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Shooters Saloon is now a members-only venue. Starting today, students must have $1 membership or come with a member to get into Shooters. The saloon’s owner Kim Cates recently doubled the cover charge for students under 21 because they were destroying property, tearing things up and trying to get in with fake IDs, and the problem has only gotten worse. She hopes the membership policy, which comes with a card and can be bought at the door, will make students feel that they have a bigger stake in the club. “I’m hoping that... signing up to be a member will make [students] feel like a part of Shooters now,” Cates said. “Maybe they’ll respect this place a little bit more.” The cover charge has been lowered again for underage members, allowing them to pay $5 for entry instead of $10. When asked if membership would exclusively be offered to Duke students, Cates declined to comment. Shooters is a “private club,” she noted. According to state regulation of alcoholic beverages, private clubs must charge clients for membership. But, up until now, Cates said she had not been doing this. “For the most part, everybody was getting in,” Cates said. “I was letting just Duke students in—I wasn’t really doing what I was supposed to.” The new policy was announced Monday evening on club owner Kim Cates’ Facebook page, with a headline reading “ATTN: Duke Students.” Cates said she does not plan to further publicize this policy other than through word of mouth. “If we all work together, we can all accomplish one goal and that is to get along and do what’s right and enjoy ourselves,” Cates said. Students have mixed views on what this means for their Shooters experience. Sophomore Katlyn Walther said that this only perpetuates the stereotype that Duke students and Durhamites do not mix. “This could come off negatively,” Walther said. “It’s not a good thing [to] reinforce our culture. You’ve got to think about kids who came from Durham.” Junior Kevin Nikolaus said public reaction will not be so harsh to the new policy because it comes on the heels of the raised underage cover charge. In fact, it could actually encourage students discouraged by the fee to return to Shooters, he added. See SHOOTERS, page 12

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Following the 50th anniversary of desegregation, students show their support for the LGBT community. Check out our story on Coming Out Day on page 2.

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Incumbent Mayor Bill Bell will head into the November elections with a predictable lead. The primaries for Mayor of Durham and City Council took place Tuesday night, narrowing the field to the top contenders for the general election in November. With 98.39 percent of the votes counted, Bell, running for his seventh two-year term, won by a large margin with 87.17 percent of the votes. Sylvester Williams and Michael Valentine battled for the second place, but Williams won See PRIMARY, page 5

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When students return from Fall Break, changes to Duke Dining will take effect. Penn Pavilion will be cutting most of its weekend service, but there will be additional food trucks in Telecom Circle—the cul-de-sac between Perkins Library and the Fitzpatrick Center—during weekday lunch hours. “The Great Hall was not open for weekends for the last several years, however, we decided to try and pilot expanded hours from the Great Hall to include weekends, but the Pavilion has been way under utilized from Friday dinner through Sunday brunch,” Robert Coffey, director of dining services wrote in an email Tuesday. Beginning Friday, the Pavilion will close every Friday at 2:30 p.m. and reopen each Sunday at 4 p.m.—with no meals in between, according to a press release from Duke Dining. Coffey said that the decision to cut back hours because of low attendance was made in conjunction with Duke Student Government and the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee. “We would have liked for them to stay open longer because we are promoting as much variety across campus as possible,” said DUSDAC co-chair Chris Taylor, a senior. The Pavilion, however, was losing so much money that it was not worth keeping it open during the weekend, Taylor added. “When you don’t get enough traffic it is hard to support cafeteria-style dining,” he said. Taylor noted that the large quantities of food that had to be prepared ahead of time. “The Penn Pavilllion wasn’t getting the weekend business it needed to sustain weekend hours, and it needed to be shut down,” said sophomore Lavanya Sunder, DSG vice president for services. “It’s unfortunate, but it makes business sense.” Although the cut will provide students fewer options for on-campus meals during the weekend, Coffey noted that he was not concerned. “Students have 19 on-campus locations open for weekend service, which is similar to last year,” he wrote. “Pavilion is open for Sunday dinner, as students told us this was the most important meal to be open over the weekend.” The decrease in weekend options, however, was a “definite concern” for DUSDAC members, Taylor said. Food trucks will be available for lunch See DINING, page 12

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Postdoctorates pursue jobs Coming Out Day draws Duke community to Plaza outside of higher education by Zaynah Alam THE CHRONICLE

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Students receive the signature Love=Love t-shirts at Coming Out Day on the plaza Tuesday.

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Rainbow balloons brightened up grey skies above the Bryan Center Plaza for Duke’s seventh-annual coming out day celebration Tuesday. The Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity sponsored a celebration for National Coming Out Day to bring attention to and support Duke’s LGBT community. Recently, the center changed its name from the Center for LGBT Life and moved from under the West Union Building to the first floor of the Bryan Center. Despite the changes—reflected in the designs of the event’s signature t-shirts—leaders say this years’ event was a success. “Even though this will be my seventh year, I walk around this campus, and every time I see a ‘Love=Love’ T-shirt I have to smile,” said Janie Long, director of the Center. Although the outpouring of support from the community is present now, students in the past did not always feel so comfortable, Long said, adding that the first year she served as director, no celebration was held. “The students were too afraid to do…anything visible on the plaza,” Long said. To combat this, Long reached out to graduate students because they were an older, more confident population and more ready

to talk about the issues. The celebration lasted from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and included student performances from defMo and Rhythm & Blue, as well as free t-shirts and stickers. Representatives from Fraternity and Sorority Life, Jewish Life, Think Before you Talk, International House and Blue Devils United set up tables. Senior Kodia Baye-Cigna, a member of the Duke Women’s Fencing Team, came to the event as part of a new student group, Athlete Allies, a group focusing on combating LGBT issues in the realm of sports. “I’m out there because I just want to show my support as an LGBTQ ally,” Baye-Cigna said. One of the best things about Coming Out Day is that it rallies people across campus, including allies, said the Center’s new Program Coordinator India Pierce, who added that she is greatly encouraged by what she saw at her first Coming Out Day at Duke. “Having an event like this shows people that no matter who you are, it’s okay to be who you are, whether that’s a member of the LGBT community or an ally,” Pierce said. Pierce also noted that even though the national celebration encourages people to come out about their sexuality, the emphasis See COMING OUT, page 5

