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Government budget cuts may decrease available funding for research organizations such as the Duke Lemur Center and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, along with basic research at Duke. The government spending sequester, which came into effect on March 1, imposes across-the-board reductions to the federal budget, likely affecting federally funded research organizations such as the National Science Foundation which funds many Duke research projects. The Duke Lemur Center, which hosts the largest collection of lemurs outside of Madagascar, currently receives about 20 percent of their annual budget from the NSF, and uses this federal funding for maintaining facilities as well as supporting its employees. The funds are used for salaries, food, uniforms, vet care and supplies and have a large impact on daily operations, said Greg Dye, operations manager of the Lemur Center, adding that not a lot of information is yet available about the impact of the impending cuts. Though the center does receive 50 percent of its funding from the University and generates its own revenue through tours, Lemur Center Director Anne Yoder emphasized the importance of this federal funding. “It would be analogous to you losing 20 percent of your salary, from which you pay your living expenses,” she wrote in an email Thursday. “In our case, it would mean the loss of jobs, and consequently, our ability to care for our lemur colony would be compromised.” Both and Dye and Yoder noted that though the next one to two years of operations may be unaffected by any cuts, longer term research by the center could be impacted greatly. The Lemur Center is currently conducting around 20 different research studies, which include locomotive studies as well as non-invasive neural imaging with mouse lemurs and flat-tailed dwarf lemurs, to study the affects of aging and Alzheimer’s in primates. “For the first time, we can see in the primate brain... the plaques and tangles that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease,” he said. The Lemur Center is trying to obtain funding from the National Institutes of Health with these more health-based research projects, although the probability of receiving this additional funding is unclear. SEE LEMUR ON PAGE 4
Concussions likely end Wigrizer’s career, Page 7
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Students read the names of Holocaust victims into a microphone on the Bryan Center Plaza Tuesday afternoon as part of Yom Hashoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day.
For all the interest in pre-med studies at Duke, undergraduates interested in health-related professions rarely consider nursing as a field of interest. Although the U.S. News and World Report ranks the School of Nursing seventh in the nation, most undergraduate students have never considered nursing as a career option because of associated stigmas. Students lack an interest in nursing because it is considered less prestigious than other medical career paths, a perception which may be reinforced by the type of academic advising students receive. This perception, however, may be changing along with broader trends in health care delivery. “Across the country, especially in elite schools, health professions advisors often do not address nursing because of their own limited understanding of the career possibilities in nursing,” School of Nursing Dean Catherine Gilliss wrote in an email Tuesday. “Popular stereotypes, reinforced by television portrayals of nurses, work against many capable students’ understanding of how nursing could be a fulfilling career.” Gilliss said a recent graduate of the SEE NURSING ON PAGE 5
Alum helps students fundraise for college by Emma Baccellieri THE CHRONICLE
A Duke alum has created a venture to help students raise money for college. Andrew Wilkinson, Pratt ’08, is the executive director and co-founder of StudentDonate.com, a nonprofit that gives college students a platform to crowdsource micro-donations to help them afford tuition, books and other school expenses. Students create Andrew profiles on the website Wilkinson with information such as their school, academic interests and future plans, and donors from around the world choose how much money they would like to give to a particular student. Wilkinson was inspired to start the nonprofit after a conversation with a friend who worked as a teacher. His
friend loved his job but was thinking of quitting due to his struggles to pay off thousands of dollars in student loans. “Everyone has some sort of social cause to care about,” said Wilkinson, who launched the website in 2012 and currently works fulltime at a technology startup in Los Angeles. “This is just how I give back to the community.” Student Donate is run entirely by volunteers and gives all of the donations directly to the students. To recruit his team of volunteers, Wilkinson relied on skills he honed at Duke. “At Duke, nothing’s ever by yourself— you can’t be an expert in everything,” he said. “Interactions with classmates prepared me to recruit a team of individuals, which is especially important in nonprofit. You’re not really paying them, so you have to be a really good convincer.” Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy and economics, said Student Donate’s nontraditional method of garnering money for college is fitting, given
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recent increases in tuition. “A crowdsourced merit scholarship program is the way I would describe it,” Vigdor said. “Ordinarily with a merit scholarship, you apply, and the application is judged by a panel of experts. But this is turning that model on its head— you make a case for yourself and see what happens.” To date, Student Donate has helped about 150 students, with some receiving a few hundred dollars and others getting thousands, Wilkinson said. He noted that the website is especially popular in Los Angeles—where he lives—but students from all over the world have benefitted, including some at Duke. “It’s a cool concept,” said senior Alyssa Fowers, who received a donation a few weeks after creating her profile on the website. “It can really help students out.” Over the past generation, college SEE DONATE ON PAGE 5
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Theater prof explores father’s mental illness in new book When Jody McAuliffe, chair of theater studies and professor of Slavic and Eurasian studies, was 20, her father died in a psychiatric ward, having suffered from dementia, hallucinations and a debilitating cocktail of other presumed neurological diseases. He first experienced these signs of mental illness following a failed surgery to correct a condition known as torticollis, which is characterized by an involuntary contraction of the neck muscles. McAuliffe’s new book “The Mythical Bill: A Neurological Memoir,” published last month, pulls from her father’s diary entries, letters, interviews and her own research to explore the history of medical treatment, as well as into McAuliffe’s own journey to understand what had happened to her father. The Chronicle’s Shangnon Fei spoke with McAuliffe about her inspiration for the project, the interdisciplinary approach she took to it and the role of storytelling in good medicine. McAuliffe will read from the book Tuesday at 4:30 in 109 Page.
