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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012
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Duke says it’s in the ACC for the long haul
Admins OK 5 new gender neutral houses
Administrators affirm their commitment to the conference
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The University has formally approved five gender-neutral, unaffiliated houses for the 2013-2014 academic year. Duke Housing, Dining and Residence Life will implement gender-neutral housing in three unaffiliated West Campus houses: two houses in Kilgo Quadrangle and one house in Few Quadrangle. HDRL also plans to have two independent gender-neutral houses on Central Campus. After the University agreed to implement gender-neutral housing on West Campus in April, HDRL began a review of the current housing model in order to assess the necessary changes. In a recent survey, the majority of students either support or were indifferent toward gender-neutral housing. “The discomfort came in when people were asked ‘Would you be comfortable sharing a bathroom with a student of the opposite gender?’” said Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez. “That’s when the answers started changing.” As a result of this survey, HDRL wanted to keep at least two single-gender bathrooms available in houses that became gender-neutral, Gonzalez said. In their summer assessment, there were different levels of difficulty of transforming current houses to gender-neutral. Current houses with three
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Duke is planning on sticking with the ACC despite widespread realignment across the conference in recent years.
After a whirlwind of changes to the ACC, there is no end in sight for realignment. But Duke has its own reasons for remaining committed to the conference in an otherwise uncertain environment. “Duke is totally committed to the ACC,” President Richard Brodhead said. “It’s a rich occasion for fantasy. You’ve heard of fantasy football. Now we have fantasy conferences.” The ACC has been at the forefront of conference realignment in the last decade, most recently adding Louisville Wednesday with a unanimous vote from the conference’s Council of Presidents following last week’s announcement that Maryland would be departing the ACC for the Big Ten. The moves came after September’s addition of Notre Dame and last year’s additions of Syracuse and Pittsburgh, which came while Brodhead was chair of the council. But Brodhead said Duke will stick with the ACC because of its strong commitment to both athletic and academic excellence. But Brodhead knows the game—when he went to parties as a kid, he never liked musical chairs, but it taught him a valuable lesson. Now, in a rapidly shuffling college athletics landscape that many acknowledge has the potential to end up with four “super” conferences, Brodhead’s goal is to make sure that the Blue Devils stay in the game. “I never intend for it to happen that Duke doesn’t have a chair,” Brodhead said. “At the same time, I think
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Gov’t awards two profs Uni launches initiative for climate research with Indian billionaire by Georgia Parke THE CHRONICLE
The Pentagon recently honored an environmental project, conducted in part by two Duke scientists from the Nicholas School of the Environment. Patrick Halpin, associate professor of marine geospatial ecology, and Norman Christensen, research professor and founding dean of the Nicholas School, are two of 13 contributors to the Defense Coastal/ Estuarine Research Program over the past five years. The Strategic Environmental Research Development Program, a subdivision of the Department of Defense, named the program Project of the Year for resource conservation and climate change. DCERP intends to continue developing and enhancing training facilities at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune while sustaining costal and estuarine ecosystems and
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natural resources at its coastal North Carolina location. “This is an ongoing, long-term project trying to develop ecosystem-based research approach at Camp Lejeune,” Halpin, one of the co-leaders of the DCERP Data Management Module, said. “We are working on a combination of research and practical application to try help the Department of Defense do a better job of sustainably managing their land.” This is Halpin’s second award from the SERDP. He noted the distinctive characteristics of the land on which the Marine Corps base is established, such as the presence of sea turtles, coastal dunes and marsh areas, which DCERP seeks to understand and protect. “DCERP is designed to conduct missionSEE AWARD ON PAGE 4
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Duke announced a new partnership with Shiv Nadar University in India Thursday.
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The University has committed itself to yet another global collaboration, this time in India. Provost Peter Lange and Nikhil Sinha, vice chancellor of Shiv Nadar University in Greater Noida, India, signed a memorandum of understanding indicating the two institutions’ intent to pursue collaborations as SNU—which opened in 2011—continues to develop. Additionally, Sinha and Martha Putallaz, executive director of Duke’s Talent Identification Program, signed a memorandum signifying the forthcoming collaboration of TIP and SNU to develop strategies for educating gifted youth. TIP has enrolled 4,200 Indian students since 2008, Putallaz said. SEE INDIA ON PAGE 4
Best-selling author talks conflict minerals, Page 3
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Students can fight conflict Kunshan prepares for minerals, author says
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Duke students have proven to be leaders in the nationwide movement to discourage American electronics companies from including conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in their supply chains, said human rights activist and bestselling author John Prendergast in a presentation Thursday. After successfully pressuring the Board of Trustees to adopt an investment guideline that requires the University to scrutinize the supply chains of electronics companies in which they invest, Duke students must now encourage other university students to continue the effort, he said. In turn, this will cut off funding to rebel groups that are perpetuating a gruesome civil war in the
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Duke Kunshan University seeks to form a unique culture and collegiate identity as it strives to preserve the academic excellence for which Duke is known, Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Bullock said. At Thursday’s Academic Council meeting, Bullock presented her vision for cultural synthesis between China and the United States. She also further detailed Duke’s plans to preserve academic freedom on the campus, slated to open to students in the 20132014 academic year. The Chinese people and the city of Kunshan are working to make the campus environment supportive for an international student population, she added. “They want a world-class university. They want to experiment. They are taking political risks that we cannot even imagine,� Bullock said. “We need their support if we want DKU to grow deep roots in China’s culture.� Although Bullock said students of DKU will have “complete freedom of academic inquiry�—meaning people will be able to pursue any topic of their choosing in an academic setting—she is careful not to “soft pedal� legitimate concerns about students fearing restrictions of speech and media access. Despite her confidence that there will be academic freedom at DKU, Bullock added that there are backup plans in place in case the Chinese government restricts access to certain websites or media outlets—the campus will be able to connect remotely to Duke’s internet using a virtual private network. “We should make sure DKU is known for
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Congo—the deadliest war in the world since World War II. Organized by the Nicholas School of Environment, Prendergast, who has been working on human rights issues in Africa for almost 30 years, gave a talk entitled “Ending the Deadliest War in the World: ConflictFree Phones and Congo,� Thursday evening. His lecture focused on the hundreds of thousands of cases of sexual violence inflicted upon Congolese women and girls by the numerous rebel groups funded by mining conflict minerals—tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold—that go into the electronics Americans use everyday, such as phones and computers. “Sexual violence is at the center of rebel SEE CONGO ON PAGE 12
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Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Bullock speaks about Duke Kunshan University Thursday. its emphasis on academic integrity, academic responsibility and academic innovation,� Bullock said. “We anticipate that students on [the DKU] campus will have access to the same technology and internet as students [in Durham].� The campus will feature faculty leadership familiar to Duke but new to China. Bullock said faculty governance there will mimic Duke’s structure—even though a similar system failed when DKU Chancellor Liu Jingnan tried to implement it as president of Wuhan University—Duke’s Chinese legal partner. But DKU will develop its own identity—separate from that of Duke and SEE COUNCIL ON PAGE 12
