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LDOC 2013 artist line-up still a secret
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As students take on their last day of Fall classes, student organizers are finalizing the artist line-up for the Spring LDOC concert. The celebration, which will take place April 24, will provide students with a wider variety of daytime and evening entertainment than in past years, said senior Bo Triplett, co-chair of the Duke University Union LDOC committee. He added that the committee has finalized its selection of musical acts. “I will definitely say that we have figured out the roster, but we are still waiting to hear back from the artists,” Triplett said. “I cannot give out any specifics yet due to contractual obligations.” He noted that students can expect to hear the official final line-up shortly after Winter Break. But rumors are already starting to spread. Recent posts from the Duke LDOC Twitter handle mentioned possible performances by musicians Ciara or Nickelback. Triplett said students should not take these suggestions seriously. “As far as the tweets go, they’re total jokes,” DUU President Nathan Nye, a senior, noted in an email Thursday. “We SEE LDOC ON PAGE 4
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Students line up for free potato pancakes Thursday night at the annual Latkepalooza event hosted by Jewish Life at Duke.
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The Global Education Office has recently reached out to the Women’s Center to begin exploring the issue of sexual assault during study abroad programs. An anonymous guest column—published in The Chronicle Nov. 26 titled “A college girl’s guide to not getting raped abroad” has stimulated some conversation about Duke students’ experiences with sexual assault while studying abroad. Both the GEO and Women’s Center have
expressed interest in finding out more about this issue. “The safety and security of our students is of paramount importance to us,” Margaret Riley, assistant vice provost for undergraduate global education, wrote in an email. In response to the column, Jamie Snow, program coordinator at the GEO, reached out to Sheila Broderick, gender violence intervention services coordinator, to begin discussions about sexual assault abroad and determine appropriate
steps to mitigate the issue. Some students, including sophomore Mattie Goldman, noted that the guest column has made them more conscious of gender violence issues abroad. Goldman will be spending the Fall 2013 semester abroad. “I will definitely be traveling with a different perspective—one that is more aware and cautious,” Goldman said. Currently all students planning to SEE ASSAULT ON PAGE 3
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Duke’s financial state
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After Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton emphasized the integration of career interests and academic passions during a talk last Wednesday, Program II seems likely to be at the center of a change in the University’s vision. Program II, the individualized degree program that allows select students to develop their own major, could expand in size and prominence in order to accompany the increasingly integrative and interdisciplinary academic currents. But Patton noted in an email Wednesday that such changes will not take place in the near future.
The University’s finances still face several hurdles, despite improvements since the 2008 economic crisis, Arts and Sciences Council members learned at their Thursday meeting. Vice President for Finance Tim Walsh presented information on the University’s sources of revenue and the biggest financial challenges Duke faces to the council. Central strategic funding, undergraduate financial aid, federal support for research and undergraduate residential renovations are the main stressors on SEE COUNCIL ON PAGE 5
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Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs for Trinity College, speaks about an updated transfer credit policy at Thursday’s Arts and Sciences Council meeting.
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“There are no immediate plans to change Program II,” Patton said. “We have asked the faculty committee in Program II to study what kinds of successful proposals have come through over the course of the last several years.” Alvin Crumbliss, former faculty chair of the Program II committee, praised the program for offering students an alternate route to earning a degree and for encouraging them to think about their career goals when designing their own curriculum. But he acknowledged that not all students are equipped to design their own program. SEE PROGRAM ON PAGE 4
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“It’s difficult to comprehend the factors that would cause an individual to open fire in public....” —Hannah Colton in ‘Trigger warning for gun violence.’ See column page 11
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DeMint leaves GOP Company to offer two leaders disenchanted seats to the moon by David Fahrenthold WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.) created a new role in the modern Congress: He was a cheerful starter of civil wars—a Republican who assembled candidates and money to beat other Republicans. DeMint’s tactics have changed the face of the Senate and made the junior senator from South Carolina into a power broker independent of the party hierarchy. DeMint-backed conservatives such as Rand Paul (Ky.), Mike Lee (Utah) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) won their races and have pulled the chamber’s GOP caucus to the right. Still, DeMint’s strategy came with serious limitations. And Thursday, some of his closest associates said these may have spurred DeMint’s decision to leave Congress during his second term as a senator. The Senate’s ultimate outsider, they said, may have decided he needed to go farther outside. “Jim is the guy who’s passionate, [with] conviction, [an] idea guy who has a vision for the country and believes it’s one worth fighting for,� said former senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who was an ally of DeMint’s in the Senate. “I think that was his motive to go to the Senate in the first place. What this shows is that maybe he’s looking at the Senate as not the best place to do that right now.� DeMint, 61, is a native of Greenville, S.C., and a small businessman who founded a market research firm in his hometown before he was elected to the U.S. House in 1998. Five years later, he won the Senate seat vacated by retiring Democrat Ernest F. Hollings, a change that reflected South Carolina’s broader political shift from bastion of the Democratic “Solid South� to epicenter of a deep-red modern conservatism. Out of that environment, DeMint then became one of the first elected officials to channel the money and energy of the Tea Party, rising as the movement’s elder statesman in Washington. Along with Paul and Lee, DeMint was a founding member of the
Senate Tea Party Caucus. In the Senate, DeMint has been distinguished by his strident attacks on Democrats: The health-care debate, he predicted, would be President Obama’s “Waterloo.� DeMint said Obama was the “world’s best salesman of socialism.� But many of DeMint’s most important confrontations have been with Republicans. Under President George W. Bush, he helped derail an immigration proposal supported by Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). He also harangued his fellow Senate Republicans to support a moratorium on earmarks. Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), a conservative who called DeMint a mentor, said the senator told him not to be co-opted in Washington. “‘Be true to yourself,’� Mulvaney said DeMint told him. “And he said, ‘You’re going to have to try and figure out if you’re going to fix this from within the system or without the system.’� By “system,� Mulvaney said, DeMint meant the Republican mainstream. DeMint’s political action committee, the Senate Conservatives Fund, drew big donations from hedge funds, manufacturers and the well-known conservative donors at Koch Industries. In all, it gathered 4,740 contributions of more than $200, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The PAC raised money—$13.7 million in 2012—for a string of long-shot conservative candidates, who often defeated mainstream Republicans in party primaries. DeMint’s money helped create a new brand of Republican senator, focused, like DeMint, on shrinking the federal government, cutting spending and supporting conservative social causes. But in general elections, DeMint’s people lost more often than they won. In 2010, he helped nominate three Republicans—Sharron Angle in Nevada, Christine O’Donnell in Delaware and Ken Buck in Colorado— for Senate seats that had seemed within reach. All three lost their races. In 2012, it SEE DEMINT ON PAGE 3
