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Selective organizations can present positive and negative aspects of Duke social culture, depending on the role they play in students’ lives, administrators said. At a panel discussion Thursday evening, some 50 students gathered in the Gothic Reading Room for a discussion about the selective nature of the greek community, selective living groups and other University organizations. Moderated by Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate education, and Gary Glass, assistant director for outreach and developmental programming for Counseling and Psychological Services, the pair engaged with students—including members of selective living groups and greek life in addition to those unaffiliated—in a conversation about the selective processes that impact students and the campus as a whole. The intent of the discussion—named “The Science of Selection”— was to bring together abstract ideas and present them on a “peer-to-peer” level, said senior Emily McGinty, a member of Team Kenan, a student group that works to highlight ethical issues in everyday student life. The pressure put upon new members to SEE SELECTION ON PAGE 4
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Mason Plumlee recorded his 15th double-double of the season as Duke earned its biggest win in ACC play this season. See story page 5.
McClendon cleared of wrongdoing An independent investigation of Aubrey McClendon initiated by Chesapeake Energy Corp. absolved the CEO of any “intentional” wrongdoing. McClendon, Trinity ’81, was accused of unethical business practices last Spring. The allegations stemmed from Reuters reports noting that McClendon borrowed against his stake in the company’s oil and gas reserves. The news led to internal, state and federal investigations. The interAubrey nal review, conducted McClendon by Locke Lord Bissell and Liddell LLP law firm, spanned 10 months and concluded Wednesday. McClendon will step down as CEO April 1, citing “certain philosophical differences” with the company’s board of directors. “The review of the financing ar-
rangements did not reveal any improper benefit to Mr. McClendon or increased cost to the company as a result of the overlap in the financial relationships,” the company said in a statement. The aim of the review was to investigate McClendon’s use of minority stakes in Chesapeake-owned wells as collateral for his personal loans. Additionally, the investigation found that McClendon did not violate antitrust laws when Chesapeake acquired rights to drilling a shale formation in Michigan. According to Chesapeake’s statement, the review process included more than 50 interviews with executives from Chesapeake and other companies, but the company did not release a full report of its investigation. Although the internal review is over, investigations by the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are ongoing to examine McClendon’s financial transac-
tions and possible antitrust violations. Some analysts said Wednesday that the outcome of the Chesapeake investigation does not necessarily reflect what federal and state probes will find. “A finding of ‘no intentional misconduct’ still does not mean there was no misconduct,” Mark Hanson, an oil and gas analyst at Morningstar, Inc. told Reuters. “I think just the appearance of impropriety should be avoided, and I think that certainly wasn’t the case for either McClendon or the former board.” To date, he and his wife, Katie, Trinity ’80, have donated approximately $16 million to Duke. Their contributions have funded the Bryan Center Plaza and McClendon Tower. McClendon is also on the Duke Forward Campaign Steering Committee, a group of 22 alumni charged with leading Duke’s goal of obtaining $3.25 billion in contributions by June 2017. —from Staff Reports
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Duke gets $5M gift for athletics
“My cousin’s vengeance was in part fulfilled by me transcending a woman’s limitations....” —Pi Praveen in ‘Bro.’ See column page 11
The University announced a major gift to athletics on the eve of the latest Board of Trustees meeting. Roy and Merilee Bostock, who graduated from Duke in 1962, committed to a $5 million gift to fund facilities upgrades for Duke Athletics. The announcement comes as the Trustees are convening to discuss a tuition increase and the promotion of two areas of study: international comparative studies and neurology. The Trustees will also spend time in an interactive seminar “retreat” on the topic of the value of higher education. Bostock came to Duke on a football scholarship and earned varsity letters in both football and baseball. He also graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English. “I chose Duke because I thought it had the right balance between academics and athletics... I wanted to play Division I football and still have a very strong academic experience,” he said. “I look on Duke Athletics and particularly Duke football as giving me a huge opportunity to succeed going forward.” The gift will go into a $100 million fund for improvements to athletic facilities, particularly Wallace Wade Stadium and Cameron Indoor Stadium. President Richard Brodhead asked Bostock to lead this initiative as part of the $3.25 billion Duke Forward capital campaign, Bostock noted, adding that the athletics fund has gathered commitments totalling nearly a third of that so far. Both Trustee David Rubenstein, Trinity ’70, and Dr. Steven Scott and his wife Rebecca have committed $10 million to the athletics facilities campaign. The upgrades will focus on the two revenue sports, men’s basketball and football, with the goal of making Duke more competitive in attracting recruits and fans, Bostock said. By optimizing these facilities, Duke will be better able to “pay the bills” for other sports. “Wallace Wade is essentially the same facility I played in almost 50 years ago,” he said. “In order to compete in Division I athletics today, you have got to have great facilities.” As a student, Bostock had to balance academics with practice for two sports. The experience as a scholar-athlete taught him a lot about personal discipline, he said. “As a freshman, all I did was play football, played baseball and studied in Perkins SEE TRUSTEES ON PAGE 12
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This refurbished 1935 performance hall in Durham’s historic Murphey School will host a variety show this weekend that will benefit local charities. by Emma Baccellieri THE CHRONICLE
A bi-annual variety show benefitting Triangle area charities is the brainchild of a Duke grad who has applied his entrepreneurial talents to nonprofit work. Jay Miller, Trinity ’80, established the Shared Visions Foundation in 2002, after selling his chain of local music stores to focus on his passion for helping others. Shared Visions serves as a resource for local nonprofits by providing monetary grants and hosting events—including the Murphey School Radio Show, an old-time variety show-style performance, which Shared Visions will host for the fifth time this Saturday. “The twist on the show is the fact that we actually use the entertainment to raise funds for the local community,” Miller said. The show, which will take place at the Shared Visions Retreat Center, will benefit two local organizations—SEEDS, an educational community garden, and Book Harvest, which gives books to underprivileged children. The performance will feature local actors and musicians. In 2007, Miller purchased Durham’s historic Murphey School, which was built in 1923 but had since fallen into disrepair. Miller saw a chance to help the community and restore a piece of history to
its former glory. After two years of renovations, the school became the Shared Visions Retreat Center. The center now serves as a home for several nonprofit organizations as well as a venue for charitable events. The auditorium, which was added to school in 1935, inspired the show, Miller said. “When you’re in that space, you start thinking about what people did for entertainment in 1935,” Miller said. “And it was radio.” Although much of the show centers on the entertainment, the focus will remain on the charities, Miller said. “We’re thrilled to be participating,” said Ginger Young, Book Harvest executive director. “We’re so proud of Murphey School. Everyone there is just dynamite.” Miller had his sights set on law school after graduating Duke as a history major within three years. After taking what was intended to be a temporary job at the Music Loft, a local music store off of Ninth Street, Miller realized he would rather pursue music. Choosing to stay in Durham, Miller bought the Music Loft and several other music shops. He sold his music store chain, but still draws upon his experience as a musical entrepreneur to SEE RADIO ON PAGE 12
