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DukeEngage Students find the pearl within at convocation not changing after recent cancellations by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE
Over 1,700 freshmen filled the chapel to be welcomed to their college experience at Wednesday’s Convocation ceremony. The students—selected from over 32,000 applicants and representing 50 countries— were challenged to step outside their comfort zones and take advantage of all the University has to offer. “As I look at you, Duke’s Class of 2017, I think of oysters,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. “When I see an oyster, I see the potential for a pearl to be formed inside of it.” He continued by explaining that it takes a grain of sand to make the oyster feel uncomfortable, which prompts the mollusk to develop the precious pearl. By stepping outside of their comfort zone and trying new and challenging things, Nowicki said, students—like oysters—will gain personal value. “The best thing you can do in your time at Duke is to ask yourself, allow yourself to be a little uncomfortable along the way,” Nowicki said. Freshman Natalie Markowitz noted the meaningful symbolism of comparing the freshmen to oysters.
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Despite canceling two DukeEngage programs, DukeEngage administrators say they feel positive about the summer and do not anticipate policy changes. The programs in both Cairo and Haiti met early ends — students in Egypt were sent home nearly a month early due to the nation’s political unrest, and students in Haiti were forced to leave due to unprofessional behavior exhibited by their in-country coordinator. DukeEngage executive director Eric Mlyn noted, however, that DukeEngage policies were carried out successfully with both cancellations and the program terminations will likely not prompt any revision of policy. “We had a number of challenges, in Egypt and Haiti particularly, but we’re proud of the DukeEngage staff,” Mlyn said. “They handled these issues very professionally.” Haiti program participant Kevin Duh, a senior, noted that the program coordinator “behaved very inappropriately with a member of the group,” prompting the decision to cancel the program. DukeEngage was unable to find a replacement coordinator, given the short window of time, forcing the students to leave the country. “The decision to send us home came up pretty quickly,” Duh said. “The situation unraveled about 4 weeks in, we were told we were going home at the end of the fourth week and we were sent home the following Wednesday.” The coordinator, who was not a Duke employee, worked for Family Health Ministries—the organization with which the students in Haiti partnered to do service work. See DUKEENGAGE, page 16
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Admins optimistic DKU will open Fall 2014 by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE
Around this time in 2012, administrators thought they were a year away from welcoming students to Duke Kunshan University. But the new China campus is still under construction and awaiting final approval from the Chinese Ministry of Education. Despite several notable delays, administrators insist that DKU will be up and running Fall 2014. Significant construction progress and suggestions that
ministry approval is just weeks away have strengthened their confidence. “We’re getting extremely positive signals,” Provost Peter Lange said. Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said he is more optimistic than ever before that the campus will be completed by the goal date. The construction team has a detailed schedule—pushed by project manager Dudley Willis, who recently became the first Duke employee to oversee DKU construction on the ground.
In February, a Chronicle article revealed that construction had stalled for almost all of 2012 due to communication issues, as well as questions of standard. Since then, these concerns have largely dissipated, Trask said, and the Chinese construction team has stuck with their financial and quality commitments. He noted, however, that the quality would always fall in between Chinese construction standards and Duke stanSee DKU, page 17
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Pavilion opens to students Induced labor linked
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Students enjoy a meal at the Events Pavilion, which officially opened Wednesday.
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As students return to campus, there are many noticeable changes—perhaps the most prevalent being a change to the main dining hall on West Campus. The West Union building, already under construction, has closed its doors to the Great Hall. To compensate for its absence, the new Events Pavilion is open and ready to serve. Since officially opening Wednesday, students have gotten a chance to experience the different food options and atmosphere at the Events Pavilion. “It looks great and more modern than the Great Hall,” said Xudong Zhu, a Pratt graduate student. “But the food is really the same.”
He added that the air conditioning works better in the Events Pavilion than it did in the dated Great Hall. Fellow Pratt graduate student, Lin Wang, noted that the Events Pavilion feels more like a restaurant, whereas the Great Hall felt like a traditional dining hall. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said the food preparation area of the Events Pavilion is more elaborate and technologically advanced than it was in the Great Hall. “It is wonderful with equipment capable of supporting all kinds of creative menus and meals,” he said. See PAVILLION, page 15
Induced or augmented labor may be associated with an increased risk of autism, a new study finds. Researchers discovered that mothers who had their labors induced, which stimulates contractions in the uterus, or augmented, which strengthens the duration and frequency of contractions, may be more likely to deliver a child with autism, especially if the baby is male. The study was published in the Aug. 12 edition of JAMA Pediatrics and was a joint study between researchers at Duke Medicine and the University of Michigan. Autism, a developmental disorder characterized by social, communication and behavioral challenges, affects approximately one in 88 children across the country and is believed to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. “We were careful in the paper to not identify where this association was coming from,” said Dr. Simon Gregory, associate professor of medical genetics and lead author of the study. “Based on the data, we do not know the circumstances that require induction or augmentation in the first place. While there has been past research on labor induction and autism, this study incorporates the largest set of subjects to date, Gregory noted. According to the paper, the researchers gathered data from 625,042 live births linked with North Carolina public school records. They found that male children who went through an induced or aug-
mented labor have a 35 percent higher risk of having autism than those that did not. Gregory added that although induced labor, which carries an increased risk for infections, is increasingly practiced in hospitals, there has been an overall decrease in maternal and fetal mortality. “The findings of this study must be balanced with the fact that there are clear benefits associated with induction and augmentation of labor,” said Dr. Chad Grotegut, co-author of the study and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, in a press release. “Labor induction, especially for women with post-date pregnancies or medical conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure, has remarkably decreased the chance of still birth.” The findings do not suggest a causal relationship, but they do show a need for additional research. Gregory noted that the data used in this study did not have information on drugs that were used in the induction, the titration of the drug or the time frame in which the labor induction or augmentation took place. The next step of the research would be to examine each birth while factoring in these additional conditions. “The birth cohort we examined in this study was across all of North Carolina,” Gregory said. “We want to look specifically at the mothers who gave birth at Duke Regional hospital to incorporate other factors such as mother’s health and fetus’ health.” Funding for the study was provided by United States Environmental Protection Agency.
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Mosenbichler-Bryant discusses Duke Medicine Orchestra by Tony Shan THE CHRONICLE
Dr. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, director of the Duke University Wind Symphony and assistant professor of the practice of music, leads the Duke Medicine Orchestra, an organization of Duke University Medical Center affiliated musicians. Born in Austria, Bryant came to the United States to study music and conducting at Michigan State University where she received her master’s degree and at the University of Texas at Austin before arriving at Duke to conduct several campus orchestras. She has been the conductor for the Duke Medical Orchestra since its beginning and believes that bringing music to patients in this unique way helps patients and hospital staff alike. The Chronicle’s Tony Shan spoke to Dr. Mösenbichler-Bryant about the program.
The Chronicle: What is the Duke Medicine Orchestra and what sets it apart from the other musical groups that you conduct for? Verena Mosenbichler-Bryant: The Duke Medicine Orchestra strives to unite members of the Duke Medical community with those of the broader community in the pursuit of musical excellence and cultural enrichment to really inspire and renew its audience and members. It’s also the only ensemble that I conduct that is not primarily students—the members come from the medical community and they are there because they want to be there to make music while having a very different profession.
work with Dr. Nicholas Bandarenko III, a professor of pathology, to create a musical group modeled after one they had seen in Michigan. Luckily, everyone was on board with the idea and when they were looking for someone to lead the orchestra, Barbara reached out to me and we hit it off very well. I’ve been conducting the Medical Orchestra ever since.
