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Incumbent Bill Bell has won a seventh term as the mayor of Durham. The general election for Mayor of Durham and City Council took place Tuesday night, showing a 18,299 voter turnout. After 98.36 percent of precincts reported, Bell won against opponent Sylvester Williams with 86.54 percent of the vote. “I take the role of being mayor seriously and I try to provide support to move the city forward,” Bell said of his coming term, noting progress made in developing neighborhoods in the downtown area. “We have challenges, but that’s to be expected in growing a city such as Durham.” He said he would not compare this year to any of his past races, now totaling seven elections, as he always does what is necessary to hopefully emerge victorious. The race for the Durham City Council Ward I was unopposed, and Cora

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The North Carolina state government is appealing a court decision that said North Carolinians have the right to choose—to choose what goes on the back of their cars. Last Wednesday, attorney Kathryne Hathcock argued in front of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, advocating for a reversal of the 2012 decision that outlawed the government-sponsored selling of anti-abortion “Choose Life” license plates. Christopher Brook, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina—the organization that was the complainant in the original case, urged the court to uphold the decision, citing the lack of alternative proabortion rights plates as a violation of the First Amendment. “The legislature authorized the “Choose Life” license plate but rejected six amendments to the law that would allow the creation of a license plate in favor of the opposite point of view,” said ACLU NC See plates, page 5

Teachers stage walk-in to protest cuts to public edu by Jen Chen

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Teachers stage a walk-in to protest changes.

Educators across North Carolina staged a walk-in to protest the current state of public education. Teachers wore red, gathered in front of their schools Monday morning and marched in together. Parents and members of the community were invited to observe classroom activities and to participate in after-school discussions about education policies. The movement was backed by the North Carolina Association of Educators in an effort to raise awareness against the recent cutback of gov-

ernment spending on public education. “The goal is to demonstrate solidarity and support for the work that teachers do and to open up a conversation about the challenges and successes of public education,” said Rodney Ellis, president of NCAE. North Carolina legislators approved a state budget that eliminates bonus salaries for teachers who hold advanced degrees and phases out tenure positions. As a result, public school teachers now face not only challenging working conditions, but a loss of career status, Ellis said. According to the National Education Asso-

ciation, North Carolina is ranked 48 out of all U.S. states in terms of per pupil government spending and 46 in terms of average teacher salary. “I am a committed educator, but I am asked every year to do more and more with fewer resources,” said Wendy Kauffman, a first grade teacher at Millbrook Elementary School in Wake County. Kauffman noted that she currently puts in over 60 hours per week to meet the demands of her job. See walk-in, page 7

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Law student spills on interplay between school and work Robby Naoufal: The application to the White house internship program is available online. TC: Why do you want to do this internship? RN: i’m hoping to make my law school experience even more rewarding by taking advantage of a chance to learn outside the classroom. The White house internship Program is a great opportunity to utilize the skills i’ve developed so far in law school and apply them in the federal policy arena. i wanted to participate in this internship in particular because i knew i’d have the chance to meet with accomplished professionals and contribute to the work they’re doing.

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Robby Naoufal, a third year law student, will be interning at the While House next summer.

Third year law student Robby Naoufal will be interning at the White House next summer. In the past, he has worked as a law clerk at the U.S. Department of Justice and is currently in Washington, D.C. as an associate at Hughes Hubbard and Reed LLP, an international law firm. The Chronicle’s Rebecca Chen chatted with Naoufal about the path that led him to the White House internship and what he looks forward to in the future. The Chronicle: how did you get this internship?

TC: how do you think being at Duke School of law has influenced your path to this internship? RN: Duke law has a strong tradition of public service and the law school does an excellent job of providing opportunities to students interested in that type of experience. The “Duke in D.C.” program provides students with an opportunity to gain valuable experience outside the classroom, at the heart of where federal policy making happens. The Duke law faculty has immense experience serving at the highest levels of government and as a student i knew there was a lot to gain from working at the White house....

a role in, the federal policy making process. The White house works with the agencies to develop and implement important policy solutions to the challenges our country faces, from criminal justice reform to health care to economic development. As a learning experience, just witnessing the symphony of interagency collaboration is very rewarding. TC: What do you want to do after graduation? how do you think this internship will tie into that? RN: i can’t say for certain what i want to do after graduation in the long term. For now, i’ll be coming back to Washington, D.C. to work for a law firm with a focus on international regulation. i do hope to continue to build on my experience at the White house and work in federal policy making. This internship program provides a chance to talk with professionals with distinguished careers in both the public and private sector. So for now, i’ll gain some insight on how to develop real solutions to complex problems, and have some fun at the same time.

