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Uni online Student activism remains strong at Duke status still in limbo by Emma Baccellieri THE CHRONICLE

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After faculty voted to reject online courses for credit, the specifics of Duke’s future in online education remain unresolved. Following the Arts and Sciences Council’s April 25 vote, the University withdrew from a contract with Internet education company 2U and left Semester Online, a consortium of universities offering courses via the 2U platform. But the faculty’s decision not to participate in the program does not indicate a stop to the University’s involvement with online education—far from it, say faculty and administrators. “We’re just beginning,” said Thomas Robisheaux, chair of the Arts and Sciences Council and Fred W. Schaffer professor of history. “I see this as just the first step in a lively discussion where there are going to be many different solutions proposed, and we’re going to have to maybe try some—some may work, some may not work.” Although the University currently does not have concrete plans concerning its future role in online courses for credit, the discussion is still vibrant, officials noted, and Duke is pushing forward with online education in other ways.

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Initial plans In November 2012, Provost Peter Lange signed a contract with 2U, entering Duke into a consortium of 10 schools that would offer online classes for credit through a platform called Semester Online. The contract was signed before the Arts and Sciences Council voted on how online courses could be included in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences curriculum and graduation requirements. Had the motion to approve for-credit online courses passed, Duke would have offered courses for credit through Semester Online for at least a three-year pilot program. Not all academic departments would have been obligated to teach courses or to give credit to the courses taught by the professors from the other schools, however, as an “opt-in/opt-out” clause would have given each department the ability to decide whether or not it wished to participate. “It was a very modest proposal that was put before the council and defeated,” Robisheaux said. “It was a miniscule number of courses offered, departments could opt out if they wished—the actual impact

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Student activism has always been a facet of the University, however in the past cou-

ple of years there has been an uptick of student demonstrations. Although activism traces as far back as 1934, student activism became a more reg-

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Demand for fin.aid remains high Despite recession, financial aid is still accessible by Raisa Chowdhury THE CHRONICLE

Although the country has bounced back since the economic downturn in 2008, demand for financial aid still remains high at Duke. Following the recession, there was a significant increase in students applying for need-based financial aid as many families suffered the consequences of layoffs and a tough job market, said Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of financial aid. Although the financial aid granted to students has increased, and student debt at graduation has de-

creased since the Financial Aid Initiative was launched in 2005, the University must still work to make financial aid accessible, especially to middle class families hurting after the financial crisis. “There continues to be very high demand for financial aid although the economy has improved, and especially those families in the middle class are trying hard to catch up,” said Stephen Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. “[Demand] may never decrease.”

The University’s endowment took a major hit from the 2008 financial crisis, and the slow road to recovery has made providing financial aid difficult. The Duke University Endowment experienced its biggest decrease in value in the last decade, going from a peak of $6.1 billion in the 2007-2008 fiscal year to $4.4 billion in the 2008-2009 fiscal year after the recession. As of June 30, 2012, the endowment was valued at approximately $5.6 billion, which is $500 million lower than the value before the recession. All in all, the University experienced a

Recovering from a crisis

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ular aspect of Duke culture in the 1960s. In 1967, students protested segregation on campus by holding a sit-in in the Allen

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“Removing death-qualification reqs would render truly impartial and representative juries” —Mousa Alshanteer in “partial and unrepresentative.” See column page X

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A peek into the history of East campus by Tony Shan THE CHRONICLE

When the class of 2017 moves in on August 21, there will certainly be no shortage of introductions flying around East Campus. As freshmen, there are many ways to classify yourselves—for example, Trinity or Pratt, where you are from and what your intended major is. Perhaps the most common question you’ll be asked, however, after “What’s your name?” will be “What dorm are you living in?” First year dorm pride runs deep at Duke, even once life on East Campus becomes a memory from years ago. Whether you are living on Main Quad or in the Backyard, in Epworth or Belltower, the name of each dorm has a story that every resident should know. Main Quad These ten dorms sit at the heart of East Campus, in close proximity to the Marketplace and Lilly Library. Divided by a massive lawn with four dorms on each side, a healthy competition may develop with your rival from across the green. Pegram Named after William Howell Pegram, a member of Trinity College’s class of 1873 who then served as a chemistry professor for 55 years. His Duke connections go even deeper—he married Emma Craven in 1875, daughter of the school’s then-President Rev. Braxton Craven. Located closest to Baldwin Auditorium but arguably farthest from the East Campus bus stop, Pegram also serves as the home of the Performing Arts Living/Learning Communi-

ty, which gives first-year students the chance to experience music, dance, theatre, etc. at Duke and in Durham. The arts group only accounts for part of the dorm’s inhabitants, though— last year, Pegram was also home to the freshman members of the Blue Devils basketball team. Basset Named after John Spencer Bassett, Trinity class of 1888, a history professor best known for initiating the Bassett affair of 1903, in which he spoke about improving race relations and gave praise to numerous African Americans such as Booker T. Washington. Although this almost cost him his job in a period of strained race relations, he was later commended by President Theodore Roosevelt for his commitment to academic freedom. Bassett sits across the quad from Pegram, in between Baldwin and Brown, and makes up for being a bit far from the bus stop with its convenient proximity to Marketplace. Alspaugh Named after John Wesley Alspaugh, class of 1855 and a lawyer, newspaper editor, civil leader and key supporter of Trinity College. He served as the chairman of the Board of Trustees and helped navigate the college through rough financial times from 1884 to 1887 as a member of the Committee of Management. Built in 1927, Alspaugh occupies prime real

estate—right next to Lilly Library and just across the quad from Marketplace. In the past, residents have affectionately referred to themselves as Alspaughians or Alspaugholics. Brown Named after Joseph G. Brown, a member of the class of 1875 who worked as a banker in Raleigh. He served on the Board of Trustees for 34 years, spending ten years as the Board’s chairman. Brown is located across the quad from Alspaugh, right next to the Marketplace, and residents of Brown have traditionally called themselves Brownies in years past. Giles Named after three sisters—Theresa, Mary and Persis Giles—who were the first female graduates of Trinity College. Although treated as “special students”, reciting their lessons at the end of the day after male students had been dismissed, the sisters completed the required curriculum and graduated as regular seniors in 1878. Giles sits on the other side of Lilly Library and is right next to the path leading to Brodie Gym. The common room in Giles has, in years past, been furnished with the works, including a TV, ping pong table, pool table and a piano. Wilson Named for Mary Grace Wilson, first dean of students of the Women’s College. Wilson

was originally home to faculty apartments before becoming a dormitory for freshman students. Wilson dorm is across the quad from their traditional rival, Giles, and is the only dorm on East Campus to have suite style living. Multiple rooms are connected by a communal bathroom, making for a unique freshman dorm experience. The common room in Wilson has had a poker table in previous years where students can take a break from work to play some cards. Jarvis Named after Thomas J. Jarvis, governor of North Carolina from 1879 to 1885. He was also Ambassador to Brazil, a US Senator by appointment for a brief amount of time and a college trustee. Jarvis dorm and Giles are separated by the Carr building, which is an academic building that students can use as a study space at night. Jarvis is also home to the Wellness Community, a living group devoted to living a healthy and substance free lifestyle. Aycock Named after Charles B. Aycock, governor of North Carolina from 1900 to 1904. During his tenure as governor, he advocated for the improvement of the state’s public school systems, eventually earning him the unofficial title, “Education Governor.” Built in 1914, Aycock is across the quad from Jarvis and is separated from Wilson by the Friedl Building,

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which is home to several departments and hosts different events. Aycock residents typically appreciate the fact that the dorm is conveniently close to the bus stop.

