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After a string of robberies occurring around Central Campus this summer and new security measures in response, opinions vary among students as to whether the University is doing an adequate job improving campus security. Residence life staff have taken measures over the summer to ensure that students would return to a safer campus. Both the doors and sliding doors of the apartments have been equipped with automatically locking mechanisms, said Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez. He added that the number of security guards stationed on Central has increased from previous years. Still, some students have expressed concern. “My perceived sense of safety has declined over the summer,” sophomore Udit Agrawal said. “Late at night I don’t feel as safe as I used to.” Although he has never been to Central Campus, senior Xin Zhang, a visiting student from China, said he would not feel safe doing so. But senior Jacquie Schindler, a first-time Central resident, said the security additions have been helpful in alleviating students’ worries. “People were initially hesitant but I think that Duke understands that it’s an issue,” Schindler said. “I originally [was nervous] last year and for that reason I decided to live on the second floor…but [the University] has made a bunch of improvements.” Another new resident, sophomore Elizabeth Buckley, echoed Schindler’s statements, See CENTRAL SAFETY, page 6

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A Pratt School of Engineering class has created a new delivery method for antiretroviral drugs.

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Modeled after a ketchup packet, an invention made by a Pratt School of Engineering class could revolutionize the way antiretrovirals are delivered to newborns. Robert Malkin, professor of the practice of biomedical engineering and director of Engineering World Health, and the students in his Design for the Developing World course developed the new antiretroviral delivery method—the Pratt Pouch—in 2011 and began testing it the following summer. Previously, the essential medication was

delivered to developing countries in syringes, but the medication often dried up before reaching the pregnant mothers. By storing the medicine in the Pratt Pouch, the medicine does not dry up before reaching the developing countries. The Pratt Pouch has gone through clinical trials, with 100 percent of mothers involved in the study reporting that they’d rather use the the pouch than other single-dose methods. The product has not yet been launched, but with increased funding it could be unveiled in China, Malkin said. “If you buy a can of paint and put it

on the wall, it is permanently a solid,” Malkin said. “It changes state because you change the surface to volume ratio. This is analogous to the problem the people are having with the syringe.” An HIV antiretroviral is a medication that should be injected into a newborn within 24 to 28 hours of birth. The medication works to suppress HIV replication in the baby in order to reduce the chance that the virus will develop into AIDS. Students in the Design for the Developing World course tackled the See HIV, page 6

Shooters rates double due to damages by Linda Yu THE CHRONICLE

Prices for Duke students to get low just got higher. Due to rowdy freshmen and extensive property damages in the last two weeks, the Durham club Shooters II Saloon has raised its cover fee for Duke students under 21 years old from $5 to $10. “Something about these kids is totally different this year,” Kim

Cates, the club’s owner, said. “I don’t know what’s happened to them.” Cates said she has been forced to hire three new bouncers and a new police officer because of unruly students—who have destroyed cabinets and torn the bathroom doors off four times in the past two weeks. She noted there has also been an increase in students trying to get in with their DukeCards but no IDs.

“I love Duke students, I try to take care of them, but when I don’t get help from them—when they disrespect me and tear up my building—it puts me in trouble,” she said. An increased number of underaged Duke students have been trying to purchase alcohol, Cates said, adding that her main concern is that this will cause See SHOOTERS, page 12

Shooters, a popular spot for Duke undergraduates, has raised the cover price from $5 to $10, due to an increase in rowdiness in the last couple of weeks.

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Durham rally seeks to raise Students create new online political website awareness on maternity care by Ya Fang THE CHRONICLE

A casual conversation between two friends at a Duke Debate party transformed into a new organization on campus. Founded by juniors Ray Li and Jacob Zionce, The Duke Political Review is the first student-run publication focusing on political opinions for undergraduates. The goal of the online forum is to more fully engage the student body in political thought. “There wasn’t a great avenue for people who were enjoying politics or want to talk about politics to really go about doing that with like-minded individuals,” Zionce said. “You’d have class discussions, but once [those] ended, that’s where the conversation ended too. We thought there needs to be a way to continue that involvement [and] that intellectual engagement.” Zionce and Li drafted the initial plans for the organization while studying for their political science exam last Fall. After Winter Break, they contacted political review publi-

cations at other universities such as Brown University, Columbia University and Harvard College for inspiration and advice. Li noted that a number of campus leaders joined the organization in its early stages as writers and editors, making for a strong foundation. “We couldn’t imagine having so many talented writers so fast,” Li said. The DPR staff wrote articles and developed the website over the summer and was officially launched July 14 with 10 uploaded articles. Webmaster Rajan Patel, a sophomore, was in Jordan for DukeEngage and launched the online platform from an internet café in Amman, Jordan over the course of a week. Within 48 hours of the initial launch, the website received over 8,000 views, Li said. Since then, the group has received over 290 likes on Facebook and has 37 members. The organization also has the potential See DPR, page 12 SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

Mothers came together in Durham Monday to raise awareness on maternity care.

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Friday’s activity fair was an opportunity for students to explore the many different clubs and extracurricular activities on Duke’s campus.

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Cristen Pascucci realized there were issues with maternal health care when she gave birth to her first child 21 months ago. Past her due date at 41 weeks pregnant, Pascucci, vice president of Improving Birth, was informed by her doctors that she would have to undergo an induced labor—a birth made possible with drugs. She was told that an induced labor was her only option, which she noted is both an excess expense and threat to her and her child’s health. It was not until she switched providers that she realized that she “had the right to say no.” After experiencing these inequities in maternal health care, Pascucci works with the organization Improving Birth—which is dedicated to providing information to pregnant women so that they can make their own care decisions. Improving Birth organized a rally in Durham to raise awareness about maternal care Monday. “Moms don’t really have a voice in this country,” Pascucci said. “All our maternity care decisions are being made by hospitals, lawyers, legislators and insurance companies.” A handful of activists gathered out-

side at a local park in Durham to raise awareness about maternal care in the United States. Although there was only a scattering of mothers and daughters, they represented a national movement occurring across 170 cities. Improving Birth organized their first rally last year, but this is the first time one has occurred in the city of Durham. Christy Croft, organizer of the Durham rally and childbirth educator, said that many women are unaware that there are alternatives in the childbearing process. “Fancy gadgets and toys that aren’t proven to show outcomes are overused,” Croft said. She noted in particular that women receive Cesarean sections when natural birth is a viable option. Croft said they are helping “women ask questions they don’t know they should be asking. A lot of practices in hospitals that are presented to women as routine interventions often make the outcome worse.” Croft wants to let “women know they have the right for informed refusal, not just informed consent.” The World Health Organization declared that a C-section is only medically See RALLY, page 6