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Law School participation in exchange programs wane over time by Patricia Spears The ChroniCle

Duke law offers 20 international exchange programs in 17 countries, but only about 13 of its students study abroad each year. law students can study in places like China, South Africa and Germany. Although administrators and those who have gone abroad say it is a worthwhile experience for law students, only a small number study internationally each year because it is not considered a typical law school experience. “Among the best law schools, we probably offer more options and choices than any other,” said Associate Dean for international Studies Jennifer Maher, law ’83. Director of overseas Programs Tonya Jacobs wrote in an email Tuesday that the school typically sends eight to 10 students abroad in the Fall and three to five students abroad in the Spring. oleg Kobelev, director of international career development and special projects, said the programs appeal to second and third-year students who have interest in international work. Maher estimated that at its height, the law school sent about 30 students abroad per semester, but numbers are waning, mainly due to the increased options that students have. She added that students now often opt to do externships and participate in summer institutes as an off-campus experience. “Given the constraints on legal education and the hoops that have to be jumped through, students have a lot of choices,” she said. Shasha Zou, law ’13, who studied in France for a semester, said students who participated were of a limited number who knew early on in their law school career they wanted to go abroad. Kobelev said the benefits of a semester abroad are twofold in that they affect a student both in the long and short term. “it contributes in the most immediate sense in that it gives students a sense of how law is taught in different jurisdictions,” he said. “it becomes more

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globalized.” Their experience will also benefit them further in their career because they will have built a network of contacts in a different country and jurisdiction, which is not necessarily the case for students who have not studied abroad or participated in one of the summer institutes. “The benefits are exposure, networks —they meet attorneys and students from other countries, and they learn how business is done, and how legal problems are perceived in a slightly different light,” Kobelev explained. Maher noted that the benefits of a

global education include cultural competency, an understanding of how other legal systems work and even comprehension of a foreign language. Zou said her experience at a French law school was quite different from Duke’s hands-on approach. She said her classes were often two to four hours of solid lecturing, but the study abroad semester introduced a unique element to Zou’s degree. “it definitely helped me become fluent in speaking about legal issues in French,” she said. She also noted that she became more familiar with the intricate details of cer-

tain bodies of law. in addition to the 20 semester exchange programs at various universities, the law school also offers two summer programs in hong Kong and Geneva. each are a month long and offer a variety of courses. last year, Duke law opened a new campus in Washington, D.C. it is their first domestic summer institute. “Some people think you ought to stay at Duke and study U.S. law, but the people who study abroad often end up in a practice that’s more international,” Maher said.

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Communications Manager Mike Meno. At the hearing, hathcock—who declined to comment—said that the plates did not limit the speech of citizens because they expressed a government position. “[The plates are] an opportunity for the members of the public that share the same interest as the state to express their affiliation with the government’s message,” she said. Jeff Powell, a professor at the School of law, said he did not agree with such a viewpoint. “The first and 14th amendments do not permit government to create...a forum and then discriminate on the basis of the viewpoint,” he wrote in an email Monday. “The state law is an example of such viewpoint discrimination.” Meno said that the AClU was not taking a stance on abortion in arguing against the plates, but rather is arguing for free speech. “if the situation had been reversed, we would have been making the same argument,” he said. “The real issue is whether the government can decide which points of view are acceptable to voice.” A portion of the proceeds from the $25 plates would go to the north Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, an anti-abortion organization with over 70 locations across the state that gives free education and support to pregnant women. Bobbie Meyer, the state director of the nCPCF, said that the organization was disappointed by the initial ruling, but it was optimistic about the appeal. “With...other states with choose life license plates, in most cases, the outcome [in court] has been positive,” she said. Meno said that he was confident that the court would rule in the AClU’s favor, citing the fact that it was a reagan appointee who