Epworth Originally called “The Inn”, this building was renamed Epworth by the Board of Trustees in 1896 after the parish where John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, was minister in England. Epworth dorm is located behind Aycock and is the oldest dorm on East Campus, but it boasts the widest hallways and hosts the annual Haunted House on Halloween. Epworth residents participate in the event themselves, dressing up as anything that will scare the rest of the freshman class. The Backyard These five dorms lie off to the left of the main quad, close to Brodie Gym, the beach volleyball court and the barbecue grills. While further from the happenings of the main quad, some of the backyard dorms are much newer and larger. The Backyard is also much closer to Ninth Street, a popular off-campus stretch of restaurants and stores. Gilbert-Addoms (GA) Named in 1957 for Katherine Everett Gilbert, first chair of the department of

aesthetics, art and music and for Ruth Margery Addoms, professor of botany. GA is the largest dorm on east campus and is home to GA Down Under, a lounge area below the residential floors of the building. The space is used to host a variety of events ranging from talent shows to Blue Devil Days. Explore a little more down there and you’ll find another hidden room with diner-like seating, perfect for some late night studying or just hanging out. Southgate The money to build Southgate was pooled from the citizens of Durham as a gift in memory of James H. Southgate, a local businessman who became the chairman of the Board of Trustees and supported the school’s stance on academic freedom at the time of the Bassett Affair mentioned above. Built in 1921, Southgate is the only dorm in all of Duke that has a basketball court, which is located in the built-in gymnasium. Belltower Built in 2005-06, Belltower is named for its very noticeable tower, which now houses the Trinity College Bell. It is the newest dorm to be added to East Campus, and the design very much resembles that of a hotel, earning it the nickname

“Hotel Bell”. In addition to being one of the few dorms to have an elevator, Belltower is also home to The Oasis, a student relaxation center with massage chairs sponsored by Student Health. Belltower residents are additionally able to enjoy the dorm’s central air conditioning. Blackwell Named for Blackwell Park, which once served as the Durham County fairground. The land was later converted into the new home for Trinity College, which would eventually become East Campus of Duke University. Blackwell is also air-conditioned, and the archway that runs through the middle of the building is a favorite performing spot for Duke’s various acapella groups. Randolph Named after North Carolina’s Randolph County, which was the original location of Trinity College before it moved to Blackwell Park (now East Campus) in Durham in 1892. Randolph and Blackwell are “twin” dorms, with very similar architecture and layouts. Built in 1994, the dorm offers air conditioning, two common rooms, two kitchens and carpeted living spaces to its 180 residents.

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Bio. department’s strength hides past tension by Ashley Mooney THE CHRONICLE

Before biology, there was botany and zoology. The Duke biology department did not exist before 2000. Botany and zoology were free standing departments that sometimes collaborated, but harbored tension with each other. On July 1, 2000, zoology and botany merged and became biology. The department of forestry had shared the space as well, but became part of the Nicholas School of the Environment in 1991. The last tangible evidence of a divide between the two sits above the Biological Sciences building, where there are three carvings depicting botany, forestry and zoology. “Biology isn’t divided arbitrarily into plants and animals—plants and animals do a lot of the same things,” said Jim Siedow, vice provost for research and professor of biology. “So if you’re a cell biologist, whether you work on plants or animals, you’re asking the same questions. That didn’t used to be true in the early days.” Siedow, who was then a professor in the botany department, chaired a 1996 task force that recommended merging. In the early days, he said, there was a greater distinction between plants and animals. As science developed over the years, however, that distinction became blurred and separate departments focusing on plants and animals no longer made sense. A rivalry tested Merger was not so easily accepted by all faculty. Although the zoology and

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botany departments had shared the Biological Sciences building, equipment and sometimes classes, the faculty felt a strong sense of rivalry. “Botany was on the right hand wing as you’re facing the front of the building. The middle wing was pretty much all zoology and the left wing was the school of forestry,” Siedow said. “It was almost like there was a wall that separated the botany wing from the zoology wing.” Siedow noted that the rivalry spread beyond work. “When there were parties at peoples houses, and you went to a botany person’s house, you never saw any zoology faculty there,” he said. Many of the relationships between faculty members of different depart-

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ments were individual, and not widespread throughout the departments, he said. “There were some close relationships between faculty in botany and zoology, but certainly not among the older people where the competition was rather steep,” Siedow added. Although merger had become a national trend, faculty in both zoology and botany were resistant to the change. Talks of merger also intensified tension between the departments. “A number of zoologists had said, ‘well a zoology degree is a biology major,’” Siedow said. “And that was not well received because the zoology major didn’t address plant biology at all. That sort of attitude made people not want to

merge into the same department.” Plant biologists were also concerned that the merger would be “the death of botany,” Siedow said. “The notion that a merger was going to lead to the detriment of plant biology really drove a lot of the more senior plant biologists away,” Siedow said. Siedow noted that merger was proposed a number of times before discussions as to how to implement could even occur. “Anytime a big change is proposed for any group there is concern about what could go wrong or what could go badly,” said Professor of Biology David McClay, who was part of the zoology department before the merger. “That sentiment certainly was felt and it created a tension at the time.” Beyond interdepartmental tensions, biology professor Kathleen Smith, who served as the first chair of the biology department, noted that of the issues during the merger were administrative or related to the increased size of the singular biology department. While botany and zoology had about 20 faculty members each, the combined departments were larger and thus a consensus was harder to come by. Behind the ball Across the country, universities had already begun combining their botany and zoology departments. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had consolidated its departments in 1982, SEE BIOLOGY ON PAGE 13

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Campus alert system undergoes revamp by Elizabeth Djinis THE CHRONICLE

Originally created to inform students of potential danger on campus, Duke Alerts—the University’s emergency notification system—has come to be a blanket notification for all types of campus incidents. Devised as a response to the 2007 shooting at Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Duke Alerts has since morphed into a large-scale communication system to warn students of a variety of incidents, from snowstorm warnings to bomb threats. Because of the importance the notification system carries in making students aware of campus safety, it has expanded from its original purpose of warning the community of major campus threats to encompass smaller incidents like burglaries and extreme weather. “Weather, bombs, shooting or a potential shooting... are the main area [for a Duke Alert],” said Vice Presi-

dent of Administration Kyle Cavanaugh. But the alert system has also come under fire recently for various inconsistencies it has experienced in the past year. During a tumultuous week in April when the University experienced three separate bomb threats to West Campus buildings, the Duke community was only notified of the two threats to the Bryan Center, but not of a third threat placed on the Great Hall. Additionally, after a student’s Central Campus apartment was robbed, the Duke Alert following the incident only noted that an unknown male came into the apartment through an unlocked door, neglecting to mention that a robbery had occurred. The student was also unsure whether the doors were locked. Alterations over time After a student gunman killed 32 and injured 17

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at Virginia Tech in 2007, universities nationwide were forced to review their emergency notification policies. Duke created Duke Alerts in response to the tragedy shortly after it happened. “The incident at Virginia Tech was really somewhat of a watershed moment for all schools to take a look at how they go about communicating,” Cavanaugh said. “From there that’s where the Duke Alert system was really branded and coordinated and ever since then there’s been a steady evolution of the tools and the technology used in the emergency management communication phase.” Cavanaugh noted that, before making quick decisions, the University must adhere to the Clery Act—a federal law that requires United States public and private universities to report University crime statistics, devise plans in case of an emergency and issue “timely warnings” to students and staff during any incident threatening on-campus safety. When alerts are issued, students receive both an e-mail at their Duke addresses and a text message to the number they specified on their ACES account. Cavanaugh emphasized the University’s policy of “redundancy” as the best method to ensure students are informed. Because communication has advanced since the notification system was originally created, Cavanaugh said that the administration has taken steps to enhance and increase communication with the Duke community. Duke Alerts now has its own Facebook page so that students can stay connected with developing situations online. The University is also looking to expand the information pushed to the Duke community by including state and national news in Duke Alerts, Cavanaugh said. If this does pan out, students may receive alerts not just pertaining to University events but those of national importance as well. Although the Clery Act only requires the University to send alerts pertaining to crime or emergencies, administrators have chosen to send additional information to students as well. “Our approach has been to be much broader than [the Clery Act] so we include issues that may go beyond just the strict requirements of the Clery Act,” Cavanaugh said. “If it’s something that we believe is especially a potential emerging issue, we may communicate that in a kind of precursor-y way.” Such a case occurred in January when Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta sent out a campuswide email to students regarding the academic year’s first snowstorm, urging students to “hunker down, pull out your old video tapes and 8 track recordings and enjoy a round of whist or hearts with house and floormates.” “I often make a decision that even though there’s no legal obligation or even ethical obligation to inform the entire University, I still feel that it is in students’ interest to be informed,” Moneta said of the notifications he sends. “I do believe closure is better of incidents than not.” Timeliness and accuracy Although the Virginia Tech massacre was the inspiration behind this emergency system, the Boston Marathon explosions and resulting lockdown on nearby campuses have led the nation to question universities’ campus security systems further. Cavanaugh noted that emergency situations that involve multiple incidents, such as the Boston Marathon events, it is difficult to communicate the most accurate information to a group of people in a timely fashion. “[When] we have multiple kinds of scenarios, trying to get clarity on exactly the situation becomes a huge challenge,” Cavanaugh said. Although timeliness is key in sending out alerts, accuracy must be taken into account as well, Cavanaugh said. “What we try to do to provide as complete and as accurate information as we have as quickly we have it,” Cavanaugh said. “There are many times where the situation is not that clear you can actually create some incorrect action or potentially hysteria if you don’t have clarity on exactly what’s going on.” Ultimately, the real goal behind any emergency notification system is to keep students informed about campus incidents, Cavanaugh said. SEE DUKEALERTS ON PAGE 13

