are easily quantifi able. I’ve often heard the “Oh I could never do math, I’m not smart enough.” Never have I heard the corresponding cop-out: “Yeah, I had to do chemistry. Couldn’t wrap my head around gender studies.”

And so the feminine theorists reading this will perk up in agitation. “Yeah, some of our ideas are complex!” I beg to differ. I’d bet that any physics major here could hold their own in a beginning feminist theory class. But the re-verse holds as well. All of the eventual women’s studies ma-jors got into the same Duke as the physics majors. If they applied themselves in an effective manner, any women’s-studier could do well in Intro to Electromagnetism. People in all majors are intelligent and capable. Some just have not been taught analysis and deliberate thought.

See, the science majors really have humility handed to them. They learn to abandon dogma and think analytically, or lose points. Instead, in the humanities, I’ve found all too much of the “no question is stupid” mentality. What certain-ly is stupid is this notion that masters of the arts rely solely on some mystical inner inspiration. In reality, any subject can and should be approached analytically and systemati-

cally. This is never required or emphasized in a humanities course, but that doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be.

Who’s to blame for this? To start, humanity students themselves. Most should abandon notions of internal gifts

and rethink the amount and quality of work they do. Think like the Juilliard grad. Focus on technique. Deliberately practice. (For instance, I don’t know why English majors seeking additional practice do not overrun editorial positions.) Edit. Annotate so much you annotate annotations. And don’t take throw away natural science re-quirements. What cultural anthropology major wouldn’t benefi t from being able to approach things statistically? Or what wom-en’s studies major couldn’t benefi t from an

additional biological understanding of sexual difference? (Or perhaps a biomedical engineer’s ability to bio-engineer implants and thus dominate men for good?)

Second, Duke. I think the declaration of one’s major should be bi-directional. The English department should be able to reject those they think are not qualifi ed. In classrooms that are especially dependent on class body constitution, unmotivated people will drag courses down. Curricula should also prioritize deliberate practice (like, “Here, write a 500-word essay. Now make it 300 words. Now 200.”)

Third, society. It certainly does stigmatize science and romanticize the work done by artists. And so students and curricula are hence romantically structured. But this is silly: There’s nothing romantic for most Duke students about cashierdom at McDonald’s.

Where I really care about this issue is in the environ-mental science department. I see so much good intention not being optimized. Students think that the environmen-tal science major is the best way for them to maximize their impact. I argue that it’s one of the least effective ways for them to do so. It’s four years of wallowing in the pleasure derived from learning about nature. Instead, one should be learning computational or experimental tools to make an actual difference in these issues.

When it comes down to it, Duke, like Juilliard, seeks to fi ll vacancies in its classroom and not vacancies in the real job market. But Juilliard students prepare like their lives are dependent. Most of Duke’s humanities majors need to rec-ognize room for quantitative growth in themselves. They need to see the requirement for deliberate, technique-driven labor—that’s the only way we change and grow as intellectuals. And, once this is realized, that sorely needed practicality will be found.

Lucas Spangher is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Friday.

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