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Duke’s integration was a ‘lesson to the institution’ by Imani Moise
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25: 50th Anniversary Kickoff Reception Nasher Museum of Art
26: Celebrating 50 Years of Achievement & Progress: It Starts With US Washington Duke Inn
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14: Blindspot: The Hidden Biases of Good People Reynolds Auditiorium
19: Samuel DuBois Cook Society Reception & Dinner Washington Duke Inn
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4: Black Church & Black Mosque: An Interfaith Conversation on Faith & Race Duke Faith Council
10-15: The Roots-to-Rights Tour Jewish Life at Duke/Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture
22: 12th Annual Duke/Durham Health Summit Durham Convention Center
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2: Art for All: Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey Nasher Museum of Art Events will continue Fall 2013.
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The three surviving members of the first group of undergraduates to integrate—Gene Kendall, Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke and Nathaniel White visit Duke (left). Students protest outside the Allen Building in 1969 (top), and others protest inside in 1967 (bottom) to increase integration on campus.
Duke had a watershed year in 1963. That year, the University ushered in a new president, Douglas Knight, as well as its first five black undergraduate students. Fifty years later, three of these five returned to Duke to reflect on a half century of racial progress. Gene Kendall, Engineering ’67, Wilhemina Reuben-Cooke, Woman’s College ’67, and Nathaniel White, Trinity ’67, were among the first class of black undergraduates. They reunited Thursday at Forlines House to discuss their Duke experiences. As they recalled it, their integration at Duke went surprisingly smoothly. “There were no outward expressions of difficulty [with our presence],” White said. Despite the common assumption that the students would have faced strong adversity, given the racial tensions in the 1960s South, the Duke community seemed very prepared for integration, White said. He thought it seemed as if administrators had had a conversation with all Duke community members in anticipation of the students’ arrival. Professors were among their closest allies on campus, Reuben-Cooke said, noting that faculty members were so supportive that it was difficult to think of one specific act of kindness. “People were aware of what we were going through,” Kendall said, recalling a gym SEE 50 YEARS ON PAGE 16
Obama faces uphill battle Dir. uses social media to for immigration reform advance student health by Michelle Menchaca THE CHRONICLE
The Obama administration is aiming to overhaul immigration in its second term. Senior administration officials and lawmakers report that the president hopes to push for a single bill to provide a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants. Senate Democrats will draft changes and are said to be already working on a bill. If Obama hopes to pass legislation on the matter, though, he will likely have to do so early in his second term to increase the likelihood of both parties cooperating, said Nicolas Eilbaum, a lecturing fellow in the Thompson Writing Program who teaches a class
on Mexican migration to the north. “Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity,” Obama said in his inaugural address Monday. Successful immigration reform will have to address two key concerns, Eilbaum noted—what to do with illegal immigrants already in the country, and policy changes to ensure that the current controversy does not arise again. He added that he was hopeful for new legislation to pass despite partisan conflicts that have impeded reform in the past. SEE IMMIG. ON PAGE 16
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Duke’s new student health leader will use his web savvy to reach out to students. Dr. John Vaughn, Duke’s newly appointed director of Student Health Services, wants to expand students’ access to health care by utilizing social media and collaboration with other departments. Prior to his appointment to Duke, Vaughn worked at Ohio State University since 2007. His views on an integrated student care system attracted the Office of Student Affairs after Dr. Bill Purdy, the previous director of Student Health, announced his retirement in Spring 2012.
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Vaughn has used social media at OSU to achieve greater audience participation in the student health system. After creating, running and overseeing BuckMD, the student health blog at OSU, Vaughn was able to talk about uncomfortable but pertiJohn Vaughn nent issues like sexual health and alcohol to over 50,000 viewers a month. “If you’re going to be delivering health care to 18- to 30-year-olds, you SEE VAUGHN ON PAGE 4
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Expert spearheads health care policy in Laos Dr. Shenglan Tang, professor of medicine and global health at the Duke Global Health Institute, was appointed by the World Health Organization to lead a project that will attempt to develop the health sector of Laos. Tang and his team worked to create the National Health Sector Reform Strategy, which was presented to and recently approved by the National Assembly of Laos. Tang, who has experience researching health systems and disease control in China and other countries, is now excited to pioneer a new health care project in a location that he thinks is full of potential. The Chronicle’s Tony Shan spoke with Tang to discuss his new assignment.
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The Chronicle: Where do you see the Lao health care system headed in the future? Shenglan Tang: My vision is that by 2020— or at the latest 2025—all the people of Laos will be able to get access to essential health care, including basic health services and intensive clinical care, all at an affordable cost. TC: How does the National Health Reform Strategy that you worked on help to realize this vision? ST: This new strategy, which was approved by the National Assembly, will provide legitimacy and, more importantly, leverage for the minister of health. With it, he will be able to get more funding and push the minister of personnel to create a program to attract more doctors to work in rural areas with adequate compensation. I see the National Health Reform Strategy as a milestone in empowering the health sector toward implementation of our objectives. You can have a very beautiful strategy, but without the resources to implement it or the laws to enforce it, a strategy alone will not do
much good. TC: What about Laos made it a particularly interesting target for health sector development? ST: Laos is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its health care system is very weak in terms of funding, human resources and infrastructure. In addition, because of Laos’s lack of internal funding, contributions from Western countries account for a big proportion of Laos’s health care resources. Without the support of these countries, it would not be possible to provide even the most basic health care to the vast majority of the Lao people. However, economic growth in Laos has been exceptionally fast in recent years, which provides an excellent opportunity for the Lao government to increase its investment in health. At the moment, Laos’s spending on health only accounts for 1 percent of GDP, so there is room for the government to increase funding for the health sector, particularly if the economy continues to grow faster and faster. TC: What is the greatest obstacle you have faced since beginning this project? ST: From a policy perspective, I guess one of the biggest obstacles was providing a motive for inter-sector cooperation. We talk about health care development as the responsibility of the health sector, but it cannot be successful without collaborating with, for example, the minister of social security, the minister of personnel, the minister of financing and particularly the minister of planning and investment. The minister of health cannot do everything alone. He needs the endorsement of the prime minister, money from financ-
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David Arcus’s playing has been praised for its display of “exalted pomp and spirit, and a genuine affection for his listener” (Fanfare). In addition to serving as Associate University Organist and Chapel Organist at Duke, he is also the Divinity School Organist and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Sacred Music. His program in this year’s series, performed on the Flentrop organ, will feature music from the German Baroque, including works by Scheidemann, Reincken, Bach, and Bruhns.