Recent statistics on post-doctoral career paths are beginning to note a growing shift away from the traditional route of academia. The University’s graduate program has data on alumni from almost every department dating as far back as 2002 available on their website. The database lists the number of graduates entering academic tracks, postdoctoral fellowships, private enterprises and various other professions. It also presents a significant number of graduates entering historically unconventional fields. While students and faculty alike hold the conviction that Ph.D. graduates mainly enter academia, figures from Duke’s database suggest a growing number of post-doctorates following paths in public or private sectors, often diverging from their academic field of study. Approximately 55 percent of the 2,935 students to successfully receive Ph.D.s from 2002 to 2012 currently hold positions in private profit enterprises, public occupations, or a host of other fields outside academia. “Our graduates are all over the map,” said Sönke Johnsen, professor and director of graduate studies in the biology department. “Some go into industry, some do something completely different—we have a law clerk, a curator at a museum and pharmaceutical and ecological positions.” Similar trends are apparent in Yale University’s Ph.D. placement statistics, which reports 56 percent of graduates holding jobs in academic positions. Paula McClain, dean of the graduate school and vice provost for graduate education, said the increasing variety in Ph.D. career paths is a sign of the growing diversification of options available to a job applicant with a higher degree. “What’s happening now is that students are looking at different career paths that use their Ph.D.,” McClain said. “As students go through the program, they realize they like the training they’re getting but they want to do something else, so you’re using what you’ve learned but you’re just not doing it as an academic.” A recent article in The Chronicle of High-

er Education discussed a similar database for alumni with a Ph.D. in sociology from the City University of New York. This project found many of the graduates pursued career paths outside academia, due in part to a highly competitive academic job market. “It’s always been difficult to find jobs because academic jobs are limited,” said Elizabeth Baltes, a Ph.D. candidate in art history. “It may take a Ph.D. student several years to find an academic position, or at least a permanent academic position, so they may try something else just to make ends meet.” Few members of Duke’s graduate school were aware such a comprehensive database is publicly available. Though English placement statistics are listed online, Baltes said she was not aware of a database of career paths of graduates from her department. She added that she acquired a sense of her options from communicating with peers. “As far as I know, there’s no path to look at, but current graduates are in contact with each other, so we have a good sense of what people are doing and where they’re going,” Baltes said. Emma Buckingham, a Ph.D. candidate in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s department of classics, noted a similar problem with the publicity of statistics at UNC. “I believe that we have a database but I’ve never accessed it before,” Buckingham said. “I have a general idea of where people are and how many successfully graduated and got jobs in the field.... I’m sure if more people knew about [the database], they would access it more often.” Thomas Pollard, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University said Yale University’s database receives a fair amount of traffic but is incomplete. “We have just finished collecting data on current positions of our doctoral graduates since 2000, but have not yet analyzed the data,” Pollard said. “When we have done so, we will share the information with students and faculty as well as post them on our website See POSTDOCS page 5

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Political commentator Reihan Salam discussess how the health care industry must be reformed to accommodate health care reform.

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Health care reform as it is currently imagined does little to address the most pressing concerns of the industry, said political commentator Reihan Salam. In a talk entitled “My Vision for the U.S. Healthcare System in Twenty Years,” Salam detailed his interpretation of the current state of American health care and how it can become a more robust and productive industry. Salam, a senior fellow at the conservative think tank R Street Institute who writes for Reuters and a variety of online publications, spoke Tuesday morning at the Sanford School of Public Policy. Salam spoke broadly about the healthcare sector within the larger

American economy and his suggestions for the industry, including some discussion of the current insurance debate. “My fear,” he said, “is that a lot of the things we’re seeing right now [in health care reform] are things that are going to give more access to a health care system that actually doesn’t work very well.” The pressing issue of health care right now is that providing health care coverage to more people under the existing system will be expensive, he said. Salam thinks it is too expensive, and the Affordable Care Act will make it more expensive than it needs to be. Salam insisted that the Affordable Care See HEALTH CARE page 12

Gone are the days of evaluating professors via pencil and paper—beginning this semester, course evaluations will be done online. The change follows two pilot programs and input from faculty, students and administrators. In addition to saving 20,000 sheets of paper per semester, it will give faculty greater access to more specific data and allow students to provide more useful feedback, said Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs for the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and associate vice provost for undergraduate education. The new system was presented to faculty at a forum Tuesday in Perkins Library. “It’s an environmentally responsible thing to do,” Baker said. “But we took a conservative approach in terms of the questions. Essentially, these are the old questions sort of revamped and then addressed to our new modes of inquiry.” The content of the evaluations is largely similar to that of years past, but includes a few additions. Students will now answer questions specific to the course’s modes of inquiry, including whether or not they feel the course was correctly coded, and mark whether or not they would recommend the class to their peers. The form will also include a space for students to evaluate themselves, saying what grade they believe they will receive. But more changes to the evaluations will likely be made in the future, said Keith Whitfield, vice provost for academic affairs. “These are not the perfect questions,” Whitfield said. “Part of trying to move this online and move the assessment process for-

ward is to say, ‘You know, there’s some really interesting things we can do.’ So let’s get the data and start asking interesting questions.” Putting the system online will give them a better opportunity for data gathering and analysis, Baker noted. “The intention of the folks who worked on this is to say, ‘Once we have the system, we’ll give you some data,’” Whitfield said. “And then the faculty should start talking about metrics that would be better than what we have.” For the system to work, however, it will be essential to have a high response rate. Whereas evaluations were done during class time in years past, this does not necessarily have to be the case with the online system, said Matt Serra, director of the Arts and Sciences Office of Assessment. Students will be able to access the forms from ACES. “That’s the benefit of this system—you get more useful feedback, but also you get to choose how you want to administer it,” Serra said. Baker noted that professors will still be able to set aside time in class for students to complete the evaluations, which will likely be the most effective way of achieving a high response rate. Doing course evaluations online means that the results will no longer be anonymous, as they will be connected to the students’ ACES accounts, but they will still be kept confidential and secure, Baker said. He added that faculty will not be given access to the evaluations until grades have already been See ONLINE page 5

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Duke balances child care with research 25 percent of Law by Sasha Zients THE CHRONICLE