Academic Council members added their input to an increasingly prominent debate over the role of online technology in education at their meeting Thursday. The second part of a three-part series recognizing the council’s 50th anniversary—Council Conversations—focused on the burgeoning influence of technology on shaping the future of education. Peter Burian, dean of the humanities and professor of classical and comparative literature and theater studies, moderated a discussion that touched on the advent of massive open online courses—such as those held on 2u and Coursera, both of which Duke uses— among other topics involving technology in the classroom. “Education for young people is more than what they get in the classroom,” said Dr. Brenda Armstrong, associate dean of medical education and director of admissions for the School of Medicine. “It’s education by example in many cases. It’s how you integrate into a community and how you communicate... the notion of leadership.” Burian asked a panel of three faculty members, including Armstrong, whether or not Duke instructors should integrate new educational technology into their classes. “It’s not so much a ‘should’ question, as simply an ‘are’ question,” said Ian Baucom, professor of English and director of the Franklin Humanities Institute. “It’s emerging organically. I don’t know colleagues who are not in some ways rethinking their classes.” Mohamed Noor, professor and associate chair of biology, taught 30,000 students through his Coursera course, Genetics and Evolution, last semester. This semester, Duke students enrolled in his classes are participating in a “flipped classroom” approach, which involves students watching pre-recorded lectures before class in order to hold advanced discussions dur-
ing class. The novel approach has resulted in better discussions and exceptionally high midterm grades, Noor said. “Now we’re spending a lot of time on advanced problems with the assumption that they know the basic concepts. I can spend class time actually interacting with them instead of talking at them,” he noted. The increased workload brought about by the video lectures is a concern, Noor said, adding that instructors should attempt to alleviate this burden where they can. Another concern was that online coursework could erode the sense of community fostered by personal interactions between peers and faculty. Baucom mentioned his freshman seminar last Fall—a class in which 15 students read novels, held discussions and wrote essays—as an example of a course that would be considerably less effective if taught online. Joshua Socolar, professor of physics, pointed out that younger students have grown up accustomed to the globalization brought about by rapidly advancing technology. “Reproducing the conditions that worked for us may not be the best thing for this generation,” he added. In response, Armstrong acknowledged the generational differences, but noted that technology should be complementary to education, not a driving force. “There are some aspects of human interactions that have not changed,” Armstrong said. “Those are not negotiable.” In other business Provost Peter Lange addressed faculty concerns raised after the recent announcement of the delayed opening of Duke Kunshan University, as well as increased funding for construction oversight. The delay will not cause any financial SEE COUNCIL ON PAGE 12
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Days before the start of crucial talks with world powers, Iran appears to be simultaneously hitting the gas and brake pedals on its nuclear program, speeding up production of enriched uranium while limiting its stockpile of the type of fuel that could be easily converted for use in atomic bombs, U.N. officials said in a new report. International inspectors who visited Iran’s nuclear facilities last month confirmed that Tehran has begun installing hundreds of second-generation centrifuges that could dramatically increase its capacity to produce enriched uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report leaked to journalists Thursday. The new IR-2m machines are four times as productive as Iran’s existing centrifuges, which convert uranium gas into the enriched fuel that can be used in civilian power plants or nuclear weapons, intelligence officials and nuclear experts say. Iran told the IAEA last month that it intended to install the more powerful machines, prompting warnings from Western governments that Tehran is moving rapidly toward a nuclear-weapons capability. On Thursday, the Obama administration said Iran’s latest advance, while expected, was provocative. “The fact remains that the installation of new advanced centrifuges would be a further escalation, and a continuing violation of Iran’s obligations,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters. But IAEA inspectors also reported new evidence that Iran is deliberately capping
its uranium stockpile, perhaps to ease Western anxieties ahead of nuclear talks that are scheduled to begin next week in Kazakhstan. The nuclear watchdog noted that Iran had resumed converting some of its enriched uranium into metal fuel plates, rendering the material all but useless for weapons purposes. Significantly, the type of uranium being converted to metal is enriched to 20 percent purity. It is considered particularly sensitive because it can be easily converted to weaponsgrade fuel. Iran has, so far, kept its stockpile of this form of uranium below 550 pounds, the amount that would be needed, in theory, to make a single nuclear bomb. In another possible sign of deliberate slowing, IAEA inspectors confirmed that Iran still has not begun operating hundreds of centrifuges installed recently at its newest uranium-enrichment plant, a facility built inside a mountain near the city of Qom. Some Western officials and diplomats interpreted Iran’s mixed signals as a negotiating ploy ahead of next week’s nuclear talks. On Tuesday, Iranian officials are scheduled to begin negotiations in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with representatives of the United States and five other world powers on proposed limits to Iran’s nuclear program. “We’ve seen this before, that in advance of diplomatic rounds there are new announcements of activity,” Nuland said. “It doesn’t make it any easier to get where we want to go.” The six-party negotiating bloc, known as SEE IRAN ON PAGE 12
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SELECTION from page 1 fit in can often replace an individual’s personal convictions with those of the group, Glass noted. “People lose their own unique perspective of ‘I do it this way,’ ‘I like it that way,’” he said. “And group think takes over.” January is a “tragic time” on East Campus because the community becomes divided when tenting season physically removes students from campus, and the conversations become focused on the drama surrounding fraternities and sororities, Lisker said. Both speakers acknowledged the value of having smaller communities for students to belong to, but Glass lamented that many students “forget who they are” in the process of forming such groups. The struggles of students who join selective organizations often go unaddressed, Lisker noted. “[Students become] uncomfortable because they are being asked to behave in ways that are completely different from their personal values,” she said. Glass noted that although selection is common among universities, there is a unique element of fear associated with the process at Duke. Fear of not finding a group leads students to join even if they don’t have a “strong identification” with that particular organization, he added. The timing of the rush process at the beginning of the Spring semester has been a subject of scrutiny, Lisker added. “[By having rush in January], first-year students can form a community before they make those decisions,” Lisker said. She noted that there has been consideration of moving rush to sophomore year to prolong the “East Campus experience” and allow students more time before commit-
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Team Kenan member Gayle Powell, a freshman, introduces a panel of administrators at a discussion about social groups’ selection processes Thursday. ting to an organization for three years. When asked what the University would look like without the rush process, selective living groups and greek organizations, Glass simply replied that Duke would resemble the East Campus atmosphere—a random mix of students rather than separation by group. Nonetheless, selective grouping has many positive aspects. Citing the recent protests to Kappa Sigma fraternity’s International Relations party, Glass said he
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Jonathan Biggers, hailed as “one of the most outstanding concert organists in the United States,” will present a recital on the Aeolian organ. He currently holds the prestigious Edwin Link Endowed Professorship in Organ and Harpsichord at Binghamton University in New York. Biggers has appeared as a recitalist or soloist with orchestra in hundreds of concerts throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. One critic wrote of him, “Were there more performers like this, the organ would be far less a minority interest.” On Saturday, February 23, at 11:00 a.m., Jonathan Biggers will offer a workshop on “Creative Hymn Playing” in the Chapel chancel (free and open to the public).
