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Deforestation endangers rare lemurs
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The Duke Lemur Center, which has the largest population of lemurs outside of Madagascar, held its first symposium Monday to discuss environmental issues facing Madagascar and its endangered lemurs. The day-long conference, “Forests, Families, Lemurs & Guitars: Rights to Madagascar’s Resources,” focused on the political, social and economic issues affecting Madagascar in the wake of an ecological crisis. The day began with an introduction to lemurs and the destruction of their habitat—90 percent of Madagascar’s original forest that has been destroyed—and ended with a concert at Duke Coffeehouse by singer, songwriter and Madagascar native Razia Said. “Madagascar is a beautiful and unique place, but we’ve learned today it is also really messy,” said Duke ecologist Meredith Barrett, Nicholas ’11. “There are a lot of issues to tackle, and it requires a multidisciplinary approach.” The event included panel discussions with experts on the state of conservation in Madagascar, the implications of deforestation there and the fight against timber thieves. Barrett spoke about the ecological crisis in Madagascar. Increasing erosion, soil depletion and slash and burn agriculture have taken
The Freeman Center for Jewish Life has cleaned graffiti on its sign along campus drive, but suspects in the incident of vandalismn have yet to be found, said Rebecca Simons, director for Jewish life. The building sign, located on Campus Drive, had blue spray paint over the words “Jewish” and “Rubenstein,” Simons said, who learned of the vandalism Monday morning. The Freeman Center reported the damage to Duke Police Sunday afternoon. The spray paint has since been removed, and the sign has been cleaned. “We are not aware of any further vandalism or any indicators of who the perpetrators may have been,” Simons wrote in an email Monday. Rabbi Jeremy Yoskowitz, an assistant director for Jewish life, said he did not believe the incident suggests significant anti-Semitism or bigotry on campus. “I certainly do not believe that this is in any way indicative of a larger campus issue as this is generally a very respectful campus,” Yoskowitz wrote in an email Monday. “I believe that this is an isolated
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The University’s collaboration with Shiv Nadar University is not confined to the college level. The Duke University Talent Identification Program, which has provided programming for academically gifted students since 1980, has been working with Indian students since summer 2008. In the past, Duke TIP’s presence in India had been restricted to a three-week summer program, housed at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, where Duke Corporate Education has offices, said Martha Putallaz, executive director of Duke TIP. But with the signing of a memorandum of understanding Thursday, Duke TIP and SNU will work
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together to pursue new modes of identifying and educating academically gifted students. The first initiative, as part of the collaboration, will be a conference hosted by both universities to discuss the best methods of teaching and creating curricula for gifted students. “We’re going to jointly offer the conference to share with [Indian educators] the best practices for working with academically talented students—ways to frame the curriculum so it’s a hands-on, creative problem solving, as opposed to rote learning,” Putallaz said. In 2010, TIP began collaborating with Educational Initiatives, an educational talent search company based in India, said SEE TIP ON PAGE 2
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Senior Kenneth Hoehn recently won a Marshall Scholarship.
When senior Kenneth Hoehn arrived at Duke his freshman year, he walked right into a job in a biology lab. Come this summer, he will leave the lab to continue his research in Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. Hoehn, a native of Canton, Ga, grew up in a town where evolution was not much discussed. When he discovered evolution in high school, it spurred a desire to study what makes living things the way they are. Upon arrival at Duke as an A. B. Duke Scholar, he earned himself a spot in the lab of Mohamed Noor, Earl D. McLean professor and associate chair of biology,
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and has already published two papers, with a third on its way. “He impressed me so much on that first meeting that I said, ‘We have got to get him in our lab,’” Noor said. “I wouldn’t say this about many people, but he’s one where I have full faith that he will absolutely exceed me and blow me out of the water.” The Marshall Scholarship sends 40 American students each year to the United Kingdom to pursue graduate degrees at the university of their choice. Hoehn will study at Oxford’s Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. He has not yet decided which of Oxford’s many SEE MARSHALL ON PAGE 3
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LEMURS from page 1 their toll there. Deforestation also results in the introduction of nonnative species, which can further deplete the land’s resources. The forms of damage are difficult to reverse and can take years to repair. She noted that governments in Af-
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rica lack control over the issue. “African governments have little to no control in remote areas of the country where forests are, and as a result, government policies and projects have to be credible as well as sanctioned,� she added. Patrick Duggan, Law ’10 and attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Environmental Crimes
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Section, spoke about combatting the illegal trade of timber in the United States and around the world. Duggan investigates and prosecutes groups who smuggle protected plants and animals, such as those illegally taken from Madagascar. One of the main issues Duggan faces in his work is proving that a product came from an illegal source and then convincing a jury that the importer knew it was illegal. Duggan noted that America is unique in having enough resources for the government to conduct these investigations and punish criminals. Said spoke during the day about using her music career to effect change in the country. Speaking out against habitat destruction can be dangerous in Madagascar—without government protection, activists run the risk of being harmed or even killed, she noted. Using music rather than protest helps by inspiring conversation instead of simply making demands, Said explained. She hopes that through her music, natives will better understand the devastating effects of cutting and burning down the forests and illegal trade.
“Even though people are not stopping what they’ve done‌ it’s beginning to sink in [to them] that habitat destruction is a problem,â€? noted Said. After the panels, Said performed to a packed Duke Coffeehouse, where a crowd of students, lemur specialists and graduate students danced and listened to the Malagasy tunes. One audience member—Erik Patel, Duke Lemur Center postdoctoral researcher—knew Said from his experience spending 10 months out of the year in Madagascar researching the critically endangered silky sifaka lemur species. “Razia is a symbol in Madagascar,â€? Patel said. “She’s quite well known. She has a first-hand perspective and the crisis in Madagascar has struck her home.â€? Said herself seemed to be enjoying her time at Duke. “Performing at universities, especially ones like Duke that are doing conservation and research, is the best way to perform and deliver a message,â€? Said noted. “They have predispositions that connect them better to the music and cause.â€?