Due to large number of graduate students with families, Duke has looked at ways to improve its child care policy. In 2008, the graduate school decided to implement child care policies to help support students who either came to Duke as parents or decided to start a family while pursuing a Ph.Dâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a change that was made after examining policies at similar institutions. Officials and students alike have noted the positive impact the policies have made on such individuals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We began to see more and more students who were trying to figure out ways to support families,â&#x20AC;? said Jacqueline Looney, senior associate dean for graduate programs and associate vice provost for academic diversity. Looney said the policy was approved and developed by an executive committee of graduate school faculty in 2008 and first accommodations were implemented in the fall of 2009. Looney said that former President Nan Keohane had promoted a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initiative during her tenure from 1993 to 2004, and so child care support was in line with her goals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Receiving the child care subsidy has made a huge difference in both mine and my husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research careers,â&#x20AC;? said Alex Bey, a graduate student in neurobiology whose husband is also a graduate student. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the subsidy, we can afford to put our twins in part-time daycare, which means we both can work at the same time and during normal business hours.â&#x20AC;? Graduate studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stipends are typically above the income cut-off for state or local child care assistance. Bey noted that the graduate school offers those services through the University. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This program is specific to the graduate school and the students who are eligible are Ph.D students,â&#x20AC;? Looney said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is nothing to do with professional schools. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what kinds of policies the professional schools have in place.â&#x20AC;? Bey added that the childbirth or adoption accommodation policy is another way that Duke supports students starting or adding to their families. Under this policy, students are eligible to be excused from research and/or teaching duties for a maximum of seven weeks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This policy really allowed me to focus on bonding with my newborn twins and learning to care for them before I was also trying to juggle being a first-time parent and a full-time researcher,â&#x20AC;? Bey said.

Looney noted that in addition to the policy of the actual child care subsidy that was initiated in 2003, there are support groups at Duke, as well as a graduate-parent listserv through which parents can discuss child care needs and recommendations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a series of support services that we have for this population of students,â&#x20AC;? Looney said. Tiffany Wilson, a second-year graduate student and co-chair of the graduate Student Life Committee, noted that graduate student social events try to accommodate all graduate students. Wilson said the events, which the Student Life Committee strives to make appealing to all graduate and professional students, are scheduled at times that are intended to be convenient, including daytime ones where families are welcome. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our events are targeted at students first,â&#x20AC;? Wilson wrote in an email Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For example, several weeks ago we provided free food vouchers to graduate and professional students at the Durham Food Truck Rodeo, which is a very family-friendly community event.â&#x20AC;? She said they are looking forward to coordinating family programs such as hikes, bike rides and picnics in Durham.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;This policy really allowed me to focus on bonding with my newborn twins.â&#x20AC;? ALEX BEY GRADUATE STUDENT IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Looney said the graduate school has grappled with the issue of how to assist graduate students who have families over the last decade and a half. She noted that the issue is not limited to Duke but applies nationally. When looking to peer institutions for ideas in 2008, Looney named several Ivy League schools but noted Princeton University as the school with the most â&#x20AC;&#x153;comprehensive modelâ&#x20AC;? to accommodate graduate student parents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Princetonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policies were doing more than just accommodating studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there were additional support services that were provided,â&#x20AC;? Looney said. Looney emphasized the importance of the current policies in place. She noted that 46 percent of the Ph.Ds awarded in the U.S. in 2011 were women. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The services we provide are very consistent with the changing demographic in graduate education,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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The School of Law is continuing to add to the strength and variety of its joint degree program. More than 25 percent of Duke law students currently pursue a joint degree in addition to their degree in law. By enrolling in the program, students can enjoy the benefits of two degrees in about half the time, since traditional programs require students to enroll in two separate programs, said Stevie Pearl, a student in the law and history joint graduate degree program. The most recent program to be added is a law degree and masters of laws in the law and entrepreneurship program, which took its first round of students this summer. All programs, however, have seen various stages of growth and evolution. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Adding the law and entrepreneurial program made sense due to general trends in the legal profession and general economy, as well as to specific strengths at Duke,â&#x20AC;? said Mark Hill, director of admissions at the School of Law. The selection of secondary degrees in the program vary widely and include such fields as business, medicine and numerous doctoral degrees, and allows students to still graduate in a short timespan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice to be able to graduate with your own class,â&#x20AC;? Pearl said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The program at Duke lets you graduate in three years with two degrees. This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offered at any other universities I was looking at. Instead, those universities focus on JDs and other graduate degrees as two separate programs, with separate time commitments.â&#x20AC;? Despite the tough work load, many students find the joint degree program very enriching, helping them incorporate their backgrounds and interests into law, wrote Michael Herrera, a student currently enrolled in the Law and Entrepreneurship program, in an email last Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I come from a family of businessmen and businesswomen and entrepreneurs,â&#x20AC;? Herrera said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With this emersion into the business culture that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve experienced my entire life, entering into the corporate and entrepreneurial law world was a logical step in the pursuance of my legal education.â&#x20AC;? James Waters, a student pursuing a law degree and master of laws in International and Comparative Law, learned the importance of business globalization while working in Nicaragua for the National Commission of Free Trade Zones the year before entering law school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pretty soon, you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be able to touch a major contract without dealing with some component of international law,â&#x20AC;? Waters said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I decided to enroll in Dukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s JD/LLM program.â&#x20AC;? Herrera noted that the joint degree program allows students to utilize the resources available at Duke through both the faculty on campus as well as the alumni network. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Duke has a wealth of shared experiences, from classmates who have owned companies to those who have worked on large scale audits of Fortune 500 companies,â&#x20AC;? Herrera said. The joint degree program also provides flexibility, continuously adding and maintaining programs based on student demand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The numbers of students interested in pairing a JD with another degree simply vary from year to year,â&#x20AC;? said Frances Presma, associate director of communications at the School of Law.

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is placed more broadly on supporting the LGBT community. “People are coming out all throughout the year, no one waits just for this day,” she said. Sophomore Daniel Kort, president of Blue Devils United, echoed the sentiment. “Coming out day is a great day to come out as an ally,” he said. Jennifer Copeland, Duke’s United Methodist chaplain who teaches a freshman seminar called Gender and the Christian Tradition, said she attended the event to represent a supportive group from the religious community. “From the perspective of a Christian leader…there is a large section of the church that is affirming and accepting and not judgmental,” Copeland said. Copeland has seen change over her 15 years at Duke and noted the growing support. “I think there’s more community buyin and more excitement around it,” Copeland said, “and everyone loves a free T-shirt.” Coming Out Day also attracts attention to the interest groups on campus for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as upcoming events, such as the Drag Show and the Transgender Day of Remembrance, both to be hosted by the Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity. “I think it’s great for the Duke community to put on an event like this that not only engages the LGBT community but also thousands of allies,” Kort said. Although the national celebration is on Friday, the Duke community elected to hold their event this Tuesday to involve students who might otherwise have already left for Fall Break.

submitted. The system will also allow students to include longer, more in-depth comments with their evaluations. Faculty will be allowed to opt in or out of displaying the comments on ACES as part of the evaluation available for student view. “This is a work in progress,” Serra said. “We see this as just a first attempt.”