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WASHINGTON — It had to happen: A start-up company is offering rides to the moon. Book your seat now—though it’s going to set you back $750 million, and it’s unclear if that includes baggage fees. Led by heavy-hitter former NASA executives, the Golden Spike Co. would boldly go where humankind went 40 years ago, this time commercially, hawking tickets to foreign governments or space tourists. “Two seats, 750 each,� said former NASA associate administrator Alan Stern on Thursday, shortly before he appeared at the National Press Club in Washington to announce the formation of the company. “The trick is 40 years old. We know how to do this.� You won’t have to joystick the lunar lander yourself, so don’t worry about dodging killer craters and boulders on the way down. Everything will be automated and controlled from Earth. It’ll be like taking a train, the company said. “We realize this is the stuff of science fiction. We intend to make it science fact,� Stern said at the news conference. He added: “We believe in the price points that we’re talking about.� The company has assembled some credible advisers, with a board chaired by former NASA Johnson Space Center director Gerry Griffin. The business model requires economies of scale—lots of customers and lots of missions to the moon to offset the very high start-up cost. The company sees 2020 as a plausible date for that initial trip. Golden Spike would need to commission a lunar lander and moonwalking suits, but most of its mission architecture would rely on commercial rockets and capsules already flying or under development. For example, the company could use a rocket and capsule developed by Elon Musk’s commercial start-up SpaceX, which has successfully flown cargo to the international space station under a NASA contract. The primary targets for Golden Spike are foreign countries that want to do lunar science or attain the prestige of putting their own as-
tronauts on the moon. Because of political sensitivities, the company would not sell a moon trip to China, which has been expanding its space program, Stern said. Nor would the company sell rides to any country restricted by law from access to U.S. technology that could be used for military purposes. Stern said the company has no billionaire backers but has had a serious discussion with one potential lunar tourist. He wouldn’t give the name. “If you come to me and you’re not an unsavory character, we’re going to fly you,� he said before the news conference. “If NASA wants a ride, we’d be glad to put them on our railroad,�Griffin added. The company’s board of advisers includes former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who during the Republican primaries early this year said that as president he’d establish a permanent moon base by 2021. NASA’s official reaction to Golden Spike: Go for it. “This type of private sector effort is further evidence of the timeliness and wisdom of the Obama Administration’s overall space policy to create an environment where commercial space companies can build upon NASA’s past successes, allowing the agency to focus on the new challenges of sending humans to an asteroid and eventually Mars,� NASA spokesman David Weaver said in a written statement. Twelve human beings have set foot on the moon, the first in 1969, the last in 1972, all of them Apollo astronauts. Thursday’s news conference coincided with the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17, the final Apollo mission. It also came one day after the release of a scathing review of NASA’s strategy by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences. The report, which was commissioned by NASA on orders from Congress, concluded that the space agency has failed to come up with a robust strategy for human spaceflight. President Barack Obama decided to cancel NASA’s Constellation program, which SEE MOON ON PAGE 5
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Students make their own art at the Nasher Museum of Art Thursday night for the event CELEBRATE MATISSE: Sketching in the Galleries.
DEMINT from page 2 happened again, with candidates Josh Mandel in Ohio and Richard Mourdock in Indiana losing to Democrats. These losses were cold comfort to Republicans whom DeMint had helped undermine before, such as former South Carolina congressman Bob Inglis. Inglis had been a friend of DeMint, but DeMint declined to endorse him in a 2010 Republican primary fight against a former prosecutor,
Trey Gowdy, whose politics were closer to DeMint’s. That strategy may work in South Carolina, Inglis said Thursday, but it is dangerous to attempt on the national level. “We’ve got to get into the business of addition and multiplication, and out of the business of subtraction and multiplication,” Inglis said. “Because it ain’t working out for us.” The defeat of DeMint’s allies this year helped keep Republicans as the Senate minority and left DeMint with little trust from the GOP
leadership. During DeMint’s eight years in the Senate, none of the bills he has authored have been signed into law. “He hasn’t been terribly successful as a politician or as a senator,” said Mark Tompkins, a political science professor at the University of South Carolina who has followed DeMint’s career. “At the end of the day, he just wasn’t temperamentally a man of the Senate.” DeMint will move to head the Heritage Foundation.
study abroad receive a handbook from the GEO, which includes a three-paragraph section called “Special Note to Women.” The note says women should be aware of the difference in gender roles across cultures and countries, and it warns them about possible street harassment. The passage concludes that women should understand that they are not necessarily treated the same way that they are in the United States by men in other countries. “Prepare yourself by trying to understand in advance not only the gender roles and assumptions which may prevail elsewhere, but also the uniqueness of U.S. gender politics, which may or may not be understood, much less prevail, in other countries,” the handbook says. Broderick, however, said she does not think the handbook passage is sufficient in preparing Duke women to protect themselves sexual predators and differing gender standards abroad. “I understand that this is a complicated thing, but this [passage] is not going to prevent rape,” Broderick said. “It’s important that students don’t confuse safety issues with trying to be culturally sensitive. I doubt communicating ‘No, you cannot touch my body’ differs that much from country to country.”
The incidents described in the guest column were not reported to the GEO or Women’s Center. Because each country has its own legal standards, the GEO relies on in-country staff to assist in these emergencies. When incidents are reported, the office works closely with the Women’s Center and the Office of Institutional Equity to help the sutdent victim. But these resources can only be of use if the victim reports the incident, Riley noted. “We cannot assist with a problem unless we know about it,” she said. There is no numerical data for the number of Americans who experience sexual assault while studying abroad, Megan Erhardt, communications manager of the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network, wrote in an email. Even if there was specific data, the number of sexual assaults would still be greatly under-reported, added Broderick. “I hear too many stories like this,” she said. “We first need to figure out the scope of the problem.” As a possible solution, Broderick proposed that an exit survey be distributed to students after participating in study abroad. People are more likely to report violent encounters on an anonymous survey than they are to the police at the time of the incident, she said.