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Best-selling author John Prendergast spoke about the use of conflict minerals in electronics Thursday in a talk sponsored by the Nicholas School of the Environment.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Meeting will spotlight athletics, Nursing School by Julian Spector THE CHRONICLE
The Board of Trustees will convene this weekend for what is slated to be a routine set of updates with few major approvals. The Trustees will hear presentations on the state of the faculty, the School of Nursing, athletics and other campus initiatives. The meeting will also include a tribute to Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, James B. Duke professor of medicine and professor of biochemistry and immunology, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry earlier this Fall. “We have a number of important issues on the agenda, but they’re generally briefing and updating the board,� said Board Chair Richard Wagoner, Trinity ’75. “There’s not as many
action items as other meetings. In that sense, it will be a bit more routine.� The Board will hear a strategic review of athletics delivered by Kevin White, director of athletics. This will be a comprehensive overview of athletics, including finances, academic performance of athletes and the evolution of the conference structure in the ACC, Wagoner said. The segment will also include discussion of physical education and intramural sports. Each Board meeting includes a presentation from a dean of one of Duke’s schools, and this meeting will feature Catherine Gilliss, dean of the School of Nursing and Helene Fuld Health Trust professor of nursing. The nursing school has risen to national prominence in recent years, breaking the top 10
schools for research funding from the National Institutes of Health this year and jumping in the U.S. News and World Reports rankings from 32nd in 1998 to seventh this year. The Board will be interested to hear not just what the members of the school have accomplished, but how they have done it and what they plan to do next, Wagoner said. “Its been a fairly short time and a big run,� Wagoner said. “It’s a good example of Duke responding to a real need in society—a tremendous under-supply of nurses in the country.� Gilliss will touch on the recent growth, but she plans to focus on current operations and plans for the future, said Michael Evans, director of communications for the nursing school,
who has been working with Gilliss on her presentation. “We’re seeing it as a chance for Dean Gilliss to engage the Board of Trustees to share a little bit about who we are, where we’ve been and where we want to go,� Evans said. “A lot is rooted in examples of research being done now.� One idea Gilliss is pursuing is greater partnership between the School of Nursing and other schools at Duke. This would allow nursing faculty and students to team up with other Duke researchers with specialties in other subjects, like engineering or information management, Evans said. SEE TRUSTEES ON PAGE 4
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HOUSING from page 1 bathrooms—known as Level One houses—are easiest to change because they would allow room for separate male, female and co-ed bathrooms. Houses with just one bathroom would be much more difficult to become gender-neutral. The new changes will allow for students living in gender-neutral housing to have the option to use a bathroom designated for their gender only, but they might have to take a stairwell to a bathroom on another floor. “If a few people have to change their daily routine a little bit, that is a price we should pay for the benefits to our Duke community,” said junior Jacob Tobia, copresident of Duke Students for Gender Neutrality. “It’s not going to hugely inconvenience anyone by any measure.” Tobia noted that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has recently taken steps to implement genderneutral housing. “If a state school like UNC can do this where they are subject to North Carolina state legislature, then there is absolutely no reason Duke should not have done this five years ago,” he said. “It’s almost pathetic that UNC and Duke are reaching this conclusion at around the same time.” Although he said there was noticeable resistance, Tobia is “ecstatic” about the changes. He said it is a huge step for-
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ward for the University and that is a way to show how much Duke values not just the LGBT community, but gender equality too. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said he was not aware of any resistance to gender-neutral housing, . “Fundamentally, we’ve always been quite supportive of introducing and expanding gender-neutral options,” he said. “We’re continuing to move and expand options as the communities needs are identified.” Tobia contends that the administration is not nearly as supportive as he would like and showed resistance until DSGN threatened to hold a demonstration. “We have a cowardly administration that is unwilling to be leaders on anything,” he said. “We just wait for our colleagues in the Ivy League to do something, and then we think about it.” As for the future of gender neutralhousing at Duke, Tobia said he will continue to advocate for the expansion of gender-neutral housing on West and Central Campuses, as well as an introduction to East Campus. Moneta added that as long as there is a continued need for gender-neutral housing, the options will continue to grow. “I don’t think there is an end game in mind,” he said. “We have been supportive of gender-neutral housing from the get-go and will continue to work with the students.”
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AWARD from page 1 relevant, basic and applied research in support of an ecosystem-based management approach,” according to the program’s official fact sheet. “The program’s primary goal is to enhance and sustain the military mission by developing an understanding of coastal and estuarine ecosystem composition, structure and function within the context of a military training environment.” The projects aims to develop models to guide research, monitoring and feedback loops, according to its planning documents. Fulfilling these goals will help to identify ecosystem stressors at Camp Lejeune and their levels of impact and to develop management guidelines for the camp to sustain the ecosystem. DCERP, which is funded by the Department of Defense, was chosen from all other SERDP-funded projects that reached completion this year, said John Hall, program manager for resource conservation and climate change at the SERDP. “We looked at the whole body in terms of what is contributed in terms of scientific
TRUSTEES from page 2 “We have expertise in certain areas, other schools have other expertise. What happens if we partner together and create new areas of learning?” Evans said. Provost Peter Lange will address the state of the faculty and the challenges and opportunities of the current educational era. Lange said he will pay specific attention to demographic shifts in the faculty over the last decade, such as changes in the size of the faculty, age distribution, percentage of tenured versus non-tenured faculty, research productivity and teaching engagement. “Basically, the faculty got substantially bigger across most of the schools across the last 10 or 12 years,” he said, deferring further comment until after the presentation. The Trustees will also discuss the University’s recent forays into online education, using the massively open online course platform Coursera and the smaller, for-credit 2U platform. One Duke course on Coursera has finished, another is well underway and
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advancement,” said Hall. “It needs to advance science and provide useful information for natural resources.” The process to determine which projects deserved awards involved a committee that reviewed all projects reaching completion at the time of consideration. Hall, along with the special committee at SERDP, determined which projects contributed the most in terms of scientific advancement and information on natural resources. “In our world here, we want to make sure that we are addressing the problem,” Hall said. “As we looked at the last five or six years, [DCERP] has provided a lot of fundamental information for us to use at Camp Lejeune.” Although the Project of the Year award was given to the recently completed findings of the DCERP, the project will extend into 2017. Halpin noted that the 10-year time period is unusual for an academic project, and the next phase will involve strategic planning regarding water systems. “The military base will have more options and especially more informed management in the future,” Halpin said.
two more started this week, Lange said. One of the recently started courses has the largest enrollment of any Coursera class. “Think Again: How to Reason and Argue” by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman professor of practical ethics, and Ram Neta, associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—has the largest Coursera enrollment to date at 168,000, although the number of active users may be lower than that, Lynne O’Brien, director of academic technology and instructional services for Perkins Library, wrote in an email Thursday. Wagoner said the administration has been prudent in entering into online education ventures in a timely but also thoughtful manner. “We really see the value of getting in early without taking on massive risk to your basic mission and being among the leaders of figuring out how to learn and make it better,” Wagoner said. “It’s not time to bet the ranch on this technology, but I think it would be a mistake to lie back.”