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The Duke University Union aims to expose the University community to artwork by students and professional artists through the Louise Jones Brown Gallery on the upper level of the Bryan Center. The gallery, run by the DUU Visual Arts Committee, is a space to display artwork that is relevant to the student body and the surrounding community. The exhibits are chosen to reflect the diverse perspectives and backgrounds that constitute the University community. “What makes it different from the Nasher Museum is that the Brown Gallery is entirely student-run,” said sophomore Rebecca Brenner, chair of the Visual Arts Committee. “It’s a great space to display artworks that directly relate to students and to introduce students to art.” For each individual exhibit, the committee sends out applications to student artists and the group votes on who should receive space to show their work. The group also reaches out to professional artists. During the annual Duke Student Art Festival in the Fall, the Brown Gallery displays original art pieces only from students. Brenner noted that the organization invites artists to speak when exhibits of their works launch. The committee also fosters connections between students and

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Dogs, such as the Lagotto Romagnolo pictured above, aid researchers in finding truffles.

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Truffle hunting may be as convenient as digging in your backyard—if you live by a pecan orchard. A group of Duke scholars has worked to raise public awareness of a new edible truffle from the southeastern United States: the pecan truffle. Traditionally, the majority of edible truffles—reproductive parts of fungi used in cooking—have come from Eu-

rope. Matthew Smith, a former Duke postdoctoral research associate, wrote a report about the pecan truffles— which come from the same genus as more commonly known truffles. “Pecan truffles are a great resource that many people don’t know about,” Smith said. The truffle is most frequently found in pecan orchards and is produced every month of the year, though it is collected most frequently in the Fall. To

find the truffles, researchers use dogs— primarily Lagotto Romagnolos, a type of water retriever. Although the most commercially prized truffles traditionally come from Europe, Smith considers it a misconception that high-quality truffles can only come from across the Atlantic. A specialist in global systematics of truffles and truffle-like fungi, Smith noted that local pecan truffles “could really change people’s culinary habits.” Pecan truffles were originally discovered as a species over 100 years ago, but there is still much to be learned about them—including their distribution and optimal conditions for fruiting, both of which Smith studies. “Although the abundance of pecan truffles really differs from site to site, it is very likely for someone to walk into a big pecan orchard and find some truffles,” Smith said. But due to a lack of public awareness many pecan orchard owners let truffles rot in the field without finding them, Smith noted. As part of his research, Smith collaborated with truffle-hunting dog trainers to study the distribution of pecan truffles. Although pigs were traditionally used to hunt truffles, dogs have become a more popular option, said Alana McGee, a professional dog trainer in Seattle, WA. who works with truffle-hunting dogs and studies truffle distribution. “Compared to pigs, the dogs are a lot easier to manage,” McGee said. “Pigs are extremely destructive, because they

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Colum McCann—author of “Let the Great World Spin,” the summer reading book for the class of 2017—recently visited campus to speak to first years about the novel and the start to their college experience. Conceived as a 9/11 allegory, “Let the Great World Spin” weaves together multiple fictional perspectives surrounding Philippe Petit’s real 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. The Chronicle’s Emma Baccellieri sat down with McCann. The Chronicle: The freshman class read “Let the Great World Spin” before coming to Duke— Colum McCann: My apologies to them! TC: No, I’m sure many of them liked it—I certainly did. How do you feel it speaks to the experience of students coming together for the first time? CM: I love the idea that this book—or really any book, actually, you could really take any text and build a series of courses around it, not just in literature, but maybe in physics or maybe in chemistry. There’s a way to apply literature to the whole of the world, you know—you take a poem and you talk about all sorts of elements that are involved there. So first of all, it’s a great honor. I know this is a good university, it’s a cool university... I like the idea that it’s a collective experience. I think it’s important at the start of the year, so people can get together who like or dislike a book and sort of argue about it, talk about all the various issues that come up around the work. But I think it could be applied to many different departments. For example, “Let the Great World Spin”—you could talk about say the physics, like the tension of the tight rope, or chemistry, chemistry of motion, like things that happen sort of in everyday life. You can talk about sociology, talk about poverty, talk about sexuality, talk about divinity, all these various things that come up not only in my book, but in so many different books.

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Colum McCann, author of this year’s freshman summer reading book, discussed his book to the Class of 2017 on Friday. TC: Incidentally, it’s been said that the class of 2017 will be the last college class to distinctly remember 9/11. Why choose to write a book that takes place so far before the events of the tragedy and still use the Twin Towers as the backdrop but not engage directly? CM: The thing about it is, there are many ways to write about 9/11. In fact, there’s probably an infinity of ways to do so. You can take a small love story, you can take the incident of the moment where the towers come down, you can take the future, and I happened to take a time in the past. I think it applies quite provocatively to the whole experience of 9/11. The fact of the matter is that Philippe Petit did this incredible tight rope walk in 1974—his was an act of creation, and it’s almost in perfect opposition to the act of the destruction. So there’s something that’s balanced about it, this idea of up and down, hope and devastation. The title “Let the Great World Spin” comes from a Tennyson poem. He was

inspired by the Mu’allaqat, which was a series of sixth century Arabic pre-Islamic poems, and in one of those poems it says, ‘Is there any hope that this desolation can bring solace?’ I think that’s a really important line. Is there any hope that this terrible devastation, desolation can bring us hope or solace? And I think there is. I think there’s a way for us to negotiate grief, I think there’s a way for us to move on. I think it’s particularly important for your generation, to be the first to remember it and then not go to college for another 12 years. I think it was defining in lots of ways, but I don’t think that you guys should allow it to be the thing that surrounds you completely. I think you have to understand it and you have to look at it as a basis for negotiating the rest of your life, the grief, all those sorts of emotions. To have been, what, five or six years old at the time, you know that that will be remembered, but you don’t know why it’s going to be remembered. So it’s the function of authors, poets, whether my generation or your generation, to sort of make sense of what’s going on. TC: Not only in “Let the Great World Spin,” but also in your novels “TransAtlantic” and “Dancer,” you write within the framework of very specific actual events. Do you feel constrained at all by using these historic moments as your settings? CM: No, not at all. I think I’m as free with the idea of actual events as with the idea of fictionalizing things and making things up. In other words, I have a responsibility to imaginary characters as much as I have a responsibility to real characters. There are times that I think that the ones that are created in the imagination are just as real and just as living, just as powerful, as the ones that we take from the news, what we take from what we call real life. TC: In “TransAtlantic,” you have See COLUM MCCANN, page 12