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Students perform at Kuumba: A Night of Black Expression, hosted at the Fuqua School of Business Thursday evening. believes grouping has resulted in students becoming more vocal about their views. Lisker added that groups provide students a sense of comfort and belonging that is integral to their development as a student and individual. But as important as the groups seem to students during their time at the University, their significance tends to fade after graduation, Lisker noted. “You just become about Duke,” she added.
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Freshman Abhi Sanka, a member of Duke Student Government’s residential life committee, noted that the event was candid and informative, adding that he attended the event in hope of exploring ways to increase identity for independent houses on campus. “The question is not ‘is it good to have selection or not,’ but how to use the intelligence that gained you entrance at a university like this to be wise about your selection,” Glass said.
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BLACKSBURG, Va.—Senior shooting guard Seth Curry was in a familiar arena Thursday night—Cassell Coliseum, where his father Dell played for four years. And after Seth drilled his first shot, everyone in attendance could sense the sharpshooter’s extra sense of comfort as Duke’s lead became comfortable early and stayed that way the entire night. “It’s always good to come back here where my dad played and get a win,” Curry said. “Whenever I make my first shot it gives me a lot of confidence. I was getting good shots.” Thursday night at Virginia Tech, No. 6 Duke (23-3, 10-3 in the ACC) easily disposed of the ACC-bottom dwelling Hokies (11-15, 2-11) 88-56—thanks in a large part to the red-hot Curry. “I thought [Curry] let the game come to him,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “That first half display was sensational—one of the better ones. We needed that.” Coming out of the gates on fire, Curry made himself at home with his family in attendance for his last game in Blacksburg. He scored 19 of his team-high 22 points in the first half, going 5-of-6 on three-pointers. Quick whistles throughout the contest
BLAKCSBURG, Va.—A common critique of the Blue Devils is their vulnerability to, as the old saying goes, die by the three. But No. 6 Duke was able to live by the three against Virginia Tech, hitting 12-of-17 from beyond the arc en route to an 88-56 victory at Cassell Coliseum. Seth Curry, playing under the commemorative banner of his father Dell, led the Blue Devils 3-point barrage, going 5-for-6 from beyond the arc. Rasheed Sulaimon and Tyler Thornton were also deadly from long-range, going a combined 5-for-7. Facing a hailstorm of long-range jumpers, Virginia Tech head coach James Johnson’s defense was forced to extend out from the basket, leaving the Hokies vulnerable to Duke’s inside play. “Whenever we make shots, that makes their defense come out and double-team pick-androlls and things like that,” Curry said. “Our big men did a good job of finishing today.” Deep shooting wasn’t Duke’s only source of life as Mason Plumlee and Josh Hairston took advantage of Virginia Tech’s spaced defense. Plumlee secured his 15th double-double of the season with 13 points and 12 rebounds, while Hairston racked up his second-consecutive 11-point performance. ADDISON CORRIHER/THE CHRONICLE
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Seth Curry hit 5-of-6 3-pointers, leading Duke to a 12-for-17 performance from beyond the arc.
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Last time the No. 5 Blue Devils took the floor, things were different—Chelsea Gray was in the starting lineup. But the junior will be sidelined for the rest of the season after dislocating her right kneecap in the team’s 81-70 win against Wake Forest last weekend. Duke will need to adjust quickly this weekend, taking on on No. 19 Florida State (20-5, 10-4) Friday night at home and then playing No. 8 Maryland (21-4, 12-2) Sunday. Florida State features a well-balanced attack that currently leads the conference in scoring offense, averaging 79.7 points per game. Duke ranks second at 76.4 points per game. Duke, however, ranks first in the conference in scoring defense, holding its opponents to 50.3 points per game. The Seminoles yield 65.5 points per game, fourth-worst in the ACC. The Seminoles come to Durham after taking down No. 14 North Carolina in Tallahassee, Fla. last weekend. The victory marked the first time Florida State has beaten a top 15 team in the country since 2010. After Friday night’s game, the Blue Devils will travel to No. 8 Maryland to take on the revenge-seeking Terrapins, who Duke defeated 71-56 last Monday. Maryland will look to junior Alyssa Thomas to come up big against the Blue Devils. Thomas is averaging a double-double with 17.4 points and
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Tricia Liston has thrived for Duke and now may have to carry more of the weight in Gray’s absence.