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A student gets her blood drawn at the Bryan Center Wednesday as part of the American Red Cross’ regular blood drive efforts on campus.
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Two people sample French wines at the Nasher Museum of Art Thursday for the Celebrate Matisse event. Currently, the Nasher is showing an exhibit called Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters.
INDIA from page 1 Thursday’s event, which took place at the Nasher Museum of Art, featured a presentation by Indian industrialist and philanthropist Shiv Nadar, founder of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar highlighted the importance of education for creating leaders—his foundation, which was founded in 1994, includes a school system of multiple branches. “Great leaders come from great education institutions,” Nadar said. “Great governance takes place from three fundamental places—meritocracy, raising their aspirations and a world class platform.” The agreement signed between Duke and SNU will serve as a framework for future collaborations as SNU, which is still in its early stages, develops. SNU is meant to emulate modern American research universities such as Duke, Sinha said. SNU, offering programs in eight major disciplines, will be home to about 8,000 graduate and undergraduate students and 800 faculty and researchers when it reaches its full maturity, Sinha said. “We have had the opportunity at the [Shiv Nadar] Foundation to visit with and partner with and engage in discussions with a number of the great universities of the world,” Sinha said. “But for some reason... there is a great connection between what Duke University is today and what SNU is aspiring to be.” Sinha signed the memorandum with Lange, who noted that members of the University community take for granted the importance of education when they get caught up in their daily routines. He added that the partnership helps remind Duke of how crucial education is. “The remarks we heard from Shiv Nadar... remind us that every day we are engaged in an activity which is fundamentally transforma-
tive for the people who are involved,” Lange said. “This partnership is not just practical partnership, but it’s a partnership rooted in sheer ambition and sheer inspiration.” President Richard Brodhead introduced Nadar, noting the parallels between Nadar and James Buchanan Duke, both of whom have histories of entrepreneurship—Nadar played a key role in the development of microprocessors and founded the technology company HCL—and went on to donate their wealth to the development of educational institutions. He lauded Nadar to donating his money far earlier in his career than J.B. Duke did. “You have the same idea as James B. Duke, which is that you can use your personal success to create the means of education for others on the same understanding that education is the thing and the only thing that holds the key to individual human potential, and in doing so, it also creates the means for social advancement,” Brodhead said. Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton and Fuqua Dean Bill Boulding have been involved in preliminary discussions, even though specific manifestations of the collaboration have not been established yet, said Michael Merson, interim vice president and vice provost for global strategy and programs. Patton noted India’s rich history of education—including the country’s early examples of critical thinking—which she said goes largely unnoticed in the United States. “There are many more family resemblances between the Indian education system and the American liberal arts system than we have previously understood,” Patton said. “The time for partnership is very important.... We’re closer to our origins than many universities are in the United States, and therefore, we can have a certain connection and partnership with Shiv Nadar as well.”
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Moore in Gray faces a familial foe in Cal the middle for Duke by Jay Vitha THE CHRONICLE
Sunday’s matchup between No. 4 Duke and No. 10 California has extra implications for the Blue Devils and star point guard Chelsea Gray. Gray, a California native, has strong ties to the Golden Bear program. Her cousin, Alexis Gray-Lawson, was a standout guard at California from 20062010. Chelsea grew up watching her play and attending games. The Blue Devils (5-0) will host the Golden Bears (5-0) at 2 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday with Gray facing a team that she still has connections to. Her best friend, and high school teammate, Afure Jemergibe, is a leading guard on the team, averaging 10.2 points per game this season. Gray explained that she does not feel extra pressure, but this game is at least a little bit different. “There may be a little bit more of excitement, I wouldn’t say pressure,” Gray said. “This is the first time me and Afure have ever played against each other.” Gray has led the Blue Devils to a very impressive start thus far, scoring 16.4 points per game. She is also averaging 5.0 rebounds and a team-high 7.0 assists per game. “I’ve just been more composed in picking my spots a bit more carefully,” Gray said. “I’ve been playing off my teammates a lot more and been feeding off of each of
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Every Saturday during his redshirt senior season, Brian Moore was entrusted with possibly the least glamorous responsibility on the gridiron—snapping the football. Absorbing hit after hit from opposing defenders on every play, a center at the Division I level faces grueling challenges, but Moore never complains about the nature of his responsibilities on the football field. The Coral Gables, Fla. native is often described by his coaches and teammates as the consummate workhorse. “Brian has always been a great worker,” head strength and conditioning coach Noel Durfey said. “He’s the kind of kid that you just point him the way to go, and he’s going to get it done. He’s just a good kid that likes to work.” The lone senior on Duke’s starting offensive line this season, Moore played an integral role in the unit’s success, allowing quarterback Sean Renfree to be sacked just 19 times in 12 games for the third-highest ELLA BANKA/THE CHRONICLE
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California is a familiar foe to Chelsea Gray, whose best friend plays for the Golden Bears.
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
Duke unable to replicate 2011’s success by Matt Pun THE CHRONICLE
After last year’s national championship game loss to Stanford, the Blue Devils looked to earn another shot at winning the national title at the start of this season, having lost no starters to graduation. Behind one of the most prolific offensive attacks in program history, third-seeded Duke advanced to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals for the second consecutive year but ultimately fell two victories short of returning to the finals, losing 1-0 to top-seeded Penn State. “I’m definitely happy about how it went up until the last game,” redshirt junior Kim DeCesare said. “Obviously the elite eight game was a disappointment…. It was a bit of a bummer, but it doesn’t define our whole season.” The 2011 season had left the Blue Devils with a lot to live up to. With 22 wins, 16 shutouts, and an ACC regular season championship, Duke had staked its claim as one of the nation’s powerhouses. Ranked second in this year’s preseason poll, the Blue Devil squad was certainly considered to be a national championship con-
tender again. “[This year] was a year that we hadn’t been through in the sense that such high expectations were on us, and I thought the kids that handled that very well,” head coach Robbie Church said. In addition to those high expectations, the Blue Devils also had to face the challenge of beginning the season without two of their three top scorers from the 2011 campaign. Winning the 2012 under-20 women’s world championship in Japan for the U.S., Duke forwards Mollie Pathman and Kelly Cobb both missed the first seven regular season games for the Blue Devils. “It was a huge loss not having them at the beginning of the season,” DeCesare said. “[But] ultimately, it was very helpful for us because it created more depth for us on the field and on the bench.” The 2012 Duke squad certainly picked up the slack on the offensive end. In fact, the team finished the season with the most points and tied for the most second-most goals scored in program history for a single season. DeCesare, who had played
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Moving to the attack this year, redshirt junior Kim DeCesare recorded 16 goals. mostly midfield and scored seven career goals prior to this year, moved up to the front line in the absence of Pathman and Cobb, scoring 16 goals and finishing 18th in goals per game nationally. “We knew she could score goals
from scoring goals from the midfield last year, but can I sit here and say that I knew she was going to score 16 goals?” Church said. “No. It’s just incredible…. Wherever you put Kimmy she’s going to excel in that area. She has such a great drive.”
