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Duke’s rise in applicants contrasts with decline at some Ivy League peers

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Three students are vying for one spot to represent the University’s graduate and professional students on the Board of Trustees. The Young Trustee Screening Committee of the Graduate and Professional Student Council has chosen three finalists for the position of Young Trustee. The finalists are: Malik Burnett, a fourth-year in a joint MD and MBA program at the School of Medicine and the Fuqua School of Business; Will Evans, a second-year Slavic and Eurasian studies masters candidate; and Felicia Hawthorne, a fifth-year genetics and genomics doctoral candidate. The finalists were chosen last week from a pool of 22 applicants, compared to last year’s 30. The GPSC General Assembly, which represents the graduate and professional student body, will vote on the finalists at its meeting Feb. 21, said Katherine Duch, chair of the YTSC and third-year public policy studies doctoral candidate. This closed election is one of the primary differences between the undergraduate and graduate Young Trustee processes. “The finalists are all outstanding candidates,” Duch wrote in an email Monday. “They understand the responsibilities of the Young Trustee position, they recognize SEE YOUNG TRUSTEE ON PAGE 6

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Duke’s 6 percent increase in applicants for the Class of 2016 was moderate, as compared to University of Chicago’s 16.1 percent increase in applicants. by Kristie Kim THE CHRONICLE

Some discrepancies in the rise and fall of application rates at top institutions follow a distinct geographical divide. Although Duke admissions saw a 6 percent increase in the news total number of applianalysis cations from last year, some elite institutions have reported a decrease in applications

for the Class of 2016. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag attributed the varying admissions trends to a regional divide, with schools in the Northeast receiving less applications than in past years. “We are approaching a point where the number of high school students is declining, and this phenomenon is happening at a much quicker rate in the Northeast,” Guttentag said. “It’s not surprising that universities in the northeastern region are

significantly more affected than those that are outside of the region.” Duke received a record high number of early and regular applications at 31,565. Several other schools’ application rates also rose—Northwestern University experienced a 3.5 percent increase in applicants, and the University of Chicago saw a 16 percent increase. Applications to Stanford University rose nearly 7 percent. SEE ADMISSIONS ON PAGE 5

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He’s Not Here to be sold to Romney wins former UNC football player Florida primary by Patton Callaway THE CHRONICLE

University students can still expect Sunday night karaoke and quarter cent beers on Tuesdays at He’s Not Here Bar despite an upcoming change in ownership. He’s Not Owner David Kitzmiller came out of retirement last year to run the Chapel Hill-based bar after it recorded a 15 percent drop in sales for three consecutive years, bar manager Fleming Fuller said. Under Kitzmiller—a 76-yearold native of Nova Scotia—the bar has continued to be a favorite for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke students alike and is boasting profits once again. Kitzmiller put the bar on the market earlier last month and was immediately greeted with more than 250 offers. After originally listed on bizquest.com and craigslist.com as an anonymous bar for sale price at about $165,000, Kitz-

miller asked Neal DePersia, Raleigh broker of National Restaurant Properties to take over the selling of the business. Noting that it typically takes eight months to sell a business, DePersia said he was overwhelmed by the community response to buy He’s Not and the desire by potential owners to maintain the bar’s current image, culture and traditions. “Bartenders are not known for keeping secrets,” DePersia said. “Word got out, and it pretty much went viral…. Everyone was interested in buying and interested in not seeing anything change.” Kitzmiller declined to comment until the sale—expected to go forward Wednesday—is final. DePersia said that they are currently in the final stages of negotiation to sell the bar to a former UNC-Chapel Hill football player and a male alumnus of Elon University. Although

Electability surfaces as priority by Jack Mercola and Michael Shammas THE CHRONICLE

Mitt Romney’s Tuesday victory in the Florida Republican primary has likely cemented his position as the GOP frontrunner. Romney, former governor of Massanews chusetts, won 46 percent of the primary vote, the Florida Division of Elections reanalysis ported. Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, came in second with 32 percent. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum won 13 percent, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas and Medicine ’61, came in last with 7 percent. Florida—a winner-

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“Tuition hikes at Duke are all too often justified by the common rejoinder that ‘everyone else is doing it, too.’” —Jeremy Ruch on rising tuition. See column page 11

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Experts say efforts to help middle class may fail

President Barack Obama calls it “the defining issue of our time”—forging a fairer economy by reversing years of widening income inequality and building a strong middle class. And for much of last week, beginning with the State of the Union address, Obama made proposals to do that, unveiling plans to levy higher taxes on the rich, provide financial incentives to companies that manufacture domestically, and invest in education. But these ideas, say economists and other scholars, confront decades-old trends that will make it difficult to build a middle class that enjoys a far higher quality of life and sees significantly increased earnings. “There has been an avalanche of developments that have played out in the last 30 years or so that make it a huge challenge to think about real increases in wages and therefore a sustained rise in incomes,” said Lane Kenworthy, a sociologist at the University of Arizona.

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US may face cyber security Japan losing hope for disaster, survey forecasts pricey ‘dream reactor’ WASHINGTON, D.C. — Companies including banks and phone carriers would have to spend almost nine times more on cybersecurity to prevent a digital Pearl Harbor from plunging millions into darkness, paralyzing the financial system, a Bloomberg Government study found.

TSURUGA, Japan — Japan’s long and expensive pursuit of a super-efficient nuclear reactor—a model once touted as the key to its energy future—now teeters on the brink of failure amid new government concerns about its runaway costs. The project has cost $13 billion.

Duke in Australia Information Meeting Biological Sciences 139, 5-6 p.m. Students who are interested in learning biogeography in Australia this summer are invited to attend.

Film Screening: Neither Allah Nor Master Griffith Theater, 7-9 p.m. The film documents Tunisians fighting for a secular state instead of a religious one.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1861: Texas secedes from the Union.

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Harrington to be dept. chair Can Mitt Romney be stopped in Nevada? of medicine at Stanford Robert Harrington, director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute since 2006, will become chair of the department of medicine at Stanford University beginning July 1. After more than a year of searching for a new dean, a search committee at Stanford settled upon Harrington from numerous candidates across the nation, said Philip Pizzo, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine in The Dean’s Newsletter. Harrington, who is also the Richard S. Stack MD Distinguished Professor at the University’s School of Medicine and a practicing cardiologist, came to Duke on a cardiology fellowship in 1990. “This has been the most difficult decision of my professional life, but I feel it is the right move for me personally and professionally and, ultimately, for the DCRI as well,” Dr. Harrington said in a DCRI news release. “Change is hard to adjust to, but I have had great leaders on my executive team, and I know they will all help the entire DCRI become an even better organization than it is today.”