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expert on Laos’s health care system. Prior to beginning that assignment, I had visited Laos twice to attend meetings or workshops, but I did not have a chance to research and familiarize myself with their health sector. There are also a lot of health challenges facing Laos, so obviously this job sounded quite daunting and difficult.
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Dr. Shenglan Tang, professor of medicine and global health, leads a Laos-based project for the World Health Organization. ing and human resources from personnel. These people must all then collaborate with social security to discuss health insurance. Because there are so many sectors involved, this is a particularly challenging aspect of the project. Currently, we are trying to persuade the minister of health to work with at least one other sector, but there is still a lot of work that must be done to reach full cooperation. TC: What was your reaction when you heard that you would be leading a team to develop the health care system in Laos? ST: My first reaction was that this project would be very exciting, but at the same time very challenging. At the time, I was not an
TC: Could you tell me more about some of these health challenges? ST: Aside from the people living in big cities or the capital Vientiane, the majority of people in Laos, particularly those in poor remote areas, are not given adequate access to health care. The exceptions to this are the vertical programs that Laos has to reduce risk of HIV, TB, etc., but these are not enough. Another issue we faced was with human resources. I saw that in addition to an overall shortage of medical doctors and therefore health services, many of these practicing doctors are not willing to work in rural environments where their services may be needed the most. TC: How did you first become interested in global health? ST: A few years ago when I first came to the United States, I studied what was at that time called international health. I received a master’s degree in public health in the International Health Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. From there, I became interested in public health challenges in lower income countries and found that there were many such countries in Asia that I felt familiar with because of my work in China. Ten years ago, international health was renamed global health, but I have worked in this field for about 20 years now.
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Group initiates talks Soon, women will have a role in combat on alcohol policy by Ernesto Londoño
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will move “expeditiously” to integrate women into the military’s combat units, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta vowed Thursday, arguing that the inclusion of female troops would make the country and its fighting force stronger. “They’re serving in a growing number of critical roles on and off the battlefield,” Panetta said shortly before signing a new policy memorandum that directed the armed services to fully integrate women. “The fact is that they have become an integral part of our ability to perform our mission.” The change will trigger a major overhaul in how the Army and Marine Corps evaluate whether recruits and service members are fit to take on physically strenuous jobs. That process may take a couple of years to complete, officials said. It is also likely to become contentious as women try to break into the military’s most vaunted corners, such as Ranger training school and Special Operations commands. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, who appeared alongside Panetta at a news briefing, reflected on the sweeping cultural changes since he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1974, when it admitted only men. The most eye-opening moment, he said, came in Iraq in 2003. As the commander of the 1st Armored Division, he hopped into an armored vehicle and slapped the gunner’s leg, asking the soldier to introduce himself. “I’m Amanda,” the gunner said, poking
Duke Student Government will work with administrators on modifying the standards for alcohol consumption on campus, said junior Neil Kondamuri, DSG vice president for social culture. At the DSG meeting on Thursday, Kondamuri said that members of DSG have begun discussions with the administration to improve the current alcohol policies to better fit the Duke social culture. “The problem on campus right now is that there is a big information gap between what the administration wants students to do with alcohol and what students are actually doing in party-like settings,” Kondamuri said. “We are looking for a solution that solves the information gap and makes it so [students] are following the rules while making students happier.” The idea was initially introduced to Kondamuri by freshman Banks Anderson, senator for social culture. The plans are still preliminary, Kondamuri noted. Executive Vice President Patrick Oathout, a junior, added that the committee will also communicate with Duke’s Panhellenic Association, Interfraternity Council and Selective House Council to encourage dialogue about the effectiveness of current alcohol regulations. Oathout noted, however, that the discussion concerning alcohol policy was not the most significant part of this week’s meeting. He said the pending DSG bill of rights should be a subject of student con-
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Junior Niel Kondamuri, vice president for social culture, spoke to DSG about potentially modifying the campus alcohol policy. versation. The bill of rights will “provide an avenue for students to connect with DSG and the judiciary,” he said. Undergraduate students will have the opportunity to vote to approve the bill of rights concurrently with the Young Trustee ballot scheduled for Feb. 7. “There has been a lack on our part to really communicate the importance of the bill of rights to the average Duke student, but this is really important,” he SEE DSG ON PAGE 4
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her head down from the turret. “So, female turret gunner protecting a division commander,” Dempsey recalled, beaming. “And it’s from that point on that I realized something had changed and it was time to do something about it.” In strikingly blunt terms, Dempsey said the military’s alarming rate of sexual assault and harassment cases may have been influenced by the culture created by a segregated force. “When you have one part of the population that is designated as warriors and another that’s designated something else, I think that disparity begins to establish a psychology that in some cases led to that environment,” he said. The new policy replaces a 1994 ban on allowing women to serve in ground combat roles. The change is the product of a decades-long debate that shifted dramatically as women served with distinction in Iraq and Afghanistan, wars with no clear front lines. In a statement Thursday, President Barack Obama described the move as a “historic step” and praised the service of women. The Army and Marine Corps have been asked to present plans by May 15 outlining steps to open combat positions to women. The Marines will roll out a training exercise for 400 male and 400 female Marines next summer that will seek to start integrating women into combat units. The Army is evaluating the way it screens soldiers for physically demanding jobs, drawing lessons from a pilot program last SEE COMBAT ON PAGE 16
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VAUGHN from page 1 have to do it the way they are going to access it,” said Vaughn, who hopes to take what he did at OSU to Duke. “You have to be online, you have to go and engage your students.” Vaughn, whose term will start July 1, noted that he intends to engage Student Health in a more active role in students’ lives. He hopes to reinstate a student health advisory committee to increase Student Health’s involvement in the student community. “The Student Health Center can’t just be the place on campus that students go when they’re sick—we have to be there to do that too—but we have to be an active part of the academic life of the Uni-
