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China gov’t Vargas redefines American at tearful event gives DKU go-ahead by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE
Now that Duke Kunshan University has China’s final stamp of approval, admins can start recruiting for Fall 2014. Since submitting a 400-page application more than two years ago, administrators have anxiously waited—without a definitive timetable—for the Chinese Ministry of Education to sign off on Duke’s new campus in Kunshan. As of Monday, it is official—the Chinese government has given its final approval to Duke Kunshan University, which administrators expect will open Fall 2014. Now, Duke must rush to recruit students for the inaugural class. The announcement comes without much fanfare, though most Allen Building offices received tall bouquets of blue and green balloons adorned with the DKU logo Monday afternoon. Last December, Duke held a highprofile celebration in Kunshan after receiving preliminary approval, said Nora Bynum, vice provost for DKU and China initiatives. This was a largely symbolic step because the University was still not permitted to formally recruit students. There will be no such event for final establishment approval, Bynum added. “Right now, we’ve got a lot of work to do,” she said. “We need to focus on moving forward because we don’t have much time.” Provost Peter Lange said that in recent weeks, he has been confident that establishment approval was right around the corner. Administrators got final word from the Chinese Ministry of Education last week, in a “flurry of emails and phone calls,” Bynum said.
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Tears fell in Page Auditorium as Jose Antonio Vargas recalled his experiences as an undocumented immigrant and his efforts to change the conversation sur-
rounding immigration. Vargas discussed his individual experiences and struggles as a result of his immigration status. An award-winning journalist, he gained even greater media attention after he “came out” in 2011 in
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Bass Connections tributary launches in Amazon by Ray Li THE CHRONICLE
A Bass Connections initiative took Duke students and faculty through the Peruvian Amazon, where they researched the impact of mining and brought aid to the local communities. Led by William Pan, assistant professor of global environmental health and organizer of the trip, the trip spanned three months and gave students the opportunity to study the environmental and health impacts of gold mining
sites in the region. The trip began with a month of on-site training from United States Navy on essential research skills— such as how to collect field samples and conduct medical trials on site—and was followed by a six-week boat trip on the Amazon. The boat trip allowed the team to visit 15 river communities, where the three undergraduates and four graduate and professional students studied the impact of heavy metal contamination and emerging infectious diseases
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in the area. “My personal belief is that gold mining is a devastating activity ecologically and can lead to significant long-term damage to people and societies,” Pan said. Ernesto Ortiz, associate researcher at the Duke Global Health Institute and in-country trip coordinator, noted that a major concern was the contamination of the Amazon with mercury. The removal of huge amounts of soil due to See AMAZON, page 6
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Study finds flaws in U.S. Census by Alice Marson THE CHRONICLE
Statistics about the American melting pot may miscategorize portions of the population. Jen’nan Ghazal Read, associate professor of sociology and global health, recently published a study that analyzed information collected by the Public Use Microdata Sample files in census 2000. In her study, Read altered the definition of Arab and Mexican identifiers and found a significant shift in population as well as changes in the stereotypical socioeconomic status of the overall groups. “We have information out there that is valuable,” Read said. “I want to challenge people to think more complexly about ethnic identification, and for people to question these straightforward, simplistic statistics.” According to Read’s research, if the census broadened its definition of MexicanAmericans to include individuals who did not identify as Hispanic or Latino as their primary identity, but reported Mexican ancestry or Mexican origin in other portions of the survey, the number of Mexican-Americans known to be legal in the U.S. would increase by 9.8 percent. For the Arab population, expanding the label beyond “Arab ancestry” to include those born in an Arab country who also speak Arabic in the home increased the Arab population by 13 percent, from 1.1 to 1.3 million. The added individuals were more likely to identify as non-white or multiracial. “I am not debating self-identification,” Read said. “I’m debating the standard use of definitions that have historically been used to define contentious groups.” Read added the scientific community must pay close attention to the definitions it ascribes to ethnic groups, as these definitions affect statistics and public policy, with a particularly important application of the data being resource allocation. See CENSUS, page 9
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Award-winning documentarian visits Duke by Kirby Wilson THE CHRONICLE
From the streets of San Diego to Duke University’s campus, Inocente Izucar is sharing her story of redemption, family and art. “Inocente”—the Academy Award-winning documentary short film about Izucar’s life directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine—was screened Monday evening in White Lecture hall to a capacity crowd of students, faculty and local community members. The 40-minute long film, which won the 2013 Academy Award for best documentary short, told the story of Inocente Izucar—a homeless, 15-year-old undocumented daughter of Mexican immigrants. In the film, Izucar dreams of becoming a professional artist, and eventually has the opportunity to show 30 of her pieces thanks to the help of ARTS: A Reason To Survive—a non-profit, San Diego-based organization that gives artistic instruction to underprivileged kids. As she worked on the art for the show, Izucar discussed her family, her art and her outlook throughout the film. “Just because I’m homeless doesn’t mean I don’t have a life,” Izucar said at the beginning of the documentary. The film explained how Inocente’s father, an abusive presence in the Izucar household, was deported back to Mexico in the aftermath of a particularly ugly domestic dispute when Inocente was very young. Inocente’s mother, Carmela, struggled to provide for her children as the family bounced around from shelter to shelter. “My mom pays rent, but we’re illegal so its just a matter of time before… we get kicked out,” Inocente narrated in the documentary. While navigating her living situation and preparing for the art show, Inocente discussed the difficulty of living as an undocumented, illegal immigrant in the United States throughout the documentary. Jenny Snead Williams, executive director of Latino/a studies, noted in a brief speech to the crowd that undocumented workers are of particular concern to the University community. “The issue of undocumented status is not removed from us here at Duke. We have students who are undocumented and who have
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undocumented family members,” she said. “There are 11 million undocumented people here in the U.S. This topic touches us all.” Srinivas Aravamudan, professor of English, literature and romance studies and dean of the humanities, noted that he hoped the film’s screening would help Durham’s Latin community gain greater access to the University. “[We want to] help immigrant student leaders share their stories with broader audiences,” he said. After the screening, Izucar and Matt D’Arrigo, founder and CEO of ARTS, fielded questions from the audience. Izucar said she was excited about the documentary, which includes scenes that were shot at her school and in the shelters where she and her family stayed. “I love the way [the film] turned out,” Izucar said. When asked if it was difficult to film the scenes at her school, Izucar responded with a bit of humor. “The cameraman told everyone that we were filming a Snoop Dogg video,” she said. Many students who attended the film were pleased with its quality. “I thought it was really well-done,” sopho-