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10.4 rebounds per game. Maryland head coach Brenda Frese praised the All-American’s poise and leadership on the floor for the Terrapins. “She is the most competitive player I have ever coached, which says a lot in terms of all the talented players I have coached…This season, what specifically stands apart is her leadership,” Frese said. “She has a tremendous hold on the game and can do whatever we need her to fit in, she brings her double doubles about every game.” Last time the teams faced off, Thomas recorded a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds. In that game, Gray came up
big for Duke, amassing 28 points along with four steals in her 34 minutes on the court. When asked about the impact of Gray’s absence this time the teams meet, Frese offered her sincerest condolences on the injury. “When I heard it and watched it, our hearts go out to her and the Duke team.” Frese said. “Chelsea is an outstanding player….We had [the same injury] happen to one of our players, Tierney [Pfirman].” Although Duke’s standout point guard will not be on the floor Sunday, Frese knows that Duke will still present a formidable challenge because of its depth that is capable of
replacing Gray. “It’s tough when that happens, we have also faced injuries.... [Duke] will find a way to adjust. They have a roster full of All-Americans that will step up and play for her… They will develop their team further…other people will have to really step up and fill Chelsea’s void.” Last time the Blue Devils tipped off against the Terrapins, an extremely passionate Frese was ejected from the game after growing increasingly frustrated with the referees during the game. Frese was thrown out of the game after being assessed a double technical foul late in the second half. The double-technical marked the coach’s first ejection of her 14-year career. “There was a lot of adversity in that game,” Frese said. “I am disappointed at the outcome there. Any time I see a play that was an illegal play that could have injured our players, I am going to fight for us…[Me being ejected definitely] turned the game, but that’s out of our control.” And for a Duke team that is now fighting adversity of its own, players such as Chloe Wells, Alexis Jones and Richa Jackson will have to step up in place of Gray. “It hurt us a little bit but we have to bounce back, we have no choice but to bounce back,” Jackson said. “We have something to play for…. Us coming together and playing for her, I think that’ll make her happy and us as well.”
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For the fourth year in a row, Penn will open its season against Duke. The No. 13 Blue Devils (2-2), who defeated the Quakers (00) in two of the teams’ last three meetings, will make their first road trip of the year to Philadelphia Friday. “We’ve had this game circled on No. 13 our calendars since last season ended,” Duke Penn senior captain Tim Schwalje said. “For us, there’s no better way to start vs. our season than against a team like Penn Duke that always makes a run in May.” The Blue Devils’ season has been Friday, 7 p.m. underway for two weeks, and their conFranklin Field secutive two-game weekends included two matchups against highly-ranked opponents. The Quakers, on the other hand, have yet to compete in a game this year. This discrepancy has both positive and negative implications, Penn head coach Mike Murphy noted. “It’s a double-edged sword on both sides,” he said. “Duke has the advantage of having played four games and ironing out its early-season wrinkles. We have the advantage of having seen them play and scouting them a little bit, whereas they don’t have much of an idea of who we are.” Last weekend, the Blue Devils were handed a 13-5 loss by No. 3 Notre Dame Saturday before rebounding in a 15-3 blowout win against Mercer Sunday. A slow start against the Fighting Irish doomed Duke, which lost to No. 11 Denver the week before, giving the team a 0-2 record against ranked opponents this season. “How much better we’ve been from when we played Denver to now… I’d like to think we’re much better,” Blue Devil junior Brendan Fowler said. Fowler’s standout play was on display in Duke’s first two weekends of action. The midfielder boasts a 65.6 faceoff percentage and has scooped up 40 ground balls. Blue Devil head coach John Danowski has cautioned the team against relying too heavily on Fowler, noting the importance of helping him on the wing. Fowler credited sophomores Brian Dailey and Will Haus, junior Luke Duprey and senior Greg DeLuca for their strong wing play. When Duke and Penn met last year, the Blue Devils took down the Quakers 12-8. Extra-man goals accounted for five of Penn’s tallies against Duke, which racked up a season-high 10 penalties in a messy game. The Quakers’ leading scorers from last season, John Conneely and Dan Savage, combined for six goals, but the duo graduated last year.
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Brendan Fowler has won 65.6 percent of his faceoffs this season for Duke and has led the Blue Devils on the wing. Penn will look to Schwalje and fellow senior Ryan Parietti, who scored 18 and 16 goals last season, respectively, to spearhead the offense. After relatively quiet freshmen and sophomore campaigns, the attackmen had breakout junior seasons. The Quakers are hopeful that sophomores and juniors with unimpressive stat lines last year will exhibit an elevated level of play when they kick off their season Friday. Defensively, the Quakers know their first test—against the Blue Devils’ experienced starting attack line of juniors Jordan Wolf, Josh Dionne and Christian Walsh—will be a tough one. “Duke has a great attack that has played together for a few years, but our defense has been watching film, working hard and getting ready to play,” Schwalje said. “Hopefully [the attack] is one of the strong points of [the Blue Devils] that we can stop.” Wolf, who leads Duke in scoring with 13 goals, has three four-goal games this season. The attackman notched a hat trick against the Quakers in last season’s matchup. “We hope he doesn’t score four goals against us,” Murphy said. “We will do our best to minimize his clean looks at the goal and his ability to create offense.”
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Two of the top teams in the nation will collide in College Park as No. 7 Duke will look to remain undefeated against an also undefeated No. 4 Maryland team Sunday at 1 p.m. at Maryland’s Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex. The Blue Devils (4-0, 1-0 in the ACC) have been led by senior atNo. 7 tacker Makenzie Hommel this seaDuke son. Hommel has been Duke’s main vs. offensive force, leading the Blue MD Devils in goals for three of their first four games. She has already scored 13 goals, more than half of what she Sunday, 1 p.m. Maryland Field Hockey totaled last season. & Lacrosse Complex “It’s never a mindset. It’s just kind of the way the game unfolds and how we’re working together on any given day,” Hommel said. “Every game, we’ve had multiple scorers, and every one of those scorers have scored multiple goals.” It has not been all offense, though. The Blue Devil defense has kept opponents at bay, most notably notching a shutout against Presbyterian in their second game of the season. This suffocating defense has led to Duke forcing 53 turnovers, which has kept their opponents to attempting a mere 12.8 shots per game, opposed to the Blue Devils’ 38.5. “Most of the game is mental,” Hommel said. “You just need to stay focused.” Duke’s first four games have been blowout victories, outscoring their opponents 73-27. This trend will not be likely to continue, as the Terrapins are a much higher quality team than those the Blue Devils have faced thus far. Duke has already beaten Virginia Tech in the ACC this year, but this will be the team’s first road game. “It’s a new time for our freshman to be on the road for the first time and get acclimated for themselves,” Hommel said.