DSG from page 3 said. “This will give them an avenue to address the issues they feel are most important.” The bill of rights will replace the joint statement document that has governed the organization for more than 18 years. Oathout said that the joint statement is “dated” and “the language needs updating,” noting that the current DSG non-discrimination clause does not address sexual orientation. The proposed bill of rights, however, received criticism from some senators. Junior Marcus Benning, senator for Durham and regional affairs, said the new document will not affect students, unless its goals are thoroughly communicated to the student body. An amendment proposed by President Alex Swain, a senior, clarifies that the right to freedom of speech outlined in the document—a right not guaranteed by the
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versity,” Vaughn said. “My goal is to work with students to see what their needs are and find a way to reach out to them both in person and through social media.” Vaughn’s optimistic and creative ideas made him a strong candidate for the position, said Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students, who was involved in the hiring. She added that the Student Health director is expected to wear a number of different hats. “This person will be a clinician, they will be an administrator and they actually serve as the overall manager of Student Health from a personnel and budget standpoint,” she said. “But most importantly, in collaboration with many
colleagues, he will focus on the health and well-being of Duke students.” Sophomore Michael Washington, a senator in Duke Student Government, noted that Vaughn is committed to making Student Health a more visible and accessible entity on campus. Washington was responsible for representing the student perspective during Vaughn’s interviews. “Dr. Vaughn, above any of the other candidates, really communicated his goals to work with students to make Student Health a more visible and accessible entity on campus,” Washington wrote in a email Thursday. Vaughn’s extensive involvement in the college medical community, including being executive editor for the Jour-
current policies—will not extend to the amount of money that can be used during DSG campaigns. But Benning and junior Stefani Jones, vice president for equity and outreach, said they were concerned that without a clause to regulate negative campaigning, the right to freedom of speech could be misused. “Students should look at both sides of the situation when voting,” she said, adding that DSG spent a lot of time on this legislation that it could have spent more directly working with students. Oathout said he disagreed, noting that the bill of rights will be a “really, really important legacy” that future students will appreciate. “We are fighting about things that really matter for [students],” Oathout said. “The bill of rights applies to every single Duke student. This can totally revolutionize everything that DSG is able to do for students.”
In other business: Freshmen Syed Adil and Matthew Heinlein and sophomore Abhishek Balakrishnan were approved as members of the board of elections. Oathout noted that “all of the new members are competent.” Senator for services Michael Washington, a sophomore, said DSG and the student body should be welcoming to Dr. John Vaughn, the new director of student health. “This guy is awesome, and we should feel really grateful to have him,” Washington said. The new Fix My Campus system is getting approximately four suggestions per day, said senator for services Lavanya Sunder, a freshman. “We are already way more successful than [The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]’s program, which only gets one per week,” she said, adding that DSG is “working with” all of the suggestions.
nal of American College Health, has allowed him to monitor and become familiar with the current status of college students both locally and nationally. Vaughn’s patients and their families speak highly of him both as a doctor and as a friend. Suhaan Mehta, a patient of Vaughn’s since 2008 and a graduate student at OSU, explained that Vaughn goes out of his way to make all situations between him and the students extremely comfortable. Vaughn keeps up with the personal lives of his patients, including Mehta’s studies and interests. “He’s a mover and a shaker in student health—he’s got so many ideas that we’re just going to have to put on our seatbelts and get ready for the ride,” said Wasiolek. “To me, that’s a really positive thing.”
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Under-the-weather Liston leads Duke to victory by Karl Kingma THE CHRONICLE
CLEMSON, S.C.—Three days after a sobering 30-point loss to Connecticut, the No. 4 Blue Devils arrived at Littlejohn Coliseum Thursday seeking redemption. Whether or not they found it in their 60-46 victory against Clemson Thursday is hard to say. Duke (17-1, 7-0 in the ACC) went into halftime tied 2222 with the Tigers, who it clobbered 82-45 just two weeks earlier, and trailed midway through the second half. But the Blue Devils rallied late behind DUKE 60 sophomore guard Tricia Liston, began the game on the bench CLEM 46 who with cold symptoms. She did not let her sickness keep her down, though, tying her season high of 22 points in just 22 minutes of play. “I was just focused on coming in and being aggressive coming off the bench,” Liston said. “I was trying to come in and do whatever my team needed me to do. At the time it was to knock down shots.” Elizabeth Williams also came through with her second double-double of the season, tallying 12 points and 13 rebounds. Duke seemed to be running on all cylinders early as an Alexis Jones 3-pointer gave the Blue Devils a 7-0 lead. Clemson (5-13, 1-6) quickly responded with a 6-0 run of their own, however, cutting the lead to one by the first media timeout. Despite Duke’s excellent first two minutes, the Blue Devils quickly regressed offensively. Guards Chelsea Gray and Chloe Wells struggled penetrating the Tigers’ 3-2 zone. The lack of inside play might account for the fact that Duke only earned one trip to the free throw line in the first half. The Blue Devils had some success rotating the ball around the perimeter, but many of their possessions ended in careless turnovers. Statistically speaking, the Blue Devils’ first half was jam-
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Battling cold symptoms, Tricia Liston began the game on the bench for the first time all season but led Duke with 22 points in 22 minutes. packed with benchmarks of the wrong kind. The team conceded a season-high 17 turnovers, scored a season-low 22 points and shot a season-low 31.0 percent from the floor in the period. Head coach Joanne McCallie was not thrilled with her
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If there is one thing Duke needs right now, it’s to move on from Wednesday’s 90-63 destruction at the hands of No. 25 Miami. The No. 1 Blue Devils (16-2, 3-2 in the ACC) will have the chance to do that as they return to Cameron Indoor Stadium to play Maryland Saturday at 1 p.m. Although the two teams have had some memorable moments on the court against each other, the Terrapins agreed in November to leave the ACC in favor of the Big Ten. Maryland (15-4, 3-3) has struggled with its consistency in conference play thus far with three losses in its last five games, though that span includes a win against then-No. 14 N.C. State. Seven-foot-1 sophomore center Alex Len paces the Terrapins in both points and rebounds with 13.5 and 8.2, respectively, and has scored in double figures in every ACC game thus far. Len will battle Duke senior Mason Plumlee in the post, setting up a matchup between two talents who many regard to be potential lottery picks in the 2013 NBA Draft.