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GPSC leadership outlines goals The Graduate and Professional Student Council is the umbrella student government of the University’s nine graduate and professional schools. The Chronicle sat down with GPSC president Amol Yadav, a fourth-year PhD candidate in biomedical engineering, and vice-president Shannon O’Connor, a fifthyear PhD/MD candidate in biomedical engineering, about the upcoming year.

on, so mostly the students tend to be in that particular area of campus and not really go in other areas. For example, someone from Fuqua doesn’t really go to Twinnie’s. So that’s also like getting all of the students together from different schools through social programming and events, that’s one of our goals for the GaPS program to bring them together.

The Chronicle: What are the goals for GPSC this year?

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Amol Yadav: One of our biggest aims for this year is to look into the graduate student housing situation. We want to study what are the different issues that students have regarding housing, so we understand that it is mostly safety and affordability of the housing around campus. Most of them live off campus, so our aim is to come up with solutions to that this year, so we have started a special committee that will constitute of some representatives from the [general assembly] and some students from the University who can study the surveys that were done by the different schools over the last couple of years and then come up with sort of a proposal to the administration to look at making changes to the situation.

SO: We have an executive board of 13 members and two basketball co-chairs, and at the beginning of the summer of last year, we went around and had everyone state their goal for the year. Something above and beyond what their predecessor had done, and by the end of the year, everyone had accomplished that goal, and it was really cool. The basketball co-chairs worked really hard to create what was the largest social gathering of graduate and professional students as it is every year, but last year in particular there was inclement weather and they had to run an inclement weather plan. The communications chair totally changed the GPSC news. It is kind of amazing. It is in this format that is really easy to read, very accessible. He made sure that every graduate and professional student was getting it. There were a couple schools that weren’t getting it before, so we worked really hard to make that happen. Our community service chair organized a 5k race for charity and a carnival for kids in the Boys and Girls Club. Our two social co-chairs hosted Thirsty Thursdays and [football] tailgating, and they also implemented [basketball] tailgates last year. They did beer tastings and started happy hours after general assembly meetings so that the reps could talk after we did all of the logistics. Our student group liaison and our treasurer totally redid the way that we look through requests for student group funding. They redid the applications, they had info sessions. They made it more accessible to students so that we got better quality applications than we had in the past, and people felt like that was a much more accessible source for funding. Our academic chair hosted monthly lunches with some of the highest academic leaders in the Duke community, including President Brodhead, lots of the deans. Which allowed for about 15 to 20 students to have lunch with someone who wouldn’t necessarily be accessible to them otherwise, which was pretty cool. Our university affairs coordinator, along with our president last year and one of our social co-chairs, hosted the national association of graduate and professional students conference. We totally rewrote our bylaws last year, so our attorney general led a judicial committee to propose an entire rewrite. It is now a really accessible and usable document that everyone is pretty proud of.

Shannon O’Connor: We actually had a retreat last spring where we had all of the representatives to the general assembly come for about three hours. We formed teams and did a lot of brainstorming about ways in which we can improve the graduate and professional student community in ways that we haven’t looked into in the past. So we came up with a lot of really great ideas and we have honed in on some that we think are pretty exciting, and we’ve formed a new committee for that. We are calling it Bridging GaPS [Graduate and Professional Students]. The idea is that there is a population of graduate and professional students that we think aren’t coming to a lot of our events, and we would like to find a way to reach out to the students who don’t come to normal events. AY: Another goal is to increase the graduate student advocacy on campus. SO: And really the goals are established a great deal by the general assembly. The really wonderful thing about GPSC is that all of the power is in the hands of the general assembly, and they represent their departments, so it’s pretty neat in that it is entirely dispersed and whatever students really want to accomplish, they get to. TC: Do you find it at all difficult to work as one organization uniting students from nine schools? SO: Absolutely, but for me, that is what makes it fun. I think that there is a great deal more potential for what people can do when they come from diverse academic backgrounds, and I think that even some of the things that we accomplished last year wouldn’t have been accomplished had we not had that great marketplace of ideas from so many different schools and experiences. So, yes, it does make it challenging just because people come from systems that work differently than our governing body, but I think we are pretty good at listening to what the needs of the general assembly are. AY: Different schools have their own programing and their own events going

AY: We got a student to come to our [general assembly] to talk about veteran students who are at Duke and how we can improve their campus life. We have set up a committee that works with the veterans association. We also had an increase student activities fee for all of the graduate and professional students. It increased by three percent.

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necessary for 10 to 15 percent of women. Croft noted that in the United States, 33 percent of all births result in C-sections. At Duke Medicine, the rate is 44 percent. Ever since her successful natural birth, Pascucci has been encouraging mothers to “be smart about the care that they are getting and the risks that you are accepting in the maternity health system.” She noted that one in 10 women have an induced labor, and that forcing women into induced labor creates a snowball of deleterious effects. Women may be forced to undergo different interventions, such as C-sections and epidurals, as a result of an unnecessarily induced labor, Pascucci said. Not only are these actions excessive, costly and dangerous, but they are also easily avoidable, she added. Pascucci noted that walking up the stairs can function just as well as a natural catalyst for birth as drugs and that more women should be aware of these options. Another activist, Belinda Maymard of Chapel Hill, explained the United States is particularly inequitable with regards to maternal care. “The U.S. is a market driven, liability driven culture,” Maymard said. “Physicians have an elite status and we aren’t raised to question authority.”