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more Hanna Wiegers noted. “I thought it was going to be too artistic... because it won an Oscar... but after we heard her describe her story, I thought they did a really good job of portraying [it] pretty accurately.” Others enjoyed the fresh perspective that the film offered. “It was nice... to take a break from the environment that we’re in and realize that some of our problems aren’t really as big as some of other people’s,” junior Alex Saldana said. D’Arrigo said that the film is a great advocacy tool for the homeless and undocumented living in America. He also commended Izucar’s willingness to be the film’s subject. “She said, ‘if it helps other people, I want to do it,’” D’Arrigo said. Since the documentary was released, Izucar has moved into her own apartment and completed her GED. Her mother has since found work in San Diego and has been living in an apartment with Inocente’s brothers for the past two years. “I think a lot of people can relate to this story. I don’t think this documentary is about me, but everyone else that has been in this
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Moral Monday marchers petition McCrory by Georgia Parke THE CHRONICLE
RALEIGH—Demonstrators 7tcarrying three empty coffins led a long, silent procession of more than 200 to Gov. Pat McCrory’s executive mansion Monday. Police had blocked off the streets surrounding the mansion, which takes up an entire city block. The protestors, ranging in age from about 7 to 70, were almost completely silent with the exception of interspersed choruses of “We Shall Overcome.” In Moral Monday’s 18th incarnation since last spring, the now-iconic series of protests and civil disobedience, returned to downtown Raleigh as a youth-focused rally. Held on the day after the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham, Ala. church bombing that killed four young girls during the Civil Rights Movement, the protest recalled the lengthy history of violence and conflict surrounding the right to vote. This week’s protest, propelled by the North Carolina NAACP chapter and its president, Rev. William Barber II—Divinity ‘89—also focused on youth issues and education. It began with Barber’s address to a small crowd inside the First Baptist Church. “That blood [of the martyrs] says to us, ‘We were martyred ... for equality and equal protection under the law. Don’t you dare go backwards. Don’t you let our dying be in vain,’” Barber said. “We say to the current leadership of North Carolina, ‘If you stay with this extreme agenda, we love you but we will fight you, covered in the blood of the martyrs.’” Barber’s son, William Barber III, also spoke, along with other members of the NAACP board of directors and local high
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school students. Organizers passed out posters featuring portraits of the four girls killed in the 1963 Birmingham bombing, and attendees were asked to hold them up during transitions between speakers. “Voting rights and education—things that are necessary for our generation to participate in society—are under an attack like never before,” Barber III said from the pulpit. “Five-thousand two-hundred teachers have been cut, 4,580 teaching assistants have been cut. We are now facing the voter ID law, which directly tar-
gets students with more restrictions than South Carolina or Alabama.” After the protestors surrounded the mansion, they moved to an open courtyard, where they heard from additional speakers, including Dylan Su-Chun Mott, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spoke about the consequences of the recent North Carolina voter ID law and changing education policies in the state. He cited the Board of Governors of UNC’s decision to overturn a student initiative for gender-neutral housing options as an example of an
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absent collective student voice in government. “We as students are not able to influence [their] decisions,” Mott said. “Now they are trying to take away our vote.” McCrory signed the controversial voter identification law Aug. 12. House Bill 589 included a reduction of early voting and the elimination of same-day voter registration, pre-registration for high school students and the use of collegeissued cards as acceptable forms of voter identification. DeMonte Alford, a recent graduate of East Carolina University, said in an interview after the rally that it is not solely local Republicans who are to blame, and solace is not to be found in one party or another. “We don’t have permanent friends or enemies. We have permanent issues,” Alford said. “[We will have rallies] as many times as it takes.” Barber III encouraged North Carolinians to build a coalition of college students and young leaders who support the cause of Moral Mondays and the NAACP, including signing up for text updates, registering with NAACP and supporting the joint lawsuit that the group has filed with the American Civil Liberties Union against the voter ID law. At the end of the protest, the demonstrators put their hands together around candles sitting on top of the coffins, protecting the flames from the wind. “We are standing here in honor and memory of these four little girls,” Barber III said. “Fifty years ago they gave their lives to inspire us and ensure that we would never stop… when it comes to our right to vote.”
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Therapy dogs find startling success with PTSD patients by Molly Gendell THE CHRONICLE
Brian Hare, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology, is bringing the lab testing home. Hare, who runs the Duke Canine Cognition Center, wanted to give owners a way to better understand their dogs’ minds outside of a laboratory setting. To do so, Hare teamed up with Vanessa Woods, a research scientist in the department of evolutionary anthropology, to create a cognitive test for dogs on the website Dognition.com. Taken by the dogs’ owners, the test is meant to provide greater insight to the dog’s mind and personality, thereby strengthening the relationship between the owner and the dog. After doing research with dogs at the Duke Canine Cognition Center, Hare approached Kip Frey, director of the law and entrepreneurship program and current Dognition CEO and president, with the idea for the website. “He thought it would be interesting and fun to allow testing he was doing on lab animals to be done at home to measure peoples’ dogs rather than the few dogs they were able to do at the lab,” Frey said. Frey said the site uses current research and findings to provide a way for people to understand their dogs as cognitive individuals rather than breed stereotypes. First owners take a test and then learn more about their dog through a series of science-based games, which can be played on a mobile web app. The data collected from these games is analyzed and put into a report that ex-
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plains the dog’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses, helping the owner to understand the particular personality of his furry friend. “People loved coming to test their dogs,” Woods said. “Wouldn’t it be great if lots of people could do this all over the world?” Dognition is currently working with Wags for Tags, a North Carolina-based
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organization that rescues dogs from kill shelters and pairs them with veterans. The dogs undergo training in order to be able to provide comfort and support for veterans with psychological and emotional impairments, including PTSD. As part of Wags for Tags’ partnership with Dognition, veterans taking part in the program are given a free membership to the website, which allows them to
strengthen their bonds with their dogs. “Dognition is a way to help them better understand their dog and help them feel more connected to their dog,” Woods said. Dr. Bruce Capehart, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, said he has witnessed the positive effects of therapy dogs firsthand, as around half a dozen patients in his clinic have a therapy dog to help with PTSD symptoms. Although therapy dogs are an effective intervention for patients with PTSD, Capehart said he wouldn’t describe their use as a “treatment.” “A treatment is something we do that we expect has a beginning and ending time frame, and we expect a certain specific outcome from it,” Capehart said. “I don’t think we would be looking at introducing a dog into a veteran’s life for a period of six months, taking it away and expecting the veteran to be better.” Capehart said there are two ways therapy dogs can be helpful to veterans. Therapy dogs are alert to the emotions of their owners, and are therefore able to provide feedback to help owners get in touch with their own emotions. The dogs are also able to keep the owners calm in anxiety-provoking situations, such as being in a large crowd. Dogs can also help veterans sleep because people with PTSD sleep easier knowing that their dog will wake up and bark if anything bad is happening, Capehart said. “[They are] like buddies on duty in the middle of the night in a combat zone, allowing them to get some sleep,” he said.