Plumlee has faced increased pressure with his frontcourt mate Ryan Kelly still out indefinitely with a right foot injury. Although he has recorded double-doubles in three consecutive games, he has made just 12 of his last 35 shots in Duke’s last two games, averaging 4.5 turnovers. Len’s size and presence have allowed the Terrapins to be one of the nation’s best rebounding teams early in the season. Maryland averages 43.0 rebounds per game, the second most in Division I, and the team has yet to be outrebounded in a game this season. Xavier transfer Dez Wells, averaging 11.8 points per game, is the only other Terrapin with a double-digit scoring average so far this season. Wells, who was granted a transfer waiver in November allowing him to play immediately without having to take a year off, is a versatile 6-foot-5 wing player who is making 54.0 percent of his field goals this season. And as one of the deepest teams in the ACC—with head coach Mark Turgeon regularly rotating 10 players—point guard Pe’Shon Howard is not relied on to score. SEE M. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 12
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team’s offensive performance. “Turnovers frustrated us all,” McCallie said. “Sometimes you just have to play the game simply—you know, making
MASON PLUMLEE 17.5 PPG, 11.4 RPG AMILE JEFFERSON 2.1 PPG, 2.3 RPG RASHEED SULAIMON 10.8 PPG, 0.9 SPG SETH CURRY 16.4 PPG, 42.4 3PT % QUINN COOK 11.8 PPG, 6.2 APG
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ALEX LEN 13.5 PPG, 8.2 RPG, 1.9 BPG CHARLES MITCHELL 5.7 PPG, 6.2 RPG JAKE LAYMAN 4.5 PPG, 2.9 RPG DEZ WELLS 11.8 PPG, 54.0 FG% NICK FAUST 8.7 PPG, 4.1 RPG, 2.6 APG
(Projected lineups, statistics from 2012-13 season) Mason Plumlee is one of the DUKE MD nation’s premier big men but 71.8 PPG: 17.3 this Terrapin frontcourt is nasty 59.6 PPG DEF: 63.1 FG%: on the boards. Maryland is sec46.1 46.8 3PT%: ond in the nation in rebounds 40.5 32.9 FT%: per game and has yet to be 71.0 68.2 RPG: 43.0 36.6 outrebounded in a game. APG: 15.3 16.1 Duke’s backcourt couldn’t 4.1 BPG: 4.5 buy a bucket against MarySPG: 6.7 7.2 land, but Quinn Cook and 11.2 10.9 TO/G: Seth Curry are too talented The breakdown to come out and struggle like Coming off one of the program’s worst losses in that again, look for them to recent memory, expect the Blue Devils to come have big games. out with a vengence in this one. It won’t be Perhaps the lone bright spot easy against this talented Maryland squad and of Duke’s win against MaryAlex Len, but the Blue Devils have too much land was the play of Alex talent and fight to go down in another one. Seth Murphy, who scored a careerCurry and Quinn Cook will need to step up big, high 11 points. Maryland’s though, in order to pull out the victory. bench may be deeper, but OUR CALL: Duke wins, 77-72 Duke has the talent.
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Duke tennis hosts ITA Kickoff Tournament Women’s tennis looks forward to home crowd Men’s tennis brings a deep squad to action by Jackie Klauberg THE CHRONICLE
The Blue Devils hope to have some tennis Crazies back in action this weekend to make Sheffield Tennis Center rattle like it did last Saturday in their decisive win over William & Mary. Duke (1-0) will hit the hard court against Wisconsin (0-0) in the ITA Kickoff Tournament and then play either College of Charleston or Wyoming Sunday. Blue Devil head coach Jamie Ashworth praised last week’s attendance at the match, which he said goes hand in hand with the energy his players bring to the court. “We have worked hard the last couple of years to make this one of the toughest environments in the country to play in and a lot of that comes from the energy we bring,” Ashworth said. “If we bring the energy, the crowd will have the energy. The past couple years we have had a really good fan base.” The Blue Devils are currently ranked No. 3 in the nation according to the ITA and NCAA polls. Only Florida and UCLA rank above Duke. But the Blue Devils, who won the NCAA Championship in 2009, are not unfamiliar with the pressures and expectations that come with being ranked so highly. They know what it feels like to be the team to beat. “I don’t think we fear [the] pressure [of being atop the rankings]. I think we embrace that,” Ashworth said. “We want to get the best from everyone we play. I think for all the teams we play, we are someone they circle on their schedule. It’s a good opportunity for them. If we didn’t have that challenge [of being the one to beat], I don’t think we would have the success that we do.” The Blue Devils will undoubtedly get the best efforts of the Badgers this weekend seeing that
the match marks Wisconsin’s first of the season. They will likely be enthusiastic and fresh out of the gate. Duke’s Mary Clayton has to the chance to join the 100-win club with a singles win this weekend. The team’s lone senior will be one of only 21 Blue Devils to own 100 career singles victories. Ashworth commended Clayton on her accomplishment and the quickness with which she has come to it. “[Mary] has emerged as a great leader for us,” Ashworth said. “She has reached this hundred mark fairly quickly [since she started college in January and missed a semester of matches]. As a player and a competitor, she has grown a lot since her freshman year. She had some good wins this fall… and she is getting better. A lot of seniors, by the time they are in their senior year, they are looking forward to what they are doing next year. [Mary] has set the tone for everyone to follow.” Clayton teamed up with Ester Goldfeld to beat the No. 3 doubles team in the nation and the duo is 3-0 so far on the year when playing together. Ashworth was encouraged by the tandem’s play last weekend. “They beat [the No. 3 ranked team in the nation from William & Mary] last year,” Ashworth said. “We had some good scouting reports on them. Mary and Ester played really smart. They stuck with their game plan. They didn’t give up a lot of free points. Hopefully if we keep them together, which right now we are, they will continue to play that disciplined, great tennis.”
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Duke freshman Michael Redlicki forms one of Duke’s top doubles tandems with Jason Tahir. by Olivia Banks THE CHRONICLE
The Blue Devils have solidified a No. 5 ranking in the ITA Poll, cruising past Elon and UNC-Charlotte in the first two matches of the regular season. This weekend, Duke is slated to host one of the 15 ITA Kickoff Tournament regional qualifiers. Of the 60 teams competing in regional qualifiers, only 15 will travel to Seattle, Wash. for the all-important ITA National Indoor Tournament. The depth of the Blue Devils makes them the favorite this weekend, as they prepare to take on Middle Tennessee State on Friday at 10 a.m. “I don’t know if we’ve ever played them in the past,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “But it’s always nice to get a fresh team. We don’t know too much about them.” But the two teams have met once before. The last time the Blue Devils encountered the Lightning was nearly 40 years ago in Durham. Duke took that match 8-1.