Harrington has authored or co-authored over 350 scientific publications and reviews, and has served on numerous editorial and scientific advisory boards, Pizzo said in the newsletter. His research interests include antithrombotic therapy for acute ischemic heart disease and the disease mechanism of acute coronary syndromes, among others. “Dr. Harrington’s breadth of knowledge, his area of research, commitment to patient care and clinical excellence, and his leadership roles at Duke and nationally make him an ideal choice for this position,” Pizzo said. “Training future leaders and excellence in clinical care remain at the core of his mission, and he devotes part of every week to the practice of clinical cardiology—something he also intends to do at Stanford.” Harrington’s wife Rhonda Larsen, consultant for clinical research and training at DCRI and founder of Site Research Solutions, will be accompanying him to Stanford. —Staff Reports

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ENO, Nev. — The Republican presidential field heads west to Nevada this week facing a single dominant question: Can anything or anyone block Mitt Romney’s path to the GOP presidential nomination, particularly given his resounding win here four years ago? Romney has the best organization of any of the remaining candidates, and he has spent plenty of time here since 2008. He is expected to arrive with the momentum of a win in Florida Tuesday, and Nevada’s sizable Mormon population gives him an edge, too. In 2008, Romney won 51 percent of the vote while Texas Rep. Ron Paul finished second with 13 percent. But Nevada is not without advantages for the other candidates. Saturday’s “first in the west” caucuses are expected to favor campaigns with loyal supporters willing to trudge out to a caucus meeting on a weekend morning. This year, that helps Paul, who has been developing solid organizations in all the caucus states to turn out supporters, who have been among the most passionate of the campaign, and his organization is significantly stronger today than it was four years ago. Newt Gingrich is betting on a wild card here, the tea party movement. Tea party sentiment is strong in the state and helped nominated Sharron Angle two years ago in a primary to challenge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Gingrich is playing an underdog’s game of catch-up in Nevada. He has little money in the bank and only began

investing here a few weeks ago. But he boasts another noteworthy asset: billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson, a top supporter who has given a pro-Gingrich group $10 million and is being closely watched to see whether more is on the way. The backdrop for all of this is that Nevada is a critical swing state that has marched through much of the Obama years with the nation’s highest unemployment and foreclosure rates. The area around Las Vegas, home to three-quarters of Nevadans, is a bastion of independent voters who resoundingly chose President Barack Obama four years ago. The eventual Republican nominee must not only beat his GOP rivals Saturday but also reach out to these critical voters, many of them disaffected by the current administration. “Two-thirds of this country believe America is worse off than when President Obama took office,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who most recently worked for a PAC supporting Jon Huntsman. “In some ways the voters in Nevada are a microcosm of President Obama’s problem. They bought into this hope-and-change malarkey, and now all they see is that the economy has gotten worse.” Despite that, Nevada caucus-goers are anything but a microcosm of the general electorate. In 2008, 44,000 Republicans attended Nevada caucus meetings, less than 1 percent of the electorate. And Republicans are not optimistic that turnout will be much higher this year. The Nevada GOP has done SEE ROMNEY ON PAGE 6

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Taiwan’s economic growth slows By Chinmei Sung BLOOMBERG NEWS

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s economy expanded at the slowest pace in more than two years, putting pressure on the government to bolster growth and giving the central bank more reason to extend an interest-rate pause. Gross domestic product rose 1.9 percent in the three months through December from a year earlier and contracted from the previous quarter, pushing the economy into a technical recession, according to preliminary data from the statistics bureau. The median estimate of nine economists in a Bloomberg News survey was for a 2.8 percent expansion from a year ago. President Ma Ying-jeou, who won re-election Jan. 14, has promoted Vice Premier Sean Chen, a former deputy finance minister, to the post of premier in a sign he plans to focus on reviving growth in the island in his second term. Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis is hurting Asian exporters from Singapore to South Korea, and policymakers have either cut borrowing costs or refrained from further increases in recent meetings. “At a time when global growth is slowing, Taiwan needs domestic demand to offset the decreasing exports,” Frances Cheung, a Hong Kong-based strategist at Credit Agricole, said after the report. “The new government should boost fiscal spending to stimulate the weak domestic consumption.” Taiwan’s central bank will keep the discount rate on 10day loans to banks unchanged at 1.875 percent through the middle of next year, according to a Bloomberg News survey. The benchmark Taiex stock index ended 1.5 percent higher before the data. It lost 21 percent last year, the worst decline since 2008. The economy contracted 0.25 percent last quarter from SEE TAIWAN ON PAGE 6

PRIMARY from page 1 takes-all contest—gives Romney 50 delegates in the race for the presidential nomination, feeding the momentum needed to reach the 1,144 delegates that would decisively clinch the nomination, some Duke professors and students said. Romney’s victory in Florida is especially indicative, because as a closed primary—only registered Republicans can vote—it reflects the lead priority of the Republican party: nominating a candidate who can beat President Barack Obama, said Pope McCorkle, visiting lecturer of public policy studies. He called Romney’s win in Florida impressive, considering that independents—a large source of support for Romney—could not vote, leading some experts to favor Gingrich going into the primary. Electability in the general election has long been Romney’s calling card, said Kyle Scott, visiting assistant professor of political science. According to CNN poll data, Romney led among voters who indicated that their main concern was choosing a candidate who can defeat Obama in the general election. Junior William Reach, former chair of Duke College Republicans, said he similarly supports Romney because he thinks he has the best chance of usurping Obama. “Romney has a tremendously strong network of volunteers and has been consistent in his campaign messaging,” Reach said. “He is running on his strengths, he hasn’t gone negative, and he’s run a really solid campaign.” In his victory speech, Romney ignored his Republican opponents and instead looked forward to the general election against Obama. “Three years ago this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and said that if he couldn’t turn the economy around in three years, he’d be looking at a one-term proposition,” Romney said. “We’re here to collect.” Romney largely neglected Gingrich in his remarks in order to assert his dominance in the Republican field, McCorkle said. “Romney is trying to be presumptuous in a sense because he’s trying to reinforce as much as possible that it is over—that he’s not just in the driver’s seat, but that it is over,” McCorkle said.