TC: What kinds of venues does the Medical Orchestra perform at? VMB: Most of the venues are on campus. In the past couple of years when Baldwin was under renovation, we performed in Reynolds Theater, but starting this fall, we’ll TC: Where did the idea for the orchestra first come be back in Baldwin Auditorium. In addition to performing from? in concert venues, we also do dress rehearsals in a medical VMB: The orchestra was actually started in 2010, when facility. So we’ve performed in the Cancer Center, we’ve Dr. Barbara Kamholz, a professor of psychiatry, decided to performed at the Durham Regional Hospital, in Duke North, and we’re looking to perform in the Children’s Center as well. We’re really trying to get to all the medical facilities that we can. TC: Who are the performers in the orchestra? Are they students, DUMC faculty, professional musicians? VMB: There are definitely students—we have a lot of med students, as well as a lot of MD/PhD students in the group. The medical background of the performers is a very unique aspect of the orchestra. Everyone in the orchestra has some sort of affiliation with Duke Medicine, so we have doctors, nurses, students, staff working for Duke Hospital, as well as spouses and children of employees at the medical center. The orchestra is basically open to anyone affiliated with the medical center. We don’t have many undergraduates, however, simply because there are undergraduate specific orchestras like the Duke Symphony Orchestra. TC: What kind of value does the orchestra add to our community and what has the response been from patients and the hospital staff? VMB: Our goal is really to inspire and renew the lives of our audience and our members, and to bring together people from diverse areas of the Duke medical community in a shared activity. The feedback has always been extremely positive. Patients as well as other staff have often been very surprised and delighted to discover that their doctors, colleagues and students are performing in an orchestra. It helps them see these professionals on a more personal level. TC: What role do you think that music and the arts plays in the field of healthcare? VMB: I think it’s very important to have the arts and music available for patients and for the staff as well. I think it’s very beneficial to have an artistic outlet, regardless of what profession you’re in, to express yourself and relieve yourself from some of the stress that builds up during the day. I believe that music and the arts can achieve that, so I fully support the intersection between these two fields. We put a smile on a lot of faces, and that shows just how much music can connect to people. It’s been real a privilege to work with the medical community through this group and I look forward to many more performances in the future.
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Duke alumni run 500 miles to honor veterans by Linda Yu THE CHRONICLE
Seven Duke alumni took on a 500mile run that bridged together their time at Duke with their service in the Iraq war Aug. 11. Starting at the Duke Chapel, the runners—all of whom are active-duty officers in the United States Army—took on a six-day journey to the September 11, 2011 memorial in New York City to raise money for veterans transitioning into civilian life. The concept for the run, which was dubbed the Freedom 500, came to runners Phil Cotter, Pratt ‘10, and Seth Brown, Pratt ‘09, while they deployed in Afghanistan four months ago. After coming up with the idea, Cotter and Brown sent an email to their ROTC friends with the tentative idea for an “endurance challenge for veterans.” The participants were all former Duke Reserve Officers Training Corps graduates. “It was physically demanding, we were tired and sore, but it was a lot of fun,” runner Kase Diehl, Trinity’11, said. The Freedom 500 was scheduled as a relay where the seven men were split into two RVs on 12-hour shifts. While the runners on one RV rested, the runners on the other van would relay. Each person ran for around four miles before switching off with another runner—a process that would continue until one van covered about fifty miles in total. Each runner averaged anywhere from 12 to 21 miles a day. Since all seven of the runners were
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Duke alumni ran from Durham to New York City to raise money for veterans transitioning to civilian life.
Duke graduates, they thought it was fitting for them to both start at the Duke Chapel and to also use the run to raise money for the nonprofit, The Mission Continues, which was started in 2007 by another Duke graduate, Eric Greitens, Trinity ’96. The organization works to help veterans transition back into civilian life by giving them a fellowship to work for 520 hours for six months at a
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nonprofit of their choosing. “We were following them every step of the way through social media and their pictures until they ended up here in New York,” said Meredith Knopp, vice president of the programs at The Mission Continues and a veteran hereself. “It was an incredible feat and they really exemplify what it is to be a veteran.”
The run ended up raising $42,846 in donations for the nonprofit, and donations are still be accepted. All seven of the runners voluntarily joined ROTC while the nation was still at war. Diehl and Brown both described the run as something akin to a journey to where it all began. “I joined at the height of the Iraq war,” Brown said. “I felt that there was a necessity for strong leaders to choose to join a that particular moment.” As they ran into New York, the alumni were joined by 80 more runners as they finished the last miles and were greeted by the fanfare of crowds and firemen. “Every single fire department had their engines on the road and had firemen lining up giving us high fives as we ran by,” said Brown. “They even had a fire boat spraying water 50 feet in the air.” Near the end, flags were passed out to the crowd waiting for the runners at the finish. “So we were running in an attack of waving American flags,” Brown said. They finished in the fire station across the street from where the Twin Towers formerly stood and were given a private viewing of the memorial. “And actually getting into that hallowed ground and being able to read the names of the memorial and see the Freedom Tower was just absolutely incredible and humbling,” Diehl In addition to fundraising, part of the run was meant for raising awareness See VETERANS, page 14
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Students sound-off on abroad experiences dent project participant at Range of Montion Project in Quito, Ecuador Every summer Duke students jet off to exotic locations to conduct research, volunteer or take classes. Whether their trip poses difficult challenges or provides new and exciting opportunities, students that engage with different cultures overseas return to school with new insight. The Chronicle spoke to students who went abroad this summer to hear about their experience and what they learned. “Collecting behavioral data on the Javan slow loris is harder than it sounds when you have to hike up a mountain each night to watch this nocturnal species— so is working in a rural area that never receives any tourists, making you the token foreigner.� —junior Jennifer Margono, DukeEngage independent project participant at The Little Fireface Project in Garut, Indonesia
“It’s hard for me considering I haven’t taken Spanish in two years. This is my second all-nighter actually back-to-back...granted, I did take a nine hour nap today. Too much work to enjoy abroad in my opinion. I do my best to enjoy and thhen do work.� —junior George Terziev, Duke in Spain participant “The best part of it all is getting to work on a prosthesis one day and the next seeing a patient walk for the first time using that prosthesis. It’s the most tangible sense of accomplishment I’ve had in an internship/summer experience.� —senior Lauren Brucato, DukeEngage indepen-
“I knew it wouldn’t be an easy summer, because I’m an obviously foreign, young female living in India alone, and it’s really been a growing experience.‌ India is so colorful and bright and spicy, it’s great! Also, thanks to my experiences here, I’ve learned a number of things I never thought I’d have a chance to learn, such as the best technique to evade a charging cow, just how many shots are required for a post-exposure rabies vaccine—the answer is 5— and how much money I’d be worth if I was a prostitute. According to one guy who offered, it’s 400 rupees, or about $8.â€? —senior Lillie Reed, Benjamin N. Scholar intern at Sangath, mental health NGO in Goa, India “It’s similar in some ways to Nigeria, where I am from, but I am humbled by the warmth and hospitality of these people.â€? —junior Chisom Amalunweze, Engineering World Health Summer Institute participant in Tanzania