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Still searching Blue Devils earn second straight draw but remain winless in ACC by Aaron Kupin THE CHRONICLE

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Duke goalkeeper Alex Long recorded a career-high 10 saves to earn his fourth shutout of the year as the Blue Devils finished with their second straight tie.

Although they didn’t get their first ACC win, the Blue Devils had a strong performance from goalkeeper Alex Long to force a scoreless draw. Duke battled its conference rival, No. 20 Virginia, to a hard-fought 0-0 tie in front of its home crowd Tuesday night at Koskinen Sta0 UVA dium, posting its DUKE 0 second consecutive goalless game after playing then-No. 12 North Carolina to a blank slate last Friday. “I’m really proud of our defensive effort, [but] we really need to step up the offensive output,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “That’s something we’re struggling with right now.” Long demonstrated why he’s ranked at the top of the ACC in saves, putting forth a wide variety of diving efforts to ensure a shutout against a Cavalier team that averaged 2.4 goals per game coming into the contest. See M. SOCCER page 8

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In 2009, Duke started five freshmen on a squad that finished the season 8-9-4 and was knocked out in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Two years later, those players—goalkeeper Tara Campbell, midfielder Nicole Lipp and defenders Maddy Haller, Libby Jandl and Erin Koballa—led the Blue Devils to the national championship match. The Blue Devils entered the 2013 campaign with lofty aspirations but have struggled to match the production of the last two years. This season, however, could pave the way for another title run down the line. Five freshmen have seen significant playing time for Duke this fall, as head coach Robbie Church has opted to forge a starting lineup comprised largely of veteran leadership and young talent. Reliance on fresh faces has been a matter of necessity for Duke (4-6-3, 1-42 in the ACC). Three of four defenders from last year’s team graduated, and season-ending injuries to Cassie Pecht and Gilda Doria left large cleats to fill at midfield. Church has inserted freshmen Christina Gibbons, Lizzy Raben and Malinda Allen into the back line and has filled the holes at midfield with classmates Toni Payne and Rebecca Quinn.

“A lot of the time, we’ve been on the field with four freshmen, and that’s tough in this league,” Church said. “[In the ACC,] you don’t learn until you see it and you experience it. Unfortunately we haven’t been scoring on the offensive end, so every game is tight, and if you make a mistake somewhere, it’s tough.” Gibbons and Raben are two of four Blue Devil players to have started each of Duke’s 13 games this season. Gibbons leads the team with 1,227 minutes played this season, and Raben and Payne have also surpassed the 1,000-minute mark. The learning curve has been steep— the Blue Devils have faced six opponents currently ranked in the top 10 and will face two more ranked teams, Notre Dame and Maryland, in two of their next three games. But the freshmen had an idea of what to expect after training and practicing with a team filled with talented upperclassmen. “Playing in practice helped me to adjust for the game situations,” Allen said. “We have so many great players that our practice intensity is pretty close to game intensity.” Church said that a lot of material has been thrown at the freshmen quickly and See W. SOCCER page 8

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Freshman defender Christina Gibbons has started every game for the Blue Devils and has registered a team-high 1,227 minutes.

The most exciting overtime Without a doubt, college football provides the most exciting tiebreaker in the world of sports. When four quarters are not enough to decide a winner, fans buckle up for a ride unlike any other—a back-and-forth shootout that can end in ten minutes or stretch for two hours. Week six of the college football season featured four games that needed extra periods to decide a winner, with the Georgia-Tennesse matchup proving to be the most exciting and also most important on a national scale. The Bulldogs lategame comeback and dramatic victory against the Volunteers is a perfect example of the perfection of the college football overtime. After quarterback Aaron Murray led Georgia on a game-tying drive at the end of the fourth quarter to keep his team alive, both sides geared up for the overtime period. 100,000 fans clad in the Volunteers’ trademark orange were going crazy in Neyland Stadium after four quarters of play. The Bulldogs won the toss at the end of regulation and chose to take the ball after Tennessee, always the smart move in an overtime game. The Volunteers took four plays to move the ball to the Bulldogs 7-yard line. On second-and-goal, with a potential upset of No. 6 Georgia in sight, Tennessee handed the ball to wideout Pig Howard. Sprinting towards the right side of the endzone, Howard dove and stretched the ball out towards the pylon—touchdown Volunteers, cue the earthquake-inducing cheers of the Tennessee faithful. But it was too good to be true. Upon further review, the officials determined that Howard lost control of the ball just short of the goal line. Instead of a touchdown, the play was ruled as a touchback, giving Georgia the ball and essentially crushing the Volunteers’ chances for a statement win over their SEC East rival. The Bulldogs ran three plays, lost two yards and then kicked a 42-yard field goal to finish off Tennessee and escape Knoxville with the win. Just like that, 100,000 fans had their hopes crushed and headed home with nothing to show from five periods of play.

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“He’s a big presence and we needed him tonight,” Kerr said. “He stepped up big time.” Long posted 10 saves, a career high, including three crucial stops in overtime during a sequence where Virginia (6-3-2, 2-2-2 in the ACC) was able to muster five shots within 37 seconds. Cavalier junior Eric Bird found himself in a oneon-one situation with Long and tried to chip the ball over his head for the game-winner, but the Duke goalkeeper batted the ball away. It landed right at the feet of Virginia freshman Jordan Allen, who directed his shot toward the now-unattended goal, just to be deflected away by the sea of defenders. Long somehow recovered, getting back into position to make two more clutch stops, before the fifth shot of the attack finally went wide. “Honestly I kind of blacked out... but it was just make the first save, focus on the next one,” said Long. “My defense did a great job getting back, so I’m happy to have them back there with me.” The defense’s miraculous efforts almost enabled the Blue Devils (4-4-4, 0-3-3) to get the victory when Duke forward Brody Huitema blasted an attempt on goal from more than 30 feet away in the game’s last minute. Goalkeeper Jeff Gal punched the ball over the crossbar, however, to keep the game level. This was one of the Blue Devils’ few scoring chances, as they only took nine shots compared to the 22 from the Cavaliers—marking the third time in four games that Duke has been outshot by a double-digit number. The Blue Devils controlled possession throughout the game, but just couldn’t provide opportunities for themselves against a stringent Virginia defense that has already shut out five opponents this year. “I’m proud of the way we approached things, and defensively [we were] very resolute, so excited about that aspect,” Kerr said. “But we need to keep working on our offense, and make sure that we create more chances because we didn’t create that many tonight, and we need to really execute in that final third.” Although disappointed not to pick up its first ACC win, the team was satisfied with their ability to prevent the Cavaliers from snatching the victory. Including Tuesday night’s contest, five of the last eight games between Duke and Virginia have reached overtime. “It’s not easy playing Virginia,” Kerr said. “So [we’re] happy to not lose the game but disappointed not to get a win.”