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problem of constructing a device that would not only be transportable from the United States to unindustrialized countries, but also be operational to mothers in these developing countries. “People in the developing world have never seen a package like this,” Malkin said. “It’s hard to develop for someone who has never seen anything like it.” Malkin explained that the ketchup packet design underwent three categories of testing—engineering, simulated use and actual use. The simulated testing used undergraduates to examine how long it took to open the pack, how much medication they got out of the packet, how much of the medicine was spilled and how much instruction was required. The next step is live testing of HIV positive mothers in developing countries. Michael Maranzano, a first year Duke Medical student who worked on the ketchup packet project, initiated this next step when he went to Tanzania in the summer of 2012 to document the need for more research in developing countries, as well as the need for more funding. “There are different disparities and access to health care,” Maranzano said. “It was great to bring global care to people who couldn’t access them.” Malkin clarified that they have not launched the product yet. He has reached out to several potential sources for increased funding and hopes to soon unveil the product in China. “I think it’s very impressive and a testament to all the available resources that Duke students have here,” noted Christina Sardo, a sophomore studying biomedical engineering. “It gives me hope

that I will one day be able to contribute shrubbery near apartment buildings have to the scientific community.” been cut to make clearer sight lines for students and administrators are working on making lighting more consistent on the campus. Gonzalez said he has not personally noticed any student anxiety about living on Cenfrom page 1 tral but, for those that do feel nervous, it will improve. adding that seeing the increased security mea“Once [students] move onto Central and sures has really lessened her concern. get a feel for the life of the campus, they usuBuckley also noted that she is comfortable ally start feeling better about being there,” walking around the campus at night, mention- Gonzalez said. ing that she frequently walks to the gym after Ward noted that the University’s students it is dark. may be able to view the issues with a worldly Still, the Duke Gardens robberies are not perspective. the only point of distress for Central Campus “Most people who get into Duke probresidents. Last year, a robbery and an apart- ably…have a good view of the world, where ment break-in took place within a month of they feel safe,” Ward said. “We have been given each other. The University did not increase a lot of things in our lives so we haven’t been campus security until after the summer rob- growing up in unsafe conditions to the point beries took place. where we need to have fear.” Tiffany Jang, a third-year law student, noted she no longer feels as comfortable walking around by herself on campus. “I definitely try to take van services more because I feel uneasy walking around after dark,” Jang said. Correction: The article Sophomore Flo Vanderschueren lived on Central Campus over the summer when the “Bryan Center plaza to shut Duke Garden robberies took place near her. She said, although she was not afraid for herdown for two years” should self, she worried for her friends’ safety. Senior Hannah Ward, a second-time resihave been titled to reflect dent of Central, said she has never felt unsafe that only a portion of the living on Central and is not surprised that most residents are not afraid. Bryan Center will be closed “Now they’ve installed these new measures—the doors automatically lock and there during renovations. The are security guards everywhere,” Ward said. “If you’re recently moving to Central Campus, Chronicle regrets the error. you probably feel really safe because of these blatant measures.” On top of additional apartment features, Gonzalez added that adjustments have been made to the surrounding area. Trees and

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Kenny Anunike had completed his undergraduate studies at Duke just weeks before the Blue Devils’ gut-wrenching loss in the 2012 Belk Bowl. But with a degree in biological anthropology and anatomy already in hand, the then-fifthyear senior was missing a key part of his college experience—the opportunity to be a part of the Blue Devils’ first bowl victory since 1961. Originally recruited as a tight end, Anunike made the switch to defensive end after his redshirt freshman season. He also lost multiple seasons to knee injuries and watched as the Blue Devils grew from an ACC bottom feeder to a bowl team in 2012. So when Anunike was offered a sixth year of eligibility in March, there was no hesitation—he had unfinished business. “We went 6-6. That’s not great, but for Duke in its past, that’s a pretty big stepping stone,” Anunike said. “So we’re going to use that and continue to grow. This year we’re planning on having an even better season, getting to another bowl game and having a winning record.” Returning as a starter for the third consecutive season, Anunike anchors an experienced Duke defensive line, which also features one fourth-year and two fifth-year players. After struggling to stop the run in 2012, the Blue Devils’ defensive line was on a mission in the team’s season-opening victory against N.C. Central, holding the Eagles to just 2.8 yards per carry en route to Duke’s first shutout since 1989. Anunike recorded two tackles and his first sack of the season in the contest. After undergoing ankle surgery last

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Mike Cragg, Duke’s senior associate director of athletics for operations, interviewed last week for the vacant athletic director position at Rice. Cragg, who oversees the men’s basketball operations and the sports facilities portion of Duke Forward, has decided to stay at Duke and spoke with The Chronicle’s Andrew Beaton about his decision, time at the University and current projects.

is now the last remaining member of Cutcliffe’s original recruiting class at Duke. Now watching his former classmates in the working world or pursuing NFL careers, Anunike jokingly calls himself “the last of a dying breed.” Anunike’s victory lap is also accompanied by occasional ribbing from teammates, who jokingly tell the Galena, Ohio native that Duke couldn’t get him to leave. “Every day somebody’s got a new joke,” Anunike said. “They ask me if I’m tenured yet, they say I was here before coach [Cutcliffe] got here or that I helped build the Yoh [Football Center] or something.” Contrary to his teammates’ jokes, Anunike is not actually the oldest player in the FBS this season. In fact, he’s not even the oldest player on the Blue Devils. One of Anunike’s fellow starters on Duke’s defense, cornerback Garett Patterson, is slated to turn 24 in December, just days before the Blue Devils hope to play in a second consecutive bowl game for the first time in program history. Ironically, Anunike is actually younger than most of his former classmates, and just turned 23 in May. In addition to taking some jokes from his teammates, Anunike isn’t afraid to dish them out either. One of the most effusive personalities on Duke’s team, the 6-foot-5 defensive end epitomizes the gentle giant with a smile that can

The Chronicle: How did you come to the decision to stay at Duke? Mike Cragg: It was through a long process. For me, this was the first time I ever interviewed off campus for a position outside of when I first came to Duke in 1987. Part of that was the experience of discovery and knowing I want to be an athletic director, which I know now and I thought I did before. As I evaluated where that could lead us, and MIKE CRAGG also where we currentSenior Associate AD ly are as a family, I just felt at the end we’re at a great place. We love it here. We’ve been here a long time, and it’s our home. Rice definitely had a lot of great things going for it. A lot of student-athletes, a quality education and a lot of attributes for why you’d consider going there that I believe in at Duke. At the end of the day it was best for us to stay here. TC: Did you see any similarities between Rice and Duke as schools that pride themselves on their academics? MC: It’s definitely about the student-athlete experience, something that I believe in and was taught at the beginning. When you make decisions every day for your job, whatever that is—fundraising, facilities or you name it—you should always make your decision on what’s best for the student athletes. It’s certainly something Rice believes in and I think I could’ve brought that to them there. It’s something I live by every day and something the people in our athletic department live by every day. TC: Can you talk about interviewing for the Duke athletic director position in 2008 and how that prepared you for opportunities such as this one? MC: I met with the committee, and it was a great experience but at that point I wasn’t advanced further into it. It was a great beginning of thinking that way. Clearly, at that point the best thing that could have ever happened to Duke is what happened, and