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In his speech, Gingrich denied that his campaign is faltering, emphasizing his victory in South Carolina. Standing before signs that read “46 states to go,” he noted that there are several battleground states left between now and the Republican National Convention in June. “It is now clear that this will be a two-person race between the conservative leader Newt Gingrich and the Massachusetts moderate,” Gingrich said. But in the next two primaries—Colorado and Nevada—the odds are not favorable for Gingrich, McCorkle said. Romney, who is a Mormon, is favored to win the Nevada caucus due to its large Mormon population. Scott said that Nevada and Colorado might, however, prove troublesome for socially conservative Romney. Both states are socially liberal—Nevada boasts a large gambling industry and legal prostitution, and Colorado is filled with medical marijuana outlets. These social policies may sway voters to the libertarian-minded Paul. Gingrich will face difficulties in Michigan, where Romney’s father George Romney was governor for six years, McCorkle said. Gingrich’s limited fundraising capacity will also give the former speaker problems. “Unfortunately for Gingrich, they’ve got to gather more money than they possibly can gather,” he said. “That’s more of a problem for Gingrich because, as South Carolina reflected, when he is in a smaller playing field he can more than compete. But in a state like Florida, he simply couldn’t get enough money.” Some Republican students at Duke said they are glad Romney won and believe the victory has essentially given him the nomination. “People are starting to realize that it is time to unite as a conservative union,” said junior Chloe Rockow, chair of DCR. “[The Romney campaign] has been preaching this message of positivity… showing that they can reach both the establishment Republican base and moderate, younger conservatives.” Florida’s racial breakdown also favored Romney. According to CNN, the former governor—whose father was born in Mexico—was bolstered by Hispanics, winning 54 percent of the Latino vote. In his victory speech, Romney rejected the notion that a long, competitive primary would hurt the Republicans. “A competitive primary does not divide us—it prepares us,” he said.

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ADMISSIONS from page 1 But in the Northeast, many institutions saw a decline. Applications fell approximately 2 percent at the University of Pennsylvania, 2 percent at Harvard University and 9 percent at Columbia University. Reaching the potential Compared to other institutions, getting into Duke may seem more feasible to students. As university admit rates enter single digits, applicants are becoming more realistic about their chances of getting into certain schools, Guttentag said. He added that prospective students from a few decades ago would have viewed Duke’s current admit rate—13 percent—as completely unreasonable, but current applicants have recalibrated their expectations of reasonable admit rates. Additionally, Duke received a greater proportion of applications from domestic students compared to recent years, said Anne Sjostrom, associate director of international undergraduate admissions. Guttentag noted that this trend is indicative of Duke’s rising popularity among American high school students, relative to the University’s peers in the Northeast. “Even as [the University’s] admit rate approaches the 10 percent mark, we have not yet met our potential in terms of appealing to a broad range of students,” Guttentag said. “As more students reflect upon what kind of college experience they hope to have and prioritize such expectations, Duke will become appealing to more of these applicants.” Jeremy Manier, news director at the University of Chicago, wrote in an email Tuesday that despite the school’s surge in applicants, the number of applications in the current cycle is still lower than some universities in the Northeast. He added that there is a logical limit to growth for each university and, like Duke, the University of Chicago is still in the process of expanding its reach. A period of ‘greater stability’ Despite the University’s increased application numbers, its yield rate—the number of students accepted who choose

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to matriculate—may stay the same. Guttentag noted that because other institutions have not experienced a significant increase in applicants, there is the likelihood that these universities will admit the same applicants as Duke—meaning that top students will receive multiple offers. He added that the competition to attract these strong candidates to the University will be tougher for Duke than in recent years. Duke’s surge in applications is “anomalous to some degree,” Guttentag said, noting its resistance to certain changes in the current admissions cycle. This Fall, Harvard and Princeton University both reinstated nonbinding early admissions programs, a move that Guttentag said did not affect the number of applicants to Duke. Declining applicants is not universal among northeastern schools—Dartmouth College saw a 3 percent increase in applications, and Cornell University saw a 3.5 percent increase—and even among institutions with fewer applicants, some admissions directors view the plateau as a positive sign. William Fitzsimmons, the dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard, wrote in The New York Times’ “The Choice” college admissions blog that he viewed the tapering in applications as an indicator that the college admissions process is entering a period of “greater stability and less frenzy.” In response, Guttentag underlined the need for predictability in college admissions, noting that applicants, parents and guidance counselors want to go through the admissions process with an understanding of their chances of being admitted. If the number of applications begins to stagnate or even diminish, universities will allow students and their families to better plan the admissions process. Even as the number of applications continues to soar, Guttentag emphasized the importance of recruiting prospective applicants. “Duke has a wonderful visibility, and we love to take advantage of it,” Guttentag said. “But many prospective students and parents have a limited view on what Duke is about, and it is our duty to educate the new batch of high school seniors each year.”

HE’S NOT from page 1 names of the future owners could not be disclosed at this time, DePersia added that Elon graduate holds a special place in his heart for the bar because it is where he met his wife. When selecting the new owners out of the initially expansive applicant pool, Kitzmiller emphasized the importance of finding owners who would keep the essence of the popular late night beer garden intact, DePersia said. The potential owners are looking forward to the prospect of keeping the bar relatively the same as it is currently. “The new owners are like kids at Christmas time,” DePersia said. “They are just so excited.” Students at UNC-Chapel Hill similarly hope that despite new ownership, He’s Not will maintain the qualities that make it a unique spot, said UNC-Chapel Hill senior Andrew Sugrue. “He’s Not is a Chapel Hill tradition—it’s a place where people our parents’ age went the same way we do,” Sugrue said. “Karaoke

is definitely the thing to do on Sundays. It acts as the meeting ground between Duke athletes and UNC [Chapel Hill] undergraduates.” Even with its location in Chapel Hill, Duke students frequently make the 25 minute trip down Tobacco Road to partake in the bar’s unique atmosphere. “He’s Not is an escape from the places we go everyday. It’s an opportunity to meet different people, such as UNC [Chapel Hill] students,” sophomore Lewis McLeod said. “It’s great to relieve the pressure of Duke academics by singing your heart away at karaoke.” Fuller, who will continue to work as manager at He’s Not alongside the new owners, said he feels very strongly that the new owners will maintain the current atmosphere of the bar. Rather than change the bar’s image, Fuller is confident they will simply improve it. “[He’s Not Here] is casual, and it’s for everybody,” Fuller said. “You can spill your beer, and it doesn’t matter. It represents a home atmosphere, and it has charm beyond belief.... More than anything, we looked for someone who will respect that— respect the image of the bar.”