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Lefkowitz reflects on accidental path to Nobel

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President Brodhead praises Lefkowitz for his award.

Lefkowitz discusses his win at a press conference. by Danielle Muoio THE CHRONICLE

Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert Lefkowitz leans back in his chair, propping his feet up on his desk and listening thoughtfully as his graduate students gave presentations on their latest research. His eggshell-colored walls are lined floor-to-ceiling with awards, with others sitting precariously on the edge of windowsills or lining his desk. Other knick-knacks find precious real estate in his office as well—a yellow rubber duck on his desk, a Blue Devil rug and his family calendar. And then there’s his Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Lefkowitz’s weekly lab meetings serve to guide his more than twenty graduate students and lab assistants in their quests to make groundbreaking research. Such a feat, however, is difficult to come by. “As a graduate student, you need pain— no pain, no game,” he said in his thick Bronx accent to the postdoctoral fellows. At his core, Lefkowitz, James B. Duke professor of medicine and professor of biochemistry and immunology, has always been a mentor. Although four decades of intensive research might push many academics out of the teaching world, Lefkowitz has always balanced

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Dr. Ralph Snyderman congratulates Lefkowitz. his scientific pursuits and obligations as a teacher—a commitment he’s continued to uphold since winning the Nobel Prize last October for his studies of G-protein coupled receptors. It might be hard to imagine, but Lefkowitz never wanted to become a researcher because of the failures he experienced when he did research at the National Institutes of Health. In fact, the only reason he became a researcher at the NIH was to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War. There were few opportunities for men to avoid the draft, but one did exist—getting a commission in the United States Public

Health Service. Although these positions were hard to come by, Lefkowitz was able to grab one because he finished first in his class at the Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. “The first 18 months went very, very poorly,” he said of his time at the NIH. “It convinced me further that I wanted to do as little with research as possible. I hated it.” As a child, Lefkowitz had always wanted to be a physician. Seeing his family doctor make such an impact on people’s SEE LEFKOWITZ ON PAGE 19

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Researchers push limits in tech realms by Anthony Hagouel THE CHRONICLE

Duke has made a name for itself in groundbreaking scientific research with a Nobel prize, numerous grants and countless headlines. Through the practical application of technologies, researchers have been able to solve diverse sets of problems. This feature includes The Warren group, the Donald Lab, the Meta Group, p and the Center for HIV/ AIDSS Vaccine Immunology in particular, havee developed new and exciting methods for tackling obstacles facing the world ld community. Searching earching for the HIV solution The Center for HIV-AIDS Vaccine cine Immunology at Duke ke is edging closer to overcoming rcoming one of the most challenging lenging scientific endeavors of human history—to find a preventative ventative cure for HIV. CHAVI director Barton Haynes, who has been working on finding a vaccine for the HIV infection for the past 25 years, s, has helped lead one of the most comprehensive mprehensive national efforts on the topic, c, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Using samples found from individuals who produce broad-neutralizing antibodies, dies, Haynes, in collaboration with scientists ntists from all over the world, has traced ed and identified important trends in the he virus and the mechanisms which are most vulnerable. “The HIV virus is a very formidable foe, and changes its outer coat all the time and keeps the immune system confused,” Haynes said. “We know what we need to do, now we need to take that

information and develop a practical vaccine.” CHAVI, one of 16 centers funded initially by a $350 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2005, received continued funding in June 2012 to further its efforts in finding a vaccine. Other universities involved in the research at CHAVI include Harvard University, the Universityy of Alabama-Birmingham, Oxg ford University in England, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and several universities across Africa. “We are being asked to do something that no vaccine is being asked to do, and that is to totally prevent infections,” Haynes said. Unlike measles or mumps which, due to vaccines, remain in the human genome without the occurrence of disease, the eradication of AIDS rests upon preventing completely the implanting of HIV to the genome. Haynes and his research collaborafound nearly 20 tors have who produce the individuals “right kind of broad-neutralizing antibodies” that can prevent AIDS implantation and are beginning to create clinical trial vaccines using these individuals’ genetic codes. “We have some fabulous people working with us, and we have some collaborative teams working in England and the United states,” Haynes said. “We need to hit the virus in four or five different places so that it can’t mutate.” Cracking the next Da Vinci code Researchers at the Warren Group are

using advanced laser techniques to uncover hidden truths in ancient art. “In general, what we do that’s different than everyone else is advanced laser technology applied in very unique ways,” said Warren Warren, James B. Duke professor of chemistry,. The group developed a laser system based on pump-probe spectrometry, explained Warren. The technique aims two laser pulses through a series of lenses and finally to a custom-built microscope. The pulses excite the molecules sc at the focal point of the microscope’s lens and, after a billionth of a millisecle ond delay, a second pulse goes to the on same spot, yielding different properties. sa This process therefore leaves a unique Th signature on each spot, and properties sig about the material are gathered based ab on the signature. This laser fixture has been used already in different pottery samples, a re variety of ancient artifacts and Puccio va Capanna’s painting “Crucifixion,” lent Ca to the lab from the North Carolina Museum of Art. Projects concerning art se analysis for conservationist scientist are an being carried out in the lab by Tana be Villafaña, a graduate student in chemVi istry. ist The Group mainly focuses on providing biomedical researchers with tools to in more easily identify problems through m laser and MRI technologies, explained la Warren. The lab has developed techW niques to analyze moles and see whethni er or not they may lead to melanoma, a dangerous skin cancer. “We do optical imaging, we’ve developed technologies that nobody else has,” Warren said. “In medical research, we know what this technology is good for—

things like finding a way to improve the way to increase doctors’ ability to diagnose melanoma are important.” Analyzing ancient art is still on the agenda in the future. Having recently received a large National Science Foundation grant to develop a portable version of the laser-pulse technology found at Duke, the Warren group hopes to analyze many more pieces, including the mysterious Terracotta Warriors found in Shaanxi Province, China. “We’ve been doing a lot of work on pottery, and a variety of work on ancient artifacts,” Warren said. “We can learn a lot of important things, like stopping photodegradation.” Predicting protein mutations From creating the world’s smallest untethered controllable microrobots to performing the first prospective computational prediction of resistance mutations in a drug target, the Donald Lab uses advanced technologies to solve a myriad of biomedical problems. The lab focuses primarily in two areas—computational biology and chemistry and microelectronic systems. “We extended the boundaries of what is possible with provable algorithms,” explained Bruce Donald, James B. Duke professor of computer science and biochemistry, in an email June 19. The lab has conducted successful research on reprogramming an antibioticproducing enzyme, predicting MRSA resistance mutations using “Open Source Protein Design For You” software developed by the lab and designing molecular probes to selectively pull down broadly SEE RESEARCH ON PAGE 19

