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Pulling out study stimulates Admins Lange to critique dialogue on safe sex practices retire after Obama’s 15 years college plan by Emma Baccellieri THE CHRONICLE

But in the study, more than 21 percent of women who used this method experienced an unintended pregnancy. For those who used other birth control methods, it was 13.2 percent. Dude said she hopes the study, published in the September issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will inspire Duke students to practice safer sex techniques. “Duke students who want to have sex

Peter Lange is stepping down after 15 years as provost. The longest-serving provost in Duke history, he will leave the position at the conclusion of his third term in June. “Duke is what it is today because of the work of a lot of people, but at the top of that list is Peter Lange,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for government affairs and public relations. “His service to Duke as a faculty member, as a department chair, as vice provost and as provost has been quite simply transformative.” The decision to step down was “fairly natural,” said Lange, who is 68. As provost, he has overseen notable operations such as the University’s adoption of interdisciplinary measures and increased globalization. He has also worked closely with Duke Forward—the University’s current capital campaign—as well as the Campaign for Duke, a previous one. Lange appointed all of the University’s current deans, as well as nearly two-thirds of current faculty members, according to a Duke News press release. “I always wanted the job to be one in which the ability to make strategic things happen would be a very significant part of what I was doing,” Lange said. “That’s what made it so fun.” His time as provost has not been without its critics, however. He has served as one of the driving forces of Duke Kunshun University, which has drawn concern from some faculty members, and his recent push for online for-credit courses was also met

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A presidential proposal could soon change the future of federal financial aid and how much of it Duke receives. President Barack Obama released a plan last week proposing to increase the affordability of college and to reward colleges that provide the best value for the education they provide. Obama outlined the details of the proposal—titled “President’s Plan to Make College More Affordable: A Better Bargain for the Middle Class”—to a crowd at the University of Buffalo in New York. The plan outlines the development of a rating system for institutions of higher education and rewards higher-rated schools with more federal financial aid. “Having some transparent rankings of colleges and universities that will help students and their families make informed choices is in general a good thing, but the devil is in the details of how those rankings come to be,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. Under the new plan, higher ratings will be given to schools that are financially accessible, affordable and have better outcomes, according to a fact sheet on the White House website. Accessibility will depend on factors such as the percentage of students at the school receiving Pell grants, and affordability will be based on average tuition, scholarships and loan debt of students. Outcomes will be measured by graduation and transfer rates, as well as the earnings of graduates and advanced degrees they later procure. See OBAMA, page 4

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A recent Duke study on pulling out has sparked dialogue on safe sex practices.

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After many years of “I swear it works,” Duke researches have discovered a truth that might be shocking to some: pulling-out is not the move for preventing pregnancy. Lead author Dr. Annie Dude, a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at the Duke University Medical Center, was inspired by the widely held belief that if a man pulls out of a woman during sex, just before climax, it functions as an effective contraceptive.

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Security report shows DLC’s new lemurs could increase in sex offenses aid Alzheimer’s research by Elizabeth Djinis THE CHRONICLE

The University’s annual report on campus security and fire safety for 2012 revealed an increase in reported burglaries and forcible sex offenses but a decrease in alcohol and drug-related offenses. In 2012 there were five more reported burglaries and four more reported forcible sex offenses than 2011, 86 fewer reported liquor law violations offenses and 55 fewer reported drug law violations. The document, released Tuesday, compares the data for the past three years on crimes such as robberies, forcible and non-forcible sex offenses, larceny, arson and substance use. Numbers were reported based on the location whereh they occurred, separated into crimes occurring in on-campus areas, residential facilities, non-campus areas and public property. Emergency Coordinator Kyle Cavanaugh noted that these increases are generally treated by the University as cyclical changes that do not hold much importance. “You’re going to have variations from year to year,” Cavanaugh said. “If you take a look… at the mode of theft in the kind of area, you see those go up and down over the course of time. What we’re always looking at are where the trends are.” Cavanaugh added that both the demonstrated increase in burglaries and forcible sex offenses could be explained by

an upsurge in reporting, which he has noticed in the past few years. “One of the things that…is continuing to happen not only on our campus but on other campuses [is that] people are getting more routinely comfortable about reporting various incidents,” Cavanaugh said. “The virtue of things being reported is increasing.” He noted that 2011 was a particularly high year for alcohol- and drug-related offenses, rising from 452 liquor law violations in 2010 to 628 violations in 2011, and 34 drug law violations to 110. Cavanaugh explained that there were particularly high reporting trends in 2011. 2012, however, saw a sudden decrease in violations, with 522 liquor law violations and 55 drug law violations. Although the report is published each year, Cavanaugh noted that the University generally monitors crime in “real time” and only utilizes the report to look at “trends and systemic issues.” Cavanaugh emphasized the University’s day-to-day review process of campus criminal activity. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said that the University would react accordingly if the report ever revealed harmful trends. “Like any report that quantifies an incident of behavior, the most important thing to identify [is] any trend that would suggest potential harm for anyone at Duke and to try to figure out strategies