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Macklemore performs at the 2012 Last Day of Classes celebration in April. This year’s LDOC Committee plans to announce the musicians for the 2013 celebration soon after Winter Break.
LDOC from page 1 would never make anyone listen to Nickelback.” The artists will include a hiphop group, a multi-artist band and an electronic dance music act, Triplett said. He added that he hopes the variety of genres will get students “hyped” about the music. “Students will feel like they are at a concert festival with daytime programming that [they] are going to be excited about. We have both corporate and local sponsors,” Triplett said. “It is going to be like Bonnaroo.” Without a finalized line-up, many students do not know what to expect from the event. “I have never experienced
LDOC, so I don’t really know what makes a good LDOC or a bad LDOC,” freshman Jared Alosio said. “But I think LMFAO would be really fun, but they might be too popular for us to book.” Triplett said that this LDOC will be a new experience for both freshmen and upperclassmen who have experienced the celebration before. He said the day will focus more on the music than in years past. The committee has faced some challenges—some of the contracts drawn up with possible musical acts fell through earlier this Fall. But the committee does not anticipate any further obstacles for the contracts that they have in place, Triplett said.
In addition to planning the musical line-up, the committee is also trying to find ways to incorporate the new housing model into the Spring event, Triplet added. In previous years, dorms have had individual events and brought their benches onto the quad. The committee also faces the logistical challenge of setting up simultaneous events for students to enjoy. Triplett noted that due to academic concerns, no concert can begin before the final class of the day has ended. Although the overall feel of LDOC will be different from years past, Triplett said that student favorites, such as the “K-Ville barbeque,” are still planned for this year.
The program has doubled in size over the past decade, increasing from 23 students to around 40 students per class. Self-designed majors have ranged over 17 interdisciplinary areas, many based firmly in the humanities. For students pursuing the sciences, one issue they face with Program II is the difficulty of assimilating more rigid science curricula into the interdisciplinary approach of Program II. “Science majors’ curricular requirements are vertically structured, which makes it more difficult but not impossible for them to do Program II,” Crumbliss said. Crumbliss added that students specializing in science are often required to take more prerequisite courses, giving them less flexibility to pursue Program II. Junior Hannah AndersonBaranger, who designed a Program II major entitled “Sustainable Arts and Design: Ethical Creation in a Globalized World,” said she wanted to pursue a Program II major since freshman year. She added, however, that her previous experience in a typical major program confirmed her interest in Program II. “If anything, the classes that I chose to take [for my original major] solidified my commitment to my program,” An-
derson-Baranger, a Chronicle columnist, said. “I wasn’t really satisfied with any one of these disciplines—the thing I was most passionate about was this interdisciplinary field of sustainable arts.” Although she focuses on the policy aspect of environmental studies, Anderson-Baranger has also taken a number of natural science courses in preparation for her program. “Having a basic scientific understanding of how things work is important,” AndersonBaranger said. “If I talk about the ozone layer, I want to know what that means.” Anderson-Baranger added that she believes her Program II degree will help her forge an eventual career in sustainable fashion design. For now, the program will remain unchanged from past years. “We can talk to students who have completed Program II in that same time period,” Patton said. “From there we can judge what successful, engaging and meaningful interdisciplinary projects look like for students., and then we can think about how that interdisciplinary spirit can best be utilized across the rest of the curriculum.” Norman Keul, Program II director and associate dean of Trinity College, could not be reached for comment.
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MOON from page 2 was initiated during the George W. Bush years as the next step in space exploration after the retirement of the space shuttle. Constellation aimed to put astronauts back on the moon by 2020, but a presidential panel said the program was underfunded and implausible. Now NASA is building a new heavy-lift rocket capable of missions beyond Earth orbit, with the goal of visiting a near-Earth asteroid in the middle of the next decade.
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The University system is heavily dominated by the Duke University Health System, School of Medicine and School of Nursing, which combined account for nearly 75 percent of the institution’s value, Walsh said. Additionally, about half of the University’s revenue comes from federal research funding. This funding will likely decrease in the near future due to government budget cuts, Walsh said, which would affect the rest of the University. “The scale of the School of Medicine drives... the entire revenue structure of the University,” he said. The University’s commitment to need-based financial aid for undergraduates is also straining the budget, he noted. Provost Peter Lange noted that Duke increased its generosity with financial aid in 2001 as part of a larger trend of providing needbased financial aid among Duke’s peer institutions. The financial col-
lapse and the subsequent depletion of the endowment funds caused the need to draw funding from the University’s operations budget, decreasing the funding available for other endeavors. Three factors compound the stress associated with financial aid, Lange said—an increase in the number of students in need of financial aid, an increase in the amount of aid each student needs and a decrease in the incoming funding for financial aid. Walsh also addressed the impact that the recently launched Duke Forward capital campaign will have on alleviating the financial problems. Although donations are coming in, they are often in the form of pledges, which will not amount to actual available funding until five to 10 years from now. An ad hoc advisory budget committee has been tracking the budget, with the purpose of keeping the Arts and Sciences Council informed about the University’s financial climate and priorities,
Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton said. In other business The Arts and Sciences Council approved a proposal from the curriculum committee to change the transfer credit policy. The policy previously stated that students may receive transfer credit from an “approved U.S. four-year college or university.” The wording will be changed to “approved four-year college or university in or outside the United States.” The proposal was presented by Steffen Bass, professor of physics and member of the curriculum committee. Bass noted that the change will allow students to take courses for credit overseas over the summer or during the academic year, if they are part-time students or on a personal leave of absence. This policy stands independent of the study abroad policy, and will not change the way study abroad credits are handled,
Bass said. The directors of undergraduate studies of the relevant departments will be responsible for determining whether the international courses are approved and what requirements they will count toward, said Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs for Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. “The outcome of this subtle but important change is we will not get out of the very surreal and even strange business of identifying who is a domestic student and who is an international student,” Baker said. “It really makes things a little more straightforward.” The Council discussed the inclusion of the phrase “four-year” in the policy after Mark Goodacre, associate professor of religion, noted that many British universities follow a three-year model. Baker noted that the modifier would be removed, adding that it does not affect the meaning of the policy change.