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Duke MedMentors program emphasizes foresight by Rachel Chason THE CHRONICLE
Every Tuesday and Thursday, around 40 graduate students stop studying and start giving back to the Durham County Youth Home, a local juvenile detention center. MedMentors is a philanthropic organization that brings together students from Duke’s graduate and professional schools to tutor and mentor children in Durham. “MedMentors’ mission is to create an educational environment for kids at the home,” said Tony Fuller, president of the program and a third year medical student. “We don’t only cover topics related to schooling. We talk about life in general and ways to achieve your goals.” The group was founded in 2008 with a grant from the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. When it began, MedMentors was only open to medical students. Last year, however, it opened up to the larger Duke graduate community.
“Our lesson plans each week cover a variety of topics, from current events to health related issues to culture,” Fuller said. MedMentors offers tutoring to meet the individual needs of students. They also have a book report program— which gives students a chance to read for pleasure—and a recently implemented a program that focuses on fitness. This year, they hope to introduce cooking classes to help kids learn how to make nutritional and inexpensive meals. “We’ve taken a holistic approach, which has made the program richer and helped the kids benefit more,” Fuller said. He added that his goal is to continue to think of creative ways to interact with students. The program will continue to adapt to the changing needs of kids. “Honestly, more important than any one of the programs is the connections that we build with the students,”
said Senior Advisor Jesse Fitzpatrick, a third year medical student. “The Duke students might be the first people that these kids are meeting who are on a professional track.” Fitzpatrick noted that some of the volunteers have become involved in the students’ lives outside of the Durham Country Youth Home—with some even attending court hearings to support the kids. “I think the Duke MedMentors program has had a tremendous impact,” said Dwayne Williams, a detention counselor at the Durham County Youth Home. “The Duke students have shown compassion, they have followed the rules, and they have brought different ideas to the table. We are very appreciative.” Williams also highlighted the involvement of other Duke students. Each year, MedMentors and StreetLaw—a parallel group run by the Duke Law School—do at least one joint session.
“There have been some kids who have had the intellect but weren’t thinking about college, and as a result of the MedMentors program, they’re now planning on going to college,” Williams said. Fitzpatrick noted that the volunteers get as much out of the program as they put into it. “I have really enjoyed the kids, and getting to know them each week,” Fitzpatrick said. “It’s also nice to have a consistent time to volunteer each week, and have an element of life that is completely separate from medical school.” Fuller noted that the most fulfilling part of the program is working with the kids. “Personally, I’m from the South side of Chicago, so I come from a background where I can relate to these kids,” he said. “I know what they’re going through and where they’re coming from, and so I’ve had some great oneon-one experiences with them.”
Dean of Nursing discusses successes, future tion to that building. But more important than these obvious signs of growth, we have built a distinguished community of faculty, staff and students who can contribute to Duke’s vision of using knowledge to serve society. TC: What are your hopes for the School of Nursing in the next 10 years? CG: I think one frontier for our school includes making our intellectual work more visible. The public sees what nurses do, but has little understanding of what we think about while in action, or the nature of the problems the profession aims to solve. I believe that more young men and women people would consider careers in nursing if they better understood the substance of our concerns. We hope that our students and faculty will become increasingly integrated into campus programs like the Bass Connections that reveal a deeper understanding of the discipline of nursing.
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Dean Gilliss, head of the School of Nursing for the last 10 years will step down June 2014.
Dean of the School of Nursing Catherine Gilliss will step down in June 2014. Under her leadership, the School was awarded No.7 for graduate nursing programs in the United States according to U.S. News and World Report rankings in 2011. In addition, Gilliss herself an alumnus, received her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1971. The Chronicle’s Alyssa Coughenour caught up to Gilliss to reflect on her years leading the school. TC: Having been the Dean of the School of Nursing for the past 10 years, what would you say has been your biggest accomplishment in the position? CG: In the last 10 years, the School community has more than doubled in size (both faculty and enrollment). We are now offering doctoral level education—both the Doctoral of Nursing Practice degree and the PhD, masters level specialization. Our accelerated seconddegree BSN is accepting two cohorts every year for a total enrollment of about 150 students, which is up from 32 in 2004. We erected a new building in 2006 and are currently constructing a major addi-
pleased with the direction and success of the School. TC: Why are you stepping down from the position? What’s calling your name next? CG: I will have served two full terms as dean and have accomplished what I hoped we could while at Duke. I have never loved a job more and have been especially grateful for the chance to serve my alma mater. What’s next—I cannot imagine being anywhere other than Duke. After a year of sponsored leave, I hope to return and continue to work on projects that involve a high degree of interdisciplinarity and innovation.