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This summer, Duke welcomed two new members to its community—each weighing no more than a handful of paperclips and standing less than three and a half centimeters tall. Filbert and his sister Scuppernong, twin grey mouse lemurs, were born on June 18 at the Duke Lemur Center. DLC Director Anne Yoder said the birth of these twins is particularly significant in terms of the Center’s research, because mouse lemurs have been documented to show symptoms of dementia very similar to the onset of Alzheimer’s in humans. By studying mouse lemur genomes, the Center hopes to shed light on the nature of Alzheimer’s. “We’re really finally able to do some really penetrating kinds of diagnostic analyses and genotype-phenotype correlations for the first time, and it’s the mouse lemurs that are enabling us to do that,” Yoder said. “Every individual that is born not only provides another data point for these types of studies, but is also a potential parent for the next generation.” Over the past two years, Yoder has been working in conjunction with the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Center to sequence, assemble and annotate the genome of the mouse lemur using next-generation sequencing technology. Annotating the genome will aid scientists who are trying to identify the particular part of the genome that is causing

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the symptoms of Alzheimer’s, Yoder said. Although this final step has yet to begin, the entire process of data collection and analysis will likely be done by next spring or summer, she added. It is uncertain, however, whether Filbert or Scuppernong will be used for research in the near future. Yoder said that the DLC has funding to use noninvasive neurological scans to observe the brain development of one young male and female lemur, although the Center has yet to determine which individuals will be used. Bevan Clark, lead primate technician, said that the staff used to name mouse lemurs after herbs and spices, but they eventually ran out of names. She chose the name Filbert because “he looked kind of like a Filbert,” and Scuppernong because it is “a good, Southern mouse lemur name.” Filbert and Scuppernong are also important to the Center because their father, five-year-old Asparagus, had yet to successfully breed, Clark said. Because the babies are Asparagus’s first offspring, they enhance the genetic diversity of the population. “We’d been trying for years to get Asparagus to breed, and he just couldn’t because the other males were more aggressive than him and because there were bigger females around,” Clark said. Maintaining genetic diversity is a large challenge that captive breeding programs See LEMURS, page 10

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Senior Class comes together for ‘last hurrah’ Brodhead and Hill against each other. Hill’s team correctly answered 12 questions to Brodhead’s four, prompting Brodhead to deliver a rousing pep talk to his team. “It was a great effort to bring the senior class together for one last hurrah,” said senior Iyanu Oke. The event is one of a handful of things that the Senior Class Council is doing to improve class unity and engagement. Other efforts include a Facebook page compiling words of wisdom from seniors for younger students and an event in which Coach Mike Krzyzewski will allow seniors to watch a basketball practice.

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The first-ever Senior Class Kickoff was held Wednesday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Hosted by the Senior Class Council, the event was intended to increase unity among the class and featured speeches by President Richard Brodhead and retired NBA star Grant Hill, Trinity ’94. “I’ve never seen a school where students love it so much,” Brodhead said, urging seniors to take advantage of Duke’s opportunities before their graduation. In his address, Brodhead advised that the seniors not spend their year prematurely overcome with nostalgia or overly focused on their post-graduate lives. Hill encouraged the class to step into leadership roles, using his own experience on the basketball team in the early 1990s as an example. “You might think, once it’s over, it’s over,” Hill said. “But in reality, your relationship with this place is for life. You’re part of a family.” Senior class president Andrew Leon Hanna said that he hoped the event inspired seniors to enjoy the year and be prominent in the University community. “You can either look at it like, ‘This is my last year, I’m going to invest deeply, I’m going to engage on campus,’” Hanna said. “The other option is, ‘It’s my senior year, I’m on my way out’ and just check out and withdraw… I hope they came out thinking, ‘It’s one more year, let’s make it count.’” The event concluded with a trivia contest, pitting teams captained by

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PULLING OUT from page 1 and do not want to become pregnant will use contraception that prevents pregnancy,” Dude wrote in an email Wednesday, noting that the most effective methods are longacting and reversible, like IUDs. “These are available, often covered by insurance or for reduced cost, right here on Duke’s campus in the gynecology clinic in Duke South.” The study collected data from females between the ages of 15 and 24, giving the study direct relevance to college students, said Dr. John Vaughn, director of Student Health Services. He said Duke students have access to a student health center, so they should be more informed than people their age who are not in college. “The flip side of that, though, is that college students are exposed to more bingedrinking and alcohol-related activities than non-college students,” he said. “Those things tend to set you up more for unplanned sexual encounters.” These unplanned encounters often lead to improvised contraception, like pulling out, he said, adding that students need to be more aware of the potential risks of these methods. Another study by J. Trussell in Contraceptive Technology elucidates why many people may see pulling out as effective as condoms. There is a 22 percent chance of unintended pregnancy using the withdrawal method, according to that study, but using condoms yields an 18 percent chance of unintended pregnancy. Vaughn noted that because these statistics are relatively close, many young men and women might not consider the risk worth avoiding. This line of thinking, however, is not sound, he said. Although the common use of both condoms and the withdrawal method flirt with similar levels of risk, it is much easier to perfect condom use than it is to perfect

the withdrawal technique, Vaughn said. The latter requires flawless communication between sexual partners, which is certainly impaired when alcohol is involved, while the former requires only that you know how to put the condom on correctly. He added that even students who do not rely on pulling out could benefit from education on safe-sex techniques. For example, birth control and condoms both prevent pregnancy, but some people do not consider that birth control does not protect against STIs like condoms do. “So the big message we need to get out to students is: you’re trying to be protected from both [unwanted pregnancy and STIs],” Vaughn said. “So think carefully about which methods you use. You wouldn’t want students to think ‘Oh, I’m on the pill, so I’m totally okay.’” Vaughn maintains that the education could be further improved to include information about how the effectiveness of certain methods vary, depending on how correctly they are used, and students should understand the function of each contraceptive. After all, maybe it’s best to just pull out a condom. Or a textbook.