Routine access to space is being shifted to companies operating under commercial contracts. And there are a number of ventures aiming at space tourists who would pay to go into low Earth orbit. Golden Spike, whether it turns out to be viable or not, is the latest sign that outer space is increasingly attractive to entrepreneurs. Nancy Conrad, the widow of Apollo astronaut Pete Conrad, and a board member of Golden Spike, said her husband would be thrilled about the company’s plans: “He’d probably be clicking his heels, be-
cause this should open up the frontier for everyone.” Also on hand was Andrew Chaikin, author of multiple books on the space program and another company adviser. “We are the children of Apollo,” he said. “We don’t want to take no for an answer.” But no has been the pragmatic answer for a long time. The moon is an airless, waterless, lifeless sphere that makes Antarctica look like South Beach. The distance to the moon isn’t the problem—it’s just a few days away—but it’s not easy climbing into its gravity well, land-
ing safely, blasting off again and returning safely to Earth. The Golden Spike mission architecture requires four separate launches and various feats of refueling and docking in space. “I think somebody could make this work if there were enough people trying,” said Howard McCurdy, a professor of public affairs at American University and author of many books on the space program. “The model that they’re using is an entrepreneurial model that sort of requires a lot of competition.” Challenged by an Associated
Press reporter to explain how the company could possibly turn a profit—especially since the first mission would cost the company at least $7 billion by its own estimate—Stern said the business plan had been carefully vetted. One should not overlook the “media stream,” he said. The missions could be televised, with corporate sponsorship, advertising, naming rights and so on. It could be as big as the Olympics for some countries, Stern said. Think of it as one small step for man, one giant leap for Bud Light— or something like that.
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Todd Zafirovski was never going to attend Duke University. The day applications were due, Zafirovski announced at the dreamed of attending since his family lived in Raleigh. The 6-foot-8 forward had been a four-time letterwinner in basketball at Lake Forest Academy in suburban Chicago, earning all-conference honors in three of those seasons. A number of schools, including several smaller Division I institutions, had come calling with scholarship offers. Without the pedigree to be a scholarship player at Duke, Zafirovski was unconvinced that his credentials would earn him admission to such a topnotch university. His father insisted that he apply anyway. Todd Zafirovski was never going to play basketball for Duke. After being admitted to the University and holding conversations over the summer with the Blue Devil coaching staff, he showed up for practice during the first week of the Fall semester. “If nothing else, you can be a manager,” the coaches told him. And in the first workout of his college career, as a 6-foot8 freshman, he was matched up defensively against 7-foot-1, 260-pound senior Brian Zoubek. He was overmatched, but the coaching staff kept him around as a practice player. “They just never told me to leave,” Zafirovski said, “so I just kept coming back.” SEE TODD ON PAGE 8
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These days, Duke doesn’t win a game without beating its opponent by double digits. Thursday night’s ACC opener was no exception. The No. 4 Blue Devils (7-0, 1-0 in the ACC) beat Georgia Tech 85-52, controlling the game from GTECH 52 the opening tip all the way to the final whistle. DUKE 85 “We’re trying to work towards what we’re trying to get to, if that makes any sense,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “When we have three players with 11 rebounds, that’s the general idea. Just trying to be aggressive from all spots.” The Blue Devils went on a 19-6 run in the first eight minutes of the first half, and the Yellow Jackets (3-5, 0-1 ACC) faced a double-digit deficit for the rest of the game. Sophomore center Elizabeth Williams and junior guard Tricia Liston led the way for Duke in the first half, scoring 12 and 11 points, respectively. Junior Forward Haley Peters added seven points of her own in the opening frame, and pulled down six boards. The Blue Devils dominated every aspect of the opening half except for rebounding efficiency. Georgia Tech reeled in 12 offensive boards to Duke’s seven, but the Yellow Jackets could only convert their hard work on the glass into six secondchance points. Facing a 14-point halftime deficit, Georgia Tech came out of the locker room and started the second frame with an 8-4 run, cutting the Blue Devil lead to 10.
Elizabeth Williams scored 25 points with 11 rebounds, blocking six shots as Duke limited Georgia Tech to a 28.6 field goal percentage.
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When Duke and Temple met last season, the then-No. 5 Blue Devils fell to an unranked Owl squad 78-73 after winning 13 of their last 14 games. Coming off an 88-50 drubbing of Delaware at Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday, No. 2 Duke (8-0) hopes to continue its winning ways and avoid its second straight upset at the hands of Temple (6-0) Saturday in East Rutherford, N.J. “We’ve had a great start this season, but it’s not about how you start,” senior forward Mason Plumlee said. “We’ve got to stay hungry and get better.” Although the Owls are unranked, they received votes in the AP Poll after they won their fifth straight game. None of their wins have come against ranked opponents, though they own a 80-75 win against the same Delaware squad that the Blue Devils beat by 38. Plumlee said, however, that Duke is expecting to take the court against a different Temple team than the one that eked out a close win against the Blue Hens. “Every team plays us differ-
ently than they do other teams,” he said. “Teams have their best game against us. They’ll shoot the ball better, and they’ll play harder. Watching film on teams isn’t relevant because they aren’t going to be the same team once you play them.” The teams have many similarities, each featuring one efficient post player—Plumlee boasts a 65.4 field-goal percentage, while Temple sophomore forward Anthony Lee has made 65.9 percent of his field-goal attempts. “We’re similar,” Duke sophomore point guard Quinn Cook said. “It’s going to be a fun game. We’re going to see who wants it more.” In addition to orchestrating the Blue Devil offense with 5.9 assists per game on average, Cook has found his groove as a scorer, averaging 10.5 points per game. “Quinn’s played great so far,” Plumlee said. “People were surprised in the Kentucky game, and they were surprised when he was MVP of the [Battle 4 Atlantis], but I don’t think they’re surprised anymore— they know that’s what he’s going
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ANTHONY LEE 11.3 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 65.9 FG% RAHLIR HOLLIS-JEFFERSON 8.8 PPG SCOOTIE RANDALL 16.7 PPG, 7.2 RPG KHALIF WYATT 15.2 PPG, 4.8 APG WILL CUMMINGS 5.2 PPG, 1.3 SPG
(Projected lineups, statistics from 2012-13 season) Anthony Lee is an efficient DUKE TEMP post scorer, but Plumlee has 72.8 PPG: 78.8 been one of the top bigs in the 61.0 PPG DEF: 63.5 FG%: nation this year, unlike any48.1 43.8 3PT%: 37.3 32.8 thing the Owl frontcourt has FT%: 75.5 72.7 seen. He and Kelly have the RPG: 33.7 35.2 advatnage. APG: 15.6 15.7 With Quinn Cook becom3.8 BPG: 5.9 ing more comfortable every SPG: 10.5 6.9 game in the backcourt, the 12.1 12.0 TO/G: Blue Devil guards have beThe breakdown come even more dangerous. Temple is one of a few talented teams in a They have the edge, but Khasolid A-10 conference, but the Blue Devils lif Wyatt can threaten. will be at their sharpest after this team upset Although Duke has used them last year. Khalif Wyatt and Scootie Rana tight rotation in its close dall may prove dangerous at points, but with games, Alex Murphy and time to rest after the Delaware game, No. 2 Amile Jefferson showed Duke should be in good shape to take this. the bench’s potential in the team’s blowout against Delaware.