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As a sixth-year senior, defensive end Kenny Anunike is the last remaining member of David Cutcliffe’s original Duke recruiting class.

spring, one of the keys for Anunike’s final collegiate season will be to stay healthy. The defensive end started 11 games for the Blue Devils in 2012, but has yet to make it through an entire season without missing a game since 2010. “What I do every day is pray for Kenny’s health,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “I hope Kenny gets a whole season of feeling good, and he certainly deserves that.” Returning for a sixth season, Anunike

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In a weekend where it won two of three matches, Duke’s biggest takeaway was not the outcome of its matches, but rather the way a young team communicated on the court. The Blue Devils opened the weekend with two straight-set wins against LIU- Brooklyn and New Orleans at the Campus USA Credit LIU-B 0 Union Invitational in Gainesville, last weekend. But Duke fell DUKE 3 Fla., to No. 9 Florida in its final match NO 0 of the tournament. “This team has a real cohesiveDUKE 3 ness about it,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “They have fun, they FLA 3 challenge each other, and they DUKE 0 expect a lot of out each other and I hope they can continue to do that because I think then we can really progress and get better.” After going back-and-forth with the Blackbirds (1-2), the Blue Devils finally pulled ahead to take the opening stanza 25-20. Freshman middle blocker Jordan Tucker recorded a set-tying kill in the second frame, and a 5-0 Duke run allowed the Blue Devils (2-1) to overcome a 19-18 deficit. “I was really proud that, even though we were in that situation, we just kept playing one point at a time,” Nagel said. “I really thought we pulled together and focused on the task at hand and that we were able to come back and win that set.” The Blue Devils did not have to come from behind in the third set, as their momentum carried them through to a 25-18 victory. Under the leadership of senior captains Ali McCurdy and Chelsea Cook, Duke has relied on its youth early in the season, leaning heavily on the team’s five sophomore and four freshmen throughout the weekend. Sophomore Breanna Atkinson led the team with nine kills and two aces in the Blue Devils’ second match of the tournament, a straight-set victory against New Orleans. Duke grabbed the first two sets handily, winning 25-10 and 25-14. McCurdy recorded a team-high 12 digs against the Privateers (0-3), bringing her career total to 1,968.

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With the match firmly in hand, the Blue Devils were able to experiment with a variety of different lineups in their victory against New Orleans. Nagel lauded her team for its focus and ability to adjust to different personnel combinations throughout the match. “Often with many teams, when you make substitutions or make some changes, something breaks down like communication or the chemistry,” Nagel said. “But I don’t feel like that happened at all with our girls in that match, and that was really encouraging.” In Duke’s final match of the tournament, the Gators handed the Blue Devils their first loss of the 2013 season, winning in straight sets, 25-16, 25-17, and 25-18 in front of a boisterous crowd of 3,400 spectators. Florida was led by senior All- American Chloe Mann, who put up 15 kills during the match. Sophomore Ziva Recek added 10 kills on 25 errorless attempts. Sophomore Emily Sklar earned All-Tournament team honors, leading Duke with 25 kills and 13 digs on the weekend. Nagel said that in her team’s first defeat of the year, the communication was noticeably different. “I think we were a little tight,” Nagel said. “I don’t think we communicated as well as we needed to, nor did we go for balls like we needed to. But it was great to see our outside hitters be successful as the match went on with such a big block.” Nagel said that the team needs to focus on the as-

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pects of the match that they can control, and that is what they plan to do in preparation for their next road trip to Minneapolis for the Diet Coke Classic Friday and Saturday. “I want the girls to feel good about how we competed, and at the same time understand the things we need to work on,” Nagel said. “But the communication on the court felt really great and it’s really exciting to see all this so early in the season. And I know they are going to keep working really hard to make the team better as we go into this next week.”

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light up a room. “It’s hard to explain Kenny—he’s just Kenny,” cornerback Ross Cockrell said. “He’s goofy, he’s funny, he has a great smile and I think it affects the whole team. When he’s going and moving at a high rate of speed I think our whole defense is going to go.” Before returning to Duke this year to pursue a master’s degree in liberal studies, Anunike took some time to give back to the University where he has now spent his last six years. Anunike was a part of the cast of prominent campus figures that toured the country to fundraise for the Duke Forward campaign at gala events and served as ambassadors for the University. “I’m so thankful that I got the opportunity to truly be an ambassador for Duke,” Anunike said. “That says a lot about your character. That says a lot about what I’ve done here at this university. To be one of the many faces of Duke is awesome—that comes with great responsibility.” As Anunike continues with his second final season of his collegiate career, his focus also shifts to mentoring what could be the most talented recruiting class of Cutcliffe’s tenure at Duke. Six years on the field has given one of the Blue Devils’ elder statesmen more than a few stories to tell, and some wisdom to go with them. “Don’t take anything for granted,” Anunike said. “You never know what play could be your last, so go out there and play hard every single down. You have no reason not to.”

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that’s having Kevin White be our athletic director. I know five years later that the best thing to ever happen for me was not becoming the AD at Duke, but learning under Kevin. It’s why now going through this process, and being able to articulate what I can do, that I have a great role model in Kevin White—and if I didn’t have that, I wouldn’t be nearly as prepared as I think I am and will continue to be here. That’s one of the things that’s appealing to be here is continuing to learn under Kevin. TC: Did you speak to Dr. White and Coach Krzyzewski at all during the process and did they have any nuggets of advice for you? MC: I spoke to them immediately. I respect them and their insights, especially in the world of college athletics. Obviously, Kevin’s experiences are the best in the country and so I tapped into that right away. One of the things that I’m very fortunate to have is great resources of people in the business and people who understand the business, give good guidance and ones who I hold as role models. Coach K and Dr. White were fantastic.