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little to spread the word about the caucuses, and Nevadans, unlike voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, are less familiar with their new electoral ritual, which was moved to the top of the presidential calendar only four years ago. This year’s caucuses are unusual; Republicans will gather in 125 caucus locations across the state (45 of them in Clark County, home to Las Vegas). But county GOP committees were allowed this year to set their own rules, so start and finish times will vary—and results will trickle over the course of the day. Voters can expect the same battle lines that have characterized the Republican contest in recent days to hit Nevada now—but with much less spending on TV ads because the target audience is so small. Gingrich will continue to portray Romney as too similar to Obama to provide the contrast needed to defeat him in the fall — and continue to accuse him of outright lies in his campaign rhetoric against Gingrich. Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond said their goal is to turn out the tea party; the former House speaker has attracted praise from Angle, even though she has stopped short of endorsing him. “The farther west you get, the more ‘conservative’ matters,” Hammond said. “They look at somebody like Romney who on his best days is misleading and on his worst days is flat-out lying. Then you look at Gingrich, a straight shooter. You have that contrast. That’s why it’s important to get the tea party crowd out to get the momentum building there.” Staff writers Philip Rucker in Tampa and NiaMalika Henderson in Boca Raton, Fla., and staff researcher Lucy Shackelford in Washington contributed to this report.

the prior three months, shrinking for a second successive quarter and pushing the economy into a technical recession, today’s report showed. GDP grew 4.03 percent in 2011, compared with the 4.51 percent pace forecast by the statistics bureau earlier. The agency cut the forecast for this year to 3.91 percent from 4.19 percent previously. Inflation in 2012 may be 1.29 percent, it said, compared with an earlier projection of 1.14 percent. Exports may grow 4.97 percent this year, compared with a previous estimate of 5.27 percent, the statistics bureau said. Overseas sales, which are equivalent to about two-thirds of Taiwan’s economy, rose at the slowest pace in 26 months in December. Export orders, an indication of shipments in the next one to three months, fell last month for the first time since 2009 as demand from China and Japan declined. “Faltering external demand proved to be a considerable drag on investment, and hence GDP growth,” Raymond Yeung, a senior economist in Hong Kong at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., said after the report. “But I don’t think the trend will continue in 2012. Political uncertainties have waned on this month’s re-election of the ruling party.” Slowing overseas demand is already affecting Taiwan’s manufacturers and the nation’s job market. HTC Corp., Asia’s second-largest smartphone maker, this month reported its first quarterly profit decline in two years. Nanya Technology Corp. and Inotera Memories Inc., Taiwan’s second- and third-largest memory-chip makers, reported their eighth quarter of losses as slowing demand for personal computers pushed down prices.

areas where the University could improve, and they are passionate about working to create a stronger community and a better campus.” The YTSC, whose members were chosen by the GPSC General Assembly in September, reviewed each applicant’s resume or curriculum vitae and a statement outlining their interest in and qualifications for the position as well as their vision for the University. The YTSC selected eight applicants to interview before choosing Burnett, Evans and Hawthorne as finalists. Each year, one graduate and one undergraduate are chosen as Young Trustees. The undergraduate Trustee serves three years on the Board, one year as a non-voting member and two years as a voting member. The graduate Young Trustee serves a two-year term, one year as a non-voting member and the second year as a voting member. The finalists for undergraduate Young Trustee—seniors Kaveh Danesh, Michael Mandl and Olly Wilson—were selected by the Young Trustee Nominating Committee last week. The undergraduate student body will vote on the finalists Feb. 10. Burnett, Hawthorne and Evans stressed the importance of making graduate and professional students a priority to the Board. Burnett, who graduated from Trinity College of Arts & Science in 2007, said that in his ninth year at Duke, he has seen the same issues affect graduate students year after year. These issues include health insurance, parking and representation on campus. A Young Trustee, he said would have the opportunity to bring these issues to the

table and focus on making Duke a better place for his or her peers and maintaining the Duke University Health System’s ability to provide quality care to North Carolina. “With a lot of new masters degree programs coming online in the past two to three years, there is an opportunity to look at the graduate student experience in a more intentional way,” Burnett said. Evans said he also has experience representing students from across the campus as a GPSC representative at alumni association meetings, where he has had the opportunity to interact with several Trustees. Evans will be living in Durham next year, so he would be able to continue meeting with students on campus on a regular basis. “I will stay on campus and try to meet with people, find out what their concerns are and what they might change about the schools and what the Board can do for them,” Evans said. Hawthorne, who currently serves as GPSC president, said her extensive experience working with the council has prepared her to represent the interests of the graduate and professional student body. This is a challenge because graduate and professional students are enrolled in an array of programs, making it difficult to establish a unified voice. “We have so many individual schools to work with, and [the Young Trustee must know] how that works with the University at large,” she said. Hawthorne noted that she is already familiar with campus issues—such as the globalization of Duke’s brand and upcoming capital projects—and how they are dealt with at the administrative and Board levels.