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Duke University has become quieter in the weeks following graduation. The number of on-campus students has dwindled to the small number who have stayed for summer session, reducing foot traffic across the quad just enough to allow the lawn to recover from LDOC. But Duke is never silent and, over the weeks of summer session one, many newsworthy things have happened. Regardless of where you are, the Chronicle has hand-picked some stories to catch readers up on Duke news. West Union renovations halted by Board At the Trustees’ May 14 meeting, they chose not to approve the final plans for the renovations of West Union. The remodel—funded by an $80 million donation from the Charlottebased Duke Endowment—was originally scheduled to begin this summer, and organizations began to move their offices out of the building in early May. But because the Board did not agree on the designs, construction has been postponed. In addition, there are concerns that the endowment’s donation will not even cover the full renovations, as technical and budgetary concerns have forced Duke to re-evaluate the project. “I never did think it would make the $80 million [budget],” Trask said. “We knew we were going to have to provide something else somewhere.” Further, during its June meeting, the executive committee of the Board of Trustees did not have an opportunity to advance the West Union renovations. Comprised of 12 of the Board’s 36 members, the executive committee—which can exercise all powers of the Board—convenes at points between the Board’s four annual meetings. The impending renovations to West Union were among the topics discussed, although no decisions were made to move forward with the renovations, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of public affairs and government relations, wrote in an email. In a previous interview with The Chronicle, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta noted that the executive committee had the ability to sign off on various aspects of the renovations in order to allow work to begin on the building, but the June meeting did not yield such a result.

“The executive committee covered a number of routine administrative and personnel matters, reviewed planning for upcoming board meetings and committees and was updated on major initiatives, like online education, innovation and entrepreneurship and campus construction, including West Union,” Schoenfeld said. “The architects will be reviewing their new plans with the administration soon so no decisions were made.” The Board will have the opportunity to vote on the new plans when it reconvenes in October. Mega Moral Monday On Monday, June 3, over 1,000 people gathered behind the North Carolina State Legislative Building on Halifax Mall to protest a wide array of bills being proposed by the Republican-led General Assembly. Of those thousand people, more than a hundred chose to enter the building and protest from inside, causing police officers to step in and arrest more than 150 participants throughout the course of the day. This brought the total arrest count to 300 since the start of the movement in late April. “No one is coming up here for fun, no one likes being resisted with handcuffs,” NAACP President Rev. William Barber said. “But we believe we have a constitutional right, Article 1 Section 12, to instruct our legislature. And we are doing that publicly.” Among those who attended the protest was Reeve Huston, associate professor of history who wore a green band around his wrist to demonstrate that he was willing to go to jail for this cause. “I’m fighting for equity in taxation and democracy, and that means making it easier for people who vote the least to vote, not harder,” he said. Although those who entered the building were at highest risk of being arrested, the protestors outside chanting “Forward together, not one step back” were also threatened with arrest. Ultimately, police spent nearly two hours arresting all the protestors inside the building. The count was so high that two 50-passenger buses were needed to transport them all to

Wake County Jail. As expected, no consensus was reached as a result of this protest, and civil disobedience campaigns continued through the month of June. Chronicle Cuts a Day of Print Duke University’s student run daily, The Chronicle, will begin printing four issues a week instead of five beginning this upcoming school year to complement its new digital-first reporting model. As of now, Chronicle board members as well as senior masthead have decided to cut Friday’s issue. The extra day at the end of the week will allow Chronicle staff to allocate more resources and time to content rather than the nuances of daily print production. Most importantly, however, it will allow them to develop and transition into a more active online presence in which staffers will be better positioned to provide close to real-time coverage of Duke news. “We’re still a daily production,” said junior Danielle Muoio, editor-in-chief of The Chronicle. “Going forward, we’re just continuing to reach our goal of getting stories to our readers in the most efficient way… we’re really focusing on our online presence because it’s the best way to get information to the most people. It doesn’t mean stopping the thoughtful effort we put into print.” Board members said that although finances were considered in making the decision, they were far from the driving force. The print media industry has suffered in recent years and The Chronicle has not been immune to those trends, but significant reserve funds have provided a cushion against those problems. The Chronicle is not the first to switch to a more digital format. Syracuse University, The Daily Orange and University of California, Berkeley’s The Daily Californian have both made similar moves recently. Ultimately, the hope is that a digital-first model will resonate more with our readers. “The college paper is definitely print-and-digital or all-digital now,” said Rick Edmonds, researcher and writer for nonprofit journalism school Poynter Institute. “It’s targeted to an audience that’s by definition pretty young and on digital platforms.” SEE SUMMER ON PAGE 11

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ONLINE from page 1 would have been very small. But it had symbolic significance. It raised the question of, ‘How do you teach in this new information age?’” Two Duke professors—Emma Rasiel, associate professor of the practice of economics, and Tom Metzloff, professor of law—had already begun to develop courses with 2U. Metzloff’s course had already been advertised on the company’s website. At the April meeting, some faculty members expressed discomfort with the idea of online classes, but, for many, issues with the proposal arose from other factors— the choice of consortium, a perceived lack of communication between administrators and faculty, a possible dilution of the quality and prestige of a Duke degree. “For some, there was a conflation of the consortium with the platform and the platform with the company— three different things, some people conflating all three,” Robisheaux said. The majority of the proposal’s critics were humanities professors, particularly from small departments. “Smaller departments felt threatened—in terms of their way of life, how they had been conducting their affairs—by a lot of newer developments,” said physics professor Steffan Bass, a member of the Executive Committee of the Arts and Sciences Council. “Online education became the drop that got the bucket to overflow.” After the vote to withdraw from Semester Online, a motion encouraging Duke faculty to continue pursuing online education passed. “It’s a very thorny set of issues because of so many different variables,” said Bill Seaman, the visual media studies professor who proposed the motion. “I’m hoping that Duke will not just close down and not think about this, but instead look at what the potentials there are in other areas going forward.” Going forward It is unknown when the council will hold another vote on online courses for credit, but in the interim, the University is pursuing online education in several other ways. “What I would expect is that the administration may

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seek ways and means to move ahead with online education without the faculty having to decide,” Bass said. A vote of the Arts and Sciences Council will only be required to make an official change to the curriculum, such as offering online courses for credit. For other decisions—such as faculty offering online courses not intended for Duke credit—a faculty vote is not necessary. In July 2012, Duke announced a partnership with Coursera, a platform designed to offer massively open online courses—free classes, commonly known as MOOCs, that are accessible to anyone anywhere and often have hundreds of thousands of students. In Fall 2012, 10 Duke professors offered classes through the platform, and 10 more have been announced for Fall 2013. Some professors of Coursera classes have brought the technology to their Duke courses in a model known as the “flipped classroom.” Through the model, students watch their instructors deliver Coursera lectures outside of class and spend class time working on activities such as solving problems or small group learning. The landscape at large The field of online for-credit education is relatively new, but it has been an area of great focus in recent months. Duke’s departure from the consortium was highly publicized, with media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Chronicle of Higher Education covering the outcome of the vote. Duke is not the only school to have opted out of Semester Online. Vanderbilt University’s administration chose to break its contract with the platform, and the University of Rochester decided not to participate after being described as a possible partner for several months. “At Vanderbilt, we were concerned that the decision to charge full tuition for the 2U courses was at odds with our own commitment to meet demonstrated financial need in full for all of our undergraduate students,” Cynthia Cyrus, Vanderbilt’s assistant vice provost for undergraduate education, wrote in an email June 21. “We were also uncomfortable with 2U’s financial decision to focus the energy of early curricular developments within Semester Online around the larger-enrollment courses instead of an array of niche courses which would have enhanced our student’s access to a broader curricular content.”

Over the course of the last several months, for-credit online courses have been announced by a number of universities, with several different companies offering platforms. At the end of May, Coursera announced that it would join the field and begin offering courses for credit in addition to the MOOCs it currently provides. Duke does not have plans to expand its involvement with Coursera to courses for credit, Lange said. He noted that the Coursera model is not as interactive or as well suited to small courses as are some other platforms, including Semester Online. “The key point is that this is a very dynamic area of education innovation at the moment,” Lange said. “Lots of different things are being tried—we’re trying to gain the most for our faculty and for our students.” Regardless of the specific route Duke pursues, online education will likely somehow be a part of the University’s future, Bass noted. “You innovate, or you die,” he said.

