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The findings of a one thousand-page report can save North Carolina $30 million, state officials said. State agencies will now consolidate their purchases based on a new model for acquiring items developed by the N.C. Department of Administration, said Sam Byassee, state purchasing officer for the DOA. The new policy affects items such as processed foods, office supplies and medical supplies. Gov. Bev Perdue announced the initial implementation of the plan—the Procurement Transformation Project—in a Sept. 9 release. “Consolidation of individual state purchases will generate larger contracts, which will allow for leveraging to lower the cost per transaction,” Byassee said. The DOA partnered with Accenture—a management consulting firm—to assess the procurement process in North Carolina and recommend improvements. This process involved a close examination of the state’s purchasing history to determine the relationship between particular vendors and state agencies. “The rules and regulations for the procurement process have not been updated for the past 20 to 30 years,” Byassee said. “Meanwhile, procurement in the private business
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Duke Integrative Medicine, located in the Duke Center for Living Campus, offers a variety of alternative medical procedures and treatments. by Julian Spector THE CHRONICLE
Hypertension-prone Barry Taylor wishes he could spend more time at the doctor’s office, even though he has been going about three days per week for more than a year. Taylor relishes the experience, like the sound of water trickling down the glass wall of the doctor’s waiting room. An emergency room doctor had recommended he seek out DIM after treating him for an episode of hypertension and hearing Taylor’s thoughts on alternative medicine. Taylor
attends weekly group meditation sessions, which are followed by lunch gatherings out on a garden patio. “I went into the foyer and immediately had this feeling like I was home,” Taylor recalled of his first visit a year and a half ago. “It’s what I was looking for a whole long time, and I didn’t know it existed.” Tucked away in the forest of the Duke Center for Living Campus near the intersection of Erwin Road and Cameron Boulevard, the Duke Integrative Medicine complex serves the mission of the Duke University Health System with a
holistic blend of conventional and alternative medicine. Services and treatment programs range from massage therapy to nutrition counseling to stress management classes, as DIM integrates medical techniques from different sources. “I was expecting like a seven-story Duke Medicine high-rise,” Taylor said of his first visit to the center in February 2010. Taylor, who spent five years in Japan, said DIM’s philosophy of medicine is reminiscent of Eastern holistic methods, SEE DIM ON PAGE 6
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‘Gameday’ limited by access concerns DukeEngage by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE
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Due to access constraints, student leaders said they had little choice as to the location of“Football Gameday.”
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After a drawn-out process to reinvent Tailgate, the end product—Football Gameday—was far removed from student leaders’ original hopes. After Tailgate was canceled last year, some student government leaders said they wanted to preserve the community aspect the event was known for, as well as create a stronger tie to football games. They faced a number of administrative roadblocks when searching for a location for the new event that could allow both of these aspects. “We had plans laid to have a new event that would be based on community and trying to go the football game,” said DSG President Pete Schork, a senior. “We were basically told that we can’t have the event [the way we wanted].” Schork said student leaders initially considered the Whitford parking lot—directly next to the student
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section of Wallace Wade Stadium—in May or June when trying to find a new location. Administrators informed student leaders, however, that the lot was not a possibility due to a legal conflict with the American Disability Association—a conflict that had been solved earlier that year. “We worked for several months and had hoped to place students somewhere on athletic campus to be part of the overall Gameday experience,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. Moneta could not be reached for further comment Monday.
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Limited access Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said the conflict involved a handicapped individual who came to
DukeEngage has earned the University recognition at a national level. Duke was among six out of 140 candidates in the United States to receive the Higher Education Civic Engagement Award announced Monday. The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars recognized Duke for its commitment to community service in other parts of the world through the DukeEngage program. DukeEngage, which was launched in 2007, provides opportunities for undergraduate students to volunteer all over
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NASA satellite scheduled to hit earth this week
The sky is not falling. A 12,500-pound NASA satellite the size of a school bus is, however. It’s the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS—YOU-arz— and it’s currently tumbling in orbit and succumbing to Earth’s gravity. It will crash to the surface Friday. Or maybe Thursday. Or Saturday. Out-of-control crashing satellites don’t lend themselves to exact estimates even for the precision-minded folks at NASA. The uncertainty about the “when” makes the “where” all the trickier, because a small change in the timing of the re-entry translates into thousands of miles of difference in the crash site. As of the moment, NASA says the 35-foot-long satellite will crash somewhere between 57 degrees north latitude and 57 degrees south latitude—a projected crash zone that covers most of the planet, particularly the inhabited parts.
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Fall Season Duke Mobile Market Sarah P. Duke Garden Parking Lot, 3-6p.m. Farmers will directly sell local, pasture raised meat and eggs.
Obama supports stopping Fierce fighting in Yemen mail service on Saturdays as political talks stall WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama supports allowing the U.S. Postal Service to stop delivering mail on Saturdays and to start selling items other than stamps and shipping supplies at post offices nationwide, according to his deficit reduction proposals released Monday.
SANAA, Yemen — Security forces and soldiers who defected to join anti-government demonstrators exchanged heavy gunfire in the streets of this capital city for a second day Monday, in confrontations that killed 27 people and stoked fears that Yemen could be descending into civil war.
Alta Gracia Worker Tour Social Sciences 105, 5p.m. Two workers from a factory in the Dominican Republic, making clothes sold in Duke stores, will share their life stories with students.
Duke Undergraduate Research Society Information Session GA Down Under, 6:30-7:30p.m. The society will provide general infomation about undergraduate research.