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The Chronicle: What made you want to write “The Mythical Bill”? Jody McAuliffe: It started with the question, “What was really wrong with my father?” The circumstances of his death were mysterious, so not only did I want to know what happened to him in World War II, but also what happened to him as a result of that, what exactly was his illness…. I’d become something of an armchair neurologist over the years and brain disease just became one of my major interests, and I think that was partly motivated by my wondering what was really the matter with him. I didn’t know anything beyond the fact that he had torticollis, and I knew he’d had an unsuccessful surgery, so I wrote the book because I wanted to really investigate the mystery. Also, when I first came to Duke in 2008, I wrote a short story about my father called “Standing On End,” which was the first short story I’d ever written, and that story was the sketch of what ultimately became the book. The other
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Theater studies Chair Jody McAuliffe recently wrote a memoir documenting her father’s mental illnesses, called “The Mythical Bill.” thing I wanted to investigate was the illness itself—my mother passed away in 2005, and all my father’s siblings had passed away, and this wasn’t the sort of book I’d want to write while they were alive, because it would be too painful for them. And one of the fantastic things about the internet was that I could research all about these neurological disorders like torticollis, so I was able to read all of this fascinating stuff about the history of neurological illnesses and of war trauma. And then I realized, “Ok, I can do this.” I didn’t want to write a book that was purely memoir. I also wanted to write a book that was a study of attitudes toward these illnesses, and a history of an illness that no one really knew the cause of. TC: This book combines elements of memoir and history and sociology and medicine. Do you think this mix would
be appealing to Duke students, whether they be pre-med or otherwise? JM: I would hope so! Because it’s a study of how illness affects a family, but it’s also a kind of sociocultural history of someone who grew up in the 50’s, and I’d hope that anyone who was interested in the history of medicine, and the way that attitudes toward disease affect choices of treatment, would be interested in this. And the interesting thing is that now we know how torticollis functions, although we still don’t know what causes it, and so now we know that it isn’t anything in the psychological makeup of the patient that causes it. So now there’s an additional aspect of how inextricable the mind is from the body. The other weird thing that I discovered is that my father had studied playwriting in graduate school, which I didn’t even know. So this might be interesting to Duke students. When we try to choose what we’re going to do, it usually breaks down to one of two things: we do the opposite of what our parents do, or we do the same. And I didn’t realize just how much my father’s aspiration was functioning through me, because he’d never told me he was interested in playwriting. So that was kind of shocking. Another thing that was interesting to me was the extent to which we are influenced by our parents’ physicality, how much we learn from them and imitate them in a way we’re not even conscious of, it’s just a matter of very active mirror neurons. So in a way I wanted to understand my father’s influence on me as well. People always ask me, “So how long have you been writing this book?” And my brother told me, “I think you’ve been writing this book your whole life.” TC: Do you think there is a special role for medicine in literature, or literature in medicine? JM: I do. I think there is a special role of storytelling in medicine, especially in diagnosis. I also believe very strongly that whatever is wrong with the mind can be traced back to a bodily cause—
no disease is off the table. I had an opportunity in Northwestern to do their six-year medical program, and I was initially repulsed by it. But now I think that if I could have a second life, I would have been a doctor, because in a funny way theater and medicine are very related because they’re both about the theory of people and what makes them tick. Maybe not necessarily about illness, although a lot of people in plays have something wrong with them. But I think I would have pursued neurology in particular if I had gone down that path in life. I do think storytelling is really important to medicine. I think there’s a new emphasis on that sort of thing in teaching medicine. Because if you’re going to find out what makes someone tick, you have to really listen to them—you can’t deal with things drily anymore. TC: Do you think that doctors not taking a more humanist approach was one of the failures of medicine back when the events of your book were taking place? JM: One of the weird things I read in my father’s diary was that the neurologist had told my father that his illness could be cured by taking more responsibility for his life, something that seems absurd to me now. Because, at the time, they didn’t know that the disease had to do with a malfunction in the basal ganglia. So I don’t know what to call that besides a psychologizing of his symptoms, you know, people saying, “You have this problem because you won’t take responsibility.” When actually, that isn’t true. It’s more complicated than that. And there’s a lot of brain stuff we still don’t know, but we do know this about torticollis now. But back in the ’20s, when people still had these attitudes that people with mental illnesses were weak, they didn’t know that weakness isn’t gonna cause your nervous system to start malfunctioning. The interesting thing about medicine to me is that it’s never just one thing.
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UK’s Thatcher dies, unforgiven by her foes
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — Bob Young’s strongest memory of Margaret Thatcher’s time in power is the brown envelope he received in March 1985 two days before he was due back at work after the yearlong miners’ strike. The letter, handed to the Scot’s then 12-year-old daughter, contained his P45, the form a worker gets in Britain when leaving a job or being fired. Young had been chairman of the National Union of Mineworkers at the Comrie colliery in Fife, eastern Scotland, and helped organize the walkout. “I despised her during the strike and I’ll never forgive her for what she’s done,” said Young, 69, now a local councillor for the Labour Party, the main opposition in the British Parliament. “I’m not glad someone has died, but she was on one side of the fence and I was on the other.” As the death of the former prime minister known as the “Iron Lady” sinks in across Britain, there’s still little love lost in the parts of the country at the sharp end of her post- industrial free-market economics. The sale of state assets, closure of mines and factories and a new local tax that triggered street protests cemented the northsouth divide. In Scotland, Thatcher’s Conservative Party, now led by Prime Minister David Cameron, won 22 parliamentary seats when she came to power in 1979. By the time her party was ousted by Labour in 1997, it had lost all of them. Cameron has one lawmak-
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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, shown with Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street on June 8, 2010, has died at 87. er representing Scotland in the House of Commons. “Thatcher was a truly formidable prime minister whose policies defined a political generation,” Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, who leads the semi-autonomous government in Edinburgh, said in a statement. “No doubt there will now be a renewed SEE THATCHER ON PAGE 6
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Increased immigration could reduce deficit by Jim Tankersley THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — Conservative champions of opening the flow of legal immigration into the United States are invoking economics in hopes of winning Republican lawmakers’ support — specifically, the idea that more immigration will increase growth and cut the federal budget deficit. The American Action Forum, a conservative think tank, will release an analysis on Tuesday that projects that an overhaul of immigration laws could boost gross domestic product growth by a percentage point each year over the next decade. That growth would produce tax revenue that would reduce federal deficits by a combined $2.5 trillion, according to the group’s president, the economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin. “It’s very important to recognize that this is a core economic policy decision,� Holtz-Eakin said in an interview. “Let’s acknowledge the value� of immigrants, he added. Other conservative or libertarian groups are echoing that message, including the Cato Institute and Americans for Tax Reform, the antitax group led by Grover Norquist. The effort is notable because some conservatives have employed economic and budgetary arguments — namely, that immigrants would take jobs from current workers, drive down wages across the
economy and balloon the deficit by creating new demand for government assistance programs — to catalyze Republican opposition to previous immigration bills. It also carries echoes of Republicans’ debates with Democrats over how to account for the potential economic benefits of tax cuts. Holtz-Eakin, Americans for Tax Reform and Cato all contend that the right way to evaluate an immigration expansion bill is through what lawmakers call “dynamic scoring,� which is to say, by considering both the potential costs to the economy from the bill and the possible benefits of increased economic growth spurred by it. Holtz-Eakin predicts that those benefits would be substantial. Immigrants will add to the labor force, he says, helping to reverse a decline in workforce participation that began a decade ago and, in the process, boost the economy’s potential for growth. Those added workers also could raise productivity, he says, because research shows that immigrants tend to be more entrepreneurial than nativeborn residents. Using census estimates for “high immigration� to the United States vs. “low immigration� as a guide, Holtz-Eakin calculates that a bill expanding immigration would raise GDP growth from an average of 3 percent annually to 3.9 percent over the course of a decade.