TC: How is the search for a replacement? CG: A very qualified search committee, chaired by Dr. James Tulsky, has been appointed by Chancellor Victor Dzau. The committee will begin meeting later this month. Drs. Tulsky and Dzau are in the best position to describe the TC: When did you figure out that you plans for the committee’s work. wanted a career in nursing? CG: I wanted to do nursing as an 18TC: How are you lining up everything year old, but I wasn’t really sure until I for whoever will replace you? was a senior and I got into psychiatric CG: We have a healthy treasury and nursing. That’s when I knew I found my an endowment that will enable the next passion. dean to support scholarships and faculty. Also, our strategic plan will continue TC: What were some of the obstacles through 2015, so the new dean’s arrival you faced coming into the position and will overlap with that plan. how did you overcome those? CG: When I came to Duke in fall TC: What advice do you have for stu2004, my predecessor Dean Mary Cham- dents right now? pagne had lined up just about everyCG: Well, one of the things students thing to ensure that we would be suc- should really take advantage of is the cessful. She had a plan for the PhD, a Office of Health Professions Advising. design for the new building and a core There are a lot of resources and people faculty who were committed to moving to help. forward. We carefully recruited both junior and senior faculty who would be able to advance our work and shared our commitment to participate fully in the university. TC: You are not planning to step down until June 2014. What are you most excited for in the next year? CG: I’m looking forward to celebrate the growth of the School with the faculty and student colleagues and especially the alumni. The alumni are very
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large-scale mining allows mercury to leak into the soil and waters, effectively poisoning flora and fauna. While conducting their research, the students noticed that the rapid expansion of shanty-towns around Puerto Maldonado, a prominent city near the Amazon, also has a negative health impact on the community. This type of expansion can lead to an increased risk of infectious diseases due to crowding and decreased living conditions, Pan said. He noted that these socioeconomic changes will be the focus of study in further rounds of data collection. Ortiz said those on the trip went above and beyond their research requirements to assist the local community members. He cited a specific example when he was asked to provide medical assistance to a local woman four hours down the river. “She looked like she was 40 weeks pregnant. Her legs were swollen and she could barely breathe,” Ortiz
said. “She was waiting to die in this small community— and she would have, had there been no intervention.” Ortiz eventually discovered that the woman had an ovarian cyst, and radioed the Peruvian Navy. The navy then contacted the Ministry of Health to airlift the woman to a nearby medical center. The students and faculty assisted the local community in less extreme conditions as well. After noticing severe oral hygiene deficiencies in children of the region, the team partnered with a Peruvian dental company to provide toothpaste and dental care products for hundreds of local children, Pan said. Together, they established an extensive dental health education program that they then implemented in each community they visited. This trip was one of the first projects of the Bass Connections program. Pan noted that a key part of the trip was its integration of students from different academic levels, which was facilitated by the Bass Connections program. “Admittedly… I was reticent to engage undergrads
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in my research for a number of reasons. But this team we developed, from undergrad to Ph.D., was truly remarkable,” Pan wrote in an email Saturday. “They evolved into a very effective research team and successfully collected all the data we had set out to obtain.” Bass connections is a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative that began this year, giving Duke students the opportunity to solve problems in specific pathways and work in teams.
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Duke is immediately launching its recruitment efforts, though admissions deadlines are tight, and tuition and which faculty will teach next Fall are still in flux. Duke and its Chinese partners were unable to have “serious discussions” about tuition until DKU was granted establishment approval, Bynum said, noting that she hopes to have the cost finalized as soon as possible. She added that international undergraduates, such as current Duke students, interested in study abroad in Kunshan should expect costs comparable to Duke tuition. More than 50 faculty members are lined up to teach at DKU in the first couple of years. The only program with faculty listed on the DKU website currently is the masters of science in global health through the Duke Global Health Institute. Other programs expected to launch next Fall are a masters in management studies through the Fuqua School of Business and undergraduate study abroad. A program in medical physics is awaiting faculty approval. As part of its outreach and marketing plan, Duke launched new admissions and curriculum pages on its website Monday afternoon, and various DKU leaders will visit Chinese universities for meetings and information sessions in coming months. This week, seven Chinese journalists will visit the Durham campus to meet with DKU administrators and leaders at the various Duke schools and departments planning on offering programs at DKU, said Director of Global Communications Laura Brinn. Since Duke finalized its China plans in January 2010, DKU has faced significant delays due to changes in leadership, partnerships falling through and slowed construction. Many expected DKU to be the first legally independent American university approved by the Chinese government. Instead, that title was given to New York University Shanghai, which received final approval October 2012 and welcomed its first class of undergraduates a couple weeks ago. Lange said the process was, at times, slower than he anticipated, but the added time gave Duke flexibility to prepare at its own pace. “In the end, the slightly longer time is not of any real consequence and possibly beneficial,” he said. Like Duke, NYU Shanghai had a year between receiving final approval and the start of the school year. NYU Shanghai students are currently living off-campus until next year when construction is completed. DKU’s 200-acre campus is slated to be ready for students next summer, months before students arrive. Lange, who also chairs the DKU Board of Trustees, will step down as provost at the end of the academic year. He said he will likely not know what his future involvement with DKU will be until the new provost is chosen. This Thursday, faculty are expected to privately discuss the provost search at the first Academic Council meeting of the year. There are no public discussions or presentations about DKU planned for the meeting.