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Dear Duke Students: As Vice-President for Institutional Equity, I want to welcome each of you as a new or returning Duke University student. The new academic year brings with it great opportunities to live out our mission and common values of excellence, respect and inclusion. The Office for Institutional Equity is committed to sustaining and encouraging a climate that fosters these values. I also serve as Duke’s Title IX Coordinator. Title IX is a federal law that prohibits sex discrimination. In this role, I coordinate Duke’s compliance with Title IX. My office and I serve as an important resource in insuring our work and learning environments are respectful, inclusive and free from prohibited discrimination or harassment of any kind. Within our diverse community, it is important that we interact in a manner that permits each of us to perform at our very best. It is my hope and expectation that you will never encounter conduct that is inappropriate, discriminatory or harassing. Should you ever feel you have been subjected to such conduct, do not hesitate to seek help. Undergraduate students can contact Stephen Bryan, Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Office of Student Conduct, at (919) 684-6938 or conduct@duke.edu. If you are a graduate or professional student, you can contact your respective school dean or department chair. You can always contact me directly. My office telephone number is (919) 684-8222 and we are located at Smith Warehouse, 114 S. Buchanan Boulevard, Bay 8 on the first floor. Welcome again and go Duke! Sincerely,
Benjamin D. Reese, Jr., Psy.D. Vice-President for Institutional Equity
“I would say the study abroad experience provided me not only with an unparalleled cultural immersion experience but also an increased sense of independence. However, it really made me appreciate the resources available to me at an institution like Duke, because the university system in France is so different. After about a month, I was missing Perkins, which I never thought I would say.â€? —senior Audrey Abu-Appiah, Duke in France participant “Something I have noticed is a hint of tension between the need for industrialization and ‘westernization’ and a desire to hold onto traditional roots. It’s interesting to see it all play out. After just 10 days in Kenya I feel like I have learned a lot, though I still feel like a naive tourist—between my broken Swahili and their English I seem to get by with most conversations. I haven’t felt homesick yet, though I am sure by August I will be ready. â€? —junior Aly Premji, global health researcher in Nairobi, Kenya “Nairobi is cold, urban, and incredibly welcoming. I’d say this summer is going to disband a lot of stereotypes many of us may have had.â€? —senior Noha Sherif, DukeEngage participant at WISER in Muhuru Bay, Kenya “Digging is a lot of hard work, but I like the idea of a field school.â€? —junior Barbara Blachut, Duke in Crete participant “What’s it been like? Awesome. Sleeping as much as I want, working out with my dad, cooking with my mom and eating favorite healthy food, what on earth can be better? ‌ I enjoy being here as long as I sit in the house, visit relatives and meet with friends. When I run errands and have to deal with gender discrimination, corruption, bureaucracy and judging/rude people anywhere else I go, it just pisses me off. The US spoiled me.â€? —junior Katya Gorbacheva, international student from Russia ProWorld in Urubamba, Peru —junior John Davis, Duke Global Health Institute Student Research Training Program participant in Uganda
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Hawks to fly free at Duke Petraeus to speak on security by Tony Shan THE CHRONICLE
The Duke Gardens will release elease four juvenile red-shouldered hawks ks into the wild this Saturday, August 24, 4, as part of a collaborative event with CLAWS, LAWS, Inc. Four previously injured hawks will get a chance to fly free this Saturday CLAWS Inc.—a Triangle-based -based volunteer wildlife rehabilitation n nonprofit—will release four juvenile red-shouldered hawks into the wild att the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. After raising ng the four birds in their facilities, CLAWS LAWS Inc. has deemed them ready to return to o the wild. The hawks, named d Daisy,, Sunflower, Violet and Cosmo, mo, will be set free from the South Lawn at 11 a.m. and the winners of a raffle competition will have the chance ance to put on protective equipmentt to personally release a hawk. “These hawks all camee into rehabilitation separately, after being blown from their nests in storms,” Kindra Mammone, executive director of CLAWS Inc. wrote in an email Monday. “All were raised here together, and all have passed both hunt and flight school with flying colors.” Mammone, who founded CLAWS Inc. in 2004, has created a team of experts who work on both a local and national level to teach people how to live safely and in harmony with native wildlife. A large part of the service that they offer involves rehabilitating injured, sick and orphaned wildlife for release back into their native habitat. “Everybody involved [in CLAWS, Inc.] has many years of experience with both exotic and wild animals, from
bears to tigerss to t o squirrels s uirrels and ra sq raccoons,” she ssaid. sa id. th T h e catalyst to host the hawk release in the Duke Duk Gardens was a chance chanc meeting between betwee Mammone Orla M mmone and Or Ma Swift, of S ift, director o Sw marketing marketing and com communications the munications for th Gardens. The tw two met at a barred ow owl r e l e a s e hosted b by C L AW S Inc. I c. iin In Raleigh earlie earlier disthis month and began di the cussing a possible release at th Duke Gardens. “I have followed CLAWS Inc. o on Facebook with great interest fo for some time and the timing was fortu fortuitous in terms of CLAWS’s schedul schedule and ours and Duke students’ return to campus,” Swift said. “We’re thrilled to welcome CLAWS Inc. for this unusual opportunity.” Although these four hawks will be released from the Gardens, where they will reside after the release is undetermined. “We hope that they stay in the Gardens, but they do have wings and need a one-mile area for their territory,” Mammone said. “This is not mating season, so my expectation is they will stick around in the area until it is time to find a mate and then will settle wherever the mate lives.” Federal law prohibits CLAWS from See HAWKS, page 17
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Retired Army Gen. David H. Petraeus will speak at Duke in Page Auditorium on September 11, delivering the Ambassador Dave and Kay Phillips Family International Lecture. Petraeus is the former Central Intelligence Agency director and commander of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. He served 37 years in the military and is now chairman of investment firm KKR Global Institute. In addition, he is a visiting professor of public policy at the City University of New York’s Macauly Honors College and a Judge Widney Professor at the University of Southern California. Peter Feaver, professor of political science and public policy and director of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, will host the discussion. “General Petraeus is one of the most celebrated military leaders of our time,” Feaver said in a Duke News press release. “He has played a key role in the wars of the past decade and has the stra-
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tegic vision to help us understand the challenges of the next decade. We are very fortunate to have him speak to us at this pivotal time in American national security.” The lecture will be free but will require tickets, which can be purchased at the Duke Box Office or online starting August 27. Tickets for the Duke community will be available at 11 a.m. and for the general public at 1 p.m.dents and Duke staff and simply requires a comment on the Gardens’ Facebook page stating what it means to you to have the Gardens in your community. The remaining two raffle drawings will be hosted by CLAWS, Inc. Janice Little, director of education and public programs for the Duke Gardens, said that the event will be a great way to help people see the Gardens from a different perspective. “I think this is a fantastic opportunity to get people thinking about gardens as not just plants, but rather plants that support insects, amphibians, songbirds, small mammals, and of course, these [hawks],” Little said.
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Duke Players Orientation Show Learn more about Duke Players when we present a rollicking night of theater… God By Woody Allen Come to Brody Theater for a night of existential romping through religion, politics, the nature of man and where to get the best Chinese takeout. Brody Theater, Branson Building, East Campus August 30 & August 31 at 8 pm* * free pre-show pizza on the Brody porch at 7 pm!
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is the student organization in the Department of Theater Studies. Its members support the Department’s productions by running auditions, working on production crews, promoting participation in theater by all Duke students, and representing the interests of students involved in Theater Studies. All undergraduates are eligible for membership.
By Shelagh Stephenson Brody Theater, East Campus October 24 - 26
Auditions for Uncle Vanya and Machinal Course credit for both productions (THEATRST 290-5) for work onstage or backstage! All Duke undergrads are invited to audition for the Theater Studies fall and spring mainstage plays, Uncle Vanya and Machinal. Uncle Vanya auditions will be on Tuesday, August 27th, 6:30-9:30 in the Bryan Center Rehearsal Studio (BC 127) with callbacks tbd. Machinal auditions will be Tuesday, August 27th from 4:30-6:00 & Wednesday the 28th from from 4:30 to 6:30 in the Rehearsal Studio, with callbacks tbd. Audition sign-up instructions are at theaterstudies.duke.edu. Casting for the Theater Previews New Works Lab, Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag will come from these auditions as well. More info to follow on the website.