OUR CALL: Duke wins, 81-64
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Pura heads east to Duke
Duke to get its Dream Puffz
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Any Duke student will tell you how great the East coast is, but for Duke men’s tennis recruiting, the West coast has been the best coast. In November, head coach Ramsey Smith and his team officially welcomed TJ Pura to the Blue Devils. Players and coaches alike are looking forward to working with the Pacific Palisades, Calif. talent during the 2013-14 season. The blue chip recruit—who is currently ranked the No. 20 recruit in the nation by Tennis Recruiting Network— was also weighing offers from UCLA, Southern California, Harvard and Stanford, but ultimately chose Duke for its exceptional tennis program and its academic rigor. “Duke is the best combination of tennis and academics,” Pura said. “It will allow me to study at a really high level and pursue tennis at a really high level as well.” His personal coach Hugo Armando—a former professional tennis player—believes that Pura will be an asset for Duke, both on and off the court. He is confident that Pura’s maturity will carry him to a successful college tennis career. “He’s got a good head on his shoulders,” Armando said. “I think he’s going to be a good fit, and I think the team is going to be much better for having him there.” But Pura’s discipline is not all that he has to offer. Armando has described Pura as a fiery competitor, saying his love for the game has awarded him much personal success. But Pura insists that his main goal will be to help out the team and the school. “TJ has had success at all levels of junior tennis, and he is going to be a shot of adrenaline to our program,” Smith said. “He is a great athlete with solid fundamentals and an all-court game.” On court success has given Pura the confidence to compete at the highest level and has never been a problem on the court. But he is anxious about being so far from home for the first time.
M. BASKETBALL from page6 to give us every day, and we know that as a team.” Cook, as well as the other guards on the team—freshman Rasheed Sulaimon, junior Tyler Thornton and senior Seth Curry—have been focusing on rebounding the ball. If the guards are in the right spots, they can help win 50-50 ball battles, Plumlee said. A better performance from them on both the offensive and defensive glass will be critical against an Owl squad that pulls down a similar number of boards per game as the Blue Devils. “Rebounding has definitely been the biggest emphasis from our first eight games,” Cook said. “We can’t just rely on Mason or Ryan [Kelly] to grab all the rebounds. We all know that and have been working on it every day.” Plumlee added that his brother Marshall, a redshirt freshman forward who has yet to play this season with a stress fracture in his foot, is “a heck of a rebounder.” There is a possibility that Marshall, who is almost fully healed and has started practicing, will come off the bench against Temple. The Owls’ key focuses entering the matchup are taking care of the ball, giving up few second-chance opportunities and communicating well, especially on the defensive end, head coach Fran Dunphy said. He noted that senior guard Khalif Wyatt, a second-team All-Atlantic 10 Conference selection last season, will need to come up with a big performance against Duke, bouncing back from his 4-for-16 shooting from the field against Villanova Wednesday night. In last season’s game against the Blue Devils, he made 8-of-12 shots in a 22-point performance. “We need him to have a very good game against Duke, as he did last year when he propelled us to victory,” Dunphy said. “[Duke’s] defense will very much be set for Khalif, but we need him to be the best player he can be.” Like the Blue Devils, Temple is going into Saturday as a hungry team looking to maintain its undefeated record. “I don’t have to talk to the players very much about playing a team like Duke,” Dunphy said. “We’re playing one of the best programs in the history of college basketball, so we don’t have to talk too much because we know the focus will be there. The next step for us is to execute, and it’s certainly going to take our best execution to beat a team like Duke.”
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Brian Zoubek has one warning for the Duke basketball team before its game against Temple Saturday afternoon: Save his cream puffs for after the game. “I don’t want them to be weighed down,” Zoubek said. “I don’t need Coach [Mike Krzyzewski] to have any reason to blame me for poor performance. I had enough of that in college.” Zoubek, who played for the Blue Devils from 2006-10, opened his own cream puff shop “Dream Puffz” over the summer in his hometown of Haddonfield, N.J. Prior to Saturday’s contest against the Owls in East Rutherford, N.J., Zoubek plans to drop off some of his delicacies at the team’s hotel. “Hopefully they’ll get a little taste of some Dream Puffz, and it will be nice little reward if they win,” Zoubek said. “But if they lose, I’m taking them away.” Should Duke prove victorious, Zoubek said they should look forward to a variety package of his cream puffs featuring his cannoli and eclair flavors. The cannoli flavor in particular, he said, has been popular among the locals. But Dream Puffz is not only in the dessert business— since its opening in July, the product line has expanded to include three savory flavors: chicken salad, buffalo chicken and apples and brie. He said those have been so popular that customers have requested he sell the fillings separately by the ounce. Now that the operation in Haddonfield is running Joining long-time friend Jason Tahir on the team should help ease Pura’s transition to college and to Duke tennis. The two grew up playing tennis together in New York, and Tahir’s encouragement ultimately helped Pura make his final decision to come to Duke. “He was always telling me about Duke and to keep it in mind and as time went on, I realized how right he was,” Pura said. Aside from intellectual aptitude and a sound game style, Smith looks for hard working individuals with strong character and leadership ability. Both Smith and assistant coach Jonathan Stokke noticed something special about Pura. “I can’t tell you how many other coaches and parents have congratulated me on getting an amazing kid and player in TJ,” Smith said. “He has great energy and enthusiasm for tennis, but also for life.” Pura agrees that his up-beat attitude will be his most important contribution to the team. “This is so special to me,” Pura said. “I’ve never been happier in my life.”