OBAMA from page 1 Nowicki noted concern with the provision of the plan that rates the earnings of graduates, saying that it would discourage colleges and universities from training students for valuable professions with lower incomes. “That would incentivize schools to stop training teachers, to stop training artists, to stop training social workers and to only train financiers or bankers,” Nowicki said. “Rather, I think it is important to consider the employability of students who graduate

from a place like Duke… [or] some aspect like job satisfaction.” Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of financial aid, also said the aspect of the proposal rating graduates on their earnings would be undesirable. “I think it’s injurious to place the value of an education on the job [you have] when you’re done,” Rabil said. “We don’t graduate accountants—we graduate people who are fully capable of becoming accountants. That’s not what we’re about.” Regardless of students’ postgraduate earnings, Rabil noted that she is not concerned that Duke would lose any of the aid that it currently receives because of its high standing in other categories, such as low average debt and high graduation rates. “I don’t think it will adversely affect us. I don’t know if it will affect us at all,” Rabil said. Nowicki noted the evaluation of students’ loans as another area of issue, given that families may take out loans for reasons other than education, or as a means of retaining existing assets such as second homes. “We don’t have control over what families do with their own finances,” he said. “What are you really measuring?” The Pay As You Earn program will also be expanded as part of the plan, making all students with loans eligible for capping their loan payments at 10 percent of their monthly income and expanding the number that are enrolled in the program, as expressed on the White House fact sheet. Rabil said that while federal aid is helpful and a significant piece of the financial aid system at Duke, it does not make or break whether students can afford to come to Duke or complete a degree. If Duke students do not receive federal aid, the University would find ways to compensate in other ways, she added.

“We’re really in a privileged niche. There are not that many schools that can do as much as we can do with the aid they have and federal aid is much more critical [for them],” she said. “We rely on it, we definitely need it, but it’s not the difference of a student enrolling or not and graduating or not.” Nowicki also noted the value in Duke’s promised financial aid to students is currently greater than its allotted finances, and that the Duke Forward campaign is seeking to replenish funding. He added that attaching the system to Pell Grants should be done with caution, as initiatives like No Child Left Behind have in the past led to the punishing of schools and teachers that, despite fervent efforts to achieve numerical thresholds, come up short. “Institutions that are trying to do the right thing but are not yet succeeding at it are actually punished when they should be rewarded for trying,” he said. “You have to ask, how can we measure what schools are trying to do as opposed to just taking some simple-minded method and having some simple response.” He compared the higher education system to a diverse ecosystem, saying that the wide range of types of institutions—liberal arts colleges, technical schools, state programs and private research universities, among others— must be evaluated within their own contexts. The ratings system should avoid generalizing and be mindful of the goals and intentions of each individual school. “A challenge is that the cost of higher education discussion has to acknowledge the great diversity of institutions,” Nowicki said. “It makes it more complex, but it is more complex.” The plan states that the college ratings will be completed by the Department of Education by 2015, after the Department holds public hearings to receive input from students, parents, state leaders and college presidents.

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When Duke takes the field against N.C. Central in its 2013 season-opener, the Blue Devils will be sporting a brand new set of weapons and combinations on both sides of the ball. Coming off its first bowl berth since 1994, Duke will look to gain some momentum in hopes of reaching N.C. back-to-back bowl Central games for the first time vs. in program history. Duke The Blue Devils take on N.C. Central in the second Bull City GridSATURDAY, 4 p.m. iron Classic, kicking Wallace Wade Stadium off at 4 p.m. Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium. “Physically I feel like we’re very ahead of the ball,” redshirt junior quarterback Anthony Boone said. “Now it’s just going out to execute and not let the first-game jitters cause a lot of penalties” Saturday will mark the second start of Boone’s collegiate career. The signal-caller stepped in for a game last season in place of an injured Sean Renfree, throwing for 212 yards and four touchdowns and leading the Blue Devils to a 42-17 victory against Virginia. Head coach David Cutcliffe expressed his interest in using this game to use different players and packages. Cutcliffe said that playing N.C. Central—the lone FCS opponent on Duke’s 2013 schedule, will allow many of his younger and less-experienced players to see some game action. “I think we’re highly conditioned going in,” Cutcliffe said. “I see us trying to play a lot of people early. Our first three games are afternoon games, one of them on artificial turf. It will be pretty warm, so we will go in expecting