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Uncle Vanya By Anton Chekhov Directed by Jeff Storer, TS Faculty Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus November 14 - 24
The Man Who By Peter Brooks Sam Kebede’s distinction project Brody Theater, East Campus February 20 - 23
Republic By Hoi Polloi Theater Company Theater Studies/Duke Performances Manbites Dog Theater February 20 - March 1
Duke Players Lab Theater Brody Theater, East Campus March 27- 29
Machinal By Sophie Treadwell Directed by Jules Odendahl-James, TS Faculty Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus April 3 - 13
Parade Book by Alfred Ubry Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown Drew Klingner’s distinction project Produced by Hoof ‘n’ Horn Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus April 4 - 14
New Works Festival
Love’s Infrastructure
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus April 14 - 20
Torry Bend, TS faculty & Bombadil Theater Studies/Duke Perfomances Durham Arts Council January 24-26
Off Stage
An Iliad By Lisa Peterson & Denis O’Hare Phil Watson’s distinction project Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus February 13-15
Interested in working backstage? Contact the Costume Shop Supervisor at kay.webb@duke.edu or the Scene Shop Supervisor at david.berberian@duke.edu
Duke University Department of Theater Studies 109 Page • Box 90680 • Durham, NC 27708 |(919) 660-3343 theaterstudies.duke.edu for info and updates
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Obama proposes tying aid to new college rankings by John Hechinger and Roger Runningen BLOOMBERG NEWS
BUFFALO, N.Y. — President Obama called for tying federal financial aid to a new U.S. government rating of college costs and performance, saying spiraling tuition bills are pricing many U.S. families out of higher education. The plan would rank similar colleges against their peers, and students who go to highly rated schools would get more aid than those lower in the pecking order. The criteria would include tuition, student debt, graduation rates and earnings of students once they leave school. College costs have become “a barrier and a burden for too many American families,� Obama told students and faculty at the University of Buffalo Thursday. “Colleges are not going to be able to just keep on increasing tuition year after year, and then passing it on to students and families and taxpayers.� The school was the first stop on a two-day bus trip through upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania that Obama is also is using to pitch his economic policies before re-engaging in a fight with congressional Republicans next month over economic policy and the budget. “This is all about the upcoming battle that’s going to be fought between him and Congress over raising the debt limit and sequester and all the other issues,� said Eddie Mahe, a Republican consultant based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Obama has vowed to rein in the cost of higher education at a time when more than half of U.S. undergraduates rely on federal aid and student debt is climbing. Average tuition and fees at public four-year colleges have more
system to be in place before the 2015 school year. He said he’ll ask Congress for legislation that would dole out financial aid based on those ratings by 2018. The federal government provides
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than tripled in the past three decades, far exceeding gains in family income, according to the White House. Obama said he’s directed the Education Department to develop a rating
more than $150 billion a year in federal student aid, awarding it based on the number of students who enroll, rather than the number who earn degrees or what they learn, the White House said.
Obama has already called for giving more federal financial aid to colleges with moderate tuition increases and strong educational outcomes -- such as high graduation rates -- and yanking funding from those with the highest cost. That plan focused on expanding Perkins loans, a program for low-income families, and using the money as a lever to hold down costs. The White House said the new ratings would be based on such measures as access, including the percentage of students receiving Pell grants, reserved for those from lower-income families; affordability, including average tuition, scholarships and loan debt; and outcomes, such as graduation and transfer rates, earnings of graduates and graduates’ advanced degrees. The federal government already gathers reams of information to develop such a ranking, and the administration has produced a College Scorecard with data on cost and student debt. Colleges have objected to proposals to tie aid to cost and educational outcomes because of concern that certain institutions, and their students, would be unfairly penalized. The government will have no trouble producing a ranking with the data it has available, said Terry Hartle, senior vice president at the Washington-based American Council on Education, which represents 1,800 college presidents. “But it will be contentious� to figure out how to use it to provide aid to students, Hartle said. See OBAMA, page 15
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OPEN ROMANCE STUDIES COURSES ~ FALL 2013 French 490S.02 La Lectrice Prof. Longino TTH 1:25-2:40 How have writers and artists over the centuries conveyed the magical powers of reading? And why have they chosen the figure of the female reader, in gracious repose or intense contemplation, as an emblem of this magic? In “The Female Reader” we will examine the history and practice of reading and the representation of women in the act of reading in novels, stories, paintings, and films. Among them: Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, a tale of Emma’s dissatisfaction, dissipation and downfall as a direct consequence of too much fiction at an impressionable age. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey where the young Catherine Morland lives a dangerously imaginative life through the lens of her steady diet of gothic romance novels until enlightened instead by lived experience. Artists’ images of women writing, from Fragonard through Renoir’s “Woman Reading”, Manet’s “Interrupted Reading” and up to Picasso’s renditions of women and their books (and their daydreams). Raymond Jean’s Mlle Bovary, and the same author’s curious novel La Lectrice (and the even more curious film spin-off starring MiouMiou!). Ranging freely between the classics and contemporary pop culture, we will concentrate on the problem of inter-textuality, the relation between the real and the imaginary, and the problem of attempting to represent the interior life of women. Taught in French. Womenst 490S.02 ALP CCI FL French 530.01 Medieval Fictions: L’Écrivain dans la cité Prof. Solterer M 4:40-7:10 What is the political responsibility of the writer? This seminar will answer this question by taking up the case of Paris – the *first* time the city was invaded and divided. Around 1400, citizens endured the assassination of its leaders, civil war, English occupation. How do writers respond to violent conflict? Through what literary forms can they harness hatred? Imagine peace? We’ll study the group of writers mobilized in the city during the Hundred Years’s War: Christine de Pizan, the Italian woman who finds herself alone in a foreign country, Alain Chartier the love poet turned social critic; Joan of Arc, the combative mystic, Charles d’Orléans, the poet taken hostage, Honoré Bonet, who dreams of dialogue among Muslims and Jews, and François Villon, the Parisian who gives those condemned to death, the last word. With this rich and complex range of works, we’ll research issues that define the choices writers face during times of turmoil: social belonging, national sentiment, identity. Our work will be comparative, considering the parallel that the Algerian writer Assja Djebar proposed, between the case of Paris 1400, and Alger, 1960. We’ll discuss our work on line with leading critics in France and North America. By semester’s end, seminar members will be building models of the engaged writer – or of one who refuses all political engagement. Digital resources from the National Library of France – texts and images -- will be the basis of short presentations and the final research paper. Critical readings include Georges Bataille, Édith Thomas, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, Elsa Triolet, and historians of poverty and civil war, Nicolas Offenstadt and Brontislaw Geremek. The seminar is designed for those pursuing advanced work in French: majors and graduate students. All work will be done in French. Medren 642.01/Lit 541.01 ALP CCI FL Portuguese 490.01 Brazil: Race, Sex and the Body Prof. Aidoo TTH 4:40-5:55 Brazil is commonly understood as an example of a “racially democratic” nation, but as scholars have recently shown, racism permeates all aspects of Brazilian society. This course examines the development of the theorization of race, racial identity and race relations in contemporary Brazil, and will explore very closely the role of sex, and sexuality in the construction of race relations. We will attend to questions such as: how is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex as a material practice and what is the function of sex in racial (self)formation? How do we reconcile questions of pleasure and desire and the structures of power and national identity? The approach of the course will be interdisciplinary, drawing upon works from anthropology, literature, history, music, and film. Topics will include colonialism and enslavement, abolition, nationalism, social activism, and popular culture. We will also consider how Brazilian social relations differ from or conform to other racialized patterns in other nation-states in the Americas. Particular attention will be placed on the impact of the interrelationship between race, gender, class, and nation on the lives of black Brazilians. Conducted in English AAAS 490.01/Lit 490-1.01/Culanth 290.02 ALP CCI