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Mike Rosenfeld hit .455 in Duke’s opening series against Florida and will look to stay hot against Bucknell.
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With 13 goals, Mackenzie Hommel has led Duke to its 4-0 start. The No. 7 Blue Devils face No. 4 Maryland Sunday in College Park. “It’s just a learning experience, just as everything else is.” Conversely, Maryland (2-0) will have its first home game of the season and will do so on a hot streak after its two impressive victories. Last Sunday, senior midfielder Katie Schwarzmann led the Terrapins to a dominant 19-11 victory against No. 2 Syracuse. Schwarzmann scored a career-high seven goals in the contest, with five of them coming in the
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infielders, second baseman Travis Clark and shortstop Robb Scott. Clark led the team with a .364 batting average during their first series against Richmond, while Scott knocked the first home run of his career. “[Scott] is a very good player,” Pollard said. “He’s gotten better each year, he’s a three-hole guy in their lineup, and he’s a key to their offense.” Pollard also compared the Bison to his squad—both have freshman making an instant impact. Those include Bucknell relievers Max Kra and Austin Zimmerman, who pitched 4.2 scoreless innings during the second game of the series. “They’ve got some young guys that are athletic and that can run, so they try to put some pressure on you with their bunt game and run game,” Pollard said. “They’re just like us in that they’re trying to integrate some new faces into the equation, and they’re a work in progress.” Pollard will look to keep adjusting his team’s offense against Bucknell, while tightening up their defense and pitching. His message, however, is the same as it has been all season: To live in the moment and treat every pitch as its own game. “It’s simple: You compete one pitch at a time, and that’s what we’re trying to do against Bucknell,” Pollard said. “It was a fun road trip [last weekend], but it was a tiring trip and a hard trip. Our guys have had a week to get fresh and get rested, and I think they’re looking forward to playing in front of our home Duke crowd.”
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resulted in Blue Devil point guard Quinn Cook sitting on the bench for most the first half with three fouls. With Cook riding the pine, Curry helped pick up the slack with his exceptional offensive output that allowed Duke to go into the locker room at halftime with a 20-point advantage—a lead that would never be challenged. Steady play from reserve guard Tyler Thornton—who finished with six points and zero turnovers—helped ensure that Duke’s cushion would never be in danger. Curry was not alone on his field day from downtown. The entire Duke backcourt got it going from distance Thursday night. The unit shot 12-of-17 from beyond the arc—including 8-of-9 in the first half. Due to a smothering Duke defense, the Hokies, on the other hand, could not buy a bucket from 3-point range and finished the night a paltry 1-of-16. “We just wanted to get after them defensively,” freshman guard Rasheed Sulaimon said. “We wanted to make it difficult for them and wear them down.” Like most opponents this year, Duke struggled to contain Hokie guard Erick Green, but limited him enough to keep the score lopsided all night. Virginia Tech’s only source of reliable offense came from the veteran Green—the leading scorer in the conference—who netted 22 points on 8-of-14 shooting, despite being the focal point of the Blue Devil defense. “He’s a terrific player,” said Sulaimon, who guarded Green much of the night along with Curry and Thornton. “He had me gassed. It was a team effort. He’s a great player, and it took all of us to slow him down.” Benefitting from a tightly called ball game, and to complement its prolific 3-point shooting, the Blue Devils hit 16of-21 free throws. Rebounding from his worst performance of the season in a loss at Maryland on Saturday, senior center Mason Plumlee got back on track. Virginia Tech had no answer for the 6-foot-10 ACC Player of the Year hopeful, who did not get as many touches as usual due to the perimeter’s prolific performance. Plumlee was efficient and active throughout the contest, finishing with 13 points and 12 rebounds. Sulaimon has been tremendous following Duke’s first two losses—averaging 20 points coming into Thursday night. The youngster from Texas continued that strong bounce-back play with 17 points against the Hokies. Similar to Curry, junior forward Josh Hairston looked comfortable. Playing in his home state and getting the start-
The Blue Devils outside shooting frustrated the Hokie defense, but it was the inside-outside combination that put Virginia Tech away. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski noted how the team’s outside shooting opened up new opportunities for Duke’s big men to flourish, especially in the second half. “We just gave a different avenue for the ball to go in, rather than keeping it all out on the perimeter,” Krzyzewski said. “[Plumlee] was playing so well, he needed to touch the ball. They kind of really went all after Seth in the second half, which opened up some drives for us.” Those drives, in turn, opened up more outside shots for the Blue Devil backcourt. When Virginia Tech tried to clamp down inside, the Duke big men took what the defense gave them and found shooters. Plumlee finished with five assists, four of which were on 3-pointers. “I thought we kicked the ball really well,” Krzyzewski said. “Rasheed had a very quiet 17…a few of those were off of kicks that guys made.” Balanced, inside-out play might not even have been the best facet of the Blue Devils’ play Thursday. The team’s defense yielded just 56 points, Duke’s best defensive performance since giving up 40 points to Clemson Jan. 8. Erick Green, the ACC’s leading scorer, scored 22 points, below his average of 25.3 per game entering play. Krzyzewski acknowledged that defense had been a point of emphasis in this week’s practices. “We worked a lot on our defense, and I thought it paid off today,” Krzyzewski said. “We played outstanding defense.” Virginia Tech came out early pushing the ball in search of easy buckets, but Duke used fullcourt, man-to-man pressure to control the pace, keeping the ball away from Green and tiring out the Hokie shooters. “Their pressure on the defensive end took us out of our game early and took us out of our execution early”, Johnson said. “We didn’t respond well to that, and we dug ourselves into a hole and weren’t able to get out of that.” Coming off a discouraging two-point loss to Maryland, Duke controlled every facet of the game. Whether the Blue Devils will be able to replicate such a performance against tougher competition remains to be seen, but the team will likely draw momentum from a 32-point rout. “We stayed steady the whole time,” Krzyzewski said. “I’m proud of my guys.”