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Libyan militias amass Number of US engineers in decline relative to China, India weapons, pose threat by Michael Shammas THE CHRONICLE
Amid America’s current job crisis, some disagree about the strength of the country’s engineers. The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness—a group created by President Barack Obama to increase employment in the U.S.—claims that the number of engineers in America is declining relative to China and India. The council, which met in Durham in June for its first off-site meeting, is a nonpartisan body focusing on growth and innovation, drawing from the expertise of 26 members from various economic sectors. It hopes to graduate 10,000 more engineers each year, Obama said when he visited the Triangle June 15, to in part discuss the growing—and unmet—demand for engineers in the domestic job market. But some Duke faculty members believe that U.S. engineering is going strong. “There are shortages of some types of engineers in some geographies in the U.S., but there is no general shortage of engineers,” said Vivek Wadhwa, director of research at the Duke Center of Entrepreneurship. “Political leaders don’t understand the realities and use this as a justification of whatever program they are promoting.” A 2005 study conducted by the Pratt School of Engineering found that the margin of engineer graduates is closer than expected, with the U.S. graduating 140,000 engineers, India producing 120,000 and China graduating 517,225 in 2004. Wadhwa added that China’s output, however, is continuing to exceed the U.S.’, as Chi-
na is expected to graduate 1 million engineers this year. Domestic numbers output may be lower but Wadhwa said the quality of engineers is much higher in the United States. He added that countries such as India and China are able to produce many more engineers because their populations are also much higher. Pratt Dean Tom Katsouleas said that based on his own research, the number of engineers in the U.S. has increased during the past several years. Politicians are worried because they are noticing trends affecting specific areas of engineering rather than engineering as a whole, he noted. “There was a big drop off in computer science and electrical and computer engineering after the [Internet] bubble burst in 2000,” Katsouleas wrote in an email Monday. “Biomedical engineering, on the other hand, has been the fastest growing major—at Pratt and around the nation.” Wadhwa, who wrote a column on this question of engineering demand for The Washington Post Sept. 1, is confident in the quality of engineering in the U.S., though he said he is dismayed by engineering students who reject traditional engineering roles for higher paying jobs, such as investment banking. This is one topic the president’s council should focus on, instead of simply job creation. “Many problems need to be fixed in the world,” Wadhwa said. “Engineers need to lead the charge. That is why I get upset when Duke engineers become investment bankers—this is a waste of talent, a wasted opportunity to fix SEE ENGINEERING ON PAGE 5
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TRIPOLI, Libya — At a huge weapons depot in the Libyan capital, flat-bed trucks line up to be piled high with land mines, rockets and shells, before being driven off into the western mountains. Less than a month after rebels captured Tripoli and forced longtime leader Moammar Gaddafi to flee, revolutionary militia groups are sweeping up any weapons they can find, often from huge unguarded weapons dumps left behind by Gaddafi’s forces. Some of the groups barely recognize the authority of the new civilian government, and rivalries are already surfacing— developments that are worrying officials, civilians and human rights groups.
“Until we have a national army, this will pose a real security threat,” said Noman Benotman, a former anti-Gaddafi militant who is now a senior analyst with the Quilliam think-tank in London. The U.S. government says the potential for Libya’s vast arsenal to end up in the wrong hands is a serious concern. U.S. officials worry that some of the thousands of unaccounted-for surface-to-air missiles—especially sophisticated shoulder-launched “man-portable air-defense systems,” known as manpads, that can bring down civilian airliners—could end up with al-Qaeda. But a massive haul of explosives, much SEE LIBYA ON PAGE 4
Organ transplant guidelines could be changed by UNOS by Rob Stein THE WASHINGTON POST
Surgeons retrieving organs for transplant just after a donor’s heart stops beating would no longer have to wait at least two minutes to be sure the heart doesn’t spontaneously start again under new rules being considered by the group that coordinates organ allocation in the United States.
The organization is also poised to eliminate what many consider a central bulwark protecting patients in such already controversial cases—an explicit ban on even considering anyone for those donations before doctors and family members have independently decided to stop trying to save them. SEE TRANSPLANTS ON PAGE 12
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AWARD from page 1 the world in individual and group projects. “The award will really solidify Duke’s reputation as a national leader in civic engagement,” Executive Director of DukeEngage Eric Mlyn said. “It really will raise our national profile—we’ve already been recognized by applicants to Duke as a leading program.” The award does not include a monetary prize. DukeEngage recently received a $190,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation in late May, The Chronicle reported in June. The grant was directed in part to fund the DukeEngage Academy, a two-day training period for all program participants. “Duke University has created an environment that brings students and community organizations together, showing that the best and most well-rounded academic experience is not just defined by classroom learning,” President of the Washington Center Mike Smith said in a Sept. 19 news release. Smith and other officials from the Washington Center could not be reached for comment. To apply for the award, applicants were asked to submit a two-page description of their community involvement, illustrating its impact and explaining how it can be used as a
LIBYA from page 3 larger than the stockpiles left behind by Saddam Hussein that helped fuel the insurgency in Iraq, also poses a real risk, especially if Gaddafi escapes abroad and uses his vast wealth to sponsor a guerrilla movement. “While the international community until today is focused on manpads, for Libya the greater danger is from explosives and weapons that can be turned against them, as they were in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch. “The mix of these unsecured warehouses, with a leader still on the run who has access to vast funds, and a proportion of the population still quite loyal to him, is a lethal one.” In the days after Tripoli fell, some individuals looted warehouses, and some of the stolen weapons have already found their way onto the international market, said Bouck-
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model for other institutions, according to the Washington Center’s website. Duke will formally receive the award at a luncheon and gala celebration scheduled for Oct. 3. President Richard Brodhead, who was originally slated to attend the gala, cannot attend due to a prior engagement. Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, will attend instead, Mlyn said. DukeEngage provides a strong foundation to develop a culture of civic engagement on campus, said Leela Prasad, faculty director of the Duke Center for Civic Engagement and associate professor of religion. For the past two years, Prasad has coordinated DukeEngage programs in India. “I think it’s important to recognize DukeEngage—it helps at least start the cultivation of civic engagement on campus,” she said. “But it’s also important to recognize that it’s not a standalone experience but also a point in a continuum of civic engagement.” Although she appreciates awards for community service, Prasad noted that the University will continue to develop its programs regardless of the level of recognition it receives. “We are actively shaping pathways but leaving enough room for self-discovery,” she said. The award is a reminder of the collaborative nature of Du-
keEngage and its success, said junior Sanjay Kishore, president of the Duke Partnership for Service. The mission of DukeEngage drives his work in encouraging community engagement on campus, he added. “We’re thinking about how we can capture the spirit of the Duke community to help others,” Kishore said. “We’re looking to see if there is any way we, as a campus, can come together on the importance of civic engagement.” Kishore noted that dPS is hosting the “Eureka Symposium” in October, which will focus on social change and will include a joint forum with faculty and students. During the event, participants and speakers will discuss topics such as the safety and affordability of medicines developed at Duke and the business practices of Duke’s vendors. The Washington Center collaborates with colleges and universities in the United States and other countries to provide students with opportunities to work and learn in Washington, D.C., for academic credit, according to its website. In addition to Duke, Benedict College, Augsburg College, DePaul University, Florida Gulf Coast University and San Francisco State University received the award. “If you look at the committee that chose the awardees, it’s a sample of national civic engagement leaders,” Mlyn said. “We are obviously very honored.”