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DUKE YEAR from page 9 Van-Dwelling Alum Ken Ilgunas, who received a master’s degree in Duke Graduate school’s liberal arts program in 2011, published a memoir recounting his time spent living in a van while attending the program. Having lived a rather rugged lifestyle— two years in the northernmost tundra of Alaska and several months with Canadian voyageurs who paddled 20 miles a day in wood canoes eating salt pork and pea soup each day—Ilgunas chose to continue his unconventional life style while at Duke, by living in a van as a social experiment. “The thought of coming to grad school and moving into an apartment and hanging curtains and buying a rug to tie the room together was just unthinkable,” Ilgunas said. The experiment began as a way to save money and avoid debt, but progressed into a 20th century manifestation of philosopher Henry David Thoreau’s decision to leave civilization to live on his own ability in the woods. Although Ilgunas initially kept his lifestyle to himself, he kept records of his day-to-day life on his blog, “Ken Ilgunas: Vandwelling.” As he began wrapping up his graduate experience at Duke, however, he began to share his living situation with his classmates and professors in the form of essays and final projects. One of these pieces was published on the front page of Salon.com, an online news website. Now, Ilgunas has further developed his class papers into a memoir. Despite having gained recognition from authoring this book, Ilgunas is still unsure if his future profession lies in the writing field. “The overarching goal is just to live a full and adventurous life and if that leads me into one or several professions, that’s okay,” he said. “The decision [to live in a van] wasn’t entirely economical, it was the thrill of doing something novel and adventurous and bold.” Man-made Blood Vessel

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After 15 years of research, Duke scientists have genetically engineered a working blood vessel, which was implanted into the arm of a patient with kidney failure for the first time in the United States on June 5. Made of Teflon, plastic and knitted fabrics, the engineered blood vessel is strong enough to be universally implanted, said Dr. Jeffrey Lawson, the professor of surgery and pathology at the Duke University Medical Center who performed the implant. But he added that it is still unable to replicate the full functions of the body’s own vessels. For the patient, the implantation of this new blood vessel close to the surface of his skin made it easier for a dialysis team to access and filter his blood three times a week. Lawson explained that engineering such a blood vessel, required vascular cells—the muscle cells found in arteries—to be grown in a tubular scaffold which would degrade over time, leaving a tube of arterial muscle tissue. “When we implant [the scaffold], your own cells grow into it. It becomes a part of you. We provide the matrix for your blood vessel,” Lawson said. His partner in the project Dr. Laura Niklason, who was a faculty member from 1998 to 2005, formed the company Humacyte in the Triangle to work on further developing the technology. The successful launch of this new biotechnology was due to the concerted efforts of the department of surgery, anesthesiology and biomedical engineering, once again demonstrating the effectiveness of an interdepartmental collaboration. Housewarming for Duke Medical Pavilion After nearly four years of planning and construction and nearly $600 million, Duke Hospital’s new Medical Pavillion officially opened its doors to the public in June. Although the facility will not be taking patients until July 29, visitors were able to tour the building to see the new medical units. The facility adds 44 pre-operational bays and 18 operating rooms, which will allow sections of Duke North to be taken out of use for renovation without compromising patient volume. The new operating rooms condense the necessary equipment into mechanical arms, which doctors can easily manip-

ulate throughout the room as needed to facilitate surgeries. Each arm has its own power source, eliminating the danger of power cords lying around on the floors. In addition, intraoperative MRI machines are available in two of those rooms which provide detailed images of the body’s interior during operation, which could help physicians decrease the need for a second surgery. Even the lights have undergone a transformation, switching to adjustable LED diodes that boast low energy usage and low heat emissions, making the room a more comfortable temperature for doctors and patients. From a more aesthetic point of view, new floor to ceiling windows flood the interior with natural sunlight. Want more Duke news? Check out our full summer coverage online at DukeChronicle.com.

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BIOLOGY from page 5 and Siedow said UNC was certainly not the only university leading the trend. “Duke was late,” Siedow said. “Merging had been going on around the country for quite some time.” Although late to a full-scale merger, Duke had already taken many steps to integrating the two departments to address the needs of undergraduate students. More than 10 years before Duke officially combined the departments, zoology and botany had already merged on the undergraduate level, and Duke provided a single biology major to students. The graduate programs, however, had remained separate, and professors still belonged to separate departments. “Undergraduates were complaining that in competing to get into medical school, botany and zoology weren’t seen as ‘with it’ degrees,” Siedow said. “Even though… nothing really changed in the curriculum other than the name of the degree. There was a concern that our undergraduates were at a disadvantage because they didn’t have biology degrees, so we totally merged everything [on the undergraduate level].” Beyond both faculties’ collaboration on the undergraduate level, faculty members worked on many joint projects and shared intellectual interests. An early example of collaboration was the Development, Cell and Molecular Biology group, which was composed of botany and zoology faculty who studied cell, molecular and developmental biology. McClay was a member of DCMB and said half the group used animal model systems while the other half used plant model systems, but faculty from the two departments worked quite well together. The departments’ ability to collaborate helped support the merger. “When the idea of merger of the departments came up it was easy to support the merger because it would mean we would continue to work with our colleagues who worked with plant model systems, but now it would be easier because we would all be working under the same administrative leadership,” McClay wrote in an email June 18. Today, the future of the biology department looks bright. Siedow acknowledged that the only way to maintain itself as contemporary department and address contemporary issues was for botany and zoology to merge into biology. “Biology is one of the strongest departments at Duke and is one of the best biology departments in the country,” Smith said. “The faculty members in the department have tremendous respect for each other, and are very supportive of other faculty members.”

DUKE ALERT from page 6 Sophomore Josh Barrett noted that even though he has found Duke Alerts generally successful, there have been times when other sources have notified him first of an event occurring on campus. “They seem to come quickly enough to enable people to take precautions,” Barrett said. “But I would say that some of the incidents get to me by word of mouth before they come via Duke Alert.” But Barrett referenced the particular value an alert might have in an emergency such as campus shooting. “Not only would it allow ample time for most students to seek refuge, but it would also lessen the confusion that complicates incidents like this,” Barrett said. “Students would feel informed and know what the issue is, allowing them to respond appropriately to the situation.” Sophomore Shashi Masireddy noted Duke Alert’s ability to raise student awareness on campus happenings. “When we had those bomb threats last semester, [Duke Alerts] helped us have the proper information and stay alert,” Masireddy said.

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FINANCIAL AID from page 1 $125 million budget shortfall in the three years following the financial crisis. As a result of these financial constraints, University administrators had to look into ways to provide the same amount of financial aid with tighter purse strings. The Financial Aid Initiative—a capital campaign to raise $300 million by the end of 2008 for a financial aid endowment—helped in this regard. Although the Financial Aid Initiative fell $4 million short of its $230 million goal for undergraduate financial aid, the funds helped cushion the blow brought on by the recession. The Financial Aid Initiative, however, was not created as a response to the recession but began before the crisis hit. Although it helped the University to provide financial aid in the aftermath of the crisis, Duke still needed to look at ways to save money without sacrificing aid commitments. To do so, administrators temporarily provided incentives for employees to take early retirement and stopped providing salary raises, among other changes. Such changes allowed Duke to remain solvent in its overall operating budget and maintain its level of financial support to students. “I think the key is how they didn’t change,” Rabil said. “We didn’t pull back on our policies when the bottom fell out of the economy or we lost money in the endowment. We made a commitment to our policies and the students that we said we would fund were still able to come, which is not what happened at a lot of other universities.” In December 2007, the University announced several changes to its need-