Portuguese 490.02 Blackness in Latin America Prof. Aidoo TTH 11:45-1:00 This course focuses on the position of Blacks in the national histories and societies of Latin America from slavery to the present-day. Emphasis is on a interdisciplinary engagement with issues and the exposure of students to the critical discussion of national images and realities about blackness, and Africa-descended institutions and practices. The role of racial issues in national and transnational encounters and the consequences of migration of people and ideas within the hemisphere are explored in addition to questions of representation in cultural production. Course to examine cultural art forms such as Salsa, Samba, Merengue, Bachata and Reggaeton. Countries to to be explored include: Cuba, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Puerto rico, Argentina, Mexico, Haiti, and Peru. AAAS 490.02/Culanth 290.03 ALP CCI Portuguese 490.03 Brazil: Discovery, Conquest, Encounters Prof. Furtado TTH 3:05-4:20 From the letter of Pero Vaz Caminha in 1500to contemporary ethnographic and documentary cinema in the Amazonian rainforest, Brazil has been the site of repeated discoveries, conquests, and encounters. Through a selection of texts and films by European and Brazilian travelers, this course examines the way in which Brazil and its native people are imagined by travel narratives. Our readings will include the selected writings by colonial explorers, nineteenth century travelers and indigenistas, 20th Century fiction writers and anthropologists such as Levi-Strauss, and an array of film material including historical footage of first encounters with indigenous groups in 1932 and contemporary films about uncontacted tribes living in the Amazonian forest today. ALP CCI Italian 490S.01 Fascism in Italian Literature and Film Prof. Ziolkowski TTH 11:45-1:00 This course explores representations of Fascism in some of the most significant Italian authors (including Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Elsa Morante) and directors (including De Sica, Rossellini, Fellini, and Bertolucci) of the twentieth century. Covering six important Italian novels, two short stories, and five films, the course provides an overview of the intricacies of Italian Fascism and its legacy in Italian literature and film, while also addressing issues such as memory reconstruction, social identities, conformity, violence, the Resistance, the Shoah, and the complexities of cinematic and literary representation. A separate preceptorial is available for Italian majors or minors. ICS 490S.02/Lit 490S-2.02 ALP CCI Spanish 390-4.01 Cervantes en la encrucijada Prof. Wright MW 10:05-11:20 The enduring fascination with Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes follows, in large measure, from the many points of intersection found within its episodes. We will analyze the diverse artistic, cultural and religious encounters found within its pages. Other readins will include Cervantes’ Los baños de Argel, and An Early Modern Dialogue with Islam: Antonio de Sosa’s Topography of Algiers (1612). Conducted in Spanish. CZ CCI FL Spanish 590S.01 Empire and Alterity: Minority Voices in the Spanish World Prof. Wright WF 3:05-4:20 The vertiginous imperial expansion of the Spanish Monarchy after 1492 unfolded in tandem with a rejection of medieval Iberia’s religious diversity. Reading against the grain, we will seek out marginalized or silenced voices. In particular, we will examine traces and testimonies of the Jewish, Hispano-Muslim, black-African and Amerindian communities who contributed to the richness of early-modern Hispanic culture, but whose contributions have only recently been recognized. Conducted in Spanish.LSGS 490S/Lit 490S-2 ALP FL
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NC voter ID law could hamper college voters by Georgia Parke THE CHRONICLE
A new North Carolina law will alter the way students will vote—or not vote—while attending Duke. Members of the Duke community are still assessing the obstacles to student voting imposed by the voter ID law, which Gov. Pat McCrory signed Aug. 12. House Bill 589 ushered into the state a wide range of voting procedures and restrictions—among them, a reduction of early voting as well as the termination of same-day voter registration, pre-registration for high school students and the use of college identifications as acceptable forms of voter identification “No matter what your party affiliation is, you have to change your voter behavior,” said junior Derek Rhodes, Duke Student Government vice president for Durham and regional affairs. “We will feel a decrease in student participation in the election.” The acceptable forms of identification for registering to vote are state- or federally-issued photo IDs, such as North Carolina drivers licenses’, U.S. passports and Veteran Identification cards. Out-of-state drivers’ licenses can only be used to register within 90 days of an election. College IDs are no longer permitted as forms of ID when registering to vote. The law reduces the amount of early voting allowed to “no earlier than the second Thursday before an election.” This cuts the period of early voting from 17 days to 10 days. Rhodes noted that this will bring into question the practicality of having an on-campus early voting location for future elections, due to cost and logistical issues. The University will have to weigh the costs of providing the on-campus voting—the expense of hosting the site, the necessary parking accommodations, security for confidential voter information—against the benefits of a little over a week of early voting. “We have to look at, within the timeframe they’ve allowed for early voting, would it be worth the cost?” he said. “Early voting is important, but we have to look at what they will allow us to have. On campus, we don’t know what that looks like.” Richard Engstrom, a research associate at Duke’s Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences, also noted that if the law leads to fewer campuses hosting early voting, it will pose challenges for students and community members looking for a voting site. “It’s not just the IDs, it’s also having access to polling places,” Engstrom said. “What we may see from the county boards of election represents a serious attack on student voting.”
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The law also eliminates straight-party voting, as well as pre-registration for 16- and 17-year old residents. In a press release earlier this month, the governor’s office attributed this to the “bureaucratic burden” that comes with re-certifying the underage voters upon their 18th birthdays. Rhodes said that the pre-registration prohibition prevents younger people from becoming excited about participating in elections. The law prohibits same-day voter registration during early voting, a feature that was present at last year’s on-campus voting site. It also bans counties from extending voting hours on Election Day to accommodate voters who arrive after the polling time has closed. Engstrom said it is too soon to tell if the law will decrease student voting in a way that significantly affects the outcomes of elections. “It depends on how competitive the election is,”
Engstrom said. “Student polling tends to be much more heavily Democratic than Republican.” DSG and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Government aligned to release a joint statement in opposition of the bill before it was passed, citing specifically the impact the legislation would have on the voting practices of college students who vote at school. “The [legislation] is saddening and harmful to the process of college student participation in the political process,” read the August 5 post on the DSG blog. “This legislation disregards over 20,000 students in North Carolina, who value their chance to participate in politics.” The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation and the Durhambased Southern Coalition for Social Justice filed a lawsuit against the legislation.
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Duke Players find ‘God’ in O-week production RECESS by Julian Spector THE CHRONICLE
Endeavoring freshmen searching for God in the midst of Orientation Week need look no further than Brody Theater on East Campus. They might not find any deities, but they will discover a tightly paced production of Woody Allen’s oneact comedy “God,” thrown together for late-night enjoyment by the student theater troupe Duke Players. Throughout the show, the characters must face all the big questions of free will, human existence and how on earth to end this damn play. Of course, this being Woody Allen, the play tackles these questions with the brainy irony needed to undercut the possibly pretentious musings. And this being a Duke Players show, the text has been seasoned with a rich assortment of campus references—the artsy characters hang out at the
Coffeehouse and the cliched philosophical ramblings come to us via a UNC philosophy minor. The local references serve to welcome freshmen into the Duke scene and introduce them to some of the collective beliefs held by Duke students, said director Mike Myers, a junior. To achieve this, Myers adapted the original script, which made fun of New York and Broadway culture. “Sometimes it’s very taboo to change the play, and you always want to respect the author’s intent, but we decided it would be most respectful to Woody Allen’s intent if we suited the play to our audience the way he did,” Myers said. “Instead of the Jewish, New York and Broadway culture, we’ve got a Duke, Durham and freshman culture.” The play follows some ancient Greek thespians attempting to put on a successful play of their own, but
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they discover that they are in fact characters within a student production happening right here at Duke University, prompting plenty of frightening questions on free will and determinism. Actors must grapple with the challenge of becoming characters within multiple different plays, but senior Nick Prey said it was actually more liberating than confusing. He plays the ancient Greek actor Diabetes, who portrays a humble-slave-turned-hero in the play within the play. “It’s actually extremely easy because once the fourth wall is intentionally broken, it relieves a lot of stress, because you can’t really break character once you’ve established that you’re not really a character yourself,” he said. “It becomes sort of a structured improv.” Myers noted that improv and ad-libbing played a key role in the process of getting the show up and running, which happened over one hectic week of six-hour rehearsals. Sometimes the actors experimented with different ad libs. At other times, crew members would heckle the actors from off-stage to give them practice responding to unexpected situations. The humor of the script kept energy high among the actors, even with the intense rehearsal schedule, Prey said, adding that he sees many other reasons for new students to make their way to the shows this weekend. “It’s late at night, they say sex, the word orgasm is thrown around a lot—what more could you want as a freshman?” he said.
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for veterans’ issues in the United States. “The best part of the run was just the overwhelming support we got from people along the way,� Diehl said. “And they would stop us by the side of the road and thank us and it was like we were watching out mission to get the awareness out.� For the men, it was also an opportunity to reconnect with their college friends since all of them were deployed and sta-
tioned all across the world, from the east coast to the west coast to the mountains of Afghanistan. “I know a lot of great guys through the ROTC program there and one of the best parts of the run was able to see these guys and reconnect with them,� Diehl said. Jon Harless, Trinity’09, Matt Jones, Trinty ‘09, Michael Meehan, Trinity’10 and Pat Thompson, Trinity’11 and Duke basketball’s director of operations, also participated in the run.