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After tying Virginia Tech in its third double-overtime match of the season, Duke is still waiting for its offense to click. The Blue Devils took 16 more shots than the Hokies, yet managed to score merely one goal in the match. “We’re just waiting for the floodgates to open,” junior Sean Davis said. “And then, after that point, things will fall into place.” Taking on an undefeated Davidson team Tuesday night will once again put Duke the pressure on vs. Duke’s offense to Davidson deliver. In their first mid-week road game of the season, the TUESDAY, 7 p.m. Blue Devils will face Alumni Soccer Stadium Wildcat goalkeeper Matt Pacifici, whose 0.51 goals-against average leads the Southern Conference. “Davidson has always been a tough matchup for us,” Davis said. “They’re a tough team, especially with these Tuesday night games which have been difficult for us before.” Despite outshooting their opponents in every contest but one this season, the Blue Devils (2-1-2) have only scored a single goal in each of their games except for a 2-0 win against Elon. Although freshman Brody Huitema’s 11 shots are tied for the third-most in the ACC, Duke does not seem able to convert chances into goals. Despite a paltry .065
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Alright, pop quiz. Duke and North Carolina are competing for the ACC men’s basketball championship in Greensboro, with the winner securing a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. The question: who are the most hated people on the floor? The trap answer is the five Tar Heel players, but let’s remember, our neighbors hate five Blue Devils just as much. It’s not Mike Krzyzewski or Roy Williams either. It’s not the players, coaches, administrators, mascots or fans. It’s the referees. Since the first officiated sporting event in 1891, the most hated “team” in sports has been the referees. Coaches yell, plead, roll their eyes and occasionally throw objects at officials to get their attention. Fans create countless jeers and snide comments in order to voice their displeasure with particular calls. I have personally lost my voice several times calmly relaying a well-articulated message to a referee, entirely to no avail. In fact, despite most of the lobbying done throughout a contest, very rarely do you see officials do a 180 and switch their calls. Well, except the 2012 NFL replacement referees
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With two goals on the season, midfielder Zach Mathers is tied with Sean Davis for Duke’s team lead. shooting percentage, Davis said that his team will soon find the back of the net. “It’s definitely a positive sign that the shots are coming in, but obviously they’re not going in,” he said. “But eventually they’re going to go in, and from there we’re going to ride that momentum.”
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When Brandon Connette took over at quarterback for an injured Anthony Boone against Memphis, Duke’s offensive efficiency rose to another level. Seeing his first consistent action under center since the 2010 season, Connette revitalized the Blue Devils, leading the team to a 28-14 road victory. Saturday’s rout against Georgia Tech in Duke’s ACC opener told another story. Completing six of his first seven passes, Connette drove the Blue Devils down the field for their first touchdown with relative ease, but the signal-caller finished just 15-of28 for 122 yards in a 38-14 loss. “It’s a pretty tough circumstance. You went around the room, talking about every position, and right now it’s pretty tough at quarterback. Brandon has had it all thrown on his shoulders,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “I’m sure he feels somewhat the
weight of the world but we’ll make sure he’s okay. I’m glad he’s on our football team.” Duke’s offense failed to get in sync against the Yellow Jackets. The Blue Devils morphed from a team that excelled in both the run and passing games against N.C. Central and Memphis to one that struggled to take shots down the field against Georgia Tech. Connettte averaged just 8.1 yards per completion against Georgia Tech—more than two yards fewer than Boone averaged during his first two games of the year— and his three completions of more than 20 yards were aided by significant yardage after the catch. With Duke’s signal-caller unable to spread the field and beat the Yellow Jackets deep, Georgia Tech was able to stack the box in anticipation of the zone-read, holding the Blue See FOOTBALL, page 8
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Quarterback Brandon Connette completed just 15-of-28 passes for 122 yards in a 38-14 loss to Georgia Tech Saturday.
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(RIP). After all, it’s their job to know the rules better than anyone else. So why do we persist? It’s because, whether officials admit it or not, there have been too many mistakes seen over and over again in professional sports. During the past two weeks, there have been numerous occasions where referees, rather than the athletes, have drastically impacted game results. Nine days ago, Packers Linebacker Clay Matthews hit 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick on a third-down scramble when he was clearly out-of-bounds, drawing a penalty. Following the tackle, 49ers tackle Joe Staley participated in some extracurricular activities, also drawing a penalty. The two personal fouls should have been offset, leading to a fourth down for the 49ers and presumably a field goal attempt. Instead, referee Bill Leavy incorrectly ruled to replay third down. The 49ers scored a touchdown on the next play and went on to win. Three days ago, Arizona State defeated Wisconsin on a bizarre sequence with seconds remaining. The Badgers drove more than 60 yards in a little more than a minute and appeared to take a knee to center the ball and get ready for a possible game-winning field goal try. Wisconsin starting quarterback Joel Stave tripped over a lineman and instead appeared to slam the ball on the ground, which led to 10 seconds of clock runoff that neither team knew how to approach. Noticing the clock was still running despite the confusion, the Badgers attempted to spike the ball but ran out of time.
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Parents tell their little athletes that it’s not about winning or losing, but about having fun. What’s fun about having someone that does not physically compete in a game determine the outcome? Both of the aforementioned bad calls are embarrassing, but by no means the first bad calls ever. I think we all remember pitcher Armando Galarraga’s 2010 “imperfect” game, don’t we Jim Joyce? This past summer, soccer fans in Maranhao, Brazil witnessed perhaps the scariest display of conflict between a player and an official in the history of sports. Referee Octavio da Silva Catanhede Jordan fatally stabbed a player, leading to obvious shock and outrage from the crowd. Fans then stormed the field to decapitate Silva and place his head on a stake. Detroit Tigers’ fans may have been outraged when Joyce blew Galarraga’s attempt at history, but he at least got to keep his head that night. Score one for America. So what does the future hold for referees? We have already seen sports such as football and basketball openly embrace instant replay technology. Just this past August, Major League Baseball announced it plans to drastically expand its video review process after a number of incorrect calls were made in games. I truly feel the human element of officiating is important, but perhaps the days of “unfixable” mistakes are finally coming to a close. The bottom line is that the players and coaches should determine the outcomes of games. If we’ve noticed anything in recent years, it’s that one call can completely change the course of history. Change is coming, and it’s about time.