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based financial aid policies that were intended to make undergraduate education more affordable for low and middle-income families. The policy changes eliminated loans for families with incomes less than $40,000, eliminated parental contribution for families with incomes less than $60,000, reduced loans for all students from families with incomes below $100,000, and capped loans at $5,000 a year for eligible families with incomes above $100,000. These commitments were made before the economic downturn, but they were maintained throughout the recession and are still in place. Approximately 60 percent of Duke students apply for need-based financial aid every year, Rabil said. In the 20122013 school year, 47.5 percent of 6,763 enrolled undergraduates received financial aid, not including athletic scholarships. This marks a 3.4 percent increase from the 2011-2012 academic year, where 44.1 percent of the 6,813 undergraduates received need-based financial aid. An increasing tuition The cost of attendance for the upcoming school year is $58,278 after the 3.9 percent increase in tuition approved by the Board of Trustees in February. With the tuition hike, funding for undergraduate financial aid for the 2013-2014 fiscal year was increased by 4.6 percent to $132 million. Nowicki emphasized that at Duke, increases in tuition do not significantly burden students on financial aid or those from the economically advantaged families who do not qualify for need-based aid. “Doughnut-hole families”—the middle class families who do not qualify for

financial aid but are “barely making it”— are the families that are most affected by increases in tuition, he said. Although some point to expenses on amenities, new buildings and sports programs as unnecessary uses of money that drive tuition up, the rise in the cost of education is mostly a result of rising salaries, Nowicki said. “Even for students who pay full fare, they’re still being subsidized because if you do a calculation of everything it costs to experience Duke in and out of the classroom, tuition fees don’t cover it,” Nowicki said. “We pride ourselves on having 80 percent of our classes have 20 or fewer students in them.... So that’s highly trained professionals working with small groups of students—the costs start to add up.” Once students enroll, it is a priority to ensure that opportunities are affordable for all students, Nowicki said. For example, financial aid packages are adjusted so students do not have to choose housing based on cost. In addition, programs such as DukeEngage and fellowships provide students with the same amount of funding regardless of income level. Areas where there is potential for improvement include expanding funding for study abroad programs as well as unpaid internships, which can be crucial to career development, Nowicki said. “We’ll never be able to do everything we want for all of our students,” Nowicki said. “We want to think about the whole range of things we should be working on and prioritize. We can only do so much— sometimes, it’s a no-brainer, sometimes, not so much.” A mixed bag Senior Ahmed Alshareef said he chose Duke mainly because it offered the most

generous financial package relative to schools of similar academic rigor. “Other colleges gave me even just a little bit less than Duke, and that still wasn’t feasible,” he said. Rabil emphasized that although counselors have conversations with families and become familiar with individual situations through the years, the financial aid office does its best to be straightforward about what it can and cannot provide. “Sometimes families just have to decide what’s best for them, and sometimes that means not having that student come here,” Rabil said. “They know that you’ve really taken time to listen to what’s really going on and they understand you’re under institutional restraints, and you respect their decision.” Although his experience with financial aid at Duke has been largely positive, Alshareef noted the process feels very automated. Junior Noel Vera-Gonzalez, from Puerto Rico, said he felt there was poor communication surrounding the workstudy program and declined it his first two years because he didn’t know what it was. Having learned what it meant from his friends last semester, in retrospect, he said he would have accepted because it simplifies finding a campus job. Vera received unsubsidized loans but no grant aid his first year or second year, when his sister also enrolled in college at a private university with a similar price to Duke. He has received grant aid for the coming year and said it is probably because his sister is also in college, but he is unsure why the change happened this year and not earlier. “We had to restructure a lot of things— we definitely saw changes around the household,” Vera said.

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neutralizing antibodies against HIV1, Donald said. The software has also helped design protein:peptide interactions to elucidate underlying structures in cystic fibrosis. “Drug resistance resulting from mutations to the target is an unfortunately common phenomenon that limits the lifetime of many of the most successful drugs,” Donald said. “OSPREY’s prospective predictions will enable the possibility to overcome drug resistance early in the iterative drug discovery process.” The lab hopes that through collaborative effort with other Duke scientists, they will be able to continue their work in biomedical studies. “We’re interested in developing drug-like proteins, peptides, and other molecules that could help with bacterial infections, fungal infections, cystic fibrosis and HIV, and we have collaborations to do that,” Donald said. Advances in the Donald lab are not limited to the nanotechnology realm. A few years ago, when the lab was working with industrial robots, students decided to program one of them to cut an ice-cream cake for Donald’s birthday, with only minor complications, he said. The lab also uses microelectronic systems for biomedical purposes, including the creation of the first untethered controllable microrobots, massively-parallel distributed micromanipulation and microassembly and nanotechnological approaches to neuroscience, Donald said.

lives inspired him to read science books so he could one day become a doctor too. “He was a real role model for me. There was nothing I wanted to do more than be a practicing doctor,” he said. “The idea that you could learn science and then apply that to making people well seemed about the noblest calling one could have.” Lefkowitz graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1959—which now has eight Nobel laureate alumni with Lefkowitz’s win. After attending medical school and conducting research at the NIH, he was ready to complete his residency and become a physician. It seemed as if research was behind him. But after practicing medicine at Harvard University for three years, Lefkowitz realized he missed research. This realization came at the same time Duke offered him a job—one he was prepared to turn down. He made a list of demands Duke would have to fulfill in order for him to move down to Durham, demands that even Lefkowitz felt were “unmeetable.” “They immediately agreed,” he said. From there, he picked up where he left off at the NIH, researching receptors. “When I started out, this whole idea of receptors was very controversial,” he said. “It wasn’t clear there was such a thing as a receptor.” Lefkowitz would prove critics wrong. His research has led to major advancements in the development of prescription drugs, treating anything from common allergies to coronary disease.

About 30 to 50 percent of pharmaceutical drugs on the market have been created on the basis of Lefkowitz’s research on G-protein coupled receptors. Such advancements in the medical field led many to believe that he would win a Nobel Prize in medicine. In fact, a 2003 Herald Sun front-page article discussed how yet another year had passed without Lefkowitz winning the prize. Last October, that all changed. A phone call at 5 a.m. from Stockholm, Sweden finally delivered the news many had been waiting to hear. “My wife picked it up, but we have different recollections of what happened.... She claims she gently nudged me and handed me the phone while saying nothing,” Lefkowitz said. “I claim she gave me an elbow and said, ‘It’s for you, I think it’s Sweden,’ but she’s probably right.” The news would come with a twist though. Lefkowitz did not win the Nobel Prize in medicine, but rather in chemistry. Even though he didn’t win in the area he expected to, he noted he took the news calmly. “It just felt right,” he said. Flash forward two months later, Lefkowitz was in Stockholm with his 14 paid-for guests to receive his prize. “The Nobel Prize ceremony is akin to our Super Bowl ceremony—we’re on the front page every day [and] people ask for your autographs,” he said. Fifty people came to Stockholm on their own dime to celebrate the affair with Lefkowitz even though only 14 guests could attend the official ceremony. “Lots of students went to Stockholm to celebrate with him,” said Dr. Victor

Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System. “That speaks a lot.” Dzau commended Lefkowitz on his ability to serve as a researcher, mentor and physician. “[There are] 1,000 drugs based on his discovery,” Dzau said. “He’s such a great role model to anyone who has the aspiration the become a scientist and doctor.”

Favorite movie: “Officer and a Gentleman. I like movies and stories with a strong hero.” Favorite city: “London, because it’s got so much great history.” Least favorite class growing up: “Physical education. I was so untalented as an athlete, but I always managed to do what needed to be done.” Favorite band: “The ‘Stones’.” Fun fact: Lefkowitz only has 19 songs on his iPod.