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TC: Are those sorts of relationships and people what has kept you at Duke for so long? MC: Absolutely. It’s all of the people around you, starting with the student-athletes. The quality of people at our university. One of the things I discovered through this process and interviewing and being on campus with the administration at Rice is that you look at our own situation, and the people we are fortunate enough to work with like Dr. Brodhead, Tallman Trask, Michael Schoenfeld, Kyle Cavanaugh, Paul Manning, John Noonan—it’s those special relationships. We’re just around great, great people and you can tend to take that for granted, to be quite honest with you, after being here for 26 years. TC: While some of your biggest accomplishments have come with running fundraising and operations of the men’s basketball team, how has your work with the facilities end of Duke Forward built on that experience? MC: That is something that when Kevin came to me and put me in charge of overseeing our planning and strategy for facilities and we put that into a manageable $100 million facilities upgrade that touches all 26 sports, what that’s allowed me to do is work with all of our coaches—every single one of them. It would’ve been very weird to walk away from that right now as we start to go through

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the next five years that will transform athletics on campus. It would’ve been weird to not be in the middle of figuring that out and making it great and celebrating that we’ve come a long way. TC: Is there an update on when the renovations to Wallace Wade and Cameron Indoor Stadium may begin? MC: We’re working on that. The dominoes have started, the practice facilities look like they’ll be done all the way in November. Once that gets done, the field behind Koskinen will be torn up and we’re going to redo parts of Koskinen with new bleachers and a new tower that will serve that and track. Really, over the course of the next three football seasons, we’ll have almost constant work going on that we’re trying to put all those pieces together. As that unfolds then Cameron and Scott Pavillion will start cooking up as well. So the spring of 2015 is when we’ll have a massive dirt pile. TC: So will the Class of 2014 be graduating in Wallace Wade? MC: The plan is that the graduating class of 2014 will be graduating in Wallace Wade. TC: And after that it’s unclear? MC: We may have a one-year hiatus in there. We’re going to figure that out. Our goal would be to never lose it, but if we do we’ll come up with something better.

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Editorial disbanded, however, students and DSG must look for new solutions. We offer three general solutions here. The first solution would be to outsource the bike program. It is odd that while New York City, Chicago and Washington D.C. are all instituting bike sharing programs, Duke is going to disband its program. Perhaps Duke can mimic the partnerships these cities have formed with outside groups and partner with a Durham bike shop. This Durham-Duke partnership would likely reduce storage, personnel or maintenance overhead costs. Hopefully, making the bikes more accessible would also increase student bike use. The second solution would be to employ a

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ver since Edward Snowden fled the United States, calls have come from all ends of the political arena for him to come home, stand trial and do time for his crime. New York Times reporter Tim Weiner, whose reporting on the Pentagon’s secret budget won him the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, has surprisingly condemned Snowden as a coward. Fellow New York Times writer David Brooks even claims that Snowden betrayed honesty, integrity, the Constitution and “the cause of open government” itself. There can be little doubt that these two writers speak for many Americans. These arguments are inflammatory—there is no place in intellectual discussion for hasty accusations of cowardice. For many, however, the intuition that Edward Snowden has a moral obligation to return to the United States and stand trial has little to do with Tim Weiner’s idea of cowardice or David Brooks’ vision of national security. It stems instead from an observant appreciation for the American tradition of political activism. When more thoughtful critics look through our nation’s past, they rightly notice that it is littered with protestors who were proud to go to prison for their beliefs. Although the American tradition of imprisoning political dissidents pales in comparison to the practices of some other governments, it is nevertheless difficult to ignore, and it reaches almost as far back as the founding of the country itself. As early as 1798, for example, Rep. Matthew Lyon of Vermont was sent to prison for openly defying the Alien and Sedition Acts, which he did by publicly insulting thenPresident John Adams. Later, in 1846, Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his taxes on the basis of his opposition to the Mexican War and the practice of slavery. After World War I ended, Eugene V. Debs was imprisoned for having advocated widespread resistance to the military draft. Martin Luther King, Jr. was locked up in 1963 for his peaceful demonstrations in Birmingham, Ala. Perhaps the most relevant case is that of Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 faced a prison sentence of up to 115 years for leaking the Pentagon Papers before charges against him were dismissed due to “gross governmental misconduct” and “illegal evidence-gathering.” Looking at a list like that, it’s easy to understand why people sometimes associate incarceration with a deep sense of virtue and legitimacy. The Wall Street Journal has even claimed that standing trial is a necessary precondition for effective protest. “Greenwald and Snowden say all they want is an open and honest debate about U.S. and U.K. surveillance practices. By all means let’s have it— and conduct it lawfully.” This, however, is little more than mere assertion. There are plenty of reasons why Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden might be justified in conducting this debate outside of the courtroom. For one thing, standing trial is a lot to ask. As Michael Huemer, a professor of philosophy at the

University of Colorado-Boulder, points out, we almost never require reassurance from others that they are genuine or morally sincere, even when the costs of

Chris Bassil HUMAN ACTION demonstrating it would be minimal. “If I have broken the law, I should no doubt prefer that others know that I had virtuous motives for doing so,” Huemer explains in his most recent book, “The Problem of Political Authority.” “But I am not obligated to communicate this information, even if I could do it for free, still less if doing so requires my spending months or years in prison.” Should we really clamor for Edward Snowden, a man who has already sacrificed so much, to risk jail time just so that we can like him a little bit more? As those who support Snowden—or those who are at least open-minded enough to consider things from his point of view—probably see, a voluntary surrender might seem out of the question for deeper and more philosophical reasons. Think about it like this: Snowden’s leaks were motivated by his perception that the state’s vast surveillance apparatus represents a fundamentally unjust disregard for the privacy of millions of Americans. Were he then to turn around and submit himself to the state for a spanking, he’d implicitly communicate an absurd and contradictory message. The federal government has no authority to be operating these sorts of global surveillance programs, he’d be saying out of one side of his mouth, but it somehow does have the authority to punish me for revealing and speaking out against them, he’d whisper out of the other. That would be untenable. “If a law is unjust, then the enforcement of that law through the punishment of those who disobey it is also unjust,” Huemer writes. “Why, then, should one facilitate this injustice by submitting oneself for punishment?” Surrender would imply that Snowden has done something wrong and that the government has the right to punish him for it, both of which would go against his message in the first place. It’s possible that Snowden and his supporters are wrong about everything, and that his actions do constitute crimes that deserve to be punished by the government. But his critics should realize that everything he’s done has at the very least been internally consistent. Those who oppose Edward Snowden would do better to abandon insults like “coward” and “traitor,” and try to expose the flaws they see in his logic instead. Chris Bassil, Trinity ’12, is currently working in Boston, Mass. His column runs every other Tuesday. Send Chris a message on Twitter @HamsterdamEcon.