Although they are both very different teams now, the Blue Devils recognize that they have done all they can to prepare for this competition. “We’ve been working hard, and I think that breeds confidence,” junior Chris Mengel said. “I’m excited more than anything else, and I think everyone’s confident and ready to go.” Sophomore Jason Tahir agrees, realizing that these are the two biggest matches of the season so far, but he does not anticipate that will distract the team from its goal. “Getting through,” Smith said. “Our biggest goal is finding a way to win both matches.” Although the other three teams appear evenly matched, Blue Devil players and coaches agreed that their toughest opponents this weekend will be ACC foe Virginia Tech. Even though the Hokies maintain a No. 43 overall team ranking by the ITA, top players Andreas Bjerrehuus and Amerigo Contini will be tough opponents for the Blue Devils in both singles and doubles. But sophomore Jason Tahir is more confident than ever in his doubles play. Alongside partner freshman Michael Redlicki, the two look forward to continued success on the court, both this weekend and throughout the rest of the season. Tahir’s experience with multiple doubles partners has been good, he admits, but his partnership with Redlicki has been the longest and most successful doubles pairing he has had at Duke. “He does a lot of things really well,” Tahir said. “I think we’re gelling as well as we ever have right now.” Although this is just their third match of the regular season, the Blue Devils are counting on two wins to get them to Washington. “This is huge for us,” Mengel said. “The past couple years, some of our biggest success has been at the National Indoor Tournament. To get there, we have to make sure we take care of business, be professional and get it done.”
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Falling just two wins short of a national championship last season, Duke sought to be the best-prepared team for every game it played. But when the team returns to the field for the first time this season, the Blue Devils will look to abandon that philosophy for one weekend, when they kick off their 2013 campaign in exhibition action against Bucknell, Navy and Limestone starting Saturday at 9 a.m. “We don’t know anything about them, and that’s the beauty of scrimmages,” head coach John Danowski said. “There is no scouting and no preparation. They show up, they bring their guys, we show up with our guys and you really just focus on your players and what they can do.” Danowski added that this weekend’s action will be merely for experience— no score will be kept, the games will start one after the other and Duke’s primary goal will be to get into playing shape for its season opener Feb. 9 against Denver. “We want to see who can play. It’s really simple,” Danowski said. “We want to see who’s got some instincts. It’s early— we have two weeks until our first game, so we aren’t going to be in game shape. But we want to see some freshman in game situations and sophomores that have grown from their freshman years and seniors who can play like seniors.” Exhibition play will still provide the Blue Devils with competitive matchups. Bucknell finished 9-7 last season and fell to Colgate—a team Duke faced in last year’s NCAA tournament quarterfinals—
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championship weekend, falling 11-10 to Dowling in the Division II national title game. Duke will use this weekend as an opportunity to experiment with some new personnel and develop the rotation as it enters a new season. Sophomore Kyle Turri will see increased time between the pipes this weekend after making just three starts during his freshman campaign.
Until the Blue Devils downed Appalachian State 24-15 Wednesday evening in their home debut, the only win on their record was to Stevens Tech, a Division III team. Duke hopes to build on the momentum of its first solid win when it faces Boston University (5-3) at home Saturday afternoon. The Blue Devils introduced Card Gymnasium as their home in that meet, moving away from their prior venue of Cameron Indoor Stadium. “It was exciting to wrestle in that venue,” Duke head coach Glen Lanham said. “The atmosphere was great, the match was exciting, our guys wrestled hard and we came out with a win against a pretty good team.” Wednesday evening, the Blue Devils (25) set the tone of the matches, pushed the pace and initiated the offense. Making the first move on offense has been one of their goals all season. “I would definitely like to see that take place again when we wrestle BU on Saturday,” Lanham said. Since Duke’s win, the team has wasted no time in its preparation for its second straight home meet. In practice, the Blue
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Head coach John Danowski said Will Haus, who played defensive midfield last year, will play a bigger role on offense. in the Patriot League Tournament. Navy finished 6-6 in 2012 but notched victories against Colgate and Johns Hopkins and played a close game against North Carolina. They have earned NCAA Tournament berths in six of the past 10 seasons. Limestone and Duke actually ended their respective seasons in the same location, at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Limestone, a Division II team, saw its season meet a bitter end on lacrosse’s
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the easy pass. We had plenty of turnovers to go around.” Clemson, by contrast, played relatively cleanly on both sides of the floor. Talented guard Nikki Dixon led the charge, finishing with 17 points and three steals. The Tigers’ also got some unexpected help from the bench, as sharpshooting sophomore Kelly Gramlich added 14 points and three rebounds. Clemson head coach Itoro Coleman was happy with her team’s effort, especially for the first three-fourths of the game. “I would say for 30 minutes we gave a good effort,” Coleman said. “But Duke did what they are supposed to do—we couldn’t finish the game.” The Blue Devils’ second half surge was fueled in large part by Liston, who finished 4-for-8 from beyond the arc. Team defense was also vital to Duke’s success in widening their lead down the stretch. The Blue Devils mixed in half court man-to-man, trapping zones, and full-court pressure. “I thought the changing of our defenses—we played several different ones—I thought that was critically important,” McCallie said. “One of our defenses forced four turnovers, so the team did a great job. But sometimes too when you press, if you don’t really get it right, you can give away a bucket on the other end.” Although Clemson had some success punishing Duke’s traps with easy buckets in the first half, they seemed to buckle under pressure late in the game. The Blue Devils forced a total of 31 turnovers, a season high. With five minutes to play, Duke extended its lead to double digits for the first time that night. The two teams exchanged buckets for several minutes, but free throws by Chelsea Gray and Williams sealed the contest. Duke’s 14-point margin of victory, though, does not accurately depict the closeness of the game. Clemson led with just 11 minutes left, but Duke’s talent and Liston’s hot hand eventually overcame what was by many accounts a lackluster team performance. “Sometimes you have to win ugly a little bit,” McCallie said. “We had to be road warriors with this one.”