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Central’s season-opener. He was replaced by interim head coach Dwayne Foster, who has stressed that the season will go on as planned. “I do know that he’s a good football coach and that they had worked very, very hard,” Cutcliffe said of Frazier. “It’s no question that it’s very difficult for a team, difficult for the people he’s surrounded himself with. So that part makes it sad.” Along with the loss of their head coach,

Duke will be looking to showcase its new offensive potential as the start to a new season looms. Duke opens its season with the John Rennie Nike Invitational tournament at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils will face Rutgers Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Northeastern Sunday at 2:30 p.m. “I think it’s so Rutgers far so good,” head coach John Kerr said. vs. “We’ve done really Duke well, worked really hard in preseason FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. and addressed some Koskinen Stadium of the things we wanted to cover, and now we’re finally trying Northeastern to play a game that’s vs. meaningful.” The Blue Devils Duke will kick off the 2013 campaign against SUNDAY, 2:30 p.m. two strong programs. Koskinen Stadium Rutgers boasts a highly-touted freshman class. Headlined by midfielder Erik Sa, the Scarlet Knights’ recruiting class was ranked No. 22 in the nation by Top Drawer Soccer. Sophomore Mael Corboz was named a second-team preseason All-American by College Sports Madness after a rookie season in which he scored three goals and had seven assists.

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Redshirt junior Anthony Boone will make his second career start under center Saturday as the Blue Devils open their season against crosstown foe N.C. Central.

to play 60 or so players.” From a defensive standpoint, the Blue Devils have held the Eagles to an average of 15.5 points per contest in their previous two meetings. A similar result would be a welcome start to the season for Cutcliffe, whose Duke defense allowed 36.0 points per game last season. The Eagles enter the 2013 campaign with a bit of turmoil from a coaching standpoint, as third-year head coach Henry Frazier was fired last Thursday—just nine days before N.C.

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The Brooklyn Nets will practice at Duke’s facilities from Oct. 1-5, the Nets and Blue Devils wrote in press releases today. Nets general manager Billy King played at Duke from 1984-1988 and the Nets selected Mason Plumlee, who graduated in May, in the first round of this year’s NBA Draft. The Nets’ practices will take place at the Michael W. Krzyzewski Center for Academic and Athletic Excellence after the team travels down to Durham Sept. 30. “With many new players and a new staff, going on the road for training

camp will offer a unique opportunity for our players to bond and focus solely on basketball as they prepare for this season,” King said in the release. “Duke university offers first class basketball facilities and will provide an optimum training environment for our team.” Nets star point guard Deron Williams won gold medals with Coach K at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics while new Nets head coach Jason Kidd was on the 2008 team. The Nets have had a high-profile offseason, acquiring veteran stars Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry from the Celtics in a trade. The Blue Devils begin their preseason with an open practice Sept. 28.

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Although Duke may not enter its top-scoring runners this weekend, the 400 meters in Wallace Wade at the start of the Bull City Classic will be more of a victory lap for the Blue Devils. Duke will host N.C. Central Saturday at 3:45 p.m. in the second Bull City Classic, which will be the final race on the track at Wallace Wade Stadium. The track will be removed immediately after the football season when the stadium undergoes major renovations. Last year, head coach Norm Ogilvie introduced the idea of a combined start of both the race and football game against N.C. Central. He was excited for his runners to compete in front of thousands of students, rather than a few hundred spectators. “Running on a track with some N.C. bleachers versus running in a Central huge stadium is mentally differvs. ent,” women’s cross country seDuke nior Jessie Rubin said. “It’s pretty epic, so we will be sad to see that SATURDAY, 3:45 p.m. go.” Wallace Wade Stadium The race will begin shortly before kickoff of Duke’s football game against the Eagles. Fans awaiting the first game of the season will watch the runners take a lap around the track before they head to the Al Buehler Trail and the Sally Meyerhoff Fitness Loop and will hear the results of the run in the second half of the game. The winners will also be shown on the video scoreboard when the race is completed. Last year more than 8,000 fans cheered as Duke began the race that it would dominate from start to finish. Senior Phil Farleigh tried to pump up the crowd as the theme to “Chariots of Fire” played before he exited the stadium and lead a pack of Blue Devils across the finish line. Junior Kelsey Lakowske finished first by nearly a minute last season in her first run as a collegiate athlete. The women took the top five spots in the 4,000 meters, and the men swept the top eight in the 6,000 meters. Just one N.C. Central runner crossed the finish line before any member of both Blue Devil teams last season.

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The Blue Devils raced in front of more than 8,000 fans at Wallace Wade last year in the Bull City Classic.