made the initial ruling outlawing the plates. “We are very confident in our position in the case,” he said. regardless of the outcome of the case, Meyer said attempts to get the anti-abortion message out will not stop. “i don’t think the effort would be over even with a court decision,” she said. Meyer added that she would not have a problem with the government issuing a proabortion rights license plate, but doubted that such a plate was the goal of the AClU. “They are trying to create issues so there are no “Choose life” license plates,” she said. Powell said that, while he does not try to predict the courts, he hopes the court will affirm the original decision. “The Constitution does not permit government to attempt to shape private discussion of a political issue by giving one side a platform for speech that it denies to the other,” he wrote. “That proposition is one on which everyone, regardless of their views on abortion, ought to agree.”

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The movement on Monday, however, elicited criticism from some members of the legislature. “We appreciate the overwhelming majority of our teachers whose hard work and commitment are vital to the success of our children. And we appreciate the right of north Carolinians to exercise their first amendment rights, and welcome a productive dialogue,” said Senate leader Phil Berger in a statement. “But we don’t appreciate the bully tactics of an organized union that puts kids’ safety at risk to gin up its membership and inflate the salaries of its executives. There is a time and place for everything—our schools are not the place for politics and our children should not be the pawns.” A press release from Berger on Monday indicated that at least one elementary school recruited volunteers online to supervise the students while teachers participated in an hourlong strike, an effort that could have posed a serious safety risk.

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Cole-McFadden received 14,764 votes and conceded 258 to write-in candidates. in Ward ii, eddie Davis placed first over omar Beasley with 65.08 percent of the 17,537 votes cast. The Ward iii race saw Don Moffitt defeat Pam Karriker with 56.60 percent, a 2,289vote margin. 18,299 ballots were cast out of 174,361 registered voters in Durham County, a turnout less than 11 percent. Bell said he was “somewhat disappointed” with the amount of voters who came to the polls, but respected their decision as a right given by democracy. “i would always like to see a large turnout,” he said. “[But] that’s our system. People have a right to vote and not to vote.”

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“Someone claiming to be Sir isaac newton signed up to watch a class of third grade students,” the press release stated. in reality, the volunteers were parents who came in to show support for the teachers, ellis responded. Some teachers were initially planning for a walk-out through social media, but the nCAe suggested a walk-in as an alternative to minimize any negative impact on student education. no commotion was caused at Millbrook and classes were unaffected, Kauffman said. According to district news, all 126 schools in Guilford County participated in walk-in day. A number of schools in other north Carolina counties, including Durham, raleigh and Wake, also took part in the initiative, although support from county officials was mixed. “School administrators were advised to neither organize activities at their schools nor obstruct any events or meetings,” said Samiha Khanna, a spokeswoman for the Wake County public school system. ellis hopes that the walk-in will motivate parents to weigh in on the effort and to speak to legislators about the importance of high quality education. “We love our children and their families, we love to learn and we love to share that love for knowledge with our students,” Kauffman said. “At some point though, we need to be treated as the professionals we are.”

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Al Brown is the only coach in college basketball history to coach in the men’s and women’s national championship games, but he might be better known by Duke fans as the assistant coach who wears flamboyant sweaters. “In the men’s game, I always wore a tie and sports coat or a suit,” Brown said. “In the women’s game, probably three or four years after I started, I started wearing sweaters. It was just purely by accident. I forgot my sports coat and everything and I thought, ‘Well, this is a pretty good idea.’ Honestly, I had never, ever thought it would become what it’s become. I never thought it would have a life of its own.” Brown, who is now in his seventh season as a Duke assistant coach, graduated from Purdue in 1964 and became a member of the Boilermaker staff in 1967. He coached in the 1969 national championship game when Purdue fell to John Wooden’s UCLA squad. Brown was an assistant at four other schools and was the head coach at Ball State from 1982-87, leading the Cardinals to one of their most successful seasons in 1986 before joining the See BROWN, page 13

we were really connected.” Blazing’s career-high 22 saves against the Tar Heels is just one highlight of her breakout season. She has nearly double the number of saves she accumulated last year and has improved her saves percentage from 66.2 percent to 78.6 percent this season. Although Blazing currently has the seventh-best save percentage in the country, she boasted the highest save percentage in the nation earlier this season. Her 150 career saves place her 11th all-time in Duke history, an impressive feat considering that she missed five games last year during her first season while playing for the U.S. at the Junior Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico last fall. See BLAZING, page 12