LEMUR from page 1 Currently, NSF is the largest supporter of Duke’s arts and sciences research, with 37 percent of funding coming from that organization in 2012. The three other major federal funding contributors include the NIH with 27 percent of research funding, the Department of Defense with 9 percent and the Department of Energy with 5 percent. Although the Department of Defense has said they do not expect to cut funding for basic research occurring at Duke, what will happen with the NSF is less certain, said James Siedow, vice provost for research and professor of biology. “NSF is all basic research, so consequently they are going to
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take a five percent cut across the board on various programs,â€? he said. “They are not going to cut [current funding] but new and competing renewal grants that are coming down the pike‌ is where they will take the five percent cut out of.â€? Siedow added that as the sequester compounds over the next five years, the NIH, the second largest contributor to Duke’s arts and sciences funding, will have a budget about 24 percent smaller than it does today. The NSF could not be reached for a statement about their financial expectations for the future. Other research organizations in North Carolina are also wary of the federal budget cuts. The National Evolutionary Synthe-
sis Center in Durham may face similar funding challenges in the future. Originally created from a NSF grant obtained by Duke, the organization is very dependent on NSF funding to support their operations, wrote Allen Rodrigo, director of NESCent and Duke biology professor, in a Thursday email. The NSF policy, negotiated before the sequester, dictated that funding would only be allocated for 10 years of operation and cannot be renewed, he added. “Since we approach our 10th year, this means that we have no opportunity to apply for a noncompetitive renewal of funding, and will have to rely on any funds in our budget that are unspent to keep us going,� he added. “We anticipate that if we are able to use these ‘carryover funds,’ we will be able to keep going for another six months after the end of 2014.� NESCent currently has programs going that are expected to continue for two to three more years, and the sequester makes it difficult for the organization to guarantee continued funding for these unfinished projects. Siedow noted that, though the effects of the sequester have not yet been felt by the University, he expects an increase in proposals and a decrease in available grants in the second half of this fiscal year. “Anybody who is requesting funding right now from any of the government organizations is realizing that the grants are much more competitive and funding opportunities are reducing, which isn’t a good combination,� Dye said.
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NURSING from page 1 School of Nursing’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, who was a human biology major at Stanford University, inquired about nursing and was told, “Stanford grads do not become nurses.” Perceiving nursing as less credible occupation is not uncommon. “There is a pretty similar national trend that most pre-med students have never even considered nursing,” said Michael Relf, assistant dean for undergraduate education at the School of Nursing. He added that many high school guidance counselors, parents and relatives have traditionally told intelligent students interested in medicine, “Oh, you are too smart to be a nurse.” Speaking from personal experiences, he added that nursing is typically viewed as a female profession, so men are particularly steered away from the profession as well. The ABSN program is intended for students who have completed their bachelor’s degrees and have studied the necessary course prerequisites to earn a bachelor of science in nursing degree in 16 months. On average, the ABSN program admits a cohort of 72 students each semester out of roughly 425 applicants, and within each cohort, there are approximately two to three students who
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earned their previous degrees at Duke. On average, only 13 percent of the entire program are male students, which is higher than the national average of 7 percent. Christopher Roy, chemistry professor and pre-health advisor for first and second year students, said that he rarely encounters students who say they are interested in nursing, perhaps because nursing is a hard job that requires specialized training and skills that are very specific, such as patience, dedication and mental strength. Sophomore pre-health student Aruni Gunaratne said she has never and is yet to consider nursing school as a potential career path because she has always wanted to be a pediatrician. “I never really thought about nursing, and unless I fail at my current goals, I would choose med school over nursing,” Gunaratne said. She added that because she never asked for any related information about nursing school, none of her advisers ever suggested this possibility. She noted, however, that she would be open to current nursing students’ opinions and experiences about their decisions to become nurses. “To be honest, I think one of the reasons [that nursing is unpopular] is the pay—financial reasons—that’s the main thing I can think of as the stigma around it,” Gunaratne added. Relf noted that the average
annual salary for a regular nurse is about $55,000, but added there are opportunities within the nursing profession to earn higher salaries. “For nurses who want to continue their education to become a nurse anesthetist, the salary is probably around $110,000 to $125,000,” Relf said. “Nurse practitioners and nurse midwives earn an annual salary around $90,000—those salaries are certainly above the median income of the U.S. population.” Current nursing student Zoe Baer, who graduated from Duke in 2008, was admitted to the School of Nursing this past September. She majored in Arabic and cultural anthropology during her undergraduate years and became a teacher in the Middle East and later New York City after graduation. She did not consider nursing until last year. “I decided nursing for many reasons,” Baer said. “Nursing seemed a little bit more attractive because I could be on the front lines with people, learn more about them and be able to change a lot more about their life.” Baer worked last year as an AmeriCorps member helping to set up clinics and shelter systems throughout New York City during the day and took classes to meet the prerequisite requirements for nursing school at night. She was inspired and pushed by her mentor, a male nurse practitio-
ner, who believed that nursing offers a more holistic approach to medicine because nurses can help solve the disease as well as other ailments. Roy noted that some students consider physician assistant school because of more regular-hour workdays that allow students to fulfill familial obligations. These factors may also play a role in students’ decisions to become nurses. The curriculum for medical school and nursing school is “similar and different,” Relf said. “Whereas med school has the infamous organic chemistry, calculus and physics, more fundamental [courses for nursing school] are anatomy, physiology, microbiology, and we encourage courses on human growth and development and nutrition,” he said. Baer said she feels that although nurses are not currently considered to be as capable or as knowledgeable as doctors, popular perceptions of nurses
DONATE from page 1 costs have been increasing more quickly than inflation has been occurring, Vigdor noted. According to Student Donate, student debt surpassed $1 trillion in 2011. “As college costs go up, we can expect people to be innovative,” Vigdor said. “I imagine
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are beginning to change. The health care reform brought by the Affordable Care Act will allow advance-practice nurses to become key health care providers because they are more versatile, Relf said. For example, a specialized oncologist will treat patients’ cancer and a nurse practitioner can manage their common problems after the cancer has been stabilized. The health care delivery model can become more costeffective and thus more accessible for patients if it is primarily managed by nurse practitioners or physician assistants, because they have enough knowledge to care for patients on a more regular basis and are less expensive than specialized physicians. “Nursing is part of a growing sector in the U.S. economy and the role of nurses is expected to expand further in the face of the Affordable Care Act,” Gilliss said. “It has never been a better time to be a nurse.” we’ll see more things like [Student Donate].” But Wilkinson’s motivation is focused more on students’ stories than on financial technicalities. “Everyone wants to start the next Facebook and get rich… money is nice, but it’s not everything,” Wilkinson said. “Social entrepreneurship is worthwhile, too.”