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Devils to just 3.9 yards per carry. “The whole game we were able to run the ball, they just brought more [linebackers] into the box and really loaded up the box, started rolling safeties down to stop the run because that’s where we were really killing them,” Connette said. “Once they got to that, they minimized the amount of run plays we could run.” The Blue Devils’ third-down woes did not help Connette’s case, as Duke was doomed by a 3-of-14 performance on third down. “The biggest thing that turned us from moving the ball on a more consistent basis was third-down production,” Connette said. “And a lot of that was just me being inaccurate on third down and missing guys that were open.” As Connette prepares for his second start of the season against Pittsburgh, among the keys will be the quarterback’s pocket presence. The redshirt junior was sacked just twice against Georgia Tech, but made a
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“[Mathers] is great because he gives us a lot of energy and fight,” Davis said. “He’s willing to do anything to help the team, and we really appreciate having him there on both offense and defense.” The Blue Devils’ six goals this season, however, have been tallied by Mathers and Davis along with junior Nick Palodichuk and senior Sebastien Ibeagha, who have each notched one goal thus far. Duke will need to look for other weapons on offense against Pacifici, who is protected by the Wildcats’ veteran back four. Juniors Luke Blades, John Pace, Drew Brown and Kristian Garciamendez-Rowold all bring experience to the match against the Blue Devils, each having played in at least 16 games last year. Davidson (4-0-1) also boasts a powerful offense, with seven different players who have scored goals. Sophomore Alex Rotunda is tied for the lead with two goals and
number of hurried throws that came as a result of holding onto the ball too long. Connette’s struggles against the Yellow Jackets put the Blue Devils’ larger quarterback issues on display. With Boone out indefinitely with a broken collarbone, Thomas Sirk still rehabbing his injured Achilles and the team still nursing Parker Boehme’s first year of eligibility, Connette will be Duke’s quarterback for the near future. The burden will fall on Connette as the Blue Devils move forward to face Pittsburgh, Troy and Navy in their next three games— all winnable contests, but virtual must-wins for the team to reach a second straight bowl game for the first time ever. If there is anything the Blue Devils’ last two games proved, it is that the team will only go as far as its signal-caller. “It’s still going to be a little bit of a process,” Connette said. “The more and more repetitions I’m able to get—even just in practice—making those repetitions more game-like will help me.” scored the game winner in the Wildcats’ 1-0 victory against Longwood Saturday. Duke will counter Davidson’s offensive prowess with goalkeeper Alex Long, who leads the ACC with 22 saves. The Blue Devils have succeeded defensively against Davidson in the past, shutting out the Wildcats in three of the past five contests. “It’s been a great transition for Alex coming into school as a transfer,” Davis said. “The back four on defense is always solid for us and we’ve never had problems with them. They’re the leaders of this team, and they get us out of trouble.” The Blue Devils hope that the backline will remain a consistent force as the offense continues to push for a scoring breakthrough. The atmosphere in preparation for Davidson has focused on staying positive in light of recent subpar performances. “The mindset has been great in training,” Davis said. “We’re looking to bounce back from Virginia Tech and get on the right foot. We’re looking forward to it.”
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tionary tale,” Read said. “Sometimes we take information at face value instead of digging deeper, and we can do better.” For example, a stereotype of Mexicans The study was published in the August as an ethnic group is that they are more im- issue of Population Research and Policy Repoverished and uneducated relative to other view. groups, Read said. Read’s broader definition found Mexicans to be a more educated and affluent group than currently recorded though, with from page 1 an 8.8 percent increase in high school graduates. The study also said some may not classify paper?” Vargas said, explaining his motivation themselves as Latino or Hispanic in order to to become a journalist. separate themselves from negative popular Originally from the Philippines, Vargas’ conceptions. mother sent him at the age of 12 to live with Freshman Lindsey Zimmer noted she has his grandparents and pursue a better life. Vartrouble deciding which of her identities to gas noted that most of the 11 million undocuindicate on forms. mented immigrants in the United States came “It is a part of who I am culturally, but with a similar purpose. only a part—I am half Cuban, but I am also Vargas criticized U.S. immigration policy as Jewish and my dad’s family is Polish, so it’s a “broken, untenable system,” that is defined hard to justify checking one box over the by “pieces of paper” that can fail to account for other when I am not defined by a single one’s national identity. one,” Zimmer said. The threat of being caught by U.S. ImmiIn addition, Read’s definition found Ar- gration and Customs Enforcement made his ab-Americans to be 15.3 percent less likely life a “crazy limbo,” Vargas said. He recountto hold a bachelor’s degree, which conflicts ed stories of how he eluded discovery while with the widespread conception of Arab- working his way into the journalism industry, Americans being affluent and educated. ultimately winning a Pulitzer Prize for his Junior Sarah Elsheryie, who identifies breaking news coverage of the Virginia Tech as an Arab-American, noted that the term shootings. For example, when he first began Arab encompasses diverse individuals. She his job search, he used a doctored social seadded that the available categorizations on curity card, and a few years later, obtained a most forms do not coincide with the concep- driver’s license by traveling to Oregon, where tion of race that many “back home” in Egypt little documentation is required. have and may be part of why Arabs with imEventually, however, the weight of this semigrant roots are misclassified in the census. cret proved too great and Vargas decided to “The idea of race is just so different,” she publicly reveal his immigration status. said. “Whether you’re black or white, you’re “Sometimes you risk your life to free yourstill Egyptian, but not as much of a racial hi- self from it,” Vargas said. erarchy—it doesn’t translate.” Vargas has yet to be confronted by the U.S. Read added that she hopes to push for a Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In more critical understanding of labels. his documentary titled “Documented,” he “At the end of the day, my article is a cau- called the agency to ask if they would deport
him and was told “no comment.” Vargas noted the government’s refusal to engage in conversation about what he considers to be “the most controversial, yet least talked about” issue in America. During the event, Vargas called up Emilio Vicente, a student from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Vicente, an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, was featured—along with Vargas—in a June 2012 issue of Time Magazine featuring Americans without documents. Vicente spoke about “One State, One Rate,” a campaign he is spearheading that calls on UNC to grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants who live in North Carolina. Currently undocumented NC residents are charged $21,782 more than those with documents. “What is Duke going to do?” Vargas said. “The rivalry aside, I think we can agree that this is the right thing to do.” Under current laws, Vargas, like many other undocumented immigrants, has no direct path to citizenship even if he makes significant contributions to society. “Immigration reform means we can come out of the shadows to be a part of this community,” Vicente said. At the end of the open discussion portion of the evening, a woman from the audience approached the microphone and revealed her own story of undocumented life, moving from Los Angeles to North Carolina, raising two daughters and dealing with divorce. “I’m tired of working under the table,” she
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said. “I’m trying to do different things.” Despite refusing to call himself a “leader or an advocate,” since the publication of his 2011 article, Vargas has worked to transform the immigration debate from a question of numbers to a question of “integration, citizenship and identity.” In addition, Vargas co-founded Define American, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing dialogue about immigration and what it means to be “American.” First-year Nicole Bautista, a recently naturalized U.S. citizen from the Dominican Republic, said she appreciated the genuineness of the evening’s dialogue. “The American Dream is the ability to do what you want to do,” she said. Vargas urged the audience to think critically about issues of identity. “Who were we? Where are we? Where are we going?” he said. “How do you define American?”