W. LACROSSE from page 7 decisive second half against the Orange. Duke, by contrast, has yet to play a top foe. So far this season, the Blue Devils’ first four opponents have a combined record of 2-11. Although Maryland has only played two games, the contest against Syracuse helped to prove early on that they have not fallen off since last season when they reached the NCAA semifinals. “Our coach always tells us to go in— nameless, faceless opponent. I know it sounds cliche but you just need to do that. You don’t need to worry about the name on someone’s jersey,” Hommel said. “You just have to go in there and know what you’re
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Rasheed Sulaimon was one of Duke’s many hot shooters, hitting 3-of4 from 3-point range. ing nod, Hairston tallied 11 points for the second consecutive game. “Josh has been terrific,” Krzyzewski said. “He played like a true veteran tonight.” Following the game, Krzyzewski indicated that senior forward Ryan Kelly, who has been out for several weeks with a foot injury, is making progress toward a late-season return. “Yesterday [Kelly] ran for 15 minutes in the pool, and he’s off completely of crutches,” Krzyewski said. “He’s doing a lot of physical stuff with his hips, leg and core with medicine balls and things like that. He’s sore, but his foot is not sore. So, we’re more optimistic. Again, no timetable, but it’s moving. It’s moving in the right direction. Now we believe we are going to get him back. And it’s just a matter of when.”
capable of doing and what your teammates are capable of doing.” Sunday’s matchup will be one of the early premier matchups of conference play— the only other ACC team in the top 10 is North Carolina at No. 5. But the success of the two schools will no longer make for intriguing regular season matchups after next season, with Maryland leaving the ACC for the Big Ten. The players are aware that this could be one of the team’s final trips to College Park. “I think it’s just always exciting to play an ACC team, in-conference game. Especially now because [Maryland is leaving the ACC],” Hommel said. “It’s just exciting to be able to play them and play such great competition.”
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Keep life random In just a few months, the mate assignment. school year will be over, and Relationships between students across campus will roommates are extremely leave Duke for the summer. important for students, esFor many students, sum- pecially in the first year of mer is a time spent taking college. At a time where so jobs or internmany things ships, travelare new and editorial ing across the sometimes country or abroad or taking overwhelming, having conclasses. But for Duke’s new- trol over who you live with est incoming class, summer can be comforting. is a time spent preparing Helping freshmen stufor the first semester of col- dents feel comfortable in lege. Between the pressures their new surroundings is of choosing their first col- one of the reasons behind lege classes, preparing to Duke’s current roommate live away from family and selection model. In it, stucelebrating the end of high dents have two options—reschool, rising freshmen quest to live with a specific have a lot to do. But one of person, or choose to be ranthe most anxiety-inducing domly assigned a roommate aspects of preparing for life based on answers to a short at Duke is waiting to receive housing survey. Giving stuthe freshman year room- dents the ability to voice
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ast summer, I studied abroad at Oxford. Feel- means being free of all constraints, so that we are at ing the urge to be obnoxiously stereotypical, I liberty to do as we choose. decided to take a Shakespeare class. Thus, enslavement can take on many different My craving for a quintessentially guises, and the whip forcing us to British experience was satisfied, and comply may not be fear of the powthen some. ers of government. The classroom was the professor’s Is the person free who works 12office, and its walls were lined with hour days at a miserable job she canfloor-to-ceiling bookcases that broke not quit because she would lose the only for the fireplace. They were healthcare benefits that cover the filled to the brim, and extra books treatment of a daughter with leukewere stacked in random piles on the mia? Is the person free who is forced ellie schaack ground. The man who occupied that into inhospitable working conditions brave new world office was a caricature of a bumbling yet is prohibited by threat of firing to professor. He had a quirky sense of join with others to collectively barhumor and a love of minutia. He often took us on gain for better treatment? Is the person free who extended verbal journeys during which he inevitably has no choice of product because monopolies have forgot his intended destination. been allowed to develop? Is the person free who One such rant began when, in a response to a needs money for food, and thus succumbs to a loan question about how we were doing, a classmate of shark with ever-increasing, ever-more impossible demine answered, “Good.” mands? Is your mother free, working overtime durThat was a bad idea. ing the holidays to pay for your student loan? For 20 minutes: I do not mean to say that laws cannot be the “Good … good. What an interesting word! shackles that bind our hands. I do not even mean to “Good” used to have such an important meaning— say that measures taken by the government to prois it not an idea that provides the basis for all moral hibit scenarios like the above from occurring never action? And now we use it innocuously without inhibit freedom. I only mean to take the definition thinking! And isn’t it sad, really, that words can lose of the word “freedom” back to where it started and their potency like that, or even morph into some- reclaim it as an ideal that can be championed by thing else entirely? Take the word “anon.” In Shake- both political parties. speare’s day, of course, it used to mean “Right now, The freest people I’ve ever met live in Sweden. this very second,” and now it means something like, Though their tax rates would make a conserva“In a while, please!” Ridiculous! tive balk, the average citizen never acts out of fear That rant (one of many) did not seem particularly of hunger or illness or the inability to send their significant to me at the time. As comments made by children to school. They have long vacations and crazy but ingenious bumbling professors tend to do, breaks, and many average citizens have money for however, it came back to me months later, after I had a second home, usually a modest summer cottage left the cozy world of British academia to return to a in the archipelago. United States consumed by the 2012 election brawls. Are we freer than the Swedish? That is a worthy And I observed: The word “freedom” is thrown debate. After all, they do have less choice. They around these days with a nonchalance reminiscent don’t get to choose how to spend a larger portion my friend’s “good,” and in the process its meaning of their money, and they have less choice in things has been similarly skewed. like universities, none of which are as impressive as “Freedom” is the favorite buzzword of conserva- the universities in the United States. But framing the tives. While liberals often use language that appeals debate in terms of freedom on both sides means that to equality (“for all people,” “the 1 percent,”), con- we are once again speaking the same language, once servatives often appeal to the concept of freedom to again arguing from united ideals. promote a lack of government intervention. Conservatives and liberals often seem these days And that’s what freedom has come to mean: a to be fundamentally different beings, philosophilack of government intervention in our lives. We cally irreconcilable. I don’t agree. Once we truly are free, we are told, except where the law con- examine ourselves, we realize that we all—liberals strains us. Thus, conservatives have become the and conservatives, Ayn Rand and Karl Marx—just freedom-lovers, while liberals simply hold other want to be free. ideals in higher esteem. Let’s start with that. But that modern understanding cheapens the idea of freedom. Freedom does not mean being Ellie Schaack is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs free from the constraints of government. Freedom every other Friday.