Devils have focused on closing out the third period stronger in matches and wrestling harder on the edges. Lanham warned his wrestlers against complacency, urging them to earn as many points as possible even when they are holding a comfortable lead. The Terriers participated in two of the same tournaments as the Blue Devils— the Keystone Classic in November and the Southern Scuffle in January. They finished ninth out of 15 in the Keystone Classic and 24th out of 25 in the Southern Scuffle, while Duke placed seventh and 16th, respectively. “We faced a lot of nationally-ranked wrestlers in those tournaments,” Boston University junior Nestor Taffur said. “It’s good to have that kind of competition because it better prepares us for the national tournament.” The Terriers have won more dual meets than the Blue Devils, but they have not faced any ranked opponents, and two of their five wins came against non-Division I teams. Duke battled out a tougher schedule with matchups against then-No. 13 Northwestern, then-No. 14 Michigan, No. 9 Virginia Tech and No. 11 Virginia. Although Boston University has not been battle-tested and has fared more poorly in early-season tournaments than the Blue Devils, Terrier head coach Carl Adams is confident that his team can put pressure on the Duke wrestlers. “We’re an aggressive team,” he said. We focus on dominating on the feet, and we often go for the pin.” The Blue Devils know what is coming to them Saturday. “We have our hands full,” Lanham said.
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Mason Plumlee wil have a tough matchup in the paint against Maryland’s 7-foot-1 center Alex Len.
M. BASKETBALL from page 5 With a 25.8-percent field goal percentage, he has struggled to put the ball home and has seen reduced minutes, but he sets up his teammates effectively with 4.6 assists per game. He and Wells will be intstrumental guarding a Blue Devil backcourt that had its worst game of the season against Miami. Howard will be matched up against Quinn Cook, who made just 1-of-12 field
M. LACROSSE from page 11 Danowski also said that sophomore Will Haus, who was a stalwart at the defensive midfield position last season, will play a bigger role in the Blue Devil offense this year. He also mentioned that sophomore Brian Dailey and junior Luke Duprey will spend more time on the wing this season to replace the pro-
goals in that game, though he added seven rebounds and five assists. Freshman guard Rasheed Sulaimon led Duke with 16 points against the Hurricanes but some of Duke’s other guards were not as fortunate. Second on Duke with 15.9 points per game, Seth Curry made 0-of-10 field goals against the Hurricanes for his lone scoreless effort of the season. Tyler Thornton suffered a similar fate, making none of his seven attempts, ending with just one point. duction of Tewaaraton Trophy Finalist CJ Costabile, Duke’s all-time leader in ground balls. In addition to getting back into playing shape, Duke will use this weekend’s exhibition action as an opportunity to adjust to a number of new NCAA rules instituted to quicken the pace of play this season. Among these include quicker substitution patterns, an extension of the substitution box by 10 yards and a
new 30-second shot clock procedure following a stall warning. “We’re not going to spend too much time worrying about the new rules, but we also have to be aware because you want to master the subtleties of the game,” Danowski said. “But we like to play fast anyway, so we think it’s right in our wheelhouse. wheelhouse.”
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Open minds, open venues On Wednesday night, of Art, the arts at Duke were tap dancer extraordinaire a small and overlooked catSavion Glover performed to egory. But the inception of a packed audience at Page Duke Performances in 2005 Auditorium. Glover, whose brought arts opportunities to creative fusion of traditional campus that—at highly subtap and African sidized rates dance is world of $10 per editorial renowned, is ticket—should only one artist in a terrific receive more attention from lineup from this season of students. Led by director Duke Performances. Previ- Aaron Greenwald, Duke Perous performers from this formances has the potential season include Reggie Watts, to broaden what Duke stuBela Fleck and Meredith dents conceive of as fun. Monk. Performers such as With the Animal House Mike Daisey, the China Na- myth of college, it comes as tional Symphony Orchestra no surprise that most think and Diavolo Dance Theater of going out at Duke as colare slated to perform in the lege bars and section parupcoming months. ties. Duke Performances Many students take this offers an enriching alternastar-studded lineup for grant- tive to the typical Saturday ed. Ten years ago, before the night. With performances birth of the Nasher Museum ranging from all genres and
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novative new art, including musical compositions such as the Bad Plus’s “On Sacred Ground” and Steve Reich’s “WTC 9/11.” Few students know this, but they have the rare opportunity to witness the first-time performances of original artwork. At such a low cost—nonstudent Duke Performances tickets can cost around $40—students should take advantage of such opportunities to explore Durham, experience cutting-edge art and socialize with friends. Just be sure to actually go if you buy a ticket: Duke Performances has noticed that students often buy tickets but do not actually attend the shows, which makes the program take a significant loss. While complaints about
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i. My name is Connor, and about a year degree I still disregarded what they told me. and a half ago I got in way over my It’s a fine line to walk between believing in head. A girl I was pretty interested in yourself and becoming so arrogant that you miss had just gotten back from doing global health seeing the signs of your own shortcomings. research in Togo and had this Living in Farendé was a hard kind of crazy idea of going back lesson on what can happen when to the community where she had projects are carried out when peolived for two months to build a ple think they have all the answers. computer learning center. She Western, Eastern and regional orwanted it to be an incentive to ganizations that came with a goal keep teenagers from migrating in mind ignored some aspect of to plantations and cities and away the local context. They thought from their families. It was a great they already had things figured idea, but there were some slight out and established their projissues—like the fact that the com- duke partnership ects only to watch as their efforts munity in question, Farendé, stalled and eventually failed. The for service Togo, had no electricity and no signs of failed development efforts think globally, power lines anywhere near it. were everywhere you looked. act locally So, what did I do? Told her I We are students at an elite unicould network all of the computversity, and we’ve all earned our ers, connect them to the Internet and power place here. We are capable of accomplishing them using renewable energy. It might have great things, but we are still capable of falling been a slight exaggeration of my existing skill flat on our faces. With our project only seven set. … I had set up my family’s Wi-Fi and done a months off the ground it’s too early to tell which high school project on solar panels, but I didn’t one we’ve done, but I’m really hoping for the exactly have an overwhelming amount of expe- first. My point is to tell you that you should berience when it came to information and energy lieve in