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Reaction among lawmakers split along party lines, suggesting the political difficulty of getting legislation through Congress to tie aid to rankings. Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, who heads the U.S. Senate education committee, said he supported college ratings “to help students and their families make informed decisions.” He didn’t say whether he would back tying aid to such rankings. Rep. John Kline, R-Mich., chairman of the House Education & the Workforce Committee, voiced concern “that imposing an arbitrary college-ranking system could curtail the very innovation we hope to encourage — and even lead to federal price controls.” The administration already tried to crack down on for- profit colleges by cutting off aid from those whose students take on heavy debts that don’t pay off with higher incomes. The industry lobbied heavily against the plan and successfully fought against the rules in court, saying they were arbitrary and would hurt lowincome students. Part of their argument was that the rules targeted for-profit colleges and should apply more broadly, as the new plan would. As borrowers buckle under more than $1 trillion in student loans, Obama has repeatedly emphasized that higher education is the pathway to future prosperity for middle- and lower-income Americans. In addition to linking funding to cost increases and outcomes, Obama has previously pushed for colleges to offer standard financial-aid award letters, so students can easily compare offers. A number of colleges, including the State University of New York system, have voluntarily signed on to that effort. In its new proposal, the administration reiterated a call for $1 billion “Race to the Top” college grants, modeled after an elementary and high school program that pushed states to agree to the White House’s education agenda. Under the college version, states that promote affordability could win money. Obama would also give a financial incentive to enroll students eligible for Pell Grants. To prevent waste, the money would require colleges with high dropout rates to dole out aid over the course of the semester, rather than a lump sum. The president would also encourage colleges to award credit based on what is learned, rather than time in classes. He cited such low-cost online programs at Western Governors University, Southern New Hampshire University and the University of Wisconsin system. Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, offered by Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, could play a key role, the White House said. On the matter of student debt, Obama proposes to make all students eligible for plans that let them repay loans based on how much they earn — capped at 10 percent of monthly income. Currently, about 2 million of 37 million student-loan borrowers are benefiting from such income repayment plans. Under the president’s plan, the Education Department will start a campaign this fall of calling borrowers who have fallen behind on their payments and en-
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couraging them to sign up for affordable repayment options. Next year, the government would help them do so when they file their taxes. The University of Buffalo and Binghamton University, where Obama speaks Friday, are part of the New York university system. Under Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, State University of New York was among the first to sign onto the administration’s “Know Before You Owe” financial-aid initiative. The SUNY system has among the highest graduation rates and lowest costs in the country, said spokesman David Doyle. For the 2013-14 school year, the instate cost of attendance, including room and board, is $22,700. The system is also developing an online initiative to grant online bachelor’s degrees in three years and master’s in four, he said. “We deliver affordable, high-quality education,” Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger said in a phone interview. “We’re doing the things the president wants to talk about.”
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The new technology, however, is only for temporary use, Moneta noted. Although the Events Pavilion is now the home of a dining hall, the space will take on a new life when the West Union building reopens in early 2016. It will then serve as a hall for student gatherings, which may include career fairs, majors fairs, sorority recruitment and dances. Moneta added that the design and construction process was “creative” enough to effectively serve both phases of the Pavilion. The ceiling of the space has tracks in place to hold room dividers for when future events occur. “Hidden above the ceiling is already the projection equipment and screens for broadcast uses after conversion,” Moneta said. The kitchen is designed to be able to shrink back to its essentials following the switch to incorporate a catering kitchen and a multi-purpose room.
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Islamic Awakening: Revival and Reform MW 11:45-1:00 Explores religious revival in the Islamic world: revival as reinterpretation of sacred texts, revival as revolution, revival as social movement, revival as spiritual awakening, revival as political mobilization. Focuses on Wahabism, Salafism, the renaissance/ enlightenment of the late 19th century, ijtihad and jihad, grassroots movements, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, the awakening (sahwa/yaqza) of the 1970s and 1980s, the Iranian revolution, Khomeini, Ali Shariati, feminist theologies in Islam, and the role of the media in circulating religion. Professor Ellen McLarney
AMES 341S/AMI 263S/Jewishst 266S/ Lit 263S Screening the Holocaust TuTH 10:05-11:20 Ever since the end of World War II, but even more so in recent years, filmmakers were fascinated with the fate of Jews during that war and wrestled with the task of visually depicting the atrocities of the Jewish Holocaust. In this class, we will watch a variety of documentary and fictional films about the Holocaust produced in a variety of cultural contexts: the US, Israel, France, Germany, Italy, the USSR and more. We will consider the strategies that filmmakers employ to represent what is commonly termed “unrepresentable” and what is the relationship between these strategies and the place of the Jewish Holocaust in the popular imagination. Ultimately, we will ask what are the implications of these strategies for a politics of memory. Professor Shai Ginsburg
AMES 405 Orientalism TUTH 3:05-4:20 This course aims at exploring and examining the various concepts as expressed by leading Orientalists and scholars like Edward Said and others. The course will introduce students to historiography and archeology of British, French, German, and American Orientalists as well as the “new – Orientalists” and explore their critiques through select representative writings. We will study themes and issues and how they affect US and European interests, media, and understanding. The course will focus on Middle Eastern culture, arts, literature, and folklore and their influence in America and the West. Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad
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Examination of North and South Korean societies and cultures through cinematic texts. Films from North and South Koreas, as well as Japan, China, and the U.S. will be studied in conjunction with historical and contemporary issues with local, regional, and global implications. Films examined in conversation with global theories and histories of cinema, visual cultures, and other representational forms. Variable topics informed theoretically and politically by discourses on gender/sexuality, race/ ethnicity, global flows of people and cultures, popular and “high” culture crossovers, transnational coproductions, remakes, translations and retellings. Professor Nayoung Aimee Kwon
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“It gives you comfort in being uncomfortable,” Markowitz said. Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, continued his tradition of reading several entertaining tweets from move-in day. He included a profile of the incoming class, calling this the “most selective admissions process in the history of the University.” The Class of 2017 comes from 49 states— with no representation from North Dakota, but with multiple students from Montana, the non-represented state from the Class of 2016. Among the University’s newest students is a collector of antique paper money and coins, a chinchilla breeder, a world champion Irish step dancer and the world record holder for speed stacking. “Today marks the formal beginning of your time at Duke, but I loved yesterday even more,” Guttentag said. “You started it apart and ended it together.” President Richard Brodhead extended his welcome to the freshmen by speaking about the importance of happiness. “Happiness comes through engagement.” Brodhead said. “We want you to be happy at Duke, so we need you to be engaged.” He continued by reemphasizing the importance of having new experiences in college. “If you face a choice between hanging back and jumping in one day, just remember what your awesome president told you,” Brodhead said. “Receive, command, engage.” It is a daunting task to be told to follow your passions, Brodhead said. Rather, students should use college as a time to discover what they are most passionate about. Nowicki echoed this sentiment. “It isn’t enough to learn stuff,” he said. “That you could do on your smart phone without ever changing out of your pajamas.” Senior Stefani Jones, president of Duke Student Government, urged students to take advantage of pursuing new experiences at Duke. As a freshman who was accepted off of the waitlist, Jones felt she did not measure up to the accomplishments of her peers. “You belong here at Duke, and Duke wants you here for a reason,” Jones said. “Jump right into Duke and don’t let anything hold you back.”
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The coordinator was the program’s only onsite supervisor and lived in the same quarters as the students. “He never really felt like an authority figure, which made things very difficult for everyone,” Duh said. “It sort of became a make-yourown-rules type of place.” Myln declined to comment further on the inappropriate actions of the program’s incountry coordinator. “What happened in Haiti was really unfortunate,” Mlyn said. “It was outside of the norm.” He noted that the program’s cancellation will not bring about a change to DukeEngage’s rules concerning non-Duke employees. “There will not be a change made to that policy in general,” Mlyn said. “But we certainly will pay careful attention to staffing.” Mlyn added that the DukeEngage Haiti program is not scheduled for next summer. The fate of the Egypt program, meanwhile, remains uncertain while DukeEngage continues to monitor the country, Mlyn said. A decision will be made by October 1, when program applications are released, but it will be contingent on the region’s safety and therefore subject to change. Program participant Safiya Driskell, a sophomore, said the decision to leave the program was the best option. “There are too many factors that are uncontrollable in Cairo right now, and that increases risk,” Driskell wrote in an email. The safety of other DukeEngage programs in potentially volatile areas—such as the Beirut program—is also being closely watched, Mlyn said. DukeEngage offered concessions to all students in cancelled programs. Participants in the Haiti program were given the chance to do a service project in Peru this summer, in addition to being given priority for independent DukeEngage programs next summer. Students in the Cairo program will be guaranteed spaces in next year’s program, if it takes place.