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Today, as Max McCaffrey signs his national letter of intent to play football for the Blue Devils, he will be adding to his family’s illustrious athletic legacy. The Highlands Ranch, Colo., native will be a part of what has arguably become head coach David Cutcliffe’s best recruiting class at Duke, though his family first made a mark on Blue Devil athletics over 50 years ago. David Sime, Max’s grandfather, came to Duke as a baseball player in 1956, but was National quickly converted into a sprintSigning er. He had unrivalled success on the track and still owns the Day all-time University records in WEDNESDAY the outdoor 100- and 200-meter races, with times of 10.20 and 21.34 seconds, respectively. Sime then went on to compete in the 1960 Olympics, where he won a silver medal in the 100-meter dash. Max’s uncle, Bill McCaffrey, played basketball at Duke and helped the Blue Devils win the 1991 NCAA championship, ranking second on the team in points per game. Perhaps the most famous athlete of the entire family, though, lives under the same roof as Max. His father, Ed McCaffrey, was an All-American wideout at Stanford and an All-Pro, Super-Bowl champion wide receiver for the Denver Broncos. Needless to say, the family’s impressive track record warrants high expec-

tations for the next generation, but the family pressure does not faze Max. “I don’t feel like I have to live up to anything,” he said. Given his resume, there is no reason to think the most recent McCaffrey cannot match or even surpass his elders. On a team stockpiled with Division-I players, he was instrumental in helping Valor Christian— a traditional power in Colorado high school sports— cruise to three straight football state championships. Playing defensive back, wide receiver and special teams throughout his career, the 6-foot-3, 190-pound, allaround athlete garnered first-team all-state honors in both his junior and senior seasons. McCaffrey will be joined in college by Valor Christian teammate Michael Mann, a defensive end who originally committed to Arizona State until the team underwent a coaching change. He finalized his decision Monday. His versatility is not limited to the gridiron either. McCaffrey averages 12.5 points per game as an allconference wing for Valor Christian’s basketball team, which is 15-1 and ranked third in Class 4A. And even though last spring marked his first-ever track season, McCaffrey’s football speed—he runs a 4.47-second 40yard dash—nearly propelled him and his sprint relay teams to two state titles. Over the past two years, Max has played alongside his younger brother, Christian, a 6-foot, 190-pound SEE MCCAFFREY ON PAGE 8

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Austin Rivers may be just a freshman, but he has the most developed winning instinct on the team, Claxton writes. Great news for the Duke faithful—it’s February! The month that in recent years has seen such monumental events as the rise of Elliot Williams and the awakening of Brian Zoubek is finally here. Will this year’s batch of Blue Devils be able to find that same magic? Or will they again fade down the stretch and burn out early in the NCAA Tournament as they did in 2007 and 2008? If Saturday’s press conference is any indication, head coach Mike Krzyzewski is as fired up as ever for the stretch run. “I hate saying we did enough to win,” Krzyzewski said, after his team staggered to a sevenpoint victory over St. John’s. “I Ryan mean, that’s not who I am, and not what this program is. You don’t ‘Do enough to win.’ We play really good basketball, and then hopefully we win. But that’s the story…. I’m not pleased with today one bit. One bit.” This on the heels of the coach’s press conference in College Park, Md., where he called on the Cameron Crazies to boost support for the game against the Red Storm. The fans came out re-energized, but the team came with the same inconsistent product it has brought at home all season. The Blue Devils, it seems, are struggling to find the winner’s mentality—their killer instinct, so to speak. Against St. John’s, Duke was up by as much as 22 in the second half, and led by 21 with 14:23 to play. Yet, with 20 seconds remaining, the Red Storm needed only four points to complete the comeback. The Blue Devils did enough to win in the end, but just enough. When Florida State came to Durham, Duke led by nine with a minute to play before halftime, but instead of clamping down and extending its advantage, the

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Christian Walsh ranked third on the team last season in points with 34, scoring 21 goals and dishing 13 assists.

Two years ago, the Blue Devils won the national championship. Last year, they made it to the semifinals. People are expecting Duke to be near the top once again as the 2012 Blue Devils gear up for a new campaign ranked No. 2, behind only reigning national champion Virginia. Head coach John Danowski, however, is quick to discount polls before any games are played. “We’re overrated in the sense that you’ve got to put somebody up there at the beginning of the year,” said Danowski, who is entering his sixth season. “We realize that we’re still very young.” Duke will be defined by how quickly its youth can develop this season. With the graduation of last year’s leading scorer Zach Howell, who finished second in the ACC with 43 goals, the two highest returningpoint getters from last season are sophomores Jordan Wolf and Christian Walsh. Wolf was the team’s second-leading goal scorer last season, placing 31 between the iron and dishing out a team-high 20 assists as well. The Blue Devils finished last season tied for third in the country with 121 assists. Walsh, who also plays attack, notched 21 goals and 13 assists in his freshman year. For this team to overcome its youth, Danowski identified passing ability and chemistry as keys to success. “We’ve got to be really unselfish,” Danowski said. “The team process has to be evident everywhere. Whether that’s on offense, defense or facing off or special teams, it’s got to appear that we’re really unselfish and really play well together.” In last year’s 9-4 semifinal loss to Maryland, Duke played seven freshmen and seven sophomores. One of those players was goalkeeper Dan Wigrizer—now a SEE M. LACROSSE ON PAGE 8

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CLAXTON from page 7 team got Snaer-ed at the end of the half and went into the break up just six. While the Blue Devils struggle defensively, they’ve shown the ability to overcome their deficiency and win games on the offensive end. Lately, however, the team has been missing that extra push to put the game out of reach and crush the spirit of the opponent. That’s not to say that this squad doesn’t play with emotion, because they certainly do. The difference this season, it seems, is that the Blue Devils get satisfied with comfortable leads. Instead of putting the pedal down and extending the margin, they let off the gas and take a breath. It’s during those periods that teams like the Seminoles and Red Storm make their comebacks. After a few strong possessions, the momentum changes and it takes Duke several more trips down the floor to figure out a way to slow the momentum swing. Even if they still have the lead, the Blue Devils get visibly flustered as if they were the team trailing. Of course, this is still a very young, inexperienced Duke squad. These Blue Devils haven’t learned how to play with the same attitude, the same swagger, as the teams of recent years. The crowds at Cameron have become accustomed to a team that destroys the will of its opponent. Since the middle of the 2009 season, teams that come to campus have been methodically stripped of the idea that winning is possible over the course of a game. This season, it ain’t over ‘til it’s over. It would seem that the natural progression would be for Duke to have learned its lesson from the Florida State game. But again, against the Red Storm, there was a letdown. The Blue Devils allowed 47 points while scoring only 38 in the second half as St. John’s stormed back. So what will it take to get Duke to play with an edge? The theories on how to develop an attitude of relentless pursuit of victory are rather extensive. Some say it has to come from the coach, some say it comes from experience, and some say if the players don’t instinctually possess that attitude they can never develop it. In the case of the Blue Devils, there is no question the coach has that attitude, and for Krzyzewski it may be just as strong as ever before. Some players

display the instinct on occasion but not consistently, and despite some mental lapses and turnover issues it seems as though freshman Austin Rivers has the most developed winning instinct on the team. So that leaves experience. Maybe too many of these players are just too used to winning. Almost all of them were highlyrated recruits coming out of high school, playing for top programs that rarely lost. They know how to win, but do they really feel something when they lose? Do they have a sense of mutual determination to never lose again? That remains to be seen. If they don’t have it, they’re going to find themselves on the losing end of a few more games this season—and an early exit in March may be on the horizon.