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You’re not a sorority girl. You belong in a frat.” because I had an extra hole in my body. I’d stay out Long ago, my mother sat me down and told me a with the guys all night, the only girl, hanging out, drinkstory. Years before I was born, my aunt and uncle had ing and doing whatever I wanted, really. The mothers aborted their baby daughter because they thought I was a slut. and my grandparents had not wanted anOnce, in the girls’ bathroom, I narother girl in the family. I don’t remember rated a tale of conquest loudly, abrasively what made her tell me that. All I remempeppering it with unspeakable expletives. ber is that my innocent love for that family Shocked, my friends said, “Pi, calm down. vanished as soon as she told me. More imYou sound like a guy in a locker room.” In portantly, my innocent identity vanished; my high school, the guys were given the every manifestation of my being from then top leadership positions and the freedom on was very, very calculated. to run wild. I responded by speaking, actpi praveen That family was going to regret the day ing and walking around like I owned the life of pi that they, dissatisfied with the female, only school, so much so that most of the guys child that I was, asked my parents to have began to view me as an equal. They began another child. I would always love my parents for refusing. to call me “bro.” And I would be better than any of the males in that family. I Although this is who I am today and even possibly for would take back the agency they took from my cousin when the rest of my life, I regret it sometimes. I regret that I felt they killed her. My life, from that point on, was going to be that the person I was wasn’t good enough, that I let the one big middle finger pointed in their direction. whims of others dictate the person I should be. Yes, I chalI’d become a boy. I’d do nothing that tradition or so- lenged what was thought to be the status quo, but I did not ciety expected of a girl. I hated being a girl. The world do it for myself. By god, did I break my in-born shackles. saw limitation that came of being a girl, but to me, there Everyone told me a sorority was not for me. I bewould be none. longed in a frat, they said. But in the weeks that have “Wear a dress,” they said. No. Dresses took away my free- passed since I joined a sorority here at Duke, I’ve found dom. They took away the possibility of carrying everything that it is just what I need. Not only do I need to learn in pockets, and the possibility of sitting wherever I wanted, to feel the great pride that should come from being a in whatever position I wanted. There’s a rule about how woman, but I also need a family that loves me for who wide your legs can be spread, you know. For many years, I am—even if I resemble a “frat bro” more than I do a my wardrobe contained no dresses whatsoever. “sorority sister.” Bros have, inversely, always loved me for “Eat a little less,” they said. No. There may be research- what I am not. That is, a girl. based disputes about the physical strength, power and This is the next step. I will always believe that my cousability of each gender, but hell, there would be no dis- in’s vengeance was in part fulfilled by me transcending a putes about how much I’d take into my body whether it woman’s limitations, the same limitations that were the went to my muscles or not. Forget the gendered science cause of her abortion. But her vengeance will not be comof metabolism. I’m five-feet-two-inches tall, and I usually plete unless I also worship our very identity as women, an matched, if not beat, the amount of food my male peers identity that is not solely characterized by its limitations. I consumed even if I had to force myself. will not hate and reject my gender like many others do. I “Hang out with the girls more,” they said. No. Girls will appreciate and love my sisters and myself. came home too early at night. They had to remember they were targets for rape late at night. They were burPi Praveen is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs every other dened with fear, with risk. But I would not be afraid just Friday.
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She had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, and so did she. They searched for blue, their whole life through, Then passed right by—and never knew.” —Shel Silverstein We don’t like to talk kaitlin gladney about struggle. It’s easy to guest column say that we should embrace vulnerability; living it proves much harder. Many of us are afraid to speak up when we’re having a hard time. We live in a world that often labels struggle and vulnerability as signs of weakness, rather than as natural and acceptable parts of human experience. Strength, in turn, becomes defined as never having or showing weakness, rather than moving through the moments that challenge us. Let’s borrow Silverstein’s metaphor, and think of our experiences with struggle as our “blue skin.” We hide our blue skin behind the mask of “I’m fine,” fearing that if we reveal our challenges, others will think less of us; we fear our struggles will isolate us. Although it can seem we’re alone in that fear, we’re not. Ultimately, however, that fear often leaves us all looking out from behind our masks of “I’m just tired” and “I’m okay,” searching for blue and the confirmation that we are not alone in our experience of struggle. We pass by blue every single day—we just never know, because it’s hidden, like ours. Feeling like the only one with blue skin in a sea of people who don’t appear to be struggling can be a demoralizing and isolating experience, even if we reason that it’s impossible that we’re the only ones having a hard time. Everyone struggles. We know that. So why don’t we talk about it? By relegating our struggles to the realm of silence, we are not only invalidating our own experiences, but we also risk eliminating the spaces in our community and in our relationships where we can discuss them with openness, honesty and vulnerability. If we don’t talk about these battles, people will fight them in silence, alone. And sometimes, they will lose. We won’t know our friends and loved ones were experiencing excruciating pain and struggle until it’s too late. In February of my freshman year of high school, one of my friends took his own life. In the days following his passing, one statement ceaselessly echoed through the subdued conversations held around campus: “I had no idea he was struggling so much.” None of us had any idea he was hurting so badly that he felt suicide was the only solution. We never had the opportunity to meet him in his pain, to walk with him through it, to talk about the struggle now and the promise of brighter days to come. We lost our friend to the silence and stigma surrounding struggle before we got that chance. Silence and stigma are powerful things. Even after witnessing their dangers and consequences, I waited far too long before asking for help with my own struggles with depression and anxiety. I was scared of the stigma and the ways it might affect me, my family and my relationships. I was so scared, in fact, that I didn’t tell anyone outside of my family for three years. Three! Eventually I mustered up enough courage to stutter out a confession to my best friend. It took me a while, but I am so glad that I finally said something. Her continued love and support following that (surely unexpected) news opened my eyes to the power of letting people meet us in our vulnerable places. I began to understand the healing and hope that can be found in community. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder how many people I pass in a day that feel as though they’re struggling alone, and searching for proof that others feel the same. Even when you know you’re not alone, it’s hard not to feel that way sometimes. However, the story does not have to end with secrets and silence and loss. The story can end with honesty, community and recovery. There are better endings, and we have the power to write them. It won’t be easy. Letting people see our more broken parts never is. We’ll have to learn to love and to listen when—most importantly when—it’s challenging, or uncomfortable, or uncool. I invite you to take off your mask. Don’t be afraid to show that blue skin. By allowing ourselves to be vulnerable, we are creating a space in our community for open and honest conversation about difficult things. Reach out to a friend, whether it’s to seek help for yourself or to see how they’re doing. We all have a voice, and we all have the power to raise it. Let’s use ours to break the silence, and let people know: You are not alone. Kaitlin Gladney, Trinity ’14, is the president of To Write Love On Her Arms at Duke.