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Vandalism was found on a sign outside the Freeman Center for Jewish Life Monday morning. It has since been removed.
incident and that in general, Duke students conduct themselves responsibly and honorably.� Last month, an incident occurred at an event hosted by the Duke Students for Justice in Palestine in November, during which a student destroyed part of the event display and flipped over a table of food. The student, a member of the Jewish Student Union executive board, has apologized for his actions.
TIP from page 1 Duke TIP Program Director Mara Shurgot. EI uses similar methods to those used in the United States for identifying gifted students. Students in the 95th percentile for testing at their grade level are asked to take a test at a higher grade level, and students who score at the 95th percentile for the subsequent test are invited to participate in the TIP program. Students travel from all over the country to participate in the threeweek program, Shurgot noted, adding that some students’ commute takes multiple days. “It’s humbling, exciting and pretty wonderful, the effort [parents] will make to allow their children to attend,� Shurgot said. The courses currently offered pack the equivalent of a college semester’s worth of material into three weeks, said Duke TIP Marketing Manager Emily Swartzlander. “These kids are working very, very hard,� she said. “This is an academic camp.� She added that TIP provides needbased financial aid for about a third of the students who participate in the program, which costs $1,500. With the promise of expanded endeavors in India, Shurgot said she hopes TIP will be able to provide shorter one- or two-day programs throughout the year to give more students the opportunity to attend. The program already provides eStudies— online courses that enroll both Indian and American students. Putallaz said TIP hopes to continue international expansion to create a global learning network, noting the possibility of pursuing involvement in China when Duke Kunshan University is established. “We’re hoping we can bring together Indian and American students and other nationalities, so we can really create a connected community of academically gifted students who are all interested in furthering their development,� Putallaz said.
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MARSHALL from page 1 colleges he will choose as his home. Hoehn’s interest in biology developed in his childhood, when he spent his time reading field guides and searching for insects in the woods and fields near his house. The community in Canton was a good environment, with some “uniquely conservative elements,” he noted. “I hadn’t really looked into evolu-
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tion,” Hoehn said. “It just wasn’t really discussed and when it was discussed, it was understood that the biblical interpretation was the true one.” That changed for Hoehn in ninth grade, however, when he took a biology course that helped him make sense of nature and the mechanism of natural selection in particular. He started reading books on evolution by writers like Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, and thinking about the finer points of how evolution determines
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which species survive or perish. “I found that because I spent so much time figuring it out, I gained an understanding of its complexities,” he said. “The more I read into it, the more I started to see that there was more to evolution than just convincing people that it happens.” The body of knowledge that Hoehn accumulated with the extracurricular reading impressed Noor, who said it was rare for students start in a lab so early in their Duke careers. Hoehn, however, began by helping out in the lab in his first semester at Duke and progressed to researching his own projects by the end of freshman year. Noor said he now operates with the independence of an advanced graduate student. Suzanne McGaugh, a postdoctoral associate in biology, has been working with Hoehn researching the sex-determining gene for male coffin flies. She said he is the most talented undergraduate with whom she has worked. “You can just give him a project, and he runs with it on his own,” she said. “He’s got a lot of initiative.” For his part, Hoehn credits his success thus far with starting as early as possible in a lab and aggressively pursuing expertise in lab skills. Rather than fulfilling all his biology major requirements and graduation requirements before pursuing higher level studies, he began taking graduatelevel methods courses as a sophomore and junior. Those, and learning how to program through computer science classes, gave him a leg up in the lab. The programming allowed him to work more efficiently and explore the study of bioinformatics, or computational biology. Programming is becoming increasingly important in the natural sciences, he noted, as data sets become
larger and larger. “It seems so much of your ability to do effective research depends on how much you know the technology to do it,” Hoehn said. “It’s probably better to learn the techniques you need to know early and apply them than to get everything finished [for the major] and try to squeeze something in later.” After working for a year watching fruit flies have sex, Hoehn said he discovered the need to accept failure in the pursuit of science. The project involved tracking a particular gene through generations of two populations of fruit flies, but at the end of the year, he discovered the populations had mixed, contaminating the data. This discovery came less than a month before he was slated to present his findings at an international evolutionary biology conference. “I didn’t really have a whole lot of time to feel sorry at that point,” Hoehn said. Instead, he quickly channeled his energy into a different research project, which he completed in time to present, and which later formed the basis for his first publication. “One of the most important qualities for a scientist is tolerance of frustration and failure, because it happens so often, so you have to process your grief quickly and move on or try it again,” he said. The resulting paper earned him a second authorship. Since then, he followed up with a primary authorship and is expected to publish another paper as primary author before graduating. “Most graduate students don’t have that level of publications until they finish up their Ph.D.,” McGaugh said. “If he stays as a researcher in biology, I have no doubt he’ll change the way we think about fundamental problems in biology.”