With 16 goals of her own, junior Laura Weinberg also led the Blue Devil attack, especially as DeCesare and Cobb battled midseason injuries. The forward, who now is tied for fourth on Duke’s all-time scoring list, took her goal-scoring ability to a more consistent level, Church said. While veterans DeCesare and Weinberg increased their offensive production, the Blue Devils also added another dynamic to their attack in freshman Cassie Pecht. The TopDrawerSoccer.com Rookie of the Year led the NCAA in assists, helping Duke notch a program-best 77 assists this season. The Blue Devil front line also provided high-pressure defending in the first two thirds of the field. “One of the most important things that the forwards did this year that goes overlooked and can’t be read by statistics is that they defended,” senior defender Erin Koballa said. “They were our first line of defense, game in SEE W. SOCCER ON PAGE 10
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WRESTLING
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Club Cameron is back open for business Saturday afternoon. Fresh off a 73-68 win against Ohio State Wednesday, the No. 2 Blue Devils (7-0) will host Delaware Saturday at 2 p.m. The Blue Hens (2-5) are reeling after winning two of their first three games, losing their last four. Three of those losses—to Lafayette, Temple and Kansas State—were by less than five points. Junior guard Devon Saddler has provided much of the offense for Delaware in the early going, averaging 21.4 points per game, including a season-high 32 points against Kansas State. The 6-foot-2 guard is hitting 1.9 3-pointers per game, adding 4.4 rebounds and 3.0 assists. After limiting the Ohio State backcourt of Aaron Craft and Lenzelle Smith Jr. to a combined 7-for-27 from the field, Duke guards Quinn Cook, Seth Curry and Rasheed Sulaimon will face another tough task in Saddler. Forced to bear much of the offensive burden, however, Saddler is averaging 3.7 turnovers per game. His backcourt partner, Jarvis Threatt, has missed the last two games with serious cramps, and the Blue Hens have missed his 10.4 points and 1.8 steals per game. The team’s most dangerous frontcourt weapon is 6-foot-9 senior Jamelle Hagins, who averaged a double-double as a junior and is repeating that effort in this campaign. Tallying 13.0 points and 13.4 rebounds per game, he has been a workhorse for head coach Monte Ross. Playing all 40 minutes in the team’s last game against Lafayette, Hagins recorded 18 points, 23 rebounds and five blocks. And his scoring
MASON PLUMLEE 19.9 PPG, 11.0 RPG RYAN KELLY 12.3 PPG, 4.9 RPG RASHEED SULAIMON 10.1 ppg, 44.7 3FG% SETH CURRY 14.4 ppg, 2.1 apg, 1.1 spg TYLER THORNTON
effort is efficient, making 63.8 percent of his shots from the field. His presence on the block could pose
Blue Devils head to the JDL Fast Track Kick Off The Blue Devils will head to WinstonSalem this Saturday for the JDL Fast Track Kick Off, their first meet of the indoor season. This first experience is intended to be a low-key meet for the athletes, allowing those who have not had a chance to race on the track since last season to brush off the rust. The meet is also intended to provide some of the older runners, as well as those who are less experienced, to try out new events and see how their fall training has paid off. “For [many] track and field people, you know, they haven’t competed at all since maybe last May or June,” director of track and field Norm Ogilvie said. “They’re just kind of remembering what it’s like to compete again. So it’s also a dry run for when the regular season which begins a week after Christmas.” For the upcoming challenge, each event coach will only be taking those athletes who they want to observe. Associate head coach Shaun Wilbourne, who works with multievent athletes and traveled to the Olympic Trials with senior Curtis Beach, will be taking sprinters, multi-event athletes and some pole vaulters. Jumps and assistant coach Jan Ogilvie will be bringing some of her long jumpers, though juniors Tanner Anderson, who also traveled to the Olympic Trials, and Michael Krone will not be attending
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a difficult matchup for the Blue Devils, who have been outrebounded in their last four games.
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The Blue Devils’ two meets on the mat this weekend will be night and day. They open their dual meet slate Saturday in Evanston, Ill., where they will wrestle against No. 13 Northwestern at 7:30 p.m. and Stevens Tech, an unranked Division II program, at 9 p.m. “We’ve been testing ourselves all year long in the tournaments—some harder than others—and we want to continue testing ourselves,” Duke head coach Glen Lanham said. “Northwestern is going to be a nice test for us.” Stevens Tech is taking the place of No. 6 Illinois, which opted out of participating in Saturday’s meet at the last minute. “The big thing is to provide a world-class opportunity to our wrestlers,” Stevens Tech head coach Mike Clayton said. “To wrestle a team like Northwestern that’s ranked in the top 15 in Division I and an institution like Duke that has a tremendous tradition really gives us an opportunity to test ourselves against the best wrestlers in the country.” Nine of the 12 teams in the Big Ten are ranked in the top 25. Big Ten lineups are known for consistent excellence across all 10 weight classes. “Big Ten—that’s the cream of the crop,” Lanham said. “You can’t get any better experience than wrestling those guys, so we’re excited about it.” SEE WRESTLING ON PAGE 11
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(Projected lineups, statistics from 2012-13 season) Jamelle Hagins is a beast on DUKE DEL the boards, but the size of Ma66.6 PPG: 77.4 son Plumlee and Ryan Kelly 69.9 PPG DEF: 65.4 FG%: should give Duke a chance to 47.3 44.0 3PT%: outrebound an opponent for 37.7 30.3 FT%: the first time since the Flordia 78.3 75.6 RPG: 35.7 33.6 Gulf Coast game. APG: 14.6 8.6 Devon Saddler may be the 4.9 BPG: 5.6 best pure scorer in the game. SPG: 5.4 6.6 That said, Duke’s arsenal of 12.2 14.4 TO/G: guards—Quinn Cook, Seth The breakdown Curry and Rasheed SulaiAt 2-5 on the season, the Blue Hens are actumon—will be too much for ally much better than their record indicates, him to handle. with three losses by five points or fewer. And Duke has barely used its Duke has the potential for a hangover after bench thus far, but against beating two consecutive top-five squad in a weaker opponent, look for Louisville and Ohio State. The Blue Devils will Tyler Thornton, Josh Hairston, pull this one out, but this will be closer than Amile Jefferson and Alex people expect. Murphy to all register imporOUR CALL: Duke wins, 80-68 tant minutes.