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and Benjamin Tucker in the mid-19th century and which was revitalized by Murray N. Rothbard roughly a hundred years later, based its entire opposition to the state on the grounds that government was
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a monopolized form of institutionalized violence. The ideas of men like Chomsky, Spooner, Tucker and Rothbard are no doubt controversial and open to debate, but to condemn them for the crimes of the terrorist anarchists is analogous to condemning all forms of government for the crimes of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. Sen. Reid’s view of the tea party is equally hard to accept. The decentralized nature of the tea party makes it difficult to describe the movement in general terms, but supporters and opponents alike would probably agree that it is characterized by its hardcore focus on the Constitution. The website of the Tea Party Patriots, for instance, indicates that the group’s mission is, in part, to restore the “American principle… of constitutionally limited government.” It also advertises events such as Constitution Week, Constitution Academy and “Patriots & Popcorn,” which evidently attempts to inspire communities by screening films about the Constitutional Convention of 1787. On the other end of the political spectrum, one of the chief criticisms of the tea party is that its supporters misunderstand or misinterpret the Constitution. Whether one supports or rejects the movement, it is virtually impossible to reconcile its devotion to a founding document of government with any sort of recognizable anarchist impulse. Sen. Reid is not known for strength in political philosophy. In a revealing 2008 interview with minarchist YouTube personality and documentarian Jan Helfeld, he repeatedly told his interviewer that the payment of taxes is voluntary in the United States. Say what you will about taxes, but Irwin Schiff can tell you that paying them is definitely not voluntary. A critic might object to this column on the grounds that Sen. Reid is a politician, and not a political philosopher. To them, then, the fact that he is more concerned with politics than he is with political philosophy makes perfect sense. But isn’t that part of the problem? 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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hat’s the one thing for which you’re more willing to die than lose? For you, it’s a place. Or a person. Or a mentality. It’s your DNA, your thing. Your number one. It is yours and only yours. These things, they are your expression. A nose ring, a tattoo, a style—self-expressive, sure. But before you can enable the expression, you have to define what the self is. We are a compilation of words and statistics and truths and white lies that have tied together our point A to our point Z, making specific, sometimes calculated, sometimes sporadic stops at points B through Y along the way. As similar as you can be to me, and me to them, and him to her, we are our own stories. We decide the things that we want to call our own and the things that make us up. New Jersey is part of me, its sand and waves and surf. I am made of Portland, steel bridges and microbreweries. Duke is part of me, the papers and the projects and the practices. These make up my self. Self-expression is a matter of ebbs and flows. We wax and wane with pompous pride or quiet complacency, making calculated choices as to when we want to blend in or stand out. Our surroundings define us and we define our surroundings, deciding where to go and who to be. Today is a matter of where we’re at, but, more than that, it’s a matter of how we got here. It is up to us to determine when we identify with certain things or places or people. We decide when we defend and we decide when we deceit. We choose to identify ourselves as people of a certain place, and we select where to position our defenses in an a la carte methodology. I feel a certain connectedness and pride in the places I’ve been, places I’ve lived, things I have seen. Other times, I feel a disgust for—a disgrace in—the things I’ve been conditioned to hate, and, almost always, the things I dislike are the ones that violate the people, places and mentalities I have become the most proud of. I am made of my father’s stern character and his kind and sensitive heart that was hidden behind police badges and ribbons and perfectly polished boots gathered in his tenure as a lieutenant. I am made of my mother’s grace and humor and steadiness. I am made of my brother’s Buddhistlike mentality, and the propensity to wear my heart on my sleeve. These are my pieces. These are my characters. These are my points A through Z, and that alphabet of anecdote and truths and faults will be longer by this afternoon. Last week, I flew from RDU to Newark Airport, clad in Duke black and blue Nike apparel as my team and I took to our first away opponents of the season. We loaded the bus on East Campus as the North Carolina sun rose, packed our bags in thick, humid heat and rolled toward the United Airlines
terminal in pursuit of a few road wins in the name of Duke University. In our hotel in Somerset, N.J., a middle-aged man held the elevator for me as I headed downstairs before a pre-game meeting. “Field hockey?” he asked me, and I pulled my headphones away from my ears as I affirmed. “Oh. That sucks. That’s gotta be like watching paint dry.”
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ny child will tell you that it’s a lot more fun to play than to clean up. Many of the great misunderstandings in the world can be traced to this elemental truth. You know this already if you have a roommate. Engineering a beautiful system can be fun. Sometimes, though, like a building-block tower, things come crashing down. And even if you don’t want to clean them up, you might have to, or all hell will break loose. Last week, the anniversary of 9/11 dominated the headlines,
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And I thought, what a complete a**hole. These moments are the ones where your pride gets tested, and these are the times when you realize where your pride is. Life—specifically this time in life—is a quickly shifting binary. It is kind and it is cruel. I create lofty, beautiful dreams of grandeur and abounding success, and I have them halted hastily by reality. I sometimes count myself out of things and am astounded when they pan out in my favor. I feel spread thin across a multitude of outlets— spun toward madness—and am soon reminded how fortunate and fair my life is. All of these things—these trials and failures and faults and rich experiences—they are my pride. There are few things we are more passionate about than those people, those places and those personality quirks that make us, us. They are richer than our job experience. They are more important than our resume highlights. They are grander than GPA and major choices and references. They are the things that we can—and must—leverage the most to get us anywhere we’re trying to go. They are our pride, and if we don’t keep that in mind, our business suits, portfolios and pencil skirts will not be enough to make us happy. Take pride in your A to Z and your DNA, since they’re all you’ve got figured out. As I sit writing this, typing and backspacing, editing, finding synonyms and trading sips of Diet Coke and black coffee, the dawdling pace of content creation and expression reminds me how little I’ve got figured out. I wrestle between words, grappling ideas and attempting to pin down the perfect alliterative statements—the ideal frame for my expansive and disjointed thoughts. I don’t have things figured out, but what I have realized is that if you’ve got pride in what you are, things will work themselves out. And until the sand turns to glass, I will forever be prideful in how I have so haphazardly figured it all out. Until tomorrow, that is. Ashley Camano is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Send Ashley a message on Twitter @ camanyooo.