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probably has yet to fully sink in. “Speed of play and the physicality [are the biggest adjustments to the college game],” Church said. “It happens so quickly, and you don’t have a lot of time to react. Right now, they’re thinking too much, but next year they’ll be reacting—they’ve seen that before, and then they go do it.” Each of the freshmen offers a unique skill. At 5-foot-3, Payne’s speed and athleticism has created nightmares for opponents trying to slow her attack, and Allen’s 6-foot frame gives her a distinct advantage in winning and directing headers. Raben has been moved out of position from center back to right back, and has relied on her athleticism to make the transition. Gibbons is a gritty competitor with the ability to both attack and defend. “[Gibbons] is a bit of an old-school kid. She rolls up her sleeves and you know what you’re going to get every time she steps on the field,” Church said. “She’s had a great year, one of the tops of anybody on our team.” Quinn, a product of Toronto, recently returned to the pitch after a battle with plantar fasciitis. She made the assist on Duke’s lone goal at Boston College in 40 minutes of limited action, playing her first game since Sept. 1. Church said he hopes that Quinn will not face

any minute restrictions this weekend at Maryland. The upperclassmen have played a key role in turning the fresh faces into a vocal unit with leadership potential. Inspirational notes from Doria, one-on-one workouts with Kim DeCesare and unwavering support have helped the freshmen acclimate to the college game. “The seniors have given me a lot of confidence,” Gibbons said. “They hold us to a high standard, and they don’t let us get away with things because we’re freshmen.” The encouragement stems from shared experience. Natasha Anasi, Duke’s senior defensive anchor, switched to the back line at the beginning of her sophomore year, and was mentored by Jandl, Haller and Koballa. “Natasha knows what it’s like to be a younger player adjusting to playing defense at the college level,” Raben said. “She knows that we’re going to make mistakes, so there’s some mutual understanding.” Mired in a long winless drought, the Blue Devils could use a spark from their youth to right the ship and head back to the postseason once again. And with the end of their first midterm exams in sight as Church noted, the freshmen are hoping to rejuvenate Duke’s onfield play. “We’ve never had that mid-season slump before,” Gibbons said. “Hopefully we can offer a bit of energy and refreshment.”

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Starting all 13 games for Duke, freshman right back Lizzy Raben credited senior teammate Natasha Anasi (R) with helping her to adjust to the collegiate game.

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had. I poured every bit of my passion for college football, every bit of my enthusiasm as a fan, into that game. Not only did I get to witness one of the most exciting events in sports, the college football overtime, I got to see arguably one of the most exciting college football contests ever played. Four years later, I would get to see another thriller in Lexington, when the Wildcats took three overtime periods to topple top-ranked LSU. The game ended on a fourth down stop and thousands of fans storming the field to celebrate one of the biggest upsets in Kentucky football history. There is nothing in the world of athletics that compares to this kind of atmosphere. No other sport has the potential to end in such dramatic, exciting fashion. Basketball overtime games are OK, but tacking on five more minutes of play just isn’t as exciting as shutting off the game clock in preparation for a college football overtime. Extra innings in baseball drag on and on and on and don’t add any additional novelty to the overtime period. Soccer and hockey shootouts can be exciting, but they end so abruptly that there is little time to build the anxiety and anticipation that come with a college football overtime game. And the NFL is also a letdown—one 15-minute overtime with new rules that very few people understand just doesn’t satisfy the true football fan. So next time you watch a college football game, either in person or from home, and it goes into overtime, keep watching. I promise, you won’t be disappointed.

Tennessee’s loss to Georgia exemplified one element of the college football overtime perfectly. Like a shootout in soccer or hockey, the outcome of the game can change in the blink of an eye. Howard scores a touchdown, and the Volunteers have the game won, or the officials overturn the call, the Bulldogs capitalize and the game is over before Volunteer fans can sing one last verse of “Ol’ Rocky Top.” Like the traditional shootout in hockey or soccer, a college football overtime can also be done in 10 or 15 minutes. But there is something different about breaking a tie in college football. There is always the possibility of witnessing something much more—when a quick shootout turns into an hours-long battle to decide a winner. For instance, in 2003 Kentucky faced off against Arkansas in what would become the longest game in college football history. The contest ended at 12:01 a.m. after seven overtime periods. That’s right, SEVEN overtimes. The game lasted 4 hours and 56 minutes. The Wildcats and Razorbacks combined for 86 points during those seven overtimes. I was in the stands in Commonwealth Stadium in my hometown of Lexington for that matchup. Although my team lost that night, I will never forget the game, the incredible experience, the way both teams toyed with my emotions all night. I went home and passed out due to exhaustion. Granted, I was only 11, but the experience sapped me of everything I

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he Chronicle recently reported on undergraduate frustration with parking changes on campus. Although these changes inconvenience many students, it is worth putting them into perspective. Students at Duke have better parking options than do students at many universities around the country. Parking permits at Harvard University, for example, cost over $3,000 a year, and the parking locations are often less accessible than those at Duke. Duke has undertaken a number of construction projects this year, and inconveniences are natural and unavoidable. Parking at Duke has undergone two major changes. First, the freshmen parking lots have moved to Smith Warehouse. This makes some sense. With Baldwin Auditorium now open and holding regular events, Duke needs to accommodate concert attendees and other visitors. Making it a little tougher for freshmen to access their cars may not be so bad. After all, one of Duke’s main goals for the first year experience is for students to establish strong class bonds through shared experiences like dining at the Marketplace. In the past, freshmen skipping off campus to grab dinner has threatened to undermine this goal.

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Editorial the Smith Warehouse bus is not running. If it is not feasible to have a bus running to Smith every night, then the University should ensure that the short walk to the parking lot from the intersection of Campus Drive and Maxwell Avenue is amply lit and adequately staffed with security guards. Second, the introduction of a commuter parking zone in place of the “miracle lot” has provoked frustration among students discontent with a longer walk to their cars. Although walking to the back of the Blue Zone is certainly inconvenient, claims that the parking changes “marginalize” undergraduates overstate the problem. It seems reasonable that the people who use their cars most frequently—namely, graduate students and professors who come and go from campus daily—should have easy access to them.