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the meet. The contest will also feature Carl Heinz, a high school All-American, in the high jump. Associate head coach Kevin Jermyn, who coaches cross country in the fall and then handles women’s distance for the track seasons, will be taking 10 runners to the meet, though senior Juliet Bottorff, who took the 10km title at the NCAA Championship in 2011, and some of her more experienced teammates such as Madeline Morgan will not be racing. “I’m really looking forward to it, and many of the girls that have an opportunity to race are really excited to get on the track and show off some of our speed and things we’ve been working on in the fall,” graduate student Cydney Ross said. “It’ll be a great opportunity for us to get out there and have some fun and race.” For men’s distance, the meet will prove a chance for “up-and-coming” runners to race in the half-mile event and four underclassmen will also have their chance to compete in the 4x800m relay, Norm Ogilvie said. Sophomore Brian Schoepfer will have the chance to race in the 3km for the first time and classmate Nate McClafferty will race the mile. “[This meet is] great for coaches,” Ogilvie said. “We get a lot of information from it and it gives us some idea of who we’re going to take to the first meet in January.” After their debut in Winston-Salem, the Blue Devils will participate in the Dick Taylor Invitational at Chapel Hill.
and game out. They forced probably more turnovers than we [did].” Koballa, and fellow seniors Libby Jandl and Maddie Haller all returned to anchor the back line along with junior Natasha Anasi this season. Having played together since starting nearly every game as sophomores, the senior group had played a major part in taking Duke from a good to a great program, Church said. “[We] have such a special connection. We joke around even when we’re walking around campus that we’re in our formation,” Koballa said “It gets to the point where you can read each other’s thoughts and actions before they even happen.” Last year, thanks to their veteran defenders and senior goalkeeper Tara Campbell, the Blue Devils had one of the nation’s stingiest defenses—allowing just .48 goals per game. Despite its efforts this year, Duke’s defense—missing junior Alex Straton due to an ACL tear—showed a drop in performance from the previous season. The Blue Devils posted a goals-against average of 1.07 this season. “Holding a team to about goal a game— a little more than a goal a game—in the conference that we play in is still an incredible feat by them,” Church said. “But they’re the first to say that some more goals went in than they did in the past.” The goals-against average still ranked as the ninth-best season total in program history, and the squad’s season-ending loss came against the nation’s top scoring offense on a penalty kick. With the loss of Campbell and the senior defenders, rebuilding the defense will pose the biggest challenge for the future of the program.
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Duke’s defense will look a lot different next year without Tara Campbell in goal. “We return a lot of firepower [next year]… but we’re going to lose the defensive personality of our team,” Church said. “So that’s going to be a real question mark about where we’re going to go next year.” Next year though, without any national team commitments, Duke might return its entire offensive arsenal from the end of the season. If DeCesare and fellow redshirt Callie Simpkins opt to use their last year of eligibility, all 10 Blue Devils who scored this year will return. “We’re obviously still chasing a national championship,” DeCesare said. “And I don’t think that’s going to change next year, and we’re going to have the same expectations.”
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The Wildcats are no exception. Half of Northwestern’s lineup is ranked in the top 20: No. 15 Levi Mele at 133 pounds, No. 2 Jason Welch at 157 pounds, No. 11 Pierce Harger at 165 pounds, No. 10 Lee Munster at 174 pounds and No. 9 Mike McMullan at heavyweight. “They’ve got a beast of a lineup there, and it’s going to be a hard task for us, but our guys realize that and are ready to step up to the challenge,� Lanham said. The Wildcats’ talented roster led them to a first place finish at the Keystone Classic in Philadelphia, where Duke finished in seventh place. Northwestern head coach Drew Pariano noted, however, that some of the bouts that his wrestlers won against Blue Devils at the tournament were too close for comfort. Blue Devil redshirt freshman Marcus Cain lost to Northwestern sophomore Dylan Marriott 7-5 in the 149-pound weight class, and Duke redshirt freshman Dylan Ryan fell 5-4 to Wildcat senior Marcus Shrewsbury in the 184-pound division. “We had some head-to-head matches, and some of them were very close matches, so we’re focused on winning those matches or turning a decision around and trying to get a win,� Pariano said. “We have a lot of respect for Coach Lanham and what they’re doing at Duke.� After the Blue Devils wrestle against Northwestern, they will retake the mat to face Stevens Tech. Although the Ducks have not made their way into the Division II rankings, Lanham is careful not to overlook them. “Stevens Tech is pretty decent,� he said. “There are some tough Division II and NAIA kids, so we have to be on the lookout for them.� The start of Duke’s dual meet season marks changes in the dynamic of the Blue Devils’ wrestling-filled weekends. At the early-season
the ACC is a great conference and is the perfect conference for Duke to be in.�
head said. “I wouldn’t. It’s a rapidly changing landscape.�
A ‘changing landscape’ Despite the recent reshuffling, Duke’s brass does not see more ACC changes on the immediate horizon. Director of Athletics Kevin White said he does not envision the conference adding or losing members in the near future. “I don’t see it,� White said. “I just don’t see that as a high probability, or even as a reasonable probability. I think everybody is locked in. What we have here is pretty special.� But stability is far from certain, as evidenced by Maryland’s surprise departure. And friends can quickly become adversaries, with the ACC filing suit against the Terrapins Monday regarding the $52 million exit fee required to leave the conference. “They’re dead to me,� Brodhead joked. “They made that decision for their own reasons, and that’s their own business.� When asked if other conferences had approached Duke about leaving, Brodhead simply reaffirmed the University’s commitment to the ACC. He also acknowledged that the conference’s future is difficult to predict, even though more changes may not be imminent. “Would I bet you $20 that I know where things will be five years from now?� Brodtournaments, multiple Duke wrestlers were competing on different mats at once. With only one Blue Devil on a mat at a time in dual meets, his teammates will be available to cheer him on and offer moral support. Additionally, individuals’ performances affect the team score, adding a team focus to wrestlers’ minds when they are competing in their individual matches.