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running back. As just a sophomore, Christian was named the Denver Post’s 4A player of the year and was among the best offensive players in the state last season. The McCaffrey duo was virtually unstoppable together, leading an explosive Valor Christian offense that averaged nearly 49 points a game—and the Duke coaching staff has already taken notice, expressing interest in recruiting Christian out to join his brother. “Playing with Christian at Duke would be awesome,” Max said. Committing to the Blue Devils was a much easier choice for Max due to his strong family ties to Duke, the school’s elite academics and his relationship with the coaching staff. Last June, he verbally committed to Duke over Wake Forest, Connecticut, Arizona State, Oregon and Colorado, among others. “[Duke] started reaching out to me right after my junior year ended, and since then I met with Coach Cutcliffe and I knew that was the place I wanted to go,” McCaffrey said said. “Duke has always been the school of my dreams.” Max’s talent and speed are obvious, but his future position as a Blue Devil is not yet clear at this point. “[The Duke coaches] recruited me for wide receiver, but they still aren’t sure. They will see when I get out there,” Max said. “They told me that they don’t plan on redshirting me my freshman year, but things change, so we’ll see.” Regardless of whether he is receiving touchdowns, intercepting passes, returning punts and kicks or running the alley for a big hit, Max is not used to losing. Coming from a high school program that was 49-3 over the past three years, his winning pedigree should be an invaluable asset for a Duke program hungry to establish itself as a perennial bowl team in the coming years. And as Max begins his career at the next level, he hopes that the McCaffrey tandem hasn’t played its last football game together. Duke fans should probably feel the same way too.

junior—who saved 55.0 percent of incoming shots last season, a significant improvement from his freshman campaign during which he stopped just 50.8 percent. Although Danowski landed a highly touted recruit for between the posts in Kyle Turri, brother of senior midfielder Justin Turri, the job is still Wigrizer’s. The team believes he can continue his trend of improvement. “If he could make a jump to 57 or 58, two or three percentage points, we’d be delighted,” Danowski said. “He’d be close to being an All-American if at the end of the year he ended up somewhere in the high 50s.” Kyle Turri may not see significant action in his freshman year, but some of the other first-years will be counted on to contribute this season. Will Haus, whose brother notched 28 points for Maryland last season, has the potential to be an immediate force for the Blue Devils on the attacking end. Kyle Keenan, also an attacker, will join him in the competition for time up front. Another acclaimed recruit, Brian Dailey, should earn some minutes but will face stiff competition for the action from players who have already entrenched themselves as longstick midfielders. Senior CJ Costabile and sophomore Luke Duprey both played in all 20 games for Duke last season at that position. The midfield features some of the team’s key veterans, such as junior David Lawson and senior Robert Rotanz, who finished fourth and fifth on the team last year in points, respectively. It might be easy to count on forwards Wolf and Walsh to step up their production in their second year of play, but realistically the team will be at full-throttle if the middle of the field can reach its offensive potential. “We’ve got middies who are capable of initiating offense and making plays,” Danowski said. “While attackmen are on the field twice as much as the midfielders, they should get more opportunities, but we think that we’ve got a lot of guys who can make plays.”

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Student group gives voice to housekeepers In Fall 2011 seven mem- til the union responds. Each bers of the Duke housekeep- union member pays an aning staff complained of mis- nual fee to belong to Local treatment by their supervisor. 77, but the housekeepers’ Months later, their concerns complaints are being igremain unaddressed. nored—despite any promise The houseof service that keepers first financial dues editorial attempted to might imply. seek reconciliation of their To ease the workers in the complaints through their local process of addressing their workers’ union, Local 77. Mul- complaints, an unofficial stutiple failed attempts to incite dent group has stepped in. action from the union caused The group goes by the the workers to shift their chan- name of Duke Student Acnel of complaint. The seven tion with Workers and is fohousekeepers submitted a let- cused on ensuring that the ter to Duke Human Resources housekeepers’ complaints Dec. 7 outlining their grievanc- are heard now and in the es against Linda Schlabach, se- future. Under the direcnior housekeeping supervisor tion of the group, the seven in Edens Quadrangle. signatories of the letter to But the employees are Duke Human Resources stuck in legal limbo—Duke have obtained a pro bono cannot officially step in un- lawyer based in Chapel Hill.

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The students involved have met with Duke HR and have contacted Local 77 multiple times—still with no adequate response. Tong Xiang, cofounder of Duke Student Action with Workers, noted that Local 77 did at one point offer to hear the housekeepers’ complaints, but were not equipped to deal with employees who spoke Spanish rather than English. The union suggested that the supervisor, against whom the complaints were filed, serve as the translator. Clearly, such a proposal was not accepted. The actions of Local 77 are condemnable, even if the union lies largely outside of the scope of University control. To remedy this situation, Duke HR should offer to provide, free of charge, an appro-