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THATCHER from page 3 debate about the impact of that legacy.” The miners’ strike ended 28 years ago and there has been no softening of the anger toward Thatcher, according to John Kane, a miner for 37 years and now a guide at the Scottish Mining Museum, south of Edinburgh. Kane worked as a deputy at a local pit to keep it safe during the strike. “She wasn’t a friend of Scotland or the miners,” said Kane,
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age 75. “There was a lot of ill-feeling between people and it even goes on today in arguments at the miners’ club.” Thatcher, who led Britain from 1979 to 1990, suffered a stroke and died peacefully. She was 87. While her detractors point to unemployment hitting 3 million people and the demise of northern towns that had been at the center of the Industrial Revolution, she will be remembered among her admirers as the premier who helped end the Cold War, stood up to Argentina after it invaded the Falkland Islands and
enriched homeowners and stockmarket investors. “When she came to power Britain was an uncompetitive country with the economy on its back,” said Michael Forsyth, a junior minister under Thatcher who served as Scottish secretary in the government of her successor, John Major. “It took twice as long in terms of man hours to produce a ton of steel as it did in the rest of Europe. She turned that around and gave millions of people access to capital for the first time.” The start of 1979 was dubbed “the winter of discontent,” with
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strikes including water and rail workers, truckers and oil tanker drivers, ambulance personnel and gravediggers, teachers, dock workers and garbage collectors. By the early 1980s, Thatcher’s war against the unions that she accused of holding the country to ransom had turned to the miners, whose leaders she called “the enemy within” in a speech to party lawmakers. Young recalls being in Orgreave in South Yorkshire in 1984 when miners and police on horses clashed in one of the bloodiest encounters of the strike. “I was in the army and I can tell you I was scared,” said Young, a former soldier who had traveled the 270 miles (430 kilometers) south from his home in Dunfermline. “I would have given Usain Bolt a run for his money that day.” The early 1980s were violent times and in Northern Ireland Thatcher became a hate figure for many in the Catholic community. In 1981, 10 republican prisoners, led by Bobby Sands, fasted to death in protest at jail conditions. Sinn Fein accused Thatcher of refusing to intervene to end the hunger strike, which ushered in the worst violence in the region since 1969, when Northern Ireland’s three-decade-long conflict began. The Irish Republican Army, an ally of Sinn Fein that waged an armed campaign to unite Ireland, almost killed Thatcher in 1984 with a no-warning bomb at the hotel she was staying in during
her party’s annual conference. “Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once,” the IRA said in a statement issued after the attack. “You will have to be lucky always.” Almost 30 years later, the hatred of Thatcher is undimmed in some Irish republican circles. “Working-class communities were devastated in Britain because of her policies,” Gerry Adams, 64, president of Sinn Fein, said in an emailed statement after her death. “In Ireland her espousal of old draconian militaristic policies prolonged the war and caused great suffering. Her failed efforts to criminalize the republican struggle and the political prisoners is part of her legacy.” Back at the homes of former miners, the death of Thatcher was a “great day,” David Hopper, general secretary of the Durham Miners’ Association, told the Press Association news agency. “She destroyed our community, our villages and our people,” he said from northeast England. Young in Scotland said his family struggled after he was dismissed from the pit following the strike. He was reinstated with 14 months back-pay after winning a tribunal hearing, he said. The reason for the dismissal was that he had been arrested with about 130 other local miners during the strike. “I was the only one to lose my job,” Young said. “When the strike finished and I was out I was on my own, it was 100 percent harder than the strike itself.”
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Duke’s stable of running backs Pitching looks to stay hot by Zac Elder THE CHRONICLE
Duke will enter the 2013-2014 season facing a problem it has not yet seen in the first five years of the David Cutcliffe era: the Blue Devils have so many running backs, they might not know who to hand the ball off to. The top six rushers in a unit that averaged more than 125 yards per game last season will be back on the field in the fall, including Juwan Thompson, Josh Snead, Jela Duncan and Shaquille Powell. “It’s an interesting problem,” Cutcliffe said in regards to who would get the majority of the carries. “It’s a good problem. As a group, it might be the best group I’ve had. Certainly the best group we’ve had since we’ve been here.” Not only will the Blue Devils have depth at the running back position, but also diversity of ability. Each of the top-four backs brings something different to the offensive side of the ball. Thompson, the lone senior of the group, has rushed for 896 yards during his three years, averaging 4.3 yards per carry for his career. A multi-purpose athlete, Thompson has also caught 49 balls for 351 yards and three touchdowns in his first three seasons. He is perhaps the most complete of all Duke’s running backs—he can pass block, run block, line up in the slot and catch the ball and even play special teams.
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team as it presses forward toward the postseason. Since his injury, Wigrizer’s primary role on the team has been to mentor his backup, sophomore Kyle Turri. With Wigrizer injured and the team off to a 2-4 start, Turri took over between the pipes for the Blue Devils since Wigrizer’s injury and has led the team to seven consecutive victories. Duke had dropped out
When UNC Greensboro visits Jack Coombs Field Tuesday evening, the Spartans will be going up against a Duke team playing with renewed confidence. The reason for that swagger: the team’s pitching. The Blue Devil staff rose to the occasion over the weekend, shutting out a potent Georgia UNC-G Tech offense twice vs. and limiting the YelDuke low Jackets to just two runs during the three-game series in TUESDAY, 6 p.m. Durham. Jack Coombs Field “[Our pitchers] feel really good about the way they pitched, and they should,” head coach Chris Pollard said. Freshman right-hander Michael Matuella—who has a 2-2 record and 2.49 ERA this season—will take the hill for the Blue Devils Tuesday and look to deliver another strong performance by a Duke starting pitcher. Duke starters have given up just ten earned runs during the last eight contests, dating back to a March 27 win against North Carolina A&T. During the weekend, the starting trio of Trent Swart, Drew Van Orden and Robert Huber combined to allow just 15 hits in 23 innings of work. “The thing the guys have done well is use the fastball to their advantage, pitching ahead in the count,” Pollard said. “And with Michael, the fastball is his strength.” The Spartans (16-16) will counter with junior southpaw Dylan Hathcock who has a 2-2 record, 5.79 ERA and three saves on the year. Pollard is familiar with the lefty, dating back to Pollard’s time as skipper at Appalachian State. He said Hathcock will try to force Blue Devil hitters into weak contact early in the count. “He won’t get tons of swings and misses,” Pollard said. “He’s going to rely on you to get yourself out, so you really need to take what he gives you and have a patient approach [at the plate].” After an explosive five-game stretch during which it scored 50 runs, the Duke offense could only provide its pitchers minimal run support during the weekend, scoring just six runs in the series. The stellar pitching, though, enabled the Blue Devils to take two out of three from the then-No. 15 Yellow Jackets, putting Duke (19-14) just a game back of Georgia Tech in the ACC standings. One offensive bright spot for the Blue Devils during the weekend was second baseman Andy Perez. The Roswell, Ga. native notched five hits and twice extended doubles into triples, exhibiting hustle Pollard said has become routine for the sophomore.