Monetary motives Maryland officials openly said their decision to join the Big Ten was a financial one, with their athletic department forced to cut teams in recent years due to financial constraints. Although Duke does not face the same difficulties, Brodhead said the University would not be tempted by financial factors to leave for pastures perceived to be greener. “That’s not the kind of school Duke is. Money is part of athletics, but our motives are not monetary for anything we do in athletics,� he said. And the ACC is looking at its own options to improve the bottom line. ACC Comissioner John Swofford said Wednesday in a teleconference that the league is exploring the creation of its own television network, potentially with the conference’s current partner ESPN. “We are pursuing it and taking a good hard look at it. I don’t know how it will play out, but we’re in the early stages of that,� White said. “I’d love to see us do a really deep dive and explore that possibility.� White said they are also exploring the potential of a broader media rights deal, such as the one the Big 12 announced earlier this year with ESPN worth $2.6 billion over 13 years. Balancing athletics and academics For Duke, academics remain a strong element of their commitment to the ACC. When Notre Dame was added to the conference, Swofford and Thorp highlighted its cohesion with the league’s academic profile. The addition of Louisville, however, was largely trumpeted as a primarily athletic one to keep the conference competitive. “What the ACC needed most was the most exciting sports program we could
[get],� Thorp said. “That is the way to ensure that the success of the ACC in sports was successful enough to allow us to keep our group together.� Broadhead and White expressed no qualms with Louisville’s academic programs, noting the school’s improvement and entrepreneurial spirit. “We’re in a conference that has the academic advantages for us,� Brodhead said. ‘A special relationship’ One of the strongest elements in the ACC is the close proximity and athletic rivalry shared by Duke and North Carolina. Rumors have speculated that the Big Ten could next target North Carolina for future membership, though Brodhead carefully warned against hearsay. He noted that much of the public discourse about conference realignment is misleading. “I don’t think anybody [at North Carolina] has spent one second thinking of any other scenario than sticking with the ACC and making it the strongest conference it could be,� Brodhead said. “Duke and UNC have a very special relationship. We have a famous rivalry. It’s a great thing for a university to have a famous rivalry.� North Carolina Chancellor Holden Thorp is currently the chair of the ACC’s Council of Presidents and has publicly reaffirmed his desire to remain in the ACC in the last two weeks. At the same time, Maryland’s abrupt exit is a warning to all those involved that seemingly anything can happen. Richard Wagoner, chair of the Duke Board of Trustees, believes in North Carolina’s strong commitment but is aware of the changing landscape. “I’m conscious of the fact that I may have said the same thing about Maryland four weeks ago,� Wagoner, Trinity ’75, said. “I would have been wrong. I don’t know what’s going on in UNC’s head.�
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scoring offense in program history. Starting every game as a redshirt freshman and sophomore at right guard, Moore made the switch to center before his third season of eligibility for the Blue Devils. As usual, Moore did not gripe about changing positions midway through his college career, but rather faced the challenge head on. As the team was in final preparations for the 2011 season, everything changed when Moore broke his arm on Aug. 12, just three weeks before Duke’s season opener. He missed the first six games of the year due to the injury, appearing in just three contests before reinjuring his arm and losing the remainder of his junior season. With just one year of college football remaining, Moore was never discouraged by missing nearly an entire season in the prime of his career. Durfey said that during workouts in the summer of 2011 prior to breaking his arm, Moore could bench press 330 pounds and squat over 500 pounds for the first time in his career. Facing considerable challenges in rehabbing from the injury made Moore’s ascent back into Duke’s lineup that much more rewarding. “He had prepared so hard at that point,” Durfey said. “He was almost 295 pounds and in great shape. Physically, he was ready to have a really good year. But again to Brian’s credit, he never wavered. He never showed that he was really frustrated by it. He went about what he had to do, took it one step at a time and just went after it.” After months of painstaking work, Moore returned to the field at full strength for Duke in his senior year, starting every game for the Blue Devils in 2012. Durfey proudly added that Moore was able to return to full form in the weight room as well. Following a 6-6 season in which he
my teammates.” The Blue Devils are beating opponents by an average of 35.2 points per game through their first five games. Gray was quick to attribute the hot start to teamwork and chemistry. “Our camaraderie out there on the court really shows,” Gray said. “We are feeding off of each other to make nice plays defensively and offensively.” The Blue Devils have yet to face a ranked opponent, however, with their toughest test coming in Wednesdays’s Big Ten/ ACC Challenge matchup against Michigan Wednesday, in which they beat the Wolverines 71-54. California has gotten off to an impressive start as well and comes into Cameron Indoor Stadium unbeaten. The Golden Bears have also made easy work of their early opponents, averaging 84.0 points per game. The Blue Devils are planning on sticking to their usual practice routine and gameplan, but are making some adjustments. “We have to play certain teams differently depending on their strengths and weaknesses,” Gray said. “But we prepare for each team the same, it doesn’t matter who we’re playing.”
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Brian Moore anchored Duke’s offensive line, playing both guard and center in his time with the Blue Devils. played a crucial role, Moore is set to become a part of the lasting legacy that Duke football’s Class of 2013 will leave on campus—the first senior class to play in a bowl game in 18 years. “Thankfully for me, [Senior Day] isn’t going to be the last game I ever play,” Moore said. “I can save that and put it off for a month for the bowl game. I think we’re all kind of excited that thankfully this isn’t over.” As a member of David Cutcliffe’s first recruiting class at Duke, Moore has witnessed significant changes since he first stepped onto campus as a freshman in 2008. In addition to the improvements that the Blue Devils have made on the field, Moore noted that the biggest difference he has noticed at Duke has been the atmosphere in Wallace Wade Stadium. “We’ve always had a great opening game. The fans always come out and support the
opener,” Moore said. “But this year I think is the first year that we’ve seen that kind of consistent fan base throughout all of our games here at home. It’s been a lot of fun to play in front of.” Although Moore’s future job prospects are outside of football, the skills in work ethic and leadership that he learned as a part of his Duke football experience will translate to his future challenges. After graduating from Duke last May, Moore has pursued a masters degree in economics, hoping to take his talents to the world of business. “He’s a diligent guy and a great communicator,” Durfey said. “Whatever Brian Moore decides to do he’s going to be very successful in doing it. He won’t let himself not be.”
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an you all hear me? Yes? Alright, fantastic. In any case, that’s enough about academics, I thought I’d stop walking backwards for a I know you’re really wondering about the dorm second because I’m always afraid that I’ll ac- situation once you get on West Campus. They’re cidentally step on a squirrel and bring all pretty decent, with the excepthe whole rabid horde down on my tion of this one place called Edens. head. What’s that sir? Oh no! They’re I’m actually not allowed to take you not really rabid! (Laughs harder than all there, partly because someone’s is probably necessary.) They’re just, grandma broke her hip navigating uh, extremely confident around peothe area one time, but mainly beple. And fast. Really, really fast. cause they look like they were deAnyway, behind us you can see signed by someone on an acid trip. the Duke Chapel. It’s pretty much jordan siedell You really can’t go wrong with any of the most recognizable landmark on the other dorms though, as long as campus, mostly because it’s really words, lines and life you don’t mind the occasional fire tall and pointy, but also because it’s alarm. And if you lock your door, get incredibly historic. Like seriously, if you look closely back in bed and cover your head with your pillow, at the bricks you can see “POSTERITY” written all then it’s kind of like there isn’t even a fire alarm over them. Also, you might be able to read “CHECK going on at all (roguish wink). OUT THE STAINED GLASS BUT FOR GOD’S Let’s finish the tour over near Cameron. Watch SAKE DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING.” At night, they your step right there, it’s been really icy the past coushine spotlights on the Chapel, which is pretty cool ple days, so icy that you would think the administrawhen you first see it, but gets old relatively fast. I’ve tion would consider cancelling class. But you’d be always wanted to convert them to Bat Signals but my WRONG! Haha, silly tour people. schedule doesn’t really allow for shenanigans like Athletics at Duke are pretty important, mainly that at present. If any of you kids get in here, make because we’re pretty damn good at them, and also that your first priority, along with finding Cosmic. because they get too much money to be ignored by Actually, find Cosmic first, that place is going to be the student body. Can you ask that question again, pretty important during your first year here, at least ma’am? Why does that lawn resemble an upscale the fuzzier parts of it. refugee camp? Because that’s what Duke basketball Moving on, you can see Perkins on your left. It’s a is all about! Passion and success and sleeping in tents pretty nice place; we do most of our social events here with people you can hopefully tolerate! Basketball and have lots of fun at pretty much a constant rate. games, especially the one against UNC, are as good Alright that’s a complete lie, this is the library. In as it gets at Duke. You know, as long as we win. Cause it, there are many places where you’ll despair at how camping out five weeks to watch your team lose is much stuff you have to do, but never find the mo- memorable, but probably not in the best way. tivation to get it done. At least not during normal, Anyway, that’s about it for the tour. What you human hours. Also, the library has tons of printers! have here is a very unique, very exciting place to Seriously, there are at least eight spread out over the spend four years. The time I’ve spent at Duke has six floors. That might seem like a bad ratio when you been the best of my life, not because of the squirrels first think about it, but going between floors to print and the printers and the fire alarms and the ice, but stuff is actually good for you! Because let’s face it, because of everything besides that. Having a great you’re sure as hell not burning calories when you’re life isn’t the same as having a perfect life. It’s about “studying,” so you might as well get off your ass. The being able to look past the imperfections to see the printers do break a lot though, which can be kind of goodness within. a pain considering the tuition you pay to use them. I don’t know who actually said that, my friend just Then again, the school drops more than 50 grand told me to say it at the end of the tour. He asked me on this one party in the library each year, so it pretty to cover for him today, got bit by a squirrel. much evens out no matter how you slice it, as long as you’re conveniently forgetting how to slice it in Jordan Siedell is a Trinity senior. This is his final colseveral really obvious ways. umn of the semester.