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We have always advocated that students explore Durham and remain wary of changes that make it more difficult for students to do so. We doubt these parking changes are substantial enough to deter students from traveling off campus. Duke provides ample opportunities for undergraduates to leave campus—including offering GoPasses, which grant free, unlimited rides on Triangle Transit, Capital Area Transit, DATA and the Robertson Bus to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Moreover, campus organizations like Devils after Dark sponsor events that transport students to local attractions and malls. In the end, however, it is up to students to take the initiative to leave campus. Because some students use their cars very infrequently—often only to travel between Duke and their homes during breaks—Duke should explore the possibility of creating cheaper, long-term parking lots further from campus. Long-term parking lots might reduce pressure on the lots near campus, expanding parking options for students who drive more frequently. In any case, this year’s parking inconveniences— which are frustrating now—will fade with time into normality.

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ast summer, the North Carolina legislature unanimously passed the Safe Harbor/Victims of Human Trafficking Act. This was an impressive feat not only because of the bill’s unanimous support, but also because it exemplifies an increased awareness across the nation of the slavery that persists in the United States today. “White

Joline Doedens WAIT A MINUTE slavery” in the United States is no long white. Sexual slaves no longer conform to the Eastern European stereotype. Rather, the majority of victims of sex trafficking in the United States come from Thailand, Mexico, Guatemala, the Philippines and China. Further, trafficking in persons is not limited to sex trafficking. In fact, many men, women and children are victims of forced labor. The most impressive reconceptualization that has occurred in the past decade in the United States, however, is the redefinition of prostitution to accommodate the effects of sex trafficking. Since North Carolina just recently legally changed its definition of prostitution, I would like to focus on how the Safe Harbor Act amended state definitions of slavery and prostitution. The purpose of the Safe Harbor Act, also known as SB 683, is to “create a safe harbor for victims of human trafficking and for prostituted minors.” This stated purpose necessarily implies an acknowledgement of the powerless position of victims of human trafficking who are forced to prostitute themselves. Rather than prosecute minors who would not be prostituting themselves but for their being trafficked, SB 683 provides immunity from prosecution for minors. If it is determined, after a “reasonable detention for investigative purposes,” that an individual charged with prostitution is a minor, he or she will be put into temporary protective custody. This new immunity for minors reflects an understanding that minors who are being sold for sex necessarily cannot legally consent to that conduct, and are actually the victims of prostitution. Rather than punish exploited individuals who prostitute themselves, this immunity allows law enforcement to focus its efforts on catching and prosecuting those higher up in the hierarchy: the traffickers, pimps and johns. This new focus on prosecuting the orchestrators of prostitution rather than the women and men who work the streets is further bolstered by the increase of pimping and solicitation of a prostitute from misdemeanor crimes to felonies, and also by the increase of penalties for trafficking in minors and adults. Given

that there are at least 100,000 child victims of prostitution and trafficking each year, continued efforts to target traffickers rather than the trafficked and help exploited victims reintegrate into society are imperative. Prostitution is not just the career of last resort for the woman (or man) who is down on her luck and has only her (or his) body to fall back on as a source of income. There are more than just economic motivators at play in many cases, and when the strings are being pulled by real live people rather than economic and societal pressures, the puppeteers are the ones who need to be brought to justice. The need for amnesty is particularly strong in the case of international trafficking, where a victim’s immigration status is held over her head as an additional power mechanism. Under Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Secure Communities program, trafficked individuals who might otherwise have the ability to seek refuge in reporting the crimes committed against them to police are faced with an impossible quandary. If they stay with their traffickers, often in rural areas, they will likely escape detection by ICE agents and thereby avoid deportation. Under the Secure Communities program, however, individuals arrested by local law enforcement are supposed to have their prints run through both the FBI criminal database and ICE’s database to check their immigration status. If a hit comes up in the latter database, ICE will begin deportation proceedings. Thus, a victim of sex trafficking who gets caught for prostitution can face detention and possibly deportation if she is unable to prove that she was a victim of trafficking. Luckily, since 2,000 trafficking victims have had the option of applying for a T Visa, which grants a visa and path to legal permanent residency and citizenship to individuals who can demonstrate that they are victims of trafficking, that they are in United States because of that trafficking, that they reasonably helped law enforcement in the prosecution of the trafficker and that they would suffer “unusual and severe harm” if they were removed from the U.S. Unfortunately, the application process is lengthy and involves writing a declaration testifying to the victim’s experiences as a victim of trafficking. Not only does recounting this story often prove traumatizing for victims, but also victims are not automatically appointed counsel in their immigration case. As a result, nonprofit and pro bono immigration legal services must strive to fill the gaps. The North Carolina Safe Harbor Act is certainly a watershed moment in the state’s understanding of powerless forms of prostitution. The act, however, is far from a panacea. Immigration pressures in particular continue to lurk in the background, feeding the modern slave trade. Joline Doedens is a second-year law student. Her column runs every other Wednesday. Send Joline a message @jydoedens.

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ecently, there has been an upswing in political activism regarding a very important on-campus issue. This problem, crucial to Duke’s continued stance as a front-runner in social justice and advocacy issues, has student activists up in arms and ready to do whatever it takes to bring to justice the— oh, f*ck it, I just don’t care anymore. Over the course of the fall semester, I

Lillie Reed WUMBOLOGY have noticed a disturbing trend towards apathy occurring in all aspects of my life. If we’re looking at it statistically, I’d say there is a negative correlation between the amount of time passed in my Duke career and the amount of f*cks I give. Some would call it “senioritis,” but because I like to make everything at least a little bit sexual, I prefer to call it “ennui-endo.” Ennui-endo is a highly infectious disease that is growing rampant among the senior class. The main symptom of this illness is a general listlessness and lack of motivation for literally everything in life. Let me incept you and use myself and this very article as an example: Even as I type, I am struggling to find the will to write this article. I know I should care more, and I know I have to write it, and dear God, I’m already a full 24 hours behind schedule AGAIN—but somehow my body has grown totally averse to obligation, completing things by their respective deadlines and to work in general. Personified, I picture ennui-endo as a little mental Gandalf, standing in front of all of my work and screaming prophetically, “YOUUUU. SHALL NOT. PAAAASSSSS!!!” Currently, I feel the same way about my workload and graduation as I did about Princess Peach towards the end of Super Mario 64: That b*tch isn’t even that fine, and all this sh*t is just not worth it. Accordingly, my levels of motivation and productivity have dropped to mirror those of a particularly lazy beta fish or maybe a sock. The only type of productivity that ennui-endo allows is mass consumption. Want to finish your homework in a timely manner? Not possible. Want to eat enough food to sustain eight Rosie O’Donnells and a small developing country for six weeks, all in one sitting? SOUNDS FANTASTIC I’VE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE LET’S GET TO IT. As ennui-endo progresses, we begin to see signs of increased procrastinative creativity. It seems the disorder not only disables the brain areas responsible for motivation, but it also activates the part of your mind that invents reasons to not do work. Signs and symptoms of this advanced stage may include: sitting in