aert. He warned of the prospect that this could spread insecurity across the already volatile northern African region, from Chad and Sudan west to Niger, Mali and Algeria. The fact that revolutionary militia groups are now scooping up many of the remaining weapons and explosives might seem the lesser evil, but it is nevertheless worrying those who hope that the new Libya will emerge as a country where power comes from the ballot box rather than the gun. “This is a major, major problem,” said a military commander in Tripoli, who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue. Many of the weapons are heading to the Nafusa Mountains, home to Libya’s ethnic Berber minority, according to officials, commanders and well-connected businessmen. Others are going to Misurata, the coastal city that played a major role in resisting Gaddafi’s army during the revolution. “These groups do not recognize any authority or any control,” complained the commander. “These are areas which
suffered a lot during the last few months of the regime, and now they think that whatever they do is justified.” Some of the most intense rivalries have emerged between liberals and Islamists, and between brigades based in Tripoli and those from the western mountains, particularly the town of Zintan. Mountain brigades have refused to leave Tripoli and are resisting moves to bring them under civilian control. “We want to go under the umbrella of the national army, but it is too early to execute this order,” said deputy commander Ali Cuba from Zintan, whose forces are based at Tripoli’s main airport. “We are still searching for weapons in this area, around 12,000 pieces, and we want to do this before joining the national army.” Political observers say the Zintan fighters may be amassing weapons to protect the Berbers’ rights and because they fear Tripoli’s domination after suffering discrimination under Gaddafi’s rule.
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CONSOLIDATION from page 1 has advanced a lot. We thought it was time to update and streamline the process.” The subsequent report, which has received bipartisan support from the N.C. General Assembly, encompasses bestfit opportunities and a realistic implementation plan that is projected to save the state $30 million, Byassee added. To avoid any additional expenses in light of the current budget deficit, the DOA plans to implement the new procedures internally rather than hire external vendors. This means that the total implementation process will take two to three years to complete, rather than the originally projected 12 to 18 months, Byassee explained. “Trying to implement the new procedures ourselves at the same time we’re doing day-to-day work means that there will be more effort on our part,” Byassee said. “But we will move at a pace that will bring success rather than try to fit an artificial deadline that will produce unsatisfactory results.” The new initiative has insofar cost the state less than $2 million, primarily due to hiring Accenture to develop the assessment and recommendations for the state, he added. The new purchasing model reinforces Perdue’s dedication to establishing a more efficient government, Perdue’s press secretary Chris Mackey said in an interview. “Making state government more efficient has been Perdue’s top priority since she entered office in 2010,” Mackey said. “She has worked to collapse some state government departments and encourage government collaboration.” Perdue’s Executive Order No. 4—Open Book Government for North Carolina—and Executive Order No. 5—Budget Reform and Accountability Commission—provided the policy foundation for the new purchasing model. North Carolina is estimated to have a budget deficit of approximately $2.6 billion for the 2011-2012 fiscal year, according to a report from the North Carolina Justice Center. While the Procurement Transformation Project will not solve the budget deficit, it is part of the solution, Byassee said. “The more efficient we can be with taxpayer money, the better,” Byassee said. “It took several years to get into the current financial situation, and it will take several years to get back out again.” The streamlining procedures have garnered some criticism from opposing parties. Theodore Hicks, chairman of the Durham County Republican Party, expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of the new initiative in alleviating the state’s budget crisis. “While I applaud the effort to save the North Carolina taxpayers some money by seeking bulk discounts, it seems to me that we should be far more aggressive in cutting spending than what I have seen from the governor’s office,” Hicks wrote in an email. “You will always save more money by reducing your spending than you will by seeking discounts.”
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ENGINEERING from page 3 problems rather than creating new ones.” And though politicians may be anxious about the state of American engineering, some Pratt students believe the future of engineering in the U.S. is bright. Junior Abdelkarim Moharram, a civil engineering major from Egypt, said that he is optimistic about his job prospects in the engineering sector. Although some engineers may be going into investment banking, he is inspired more by the traditional jobs that Wadhwa believes are vital to the U.S. economy. “My grandfather and his brother worked on projects that still stand today,” Moharram said. “It has given me the drive to someday show my children something I built.” Wadhwa added that persuading some engineers to overlook high-paying jobs for more customary roles could pose a challenge. “We have to make the profession [seem] cool and offer salaries comparable to what investment banks do,” he said.
Katsouleas said he has found that other students share Moharram’s view. “[Engineering students] see that society has great need for what they have to offer,” Katsouleas said. “The engineering challenges of this century are to make the world more sustainable, more secure, more healthful and more joyful. That is a lot to be optimistic about.”