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Juwan Thompson is the lone senior running back on next year’s Duke team.
As a true freshman, Jela Duncan led Duke in rushing with 553 yards on the ground.
Snead, a junior, is the team’s home run hitter. After redshirting for the 2011 season, Snead returned for his second year of eligibility to rack up 496 yards on the ground, averaging just more than five yards per carry. Snead’s premier performance
came in the Belk Bowl loss to Cincinnati, when the junior rushed for 107 yards on 17 attempts. To go along with the experience of SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 8
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Dan Wigrizer has likely played his final collegiate game for Duke. The senior goaltender—who led the Blue Devils to the program’s only national championship in 2010 as a freshman and subsequent championship weekends in 2011 and 2012—has battled injuries all season and has not suited up for Duke since a March 2 loss to Maryland. Although the injury had previously remained undisclosed, Wigrizer said he had received one concussion too many. “I’ve had a long history with concussions and head injuries,” Wigrizer said. “I was in a situation where neurologists said that if I got another concussion, I shouldn’t be playing anymore. They told me before the season that if it happened again I shouldn’t be playing anymore. With all this news recently about concussions it’s a really tough situation as a player to say, ‘No, I don’t want to play.’ But finally the doctors came to me and said, ‘We need to figure this out. There are more important things in life than lacrosse.’” The shot that effectively ended Wigrizer’s career came in the week before Duke’s 17-6 loss to Maryland five weeks ago. Wigrizer did not recover, allowing five goals on the first seven shots he faced and being pulled from the game just 43 seconds into the second quarter. “I got hit before the Maryland game, and it cracked my helmet. That was the
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Senior goaltender Dan Wigrizer started on Duke’s 2010 national championship team. hardest I’ve ever been hit,” Wigrizer said. “After that game I wasn’t myself.” Wigrizer now closes the book on an illustrious career in which he posted a 36-18 record. He finishes undefeated in the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament and is just one of six netminders in NCAA history to win a national championship as a true freshman. Even though his playing days are done, Wigrizer hopes to continue serving his
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of the rankings, but is now tabbed No. 8 nationally. “With Kyle playing well that really helps me out. I really think that at this point, my role is to help enhance these goalies. I’ve been in the position before, and I know exactly where they are going,” Wigrizer said. “Kyle is doing great. He is listening to his coaches and has taken this team on quite a run.” By serving almost as another assistant coach on the sidelines, Wigrizer has not only found a way to help his team now that he can no longer play, but also a potential career path. “Coaching goalies would be great,” Wigrizer said. “Just during these couple of weeks I’ve learned so much about coaching, and I think it’s awesome. I didn’t put thought to it beforehand but I can tell you after these last couple of weeks that it’s definitely in my mind.” Despite a premature ending to his lacrosse career, Wigrizer said he looks back on his career with no regrets. His next mission is to help cement his legacy at Duke. “It’s tragic to end the way that I’m ending. I knew eventually it was coming, but it was definitely something I had to take a couple of weeks to cope with,” Wigrizer said. “After doing that, I realized that I have the opportunity not only to make a difference this year, but in years to come by helping out Kyle. My legacy will hopefully last further than my playing career, and that’s pretty special.”
“All year he’s been driving the ball the other way and really been a spark plug for the offense,” Pollard said. “He’s aggressive, always looking to take the extra base.” Pollard said the Blue Devil bullpen will be short-handed against the Spartans. Freshman righty James Marvel and redshirt junior Chase Bebout will both be unavailable due to arm tenderness. The holes left by the two pitchers, who have seen lots of work during midweek games this season, mean lesser-used relievers will get chances to make an impact. Offensively, UNC Greensboro is led by senior infielder/designated hitter Trevor Edwards, who has clubbed nine home runs and driven home 32 runs for the Spartans while maintaining a .308 batting average. Pollard saw plenty of the powerful Edwards during Southern Conference games between the Spartans and Pollard’s Mountaineers. “[Edwards] has strong hands and a lot of power,” Pollard said. “The best way to pitch him is with no runners on base.” Pollard said his pitchers will commit to their game plan rather than focus specifically on pitching to Edwards’ weaknesses at the plate. A similar strategy worked to perfection against Georgia Tech. “One of the biggest takeaways from this weekend’s series is that just because a team’s numbers or a player’s numbers are gaudy shouldn’t change the way you pitch,” Pollard said.
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FOOTBALL from page 7 Snead and Thompson will be the talented sophomores Duncan and Powell. Duncan, although young, led the team in total rushing last year with 553 yards on the ground. As a true freshman, Duncan used his punishing downhill style to run for four touchdowns, but also showed his versatility by racking up 19 receptions. Powell, who saw limited playing time at running back last year, has been performing at a high level all spring. The Las Vegas native rushed for just 93 yards on 28 carries last season, but led the Duke ground attack in its April 3 scrimmage with 48 yards on eight carries. “What Shaq is doing is not surprising to me at all,” Cutcliffe said. “He’s had a great year of lifting and getting stronger…. He’s got great vision, great feet and great cutting ability. He’s really a truly complete back.” With a stable of talented running backs like the Blue Devils have not seen in years, the team’s offensive dynamic could see a makeover. Duke has spent much of its early spring practices focusing on a zone-read package—a fast-paced shotgun style offense designed to give running backs and quarterbacks freedom to read the offensive line’s movements and burst through gaps or cut back across their blockers. After running a pass-heavy spread offense for most of Cutcliffe’s tenure, increasingly focusing on the zone-read should make the Blue Devils into a two-dimensional offensive threat unlike in past years, when defenses could play passfirst defense and mostly disregard the ground attack. With the graduation of senior quarterback Sean Renfree and wideouts Connor Vernon and Desmond Scott, most of Duke’s offensive experience next season will rest with its talented core of backs and its offensive line, which returns four-of-five starters. “We know we can count on them up front,” Snead said. “They know
what they’re supposed to do, and they’ve been in the system multiple seasons so they know what to expect going into a game. It’s really huge to know that we can count on them to run the football, and they can protect [quarterback Anthony] Boone in the passing game.” The Blue Devils will be adding another crucial element to their offensive arsenal next year—a mobile quarterback. Redshirt junior Anthony Boone is currently slated as the starter, with redshirt freshman Thomas Sirk filling the backup position. Unlike Renfree, a pocket passer, Boone is much more active in the run game and will fit in well with the zone-read offense. The Monroe, N.C. native ran for 86 yards and a pair of touchdowns last season on 26 carries. Redshirt junior Brandon Connette also took snaps at quarterback last year and rushed for eight touchdowns on just 41 carries, most of which came in the red zone. With all the talent at running back, as well as mobile quarterbacks in Boone and backups Sirk and Connette, Cutcliffe and his offensive coordinator could face a challenge in distributing carries throughout the season, assuming everyone remains healthy. “Whoever has the hottest hand is going to get the carries when it comes to the end of the game,” Snead said. “We are competitive guys, so we feel like we can all go out there and be the man.” For newly promoted running backs coach Re’quan Boyette, who graduated in 2009 after racking up more than 1,200 yards in his career as a Blue Devil, the talent at his position will provide a challenge in distributing the workload. But the two-time Duke captain is ready for the task. “That’s the best problem and the worst problem that I have,” Boyette said. “Every single one of these guys could go play anywhere in the country, hands down, and be a big contributor. But we have all of them here. That’s the best part about it.”