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Blazing saddles Goalkeeper has Duke back in contention by Brian Pollack THE CHRONICLE

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Down the stretch they go Duke secured a bowl bid last season by beating North Carolina Oct. 20, and Blue Devil fans rushed the field to celebrate the landmark victory. But Duke could not capitalize on this momentum and proceeded to lose its last four games of the regular season. This year the Blue Devils won their biggest game of the season so far, their bowl-clenching sixth win, against Virginia Tech on Oct. 26. Duke has four games left this season. Like last year, all four of the Blue Devils’ final games in 2013 are ACC contests. In many ways, Duke finds itself in the exact same position it did entering the final month of the college football season a year ago. But for so many reasons, the Blue Devils of 2013 face a completely different situation from last year. Duke’s final four opponents in 2012 were Florida State, Clemson, Georgia Tech and Miami. The Seminoles and Tigers finished the year with a combined record of 20-4, ranked first and second, respectively, in the ACC’s Atlantic Division. The Hurricanes and Yellow Jackets combined final record was 13-11, finishing tied for first in the Coastal Division. This year the Blue Devils close out the year with N.C. State, Miami, Wake Forest and North Carolina. The four schools have a combined record of 1716. The Wolfpack are 0-5 in conference play, the Demon Deacons 2-4 and the Tar Heels 2-3. Last season, Duke’s final four matchups included two teams ranked in the nation’s top 15, and none of its opponents was below .500 for the year. This year, seven-win Miami is the only opponent left on the Blue Devils’ schedule that does not have a losing record. Once Duke secured its sixth win last year, it faced a challenging month of November and lost to four teams that had enough wins to be bowl eligible. This year the Blue Devils look to their final four games and see an opportunity to finish on top of their conference. If that wasn’t enough, all of the pieces seem to be falling into place for the Blue Devils at the right time. Or more accurately, everything seems to be falling apart for Duke’s remaining opponents.

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Opposing team’s aren’t having much success sliding the ball past goalkeeper Lauren Blazing. The result—Duke has doubled its win total from last season and has a beat a handful ranked opponents, including then No. 1 North Carolina. The redshirt sophomore has drastically improved her play in her second season with the pads on and has been a crucial part of the No. 7 Blue Devils’ success this season. “I think our whole team had been playing well up until [North Carolina] and we continued playing well until after that point,” Blazing said. “The energy on that field during that game was something that we have really tried to bring to every game since then. We were all on the same page,

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N.C. State’s top wide receiver, Bryan Underwood, who leads the Wolfpack in catches, yards and touchdowns, suffered a broken collarbone against Florida State two weeks ago and will be sidelined for the rest of the season. Miami’s star running back, sophomore Duke Johnson, racked up 97 yards against the Seminoles last week before being crushed by several offensive and defensive lineman after a short run in the third quarter. Johnson had his entire leg buried beneath several hundred pounds worth of linemen and had to be helped off the field.

This week the Hurricanes announced the severity of the injury. Johnson will undergo surgery on a broken ankle and miss the remainder of the season. Wake Forest lost its biggest offensive playmaker last weekend as well. Redshirt senior Michael Campanaro left Saturday’s matchup against Syracuse in the first quarter after sustaining a shoulder injury. The Demon Deacons later reported that Campanaro broke his collarbone and could miss the remainder of the season. Duke will play Wake Forest in three weeks, and the Demon Deacons will be without their leader in every receiving category and their dynamic punt returner.