yourself, that you are capable of amaztechnology in rural, low-income areas. ing things and that you have an amazing future Jumping forward to today, the village has ahead of you if you choose it. that computer center. Not only did we build it, However, I also want to ask you to be carebut we also gave it enough electricity to charge ful. Remember that we do not have all the anhundreds of cell phones a day and the fastest swers. We learn a lot of things here at Duke, Internet connection in the country outside but we don’t learn everything—and the things the capital city. How did we do it? Well to be that we don’t learn here we might learn from honest, it was mostly Wikipedia, Amazon and a people we least expect. Balance the faith you whole lot of luck. have in yourself with a good dose of humility. But a large part of it also had to do with I ignored the sales attendant at Home Depot, admitting what we didn’t know. The project but listened to the sales attendant at Lowes would have been a disaster if we hadn’t admit- when he told me a way to attach light switches ted to each other early on that we had no idea to a cement wall that I would have never figwhat we were doing. Our answers to how we ured out on my own. would solve the problems we were facing had to The culture of competition we have at Duke change pretty much every day. Not only did we drives us to be better than we would be otherwise, not know the answers, a lot of times we didn’t but it also pressures us to hide our imperfections even know the problems. from others. We pretend to be better than we are With that in mind, I still had to believe in my- because we don’t want others to see our flaws, self. As a 20-year-old college student embarking but we deserve to be here, flaws included. If we on an international service trip, people’s hopes balance believing in ourselves, accepting our for my success were not exactly high. A sales at- flaws and reaching out to each other for help, tendant at Home Depot refused to sell me a fuse just think of what we could accomplish. box because he thought I was going to burn a building down. My family doctor told me that it Connor Cotton, Pratt ’14, is the student director for was hopeless to try and change anything in “the service for the Duke Catholic Center. This column is third world.” My mom tried to stop me from go- the third installment in a semester-long series of weekly ing because she was afraid I wouldn’t come back columns written by dPS members addressing the imporin one piece. I had varying degrees of respect tance of social action, as told through personal narraand care for all of these people, but to a certain tives. You can follow dPS on Twitter @dukePS.
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ne of the biggest joys of U.S. elections is the forgetting. For months, airwaves are dominated by ridiculous rants, preposterous political posturing and candidates who are caricatures of themselves. But then, come November, all is mercifully, blessedly quiet. Occasionally, though, statements linger, remaining within our political consciousness. One such statement is Gov. Romney’s criticism of President Obama, in which he accused the president of apologizing for America, and claimed that Obama was undermining the nation’s mission abroad. The phrase stuck because it is such an accurate emellie schaack bodiment of a particular brand of bullbrave new world headed American exceptionalism. This is the perception that American actions are somehow different, or exceptional, and that to say anything else is borderline treasonous. We need to be united and strong, not hesitant and questioning. But frankly, I wish the president would do a heck of a lot more apologizing. In fact, I cannot imagine a single act more patriotic than apologizing for America. Exceptional or not, one thing truly does make us unique: We were the first country born out of united principles. Other nations united because of ethnicity, language or religion. But what makes somebody “American” is his or her commitment to certain ideals. You’ve heard them many times before—democracy, individualism, hard work and the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. Principles, in the end, have been all-important, even when—especially when—we haven’t acted in accordance with them. From the abolishment of slavery to the LGBTQ rights movement, we have forced ourselves to live up to the principles adopted during the nation’s inception. And what is an apology? It is a declaration that we value our principles to such an extent that we say when any action does not coincide with them, even when that action is our own. We do commit atrocities. Sometimes, we do so because we are faced with impossible situations—we couldn’t allow an invasion of a newborn Israel, for example, nor could we have allowed ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia. Sometimes, we commit atrocities because we value the geostrategic advantage of our nation far above the lives of people in other nations. We often insert dictators around the world who are evil in regards to their own people yet serve U.S. interests—look to the overthrow of Iran’s democratically-elected government in 1953. To admit that we, even as Americans, are not being “American”—that is true patriotism. That is true commitment to principle. The reasons we should apologize go beyond principle and into the realm of practicality. We fail to acknowledge that our mistakes breed the very thing that has been declared America’s number one enemy: terrorism. Some say apologizing weakens us, when in reality failing to do so fuels the cause of our enemies. It is so easy to charicature extremists, to declare that we are hated only because we let people wear bikinis and allow religious freedom. But this is a flawed picture of the world we live in. Consider Osama bin Laden’s 2004 speech to America, in which he described his rationale for 9/11. It “had never occurred to us to strike the towers,” he said, until the 1982 joint American and Israeli invasion of Lebanon. “Many were killed and injured and others were terrorized and displaced,” he said, noting that he “couldn’t forget those moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy.” Bin Laden said that what disturbed him was not only the oppressive U.S. action, but the carelessness of the American people, who indirectly endorsed and directly funded such actions. He noted that his goal was to jolt the citizenry awake, make them feel remorse. But, after speaking of the invasion, he said, “The whole world saw and heard but it didn’t respond.” You can almost understand the impulse to lash out in a desperate attempt to get people to acknowledge the pain that they have caused. We say that one should love a country like a parent loves a child, not like a child loves a parent. Instead of blind obedience, true patriots carefully guide their country and form it in the image of its citizens. True patriots glow with pride at their country’s successes and take responsibility for their country’s failures. When we are wrong, we must rise up in collective reprimand. We’ve done it before, notably with civil rights and Vietnam. But it doesn’t even have to be a conventional protest. Vocalizing dissent helps too, as we eventually did—though not strongly enough, not before over 100,000 Iraqi citizens were killed—with our most recent war. This is the single most patriotic thing I am capable of saying, and I desperately want it to reach the ears of every man, woman and child whom we have unjustly harmed: As a citizen of the United States of America, I am deeply sorry. Ellie Schaack is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Friday.