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ugust 2010. I kept myself together, embracing my dad tightly one last time before he climbed into our family Chevrolet. My mom closed the trunk, the back window newly emblazoned with a Duke sticker below those of my older brothers’ universities. She waited, tolerantly and apprehensively at the same time, next in line to say goodbye to her baby girl. August 2013. I got out of my car alone, immediately swallowed by the unforgiving Southern heat and humidity. A quick pit stop for a gallon of coffee and a few of gasoline, I continued the solitary trek back on I-85 South with a Tetrispacked car for one final go in Durham. Then, I hadn’t been to North Carolina for more than a long weekend. Now, I spend a few fleeting nights at my parents’ New Jersey home for entire seasons at a time, a stranger to my own cul-de-sac. I wave to my neighbors as I get the mail, some of them strangers now. They wave half-heartedly back, apprehensively lifting their hand before realizing that I actually live in the pale grey house with the blue shutters and the long driveway. Times have changed. Three years, a few hundred thousand dollars of tuition and room and board and food points later, six semesters, three summers, abundant laughs and a few too many tears later, times have, indeed, changed. When I got to Duke, I had big dreams. I’m sure you did too. But now a few inches taller, a few years older and a few too many dollars spent, those dreams are gone, and in the most affectionate and assuring way, yours are going to go away soon, too. It’s not a bad thing. It’s a fine thing—an accomplishment, if anything. When I got to Duke, I had ideas about what I wanted. Things I wanted to do, win and be. And now, for variable reasons, I don’t think about some of those things anymore. I verbally committed to be a Duke Blue Devil during my junior year of high school. I put in the time—the 10,000 hours of concerted effort. I made the recruiting videos and played in the camps and clinics and it all paid off with one phone call to a 919 area code. I raided the bookstore for blues and blacks, trained harder and harder to improve my fitness and strength and speed everyday, each day another one closer to crossing the MasonDixon to call myself a student-athlete at Duke. Life was good. I was going to study public policy. I was going to take notes in class everyday. I was going to fall in love. I wasn’t going to be that girl—you know, the girl that can’t dance but is dancing on top of the bar at Shooters II anyway. No way, not ever. Life would be good, I dreamt. And in fact, life was good. Life was even too good, but I didn’t know it yet. I woke up with my

rose-colored glasses on, wore them day in and day out and didn’t realize until I finally got to North Carolina that those glasses might skew your realistic perception of what’s going on around you. Then at some point between class and practice and study hall and games, my glasses cracked, leaving rose-colored pieces scattered all over the East Coast. It wasn’t until I was without those glasses that my vision was actually clear. Those glasses

Ashley Camano GOING CAMANDO cracked, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I changed my major after less than a semester of declaring one. I make beautiful, abstract doodles and block letters spelling my name in the margins of my barren, spiral notebooks instead of filling them with the notes I said I’d take. I fell in love and even got my heart broken. My body is tattered, and I’ve got scars from an unexpected shoulder surgery. I’m lucky if I get a few minutes on the field in a Duke jersey. I still can’t dance, and I was that girl on the bar anyway—probably more than once. A few years ago, my dreams were different than they are now. My priorities were different. My body was different. Everything was different. I had such a specific vision for myself. A vision I was sure was exactly what I wanted out of my time at Duke. But somewhere along the way, I was forced to change what I saw, change what I was doing. Change what I was thinking. I welcome the idea of change. Without change and difference and deterrence and taking the high road and the road less traveled every now and then, you’ll get caught up living the dreams you think are right for you, but maybe not the ones that really are. Now entering my fourth year here, I’ve done things I never expected, and I have shattered the ceiling of expectations I had for myself along the way by virtue of simply letting life happen. Things happen. The proverbial s**t will, undoubtedly, hit the fan. Fail a test. Get your heart broken. Dance on the bar. Let life happen, and the best will fall in line. If you haven’t gotten it figured out yet, you’re not alone. And if you think you’ve got your plans locked down, I bet you’ll be doing something different by the time you’re my age. Welcome to Duke. Ashley Camano is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Send Ashley a message on Twitter @camanyooo.

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What to do with your humanities major

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n his famous Aug. 15, 2013 interview with President Richard Brodhead, Stephen Colbert noted that by majoring in English, President Brodhead “went for the big cash.” The prospect of having it both ways—reading books and pondering the meaning of life on the one hand, and making oodles of money on the other—should appeal to Duke’s ambitious, smart students as they go about planning their course of study. The humanities have been in the news a lot lately. A quick

Carol Apollonio WHAT WOULD DOSTOEVSKY DO? reminder: The humanities include not only English, but also other areas of inquiry that explore human culture, language and thought. These include philosophy, history, religion, languages, anthropology, literature—especially Russian literature—and the arts. All of these subjects are taught at Duke. Studying them, we are told, broadens the mind, increases our powers of perception and expression and makes us more thoughtful, engaged citizens. It is exciting to find ourselves at the epicenter of the national struggle for the humanities, what with the Colbert interview, President Brodhead’s address on the subject to the annual meeting of the Duke faculty last March and our big “Humanities Writ Large” Mellen grant. Indeed, a humanities major may be particularly useful in these troubled times, especially by increasing the brain power needed to make sense of what is turning out to be a confusing political season in North Carolina. In January, Gov. Pat McCrory launched an attack on the liberal arts, arguing that the purpose of higher education is exclusively to train people for jobs. To that end, he proposed to change the formula for funding education “not based upon how many butts in seats, but how many of those butts can get jobs.” This policy comes as part of a broader strategy to reduce costs in state government by cutting funds for primary and secondary education, unemployment compensation and many more “human services” in the state. On March 8, Gov. McCrory directed state agencies to freeze salary increases. The average starting salary for a public school teacher with only a Bachelor’s degree in the state, for example, is $30,800 (46th in the country after an earlier salary freeze instituted in 2008). Such a policy would seem to signal doom and gloom to students of the humanities. Yet, based on current events, the most promising major in North Carolina for the butts currently occupying seats here at Duke may very well turn out to be English. To answer Colbert’s query to our President about the salary associated with a career in literary criticism: On Aug.16, 2013, the Raleigh News and Observer reported that two 24-yearold recent college graduates have landed senior-level jobs in Gov. McCrory’s administration. Matthew McKillip’s brand-new English degree from Georgetown University earned his butt a $87,500 seat as Chief Policy Advisor to N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos (including, in spite of the governor’s well-publicized freeze on state salaries, a 35 percent pay raise after a mere three months of service). On the other hand, Ricky Diaz, an East Asian studies and economics graduate of Vanderbilt University, was appointed as the Department of Health and Human Services’ Communications Director, a position that pays $85,000 annually. In perspective, the average salary for the other 700 24-year-old North Carolina state employees is $30,163. Even a longtime Russian literature professor at Duke makes well under $85,000. The News and Observer pointed out last week that Diaz’s and McKillip’s salaries significantly exceed the published guidelines for these positions, that the job openings were not publically announced, that there is no record that any other candidates were considered and that in neither case do the appointees’ qualifications match the jobs’ minimal qualifications. In spite of his eloquent job title, Communications Director Diaz has yet to provide any public comment on the matter. I’ve been studying Russian literature for a really long time, and if anyone understands irrationality, venality and governmental corruption, it’s the Russians. Even Tolstoy, though, can’t help me understand the forces at work here. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that both of these new public servants worked for Gov. McCrory’s 2012 political campaign. Whatever the reasons, I’ll suppress some of my own baser instincts and take their meteoric rise in state government as a ringing endorsement of the humanities. Carol Apollonio is a professor of the practice in Slavic and Eurasian studies. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Send Professor Apollonio a message on Twitter @flath3.