This final race will serve as a farewell to the rich history of the track at Wallace Wade Stadium. In the 84 years that the track has been a part of Wallace Wade Stadium, it hosted the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1990 and 2000, the USA Pan Africa meet in 1995 and the Gold Rush meet in 1996. It holds many memories for Duke’s runners. “When I’m running on the track, it does feel magical with the history there,” senior Rebecca Craigie said. “I think we were all a little emotional at the end of last [track] season.” The track around the football field will be removed at the end of fall season, as the stadium’s bowl is closed so that nearly 10,000 seats can be added to the its current capacity. The new Williams Track and Field Stadium will be built in place of the current lacrosse practice fields behind Koskinen Stadium. In addition to a facilities upgrade, Williams Stadium will be located closer to Duke’s See CROSS COUNTRY, page 7

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in preseason transitioning into our starting keeper.” Long will be making his first regular-season start for the Blue Devils. The graduate student played three seasons at South Carolina before transferring to play out his final year of eligibility at Duke. In the Blue Devils’ second game, Long will face a Northeastern team that scored more than twice as many goals as it conceded last season. But the Huskies have important pieces to replace as well and will be without All-American Don Anding, who graduated after posting 14 goals and seven assists last season. Duke will rely on two more newcomers to kickstart its offense, which managed to score just 20 goals in 18 games last season. Freshmen Brody Huitema and Seo-In Kim both had a goal and an assist in the Blue Devils’ final exhibition game, a 4-2 victory against Old Dominion and are expected to make an impact in their first collegiate season. “Those two guys have done really well so far in preseason,” Kerr said. “[They have] shown a lot of poise for young players and not been intimidated at all. We feel like they are going to have a lot of minutes for us.” Duke will hope that it does not have to rely as much on its back line for goals as it did last season. Center back Sebastien Ibheaga led the Blue Devils with five goals in 2012, but Kerr said that Duke’s scoring load this year will likely lie more heavily on its retooled offense. “We finally feel that we have more of an offense than we did last season,” Kerr said. “Our defense has been outstanding the past season. Our offense has grown drastically this season and I think now we’ll be a much more balanced team this year and we’ll cause teams a lot more problems.”

Northeastern posted a record of 14-3-4 in 2012, winning its first Colonial Athletic Association tournament championship, reaching the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2002 and advancing to the second round. “Two very good teams, tough teams to beat,” Kerr said. “Good reputations in our tournament—the John Rennie Nike Invitational.” The biggest change for Duke will be the absence of James Belshaw between the pipes. The 6-foot-3 goalkeeper was a mainstay during his four-year stint at Duke. “It’s a little strange not having [Belshaw] with us this year,” Kerr said. “It’ll be a little strange, but Alex Long has done a great job

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cross country trails. “It’s a little bittersweet, but we are excited for the new facility and embrace that we have such wonderful facilities here for runners,” women’s head coach Kevin Jermyn said. “[The new facilities] will be a little bit easier of a training venue right across the street from the trail.” Saturday’s race will mark the end of an era, but the team is eager to take advantage of the program’s upcoming changes. “It is losing a piece of history, but we are excited to make lots of new history in the new stadium,” Ogilvie said.

the Eagles have also lost eight starters on defense and five on offense. Of the six returning on offense, redshirt senior quarterback Jordan Reid is the most notable. Reid completed 62.3 percent of his passes during the 2012 season, playing 11 games. The contest is one that brings the Durham community together and one that Cutcliffe is very adamant about continuing. “We certainly hope Durham responds,” Cutcliffe said. “It’s now, believe it or not, just the third time we’ve played it and it’s a nationally televised game on ESPN3. That’s a big deal to Durham, North Carolina.”

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College assessment test poses problems At the end of this academic year, graduating seniors from colleges across the country will have the option to sit for a test that could have a big impact on their futures. The Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus is a new standardized test designed to assess college graduates’ abilities in several areas, including critical thinking, problem solving, quantitative reasoning and writing. Developed by the New York-based Council for Aid to Education, the CLA+ has been marketed as a way to gauge a recent graduate’s skills beyond college credentials and grades. In a perfect world, a test like the CLA+ could prove highly beneficial for students and colleges across the country. President Barack Obama recently called for the creation of a system that would rank colleges based on their affordability, graduation rates, graduate debt and earnings to then use that information to determine the distribution of federal aid. A test like the CLA+ may be able to assess the ability of universities’ to enrich and prepare their students. The test also has the potential to level the playing field by allowing competent students from smaller colleges to compete with those attending

big-name universities. A leveling effect of this sort would reduce employers’ need to rely on imperfect measures of an applicant’s quality, such as his or her GPA or the rank of the university he or she attended. Moreover, if students felt like the test accurately measured the skills they acquired

Editorial in college, they might feel liberated to pursue the course of study they are passionate about but fits into no clear vocational path. The Graduate Record Examinations already uses this concept for graduate school admissions with varying degrees of success. Although the test aims to accomplish important and laudable goals, it has the potential to fail or further limit our increasingly narrow conception of what a college education ought to be. Due to the steady rise of GPAs and shifting class ranking systems, employers are looking for new benchmarks that can signal a student’s capacity to succeed in the workplace, and many companies already use tests designed to assess

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the skill level of applicants as certain professional tasks. A standardized test designed to measure employability, however, turns the invigorating personal journey offered by a liberal arts education into a narrow vocational path. We also lack confidence in the test’s ability to actually assess skills like critical thinking. The CLA+ is similar to most other standardized tests in that it attempts to reduce a wide variety of intellectual skills to a limited set of cognitive tasks. This reductive approach not only excludes a broad and diverse range of intellectual capabilities from the assessment, but it also fuels the same competitive culture that has created tutoring centers, cheating scandals and achievement gaps in SAT scores. The test could also prove destructive for an already fragile collegiate education system. Between the decline in prominence of the humanities, rampant grade inflation and growing pre-professional programs, higher education’s worth—both instrumental and intrinsic—is now in question. The CLA+, by encouraging students and administrators to view the value of their education merely in terms of employability, could very well knock down the house of cards.