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Evidence-based, alternative medicine This approach provides the benefits of advanced medical technology along with research-tested complementary and alternative techniques, Geffner said. “It’s chest X-rays and acupuncture, it’s throat cultures and massage, it’s EKGs and nutrition consultations,” she said. “Traditional conventional Western research... demonstrates
‘Subtle but intentional’ In its very design, the DIM deviates from traditional medicine. Glimpses of nature appear in every room. Picture windows look out on lush Carolina forest, inner courtyards bustle with gardens of native plants. Dry streambeds of North Carolina river stones weave across the hallways, pass through the walls and con-
tinue through the garden. The “subtle but intentional” color scheme reflects the four seasons, Geffner said. “We consider our lives as just a natural extension of nature—we are conceived, were born, we live and we die,” Geffner said. “That life-cycle happens around us all the time, [so here] we have regular reminders of that with ongoing vistas of nature to remind us what goes in comes out, what goes out comes in.” The DIM building was the first medical building in North Carolina to achieve LEEDcertified status. The building also won a Design Award from the American Institute of Architects. The structure and its design assert the facility’s medical purpose with functional healing tools. “Our notion is that when you go to see the doctor, you should be in a place that makes you feel relaxed and happy and maybe even healthy,” Geffner said. “You often walk into a doctor’s office, and you don’t like the way it smells, you don’t want to touch anything—it’s like icky. Our invitation is come here and enliven your senses.” Expanding access DIM’s off-campus location and fee-forservice model may contribute to its relative obscurity among the Duke community, Geffner said. Taylor said he believes a closer, more overt relationship with Duke Medicine could expand DIM’s image. “If there’s anything that could be improved it would be the communication between DIM and conventional Duke Medicine,” Taylor said. Cost is the currently the primary barrier to access to the DIM, Dr. Adam Perlman said, who joined the DIM as executive director in early September. A yearly gold membership costs $2,995—offering full use of the facility and a personalized health plan—and a basic initial 50-minute doctor visit can cost $265, according to the DIM website. Due to the relative novelty of integrative medicine, most insurance companies do not cover it, so much of the cost must come out of pocket, Perlman said. He plans on exploring
insurance coverage options to make the facilities more available. “We are definitely interested and are actively looking to engage with the community,” Perlman said, adding that he plans to focus on expanding DIM’s patient base and promoting the integrative philosophy within the whole of DUHS. In the meantime, some offerings are affordable. Regular yoga classes and mindfulness-based stress reduction classes cost $10, and DIM offers a 15 percent discount for students, Geffner said. “A lot of people would be scared off by the financial thing, but you don’t have to sign up to benefit,” Taylor said. “You can come into Jeff’s class for 10 bucks.” Perlman added that he plans to promote greater awareness of DIM’s services among the student body and is meeting with leaders of Counseling and Psychological Services to discuss plans for integration. “Maybe during exam periods, we [could] go and run classes on the campus... two, three classes per day going on during exams as a way to help the student body deal with the stress of exam time,” Perlman said.
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which allows patients to pay doctors based on how healthy they are. Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and chief executive officer of DUHS, said integrative medicine improves medical services by looking at the whole of an individual, rather than focusing on the treatment of isolated symptoms or conditions. “The most important thing is they get the evidence that certain things work and give the patient more than the traditional treatment,” he said. “What we’d like to see in the long run is that every patient is treated this way.” The facility opened Nov. 2006, with examination rooms, yoga studios, acupuncture and massage therapy facilities and a labyrinth. DIM also features a library constructed of warm wooden beams and glass, facing a thick line of trees receding past the curve of the DIM building. The theory of integrative medicine can sometimes confuse prospective patients with its unique definition. “Integrative medicine combines conventional medicine with evidence-based modalities from non-Western traditions,” DIM Director of Communications Isabel Geffner said. “We practice Western medicine here in the U.S. That doesn’t mean that’s what they do in India or China or Japan or many places around the world where there are lots of really healthy people.”
[that integrative medicine] can have a beneficial effect on a condition and or a patient.” DIM subscribes to a philosophy of patientcentered proactive care, arguing that the most effective lifestyle changes are those driven by the individual, Geffner said. “We all view that the individual is the single most important part of the healing equation and that the individual’s capacity to be self-aware is the most powerful single factor in their health, happiness and healing,” said Dr. Jeff Brantley, director of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program at DIM. To focus on the individual, DIM check-ups can last up to 80 minutes. The concept for DIM was conceived under the chancellorship of Dr. Ralph Snyderman, who served as DUHS chancellor from 1989 to 2004. In 2000, Dr. Tracy Gaudet, former director of DIM, returned from studying with integrative medicine pioneer Dr. Andrew Weil— the founder and program director at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine—to lead the practice at Duke, Geffner said. The plans for the center eventually drew the attention of DUHS Board of Visitors member Christy Mack. Mack is the wife of Board of Trustees emeriti John Mack. Mack led fundraising for the DIM building to be built and contributed a $10 million donation from her foundation in 2004. Her donation—and close work with Gaudet—led to the construction of the integrative medicine building and its opening Nov. 2006.
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Move to grab Pitt, Syracuse necessary The storm of conference realignment started in Texas, not along the Atlantic Coast. But with the news this weekend that Syracuse and Pittsburgh would join the ACC, and the speculation that two more teams could soon follow suit, the ACC became the first conference to get out ahead of the oncoming tempest. Scott Nothing about conference realignment is ideal, especially the possibility of the Big East and Big 12 collapsing altogether. But ACC commissioner John Swofford made an extremely shrewd move in securing the ACC’s position in what is sure to be a dramatically-altered landscape, first by increasing the conference’s buyout to $20 million and then adding two more Big East schools to the conference’s ranks. What’s most important, though, is that both additions work to maintain the geographic and cultural identity of the ACC— a luxury amidst the plethora of rumors that often fly in the face of common sense. Syracuse and Pittsburgh both fit the mold of an ACC school—they are strong academic institutions with powerhouse basketball programs. Both institutions have also had some success on the gridiron and should help to increase the ACC’s standing as a football conference. Plus, unlike Texas and Oklahoma, which once had been rumored to express interest in joining the ACC, the schools hail from the eastern time zone—which Duke head men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski recently emphasized as an issue of paramount importance in conference expansion. This is, quite simply put, the ACC making the best of a bad situation. Detractors will cry foul citing the dilution of ACC tradition, much like they did when the conference admitted Miami, Boston College and Virginia Tech in the last round of expansion. But if strong action was not taken, the ACC could conceivably have been in as much danger as the Big East or Big 12, and the possibility of losing any semblance of tradition entirely would have been very real. One needs only compare the state of the ACC to that of other conferences to see that it came out a winner—while the Big East and Big 12 could be nearing extinction, at least in their current forms, the Pac-12 and SEC will be forced to poach teams from the Midwest and Southwest that have no geographic or traditional correlation with the rest of the conference. This will not only damage the
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Andrew Wenger scored three goals against Clemson Friday, his first career hat trick.
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The mood around the Blue Devils’ practice yesterday was much lighter than it had been in recent weeks. Snapping a streak of three consecutive one-goal losses with a 5-2 blowout on the road can do that for a team. Duke (2-4) looks to UNC-W ride its high spirits tonight at home against vs. UNC-Wilmington, hoping to build on its Duke dominant victory at Clemson last Friday. TUESDAY, 7 p.m. “One performance Koskinen Stadium doesn’t make a season,” head coach John Kerr said. “Just because we did well against Clemson doesn’t mean that we’re going to win all of our games now.” The Seahawks (2-4) come into tonight’s match off a tough 1-0 defeat Saturday night to William & Mary. Despite an 11-9 shooting advantage, UNC-Wilmington could not find the back of the net for the second time this season.