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the library for hours on end and accomplishing nothing, applying to jobs that you have no interest in (because I don’t want to look back on my life and regret NOT applying to clown school, THAT’S WHY) and, of course, procrasturbation. Also common is a sudden interest in outof-character hobbies, such as knitting, overly aggressive potluck-ing or playing 10-year-old video games. But hey, even though I might not be graduating summa cum laude, at least my Sim is. The sickness that is ennui-endo doesn’t just come into your academic life like a wrecking ball. No, it won’t be satisfied until it has shut down your social life like Republicans do governments. Before senior year started, I made plans to live it up. I was going to go on a food tour of Durham, to visit museums and parks and landmarks and, most importantly, to get drunk well and often. Newly 21, it was time for me to exercise my God-given right to get whitegirl-wasted. As soon as I arrived on campus, however, I realized that going out is really disruptive to the serious, intimate relationship that I have with my bed. An ennui-endo sufferer finds that when they do leave the house, they cannot tolerate any part of the social scene they’ve stepped out into. The only possible treatment for this reclusion is exposure therapy. Underclassmen, do your civic duty and remind seniors of the good ol’ days. Take your senior friends and lock them in a room for a weekend with a computer that only accesses Collegiate ACB, intra-frat listserves and the Duke Class of 2017 Facebook page. After this therapy is done, they will be excited to participate in all sorts of social engagement. Yet in the end, not all cases of ennuiendo are curable. It seems that after a certain point, there is no cure. The best remedy to this campus plague may be prevention. So, for the good of Dukemanity, we must answer: What brought us here? Was it simply overexertion from 16 straight years of education? Or is it the fear of that streak ending—that after spending our whole lives doing nothing but learning, the reality that we must move beyond a classroom is too terrifying? Are we unconsciously forcing ourselves into apathy because of everything on our plate and all the newfound possibilities for failure and rejection in our future, because if we actually cared, it would be too difficult? The fact of the matter is, I don’t know why I’ve got ennui-endo. And despite my inevitable decline in grades, productivity and non-Sim sexual partners, I find myself not really caring why. I don’t know, maybe someone who gives more of a sh*t can figure it out. Lillie Reed is a Trinity senior. Her column is part of the weekly Socialites feature and runs every other Wednesday. Send Lillie a message on Twitter @LillieReed.

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Next year, an international coalition will end its war in Afghanistan, having achieved its mission of dismantling the core of al Qaeda that attacked us on 9/11.” —Barack Obama, United Nations speech, Sept. 24, 2013 Farewell, Afghanistan. Twelve years ago, my country’s military crossed the seas to launch its longest war yet on your soil. The end has yet to come, but already our leaders speak of you in the past tense. The mission has been achieved. Time to go. You see, with other wars to wage else-

hashish on Chicken St. and hung out in shops selling coffee and carpets. Tourists came streaming in the tens of thousands to visit the city’s gardens, scaling the snowy peaks at its periphery. War, when it came, devoured it all. Until 1992, your National Museum was one of humanity’s finest treasures, housing some 100,000 pieces spanning two millennia of a rich civilization. Reagan’s freedom fighters shelled, occupied and looted the collection during the fight for Kabul, sparing only a few thousand artifacts. Many of these were

Prashanth Kamalakanthan SUBALTERNATIVES where, you’ve become something of a distraction. A deadweight. Americans don’t like thinking about how their government and its allies have so far killed as many as 6,481 Afghan civilians, over twice the number slain by the 9/11 hijackers. Great crimes deserve great punishment—just not ours. And so begins the great erasure. Just as before the 2001 invasion your history was wiped clean of U.S. interference, now again come the convenient redactions and revisions. George W. Bush told Congress, “We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism.” It was a statement looking forward, not backward, in the parlance of his successor. The CIA’s arming, training and funding of extremist Afghan mujahideen as Cold War proxies in the 1980s; U.S. funding of Osama bin Laden and his fighters against the Soviets; Ronald Reagan hosting fundamentalist jihadis in the White House and calling them “freedom fighters” in speeches… these are embarrassing memories, moments we’d rather forget. Because justice, American-style, demands historical amnesia. We cannot stand “callously by while children are subjected to nerve gas” in Syria, chides our Nobel Peace Prizewinning president, but Israeli white phosphorus used to burn children’s flesh to the bone (2008-09, Gaza) and depleted U.S. uranium still mangling unborn babies (2004, Fallujah) are too far gone. Others may have the history books; we have the munitions. As new crimes emerge on the horizon— always framed in easy moral binaries—you too, Afghanistan, begin to fade away. Soon you will be nothing more than a useful fable, lessons to be drawn, parallels to be found along a road paved over future societies. Hardly any of us remember the beauty before the bombs. For most, all you are is mullahs, militiamen, mines and misery. Why are your people so uniquely evil, so deserving of those thousands of anonymous murders only accelerating in pace? To ask the question, I suppose, seems racist, and that our government is not. Let’s not ask it, then. But history is a hard thorn to remove. The Kabul of the 1960s and 1970s, before the long war that lasted four decades, appears as an alien world. Women attended the university in mini-skirts. Hippies smoked