North Carolina’s starting quarterback Bryn Renner went down with a shoulder injury in the third quarter of last weekend’s game against the Wolfpack. The Tar Heels announced that Renner will have season-ending surgery to repair a separated right shoulder. The senior has been North Carolina’s starter for three seasons, throwing for 64 touchdowns and more than 8,000 yards in his career. Each of Duke’s next four adversaries will be without its best player on the offensive side of the ball. The way the Blue Devil defense has been playing, holding opponents scoreless in seven of the last 12 quarters, this string of late-season injuries will only make things easier for Duke. There is, however, one particular statistic that might give Blue Devil fans a reason to worry. In head coach David Cutcliffe’s first five seasons in Durham, his teams have gone 1-19 in the month of November. It doesn’t help that Duke has typically squared off with some of the toughest teams in the ACC during the final month of the season. The Blue Devils’ only win in November under Cutcliffe came in 2010 against Virginia. But Duke seems to be on the right track this season, and the smart money is on the Blue Devils to improve Cutcliffe’s horrendous record in the month of November. Duke’s defense is on pace to allow just 270 points this season, the lowest total allowed since 1994. Although it sputtered against Virginia Tech, the Blue Devil offense

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Last year, the Blue Devils had to follow up their sixth win by traveling to Tallahassee where they lost to then-No. 11 Florida State 48-7.

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After beating the Hokies for its sixth win, Duke faces a much less daunting schedule to end the season than it did last year.

is also having an outstanding season, showing more balance between the run and pass games than at any other time in the Cutcliffe era. My first column about Duke football this year explained how everything was coming together at the right time for the Blue Devils. With four games left to play, Duke has a chance to win ten games and even play for an ACC Championship. The Blue Devils seem poised to take advantage of its opponents’ misfortunes and make 2013 a historic year.

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Blazing said that playing for the U.S. national team helped her develop her game and her mentality, even before she stepped in the goal for her first NCAA game, after redshirting the 2011 season. “Playing with different people and in different context puts everything in perspective,” Blazing said. “You love the game, so you might as well as go out and play hard every time.” Blazing did not start out her field hockey career in the goal, however. She first played in seventh grade, but after struggling at other positions, a friend recommended she play goalkeeper because the team did not have one. Since the second day of practice in middle school, Blazing has always been in the goal. She would go on to be a four-time MVP at Durham Academy and was Conference Player of the Year her senior year. Blazing then decided to play for the hometown team and attend Duke, which is just 3.9 miles from her high school. As if Blazing did not feel at home enough, her younger sister, Robin, joined the team this season. “We have always grown up around Duke,” Blazing said. “Having Robin here is another great connection to home. It is really nice to play somewhere you know and represent the city you are from.”

Redshirting during her freshman year, Blazing watched her teammates win 14 games and advance all the way to the NCAA quarterfinals during head coach Pam Bustin’s first season. Even after going winless in the ACC last year, Blazing knows that the program is headed in the right direction, something that she and the rest of this year’s squad take pride in being a part of. “I was learning and growing and watching from the sideline during the games,” Blazing said. “Just seeing the attitude that Pam [Bustin] brought to the field and also the seniors that year brought to the field. Everyone is 100 percent invested” As the last line of defense before an opposing team scores, Blazing knows that she must be playing her best even when the pressure is on. Playing in a conference where all of the teams are ranked in the top 25, she knows that there is little room for error, especially going into the postseason. Blazing will be playing in her second-ever ACC tournament game Thursday and her first-ever NCAA tournament game later this month. But with her team behind her, Blazing can count on a response from Duke’s offensive attack, which is averaging 2.50 goals per game. The Blue Devils have found themselves down early in a number of games, but have found ways

to get back in them. Last weekend against Boston College, Duke trailed 1-0 until the final 20 seconds of the game when senior Grace Christus scored the tying goal. The Blue Devils would go on to win the match in their fifth overtime game this season. “You are just like another part of the game,” Blazing said. “If you let one in you can count on your team to score. My mentality is we score first and we score last. If we do that the chances that we are going to win the game are really good.” This mentality has helped Blazing and Duke win three games in ACC for the first time since 2006 and the team hopes to continue its success this weekend in Boston at the ACC tournament. The fifth-seeded Blue Devils will face fourth-seeded Virginia, a team they lost to earlier in the season. Blazing will be back in the cage as usual, doing what she does best: keeping the ball out.