reminding us not only of the shock of the terrorist attacks, but also of our long and arduous recovery from them. Indeed, news often comes with a bang, followed by a lot of scurrying and then a long, slow unfolding of reactions and consequences. Such has been the case with another terrifying, though now nearly forgotten, news event: the Tohoku earthquake of March 2011 off the coast of Japan. The earthquake and its tsunami caused catastrophic damage in the northeast of the country, including thousands of deaths. Among other things, it provoked a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. For the past two years, engineers have quietly, and with some degree of desperation, been attempting to contain the damage and bring the crippled plant under control. Their immediate solution relies on a complex of nearly 1,000 36-foot-tall tanks to keep radiated water—hundreds of tons of it—from leaking into the groundwater and the ocean. At some point last spring, while our thoughts were elsewhere, a scrawny, hungry rat chewed through a wire at the Fukushima plant— an impulsive decision that cost him his life. The death of a rodent is not something that would normally be of any concern. In fact, in some quarters, it can be a cause for celebration. In this case, though, the animal’s final act caused a short circuit that blocked out the power supply, thereby disabling the cooling system and threatening a further spread of lethal radioactivity. The rodent problem in the world of electric utilities is well known: On our side of the ocean, squirrels are often the culprits. In a recent New York Times essay, Jon Mooallem counts 50 documented squirrel-induced power outages in 24 U.S. states since Memorial Day. Fortunately, in the Fukushima incident, power was restored before the breakdown led to any frontpage headlines. But, undoubtedly, that particular rat left behind a swarm of hungry, bereaved kin, and unfortunately the electrical system at Fukushima Daiichi is not the plant’s only vulnerable component. Recently there have been several leaks of contaminated water, including 300 tons of the stuff laced with radioactive strontium that oozed out of one of those containment tanks in August into the Pacific Ocean—yes, our Pacific Ocean. It turns out, the tanks’ rubber sealing and their ability to withstand radiation had not been tested. Someone didn’t run all the checks. Without going into the engineering side of things (that is what Pratt is for) or recounting any more of the many micro-mishaps that have been occurring over the past few months at Fukushima Daiichi, it should be noted that that the system in question is a stopgap measure (what I’m calling “scurrying”), not a permanent solution. Even if these new leaks can be contained, there still remains the problem of ensuring the plant’s long-term safety and preventing further spills of lethal wastewater that will eventually lap, say, the shores of California. In spite of the effort involved in creating them, our most massive and intricate constructions can be destroyed with the merest of nudges. As always, Dostoevsky comes to mind. The ratlike narrator of his famous “Notes from Underground” challenges rationality (and by association, before it even existed, nuclear engineering) by asserting his free will and his right to be illogical in the face of any and all arguments. He does this not by philosophizing eloquently from a podium, but by seething and grumbling in his habitat under the floorboards— “the underground”—of the grandiose edifice of human civilization. There he gnaws away, as rats do, at the foundations, until he gets a throbbing toothache, and yet he gnaws onward through the pain. He luxuriates in his suffering, proclaiming the right to do whatever illogical, antisocial thing he wants to do, saying: “Whether it’s good or bad, it’s sometimes also very pleasant to demolish something.” Ultimately, this tiny, lone creature will bring the house down. Sometimes, the biggest news is not on the front page, not the explosions, not the shrill debates and posturings of world leaders nor even the twerking of a lapsed Disney star. Sometimes the really scary stuff is the slow drip—the quiet forces of erosion, the indecipherable munching sound, undetectable even by the most sensitive seismographs—in the background of the trivial stuff we think is important, somewhere far away, on the other side of the world. 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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Exhibitions One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia. Black-and-white images by the late self-taught artist Paul Kwilecki. Extended thru October 5. Center for Documentary Studies. Free. Recording the Anthropocene. Have we entered a new geologic epoch defined by the environmental impact of humanity? Thru October 13. Perkins Library Gallery. Free. Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art. An intimate look at Doris Duke and her Honolulu estate, featuring selections from her Islamic art collection. Thru December 29. Nasher Museum of Art.
Events September 17 Talk. Transforming Knowledge: A Reading with Dr. Jean Fox O’Barr. 6:30pm. Lilly Library, Thomas Room. Free. September 18 Talk/Book Signing. One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia. Published by CDS/Duke University Press; presentation by book’s editor, MFA director Tom Rankin. 7pm. Burwell School, Hillsborough. Free. Duke Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert. Music from Broadway and popular movies as well as lighter works by American composers and patriotic fare. 8 pm. Baldwin Auditorium. Free. September 19 Exhibition Opening. Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space. Talk with artist/curator Iftikhar Dadi, artist Shuddhabrata Sengupta, and history professor Sumathi Ramaswamy, BorderWork(s) Humanities Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute. Reception with cash bar. 7pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free. Film. We Still Live Here / Âs Nutayuneân (2010). Documentary about the revival of the language of the Wampanoag people of New England. 7pm. Smith Warehouse, FHI Garage. Free. September 20 Full Frame Third Friday. Screening of Let the Fire Burn. 7pm. Full Frame Theater, American Tobacco Campus. Free. September 21 Ciompi Quartet Concert no. 1 featuring the Kruger Brothers. The Ciompi Quartet launches its 2013/2014 season with a special performance of Appalachian Concerto by the Kruger Brothers. Program: Haydn: String Quartet no. 60 in G major, Op. 76, no. 1; Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 12 in D-flat major, Op. 133; Kruger Brothers: Appalachian Concerto. 8pm. Baldwin Auditorium. $20 Gen.; $10 Students. September 24 Talk/Book Signing. One Place. Published by CDS/Duke University Press; presentation by book’s editor, MFA director Tom Rankin, and UNC folklorist/historian William Ferris. 12:30pm. Center for the Study of the American South, UNCChapel Hill. Free.
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