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Conner Vernon will be the first to tell you that he is not verbose. But nearly every time the wide receiver speaks to reporters, he tucks an important point into his terse answers. “I’m really happy to be here,” he has said on multiple occasions throughout the season. A senior from Miami, Vernon may be the most statistically accomplished player in Duke football history. With 273 receptions and 3,630 yards, Vernon broke the ACC’s alltime records for both receptions and receiving yards during his senior season. The threetime All-ACC honoree also set the conference mark with 47 consecutive games with a catch, logging a reception in every game he played in his career with the Blue Devils. But Vernon was not highly recruited out of high school. Vernon said he only received scholarship offers from Duke, Wake Forest, Vanderbilt and Troy and made the decision to come to Duke largely because he bought into head coach David Cutcliffe’s vision. Setting a program record with 75 receptions in his senior season, Vernon finally watched Cutcliffe’s vision come to fruition when the Blue Devils gained bowl eligibility for the first time since the 1994 season. “I knew it wasn’t going to be an overnight thing. It took four years for that vision to finally come through, and it’s only going ng up from here,” Vernon said. “The senior class ass has
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Wide receiver Conner Vernon was not highly sought after in high school but has broken ACC records at Duke. a chance not only to go to a bowl game for the first time since 1994, but they also have the chance to win a bowl game for the first time since 1960. That’s definitely something we’re looking forward to.” After Duke squares off with Cincinnati in the Belk Bowl Dec. 27, Vernon will set his sights on the next phase of his football career—the NFL. Vernon is widely regarded to be a legitimate pro prospect, with a chance to be the first Duke player since 2004 to be selected in the NFL Draft. Vernon will graduate from Duke at the conclusion of the Fall semester with a degree in English. He will then move to a warm-
weather destination to work in preparation for the NFL Combine and Duke’s annual Pro Timing Day. “It’s kind of one of those bittersweet things,” Vernon said. “I’m definitely excited to start the next phase of my life, but it will be sad to see it all go. The last four years have been great, and Duke has given me a lot. But I’m looking forward to what lies ahead and I’ll always be a Duke Blue Devil.” The senior also mentioned that once his football career draws to a close, he wishes to remain tied to the world o of sports. “Hopefully football p pays the bills for a
while, but if not I would definitely want to stay in sports,” Vernon said. “That’s kind of all I know. I grew up with sports all around me, and I would definitely love to be in a front office somewhere.” Vernon has consistently been praised throughout his career for his work ethic, consistency and demeanor. Cutcliffe lauded Vernon throughout the season for his leadership ability and never taking a play off during practice. But what may impress professional teams the most is his calm and business-like manner. His demeanor may have been one of the reasons why Vernon flew under the radar in high school. And Duke is fortunate that its star receiver turned out to be a diamond in the rough—had other major college football programs noticed Vernon’s potential in high school, the Blue Devils would have had significant competition in securing his commitment. But Vernon stands by his decision to this day—he is really happy to be here. “If I had to do it all over again I would absolutely come to Duke. There is no doubt in my mind,” Vernon said. “I definitely wouldn’t have had the career I did if I wasn’t at Duke, and I absolutely believe that. Duke gave me an opportunity that I don’t think other schools would have given me right from the beginning. I’m thankful for that.”
Bringing back the missing Blue Devil moxie Last season, you just never got the sense ense that the Blue Devils ever really clicked. Gone were the days when playing the Blue Devils evils at Cameron Indoor Stadium was akin to o matching up against nst Tiger Woods (circaa 2000) on the final day of a major, when you ou just knew Duke had ad the upper hand, if only ly by Tom sheer moxie. It was difficult to have confidence ce hey that they would find answers when they needed them. Consider the tone of the following quotes from head coach Mike Krzyzewski wski and his team after barely challenging North Carolina in Cameron in the regular gular season finale. Krzyzewski: “It’s like a surprise gift. You open it up, and for the most part, it’s been dea a nice surprise, but I never have any idea what’s in there. Today, there was nothing. ng. It was an empty box.” Senior Miles Plumlee: “We can’t expect pect pect it to be done individually. We can’t expect to do it 10 minutes of the game. It’s got ot to be 40 minutes of the game, together.” Freshman Austin Rivers: “It’s a feeling ing at’s where you’re like, ‘We don’t know what’s going on. We’ve got to get this going.’”” But as often as Krzyzewski talked about bout the team searching for its identity last year, he talks about its “togetherness” this season. En route to its 8-0 start, the Blue Devils evils have answered every challenge thrown n their way. They have made big plays when hen
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they needed to. Despite one of the toughest schedules in all of Division I thus far, they have never felt out of a game, and more than that, they’ve seemed to be in the driver’s seat almost all the time. No sooner does an opponent make a play that looks like it might throw the momentum against Duke, than the Blue Devils come up with a big bucket or a big defensive play. Where last year they were beating teams with miraculous finishes and comebacks, this year they’re winning with poise, consistency and will. It’s a remarkable change, especially given that there was no overhaul in personnel over the summer. Miles Plumlee graduated, Austin Rivers left for the NBA and Andre Dawkins opted to redshirt. Incoming freshmen Rasheed Sulaimon and Amile Jefferson took their places. These changes cannot be underestimated, though. Rivers, despite the talent that made him the No. 10 overall pick in the NBA Draft, was not the sort of player who fostered team chemistry. Knowing from the moment he set foot on campus that he would be one-and-done, Rivers took more than 25 percent of Duke’s shots while he was on the floor, leading the team by a significant margin even though
he was not one of the roster’s most efficient scoring options. opt He was also the third-worst Blue Devil defender by defensive rating, which wh measures opponent scoring when w a given player is in the game. Dawkins was w even worse on the defensive defensiv end than Rivers, and neither player took the lead in helping help to bring the clubhouse together. t This year, ye the locker room could cou hardly be coh more cohesive. “They’re “They’r good guys—like, they hang ttogether,” Krzyzewski said after afte Duke’s championship victory in the Battle 4 vic Atlantis. “They “ laugh at each other’s jo jokes. I don’t laugh at most of o them. I don’t get most of them. The bottom t the line is they’re good guys and they like one o another.” kn With a knowing chuckle, he added, “That’s “That a big thing. It’s a thing real big thing.” Both Sulaimon Sulai and Jefver high-character ferson are very additions with strong academic I other words, reputations. In classic Duke players. p Mason Plumlee has stepped Plu leaders up his leadership and aggressiveness, setting setti an example for his teammates by tirelessly teamm working on his h shooting stroke to raise his free-throw percentfr age by more than t 20 points
compared to last season. He leads a trio of seniors who also happen to be Duke’s three leading scorers, a rare feat in college basketball that has to remind the Blue Devil faithful of a certain 2009-10 team whose three leaders—in spirit if not production— were all senior starters. But the most significant change may be the emergence of Quinn Cook, both for his role as a floor general and his leadership. Cook has played with a poise beyond his years, showing a knack for finding the perfect mix of light-hearted fun and serious focus. “It’s when a team has confidence in its point guard that you can take off. This team has great confidence in Quinn,” Krzyzewski said. “And they’ve been very vocal about it. It’s not just us as coaches— actually it’s more the players.” Last year’s squad lacked not only a steady, dynamic presence at the point, but also the type of emotional leader into which Cook has developed. It was Cook’s comments after the Battle 4 Atlantis championship that are perhaps most telling of the change that has taken place. “At the end of the game, Mason grabbed me before I shot those free throws, and he said he believes in me. That just means the world to me,” Cook said. “I could score zero points, but as long as we win and my teammates are happy, especially my seniors, I’m fine with that.” Note the way he referred to “my seniors.” When players take ownership of a team the way this group has—and the way last year’s group never quite did—it’s not surprising to see Duke’s moxie return.