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elcome to a new year and to what I hope already feels like your home! As with any home, a lot has gone into building this one, both literally (in the original sense of the word as opposed to the new usage) and figuratively. You will soon be immersed in the history and traditions of our Duke community, and those who have been here for any length of time are eager to continue passing down the many traditions they have learned from others. This isn’t just about the “Unofficial Graduation Requirements” (you’ll see more of those columns in the Spring and some of them are more than a little risky). This is about what it means to become part of this community and take part in those traditions. Traditions can have a tremendous weight since, in many ways, they are the foundations of our diverse campus groups and organizations. They are a valuable connection to our collective past and often a fantastic guide towards our future. Since that is a future we all have a share in, one of the ways we do our part is by adapting traditions in ways that work for each successive generation. In this, we all have a tremendous opportunity since a generation at a university is a very short length of time! Something that was new three years ago is already “the way we have always done it” to the majority of the student body, and “the way we have always done it” is a powerful force. We have the ability to build on old traditions annually. Writing as the campus rabbi, I know a little bit about the weight of tradition, as well as the importance of appropriate change when necessary. I recognize and celebrate that the Jewish tradition continues to change, grow and evolve in ways that would have been incomprehensible to our ancestors 3,000 years ago. That our faith evolves and continues to remain both grounded in tradition while not losing any modern relevance is part of the Jewish tradition, and I would argue that the tradition is stronger for that. This is illustrated in a story in the Talmud (The Oral Law that was written in different pieces between the years 200 A.D. and 500 A.D.) about Moses asking God about the specific way the Torah (The Written Law) is written. There is a special version of Hebrew used to write a Torah scroll, and many of the letters have flourishes or “crowns” written on them. God explains that there is meaning even in the crowns. He shows Moses a vision of the study hall of Rabbi Akiva, a great sage of the first and second century who is teaching Torah many centuries after Moses. But as he walks through the study hall, Moses is only able to understand the discussions of the students in the very back row where the least advanced students were learning. Everything seems incomprehensible to Moses, yet he then hears Rabbi Akiva describe the principles being explained as “The Law handed down to Moses at Sinai.” Moses is comforted; what

he was given and taught had not only endured, but grown over time. That brings us to this week, the first week of classes for this academic year. This weekend

Jeremy Yoskowitz THE DUKE RAV is the second year of “First Big Weekend” with university sponsored programming across different departments and centers. Soon this will be part of our enduring tradition and will be “the way we have always done it.” And that is one of our strengths. On Saturday morning, we will be reading the final Torah portion of this Jewish year in anticipation of Rosh Hashanah, the coming Jewish New Year beginning Wednesday night. In this Torah portion, Nitzavim-Vayeilech, the Jewish people stand together as a community and are reminded that the Tradition has been given to them, is in their hands and will be a birthright and heritage for all time. The Tradition has been given not only to be passed down to further generations but so that people will and can live by it as an active part of their daily lives. It is not meant to be hidden or made into something mysterious, but, rather, an accessible truth that informs our thoughts and actions. As our lives are different in the modern era than they were in ancient times, so has the tradition evolved with us. Everyone who is reading this has a stake in his or her inheritance here. We all have things that have been passed down to us by those who have gone before. We know that these things have mattered to those who have gone before us, and now we need to make sure that they matter to us. The many institutional and personal histories here have been given to us to grapple with and understand as we continue to shape new traditions for the future. The same way our families have built our homes for us to this point, we build our homes for the future. Duke will always be a home for us, and we have a right and responsibility to ensure that the foundations of our home remain strong. The traditions we inherit and the traditions we create add to that strength, so let us always work together to ensure that we only go from strength to strength in creating our own legacies of traditions that are healthy, enduring and positive. Jeremy Yoskowitz is the campus rabbi and assistant director for Jewish life. His column runs every other Thursday. Send Rabbi Jeremy a message on Twitter @ TheDukeRav.

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n March 8, 1961, the Board of Trustees voted to desegregate Duke University’s graduate and professional schools, thereby allowing the first black students to enroll in the Law School that year and in the Divinity and Graduate Schools the year after. In their first days at Duke, these students would walk upon a campus tainted with segregated restrooms and designated entrances. Nevertheless, the very few black students who attended Duke’s graduate schools were received with vast acceptance, despite the widespread disapproval of the Board’s decision.