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Former Duke center Brian Zoubek is planning to bring the Blue Devils cream puffs from his “Dream Puffz” shop prior to the team’s game in N.J. smoothly, his tentative plan is to open another Dream Puffz in Philadelphia before setting his sights on New York. “I don’t want to jinx it,” he said. After dropping off the tasty treats, Zoubek will attend Saturday’s game with his girlfriend, getting to watch a team that has been compared to the Blue Devils’ 2010 national championship squad that was also led by three seniors— Zoubek, Jon Scheyer and Lance Thomas. The current team features three seniors in Mason Plumlee, Ryan Kelly and Seth Curry, all of whom were on that title-winning team, though Curry was redshirting that season. “I definitely see some of that, traces of my team in there. I think the leadership Mason and the seniors are providing right now is huge,” Zoubek said. “Really being those consistent performers is such a huge key to success.” Zoubek said he remains close to the three seniors and has been impressed with the team’s early-season success, which includes three victories against top-five opponents. Although the team has yet to face an ACC opponent, which he said is the “real test,” he likes where the Blue Devils are headed. “They definitely have the potential to go all the way,” Zoubek said.
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W. BASKETBALL from page 6 TODD from page 6 “That’s just not a good thing, the way we came out of the locker room,” McCallie said. “I don’t know about that, why that occurred. But I will say the response was excellent.” After trading baskets back and forth, junior guard Chelsea Gray took over for Duke. A mid-range jumper put the Blue Devils up by 14 with just under 15 minutes left in the half. On Duke’s next two possessions, Gray converted one of two free throws and scored a contested layup in transition to put the Blue Devils up by 17. A Blue Devil steal led to another fastbreak, which Gray finished off with an acrobatic score in the paint, and Duke assumed a 20-point lead with 13:28 left in the second half. The Yellow Jackets failed to mount a serious comeback effort the rest of the game. “You have to pour it on,” McCallie said. “It’s hard to play 40 minutes. We certainly didn’t completely do that tonight, but we learned from that. I thought what was key was getting through that and moving forward, and Chelsea was a huge part of that.” In Chloe Wells’ second game back after a second-semester suspension during the 20112012 season and an injury early this season, the junior guard scored her first points of the year. Wells finished with eight points, an assist and a rebound in just 14 minutes of play. “Fantastically happy,” McCallie said about Wells’ performance. “We all are—for Chloe. If she keeps up this rate, 14 minutes and eight points, she’s really going to be a star. She is very efficient with her attacking and scoring and her ball handling. It’s great to have ball handlers out there, and it’s an important part of the game. She was just terrific off the bench, and I know we’re all happy about it. She’s been working a long time for this.” Sophomore guard Ka’lia Johnson provided big minutes coming off the bench for McCallie, scoring nine points and grabbing 11 boards.
Throughout his four years in Durham, the Minnesota native has continued to be an asset in practice. His presence has been especially necessary this season, as injuries and a dearth of big men on the roster have necessitated his participation in every 5-on-5 scrimmage. “Todd’s not a pushover.... He’ll really lay the wood on you,” said senior center Mason Plumlee, who Zafirovski often guards in practice. “I’m not going to say he presents a challenge, but he’s a good player.” Zafirovski has embraced the role, now weighing 240 pounds, and continues to battle against his fellow Blue Devil post players each day. He also gets a bit of help sometimes when matched up against Plumlee or Ryan Kelly. “Coaches let me get away with a couple more fouls than everyone else,” Zafirovski said. Williams finished with a team-high 25 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks—her first double-double of the year, after registering five last season. Williams’ 32 minutes played were a season high, as she has been limited due to a lingering stress fracture from last season. Peters added 11 points of her own and pulled down 11 boards for her second career double-double. “Haley and I always talk about who is going to get more rebounds,” Williams said. “It was nice for us to try and dominate in the post today.” Although forced to sit for long stretches of the second half with four fouls, Gray added 13 points, six steals and five assists. The Blue Devils’ stifling defense held Georgia Tech to a season-low 28.6 field goal percentage. “We’re not going to play on anybody’s court that is tougher than Duke’s,” Yellow Jacket head coach MaChelle Joseph said. “This is it. This is the top of the pinnacle.”
Todd Zafirovski was never going to play basketball for Duke—at least, not with his name spelled correctly on the back of his jersey. It was New Year’s Eve when Zafirovski first dressed for a game, against Pennsylvania at Cameron Indoor Stadium. But in making his No. 52 jersey for the contest, the Blue Devil equipment staff had mistakenly replaced the last “i” with a “y.” “That happens,” Zafirovski said, in his typical sheepish style. Not long before that, head coach Mike Krzyzewski had announced to Zafirovski in front of the entire team that the freshman would be invited to become the roster’s 14th member. “Like scoring your first basket, it’s one of those moments you’ll never, ever forget,” Zafirovski said. Although the Blue Devils defeated a winless Pennsylvania squad by 59 points, Zafirovski was stuck on the depth chart behind three other former walk-ons—graduate student Jordan Davidson and juniors Steve Johnson and Casey Peters—so he did not see game action. He played out the rest of his freshman year without getting into a game. Todd Zafirovski was never going to score a point for Duke. Last Saturday Josh Hairston fouled out of a contest against Delaware with more than five minutes on the clock. Mason Plumlee rose from the bench, ready to replace Hairston in the game. But Krzyzewski had other plans. He called for Zafirovski. Zafirovski appeared in his first Duke game in November 2010, saw his first ACC action against North Carolina State February
of that season, and appeared in 10 games through his sophomore and junior seasons. In 21 minutes of court time during that span, he racked up an 0-for-3 shooting performance, two rebounds, a block and an assist. He played in his first Countdown to Craziness at the start of his senior year—another career landmark that he experienced with his name misspelled on his jersey. Then, he got his chance to set a career high in minutes— with six left to play—against Delaware. “Every single time I get in a game, everyone’s like ‘You’d better score, you’d better take a shot,’” Zafirovski said. His teammates did their best to facilitate, but he missed his first attempt from the floor. “Pretty badly, too,” he recalled. “I don’t really know what happened. I just got the ball, and I tried to flick it up there really quickly, and I lost it.” But he was undeterred. “If you give it to me again,” he told his team, “I promise I’ll make it.” And sure enough, his next opportunity came—under the rim, with 1:24 on the clock. Off an entry pass from Tyler Thornton, Zafirovski converted a layup for the first points of his Duke career. “It’s finally good to get that off my back,” he said, “and I couldn’t be any happier about it.” Todd Zafirovski may never lose a game at Duke. The Blue Devils have won all 11 of the games in which he has appeared, and that is unlikely to change for a player who only takes the court in blowout wins. “I’d much rather win and not play than lose and play, and luckily I’ve never played in a loss.” Not bad for a guy who was never going to come to Duke.