later pulverized by the victor of their infighting, the Taliban. Farewell, Afghanistan, in so many shards. Farewell to your women, kidnapped, assaulted and assassinated for choosing to work, whose murders are neither recorded nor investigated by your government, in whose name our leaders said we would fight. Farewell to your children, one in 10 of whom still die before the age of 5, whose internationally-funded schools educate only half and graduate a mere tenth, mostly boys. Farewell to the 100,000 shipping containers and 50,000 vehicles we will spend $6 billion to remove, to the $7 billion spent on “excess” military equipment (20 percent of the total) that will simply be shredded and sold as scrap. At least someone made off good. Farewell to the asylum-seekers pouring out of your borders in record numbers as the foreign troops leave, their ranks tripling over the past four years. Maybe they are wary of a 2014 presidential election in which a longtime friend of bin Laden, al Qaeda and global jihadi networks—Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf—is a frontrunner. Don’t they know our mission was achieved? Farewell, too, to those who could not make the escape, dead or lost along desperate sea voyages to lands as far as Australia. It’s not farewell from everyone, however. Traumatized veterans alone are projected to require $754 billion to truly move on. Even as the war ends in 2014, the Pentagon will leave behind several thousand “trainers,” nine of its biggest bases and a residual force of around 10,000 troops in seeming perpetuity. At least one of the quiet, daily cruelties of those years when the Soviets left and American attentions drifted elsewhere has ended. Qawwali, that wavering, trancelike music of the Sufi mystics, was once banned by the Taliban. Today, thankfully, it has returned. Sitars, drums, harmoniums, rubabs and wailing vocalists again echo at dusk over rapt audiences sipping tea, the sounds curling into the air and disappearing with the smoke. This is your humble reprieve, Afghanistan, a dream of a farewell that is not yours to say. Prashanth Kamalakanthan is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday. Send Prashanth a message on Twitter @pkinbrief.

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expansion of the Divinity Refectory hours to include dinner and opening the Food Factory for breakfast. “I think students should really understand that closing the “It might slightly irritate [students] but mainly it’s making Penn Pavilion on the weekend wasn’t something that Dining up for the fact that they have raised the fee,” Nikolaus said. wanted to do,” Sunder said. “Budgetary constraints and poor “Most of the bad response it would have received was already demand just made it happen.” received for the raising of the door price.” Walther said she does not think the policy will not change from page 3 much in the way of Shooters attendance. She added that Shooters is really the only place where all Duke students can see each Act—with its mix of Medicare, Medicaid, employer-based other without the respective divisions of their affiliations. “[With] the novelty of going to Shooters, [people who don’t health care and subsidized plans—is actually a similar model go often] will tack on with somebody or cave and get the mem- to what people on the right are talking about. The crucial elebership,” Walther said. “I’ll probably get the membership, it ment he believes is missing is the same nimbleness he used to just makes sense. Where else do we all go? Where else do we characterize the rest of his ideal health care system. “If you regulate [insurance] less stringently,” he said, “you congregate? The merging happens at Shooters.” won’t prevent new plans from meeting the needs of people who are more low-cost. Salam presented a vision of a health care system that does not require so much subsidization as the current system or the from page 1 Affordable Care Act, which he said is difficult to do effectively. during the week from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.—rotating between Ba- Instead, the ideal American health sector would become more guettaboutit, Captain Ponchos, Fosters on the Fly and Hum- “nimble” through innovations that would make health care ble Pig—Coffey said. He added that both DSG and DUSDAC more accessible and tailor regulation more appropriately. One improvement would be to rearrange the proportion worked extensively with the Office of Parking and Transportation to agree that Telecom Circle was the best location for the of medical tasks that are assigned only to physicians by making aspects of health care easier and cheaper for other medical lunch trucks. “The process that brought the afternoon food trucks here professionals to carry out. “Only physicians can do a whole host of things because was long and arduous,” Sunder said. “There was a big demand they’re so complicated that ordinary people couldn’t possibly on the Fix My Campus page for afternoon food trucks.” She added that the Fix My Campus program regularly re- understand them,” Salam said. “With empowering innovations, ceives “tons” of complaints and requests about dining on cam- you could have physicians’ assistants or even ordinary individuals do some of the same things.” pus. This could include not only complex medical tasks but also DUSDAC and Duke Dining have looked into adding food truck service on the weekends, Taylor said. But because many the more time-intensive, relationship-building aspects of meditruck owners work at events on the weekends, there has been cine. Turning such responsibilities over to professionals who do little interest. need as much education as physicians would allow physicians The changes to dining options follow the closure of the themselves to become more specialized, which Salam posited would be a constructive change to our health care system. West Union building and the venues within. Allowing medical professionals to specialize would hope“I would like to remind customers that we did start the planning for the West Union closure two years ago with the renova- fully have a ripple effect of efficiency across the healthcare system, Salam said. He pointed to Medicaid as a program that tions and program enhancements,” Coffey said. He added that there have been many provisions taken to does a particularly poor job with primary care and suggested ensure students have an optimal dining experience at Duke— it would benefit from “splitting it up.” Ultimately, Salam said, including the Au Bon Pain cart on the Bryan Center Plaza, the this increase in productivity would free up capital that could

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The Chronicle go toward improving medical technologies and knowledge and allow the entire industry to be more innovative. “My fantasy is that we can come up with something that does all of those discrete jobs that make up the medical system better,” Salam said. Pressed for a definition of “better,” Salam paused, but offered the idea of “a better mix of cost and quality over time.” In order for this reorganization of tasks to take place, regulation of health care would have to undergo significant changes. Salam was clear that regulation is important and necessary, especially when determining who is qualified to make diagnoses. But in the final stages of medicine, when, for example, the main issue is ensuring that patients are taking their medication, Salam believes that the American healthcare system overregulates by requiring too many qualifications to carry out less complicated tasks. “It’s not about getting rid of regulation,” Salam said, “but thinking about which of the areas we want regulation.” Salam respects that the health care sector is one that inspires a unique anxiety. But the bottom line, he said, is that Americans approach the industry without the nuance it deserves. “We’re assuming there’s some top-down way to figure out what the business model should look like, that efficiency is an outcome. What I argue is that we can think about efficiency being a dynamic process,” Salam said. Don Taylor, associate professor of public policy, who invited Salam to speak, said he tries to give students a balanced intellectual picture of health care issues. “I’ve tried to invite people [to speak] who have different perspectives than me,” Taylor said. “What we want for the Duke campus is for it to be a place for the exchange of ideas.” Taylor hopes the talk contributed to a spirit of action on campus. “The thing about this issue is,” Taylor said, “the country can’t afford for you to wait until you’re in your 40s to engage. You have to take your training and your energy to go toward the problem and help fix it.” Salam agreed with the need for proactive change. “We have this huge anxiety about the jobs we have right now and preserving them,” he said. “But when I think about my ideal health system, I think about a health system in which you incentivize new business models. We want the creation of simpler, cheaper products that are a lot more accessible to more people and allow us to treat new ailments in cheaper, better ways.”