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ACTIVISM from page 1 Building. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, students would hold a massive silent vigil and peaceful protest on the Main West Quadrangle in support of racial equality and labor rights on campus. Activism steadily became a more regular aspect of Duke culture, as marked by teach-ins that protested the Vietnam War and an anti-draft rally in 1980. Flash forward to the twenty-first century and student activism is stronger than ever. In 2000, students successfully pushed the University to change its policy regarding its contracts with companies that use sweatshop labor. Student protests also pushed the University to eliminate the one-year statue of limitations for reporting sexual assault and brought gender-neutral housing to campus. In the past year alone, student protest has resulted in massive change. In February, the “Race is not a Party” student-led protest at the West Campus bus stop drew attention to racial insensitivity on campus. The protest drew national media attention and inspired the creation of a student-led coalition to improve race relations. Most recently, student activism led the University to add sexual reassignment surgery to the student health plan. “We’ve always had a very strong activism ethic at Duke as a school, and it’s in our blood as Dukies,” said senior Jacob Tobia, who has led several campus campaigns, particularly on issues affecting the LGBTQ community. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said that since he arrived at Duke in 2001, he has seen a dramatic increase in student activists on campus. “I’ve worked at six universities, and

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Oh, the humanities As students anxiously flock a troubling tendency, however, to majors grounded in science to promote these skills as valuand mathematics to ensure job able for economic reasons security, humanities depart- alone, which reduces the perments across the country are sonal and social importance scrambling to justify their ex- of the humanities to its success istence to an inpropping up staff editorial in creasingly skepthe economy. tical public. In an effort to get Although the report is more students to pursue a hu- not wrong to suggest that a manistic education, the Com- renewed commitment to the mittee on the Humanities and humanities stands to benefit Social Sciences—a body co- the economy, the Committee’s chaired by President Richard attempt to cast the humaniBrodhead—has released “The ties as a guardian of economic Heart of the Matter,” a report growth offers a glimpse at the vigorously defending humanis- reductive economism that has tic inquiry and education. caused so many dollars and stuThe report rightly contends dents to flee from the humanithat a vibrant democracy re- ties in favor of more “practical” quires a citizenry that can com- areas of study. municate clearly and appreciThe humanities has sufate the rich diversity of human fered in recent years because experience. The report displays students, administrators, do-

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look a lot like high-level trade schools. Although the committee’s effort is commendable, the report may have been stronger if it simply dismissed reductive economic arguments as missing the point, because they do. Seeking to cultivate personal and civic growth, the humanities teach students how to communicate confidently and think critically, ultimately preparing them for a lifelong engagement with questions about what it means to be human. Articulate and perceptive individuals who engage earnestly with these questions not only bring openness, civility and a commitment to human welfare to a world that sorely needs it, but they also add depth and texture to their lives and the

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ednesday afternoon in downtown GuayaGuidebooks are wholly correct in pointing out quil: It’s hot and bustling, as usual. Men that all of the religious stickers on the front of the in business suits and women in two-tone work uniforms are walking back from their lunch buses—ranging from a simple “God shows me hours, filled up on fish ceviche, rice and fried the way” to shiny, three-foot tall images of Jesus meat or potato yapingachos. I’m just now going to bleeding on the cross—leave one to wonder if this really should be a place for prayer. Nonetheless, work myself. hurdling over mountain roads at s a Caucasian American teachthree in the morning and travelling ing English abroad, I am trybetween Guayaquil and the capital ing to blend in with the packs city of Quito with fog obscuring of Latinos, and though I have on my your view of the lines on the road pissed-off street face (learned back will leave you with no doubt that it in Brooklyn), my blue eyes betray is. me. If I were to open my mouth, Hopping the turnstile of a city then all bets would be off, for my bus, one of my co-workers certainBen Silverberg Spanish, at the time, was on-par with ly wasn’t thinking about the bus a preliterate child. I sigh quietly to gringo loco driver’s questionable safety record. myself and keep moving. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he began Weaving between the street vendors who sell in Spanish, like every other vendor who boards small red apples in large plastic bags, lottery tick- buses to hock goods, “please pardon the interrupets and toothpaste to pedestrians and passengers tion. I am a teacher and I’d like to tell you about on passing buses, I stop cold on the corner of the my English class downtown…” He began to pass street before arriving at the school I teach at. A handbills out to the passengers. Puzzled by this body is sprawled out in the street, though it’s not atypical pitch, some people looked up and started garnering much attention from passers-by. A mo- asking questions. Our school is a well-known govment’s hesitation: Is this a homeless man or some- ernment-run community college with branches one who’s had too much to drink? No, there’s a throughout the country. To have a gringo speak pool of blood forming around his head. No, this about it in Spanish must have been quite a shock is not good. to them. “My school failed to advertise sufficientI lapse into gringo EMT, kick into a sprint— ly,” he explained, “so I am going out to recruit stuleaving all knowledge of Spanish behind me—and dents on my own.” And it worked. In fact, during try to explain to the security guard at my school his first few weeks of teaching, my comrade had to that he needs to call an ambulance. People have turn away students due to lack of space. He also seen me running and now they’re curious. I return had a great story to share with the other volunteer to the body with a small crowd. As if in a made-for- teachers at our end-of-service conference TV movie, a woman steps forward to help me exOne can never predict these vignettes, and press myself in Spanish. The bleeding man is be- there were a number of days when we’d felt like coming conscious again, and he certainly doesn’t our lives had become a stifling, nothing-out-oflike that a comparatively tall white boy is trying to the-ordinary routine. But that’s just it. After some keep him from moving his head and neck. time abroad, we became integrated into Latin As I later trudge upstairs to wash my hands and American life. Children juggling bottles of sand teach class as planned, my adrenaline-induced lu- in the street for money or city-wide political procidity morphs into questions like: “Did I do the tests and marches didn’t seem all that surprising. right thing intervening?” Tap water is flowing over When you look back at how far you’ve come in so my hands just as when I had returned from other short an amount of time, the line blurs between EMS calls in Washington, D.C. I’m still thinking as roads and classrooms, teaching and learning, I watch the water drain in a clockwise direction. home and abroad. All of these little experienc“Yes,” I conclude proudly, “but things would have es—common and rare—are absorbed into your been the same in the U.S., too. And that means personal history, and you’ll take them wherever I’m not really such an extranjero here after all.” you go next. Jack Kerouac would have been proud of me, as well. As I carved out my year-long adventure of Benjamin Silverberg is a second-year graduate stuteaching English in Ecuador, I found that some dent and practicing physician. His biweekly column will of my most memorable experiences happened begin in the Fall. You can follow Ben on Twitter @hoboon the road. Some, like the hit-and-run victim, geneous. were closer to the actual pavement than others.