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Vote Giwa-Osagie for social culture Social culture at Duke is a most comprehensive view of highly embittered topic, en- the position as well as the best compassing a wide range of leadership style. Giwa-Osagie issues. Including everything takes a holistic view of social from hazing to alcohol policy, culture, which she believes social culture refers to any- is shaped by issues including thing regarding housing, social social life, its programming editorial regulation and and ethical conits unfortunate excesses. siderations, like equality and The expansive and contro- access. Giwa-Osagie’s stints as versial nature of social culture senator for residential life and makes it a difficult domain for senator for equity and outreach a Duke Student Government have allowed her to understand committee. Perhaps the prob- the complicated ecosystem of lems of social culture are too Duke social life. Giwa-Osagie entrenched for a small com- also aspires to broaden the mittee to solve in any meaning- purview of the committee for ful way. This would explain why social culture. none of the four candidates for Giwa-Osagie not only posvice president for social culture sesses a global vision for social offer truly insightful prescrip- culture, but she also undertions for Duke’s social ills. stands smaller issues better. Nevertheless, sophomore Concerning alcohol policy, GiAdesuwa Giwa-Osagie has the wa-Osagie recognizes that pro-
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posed BYOB and bartending policies are likely to be ineffective and advocates a compromise with the administration on distribution policy. GiwaOsagie—in partnership with President-elect Stefani Jones, a junior, and Executive Vice President-elect Nikolai Doytchinov, a sophomore—should think more about the feasibility of this policy, but she is on the right track. Regarding hazing, Giwa-Osagie was the only candidate to clearly prioritize student safety over concerns about arbitrary enforcement. Other candidates seemed more upset by the crackdown on minor incidents than the danger arising from extreme behavior. GiwaOsagie wants to tackle both by focusing on “higher level” hazing, not smaller infractions. Finally, Giwa-Osagie pres-
ents herself as a balanced, informed student advocate, which is crucial when negotiating over sensitive issues. Her previous experience on DSG, healthy relationships with administrators and focus on teamwork will promise to make her effective. We were also impressed by junior Leilani Doktor’s experience and enthusiasm. But her policy ideas, while concrete, were off-base. A proposed 30-minute break for all students in the afternoon is not effective relief for widespread stress. Shifting disciplinary power from resident assistants to the Office of Student Conduct does not address the inconsistency of alcohol policy enforcement. Freshman Bryan Dinner impressed us with a wealth
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hen choosing whether or not to come to difficult for lower-income people to vote and peoDuke, I made a pro-con list. ple of color to vote. The bill actually expands the On the “con” side was my nebulous ability to vote by absentee ballot, which is where concept of “The South” (juxtaposed against plac- the fraud (if there’s even voter fraud) actually es like Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro). happens (but that favors RepubliBeing from Vancouver (where can voters so it’s ok). vegan yoga-enthusiasts can be vegan The State Senate repealed the and do yoga), I wasn’t sure what it Racial Justice Act (ending the de would mean to come to a state like facto moratorium on executions) North Carolina. I anticipated slow and introduced voter ID laws. They walkers, too-sweet tea and segregacut the UNC budget by another tion. $139 million. Gov. McCrory refused I’ve come to love this state, federal Medicaid funding. Legsamantha though those elements are absoislators proposed lying to public lachman lutely here. From hiking and goatschools’ children about the medical cheese grits in Asheville to sand what’s our age again? effects of abortion and mandated dunes and seafood in the Outer that doctors performing abortions Banks, I’ve tried to get outside the Triangle. have admitting privileges at local hospitals, etc. However, staying post-graduation has become Junior Jacob Tobia feels galvanized by the things a significantly less attractive option since the Re- that make me want to flee: “I think, if anything, publican-controlled North Carolina General As- seeing what’s happening in the N.C. legislature is sembly started to show its true colors. And it begs convincing me that I need to come back after grad the question: What happens when liberal college school and work to make this state better!” students are only energized by federal and SenateRecess editor Michaela Dwyer, a senior from level races, and don’t pay attention to what’s hap- Chapel Hill, feels similarly. pening in the states in which we can vote? “I’m starting to envision the ways my skills and More astute political analysts than I discuss interests may be integral to the preservation of these issues in depth. But the sheer number of the places and communities in North Carolina in downright disenfranchising and discriminatory which I’ve grown up. These are places and compieces of legislation of late makes cutting my loss- munities that raised me, and many others, to be es and running look more appealing. For expedi- intellectually curious, study and promote the arts ency, I’ll only detail some. There’s been a lot to and not be ashamed of it, honor and empathize keep up with. with the experience of other human beings, and First, there’s the calculated-youth-disenfran- constantly look at politics, history, society, and chisement bill. Senate Bill 667, “Equalize Voter culture with a critical eye—essentially, progressive Rights,” would remove the tax exemption for chil- ideals,” she wrote. dren who register to vote in a district outside their Michaela followed-up thus: “It’s clear in the curhome address. Tell me this has nothing to do with rent state legislature that these values—that have suppressing the turnout of students who are more sustained so much growth in North Carolina—are likely to vote for Democrats. Any sort of poll tax in being swiftly, and dangerously, deprioritized. In a the South seems a bit regressive. way, it almost feels irresponsible for me to leave Second, there’s the big-government-in-your- what’s really broiling here right now.” bedroom bill. Senate Bill 518, the so-called I wonder if I would feel more compelled to stay “Healthy Marriage Act,” would establish a two-year in the short-term had I been born here. But I have waiting period to file for divorce and mandate to be aware of my privilege—I am able to leave. those seeking a divorce to undergo classes on im- Not everyone can. proving communication and conflict-resolution The kind of work that needs to be done to preskills. Tell me this isn’t paternalistic and patron- vent the special interests and extremists who are izing, not to mention dangerous for those who are behind this legislation from taking over will rebeing abused and who want out. Even scarier is quire energy and investment and dedication and that one of the bill’s cosponsors sits on the state’s solidarity on the ground. Domestic Violence Commission (he should probDespite it all, there’s too much good about ably, like, think about such things). North Carolina to leave it for good. Third, there’s the bill that cuts early-voting periods in half and ends same-day voter registration, Samantha Lachman is a Trinity senior. Her column straight ticket voting and voting on Sundays. Sen- runs every other Tuesday. Follow her on Twitter @Samate Bill 666 is all about making it making it more Lachman.