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Move up major declaration In Tuesday’s editorial, we cal tradeoff between the third argued that there are three stage and first stage: pre-major general stages in any student’s exploration. The first stage of undergraduate education: pre-major exploration should pre-major exploration, train- be shortened so students have ing in the core language and adequate time to engage in the methodology latter two stages of a chosen diswith proper editorial cipline and, depth. We do finally, the integration of that not imply that academic exspecialized knowledge with ploration is not important. one’s broader interests and its Rather, academic exploration application to real-world prob- does not need to end after malems. While we agreed that jor declaration. In fact, it only integrated learning is a worthy becomes more fruitful with a goal, integration must be pre- firm foothold in a particular ceded by specialization if it is field—the result of specializato be productive. tion—allowing you to pursue Four years of college al- your passions with precise ready seem to whizz by. Given and disciplined methodolothe sanctity of specialization gies. This notion of post-major within major, the prospect of exploration—rather than prefitting in Patton’s desired third major exploration—is perstage—integration—seems haps the trademark of truly challenging, raising a practi- integrated learning.
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Shortening the pre-major exploration stage will be challenging, but we present a few preliminary suggestions. First and foremost, the University must encourage students to declare and dig into their major earlier than at present. A common complaint about current pre-major advising is that it often matches students with advisers completely unknowledgeable about their advisees’ interests. Individual advisers should not be blamed—systemic changes should be made. Perhaps connecting first-year students with directors of undergraduate studies or faculty members in their self-declared “top three” departments would lead to more specialized guidance at an early stage. Major declaration produces anxiety for many students because it
demands serious introspection. A more gradual and persistent reflection process starting in the first year, as we suggest, would help students make better, calmer and earlier decisions about their majors— leaving more time for specialization and integration later. A first-year “directed studies” program, like that at Yale, could also help undecided students explore their interests while learning core methodologies and canons. While the FOCUS program is a good first step, it is an example of an undisciplined and premature attempt at integration. One semester long and often focused on a smattering of niche topics, FOCUS clusters often fail to help students understand their full academic context. A comprehensive, two-semester
program—for example, a rigorous interdisciplinary study of Western civilization spanning crucial concepts in literature, philosophy and political science—would better serve students who want to gain strong academic foundations while still sampling various interests. It is also a much more appealing way of touring different disciplines than current fearkindling “weed-out” classes. It is easy to repeat buzzwords like integrative learning and interdisciplinarity ad nauseum. It is harder to think about real implementation and pursue a strategy that ensures Duke students graduate with real integrated knowledge—not a disorganized jumble of facts, ideas and jargon from a dozen fields about which they know nothing.
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n early October, Duke University eliminated punishments in order to not commit crimes, but the statute of limitations on student sexual it’s a reality of life and of Duke and that’s why we misconduct. Compared to January, when the have judicial systems. We need a culture of restatute was shortened from two years to one, porting, one where perpetrators are cognizant the elimination was a reason to they are likely to get punished. celebrate. It represented the effiBut this isn’t about requesting cacy of students over and above ilthat anyone who has been assaultlogical administrative rules. More ed go and report now. That would importantly, it represented the be fantastic and truly a watershed, recognition that reporting sexubut from personal experience, I al assault shouldn’t be curtailed know that is a vast oversimplificain any fashion, which at the very tion of the difficult nature of sexleast requires a decent timeframe rajlakshmi de ual assault. It can be much more allowed for coming forward. personal than reporting a robminority report When the statute was shortbery. It can be unsafe. It can lead ened last semester, I emailed to an investigation that requires Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and more contact with a perpetrator or emotional director of the Office of Student Conduct. He triggers. And due to victim blaming and other wrote in an email, “While I recognize that some pernicious societal constructs, it can lead to othmay feel that narrowing the timeframe for re- er negative aspects as well. porting will mean fewer reports, the evidence The responsibility of making Duke safer doesn’t show this to be the case. I have reviewed is all of ours. A culture of reporting can’t be all sexual misconduct cases reported to my of- solely about victims facing their perpetrators to fice for disciplinary action over the past 10 aca- do something for the greater good of Duke or demic years, and 96 percent were reported in society; it has to involve all of us. Most basically, less than a year after the incident.” we can be informed about the reporting proI was outraged that this evidence was being cess through platforms like bystander training. used to justify a reduction in the statute. Why With more effort, we can think about how to marginalize the 4 percent of people who were change processes and policies so that reporting reporting after a year? Why assume that sexual becomes less of a burden to be shouldered by assault is easy enough to report in a year? And victims. We can change the way we think and why send a backward message to students that speak about assault to gradually chip away at sexual assault reporting should be curtailed in tendencies towards victim blaming. If someone any way? is trying to tell you about an instance of sexual The real evidence we should be using to assault, don’t ask about clothes or alcohol or guide policy is that last year, only six reports promiscuity. Those factors are not only irrelewere brought to the Office of Student Con- vant to assault, but they contribute to silencing duct, according to the Women’s Center. That people we need to hear. has to be a small fraction of actual sexual asThat silence is the single greatest ammunisaults committed. In that sense, eliminating tion for perpetrators. So lastly, raise your voice the statute of limitations alone is not going to when you experience or see injustice. Given be a watershed in eliminating sexual assault. circumstances, reporting isn’t always a good There’s only one mechanism that can achieve option, but the culture of reporting isn’t puresome sort of vast decrease in sexual assault: in- ly about official reports; it’s about dialogue, creased reporting. awareness and understanding. I didn’t report There’s the obvious reason of why reporting for various reasons, but I chose to break my decreases assault: perpetrators may be repeat silence during my sophomore year on a blog offenders. But there’s also wider Duke culture, for my friends and other Duke students to see. and right now we have a culture of perpetrators Breaking the silence is how I found a way to knowing they will most likely never get repri- re-form past bleak memories into active unmanded for any sexual assault crimes. Compared derstanding. We can always listen and emerge to any other crime, sexual assault is the one that more connected. In the end, that’s how we’re is least likely to get any retribution. Robbery, going to create a community of students that for example, is disincentivized by the likelihood respect and care for one another. that the victim will report lost belongings and evidence may trace the crime to a suspect. It’s Rajlakshmi De is a Trinity senior. This is her fia sad way of viewing the world—that we need nal column of the semester.