“[We have] some experience, but a lot of young guys too,” Seahawks’ head coach Aidan Heaney said. “We’re trying to bring those guys in, but it’s a fairly young group, and with that comes some mistakes you’ve got to put up with.” While UNC-Wilmington returns only five starters, though it will get senior midfielders Brian Harrison and Daniel Roberts back on the field after both missed a majority of last season due to injury. The latter was named to the preseason All-CAA team by a vote of the league’s coaches, and both have appeared to regain their pre-injury form. In goal the Seahawks have athletic senior Brandon Miller. Miller, who registered a 0.55 goals-against average in five starts as a backup last year, has allowed 11 goals in his six games this year, including just one clean sheet. “Historically they’ve always been a tough team,” Kerr said. “Their coach, [Aidan] Heaney, always has them prepared and fired up to play us. They’re
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EXAM NO. 3 : The Boston College Eagles Overall Grade:
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Brandon Connette and two running backs injured, David Cutcliffe reduced the number of Rush: With rushing attempts by non-running backs. Sophomore Juwan Thompson continued to run effectively, gaining over five yards per carry against one of the conference’s stoutest rushing defenses.
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On his way to his sixth career 300-yard passing game, Renfree completed over 75 percent of his passes and led eight drives of at least 30 yards. The only blemish was Renfree’s interception at the Boston College 3-yard line, which would have proved costly had Nate Freese made his 23-yard game-winning field goal attempt.
X’s&O’s: Cutcliffe aired out the offense and Renfree rewarded him by gaining 465 yards and controlling the ball for over 35 minutes. The gameplan allowed playmaking receivers Donovan Varner and Conner Vernon to make large contributions. After a slow start to the season for the dynamic receiving duo, this success will give the offense confidence and give ACC defensive coordinators fits.
DEFENSE
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College’s star running back Montel Harris continues to miss time with his knee Rush: Boston injury, but Kelby Brown and the defensive front were able to contain sophomore Andre
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Williams. Williams gained just 56 yards on 13 carries against the Blue Devils after gaining 114 yards in the Eagles’ opener against Northwestern. Boston College quarterback Chase Rettig completed 51.5 percent of his passes, but the defense was credited with just one pass break-up and failed to force a turnover. Other than two sacks from Kenny Anunike, the defensive line was not able to consistently generate pressure on Rettig.
SPECIAL TEAMS
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The special teams woes continued for the Blue Devils in Chestnut Hill. In the second quarter, Alex King’s punt was blocked, leading to a quick Eagles touchdown. Later, Jeffrey Ijjas failed to convert a 33-yard field goal, and following a Blue Devil touchdown, Paul Asack gave Boston College all the momentum by kicking off out of bounds and giving the Eagles great field position.
Highest marks: WR Conner Vernon
Hit the books: CB Johnny Williams
Vernon beat the Eagles’ defenders several times and found the end zone twice after the offense had struggled mightily to score touchdowns in its first two games.
The transition from wide receiver to cornerback was expected to be a rough one, but Williams has allowed too many easy completions in the last two contests.
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identity of these conferences, but hurt student-athletes as well—having to endure a four-hour flight and the ensuing jetlag for a Wednesday night basketball game is draining for professional athletes, let alone those who have to go to class Thursday morning. Meanwhile, individual teams like Kansas, another traditional basketball powerhouse, could be left out in the cold altogether. And there’s a reason Krzyzewski is excited about an expanded ACC, as the move should be a boon for Duke in both basketball and football. Head football coach David Cutcliffe will now have a new recruiting pitch in his arsenal, as future Blue Devils will be assured of playing in one of the largest and highest-profile football conferences in the nation. What’s more, Krzyzewski’s team will no longer have to deal with the recent questions about the strength of its conference schedule, as both Syracuse and Pittsburgh would serve as marquee victories on any resume. But what this all comes down to is common sense—something that the NCAA has lacked in recent years. It makes no sense for Southwestern schools like Texas and Oklahoma to be in a conference representing a coastal region, nor does it make sense to split them apart and ruin one of sport’s greatest rivalries. But with nonsensical ideas like that looking more realistic, the ACC did the only thing that made sense—and whether it’s an ideal situation or not, the conference will profit from its early action down the road.
very good on set pieces, long throws, corner kicks and they’re solid defensively. Going forward they’re talented and smart, [they] get the ball to their front guys and the midfield runs well. We’ve got to be prepared and ready to absorb their counter attack.” Goalkeeper James Belshaw and forward Andrew Wenger—both named preseason All-Americans by College Soccer News— lead an equally-young Blue Devils’ squad. Freshmen Nick Palodichuk, Andrew Morales and Nat Eggleston have combined for 17 starts in the Blue Devils’ six games, and all have made key contributions. Wenger, the reigning ACC defender of the year, has netted six of Duke’s 10 goals since moving to forward this season. While the transition hasn’t been seamless, the junior co-captain has begun to make Kerr’s decision seem like a smart one. Wenger recorded his first career hat trick in the Clemson victory. “I had nine shots,” Wenger said. “Some of them had to go in.” Heaney highlighted stopping Wenger as key if the Seahawks want a victory tonight.“[Wenger]’s a quality player,” Heaney said. “He’s not easy to stop, [he’s] got a lot of weapons [and he’s] multidimensional. We’ve got to keep an eye on him, but we can’t forget about everyone else either.” The Blue Devils’ match against UNC-Wilmington will be the first of a three-game home stand. Duke is looking for consecutive wins for the first time this season before returning to ACC play Friday when it hosts Wake Forest. “[The Seahawks] want to come here and get a result,” Wenger said. “We’re 0-3 on our own field so they think they can get a result. It’s going to be a tough game but we’ll be alright.”