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he method by which prosecutors and ing racial bias, statewide, may be admitted, defense attorneys select jurors during more than 150 death row inmates have cited capital trials is seemingly racist. the study in their claims for life imprisonment. This is primarily, but not solely, due to the Very few have been successful. legal requirement of death qualOne inmate, Marcus Robinification—the disqualification by son, received a hearing in which defense attorneys and prosecuthe defense attorneys argued tors of potential jurors who opthat peremptory strikes allowed pose capital punishment. The prosecutors to excessively strike result of this requirement is the potential black jurors. Judge selection of jurors who are more Gregory Weeks, who had prelikely to favor capital punishment sided over the case, ruled that rather than life imprisonment. the bias was evident and that This system of selection dis- Mousa Alshanteer evidence of a “racially discrimiproportionately reduces the natory purpose,” as outlined by you don’t say? number of black jurors since they McCleskey v. Kemp, was not reare more likely to doubt the inquired because “to hold that a tegrity of such punishment. Of the 1,198 jurors defendant cannot prevail … unless he proves in the Capital Jury Project—a combination of intentional discrimination would read a reresearch studies on the decisions made by ju- quirement” into the Racial Justice Act “that the rors in capital trials—85.7 percent were white General Assembly clearly did not place there.” and only 9.7 percent were black. Resultantly, Robinson’s death sentence was reWith a disproportionate amount of whites duced to life imprisonment. serving as jurors, the effects of racial bias are Apprehensive of this ruling, the N.C. Seneasily manifested. David C. Baldus, professor ate passed a bill that would have effectively of law at the University of Iowa, conducted re- repealed the Racial Justice Act. Though the search on racial bias in capital sentences and Senate did not have enough votes to overfound—even after the consideration of 39 turn Gov. Perdue’s veto, the General Assembly nonracial variables such as the defendant’s re- passed a major revision the following year that cord, the severity of the crime, his or her level restricted the use of statistics to the county or of education and class inequality—that black district where the crime occurred rather than defendants are 1.7 times more likely to be se- the entire state. Additionally, the revision, lected for capital punishment than whites and similar to the majority decision in McCleskey v. that murderers of whites are 4.3 times more Kemp, deemed that “statistical evidence alone likely to be selected for capital punishment is insufficient to establish that race was a sigthan murderers of blacks. Consequently, black nificant factor” in the charging, sentencing or defendants are especially likely to be charged jury selection stages of a trial. This time, the and sentenced to execution. governor’s veto was overturned. A year later, These findings were used by the defense in Gov. Patrick McCrory would sign a complete McCleskey v. Kemp to argue that Warren Mc- repeal of the Racial Justice Act into law, thereCleskey’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment by ensuring that blacks are still more likely to rights against cruel and unusual punishment be charged and sentenced to execution due to and to equal protection under the law were in- racial bias. fringed upon by racial bias. Nonetheless, the Several parties have argued about the impliCourt ruled that the “racially disproportion- cations of the Racial Justice Act in an effort to ate impact” of capital punishment, revealed by curb the effects of racial bias on the charging the Baldus study, was not sufficient enough to and sentencing of black defendants. Nevertheoverturn the verdict without the indication of less, it is not the racial bias, but the primary a “racially discriminatory purpose.” In other cause of that racial bias, that ought to be tarwords, the defense had failed to make evident geted by these parties. That cause is the prointentional discrimination by the jury. cess of death qualification—the very process Many have long debated the Court’s deci- which removes blacks, who are much more sion, thereby deepening an ideological division likely to oppose capital punishment, from the that soon found its way into North Carolina. jury selection pool. Under the Racial Justice Act—passed by the The use of a death-qualified jury was found North Carolina House of Representatives and to be consistent with the Sixth Amendment of Senate and signed into law by former North the U.S. Constitution in both Witherspoon v. Carolina governor Bev Perdue—a capital de- Illinois and Lockhart v. McCree on the basis fendant may have his or her sentence reduced that a fair and impartial jury includes those from death to life imprisonment, provided that with members who will consider both capital the defense exhibited evidence “that race was punishment and life imprisonment. Neverthea significant factor in decisions to seek or im- less, the fact that jurors are much more likely pose the sentence of death” in the defendant’s to select blacks and murderers of white viccounty, prosecutorial district, judicial division tims for capital punishment than whites and or state. murderers of black victims, as well as the fact As a result of this law, defense teams were that only 57 percent of Americans believe they able to cite evidence that death sentences are would be death-qualified, indicates an imparsought or imposed more commonly upon de- tiality and wrongful representation of the comfendants of one race than others, that sentenc- munity—both of which could violate the Sixth es are sought or imposed more commonly on Amendment. behalf of victims of one race than others and To reduce the disproportionate selection of that race is a significant factor in the call for blacks for capital punishment, we ought not to peremptory strikes—the removal of potential- strike those who are death-unqualified from ly biased jurors without explanation—during the jury pool, because doing so renders the sethe jury selection stage of the trial. The Bal- lection of a less diverse jury that is more likely dus study supported the two former categories to charge and sentence blacks than members of evidence, while the North Carolina Racial of other races. Removing death-qualification Justice Act Research Project—a study con- requirements would render truly impartial ducted by Michigan State University College of and representative juries that do not exclude Law professors Catherine Grosso and Barbara the voices of a certain race that predominately O’Brien—supported the latter. opposes capital punishment. After all, the last This latter study not only found that de- four words of the Pledge of Allegiance require fendants are considerably more likely to be us to do so. charged and sentenced to death if at least one of the victims is white, but that prosecutors are Mousa Alshanteer is a Trinity sophomore and the more than twice as likely to strike qualified editorial page managing editor. His biweekly column blacks from jury duty than they are to strike will resume in the Fall. You can follow Mousa on members of other races. Due to the Racial Twitter @mousaalshanteer. Justice Act’s provision that evidence indicat-

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ear readers, Shivering in the cold, I held my flip camera under my pink sundress as the random bout of rain relentlessly poured down on me. It was Mega Moral Monday—the third protest to occur outside of the state legislature this summer—and I was desperately hoping to get a video of the protestors getting loaded onto the prison buses. I would stand outside in the bitter cold with Sophia Durand, The Chronicle’s Managing Editor, for two consecutive hours, only to walk away with no footage— they had loaded the prisoners out of Danielle Muoio sight. Except standing on that balcony editor’s note unknowingly preparing for disappointment had a silver lining. Drenched to the core, I wrote down the thoughts of several different kinds of protestors. From Irma Stein, an 87-year-old protestor who attended the event with peace-activist group The Raging Grannies, to Reeve Huston, an associate professor of history, I recorded the voices of those who felt like the State had robbed their ability to speak. In hunger and discomfort, I used a pen and dampened paper to record the human experience. At its core, that’s what journalism will always be—serving as a watchdog. Amidst challenges and hardships, there will always be the silver lining of knowing that you kept people in the know and gave those silenced a voice. In the coming year, you will hear about a lot of changes occurring with The Chronicle. We have cut a day of our print edition to focus on a new digital model. With this change, you will see new types of coverage, a new production cycle and a revamped digital presence. We are adapting to a world where timeliness is more important than ever—it’s one that has caused editing schedules to shift and writers’ processes to change. It’s one that has peaked readers’ interests, but also dismayed some. It’s a challenge we are bracing as students who love and deeply care about The Chronicle and the news we cover. But at the end of the day, amidst all the changes, we will never stop serving as the watchdog for the campus. In fact, we only aim to get better in that regard. Whether it’s a news reporter cracking the case as to why a major campus construction project was halted, a sports reporter breaking the story that the ACC was suing Maryland or a columnist exposing that a top administrator knows about on-campus secret society members, every year we aim to get better at serving as a relevant voice for this campus. And that’s why, readers, I am now turning to you. As we aim to get better and faster at what we do with our biggest challenge in front of us yet, we want to encourage you to join our team. You can participate in a small, but very important, way. Write letters to the editors or guest columns. Follow us on Twitter—@DukeChronicle, @ChronicleSports and @ChronicleRecess—to stay up to date with breaking news and story developments. Make qduke.com your homepage, and be our fan on Facebook. Share your thoughts, ideas and input so we can continue covering the most relevant and interesting news. Or become an integral part of what we do. Try out any of our departments—News, Sports, Recess, Opinion or Towerview—and see the hard work and fun nights that go into producing our coverage. Become an integral part of our goal to become digital first by helping our Online or Multimedia departments. Or put your visual skills to the test and join our Photo or Design team. So dip your toe in the water and see what we have to offer. Open to our center spread and learn about major changes on campus that are occurring right before students’ eyes. Learn about the journey Duke has made to realize its major crop of construction projects, and learn about how they will affect your student experience. Turn to Sportswrap and learn about the changing landscape of college recruiting, and the similarities between this years Duke team and last years Olympic team. Look to Recess, our weekly arts section, to learn about music in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens and what albums are worth checking out. And read Towerview for a comprehensive look at Duke and Durham, from what used to be below West Union to the artsy house on Burch Ave. Because after all, the V.109 Send Home edition was made with all of you in mind. We hope this edition prepares you for your first foray into college life, and inspires you to become a part of this organization in some way or another. And just know that with everything changing, our commitment as the watchdog of this campus will remain as constant as the light shining out of our window in 301 Flowers throughout the night. So dive in, get ready for four amazing years and allow us to play a role in them. Danielle Muoio is a Trinity junior and Editor-in-Chief of The Chronicle. You can reach her at danielle.muoio@duke.edu or follow her on Twitter @ muoiod.

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Places of Worship Grace Lutheran Church 824 N. Buchanan Blvd. Durham, NC 27701 â€˘ 682-6030 ...one block from East Campus Worship with Holy Communion 8:30 & 11:00 am each Sunday

Lifting high the cross, to proclaim the love of Christ!

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Come and worship with us!

10:00 Modern Worship • 11:15 Small Groups

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