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here is a cave dweller living in my host family. gineering school completed the final stage of school Occasionally the figure emerges from his lair from a rural school. For individuals classified as the for water and food, but on the whole the only rural poor, 1.6 percent received entry to a lowerevidence of his presence is the frequent, echoing ranked institution and statistically 0 percent was adsound of book pages being turned in mitted to the top four colleges. his room. The cave dweller, my Indian During a Global Semester Abroad host brother, has been preparing to class lecture, an NGO activist retake the Indian Institute of Technolomarked that India creates the most gy-Joint Entrance Examination—the beautiful policy and the worst implesole determining factor for admismentation. Perhaps most beautiful is sion to India’s premier engineering India’s Constitution, particularly their institute—for the past two years. I charter of fundamental rights. The counted at least 23 textbooks on calRight to Education Act added the kristen lee culus, physics, biology and chemistry right to education to the charter in between worlds from which he is studying. His 12 to 2010. It gives educational entitlement 15 hours a day study regimen makes to all students from 6 to 14 years of my MCAT preparation look like child’s play. Should age and requires private schools to reserve a quarter he beat the impossible 2 percent IIT admission rate of their seats for marginalized students. From the enand have his hard work pay off, he will find a privi- gineering statistics on poor rural students, it is clear leged and prestigious career on the other end. Both that India has much work to be done toward better literally and figuratively, my host brother is looking implementation of its eighth right. to become a part of the 1 percent. What about the red, white and blue? In the His educational trajectory is not unlike my own. most recent State of the Union address, PresiBoth of us grew up in cement forests. He attended dent Obama challenged us to think of an America a private school. I attended a magnet school that “that leads the world in educating its people” and paid extra attention to its students. My parents en- attracts high tech manufacturing jobs. He refercouraged me to apply to schools that were a good enced the post-World War II period and the GI fit and not to be discouraged by dollar signs. My Bill as a time when this America existed. host brother is similarly undeterred by his $200 I would like to imagine this America with him, but (10,000 rupees) IIT-JEE registration fee. To say my at present it seems we are moving farther from it, not host brother’s path to IIT has been a cakewalk is closer to it. Most concerning is that as states tighten obviously a gross exaggeration, but both of us have their belts, they set their sights on tuition increases benefited from the aforementioned circumstances. and slashes in teaching salaries. Recently, the UNC In my classes here in Udaipur the concept of Ur- system recommended 8.8 percent tuition increases ban-Rural divide continues to come up. Some 60 amid loud student protest. Education is a key factor percent of India’s population lives in rural areas. A toward upward social mobility, and moves like these purported 40 percent live on less than $1.25 a day. are counterproductive to educational equality and It all begs the question—without parents familiar access. Immediately after World War II was a time with the education system, without quality school- when millions of men and women were given access teachers and without economic security, what is the to free education. It was a time when our country likelihood of reaching that 2 percent? invested in our youth. With upcoming state and fedIn “Examining the Structure of Opportunity eral elections, education should be right up with the and Social Mobility in India: Who Becomes an En- economy as our top voting priority because it begets gineer?” Duke Professor Anirudh Krishna asks that the economy. We may not have the right to educavery question. How likely are smart, talented rural, tion written in our federal constitution, but it is enyoung adults to make their way to gateway institu- graved into the disappearing American dream. tions? Despite India’s growing economy, promising engineering sector and at least 1600 Indian engiKristen Lee is a Trinity junior who is spending the neering institutions of varying caliber, the answer, Spring in Udaipur, India and Beijing, China through it seems, is not likely. And for IIT, it is statistically 0 the Duke Global Semester Abroad Program. Her column percent. Less than one quarter of students at any en- normally runs every other Monday.

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ell, the good news is that, according to goes to support someone else’s education. the Princeton Review, Duke provides the Similarly, massive expansions like the Kunshan second best value of any private school in campus may boost Duke’s international presence, the country. but it’s hard to draw any tangible connection to The bad news is that’s like being the skinniest the current undergraduates who are helping to kid at fat camp. pay for it. The national debate over college Until now, this calculus was more jeremy ruch tuition has shifted dramatically in or less meaningless. Schools like run and tell that recent years, and a central truth has Duke and its Ivy League peers draemerged: The tuition model emmatically increased spending and ployed by private colleges like Duke is outdated, relied on their prestige to attract new applicants unfair and inefficient. If we aren’t proactive about irrespective of price. The entrance of competitors changing it, lower-priced options will fill the void. to drive down prices was largely a non-factor. But Here’s the short story: Since 1985, average tuition numerous signs suggest that this is changing. in the United States has risen by nearly 500 percent, For one thing, a popular movement questionor almost 5 times the rate of inflation. This is not ing the value provided by big-name universities is because universities have pioneered some magical attracting some big names. Peter Thiel—co-foundvalue-adding service in that time, or because the er of PayPal—has called higher education a “crazy cost of providing an undergraduate education has bubble” and calculated that between 70 to 80 perexploded (in fact, technology should be driving it cent of colleges and universities no longer generate down). Instead, there is an increasing disparity be- a positive return on investment for their students. tween cost and value received in higher education. He’s not alone. In a speech last week, President A whole bunch of people have written about this, Obama pointed out that student loan debt now, and have come up with a range of reasons for why for the first time, exceeds credit card debt in the college tuition keeps going up. The most reasonable United States. “Colleges and universities need to explanation I’ve seen is also the simplest: the people do their part to keep costs down,” he said. who can actually afford higher education are generMeanwhile, for-profit universities—which, unally not terribly concerned with price increases. By like schools like Duke, are subject to the traditional one measure, the elasticity of demand for higher ed- laws of supply and demand—are jumping in to fill ucation is a measly -0.1 (for every 1 percent increase the void. Enrollment at these schools, which genin price, the applicant pool decreases by just 0.1 per- erally offer career-based technical classes (read: cent). Evidently, the holy status bestowed on a col- value) at an average of around $15,000 a year lege degree by American employers is having some has jumped over 200 percent since 1998. As the impact on America’s parents and their willingness to visibility and prestige of these schools increases, pay for outrageously expensive higher education. those parents who historically have been agreeable But tuition increases have generally had only about tuition hikes at schools like Duke may begin a tenuous connection to improvements for the to reconsider whether their baby really needs to go people paying them. Duke has regularly justified to a school with a campus in China. these increases by pointing to massive increases in So what can we do about this? Well, a good first the University’s financial aid program—indeed, step would be to start paying attention. Tuition hikes the University proudly advertises that need-based at Duke are all too often justified by the common refinancial aid has more that doubled since 2003. joinder that “everyone else is doing it, too.” Similarly, Huge expansion projects, too, have been pointed despite the fact that our parents are often the ones to as the cause of the increases—not least a little footing the bill, the silence from student leaders on talked-about new campus in China. the subject has been deafening. Indeed, rises in tuition On the face of it, it’s tough to argue with many of haven’t been a major issue in any recent student govthese improvements, which is why tuition increases ernment campaign; DSG has mostly ignored them. have received minimal scrutiny. It’s not like the UniBut unlike O-week section party bans or Young versity is spending our hard-earned cash on beer mon- Trustee info sessions (or lack thereof), this is not a ey. But the improvements also have one thing in com- problem that will blow over. The debate isn’t about mon—they are almost all redistributive in nature. an extra thousands bucks a year for a Duke educaNeed-based financial aid is wonderful in princi- tion. It’s about whether, when given other options, ple, but when—as at Duke—40 percent of students America’s parents will continue to dole out absurd don’t pay full tuition, the system unfairly penalizes sums of money toward tuition that only partly goes middle class families that can only barely afford tu- to the benefit of their children. ition fees. This is no small problem: These families So let’s start talking. often spend their life’s savings to pay for the child’s college tuition, only to find that as a result, they are Jeremy Ruch is a Trinity junior. His column runs evrefused financial aid and their hard-earned money ery other Wednesday.