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MFA program broadens artistic horizons This semester marks focus synergizes the existthe first year of Duke’s new ing strengths of Duke’s art Master of Fine Arts in Ex- faculty and produces a truly perimental and Documen- collaborative experience for tary Arts degree program, a students. The small size of two-year course of study that the program should foster seeks to expose intimate ingraduate stuteractions beeditorial dents to expertween students imental artistic production and faculty, enhancing the across traditional and digital quality of learning for both mediums. The program has groups. already started off strongly In an editorial last year, by enrolling 15 graduate stu- we praised the MFA program dents—the enrollment goal for its potential to change for the first year. the perception of the arts The program developed at Duke. The creation of last year as a result of an in- the MFA program follows terdisciplinary initiative be- a stronger emphasis on the tween the department of art, arts in our community, from art history and visual stud- the opening of the Nasher ies, the Program in the Arts Museum of Art in 2005 to of the Moving Image and the revitalization of the Duke the Center for Documen- Performances series. This tary Studies. This combined increased focus on the arts
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h, those naughty Europeans and their banks in the relatively healthy parts of the eurozone complicated alliances. Sounds like 1911, loaded up on these bonds because of the juicy indoesn’t it? Today’s alliance, of course, is terest rates they offered. French banks in particular the eurozone—the band of oncelook vulnerable to defaults—Greek plucky nations that gave up sovgovernment debt must be “le Big ereignty over their currencies in Mac” of the bond world. Defaults exchange for a higher-growth fuon Greek, Italian and other governture. It worked for awhile, until cerment bonds would lead to big losses tain unpleasant fiscal realities got at some of Europe’s largest banks, pointed out in public. It was never which could trigger runs on them, a secret, but we all pretended not in which everyone who loaned monto notice that countries that had no ey to the banks demands to be paid fiscal business being members of a connel fullenkamp back at once. currency union were let in anyway. In addition to dragging the banks leptokurtotic Well, the markets won’t pretend down, a default would also be a diany more that the debt of Ireland, rect hit to European governments. Portugal, Italy, Spain and Greece is just as good They, along with the IMF, have already sunk bilas the debt of Germany, France or other euro- lions of euros into multiple rounds of bailouts for zone members. In fact, the markets have basically these countries. So the governments could sustain refused to buy any more of the stuff. Something a double whammy from default—not only would has to give, because these countries’ governments they be out the cash that they loaned, they’d also rely heavily on borrowing to pay their bills. And have to dump billions more euros into rescuing the exact path of change is still very much up in their own banks. So default doesn’t seem as likely the air, so I thought it would be nice to give you as many think it is. a quick tour of the possibilities. I call this a 3-D That leaves the final “D”—devaluation. Countour of Europe, since the main choices all begin tries like Greece, Spain and Italy could always go with “D.” back to what they did in the past in this situation: The first possible path is deflation. This is actu- intentionally weakening their currencies. This ally what the rest of the eurozone has been urging makes their goods cheaper on world markets, on the economies of Greece, Spain, Italy, Portu- which boosts exports, and it also makes paying gal and Ireland, mostly in the form of drastic cuts back those bonds a breeze (as long as the printin government spending. These countries heav- ers deliver the new sacks of currency on time). ily rely on government spending for employment The only small hitch to this plan, of course, is that and economic activity, so this is basically a recipe none of these countries have the authority to defor severe deflation. Aggregate demand would value the euro. The value of the euro is controlled fall sharply, causing a massive recession in most of by the European Central Bank, not the individual these nations. countries’ central banks. The response to date has been pretty predictNo worries, though—they can always re-inable—rioting in the streets, followed by as much troduce their old currencies, devalue those and government backsliding as possible. In Greece, get on with life. There are plenty of countries on they’re rioting like the warm-up for a G-20 sum- earth where two currencies circulate side by side. mit, and in Italy, Silvio Berlusconi sneaks seven or The debasers can keep the euro as legal tender for eight billion euro back into the budget every time old times’ sake, and maybe the European Central the IMF monitor runs out for an iced latte. So it’s Bank will even still let them put their own national highly unlikely that any of these countries will be designs on the backs of some of the euro coins, able to follow through on the breathtaking amount just to show there’s no hard feelings. of budget-cutting that they’ve been asked to do. Well, that’s the tour. It will be fun to watch over The next path is default. This entire crisis the next few weeks to see which path the euros was caused by the bond market suddenly wak- choose, and how deeply the Yankees get dragged ing up in early 2009 and saying, “Holy flaming into the mess. Always seems to happen. At least we cheese! There’s no way that the Greeks are ever have the consolation that they’re so far away, and gonna make good on all their IOUs!” And since their way of life is so different, that none of that it looks like these countries won’t be able to ugly business could ever happen here…. cut enough of their other spending to pay their bonds, defaulting on them is looking more and Connel Fullenkamp is the director of undergraduate more likely. studies and professor of the practice of economics. His The problem with default, though, is that big column runs every other Tuesday.
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remember it well. Back then, I was not the anxious one. I too sauntered casually about campus. I too thought little of the looming future. I too lived the halcyon days of youth, carefree as a lark. But those days passed, and the simile broke down, mostly because a young adult is really nothing like a lark in the first place. Anyway, then came senior year, with its assorted job fairs and information sessions, resumes and cover letters. And that awful, shining li dreaded question: “So, what are you going to do next year?” the neurolife I’ve never had just one answer to that question. Usually my response is a hemming and hawing ordeal consisting of more qualifier than substance: maybe this or that, possibly something else entirely. I like maintaining the illusion that anything at all could happen from here on out, or (better yet) that everything will happen to me, so that I’ll get to live a bit of all my options. Most likely, though, I’ll get to have only one of my potential lives, and the rest of the hypothetical Shining Lis out there— the doctor, the banker, the sociologist and so on—will remain just that: suspended in the cosmic void, hypothetical and forever left unrealized. This process of choosing has always seemed cruel to me. At school, we’re allowed multiple affiliations, friend circles and even three academic concentrations. Nourished by student groups and by opportunities all vying for our attention, the different components of our identities blossom. Yet by senior year, our countless experiences and connections are whittled into one-page resumes and shipped off to prospective employers. And within the next several months, we’re starting all over again, having committed to a single job. We could even look at it this way. Life plays out as an incessant pruning of un-chosen paths by a continuous self as it navigates through experience. We’re born in an initial form, with the vast majority of our identities left undeveloped. From the moment we first open our eyes, we have a near-infinite array of futures ahead of us, and it’s mainly left to us to pick the true self we’ll ultimately become. Along the way, we make choices and by doing so abort an army of conceivable selves. If we see life as the narrative journey of a singular self, then pivotal decisions are of the utmost importance, and not just a little nervous-making. We’re beholden to our past choices and to our future possibilities, and if we slip up we’ll end up missing out on who we should have been. But what proof is there that the accepted view of the self— especially one based on our untested, folk intuitions—is in any way accurate? After all, humans once thought the sun revolved around the earth, and we all know how that theory turned out. Likewise, we might perceive our selves as continuous, irreducible entities, but what of the fact that, as far as anyone can tell, we are nothing more than our brains, and our brains are nothing but very complex machines designed to react to stimuli. An automated door reacts to stimuli as well, but I wouldn’t say it has a self. What we term the “self” oftentimes refers to the string of memories and other conscious events that we then construct into personality, identity and expectations for future behavior. But memory is often faulty, and meanwhile, bouts of unconsciousness (also called sleep) are changing us all the time without our knowledge. We really can’t know for sure whether the conscious experience we have today has anything to do with the experiences we remember from yesterday. Who’s to say that the person I am now is the same person I was before? The only self I can be sure of is the present one. All things considered, challenges such as these to the narrative self are bad news for traditional views of identity, but good news for a future anxious senior like me. If I have no continuous self after all, then I can let go of fears that I’ll somehow ruin it for a future me, or that I’ll disappoint a past me. We have very little to do with one another, apart from inhabiting the same body. Stripped of the grand narrative of my self, I have no reason to search for my true identity— each moment gives birth to a new self, with no obligation to my previous or future incarnations. I’ll just become a new me at every moment, with an entire selection of possibilities before me. Imagine answering that to the next unknowing interviewer who naively asks you to “tell a bit about yourself.” Shining Li is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.