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here’s a document I read awhile back that’s SDC)” as a “non-profit educational foundation,” been floating around in the back of my head. meant to be a politician’s go-to source for climate It was the “Global Science Communications science. The center’s purpose is to provide climate Action Plan” spearheaded by a memscientists with the moral and logistiber of the American Petroleum Incal support “they have been lacking,” stitute (API). Back when I read it, it to bring other mainstream scientific absolutely chilled me. Like, to the organizations to the debate and to bone. I had this overwhelming feelprovide an “alternative to the IPCC.” ing that it was something everyone Because the IPCC (Intergovernmenhad to read. At that point, I didn’t tal Panel on Climate Change, funded have a platform by which to bring it by the U.N.) obviously has corporate to people. But now I do. lucas spangher interest in climate change occurring. The document was written in April This stage was allocated $5 million. natureLOL of 1998, and it’s an internal email The plan ends with $300,000 alwritten following the Clinton Adminlocated to inform and educate memistration’s endorsement of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. bers of Congress, and to reach out to like-minded For those wondering, the Kyoto Protocol is perhaps scientific groups. the world’s best attempt to date to confront climate Perhaps it was something about reading the change. Kyoto is a sad, bittersweet thing—it wasn’t blurry and annotated PDF sent by a professor that perfect, but it acknowledged that excess carbon unnerved me so. More than that though I think emissions were a problem and presented a chance it was seeing the current rhetoric against climate for the world to come together to fix it. change being printed in an internal memo in 1998. The memo came in response to the threat Kyoto It was the notion that an organization can pull presented. The “Action Plan” starts with a “Situation strings and, with relative ease, change the course Analysis.” The plan states the imminent problem: The of a global discussion on a scientific phenomenon Clinton Administration has agreed to Kyoto, and if it 14 years later. Do you feel it, too? Sure, we all know and environmental groups have their way, a mitiga- that organizations and companies do this sort of tion of “so-called greenhouse gases” will occur. The thing. But to see it broken down and itemized into memo then expresses a concern that most informed stages? It’s chilling. Americans believe climate change to be a threat deThe U.S. ultimately failed to enact the Kyoto Prospite the fact that “it’s not known for sure whether tocol. Clinton signed it, but the Senate did not ratify (a) climate change is actually occurring, or (b) if it is, it. In fact, a resolution was passed by the Senate prewhether humans really have any influence on it.” venting ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. The UnitNext, the plan puts forth a “Project Goal”: that ed States, to date, stands as the only signatory out of a majority of the American public, including lead- 191 to not ratify it. And it continues to be the world’s ership, recognizes that uncertainties exist in the sci- second largest emitter. ence of climate change. According to plan, “victory” In 2011, a survey conducted by researchers from will be achieved when the American public, the me- George Mason University revealed that 84 percent dia and industry leaders “‘understand’ (recognize) of scientists surveyed agreed human-induced warmuncertainties in climate science,” and those promot- ing is occurring. To quote Science Magazine, on ing the Kyoto Protocol on a scientific basis are recog- climate change “the scientific consensus is clearly nized as being “out of touch with reality.” expressed in the reports” of the IPCC. The notion Then comes, at least for me, the most chilling that there is this fundamental scientific uncertainty part. The “Strategies and Tactics” section breaks is, simply, pure manipulation. But opponents of clidown the plan of action into stages. In stage one, a mate change are organized and efficient. They know media relations team will be set up to “educate and what they are doing. And they benefit from general inform the public,” training five “independent scien- ignorance of what they do. Please, take this to heart: tists” to participate in media relations efforts. These There are many people whose job is to question the scientists will provide what they call a “global climate realities of climate science. science information kit” to be sent to the media If you’d like to read the full text of this memo, and science writers around the world. They will also please go to http://www.euronet.nl/users/e_wesk“convince one of the major news national TV jour- er/ew@shell/API-prop.html. Or email me at ljs14@ nalists (e.g., John Stossel)” to examine the science duke.edu, and I’ll be happy to send you a scanned supporting Kyoto. The budget allocated for the first version of the actual email. stage was $600,000, in 1998 dollars. It gets worse. In stage two, plans were laid to esLucas Spangher is a Trinity junior. This is his last regutablish a “Global Climate Science Data Center (GC- lar column of the semester.