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he watches the most film.... He wears many hats, and those hats are certainly all appreciated.” Although Brown’s coaching in practice is extremely valuable, the statistics he keeps during Duke games are also helpful, allowing the coaching staff to make in-game adjustments more efficiently. Most people would likely fail to notice the stat sheet in Brown’s hands during games, though, and instead be curious about the unique sweaters he dons. “I think it’s cool that he has his own trademark,” junior forward Elizabeth Williams said. “When we went to France [during the summer of 2012], we went into one of the stores and it had a bunch of sweaters like that, so we each pitched in and got him a new one. They’re really cool. I think it’s awesome. I love his sweaters. I think it’s odd when he’s not wearing a sweater.” In recent years, a twist has been added to Brown’s quirky habit, as practice player Will Giles—now a junior and captain of the practice squad—has gone beyond his voluntary duties and helps Brown keep detailed statistics at home games. Giles has started show-

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ing off his own flashy sweaters, starting a friendly rivalry between two of the more competitive men associated with Duke women’s basketball. “Will is a great young man,” Brown said. “He just loves the game and he loves sweaters. He and I, I guess, according to him, have a contest. According to me, it’s no contest, he has to finish second.... That’s been fun to do. I’ve enjoyed that, and I think he has too.” Brown’s 35th season as a basketball coach will commence Sunday, making him one of the longest-tenured basketball coaches in the college game today. The Blue Devils definitely do not take the man behind the sweaters for granted. “Coach Brown is great,” Williams said. “He’s seen the game from all

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Do we deserve college? Every year administrators at the best universities stand at convocation, congratulate the incoming students and declare grandiosely that all of them deserve to be there. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article by Kevin Carey challenging the notion that high-achieving students “deserve” to attend elite institutions and arguing that this understanding of what acceptance means is detrimental to the broader community. Carey argues that the word “deserve” connotes obligation in exchange for service. College students may have excelled in their high schools, but most cannot say that they have made a significant contribution to society’s wellbeing before starting college. In American society, however, we cling to the idea of desert. Equality of opportunity is of the greatest importance, and success is only admired if society imagines that it was genuinely earned and not inherited from a fortunate set of life circumstances. In order to maintain this sense of equality, we have a compulsion to tie important opportunities, like attending a prestigious college, to work previously done and, further, to conclude from this connection

that those opportunities are deserved. We argue that such a perspective is fundamentally wrong. There is no question that Duke students

Editorial have all done very well in high school, nor is there much doubt that it took a decent amount of determination, hard work and sacrifice to get here. Congratulating students on past achievements, however, is not valuable without communicating to them that their societal responsibilities are even greater now that they are here. External parties, like recruiters from top financial firms, only serve to strengthen the excessive validation and reinforcement of self-worth that students at elite universities already receive in unhealthy and unproductive amounts. As a result, a divide between us—the students at Duke—and them—the students who were not admitted—emerges and fosters attitudes of condescension and disdain. Perhaps Duke students do deserve to be here because of our efforts in high school, but in order to truly “deserve” the Duke degree,

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we need to do far more than passively coast through eight semesters of classes. There exists a temptation to become complacent and think that we have “already made it.” The reality is that this approach to a Duke experience, even if it is not coupled with an attempt to engage with course material, is probably going to put Duke students in better stead than most students in the country, all because of the word “Duke” at the top of our transcript. Indeed, students at Duke are often sheltered from bigger social issues, making it easy for them to forget about those issues and instead turn to exciting, careeroriented pursuits. Society does not owe us the opportunities associated with a top education. Instead, it invests in us because it deems that we have the potential to contribute to society. Desert is not what admissions officers look for when they evaluate a candidate. In the end, they select the candidates whom they feel are likely to gain the most from the University and produce the greatest societal return on investment. Because of the rich personal benefits that come from attending a top college, we remain very much obliged to give back to our communities.