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he North Carolina General Assembly has dis- tutional sexual repression. However, we have a long honored itself within the legal tradition by way to go when it comes to individual hate and this passing the Defense of Marriage amendment. bill hopes to buttress that filth. As explained by Bob Geary’s “Citizen” As this vote approaches, there will column in The Independent, this bill be a massive campaign from various was only passed using two thinly veiled conservative groups waged across our political loopholes, one including the airwaves and television screens. Imagoh-so-slight amendment of Senate Bill ine that such a debate was occurring 514 from a classification of pertaining about gender equality or institutional to “Nutrient Sensitive Waters” to this racism—we would not allow it. That monster before us. Moreover, the decifight came, was partially won and consion will be made by voters in the May tinues to progress. Our democratically josh brewer primary election rather than in the elected officials have pandered to hate November general election of 2012 southern socialism groups in their abandonment of the because those 10 Democrats—cough, legal process. They hope to legitimize sell outs, cough—feared that the traditional hate- a disgusting and hateful debate that will harm our mongering crowd might vote with the other lever. Is state and campus in ways that most of us will never this democracy? know. Imagine reckoning with the reality surroundMost of our state politicians must understand ing love in this climate. Imagine sitting with those parthat this bill will fail come next May. The state leg- ents you must face, watching legitimized campaigns islature barely had the votes to get it off the floor. I equate what you know as love with rape, bestiality and understand that many of our southern brethren have pedophilia. How many children sit in foster homes passed similar bills and a race to the bottom is in or- because wonderful people are not allowed to raise der. Is this really how the “New South” falls? We have them with truly accepted love and understanding? forgotten our history: The 1967 Loving v. Virginia This Defense of Marriage amendment equates diruling from the United States Supreme Court stated rectly with the historic racist, misogynistic and classthat anti-miscegenation laws were an unconstitution- based oppressive legislation which continues to scar al deprivation of citizens’ rights to substantive due our state. Duke does not want to be on the wrong side process, protected by the 14th Amendment’s Due of history. Christian leaders at Duke have been brave Process Clause. The court wrote, in part “Marriage is thus far but a radical separation and organization is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to needed. Reynolds Price followed the words in red, our very existence and survival ... ” What “compelling something I cannot say of the hate-mongering and digovernment purpose” denies the LGBTQ community vinely blessing wing of the church. Duke faculty and its constitutional rights to substantive due process? students should demand a demonstration of solidarity Sexuality exists as the basic human condition. In with our LGBTQ community. We support the right for other primates, most notably in bonobos, sexuality people to love who they wish and how they wish to do extends well beyond procreation. Michael Foucault so. Dr. King said “At the center of non-violence stands argued that the separation of sexuality into devi- the principle of love” but he acknowledged that “a riot ant and normal forms emerged as the bourgeoisie is the language of the unheard.” took the capitalistic reigns from feudal aristocratic I would caution North Carolina’s elected officials powers. After defining themselves as superior based against sacrificing citizen’s rights, legal precedents, upon adherence to their so-written sexual norms, the and ethical procedure. Communities of color, gender bourgeoisie demanded that the proletariat also fol- and classed suffering must recognize their solidarity low suit. With these regulations rose the discourse with the LGTBQ community. Legislators must recogof sexuality in the very pathological form that we ig- nize that hate speech—an imposing violence upon a norantly accept. Above all, the sanctity of bourgeois being—demands equal and definite response. Likemarriage was to be protected from racial, class and wise, Duke as a private institution should regionalize gender equality. a dialogue of acceptance and historical clairvoyance. The historical struggles in communities of color Students of this university valiantly took the Allen proved that civil disobedience coupled with non- building in 1969 to enact civil rights progressions violent property nullification can and will force the at Duke. Similar, if not more radical, actions are dehegemonic legal system to honor its alleged ethical manded of those communities who have already had commitment. The time has come and gone for such their fight or look forward to it soon. Wake up, Duke. action—we have been asleep at the wheel. On our Hate shall not be tolerated upon our campus or this campus, why must the LGBTQ community stand state that we now call home. alone against such oppression? Our legislators have chosen to make a last stand; they understand that my Josh Brewer is a Trinity senior. His column runs every generation no longer overwhelmingly supports insti- other Tuesday.
lettertotheeditor Student athletes at Duke Like my close friend Josh Brewer, author of the column “UnAthletic Duke,” I was a varsity student athlete on the track team. Like Mr. Brewer, I probably would not have attended Duke without athletics. I chose Duke because it had the best coaches (Norm Ogilvie and Kevin Jermyn). Though I greatly respect Dr. Kevin White, Dave McClain, the head equipment manager, Joe Ferraro, the assistant athletic trainer, and everything Duke Athletics stands for, I, like most of my peers, identified first as a student. Duke set me up for both success in post-collegiate academics and a fulfilling professional career. Personal tributes aside, a central question remains: Why does Duke need Division I athletics? Duke needs Division I athletics because when I meet fellow Blue Devil graduates, we reminisce about where we were for “Duke 61 Butler 59,” regardless of major, greek status, freshman dorm or graduating class. Duke needs Division I athletics because employers scanning my resume often notice my personal best in the mile run before my undergraduate GPA.