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y beautiful state of North Caro- resolution will never fly and will never belina appeared in national and come law. Even if it becomes a law here in international news headlines North Carolina, our federal government last week in a troubling fashion. The will shoot it down, as it will be in direct Rowan County Defense of violation of the ConstituReligion Act supported by tion. Then why are they 14 state legislators, all of doing this? Why are they whom are from the same seemingly making fools of party, sparked a controversy themselves and harming whose dust has yet to settle. the reputation of their poIt is amazing how news travlitical party, religion, state, els and gets sensationalized country and more? These so quickly in modern times. abdullah antepli politicians cannot be that I received emails, phone naïve and disconnected blue devil imam calls and interview requests from the reality. They are within hours after the news doing this because they broke, from many corners of the world. were made to believe, by themselves and For those who didn’t follow very closely, others, that this is the easiest way to score here is the main part of the resolution: political points in N.C. based on their SECTION 1. The North Carolina Gen- reading of current political affairs in our eral Assembly asserts that the Constitution state. These people look at the outcomes of the United States of America does not of Amendment One and the results of our prohibit states or their subsidiaries from recent presidential election, and they are making laws respecting an establishment playing a very dangerous, shortsighted, of religion. cheap and selfish political game by introSECTION 2. The North Carolina Gen- ducing this resolution. So it is not entirely eral Assembly does not recognize federal pointless as far as these politicians’ prescourt rulings, which prohibit and other- ent and future personal ambitions in poliwise regulate the State of North Carolina, tics are concerned. It may serve very well its public schools or any political subdivi- in the short run for them if we don’t do sions of the State from making laws re- anything about it. specting an establishment of religion. However, these unwise leaders of our I received these developments with state do not realize that this fire they are mixed feelings of anger, frustration, joy and playing with could spread much more hope. First, as an American Muslim leader, quickly and turn into a much bigger disasvery often I am deeply embarrassed by and ter than they think. These developments put in a position to explain the shameful could further divide our already very diand troubling actions of fellow Muslims vided nation; they could potentially give elsewhere in the world. It was an ironic rise to certain exclusive and harmful forcbreak to be put in a similar situation— es that are already troublingly louder and not because I am a Muslim, but because I more powerful than before. am a proud N.C. resident. Even though I No one knows this destructive game know Islam and Muslims neither own nor better than the millions of American Musproduce all the crazies in the world, it was lims, including myself, who have come therapeutically comforting to see a simi- from countries where reckless politicians’ larly troubling action right at home. See- dangerous experiments in mixing reliing the embarrassment and puzzlement of gion and politics have had devastating some Christian friends in response to this consequences for the entire nation. These resolution, you can’t help but feel reas- cheap political games tore apart the social sured. Misery always likes company. fabric of those societies, disturbed social As the reality started sinking in further, harmony, gave rise to intolerance and anger and frustration took over my relief. enmity, and turned long-standing friends We are in 2013, and have spent 200-plus into enemies as they disturbed centuriesyears striving to improve our secular de- long neighborly, brotherly-sisterly and lovmocracy and strengthen our civic society, ing relationships. which is a beautiful mosaic of many reliUnfortunately, most developed and gions, cultures and colors. And 14 well-edu- healthy societies react to harmful trends cated elected officials are trying to establish in substantial ways only when things seem a state religion: SIGH! The legislators who to get out of control. My only hopeful excooked up this circus do not mention which pectation out of this madness is that the religion will be the official religion of North Defense of Religion Act will shock so many Carolina if this resolution becomes a law. If, lazy, inactive and silent moderates to fihowever, you pay attention to the context nally respond to the loud call for action. I of this resolution and pay even closer atten- believe these moderates, both locally and tion to these legislators’ personal and pro- nationally, still represent the overwhelmfessional records, the brand of religion they ing majority of people here in the United are promoting is clear. States. I wonder: If this tragic resolution These are indeed deeply troubling doesn’t wake them up and motivate them and potentially dangerous developments, to act against the troubling rise of exclusivas they are familiar signs of much bigger ism and its various threats to our secular and more harmful troubles for our en- democracy and civic society, what will? tire nation. These politicians are playing with fire by mixing religion and politics in Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain such an unwise, harmful and destructive and an adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies. His way. Think about it: Everyone, including column runs every other Tuesday. You can folthese 14 elected officials, knows that this low Abdullah on Twitter @aantepli.
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could never understand how, immedi- between types of doctors. There’s a stereoately following Election Day, politicos type that primary care doctors believe more were eager to speculate about the 2016 in government intervention as a function presidential race. All this talk of Hillary and of more direct exposure to patients with Rubio was overwhelming— lack of resources, whereas couldn’t we take some time some specialists are focused to appreciate the concluon making sure government sion of campaign season, a doesn’t get in the way. Yet, competitive period that had that doesn’t explain why dominated our thoughts organizations representing and passions for months? surgeons and cardiologists Then, we lost to Louisville, endorsed the ACA. Personand I found myself counting ally, I think the conservative down the days until Jabari skew is a combination of two Parker and Rodney Hood infactors. First, the docs who augurate Durham as the real consider public office are “Dunk City” next season. usually older and have acIt’s only natural to move cumulated enough wealth on to the next “thing,” but run a political campaign. pre-med series to if you do have more proSecond, those committed to premeditations ductive things to do in your progressively changing the time than watch C-SPAN, healthcare system might not you might have missed the emergence of believe public office is the most impactful another presidential contender: Ben Car- way for them to contribute. son. Now, there are a host of characteristics That being said, there are prominent that make Carson an appealing candidate examples of liberal doctors leading the way to Republicans: He’s brilliant, courageous on this front. Don Berwick, a pediatrician and black. But there’s one label of Carson and policy wonk who served as Obama’s that’s got a little extra “oomph” after the head of Medicare and Medicaid until 2011, national conversations we’ve had these last is contemplating a run for governor of Masfour years: doctor. sachusetts. Jim McDermott, a psychiatrist Dr. Carson has a special story, rising from Washington, has been a staunch advofrom poverty to become a neurosurgeon at cate for single-payer healthcare in Congress Johns Hopkins who oversaw the first sepa- since Clinton’s health reform efforts. And ration of conjoined twins in history. What’s in recent elections, Raul Ruiz—a young interesting, however, is that, as a conserva- doctor who trained at Partners in Health, tive doctor contemplating public service, the NGO co-founded by physician, human Dr. Carson is not unique—at least by to- rights advocate and Duke alumnus Paul day’s standards. Farmer—has made waves as a progressive Doctors have historically played a role representing California in the House. in politics. From Joseph Warren, the leader Some may argue that in order to improve of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress health, we should simply elect more people who aided Paul Revere in his infamous ride who support healthcare reform, not just back in 1775, to Howard Dean, the former health professionals. For better or worse, governor of Vermont and presidential can- we ascribe extra weight to opinions derived didate in 2004, practitioners of medicine from “experience.” A real conversation on have a tradition of foraying into policy and healthcare is just starting in this country, and law. Thus, it’s no surprise that a number of in the face of complexity, we seek opinions of physicians still pursue public service today. those we trust. And when an individual like What is surprising, however, is their Dr. Carson, one of the most famous physipolitics. Of the 15 physicians in Congress in cians in the nation, denounces Obamacare, 2010, only three voted in favor of the Afford- it’s only natural for us to listen. able Care Act—a decision split completely The disproportionate representation on party lines, with Republicans against of physicians fighting against progressive and Democrats in favor of the law. In other social policy on our nation’s grandest stage words, around 80 percent of the physicians is troubling. It’s also something our genon public service’s greatest stage—those to eration of students can and must change. whom we, rightly or not, attribute some level Duke has cultivated a vibrant group of asof expertise on the important issue of health piring docs passionate about advancing care—rejected the nation’s greatest expan- public health and empowering the voices sion of health equity in almost five decades. of the communities they hope to serve. PolThis is all well and fine, except that this itics and medicine might not be the most distribution doesn’t really seem representa- conventional combination, but if you ever tive. Doctors, like any demographic, have find yourself mulling over public service, varied political ideologies and views. Using just think about this: If not you, then who? the ACA as an example, it is striking to note that over 10 major physician groups—inSanjay Kishore, Trinity ’13, is a Duke precluding the American Medical Association, med. This column is the 12th installment in a which represents 240,000 practitioners semester-long series of weekly columns written on across the country—endorsed reform a few the pre-med experience at Duke, as well as the diyears ago. verse ways students can pursue and engage with So, what’s the deal? Some point to divides the field of medicine.