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dards, which are more stringent. Five of the six buildings—the ones needed to start bringing in students—will be finished late summer 2014. The conference center and academic building are slated to be completed July 4. “Isn’t that patriotic?” Trask said, noting that he was not sure if the planners purposefully chose Independence Day. Work has yet to begin on the sixth structure, known as the “innovation building.” A lack of certainty in what kind of educational and research resources the building should hold have stalled construction in the past, but Trask said he expects it to open summer 2015. Even with some scaffolding still up, the cluster of buildings is starting to look like a campus, said Lange, who visited DKU in July. While there, administrators saw examples of lecture halls, bedrooms and other features that gave it a campus feel. “They are outstanding buildings,” he said. “It’s very easy to get hung up on the construction details and sort of lose sight of what great educational buildings these are and what beautiful buildings these are.” Lange and other DKU representatives made presentations to an expert panel of about 14 respected Chinese academics, who visited the campus this summer. The “highly structured visit” was part of the process for Ministry of Education approval, which is required to open a foreign university in China, said Nora Bynum, vice provost for DKU and China initiatives. After the presentations and questions, the panel deliberated privately and suggested “relatively minor” revisions to the application, she added. Administrators edited the approximately 400-page document and submitted
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for free by posting a comment on the Garden’s Facebook page about what it means to them to have the Gardens in the community. There will be one drawing for a member of the Duke community and three additional drawings for the general public. Janice Little, director of education and public programs for the Duke Gardens, said that the event will be a great way to help people see the Gardens from a different perspective. “I think this is a fantastic opportunity to get people thinking about gardens as not just plants, but rather plants that support insects, amphibians, songbirds, small mammals and, of course, these [hawks],” Little said.
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putting any tracking mechanisms on the hawks, Mammone said. She noted, however, that releasing the birds in an area like the Duke Gardens increases the likelihood of hearing about them in the future. “This is tough. On the one hand, we’ve spent five months raising them,” Mammone said. “On the other hand, usually we only hear if a bird is injured and we sure don’t want that call about any bird we release.” The Gardens raffle to release the hawks will have four drawings. Duke students and staff may enter the raffle
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Tackling the cost of college The cost of attending college has risen steadily in the last few years, barring more and more students from attending college and widening the gulf separating the rich from the rest. In an attempt to address the rising cost of tuition and its consequences, President Obama has embarked on a cross-country tour of American colleges, during which he will outline and promote a comprehensive plan to improve access and quality in higher education. Given the staggering price-tag now attached to Duke and colleges across the country, serious attempts to reduce costs are long overdue. However, we are hopeful that Obama’s tour will not only refocus national attention on higher education, but will also situate the analysis of college costs in a conversation about access, social mobility and income inequality. We share Obama’s concern that high costs limit Americans’ access to college and, consequently, their ability to move between social classes. In our view, the stakes are extremely high. If colleges and universities cannot rein in costs, students around the country will lose access to the wide-ranging financial, intellectual and personal benefits promised by higher edu-
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Staff Editorial Moreover, the failure of traditional colleges to cut costs will likely hasten the spread of online education. Although many believe that the internet will, inevitably, become the primary medium of instruction, the benefits of attending a brick-and-mortar college – a chance to engage in-person with other curious and committed students and professors – are worth defending. However, critics of Obama’s proposal argue that universities cannot lower costs because they cannot deal with its two major causes: the rising price of labor and shrinking state budgets. Although this may be true, one way to cut costs without risking massive layoffs is to de-empha-
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ello Dukies, and happy o-week! If you’re reading this, congratulations! You are either way too excited about Duke and have already found the boondocks that are the Chronicle Opinion Pages, or you’re finally sober enough to achieve functional literacy. But like I say to the stray Durhamites who walk into my apartment: I don’t care why you’re here—but I’m gonna make it worth your while. Now we upperclassmen know o-week can be an overwhelming time. We went through it as well: the daytime “funtivities” pretty much everyone gets tricked into believing are mandatory, the almost astonishingly repetitive conversations, the awkward nighttime frat-shuffle. We older students typically interact with freshmen during o-week for one of two reasons: to laugh at you as you endlessly make a fool of yourself—such as when you get off the C2 on Alexander and think you’re in Chapel Hill or when you attempt to pay for Shooters on your Duke Card. Our other venue of interaction is when we attempt to hook up with you, as we know we need to get it in before you stop thinking we’re hot because we’re older and that college social life is about who can do the best real-life Ke$ha impression. However, freshies, I’ve decided to break the vicious cycle of painfully lackluster basic life skills and awkwardly long walks-of-shame because you don’t know what Edens is. Instead of laughing in your face or eating it, I’ve decided instead to drop some knowledge on you. So, with the risk of sounding like the haphazard collection of awkward GIFs that is Buzzfeed, here is your guide to the five people you meet during o-week. 1. The gunner. These kids are basically high blood pressure personified. You’ll probably meet them within 10 minutes of arriving, because they obviously introduce themselves to their whole dorm, complete with business cards and full explanation of why they chose Duke and not the 12 other Ivies they got into. They’re a premed, biomedical engineering student with double majors in chemistry and making others feel bad about themselves. As these baby geniuses rattle off 24 clubs they’ve already contacted and ask you terrifyingly loaded questions like, “Wait. You haven’t started studying for the MCAT yet?!” you’ll begin to think you’ve made a terrible decision in coming here. But fear not, little ones—just wait about two months, and you may find your formerly future-DSG president friend has decided there aren’t really any cool clubs here, and med school is like SO overrated, and really, a psych major has GOT to be useful in any profession. Right? 2. The probably dead. These people have yet to show up for any FAC chats or activities, and you’re pretty sure they haven’t actually moved into their dorm yet. The only sign that these types are alive is a text at 9:30 p.m. asking what
you’re doing tonight. You’ve met them at every party you go to, but they’ve yet to remember your name. After o-week, having never seen them in class, the library or the light of day, you’ll have to conclude that they are indeed vampires, and they must avoid the sun because then they’ll turn into fabulous, sparkly homoerotica.
Lillie Reed WUMBOLOGY 3. The probably a serial killer. Minus their name and a few monosyllabic tones, this person seems to be mute. They have Wiccan insignia on all their belongings, and there is a strange odor coming out of their refrigerator. They constantly stare at you with wide eyes that either portray absolute terror to be socializing, or a hunger for human flesh— still unclear which. Another name for this species is “the random roommate.” 4. The Grecian. This new friend seems to have missed the memo that rush starts second semester. Spouting Greek like Socrates, every night for these fledgling fratstars and soon-to-be sorostitutes is a debate of which party carries the most social clout. A word of advice: Having sex with someone does not transfer his or her social status to you. What you were thinking of is hepatitis. 5. Your best friend. Freshies, I hate to break it to you: Most likely, I’m lying about this one. Although some people seem to immediately befriend everyone and have a Regina George-like cult following, the truth of the matter is that real friendship takes time. Many freshmen entering Duke have not had to create real, intimate friendships in a long time, and it can be absolutely petrifying to come into a new environment without the support system you’ve had forever. But what you have to remember is that no matter how good they are at hiding it, every freshman is in the exact same, relatively friendless position as you are—and is just as excited (but also terrified) to start making friends. The more you remember that, the faster you’ll stop meeting your “o-week friends” and start creating your real ones. Anyway, gotta go. There’s a Psi Alpha Nu Tau Sigma party tonight, and I’ve got to start painting my face on. Remember to tune in every Wednesday this semester for your weekly dose of awkward, outrageous and questionably moral rantings from The Socialites! Lillie Reed is a Trinity senior. Her biweekly column is part of the weekly Socialites feature and will run on alternate Wednesdays.