Shaoli Chaudhuri, Trinity ’12 and Laura Mistretta, Trinity ’14 co-presidents, Duke Students for Humane Borders Lizzeth Alarcon, Trinity ’12 co-president, Gente Aprendiendo para Nuevas Oportunidades (G.A.N.O.)

Lillie Reed is a Trinity sophomore. Her installation of the weekly Socialites column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Follow Lillie on Twitter @LillieReed

lettertotheeditor Justice in the workplace? We’d like to thank The Chronicle for their attention to Linda Schlabach’s alleged abuse of her Hispanic employees. However, the article underemphasized the urgency of the situation. According to seven housekeepers who have worked for her, Schlabach has harassed, intimidated, and coerced those she supervised into committing criminal acts for more than seven years. They tell us how Schlabach has created a culture of fear founded on humiliation and punishment. We know that Duke will seek justice and that the administration has already begun the formal process of inquiry. However, we feel that the institutional process is too slow. Housekeepers fear more for their job security and physical and emotional health as each day passes. In November, Duke Student Action with Workers first filed a grievance on behalf of the workers with the University. After multiple requests for redress directed at the Office of Institutional Equity, Duke Human Resources and AFSCME Local 77, housekeepers still haven’t seen any tangible results.

ife is full of lessons. You reap what you sow. Don’t cry over spilt milk. Never purchase a Furby because they are Satan’s reincarnation on this earth (Seriously. I took the batteries out of mine and it still kept purring and blinking like it wanted to seduce me and eat me at the same time. They are evil creatures). As I was in the library last night, Facebook-stalking freshmen—Duke seems to have defied the norms of logic yet again and created well more than one “best damn lillie reed pledge class”—I had an epiphany: wumbology My time at Duke has been full of life lessons as well. Being a social science major (which, as is well publicized, is not a real academic pursuit at Duke), most of my lessons have come from outside of the classroom. But I wouldn’t want to waste my time learning if I’m not getting anything tangible out of it like class credit or candy, so I’ve proposed a few new courses that I think Duke should put on ACES. So here goes. Self Pity 49S: This is a prerequisite for all pre-med and engineering majors, or any polisci major who tweets about how much it sucks to be in Perkins at 10 p.m. on a Wednesday. This class is a seminar because for those who take it, it is definitely a discussion course. “I LIVE in Perkins.... All of my classes are weed-out.... Well you’re in Trinity College of Arts and Crafts, sooooo.… ” This class continues through all four years, and it gradually becomes a learning experience in how to live without friends. Avoiding Philanthropy 101: As I table for my various campus involvements, such as fighting to end labor inequality in bee hives or promoting manatee syphilis prevention, Dukies will do anything to keep from giving me their parents’ money. From what I gather, no one at Duke ever does laundry because they never have FLEX. Syllabus topics include: becoming engrossed in uninteresting conversation while on the Plaza, taking imaginary phone calls and faking a severe allergy attack. Geography of NYC 118: Never hang out with more than one kid from “the city.” Everything will be normal, then suddenly they’re engaging in an ENDLESS discussion about NYC. I don’t get it. I am from Nowheresville, BumF*** and when I meet the incredibly rare someone who’s also from there, it’s a 30 second discussion, tops. I have only been to New York once, but from my time at Duke I could give a street-by-street tour. If you’re cool enough to be from the privileged NYC area, you can get an honors thesis through this class, focused on condescension and too-good-for-North-Carolina-ism. Rallying 276: Everyone who was a freshman before 2011 took this class. There’s a simple schedule. Every Saturday, wake up at 8 a.m. and begin drinking. Put on a ridiculous costume. Go to a sunbaked parking lot. Pour beer on stuff. Then, do a lil’ dance, make a lil’ love and go home and pass out before you get down tonight at Shooters. Start homework the next day by 10:30 a.m. It’s just like, we work hard, and we play hard, you know? Bull Riding 53: Extra credit for blatant sex positions. Awkward Hookup Management 107: By this, I do not mean the management of awkward hookups. I mean the awkward management of hookups. Literally no one at Duke seems capable of dealing with someone that they have had their face on. Seriously though, WHY IS EVERYONE SO AWKWARD? I say this out of frustration, as I actually lack the capacity to feel awkward and have no idea what you’re going through. I am quite capable, however, of enjoying the results. Once, two of my friends were sitting on a frat bench and a boy who had hooked up with both of them walked by. Upon seeing two participants in his sexcursions in one place, he began to power walk as if being chased by a vicious Galapagos tortoise. At this point, one of the girls began yelling “WALK FASTER WALK FASTER WALK FASTER!” This, my fellow Dukies, is a premium example of two graduates of Awkward Hookup Management 107. Moral of the story is, we learn a lot at Duke, both in and out of the classroom. Considering I’m currently in class while writing this, some of us obviously learn more of our lessons through our out-of-class activities. I think that’s totally valid. You can gain some knowledge, some SOMETHING from almost every situation. And there’s your lesson. Given to you, from me—a 19-year-old rando whose only authority is derived from the fact that some other teenagers decided I could probably write a column if I tried. But it sounded legit, right? Maybe I can get class credit for this stuff.

Duke should call for an immediate hearing to determine the truth of these allegations, some of which are criminal. If they prove to be true, Duke must remove Schlabach immediately from her position of leadership. What’s at stake here is the well being of our community—students, faculty and staff. We demand a campus where leaders lead ethically. We demand a university where workers aren’t afraid to work. We demand justice. Sincerely, Kinnari Bhojani, Trinity ’12, Haley Millner, Trinity ’14 and Tong Xiang, Trinity ’13 co-founders, Duke Student Action with Workers

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