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Moral cliff
Dear Duke Card
ne of the most repeated terms used in our me- added, “To my knowledge it has never been this bad at dia recently is “fiscal cliff.” Many media out- any part of our political history.” lets have been chewing and spitting out the If this non-compromising, I-will-make-you-fail-whatsame stuff over and over. I wonder if I am the only ever-it-takes attitude becomes the way we do business one who is sick and tired of hearing the in our political system, what kind of fusame shallow arguments and sickening ture awaits our country? Trying to block partisan bickering around the issue. We and defeat your opponent—insisting are bombarded by various media outlets on staying in your ideological and powith sensational nonsense. They conlitical trenches even if it hurts the nastantly ponder over what it is, whether tional interest and makes life more difit will happen or not, who needs to comficult for fellow Americans—is beyond promise and blah, blah and more blah. horrible. However, that’s the unhelpIf you judge the U.S. in general and theater game that we all have been abdullah antepli ful the American government in particular watching lately in our nation’s capital blue devil imam only through the pictures of these fisand beyond. cal cliff debates, one can argue that we In addition, it disturbs me that the are not only heading to a possible fiscal cliff, but that way we discuss this fiscal cliff issue suggests and even more importantly we are heading toward a moral one. demands that what we all are debating and discussing The symbolic language used by relevant political and is only an economic and financial issue. As if it is all civic camps when discussing the issue doesn’t reveal about how to keep the books straight by finding the the best of us at all. Honestly speaking, this process best formula for an accounting question. As if what shakes my confidence about our ability as Americans we are discussing is fundamentally not our collective to confront future challenges. moral and ethical values. Again, why don’t we debate Thank God that the U.S. and our government are this fiscal cliff as a moral crisis? bigger than this fiscal cliff debate disaster. But we I am not sure if we are going to fall off an economic should not fail to look at these troubling manifesta- cliff at the end of this month. But history shows over tions of us, as a nation, through these debates and and over again that the nations that do not address take very careful mental notes. Because the picture we and face their potential moral cliffs in an early stage present reveals important information about what we lose their collective health. Let us hold our leaders have become as a society and where we are heading. and ourselves accountable for much higher ethical One of the most disturbing things that the current and moral standards. Let us remind them that we fiscal cliff conversations reveal about us is how divided didn’t elect them to win the boxing game with their and polarized we have become as a nation. No nation- opponents but to instead get the work done, and get al interest, common enemy or mutual benefit seems it done well. Fiscal cliffs, economic depressions and to be powerful enough to bring our political and civic financial hard times come and go. We may not get the leaders together. Our leaders seemingly treat every is- opportunity to recover and bounce back if we let oursue as an opportunity to score a point on behalf of selves fall off every moral cliff. their camp. Recently, I asked a very senior member of the House whether during his long career in D.C. Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain and an adhe had ever seen or heard so much polarization and junct faculty of Islamic Studies. This is his final column of partisanship. His said “no” without hesitation. He also the semester.
lad in an envelope, you endured the cramped quarters of mailing bins. You hurtled across the Atlantic Ocean, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean, and stopped short of the South China Sea. In Singapore, I recall impatiently undressing you. I ripped off your white paper garments. Then, we touched. With my gaze affixed to you, I thought, “What a bloody unflattering photo!” In the years to come, I would realize that my scowljing song ng ing visage imprinted on you jingapore says hardly mattered. It hardly mattered to the Brodie and Wilson Gym gatekeepers as the triumvirate series of sounds greeted me each time I went for a workout: a whiny beep, the clunky click of the unlocking door, and the plastic rattle as you clattered back down to earth after the gatekeeper’s fingers had propelled you through the air. With my eyebrows knitted into a slight “V,” my photo occasionally mattered at the post office. Usually, it took nothing more than a cursory glance at my name before the U.S. Postal Service employee trudged off to fetch the package. In unquestioning obedience to the edict, “Swipe and sign,” I run you through a narrow metal valley. Should Amazon have swathed the package with thick layers of tape, you would slit the stubborn adhesive and, once again, flaunt your multifaceted talents. Contrary to my previous expectations, my photo identification (your scar) was not indelible. In sophomore year, I tented for the Duke-UNC basketball showdown. During personal checks, which resembled a drunken jamboree, the concert music roused you. You peeked out of my jeans pocket just a tad too much and plopped into a puddle of slush, Busch Light and squishy mud. With a yelp, I dropped to my knees. It was too late. For one of the few times when my photo identification mattered, you were sullied. The squealing sirens truncated the revelry and people flocked to their respective line monitors. My line monitor squinted. His scrutinizing eyes shuttled between you and me. I furrowed my eyebrows, trying to recreate the “V.” Eventually, the line monitor relented. I was garlanded with a wristband, and I witnessed our team overcome a double-digit halftime deficit that fired up a victorious bench-burning extravaganza. On other more pedestrian occasions, you queued with other Duke Cards on beer pong tables, weathering more baptisms of cheap beer. The alcohol and subsequent, vigorous attempts to rid you of the stench of fermented malt smudged my visage. Through it all, thank you for remaining rugged. E-print machines and the devices securing the dormitories still yielded at your behest. A film of grease grew on you as I took you along during my late-night hangouts with friends. After handling the bucket of 50 nuggets from McDonald’s or the arteryclogging haystack from Pitchfork Provisions, my fingers fumbled for you as I sought to enter my dormitory. You also sported freckles of ground espresso beans from Joe Van Gogh and von der Heyden. The barista would run you through the cash register before handing me my delightful Americano. It is hard to overstate my attachment. Five times and counting, I have tried using you to pay for a breakfast bagel at RDU airport. The cashiers at Tutti Frutti, Loyo and Sweet Frog never fail to issue a look of contemptuous incredulity whenever I slide you across the counter. Dear Duke Card, it’s been a lovely three-and-a-halfyear affair. The non-Duke world doesn’t demand you. In this impending world, computation errors and sloppy presentations aren’t merely silly. Mistakes are chastised by employers and clients. Carelessness hurts people. At the same time, good work translates into more than an upward blip in my GPA. It contributes to a better life for some people. It gives rise to a fleeting, precious smile that is scarce in this hectic, hurried, harsh nonDuke world. Dear Duke Card, your mark of distinct individuality, taking the form of my scowling visage, has faded through these seven semesters. Now, you have collected the uplifting experiences of being part of a rambunctious blue collective. I’ll miss you. Farewell.