Mousa Alshanteer YOU DON’T SAY? Only weeks after the Law School was desegregated, the brothers of Delta Theta Phi—a professional law fraternity—agreed to pledge one of their black peers. The national fraternity later would respond that “the application in question has been rejected.” Over 70 members would leave the fraternity in protest, thus compelling the Law School’s faculty to bar the organization from campus. At the School of Medicine, on the other hand, virologist Dr. Joseph Beard largely funded a research center—the Bell Building—with segregated bathroom facilities. Dr. William S. Lynn Jr., a fellow researcher, chose to remove the “whites only” designations from these bathroom facilities to increase accessibility for black staff members. Beard would replace the designations the following day, but Lynn proceeded to remove them that very evening. Eventually, Beard gave up, and the Bell Building was the first at the University to desegregate its bathroom facilities. The hospital would soon desegregate its patient areas, and separate cafeterias for black and white staff would be joined only years later. Despite these significant advancements, Duke was one of the last major universities to desegregate its undergraduate population. In May of 1962, however, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees considered a resolution passed by the Undergraduate Faculty Council which recommended an extension of the University’s policy of desegregation to the undergraduate colleges, thereby provoking many to walk out of the meeting. At the next meeting, though, a recently appointed Trustee, Charles Rhyne, moved to adopt the resolution yet again. This time, the resolution passed overwhelmingly. Consequently, the first five black undergraduates enrolled at Duke in the fall of 1963, thus paving the way for racial acceptance during a period of dire misunderstanding. For a while, there was surely much to celebrate. At the same time, however, there was much to lament. Even years after integration, blacks were required to utilize specified seating on campus; the University’s faculty members remained segregated. The athletic department refused to recruit any black players, and Asians, Latinos, Catholics and Jews were being

discriminated against in admissions. Additionally, despite numerous requests by students to invite Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to speak on campus, the Duke Student Union was resilient in its opposition. It wasn’t until King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 that efforts to bring him to campus succeeded. Yet, regardless of the desegregation that occurred a year before, King was denied the opportunity to speak in the Duke Chapel and was instead directed to Page Auditorium. In April 1968—only days after King’s assassination, students who had previously been protesting in front of President Douglas Knight’s home organized a silent vigil in which to honor the legacy of Dr. King and demand that the president meet the federal minimum wage for Duke employees. Ultimately, the Board of Trustee’s Chairman, Wright Tisdale, pledged to meet the demand and joined the demonstrators to honor King with a rendition of “We Shall Overcome.” In light of all this, one can easily say that our University has evolved and met its commitment to racial diversity. The slogan for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of integration at Duke is “celebrating the past, charting the future.” Nonetheless, it took President Brodhead eight years into his term to appoint black professors and faculty to his leadership, with Dr. Luke Powery and Paula McClain appointed as the first black Dean of the Chapel and first black dean of the Graduate School, respectively. Rev. William C. Turner remarked on this at the recent sermon in honor of Dr. King’s birthday when he called for President Brodhead to “proceed with a vision of diversity, as a necessary and positive good, not only in the student body, but in the faculty and administration, lower and upper.” Additionally, our administration has yet to inform us about the amount of money being raised through Duke Forward that will endow need-blind admissions—a basic necessity for diversity at this institution. Turner also referred to this with his plea to “proceed with development, not only in building and naming buildings, but in generating scholarship and financial aid resources, so youngsters can follow their heart.” What’s more, the provost’s report on racial diversity in our faculty shows fewer black, Asian and Latino faculty members than three years ago, despite the fact that peer institutions have increased diversity in their faculty. As Dr. King proclaimed while standing before our fellow students years ago, “it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation, not merely for the vitriolic words and defiling actions of the bad people who will bomb a church in Birmingham, Ala., but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people, who sit around and say ‘wait on time.’” Dr. King is right: We have waited on time for too long. Now is when we ought to actually chart the future of our great University. Mousa Alshanteer is a Trinity sophomore and the editorial page managing editor. His biweekly column is part of the weekly Editor’s Note feature and will run on alternate Thursdays. Send Mousa a message on Twitter @mousaalshanteer.