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letter to the editor Appreciating our nurse anesthetists Growing up within the United States healthcare system, it is hard to imagine that if you are critically ill or your child or loved one is suffering, that no one is available to help you. We live in a society where 30 percent of babies are born via cesarean section, where dying from appendicitis is almost unheard of and where a broken limb is easily fixed. This is not the case for many others around the globe. There truly exists a global health crisis, which differs from the ones that are most publicized. The international fight for AIDS treatment and prevention, the eradication of starvation, women’s suffering and even Ebola outbreaks all receive a tremendous amount of well-deserved attention from a variety of media and social outlets. Unknown to many is another global health threat: the global anesthesia crisis. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated two billion people on this planet do not have access basic surgical care. Compared to the United States, where there is approximately one anesthesia provider for every 4,000 people, the Democratic Republic of Congo has only 0.02 provides per 100,000 people. In some parts of the developing world, anesthesia-associated death rates are as high as one in every 150 surgeries. On a recent trip to Ghana, I had the honor to meet with well over a third of the country’s anesthesia work force. One of the nurse anes-
thetists I met told stories of having to buy medications with money from her own paycheck so that she could safely care for her patients. Without those medications, she knew that she would not be prepared to handle certain emergency situations that could arise. I met another nurse anesthetist who helped patients from war-torn Cote d’Ivoire obtain life-saving medical treatment at his remote village hospital. While in Ghana, I also had the opportunity to meet many nurses studying to become nurse anesthetists. Most of the students face returning to practice in villages without equipment and supplies, or any colleagues to provide consultation or work relief. One student in particular told me that he felt it was his duty to serve the other citizens of his village by providing full-time anesthesia services to the local hospital; something that had never been available to them before. And these stories are all too common in the developing world. As we all take time this week to celebrate the hard work and dedication certified registered nurse anesthetists commit to providing safe, quality anesthesia care, I urge us all to remember the thousands of nurses and nurse anesthetists around the world who deliver such a vital service to those in such great need. Wishing a Happy Nurse Anesthetists Week to all of my colleagues, from here and far! Brett Morgan, DNP, CRNA Assistant professor, Nurse Anesthesia Program
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IMMIG. from page 1 Negotiations for reform failed during Obama’s first term due to unresolved disagreements between both parties. Senators in a bipartisan group are already formulating a bill that could be introduced as early as March. According to administration officials, the president’s plan will focus on several issues, including establishing standards for legal status verification, approving more visas and improving guest worker programs.
50 YEARS from page 1 attendant who pulled him aside to tell him about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. “He told me as if he knew it would touch me— and he was right.” The three alumni, who said they are still friends to this day, agreed that their time at Duke changed their lives for the better. Although they all came to Duke from high-achieving but segregated high schools with high academic standards, Kendall recalled that members of the Duke com-
COMBAT from page 3 year in which 286 women were admitted into positions previously reserved for men. Opposition to the plan surfaced quickly. Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on
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Despite the president’s promises for reform, substantive changes to immigration policies remains unlikely, political science professor Michael Munger wrote in an email Tuesday. “President Obama has established a pattern—announce his luke-warm support for a program, fail to offer any real effort to get it passed and then blame Congress for not doing anything,” Munger said. But the setbacks may benefit the Democratic Party, which faults their Republican compa-
triots for obstructing negotiations, Munger said. Although talks about reform have begun in the Senate, it remains uncertain whether House Republicans will agree to the proposed legislation. A request from Republicans to divide the proposal into smaller components that would be better received by legislators wary of comprehensive reform was denied. Democrats hope to work with Republicans, but the Obama administration has explicitly
stated that they will not agree to any measures that would prevent a path to citizenship. Freshman Arvind Viswanathan said creating a path to citizenship should be a focus of Congress. “Many young undocumented immigrants were born in the United States and have grown up surrounded by English and American culture,” he said. “It would be unfair to deport them.” Providing a path to citizenship will also be important if
Democrats hope to boost their popularity among Latino voters, Eilbaum noted. He added that Democrats have an edge with Latino voters that neither party had before, making it increasingly important for them to maintain that support. “During the Bush years, we had a Republican pushing for immigration reform, and yet the Latino vote was split,” Eilbaum said. “If Democrats fail to deliver and nothing really happens, I think sooner or later they’re going to pay a price.”
munity worked hard to provide him with fundamentals that prepared him for success in his later endeavours. “You can do anything you want to do if you are willing to put forth the effort and try,” he said. “What the Duke experience did for me, was that it demonstrated to me that I had the wherewithal to get through any situation.” Kendall transferred to the University of Kansas after his sophomore year and graduated with honors. The alumni panel also emphasized that it was not only students
who gained from integration. “When we first came [to Duke] it was assumed that we were the ones that were going to benefit from being in this environment. But it is very much a two way street,” White noted. “It wasn’t just a lesson to us—it was a lesson to the institution.” White went on to explain that by maximizing the participation and abilities of a diverse Duke community, the University can benefit as a whole. To deny higher education to a select demographic is to limit the achievement of the society as a whole, he noted.
“It would seem to me very difficult to produce graduates who are effective on the world stage without having the world stage here,” White added. Although they left a mark on Duke’s history, the three alumni downplayed their actions in deciding to enroll here. “It’s not that we were special,” Reuben-Cooke said. “It [was] the time.” Reuben-Cooke, an emerita member of the Board of Trustees and recipient of Duke’s Distinguished Alumni Award, expressed great satisfaction with the Univer-
sity in its current state as it pertains to diversity. Although the Duke and the Durham community have had a history of racial discrimination, she urged students to view this history as a call to service, not something to bring shame. “Yes, we have racial issues, you can’t deny it here in North Carolina. And there’s an attentiveness to that,” Reuben-Cooke said. “Duke has a unique opportunity to make a difference because of its past. Our past is an incentive and an opportunity to make a difference.”
the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement that he would insist on a review and would consider introducing legislation “to stop any changes we believe to be detrimental to our fighting forces and their capabilities.” Army officials said no one wants the inclusion of women in com-
bat units to result in lowered standards. “Women do not want standards changed for them,” said Gen. Robert Cone, who leads the Army’s training and doctrine command. “If a standard is valid, they want to be able to meet that standard.”
Women make up about 15 percent of the active-duty military. According to the Defense Department, 152 female troops have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Pentagon officials consulted with allied nations that have integrated women into most combat jobs, including Israel, where rough-
ly 90 percent of military jobs are open to women. “There is nothing that women cannot achieve, and they must not be underestimated,” said retired Israeli Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Gershon. “Being a small country under constant threats, we cannot afford to discriminate,” Gershon said.
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