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ike many first-years at Duke, I arrived here three years ago intent on achieving a specific list of goals. I know this because I typed them out on a Word document. I even titled it “College Objectives.” It’s been fun for me now, as a senior, to reflect back on these priorities. One goal was to go through my entire college career without ever revealing my political identity writ large. Another was to learn how to play the violin. I don’t think I have ever failed at so many ambitions in such a short span of time. Today, I stand before you a disappointment-of-a-senior by my freshman-self standards. I’m an openly Republican columnist, unable to so much as squeak a sound out of a violin. And I’m completely fine with that. Freshmen, you will likely make some course corrections a couple of times, too. That’s okay. In fact, you probably should make some course corrections over the span of the next four years. If you leave this place the same person you came into it, you did something wrong. If you leave this place with more answers than questions, you also did something wrong. But there is one goal that has remained central to my identity since the moment I stepped foot on this campus. Cliché as it is, this goal has become a guiding principle during my time at Duke. In these four years, I wanted to, as best I could, prepare myself to use any talents I might have to make the world a better place. You see, I’m a comic book fan, and while I admit it is exorbitantly cheesy, I like to allegorically think of Duke as a super hero factory: We come to this place to discover and learn our superpowers before we’re sent out into the world to do good and (hopefully) accomplish our dreams. So freshmen, whether you find your superpower to be electrical engineering, medicine, writing or being the most sociable and lovable person on campus, I encourage you to suck dry the resources of this University to hone those skills. Rarely will you have more free opportunities and flexible time at your disposal than you do now. Go to office hours. Go to events. Volunteer. Expose yourself to people who will tell you you’re wrong, and debate them—politics, religion, anything and everything. When a scandal or campus controversy happens (it will), discuss it with people. These things will help you formulate an ethical code and discover your identity. Above all, meet as many people as possible—and not just your peers and professors—Duke employees have wisdom and anecdotes to share, too. And remember that any successful, goal-oriented Duke career will be riddled with failures and mistakes. One of the most pervasive such mistakes I see at Duke—one I know I succumb to from
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time to time—I call the “And then I’ll have made it” Syndrome. I want to warn you to avoid it. Duke is a competitive place, and it’s nearly impossible to escape being infected by the competitive attitude you see in
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every aspect of campus life. First it’ll be classes and grades. With winter there will be greek organization and SLG rush, then you’ll be seeking summer internships. And, of course, eventually you’ll be a senior and focused on what you’re going to do when you leave this place. One of the biggest pieces of advice I can offer you is, with all this competition tugging for your attention, don’t get distracted from the everyday blessings that surround you. In the coming four years, you might face the temptation to tell yourself something along the lines of this: “Once I get in to X fraternity/sorority/ SLG, then I’ll have made it,” or “Once I get X GPA, then I’ll have made it.” Duke (and life after Duke) is filled with “then I’ll have made its,”— false idols convincing you that if only you grasp one more accomplishment, one more goal, then you can be content. Then you will have made it in the world, standing firmly and proudly upon your mountain of triumph. Don’t do this. There are few quicker ways to make yourself miserable than to fall prey to this trap. Directed ambition towards goals (even ambition of a firehot intensity) can be a healthy thing. Striving to find your “superpower” is a healthy thing. But while I’d encourage you to keep a to-do list of college goals, I’d more strongly encourage you to write that list in pencil not pen and understand that the list does not define you. The most content (and some of the most successful) people I know at Duke are those who enjoy the process as much as the destination. So while I’d still love to learn to play the violin (and one day I will), I ultimately hold tightest to one main priority for the year: to achieve consistent present-mindedness amidst the torrent of life that is Duke University. Freshmen, I’d invite you to join me. Because the sooner we do, the sooner we might realize one of the bestkept secrets of life at this place—We’ve all already made it. Let’s strive, but let’s always remember we have little reason not to be content. Daniel Strunk is a Trinity senior. His biweekly column will run every other Monday.
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This one time in Africa ...
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he problem with band kids is that people don’t want to have boring, predictable conversations they can’t relate to. Oh, your friend who plays second trumpet is upset with the girl who plays first trumpet because of X, Y and Z? Hmm. Fascinating. It’s hard to interest somebody who has never been to band camp in the drama of seating auditions and the scandals of missed F#s, just like it’s hard to explain to that guy who isn’t in your cult why this man’s choice of blue over red Kool-Aid is so terribly relevant. And in this decade, where college students often feel the moral thing to do is only eat free-range chicken that’s regularly taken to Disneyland, there’s a new breed of band kid: the African volunteer. This species is a more lethal, antibiotic-resistant strain of band kids. You might recognize us as those annoying people who always have an anecdote about crazy, foreign taxi rides or are ready with a quick exchange rate calculation to tell you how much we paid for that Coke you’re drinking in Uganda/ Swaziland/Ghana/the Motherland. And if you thought overly talkative and selfabsorbed people couldn’t get much worse, then the guilt factor will be an unfortunate surprise. I mean, it’s okay if you don’t want to listen to my hundredth story about the emaciated children. I’ll bet they wish that these stories didn’t exist either. When it comes to these summers in Africa, including my stories about my own stint in Uganda this past summer, it’s incredibly easy to deliver a superficial monologue. It’s easy to declare that poverty exists, and most people who have visited the developing world can draw upon at least one sighting of “distended bellies.” If you’re looking for them, tales of woe and destitution are there. It’s normalcy and self-sufficiency, the universal basics that become harder to pay attention to and a lot harder to articulate. I think that’s why we end up with all these terrible, identical stories from college students about “this one time in Africa” preaching about both the privilege of the tellers and the helplessness of their beneficiaries. A girl I met this summer introduced me to the phrase “poverty porn,” referring to the way that volunteers share the images of the people they meet. The context of these images, which is almost always as a Facebook profile picture with thousands of African children, often doesn’t leave much room for interpretation: There’s a presumption of substantial need. The end result is almost a form of entertainment, a voyeuristic and sometimes inaccurate impression that leaves volunteers and their friends and family with a warm, fuzzy feeling about making a difference. To be fair, there are some appropriate ways to absorb these images without violating people’s privacy. Some people
legitimately do treat their trip to Africa as a reality check, gathering stories and experiences that enable them to be thankful for their life of privilege or to ground the motivation for their dreams of being a doctor/activist/teacher. But when this tack in-
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variably begets public blog posts with the stories of women who have been raped, or catchy anecdotes about an individual’s struggle with AIDs, it starts to get a little icky. It gets hard to distinguish between casual stories that the protagonists wouldn’t care if you shared and, well, poverty porn. I’ve realized that just as it’s easy for some people to tout the poverty of the country they visited, I tend to overcorrect and ignore any problems that existed in Uganda. I feel kind of uncomfortable telling stories about my summer that make it seem like there were down-on-their-luck Ugandans in the country at all. I want to speak in a vacuum, an environment just as superficial as some sleazy poverty porno. I want to brag about how good I got at taking bucket baths; I want to tell you how little patience I gained for inconsistent WiFi. I really want to explain to you the plot of Irrational Hearts (my favorite of the soaps that air on Ugandan Public Television twice weekly). My stories are no more interesting or accurate than the “saving babies, taking names” ones, although they do have the added bonus of sweeping a whole lot of Ugandan issues under the rug. In spite of this weird aversion I’ve developed, something about my summer is leaving me grasping at how to articulate the experience and the weird non-sequiturs of Uganda. I’m finding myself wanting to, and having trouble, describing the people I lived and worked with. It’s a mix of wanting to legitimately share it with family and close friends and just trying to figure out what happened to the whole “cynic” personality that I’ve always been able to rely on. Feel free to write the remainder of my columns off as yet another self-absorbed and egotistic college student’s self-promotion. Feel free to pity the whole African continent for their bad luck with visitors. Even though I can recognize the redundancy of stories about my summer, I can’t seem to shut up about this one time (in Africa). So sit back, relax and see how long it takes you into the semester to get sick of my summer. Lydia Thurman is a Trinity junior. Her biweekly column will run every other Tuesday. Send Lydia a message on Twitter @ThurmanLydia.
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