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his past summer I did something that no self-respecting, college-aged female should ever do: I looked at an old crush’s Facebook page. You’d think conventional wisdom would tell me that this was about as good of an idea as getting my name tattooed on my neck in Comic Sans font. But alas, somehow I managed to convince myself that at that very moment the best thing for my emotional stability was to lurk on the web page of the guy that had recently shattered my soul into pieces. And similar to a conspicuous neck tattoo, the result was notable damage and waking up the morning after riddled with regret. I knew Facebook stalking was a bad idea. There’s a saying that you shouldn’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to. I think something similar can be said for social media stalking. Don’t cyber creep on someone if you’re not ready to see that this person’s life is going relatively well without you. Rejection is one of those universal pitfalls that can result in unintended feelings of animosity. On one hand, you MAKING CONNECTIONS know that the situation is incredibly insignificant and will have no actual bearing on anything that matters ever. But on the other hand, you kind of also hope that the person’s life spirals into a sudden trajectory downwards, so that they go on to lead a life of desolate loneliness, multiple cats and premature balding, which somehow all stems from that one time they failed to appreciate how amazing you are. So there I was, shamefully being one of those obsessive, creepy girls that everyone makes fun of but no one wants to admit they become under the right circumstances. I scrolled a bit, skimmed through some cliché abroad photos and finally came upon the dreaded look-I-have-hoes-from-different-area-codes photo; the single, incriminating image that can crush a person with one swift blow. The worst thing about suspicious photos is that you can never really tell if romanticism is actually occurring, or if you’re just being ridiculously irrational and manifesting absurdities in your mind. But despite this uncertainty and the fact that I had seen a single photo, I wasted no time allowing my imagination to become a disgusting vortex of girly-ness and spite as I proceeded to find out more about this mystery girl. For those not well versed in the inner workings of the female mind (excuse the generalization), when girls Facebook stalk other girls to feel better about themselves, there is a specific method to analyzing and deconstructing each photo and status. The initial instinct is to hope that she’s ugly. But wait, she has a stunningly symmetrical face? Well then she’s probably stupid. Oh, she goes to Duke? Well she’s definitely lonely and a social outcast. Oh, she’s surrounded by human beings in every flawlessly Instagrammed photo? Well, umm, she has grossly misshapen calves. So there. She’s flawed. Whew. Now I feel better about myself! And that’s how it goes. Except the last part never, ever, actually happens. You may consider my antics ridiculous and pathetic, and they definitely were, but before you judge too harshly, just know that I can guarantee I am not the only one who does that—at least I hope I’m not, because I like to think I’m not any more crazy than anyone else. But every single girl I know has stalked their excrush’s girlfriend or fling and immediately hated that girl with a fiery passion. I’m sure this isn’t just a female specific problem, but I definitely notice it more with my own gender. And that makes me wonder why such hostility is always, always directed at girls, by girls. Why do women feel the need to belittle other women, particularly when a guy is involved? It’s unnecessary, it’s silly, and there are already enough burdens of being female that we don’t need to burden each other, too. Let’s stop the girl-on-girl hate and paint rainbows and love each other. After all, at the end of the day, calling someone ugly doesn’t make you pretty. Calling someone stupid doesn’t make you smart. Demeaning someone in any way never accomplishes anything. You are still you and you’re going to have to accept that in that specific situation, there was someone better. So here’s my obligatory ‘beginning of the year message’ to all you freshmen: You’re going to get rejected, passed up for positions and flat out told that you suck and everyone else is better. It’s up to you how you’re going to handle the disappointment. You can call people names all you want, you can criticize both the superficial and innate, you can even Facebook stalk the hell out of them until you develop early-onset carpal tunnel syndrome. But doing so will not make you feel better or make the situation any less irritating. To put it simply, s**t happens, and you just have to deal. Hostile thoughts may bring momentarily bliss, but I can promise you that nothing feels better than when you can heal on your own without having to put someone else down to do so.

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LANGE from page 1 with resistance. “Peter Lange has made his mark on Duke University as have few others,” said President Richard H. Brodhead in a University press release. “He has helped launch some of Duke’s most distinctive academic programs and has led the transformation of the student experience at Duke as well, with a strong commitment to access, diversity and excellence. Through it all, Peter has brought wisdom, integrity and innovation to the counsels of this university.” After taking some time off, Lange will return to Duke to teach in the political science department as the Thomas A. Langford University professor. To appoint Lange’s successor, President Brodhead is in consultation with the Executive Committee of Academic Council and has selected a search committee to assist. The committee is chaired by George Truskey, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson professor of biomedical engineering and senior associate dean for research in the Pratt School. Among the committee’s other members are faculty members, students, trustees and an administrator: Ellen Davis, the Amos Ragan Kearns professor of Bible and practical theology at the Divinity School, Katherine Franz, associate professor of chemistry, Michael

Platt, director of the Institute for Brain Science and of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Richard Schmalbeck, the Simpson Thacher and Bartlett professor of law, sociology professor Lynn SmithLovin, Maurice Wallace, associate professor of English and African and African American Studies, senior Stefani Jones, president of Duke Student Government, Amol Yadav, president of Duke Graduate and Professional Student Council, trustees Frank Emory and Betsy Holden and Benjamin Reese, vice president of the Office for Institutional Equity.

CRIME from page 2 to mitigate those risks,” Moneta said. The majority of the report outlines campus security services and guidelines and offers tips for how students can stay safe on campus. The University is required to publish the report annually because of the Jeanne Clery Act, a law that requires universities to alert students of crimes in a timely manner and devise an emergency notification plan. The report was sent to the University community via a campus-wide email and is available online. Statistics were also reported for the Duke University Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina.

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LEMURS from page 2 face, Yoder said. With a lack of genetic diversity comes a slew of negative effects including increased disease susceptibility, morphological anomalies and behavioral anomalies. Similarly, at a sprightly eight months old, the twins’ mother Juneberry is a firsttime parent as well, which increases the twins’ genetic diversity compared to the rest of the captive population. “We’re always very vigilant about trying to outbreed as much as possible to keep the population healthy,” she said. “The excitement of having novel genetic diversity introduced into the colony is just always cause for celebration.” Clark said that while Scuppernong takes after her more laid back father, Filbert is more like his energetic mother Juneberry. “[Filbert] is a typical mouse lemur— very angry when we have to grab him to weigh him, his tail twitches and he talks a lot. But his sister is much more mellow,” Clark said. Scuppernong and Filbert are at a healthy weight of about 50 grams, and they are expected to be 60 to 90 grams when they are fully grown, Clark noted. In order to accommodate their fast metabolisms, Clark said that the twins’ daily diet consists of two tablespoons of mixed fruits and vegetables, two tablespoons of powdered monkey food and 12 mealworms.

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