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Horse slaughter in the U.S.
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s America prepared for Thanksgiving last year, choices for their disposal. They either have to be treatPresident Obama was busy signing off on a law ed like humans and be buried or cremated, or sent to a lifting the ban of the use of federal money for rendering plant with other dead livestock. inspecting horses and facilities used in slaughter. The In the United States, there are more horses than ban effectually ended the practice of can be taken care of. If these horses are horse slaughter in the U.S., because the not properly cared for, they will suffer leigh ix horses could not be consumed and killed from dehydration, starvation and disguest column without proper inspection. One poll, reease, and will experience a slow and leased by the ASPCA, revealed that about painful death. Slaughter is a humane 80 percent of Americans oppose horse slaughter. De- way of disposing of those animals that can no longer spite the protest, President Obama and PETA agreed be cared for, and is a way to help the economy and that lifting the ban was for the best. population at the same time. The United States Congress initially put the ban in When horses are slaughtered, their bodies can be place in 2006 to protect horse welfare. In 2010, ap- disposed of and their byproducts can be used in the proximately 138,000 horses were simply transported production of glue, meat and some instruments (made to and slaughtered in Mexico and Canada. The trans- with hair, for example). portation and slaughterhouse conditions in these Banning slaughter has not improved quality of life places are far worse and less regulated than in the for horses, nor has it helped deal with the thousands of United States. uncared-for horses. Suffering was not decreased under If you are one of the animal rights advocates who the band; it was simply moved to another country with thought that banning horse slaughter in the U.S. was go- even less regulation. Even as a Republican, I can agree ing to improve horse welfare, sadly you were mistaken. with President Obama on this matter. I never though that, as a horse owner, I would be Sanctuaries are scarce, and euthanasia is expenpro-slaughter, but the reality is that Obama has it right: sive and gives no option for body disposal. By allowing It is in everyone’s best interest to regulate horse slaugh- horse slaughter, the number of abandoned horses will ter within the United States. If allowing horse slaughter decrease and profit can be generated as well as create to be legal will stop the shipment of horses to other a new job market for slaughter houses and the horse countries, and allow horses to suffer less from being byproduct/meat production industry. Americans that abandoned, the ban should remain lifted. oppose this legislation need to do a little research; at Horses come with great responsibility; they weigh first glance it may seem cruel, but in fact it will decrease up to 1600 pounds, live for up to 30 years and require animal suffering. a great deal of time, money and space for their care. When horses die or are euthanized, there are two Leigh Ix is a Trinity sophomore.
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Practical holiday gifts for college students By Jenna Johnson Last month I received a news release listing 10 gift ideas for college students. Three of the top ideas: “Anything Apple,” gift cards for “the essentials” like Starbucks and gift cards for “the luxuries” like Pottery Barn Dorm. The last item listed is cash. Sigh. Really? Seriously? In the spirit of giving gifts from the heart — which sometimes means being practical instead of extravagant — I have compiled a list of seven ideas: 1) Professional clothing: Every summer I hear interns whine about how they can only afford flip-flops and clothing that doubles as club-wear. Please help these interns out now. Save them the misery of being ridiculed by every person in the office and random people on Twitter. That means, instead of buying your nephew an iPod, take him out to buy his first suit. (And, yes, it can be dangerous to guess clothing sizes, so make sure to ask ahead of time and include a gift receipt. Or go with a one-size-fits-all item like a tie or scarf.) 2) Professional stationery: The application process for internships, jobs, fellowships and graduate programs often requires following up with a thank-you note on grown-up stationery. Look for simple, heavy-weight cards at your local office supply store or order a personalized set online from American Stationery or the Paper Source. It also wouldn’t hurt to include some snail-mail stamps. 3) Family recipes: One of my most treasured gifts is a binder of favorite
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family recipes that my mom compiled for me a few years ago. If you would rather purchase an already compiled cookbook, I would suggest “College Cooking: Feed Yourself and Your Friends” or “Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One” by the Post’s food editor Joe Yonan. This is a gift that pairs well with one or two practical kitchen accessories, like colorful plastic mixing bowls or a blender. 4) A Sunday newspaper subscription: No, seriously, I think it’s a good idea for 20-somethings to subscribe to their local paper at least one day a week. In addition to insightful reading, they will also get a pack of coupons to help cut down on their grocery bills.