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gerrymandering do not suppress minority votes are, therefore, no longer necessary. The Chief Justice’s remarks sparked substantial outrage, and the force of his argument was undermined by the almost immediate enforcement of voter ID laws in Texas and Mississippi. Officially intended to combat voter fraud, these measures did not pass the “preclearance” procedures under the Voting Rights Act and could substantially suppress minority and low-income votes. The attempt by Republican state politicians to suppress these votes through the enactment of voter ID laws is indicative of a more engrained racism that is closely connected to what is the “right” path for society to follow. Conveniently for the Republic Party, voters most likely to be affected by the new laws—blacks, the elderly, students and people with disabilities— are disproportionately more likely to vote Democratic. Thus, in suppressing those votes, the new laws are privileging the vision of a 1950s United States, the country that could have put Mitt Romney in the White House. This engrained racism is expressed outside of the context of voter laws in the realm of child protective services, in particular in determining what is in a child’s “best interest.” When an incident of child abuse is reported to social services, the standard for all action taken by service providers is the child’s best interest. This is a highly factbased analysis that takes account of such things as family connections, the child’s history and even the child’s own expressed desires (assuming he or she is old enough to vocalize those desires). In the end, however, it is an adult member of a local Department of Social Services who makes the decision whether to take a child out of his or her biological family to protect his or her best interests and keep the child safe. This was the justification that South Dakota Department of Social Services director Virgena Wieseler gave in 2011 for her department’s practice of taking Native American children away from their families

and placing them with white foster parents. This is the reality, despite the federal statute that only justifies social services intervention in an emergency situation and the Indian Child Welfare Act, which mandates that Indian children be placed with relatives, a tribal member or at least another Native American, if at all possible. A similar standard for removal of children from their biological family exists in Ireland, the site of the recent controversy over the removal of a blonde, blue-eyed child from her family home. The 7-year-old girl was taken away from her family home in a Dublin suburb after a neighbor informed police that the little girl did not look like her Roma family. The child’s parents submitted the child’s birth certificate and a passport to the police, but these documents were not accepted as conclusive proof of their status as the child’s biological parents. Instead, it took DNA testing to convince the Dublin family court that the blonde little girl had not been “stolen” by the Roma couple. Granted, the United States does not have the same complicated history with the Roma as many European countries. It is, however, true that the fear of Roma parents with light-skinned children, that police of skinheads could try to “save” their children by taking them away, reflects an engrained racism similar to that manifested in the problem social services has in the United States of taking Native American children away from their parents. Both the Roma and Native Americans are the stereotypical “other.” Both groups have a culture and history distinct from that of the country they live in. In many cases, members of these groups speak a different language from the majority population and may live in an isolated enclave (either a geographic reality, as in the case of a Native American reservation or an artificially imposed reality, as in the case of “Roma camps”). As the degree of “otherness” increases, the majority becomes more and more concerned about the fate of children being raised by this “other.” And this concern is only multiplied when the child looks more like the majority than like the “other,” as in the case of blonde-haired, blue-eyed Roma child. This whole discussion might seem a little irrelevant to the life of the average member of the Duke community. But that is precisely my point. Chief Justice Roberts may be under the impression that racism has been conquered in the United States, but a more caustic and damaging form of racism survives under the surface. It manifests itself in the form of concern for children’s well being. Joline Doedens is a second-year law student. Her column runs every other Wednesday. Send Joline a message @jydoedens.

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ntelligence, once thought to be a complex trait created through a mixture of many genes and environmental factors, was proven in a recent study to be entirely determined by a single gene that influences skin color. “Despite what anyone else may say, there is only one skin color gene, and that same, single gene determines intelligence. There are really no other

Lillie Reed wumbology factors that could be related, at all. We looked into it really hard—there was a lot of science involved, trust me,” stated Richard Goebbels, the study’s head author and chief publicist. “We based our study on two measures: IQ and skin color.” Goebbels told reporters at his elite country club in Jackson, Miss., where he has lived all his life in his family’s mansion. “After honing in on those two traits, we used complex statistical and genetic algorithms to find that the skin color and IQ gene are actually the same. The only other partially related factor was the X chromosome, which was found to eliminate some intelligence. And women have two of those, so that explains that.” When questioned further about methods of the study, Goebbels stated that they relied on similar techniques as used in an episode of “The Magic School Bus,” but refused to elaborate or confirm that the episode in question was about evolutionary genetics. Duke University evolutionary anthropology professor Dr. Rosa Franklin criticized the results as misleading and unscientific. “You can’t publish something without a true explicated methodology or peer review. There are too many confounding variables,” Franklin claimed—or something like that, it was too science-y for reporters to care. “Like other publications before it, not only does it demonstrate ignorance about what IQ is and the factors that affect IQ, but it also portrays a sheer lack of understanding of statistics. Correlation does not prove causation. In fact, race is a social construct with no true grounding in biology, so IQ differences between races are likely a result of structural oppression, historicallycreated socioeconomic inequalities and reduced opportunity—not genetics.” It must be noted, however, that Franklin, a tenured professor at Duke, is black and therefore cannot be trusted on such issues. Foreseeing this criticism, Goebbels made it clear in interviews that he is, in fact, not a racist. “Now don’t get me wrong—intelligence isn’t everything. Dark-skinned races or, as we refer to them in scientific study, darkies, probably have many other skills. For instance, what