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n the silver screen, we watched Sean Penn’s sion. So without condoning censorship, I urge filmmob open fire on moviegoers in a Hollywood makers and consumers to seriously reconsider how theatre. The dramatic clip, climax of the violence is construed in mass media. There’s a fine trailer for “Gangster Squad,” was met line between portraying violence as with stunned silence. The audience a representation of reality and either broke into uneasy murmurs. It was July downplaying or glorifying it. Stanley 21, the day after James Holmes shot 70 Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” is a people, killing 12, in a movie theater in classic example of a film in which vioAurora, Colo. lence is highly aestheticized, but in a Recovering from the slap-in-theway that is meant to deeply (and apface trailer, we settled in for “The Dark propriately) disturb audiences. Knight Rises.” An hour later, I felt sick. Ultimately, the way filmmakers treat hannah colton I couldn’t enjoy the movie. Every time the subject of violence influences pubgross national the citizens of Gotham were casually lic understanding. As one online comhappiness bombed or otherwise terrorized, my menter noted on the aforementioned mind flashed back to Gangster Squad trailer, “You repress and trivialize the and then to Aurora. It’s hard to suspend disbelief violence in inherently violent stories, then you don’t when confronting the fact that terror can come off get to act surprised when your kids don’t understand the screen and into the real world. the totality or irreversible pain it causes.” I began to sob and fled the theater. I felt as if the Finally, stricter gun policies are, in my opinion, shooting had taken place in the adjacent theater rath- our best option for reducing gun violence. After er than across the country. My chest ached for the going unnoticed during much of the campaigning, lives shattered by bullets and for the horror-stricken the issue was raised at the town hall debate in midsurvivors. I had never so vividly “experienced” a na- October. One voter asked President Obama what his tional trauma like this (I was only 10 when the twin administration has accomplished in limiting access towers fell), and it was profoundly unsettling. to assault weapons. The answer: nothing, really. After I felt silly and helpless about my panic attack. I pandering to hunters, Obama reiterated a lukewarm wanted to go home to a glass of red wine and a rom expression of support for renewing a ban on assault com, to push away this pain that was not really my weapons, which expired in 2004. Of course, NRA-enown. But another part of me wanted to hold on to it dorsed candidate Romney had nothing but disdain fiercely, to burn it into my consciousness. I felt that for any such restriction. to let that pain fade would be to deny a reality that This lack of urgency on common sense gun concould have easily been mine. I was lucky to be in the trol is disturbing. Since 1982, there have been 61 mass right place at the right time—but good luck isn’t gun murders (defined as those with four or more faenough to make me feel safe. talities) in the U.S. In 75 percent of these cases, the Why do mass killings occur? It’s difficult to com- weapons used were obtained legally. These included prehend the factors that would cause an individual dozens of semiautomatic and assault weapons, often to open fire in public. Yet this is the challenge put sold to individuals with previous histories of mental to policymakers in the aftermath of shootings like instability. I was shocked to learn of the “gun-show Aurora—to evaluate and respond. If we believe there loophole,” which allows firearms to be purchased is progress to be made in reducing gun violence, we from private dealers at shows without a background must consider three major contributing factors: up- check on the buyer. State and federal policymakers bringing, outside influence and access. must take action to keep weapons, especially those The first and perhaps most obvious assertion is designed for military assault use, out of the hands of that an individual’s background determines future anonymous civilians. patterns of behavior. Many politicians emphasize On July 25, Warner Brothers pulled the problemtaking steps to strengthen social capital, such as atic “Gangster Squad” scene. The studio announced family stability, safe communities and social equal- that the film premiere would be delayed until Januity. This is not specific to violent crime—rates of ary and that “an alternate murder spree scene will alcohol/drug abuse, nutritional deficiencies, theft be shot that does not take place in a movie theater,” and other social ills generally decrease with more according to the Web site Deadline Hollywood. The social capital. However, this theory only indirectly message? Get your blinders back on, America—muraddresses the problem. In fact, many perpetrators der sprees are good entertainment, if you believe it of gun violence are well-educated citizens from sta- can’t happen to us. I fear we may have collectively, ble middle-class families. tragically, missed the point. Second, we might question the portrayal of violence in film and TV. Arguably dearer to Americans Hannah Colton is a Trinity senior. This is her final than the right to bear arms is the freedom of expres- column of the semester.
sat in the third-floor Perkins-Bostock bridge, pretending to read my math textbook. Why now? Out of all times, why now? The statuses flooded in “DUKEENGAGE GUATAMALA OMG,” “I can’t believe it! Going to India next summer wahoo!” I slammed my laptop shut—jealous, annoyed, hurt. Thoughts flooded in faster than status updates: “I have a C in calculus and a test tomorrow. Good God, get it togracie willert gether.” “It’s okay to be sad.” read me maybe “This means summer school. Joy.” “My good is not good enough.” “But my roommate got her program and did her application the night before.” “I can always try next year!” “Forget it. DukeEngage must be corrupt.” “What did my professor say about integrals and cars again?” That was one year and two days ago. Nothing was going according to plan. I had just heard back from DukeEngage— a big, fat “we regret to inform you” email sitting in my inbox. I deleted it. And sat there. Crushed. It dawned on me that my belated foray into pre-med classes was going mediocrely at best. This was round two of applying to international DukeEngage programs for me. Three strikes and you’re out? My boyfriend walked up, and I just couldn’t pretend. The tears came down. Down, down, down. Right there in the third floor bridge. “Why does following your dreams sometimes feel like you’re chasing them away?” I wondered aloud. He hugged me, pushing my hair behind my ear and told me to focus on studying. “Every little thing will be okay,” he said. He left for class. I sat back down again. Faced forward in the too-comfortable-for-any-serious-studying chair, tears still streaming, the whole world an apathetic blur. A year later, I sit in this same spot, about to open the DukeEngage email. What to do, what to do? Failure known twice is doubly discouraging. Click, open, the subject heading reads: “Good news from DukeEngage!” I’m sitting here, joyous, knowing that I will be going to Muhuru Bay, Kenya next summer to volunteer at the WISER school. Happy tears come. Down, down, down. I am overwhelmed by how far I am from where I once was. I sit here with the knowledge that I am headed into my exams in good shape. I sit here knowing that every little thing, in this moment, is all right. It won’t stay like this. Oh goodness, no. “It’s always something,” as they say. But what I want for myself and for every Dukie is a quiet moment of reflection during this final week. A minute to remember your own moment like this, when you found out a piece of good news or when the Chapel’s bells were ringing and the whole sky above was alight with crimson and orange. We should, we must remember moments when every little thing felt better than okay, moments when we remember that life rocks and so do we. For me, an embarrassing song is the trick. It’s a song that we’ve all heard more times than professors say “the final will be cumulative” (and equally groan-inducing). For me, it’s “So What” by P!nk, released circa 2008. The only thing worse than pop music is barely retro pop music. I digress. Do one quirky thing this finals time. Slide in your ear buds and give this song a listen. Three-quarter volume or bust. We are not P!nk. The pixie cut is tough to swing, and most of us prefer a more classic look. But so what? We’re still rockstars. We got our rock moves. It’s okay to be humbled. It’s okay to follow our dreams or chase them away. It’s okay to catch up with them or find new ones. Plan A doesn’t work out? So what? There are 26 letters in the alphabet. Stay cool. And so I rather like to look at finals as an opportunity. An opportunity to show Professor Blake that I do know how cars and integrals relate. An opportunity to maintain that A in chemistry or reach for that grade in history. And if not? If we fall short? So what? If the A is lost, the target left unreached? So what? We don’t get the DukeEngage we had hoped for? So what? Nothing goes according to plan? So what? We’re still rock stars. We’ve got our rock moves. And every little thing will be okay. Maybe not for long. But for a moment. And that is enough.
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