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uthless addiction. Incomparable depen- a vehicle to open the gateway of happiness. And we dence. You need it. You can’t function with- constantly ignore everything we hear. out it. You’re jittery and restless, twitching Drinking a cup of coffee is perhaps the most uncontrollably until you’ve satiated fundamental reminder of the simple these pangs of craving, until you’ve things. So what if it’s an arbitrary had your morning coffee. thing—it gathers those who are deCoffee has a remarkable and distached together in the stir of a spoon tinctive ability to posses a multitude of and the blink of an eye. There’s a personalities. It garners identities as place in my hometown that tranunique and diverse as the people who scends the test of time and great drink it. It is bold and potent, strong. distance, serving up a long-awaited It is bitter. It is sweet and smooth. On for my closest friends and ashley camano reunion a bad day, it’s as weak and ineffective myself. Each of us has branched out, going camando as we are. Perhaps these identities away from home and down our own are the reason we’ve personified the respective paths. A tattered round drink and even given it a human name—Joe. table near the front window of a small café is a flawSynonymous for “cup of coffee” is a “cup of Joe.” less host to four chairs that wobble from constant Have we ever asked who Joe is? I spend an estimated coming and going. Four of us sit in the same spots $23.52 on coffee alone every seven days, and would we always have—venti black with a double shot sits undoubtedly enjoy a “cup of Enrique” or something with her back to the window. Tall vanilla sits to her more exotic than Joe just as much for the same right, grande green tea to her left, short caramel whopping $1,300 a year. Whoever Joe was must be latte across the rounded table. We are extraordiquite a special man, since everybody seems to want narily unlike but make a perfect blend, the convera little bit of him every morning. sation as pungent as the smell exuding from beyond We’re always doing it. We’re grabbing a cup in the barista. a blazer and pumps while we converse with potenCoffee brings people out, and brings words out tial employers and recruiters. We’re venting to our just the same. Its power is intoxicating in releasing a best friend’s open ears and asking for honesty over stream of consciousness and thought, gushing and a Starbucks’ venti-sized. We’re going on first dates catching up with your closest associates. You talk with coffee as an indispensable third wheel. This ar- about school and seduction, places and personas. bitrary beverage has declared itself a faultless side You fiddle with the jacket on your paper cup and dish for conversation. fidget as you’re flooded with caffeine. Opposites atCoffee is an incredible witness. It is a silent on- tract; a girl sips black coffee across from another looker, overseeing emotion and livelihood. A sweaty- whose cup is filled with cream and sugar. These palmed interviewee will cautiously sip their black are the little things—those moments thirsting for coffee with a side of apprehension, staring across nostalgia, the moments when you realize you don’t an oversized mahogany desk at a man in a leather want “Joe” to be the only man in your life anymore. chair with a gold-plated and title-boasting nametag. A simple, silent cup of coffee has observed and A young girl warms her hands with a size small, light absorbed a great deal. It has heard boisterous and sweet, as her first date simultaneously warms laughter, and it has soothed intolerable pain. It has her heart. It doesn’t matter how you size it or how smelled fermenting controversy, and it has sensed you sip it, coffee is a suitable and stable accomplice insurmountable passion. It is fondly considered one in nearly any scenario. of the little things. What’s inside a mug is comparaUpon brewing, coffee awakens its senses. It smells ble to what’s inside the body—sometimes it’s sweet, and it tastes, it touches and feels. But perhaps its sometimes it’s bitter, depending on the day. Its presmost overlooked and undoubtedly underestimated ence at the table is witness to a temperamental vasense and quality is hearing. riety of people and places, and like the people who We constantly remind ourselves the importance consume it, it can both soothe and scald. But when of the simple things. The small and fleeting mo- it’s just right, it’s pungent. It’s powerful. It’s a perments of clarity and of satisfaction, the indetermi- fect, perfect little thing. nate and evocative minutia of existence. We are constantly enlightened of the power of “the little Ashley Camano is a Trinity junior. This is her final things in life,” told of their remarkable influence as column of the semester.