5) Subscription to a trade publication or industry magazine: These magazines can be expensive on a college budget, but just as educational as a college textbook. (And many of them offer digital subscriptions.) For architects, there’s Architectural Digest, Architectural Review and DETAIL. For business majors, check out the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune or Forbes. For writers and journalists, splurge on The New Yorker. 6) A gourmet care package: Most college students are heading into finals right now — and are in dire need of a care package. While most college students are craving chocolate, energy drinks and comfort food, make sure to also include some healthy items like herbal tea, almonds and granola. 7) Gift certificates that truly mean something: If you have to go the gift certificate route, give a gift with some meaning. Before my grandmother passed away, she would send me gift certificates to D.C. restaurants where she liked to go in the 1940s and 50s, along with a note of what she used to order. Some of my friends have asked for gift certificates for classes that will enrich their lives, like yoga, ballet, piano or cooking. Reprinted from washingtonpost.com
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Here are Earth911’s top picks for unique stocking stuffers -- all priced under $10 each -- that are both good for the planet and easy on your wallet. Be sure to check out the rest of Earth911’s 2012 Holiday Gift Guides. List and captions courtesy of Earth911. Recycled bike chain bottle opener key chain This bottle opener key chain, made from discarded bicycle chains, is perfect for the beer aficionado or bicyclist. Available in blue, orange, red and silver, this practical key chain is handmade by artists at Resource Revival, an Oregon company that turns greasy used bike parts into new products. Price: $8
Reusable sandwich bag Help your family ditch the disposable sandwich baggies with LunchSkins’ reusable sandwich bags, available in a variety of colorful designs. The dishwasher-safe bags are
Organic, fair trade candy bar Indulge your family’s sweet tooth, without contributing to their “green guilt,” by adding Angell Bars to their Christmas stockings. Certified as both organic and fair trade, Angell’s line of candy bars is available in glutenfree, crispy milk chocolate, white chocolate and coconut, and vegan dark chocolate and almond. Price: About $2.24 a bar, but price varies, depending on the retailer.
Easy-to-remember reusable bag ChicoBag’s reusable shopping bags are designed to fold down into a small pouch, which you can easily clip to your purse or belt. This makes it easy to remember to bring your own bag to the store -- and it also makes ChicoBags the perfect size to stuff into your family’s stockings. Price: $5.99
Seed bombs Anyone can practice random acts of gardening with VisualLingual’s seed bomb packets, which are the ideal
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Recycled notebook Ideal for jotting down grocery lists, taking down notes or just plain doodling, Ecojot’s notebooks are made with 100-percent postconsumer recycled paper and feature environmental messages like “rethink” and “reuse” on the cover. Plus, Ecojot donates a workbook to a child in need for every large notebook purchased. Price: $4.50
Organic, vegan soap Portland-based Prunella Soap uses the old-fashioned “cold process” method of soap making to produce organic, vegan soap with simple, natural ingredients. Their handmade soaps come in unique scent
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Starry-Eyed Christmas Cookies
Ella’s White Sugar Cookies
Ingredients: 1 bag waffle or star-shaped pretzels 1 bag holiday M&M’s plain or peanut butter chocolate candies (red & green) 2 – 3 bags Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Kisses
Ingredients: 1 cup butter 1 cup powdered sugar 1 egg, beaten 1 ½ t. almond extract 1 t. vanilla 1 t. salt 2 ½ c. sifted flour
Directions: Preheat oven to 170 degrees. Open the bags of pretzels and remove all the unbroken pretzels. Place them on waxed paper-lined cookie sheets in a single layer. Unwrap Hershey’s Kisses, place one on each pretzel, repeat for an entire cookie sheet. Place cookie sheet in the preheated oven and “bake” for six minutes. Immediately upon removing from the oven, place one M-n-M on top of semi-melted Hershey’s Kiss. Place entire cookie sheet in refrigerator until cookies are set. www.thewickednoodle.com
Directions: Cream butter. Add powdered sugar. Blend in egg, almond extract, vanilla, salt and flour. Chill dough until firm. Roll to ¼” thickness on well-floured surface. Cut with cookie cutters. Place on greased cookie sheets. Bake at 375° for 8-10 min. Cookies should not brown. Frost and decorate when cool. Yields ~40 cookies. www.annies-eats.com
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Snowy Chocolate Baby Cakes Ingredients:
Ingredients: 1 3/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour 2 teaspoons ground ginger 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 6 tablespoons (packed) golden brown sugar 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature 3 tablespoons mild-flavored (light) molasses 1 large egg 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped 2 teaspoons vegetable oil Cinnamon decorating candies or chopped crystallized ginger Directions: Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 325°F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper. Whisk first 7 ingredients in large bowl to blend. Stir brown sugar, butter, and molasses in medium saucepan over low heat until melted. Increase heat to medium-high and bring to boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Let cool 10 minutes. Whisk egg in medium bowl to blend. Gradually whisk molasses mixture into egg. Using electric mixer, gradually beat molasses mixture into flour mixture until just blended. Roll dough out on lightly floured surface to 12x10-inch rectangle. Cut out gingerbread with cookie cutters. Transfer to baking sheets, spacing 1 inch apart. Gather scraps and roll out on lightly floured surface; cut out additional cookies. Repeat until all dough is used. Bake cookies, 1 sheet at a time, until puffed and tops are firm, about 10 minutes. Cool on sheets 5 minutes. Transfer to rack; cool completely. Place rack over rimmed baking sheet. Stir chocolate and oil in top of double boiler set over barely simmering water until melted. Holding bottom of 1 cookie, dip top into chocolate, allowing excess to drip off. Transfer cookies, chocolate-side up, to prepared rack. Repeat with remaining cookies and chocolate. Decorate cookies with candies or ginger. Chill cookies until chocolate is set, about 30 minutes. (Cookies can be made 3 days ahead. Store in single layer in airtight container in refrigerator.) Let cookies stand at room temperature 15 minutes before serving. www.epicurious.com/recipes
1 (18.25-oz.) package devil’s food cake mix 1 (16-oz.) container sour cream 1/2 cup milk 1/4 cup butter, melted 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Winter White Glaze Garnishes: red cinnamon candies, fresh bay leaves* Directions: Preheat oven to 350°. Beat first 6 ingredients at low speed with an electric mixer just until dry ingredients are moistened. Increase speed to medium, and beat 1 to 2 minutes or until smooth, stopping to scrape bowl as needed. Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured (12-cup) muffin pans. Bake at 350° for 20 to 22 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool in pans 5 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks, and cool completely (about 30 minutes). Arrange cakes upside down on a serving platter. Spoon Winter White Glaze over cakes (about 1 Tbsp. per cake), spreading with a spatula to thoroughly cover cakes. Garnish, if desired. *Fresh mint leaves may be substituted. www.myrecipes.com
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Holiday Happenings “Nutcracker: The Musical” Play
December 4, 2012 Duke Chorale Christmas Concert 7-9pm Duke Chapel.