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April 9 – April 22 Exhibitions Visualizing Venice: New Technologies for Urban History. A Collaborative Project. Thru April 12. Smith Warehouse, Bay 11, second floor. Free. MFAEDA Thesis Exhibition. Featuring work by the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Class of 2013. Thru April 14. Various locations. Visit http://mfaeda2013.org for schedule and information. Free. Light Sensitive. Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections. Thru May 12. Nasher Museum of Art. Street Exposure: The Photographs of Ronald Reis. Scenes of daily life in the city by American street photographer Ronald Reis. Thru May 17. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free. Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey. The artist’s first major solo museum exhibition was organized by the Nasher Museum. Thru July 21. Nasher Museum of Art. One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia. Paul Kwilecki’s black-and-white images of his birthplace. Thru July 27. Center for Documentary Studies. Free. Botanical Treasures from Duke’s Hidden Library. An exhibition on the history and work of the Duke University Herbarium. Thru July 31. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.
Events April 11 Lear. (See ad) 8pm, Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. $10 Gen.; $5 Students & Sr. Citizens. April 12 Duke Jazz Ensemble. John Brown, director with guest artist Jon Faddis, trumpet. 8pm, Page Aud. $10 Gen.; $5 Students & Sr. Citizens. Lear. (See April 11) 8pm. April 13 Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. Brahms’ masterwork is one of the pinnacles of choral music. Presented by the Duke Chapel Choir and Duke Chorale, with professional orchestra and soloists. 4pm, Duke Chapel. $15 Gen., Students free. Lear. (See April 11) 8pm. April 14 Duke New Music Ensemble [dnme]. Tim Hambourger, director. 8pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.
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Lear. (See April 11) 2pm. April 16 Student Chamber Music Recital. 7pm, Nelson Music Rm. Free. April 17 Duke Symphony Orchestra. Harry Davidson, director. Centennial Celebrations 2. Verdi: Overture to La Forza del destino; excerpts from Otello, La Traviata, & Aida with soprano soloists Heather Engebretson & Catheryne Shuman; Britten: Soirées Musicales, Op. 9, after Rossini; Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Preludes to Acts III and I). 8pm, Page Aud. Free. April 18 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Nobel Laureate for Literature and Mauritian scholar/writer/ activist Issa Asgarally. In conversation with Duke faculty and students, including Laurent Dubois, Deborah Jenson, Ainehi Edoro, and Reginald Patterson. 2pm, Franklin Humanities Institute “Garage,” Bay 4, Smith Warehouse. Followed by reception. Free. interculturalityandarts. wordpress.com Duke University Wind Symphony. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, director. A concert dedicated to Paul Bryan, featuring works he conducted, arranged, and commissioned during his legendary tenure at Duke. Special guests: Duke University Wind Symphony Alumni. 8pm, Page Aud. Free.
by Young Jean Lee directed by Jody McAuliffe, Theater Studies faculty
April 19 A concert in honor of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Featuring Duke University and UNC music students and faculty. 7pm, Bone Hall, Mary Duke Biddle Music Building, Duke University East Campus. Reception to follow. Free. interculturalityandarts.wordpress.com Opera Workshop. Susan Dunn, director. Comedy Tonight: scenes of mirth & merriment from operas by Donizetti, Menotti, Mozart, Smetana, & Verdi. Featuring special guest performances by members of The Circus Club. 8pm, Nelson Music Rm. Free. April 21 Opera Workshop. (See April 19) 3pm, Nelson Music Rm. Free. Vespers Ensemble Concert. Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri Patientis Sanctissima. This Baroque oratorio is a masterwork of poetry, scripture, and music, with each of the seven musical movements dedicated to “the most holy limbs of our suffering Jesus.” The Vespers Ensemble will be joined by an orchestra of period instruments. 4pm, Duke Chapel. Free admission.
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus April 11-13 at 8 pm and April 14 at 2 pm tickets.duke.edu or 919-684-4444
SCREEN/SOCIETY All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium. (SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium. All events subject to change. 4/10
LION’S DEN (2008/Argentinia, by Pablo Trapero) (W) Feminism & Freedom Film Series
4/11
THE FIRST YEAR (SW) Rights! Camera! Action!
4/12
THE MOURNING FOREST (Japan, by Naomi Kawase) (W) Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival Cine-East: East Asian Cinema
4/16
LA JETÉE + THE CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT (8pm) Tribute to Chris Marker (1921-2012) AMI Showcase
4/18
THIS IS MY AFRICA (N) Lights on Africa 2013: A film series in conjunction with the Nasher Museum exhibition Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey
4/19
EMBRACING + KYA KA RA BA A (Japan, by Naomi Kawase) (W) 2 documentaries, one about the filmmaker’s search for the father she never knew, and the other about mourning his death 8 years later. Cine-East: East Asian Cinema
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