s I was sitting at my desk preparing to write this column, I was wearing fuzzy socks and sipping peppermint tea. I was also doing some pretty heavy thinking about the cosmos. I was intentionally forgetting about the two incomplete applications I have yet to fill out, the 14 unanswered emails waiting in my inbox, and the very dire eye appointment I need to schedule ASAP because truth be told, I’m blind. addie navarro No, tonight I was thinking chocoholism about the cosmos. And the stars. And whatever else is out there right this moment peering down on us with a large, otherworldly telescope. It’s unsettling how little we give these things any thought, how rarely they appear in our daily conversations. I am not a particularly religious gal. I don’t attend church regularly…or really ever, much to my mother’s horror and confusion. I don’t read the Bible or any other spiritual text. I don’t really know what I believe. This isn’t necessarily from lack of thought on the subject of my spirituality, but rather just an enormous confusion about what is right and true. There are so many conflicting ideas concerning a deity and the afterlife and so many variations within those beliefs that who’s to know what is real and what isn’t? Maybe nothing is real. Maybe everything is real. This just took a sharp left turn to ScaryExistentialville. My apologies. What I’m trying to communicate to you readers who aren’t my parents or immediate family (and hopefully there are at least a few of you in existence) is that our spiritual beliefs matter. They matter not just on Sundays or holy days or special holidays. And they don’t matter in the sense that everyone must believe in some formal religious structure or in the same religious structure. No, it just matters that we at least THINK about what we believe and why. Oftentimes, in a moment of panic or uncertainty, I’ve looked with envy at those people who maintain strong religious or spiritual beliefs. There is an unshakable aura of peace and contentment that radiates from them just due to knowing what they believe and being sure in that knowledge. In my experience, it doesn’t seem to make a difference what specific religious or spiritual belief these people hold. Anyone, from the most orthodox to the most atheistic, can find and radiate that inner peace that comes from trusting in their own beliefs. We’re in college, obviously. We’re here to work hard and play hard. But where do we fit in time to contemplate? To think about the bigger picture and things like what in the world happens after death? How did we get here? Why? WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE? (When you ask these questions to yourself late at night, you must say them dramatically and with bravado.) Opinions on these topics vary greatly and are often inextricably tied to different cultures and backgrounds. Sometimes we will believe exactly what our parents believe and sometimes we will not. Normally we think of differences in religious or spiritual beliefs as distinctions that divide us more often than they bring us together. Rather than focusing on the individual religious distinctions themselves, we should celebrate the fact that people are able to have differing opinions on spirituality that enhance their happiness level while also giving them a sense of peace and fulfillment. This kind of contentment is pure and true no matter what the source. The slightly scary truth is that the earth keeps spinning while we’re compulsively checking our emails. If you step back and think for a moment, you have to admit, it’s a little bizarre that we (myself definitely included) spend more time thinking about what we’re going to wear on a given day than we do pondering over the mysteries of the universe. I understand that we have to do some mundane things in order to be functioning humans and to keep life moving along, but it’d be very sad if we went through life, or even through college, without giving these mysteries, and our beliefs on the matter, their due consideration. As we head into the season of endless holidays and celebration, we should give some thought to our spiritual beliefs. Whether those opinions lean more heavily toward the divine or whether they are firmly rooted in the secular, we owe it to ourselves to at least figure out where we stand so that we may derive that deep sense of satisfaction that comes from trusting in our beliefs.
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CONGO from page 2 groups’ methodology to control the lucrative economic arrangement,” Pendergrast said. “All groups use rape as a means of social control. They target women to humiliate and destroy the will of the community.” The Congolese government has adopted a mob mentality with respect to the coveted minerals in the resource-rich country, Prendergast explained. Instead of focusing on developing the economy or social services in response to the looting, the Congolese government has instead organized the state to benefit from the looting and privatized the wealth base of the country so that the generals and top politicians profit. “All the money that should be taxed and used to help develop the country is going into the pockets of individual people at the top of the food chain,” he said. But Prendergast is hopeful for a peaceful future in the Congo because the burgeoning conflictfree movement is beginning to gain momentum in the United States. “A movement is forming here in the United States to pressure companies and governments to change the way they do business, so they don’t underwrite and profit from this nightmare,” Prendergast said. “That is the answer—building alliances and solidarity with those on the ground and battling for change.” The role of students is a crucial aspect of the conflict-free move-
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ment, Prendergast noted. Electronics companies are incentivized to listen to students and young people as they comprise the largest demographic of purchasers in the electronics market. “If young people as a demographic group demand an alteration in product—whether it’s what the color of the product is or how it works or what its features are or, in this case, what misery it’s creating in its creation—then the companies are going to respond to that,” he added. He praised Duke’s Coalition for a Conflict-Free Duke, an alliance of student groups dedicated to increasing awareness and action surrounding the conflict in the Congo, noting that it has been central to the movement. “We started last year in order to pressure Duke to take a stance on the issue of conflict minerals and to use our leverage as a thought leader to affect real change,” said junior Stefani Jones, co-founder of CCFD. “We successfully lobbied the Board of Trustees last year to adopt an investment guideline for electronics companies who use these minerals in their products.” Jones added that, after CCFD saw much success at Duke, the organization is now looking to partner with other schools in the region to proliferate its mission. Prendergast called CCFD’s work a “tremendous success,” adding that the group should serve as a great example of the kind of action students and universities should be taking. In the summer of 2012, Duke became the second
school nationwide to pass such a shareholder resolution, following Stanford University in 2010. “They’re quite a groundbreaking organization,” Prendergast said of CCFD. “They’re national leaders in the student movement that’s dealing with these issues of conflict minerals.” To promote awareness and escalate the student movement, Prendergast launched the Raise Hope for Congo campaign as part of the Enough Project, which he founded to end genocide and human rights issues. “Raise Hope for Congo sponsored our campus initiative where we have about 120 schools across the country that are now following in the footsteps of what Duke did in April,” Prendergast said. “It’s only a year old, so we’re trying to build a campus-led movement of young people.” Prendergast said it is imperative that the movement continues to build, and students must not allow companies and politicians to perpetuate such “heinous hate crimes.” “[Prendergast is] a thought leader of this movement, and it was great to have him come lay it out and [lay out] the logic behind advocating for minerals and resources regulated here at Duke,” said CCFD’s other co-founder Sanjay Kishore, a senior. “This event exposes us to a community that has a much richer set of experiences to draw from that are still passionate about this issue, which could lead to better informed advocacy in the future.”
COUNCIL from page 2 Wuhan—by hiring a permanent staff of professors from Duke and other top Chinese and international universities, she said. A group of Duke professors plan to tour China’s top undergraduate universities early next year to form a plan to adapt prominent Chinese teaching styles into a new model for teaching at DKU. Bullock said she hopes the new styles that result from the collaboration will serve as a new and more effective approach for teaching liberal arts throughout the world. She added that a strong liberal arts curriculum and interdisciplinary courses that focus on China’s history and cultural differences could bridge the gap between east and west. Bullock added that she hopes to introduce courses in American history and social sciences at DKU, which are currently not offered in China. The campus will feature water canals that mimic the city’s natural landscape. Kunshan, which is funding the campus’ construction, is also constructing an area directly across from the campus that will feature start-up science and technology companies, apartments, restaurants and shopping for students to enjoy, Bullock said. Such developments will provide students with a taste of China’s culture, noted Daniel Gauthier, Robert C. Richardson professor of physics, adding that
it will be similar to the rich Durham culture surrounding Duke. But some council members remain uncertain about the venture. Mary Boatwright, professor of ancient history, expressed concern that the cultural and language barriers could prevent students from getting the most of their China experience. “We are going to look carefully at orientation programs for all students in terms of how they communicate with one another,” Bullock said. She added that classes at DKU will be taught in English, but students will be expected to improve their Chinese language skills and understanding of the Chinese culture. In other business Board of Trustees Chair Richard Wagoner, Trinity ’75, presented the Board’s changing role in light of the Duke Forward capital campaign and other challenges. Every member of the Board recognizes the importance the entire Duke community will play as the University continues to grow, he said. “The Board of Trustees fully understands and embraces the importance of Duke faculty and staff members,” he said. Wagoner shared an optimistic outlook for the University’s future despite new challenges. “This is exactly the kind of environment in which Duke can shine and thrive,” Wagoner said.