December 6, 2012 Holiday Concert: Major Groove 12-1pm. HAND Holiday Concert Series Durham.
December 7, 2012 Duke Homestead Christmas by Candlelight Celebrate an 1870 Christmas during the evening candlelight tours of the Homestead. The Homestead tour features period decorations, caroling, hot apple cider, and other goodies. Additional entertainment will be available in the visitor center. FREE admission. 7-9pm. Duke Homestead State Historic Site and Tobacco Museum, 2828 Duke Homestead Rd.
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A modern update to the classic “The Nutcracker” set Holiday Open House in the 1980’s, infusing ballet with salsa, Capoeira, 6-8pm. Hip Hop, Bollywood, Arabian, and African Nasher Museum of Art. drumming. Tickets $15, $10 kids ($20 reserved). F 12/7 2pm & 6pm; Su 12/9 3pm; Th 12/13 10:15am & 1:30pm; F 12/14: 6pm. Durham Arts Council Bldg, 120 Moris St.
December 13, 2012 Duke Medicine Chorus Winter Concert
December 9, 2012 Cookies Are Not Just For Santa
12-1pm. HAND Holiday Concert Series Durham.
Write a Letter to Santa; Story Telling; Cookie Decorating; A Visit with Santa. Cost $10 per child, $5 per adult, including snacks & beverages. “A Trailer Park Christmas” Play 12:30-1:30pm. Set in West Durham, A Trailer Park Christmas follows Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club. the Dodson/ Hussey family as they grapple with crazy neighbors, ghosts, fruitcakes and a holiday tornado. Tickets $17, $15 students & seniors. Th-Sa, 7:30pm-9:30pm; Su, 2pm-4pm. Holiday Concert: Natalie Gilbert Common Ground Theatre, 4815B Hillsborough Rd. 12-1pm. HAND Holiday Concert Series Durham N.C.
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Duke Homestead Christmas by Candlelight Christmas in the Carolinas During the Civil War
Holiday Concert: Sarah Klein
Celebrate an 1870 Christmas during the evening candlelight tours of the Homestead. The Homestead tour features period decorations, caroling, hot apple cider, and other goodies. Additional entertainment will be available in the visitor center. FREE admission. 7-9pm. Duke Homestead State Historic Site and Tobacco Museum, 2828 Duke Homestead Rd.
12-1pm. HAND Holiday Concert Series Durham.
Witness how Christmas was celebrated in the Piedmont Carolinas. The farm will be decorated in a typical Christmas fashion. Music, caroling, and refreshments. FREE admission, but donations gratefully accepted. 10-4pm Sa, 10am-3pm Su. Bennett Place State Historic Site, 4409 Bennett Memorial Rd.
A Christmas Carol Holiday Painting Party (See Thursday, November 29, 2012) 7-9pm. Golden Belt, 807 East Main Street, Durham.
December 15, 2012 Bahama Ruritan Christmas Parade An old-fashioned Christmas parade with bands, firetrucks, and floats by community organizations. 10am. Bahama Rd.
One of the Triangle’s most beloved Christmas traditions will once again be featured at the DPAC. Theatre In The Park’s original musical comedy, based on the book by Charles Dickens and adapted for the stage by Ira David Wood III, has been called ‘one of the most successful shows in North Carolina theatre history’ and voted one of the top 20 events in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society. Tickets $37+. Sa-Su 2pm-5pm; Sa 7-9pm. Durham Performing Arts Center.
December 20, 2012 Duke Chapel by Candlelight - Open House 12-2pm. Duke Chapel.
Holiday Concert: The Magic of African Rhythm 12-1pm. HAND Holiday Concert Series Durham.
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Holiday Happenings December 29 - 30, 2012 Carolina Ballet’s The Nutcracker After the opening of Carolina Ballet’s new Nutcracker, The News & Observer wrote that the “gasps after each eye-popping illusion, the applause for the handsome new sets and the rapt attention from all the children confirmed the changes were worth it.” Sa 7-9:30pm, Su 2-3:30pm. Durham Performing Arts Center.
DUKE PERFORMANCES SPRING 2013 • MUSIC, THEATER, DANCE & MORE.
December 31, 2012 January 1, 2013 New Year’s Jazzin’ Eve with Art of Cool Entertainment including headliner The Foreign Exchange (Phonte+Nicolay with live band). Other all-star live performances by the Al Strong Quintet, Marcus Anderson and Yolanda Rabun. Guest DJ Apple Juice Kid, and MCs Toon and The Real Laww. Tickets $50, $75 with 5-drink wristband. 8pm-1:30am. The Cotton Room at Golden Belt, 807 E Main St, Downtown Durham.
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Carolina Wonderland Express Tu-Sa, 10am-5pm; Su, noon-5pm. Museum of Life and Science, 433 W Murray Ave. December 7, 2012 - January 2, 2013
Christmas Tree Challenge American Tobacco Campus, 318 Blackwell St.
Diavolo Dance Theater • 2/8 & 2/9
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