Duke needs Division I athletics because the Roman poet Juvenal famously exhorted us to aspire to a “sound mind in a sound body” (I will spare you from running for a Latin-English dictionary, especially after you dutifully fumbled through your literary theory reader to make sense of “heterosexual/homosexual programming upon homosocial allowance”). I was privileged to compete alongside Rhodes and Marshall scholars; graduate students in computer science from Harvard, biomedical engineering from Duke and medicine from Washington University in St. Louis; Teach For America corps members; Air Force fighter pilots; consultants for IBM, Stryker, Delta, American Bridge and JP Morgan; Presbyterian ministers and two NCAA champions. I propose Mr. Brewer and the Duke community embrace our student athletes. Alhough they may go to class tired, I dispute Mr. Brewer’s assertion that they are “sometimes—or always—unprepared.” We have an unparalleled tradition of academic and athletic excellence—what are we afraid of? Ken Sullivan Trinity ’10, Vanderbilt Law School ’13
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GAMEDAY from page 1 last September’s Duke football game against the University of Alabama. The individual had a handicapped parking permit but was mistakenly directed to an inaccessible lot. At the time, Schoenfeld said, Duke had more than 300 parking spots designated as handicapped spots for football game attendees, but the spots were filled because of high attendance for the Alabama game. The individual filed an ADA complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Schoenfeld said. He added that Duke described the situation and showed the University’s backup plan to the DOE, who then pronounced the case closed in early 2011. The University added 70 handicapped parking spots to Wallace Wade and designated the D2 lot in the Blue Zone as an overflow disability lot. “It had to be a place where there had to be accessibility and where shuttles [to bring handicapped visitors to Wallace Wade] could access,” Schoenfeld said.
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After the conflict, Duke Athletics moved the Iron Dukes’ spots previously located in the D2 lot to the Whitford lot, making it impossible to use Whitford for Football Gameday, said junior Chris Brown, DSG external chief of staff. “If we could start from scratch, [Whitford] is where I would want the experience to be,” Brown said. An ‘extremely disruptive’ change Other locations were considered but did not materialize, Schork said. He added that Krzyzewskiville was considered as a potential Football Gameday location, but Duke Athletics ruled it out because they had a financial incentive to maintain use of the space. Mike Sobb, associate director of athletics for external affairs, could not be reached for comment Friday and Monday. Schork said the alleyway between the Sanford School of Public Policy parking lot and Wallace Wade, but administrators and student leaders decided that it was too small to host students for a pre-football celebration. “We considered all of the opportunities on campus to create a traditional tailgating atmosphere,” Schork said.
DSG student leaders ultimately settled on hosting Football Gameday on Towerview Drive—where they thought could keep the event centralized and still preserve a connection to football games. Administrators were aware of DSG’s plans to hold Football Gameday there throughout the summer, Schork said. Student leaders and administrators, including some from Student Affairs, met in early August to solidify the location. At this point, Student Affairs informed student leaders that Towerview was not an option for Football Gameday because it would be impossible to have tents lined up on the actual road. Schork said he and others were frustrated that they had worked on plans all summer for Gameday, believing that it would take place on Towerview, only to be told several weeks before the first Gameday that the location was not viable. “We had operated under the assumption that we would have been able to use that space,” Schork said. “We had a whole summer to put together a plan, and the response from Student Affairs was surprising.” When officials in Student Affairs informed Schork and others that Towerview Drive was not an option for Football Gameday, the officials also acknowledged the Tailgate replacement would not be a communal experience, Schork said. Student Affairs began emphasizing options that were uncentralized, he noted, adding that the change was “extremely disruptive.” Administrators and student leaders ultimately decided to hold Football Gameday on the Main West Quadrangle, with registered student groups spread throughout the Main Quad and surrounding quads. “At the first week, there was no centralized character to it,” Schork said. “[The administration] would not permit a centralized event.... They didn’t even want to call it an event. It required a lot of effort and that effort wasn’t necessary—that’s unfortunate because... we were moving in the right direction.”
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The proposed changes by the United Network for Organ Sharing, the Richmond, Va., nonprofit organization that coordinates organ donation under a contract with the federal government, are part of the first major overhaul of the 2007 guidelines governing “donation after cardiac death,” or DCD, which accounts for a small but growing percentage of donations each year. Proponents say the changes strengthen the transplant system by aligning the rules with other regulatory bodies and better ensure that the wishes of donors and their loved ones are honored without sacrificing necessary protections. “The ultimate goal is to facilitate the dying wishes of patients who wish to be donors and save the lives of the 112,000-plus patients who are in need,” said Charles Alexander, the immediate past president of UNOS. “We are always very aware of our public trust.” Critics, however, say the move heightens the risk that potential donors will be treated more like tissue banks than like sick people deserving every chance to live, or die, peacefully. “This is another step towards this idea of hovering, hovering, hovering to get more organs,” said Michael A. Grodin, a professor of health law, bioethics and human rights at Boston University. “The bottom line is that they want to do everything they can to increase organ donation.” The 16-page proposal, which has resurrected the knotty debate over what it means to be dead, was drafted over a year by the 22-member UNOS organ procurement organization committee. It was posted for public comment for about three months, a period that ended June 10. The UNOS board will convene Nov. 14 and 15 in Atlanta to finalize the revisions, which include officially shifting the guidelines from “model elements” to “requirements.” “We want the process to happen the way it’s supposed to happen to avoid any questions or problems,” Alexander said. DCD involves surgeons taking organs within minutes after respirators and other forms of life support have been cut off from hospitalized patients who still have at least some brain activity. DCD had been the norm for organ donors before neurological criteria — “brain death” — became the standard in the early 1970s. Since then, most donors have been brain-dead. But as the number of people needing transplants rose, doctors in the 1990s began reviving what was then called “non-beating heart” donation. DCD has become a growing source of organs as the gap between the number of patients waiting for transplants and the number of available organs has widened. About 6,000 Americans succumb each year while waiting for donated organs. DCD advocates say the potential donors are unquestionably going to die because everyone involved agrees further treatment is futile. At least the patients and their families should be able to find solace by helping save someone else, this argument says.