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TRUFFLE DOGS from page 3 always eat the truffles they find and it’s hard to prevent them from doing so due to their weight.” In addition to their importance to the fungal world, pecan truffles have potential for commercial value, Smith said. Edible truffles often sell for more than $20 per ounce. But Smith added that for him, the appeal of pecan truffles stems from their scientific value rather than the monetary possibilities.

DPR from page 2 to expand. At the activities fair, 66 freshmen signed up for the listserv and 30 applied for writer positions, Zionce said. “It would be a fantastic opportunity to learn from a student-run organization,” first year Leighton Durham said. Zionce said the publication plans to expand its work beyond the Internet. DPR plans to eventually release three paper editions each academic year.

Saunders writes a great short story, for instance, or if Junot Diaz writes a great short story, it’s real to me. It exists in the world. This idea that our imagination is sort of out there and sort of a nebulous thing, a floating thing—that’s not true. Our imagination’s sort of a teaching ground. That’s a fun thing to think about, too. That should break people’s minds, that your imagination’s just as powerful as what we consider to be reality… the world can be anything, if you have a strong enough imagination. TC: In “TransAtlantic,” as well as “Let the Great World Spin,” you employ several points of view. Why choose to write from multiple perspectives? CM: I like it. I like looking at it, if you think of a kaleidoscope with all those series of sort of hexagonal shapes, all grouped together, they become eventually one thing, the light that passes through it gets refracted, millions of times. And I do think that it reflects a sort of commitment to the idea of democracy because there are multiple voices, not just one specific voice. That said, I’ll probably write my next novel with only one voice. Contradict myself again.

COLUM MCCANN from page 4 SHOOTERS from page 1 a storyline following Senator George Mitchell. Were you at all nervous to include a living person in a work of fiction? CM: Terrified. Terrified, completely. I wanted to write about peace, he’d been a broker of peace for many, many years, and I wanted to write about his experience… Why give him a fictional name? He’s real. Sometimes it seems to me that fictions can be real. If George

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the Durham Alcohol Beverage Control Board to suspend her license. “They’re putting my livelihood at stake,” she said. Most of the students causing trouble are the new freshman, Cates said. “I got cameras all over the club, so I know what’s going on,” she said. “On my days off, I watch the cameras, and you can tell that they are freshmen.”

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Cates added that the previous $5 cover for attendees under 21 was a special price for Duke students. She generally charges a $10 cover for everybody else under 21. “This stuff has not happened in the past,” Cates said. “If they are charged more, then maybe they will learn to respect the whole club atmosphere.” Freshman Alex Brunson does not think that the increased cover will deter any fellow freshmen. “I think that the opportunity to be drunk out of your mind and to go somewhere that is acceptable is far too enticing,” he said. “Especially for freshmen taking advantage of their newfound autonomy.” Fellow freshman Rosalie Cicchinelli agreed, noting that Shooters is a very popular place for freshman. “I would go less,” she said, “But I think I am in the minority in that opinion.” Sophomore Sammie Thomas said she would still go to Shooters, but probably less often than she normally would. “The reason everybody goes to Shooters is because it’s the cheapest place,” she said. “If they increase the price, I don’t see why we wouldn’t go elsewhere.” Cates said that the price increase is not necessarily permanent. “We’ve [raised the cover] in previous years, and then we stopped it because it got better,” she said. “So it’s a possibility, but it depends on them.”

ing and sculpture. “The Brown Gallery is a great place to share ideas and it’s even better that it’s centrally-located to... students, faculty and staff,” said Aaron Canipe, a graduate student in experimental and documentary art. His work is currently on display in the Brown Gallery. He noted the importance of artwork in facilitating relationships. “The best way we can tell about ourselves and relate to one another is through stories and traditions,” he said. Canipe’s exhibit “Native Place” depicts his memories and stories growing up in North Carolina through photographs. Julia Liu, Trinity ‘08 and currently the creative director at a New York studio, said the DUU gallery is an opportunity for artists to gain more publicity. Liu said she has fond memories of creating an exhibit as a student artist of her drawings titled “A Stranger in a Strange Land.” Her pieces addressed issues of diversity on campus and the blending of cultures in the United States from her perspective as an Asian American. Despite its central location and its close relation with student art, some students feel that the gallery is little-known on campus. The Bryan Center is a place where students go in, grab lunch and go to class, which leaves little time to look carefully at the works displayed, sophomore Miurel Price said. “To fully appreciate the artworks one needs to know something about the background and the artists,” Price said. “For peofrom page 3 ple who are not very artistically inclined, the paintings don’t speak to them.” Brenner noted that she plans to promote artists through various workshops, such as individual exhibitions more heavily and ena Persian calligraphy event in the Spring. visions increased student flow to the gallery. The works displayed span a wide range The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 of media including photography, paint- p.m. Monday through Friday.

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