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TRUSTEES from page 1 Library,” Bostock said. “I studied every night of the week, even Saturday. It paid off.” Bostock’s previous multimillion dollar donation went to the libraries in 2003, contributing to the creation of Bostock Library. “Our first major gift went to the libraries, and our second is going to athletics, and after this, we’ll take a breather,” he said. Bostock was previously a member of the Board, although the announcement of the gift was not timed in connection with this weekend’s meeting, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. The Board will, however, hear updates on the Duke Forward campaign from administrators and campaign chairs. Board Chair Richard Wagoner, Trinity ’75, noted that Bostock has a long history of supporting Duke. “He’s a great example of a guy who has benefitted from his Duke experience and has been really giving back to Duke in the
COUNCIL from page 2 pressures on the University’s academic programs, Lange said. “We are providing the oversight we think we need in order to ensure the quality that we want,” Lange said. “We’re confident after these discussions... over the last few months, we will in fact get that quality.” He noted that DKU would account for just $10 million, or 3 percent, of the $363 million budgeted by the Office of Global Strategy and Programs’ strategic
hope that today’s students will benefit as he did,” Wagoner said. The Board is expected to approve new tuition rates for the coming academic year. The members are also expected to upgrade the international comparative studies major into a program, which will enable ICS to hire its own faculty, rather than relying on faculty appointments in other departments. This upgrade was approved by the Arts and Sciences Council in November. A similar upgrade is expected to pass for the neurology division of the School of Medicine, which will become a full-fledged department if approved. This move would give the 50-member division greater capacity for recruiting new faculty and securing research funding, Wagoner said. After dealing with this business, the Board will engage in its annual February retreat, in which the Trustees participate in a seminar-style discussion on a topic relevant to the future of the University. The 2012 retreat looked at the cost of higher education, and this year, it will examine the value of higher education, Wagoner noted.
initiatives and programs fund over the next five years. Academic programs receive the majority of the SIP funds. The most recent estimate for Duke’s investment in DKU operational costs is $41 million over the next eight years, Lange added. This is in comparison to $38.4 million over seven years, an estimate from Spring 2012. Lange provided a similar update at the Arts and Sciences Council meeting last Thursday. Council Chair Susan Lozier, Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson pro-
“This is a chance to really sit back and think about the future,” he said. “I hope we come out with a clearer roadmap of the kinds of issues we’ll be addressing over the next year.” The seminar will feature a presentation by Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera, the massively open online course platform. Several Duke professors have attracted thousands of students for their Coursera courses, and teachers have begun using the technology in classes on campus in a “flipped classroom” model. The retreat will also include William Boulding, dean of the Fuqua School of Business, and David Levi, dean of the School of Law, who will discuss the changing nature of professional schools. “Legal education and business education are probably going through as much of a revolution as undergraduate education,” Schoenfeld said. “The Board wants to be aware of what the issues are and how they affect the programs at Duke, and how programs at Duke are innovating to address the challenges they will face in the marketplace.”
fessor of physical oceanography, announced that the administration is considering changes to employee retirement benefits due to University finance constraints. But there are currently no proposals to reduce faculty compensation. The council plans to hold these discussions at the March meeting. Socolar was named the next chair of the Academic Council and will occupy that position from 2013 to 2015. The council voted in favor of the proposal of converting the School of Medicine’s Division of Neurology
IRAN from page 3 the P5-plus-1, is expected to pressure Iran to freeze production of 20 percent-enriched uranium in exchange for easing economic sanctions that have battered the Iranian economy. France, another of the P5-plus-1 powers, said Thursday that diplomats were preparing an updated offer to entice Iran to agree to cuts. “We want a genuine exchange that will lead to concrete results,” a French Foreign Ministry spokesman told reporters in Paris. The IAEA report hinted at future conflicts over Iran’s nuclear program, even if a deal is reached in Almaty. The agency reported that Iran plans to begin using an existing medical research reactor to test fuel rods for a heavy water reactor that Iran has been building in Arak for years. Western officials say the reactor could become operational next year. When it does, Iran would have the ability to produce plutonium as well as enriched uranium, providing it with a second pathway to a possible nuclear weapon.
RADIO from page 2 lead Shared Visions. “He has the talent and soul of a musician, but also the knowledge that comes from being a successful business person,” said Peter Kramer, Trinity ’73 and a foundation volunteer. “He’s taken his talents and used them really well to help all these nonprofits.” In order to gain better logistical knowledge of charitable work, Miller returned to Duke
in 2003 to earn a certificate in nonprofit management. Since Shared Visions started, it has been successful in helping charities throughout the Triangle area. “I was only 42, not ready to quit working… but in a position where I really didn’t have to work anymore,” Miller said. “I knew I wanted to do charity work.” Two performances of the Murphey School Radio Show will be held on Saturday, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Identity Slurs: Jokes at Whose Expense?
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Are jokes at the expense of minority groups ever really funny? Are jokes at the expense of women ever really funny? What’s the difference between offensive representations of minorities and discrimination? What are the boundaries of “free speech”? Does organizing ourselves along identity lines reinforce our existence on the margins?
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Allison, Interim Director of Women’s Studies and Professor of Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology and Kathy Rudy, Professor of Women’s Studies.
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