they lack in IQ they can make up for in dancing or sports. Plus, I’ve heard they make a mean fried chicken.” Goebbels went on to explain that he has many black employees, with whom he eases the obvious communication barriers their low IQ creates by speaking to them in their native proto-language, “the Ebonics.” In closing remarks, Goebbels noted, “This is just science. No hard feelings.” Due to the pressing nature of the data to race relations and policy in the United States, Goebbels and his team decided to skip the peer review step of scientific research and go straight to publication. The details of the study can be found in a book, entitled “The Perfect Correlation: Dark Skin and Dumbness in American Life.” Pre-sales already project that the book will top the New York Times bestseller list upon its release. This study came at an interesting time for Duke University, where just a week ago students walked out on Charles Murray, the co-author of the controversial book, “The Bell Curve.” In the book, Murray and co-author Richard Herrnstein stated that race accounts for variation in intelligence. The authors go on to assert that humans are becoming more polarized in their intelligence, and that the United States will soon be a society where whites and Asians will live in guarded and highly protected reserves to protect themselves from the “menace of the slums.” According to Murray and Herrnstein, genetically lower races will become “permanent wards of the states” unless we reduce immigration and eliminate programs such as welfare that encourage these low-IQ races from having children. When asked for comment on the policy implications raised by Goebbels’s new book, Murray declined to reply, but instead blew a raspberry at reporters before taking off his clothes and running around, flipping off nearby black children and yelling “Told ya so!” Beyond the policy suggestions in “The Bell Curve,” Goebbels has some levelheaded ideas of his own about how to combat the eventual idiocracy of a racially diverse United States. In a private interview with The Chronicle, Goebbels suggested politically novel techniques such as exercising strict racial preference when marrying and separating schools by upper and lower race tiers so as to prevent low-race students from holding others back. He also suggests creating public health campaigns to make homosexuality more acceptable in black communities so they do not reproduce. “Oh, and avoid sunlight at all costs,” he stated in closing. “As we all know, skin color can be impacted by environmental factors. Don’t risk tanning yourself dumb.”

t took them two weeks to find all the bodies in the desert. What little remained was enough to traumatize the responders. Almoustapha Alhacen, a man from a humanitarian organization in the nearby town of Arlit, Niger, described the scene to reporters: “They were dehydrated, decomposed. Some of them had been eaten by jackals. You couldn’t recognize them.” The migrants had fanned out from their broken-down vehicles in search of a well, making the recovery

How many Americans know, for example, that their government has over the years invested millions in Niger, starting as part of the State Department’s Pan-Sahel Initiative? Not many, likely because these dollars are doing little to relieve the pain of Niger’s people, by some accounts the world’s most indigent. Mostly the point has been to end lives, not save them. The amount of grain equivalent to a base of drones—a new one built in Niger earlier this year—is difficult to determine,

Prashanth Kamalakanthan subalternatives work slow. Alhacen’s team found groups of corpses spread all around. “Some were lying under trees, others exposed to the sun. Sometimes we found a mother and her children. Some were children alone.” Scattered among the dead—92 in total, almost all women and children— were scant details of the lives once lived. Tattered Qurans and small blackboards of the kind children use to copy verses… were these students and teachers? Wouldbe mendicants in the oil-rich cities of neighboring Algeria? Dying in the attempt to become beggars—one possibility. Another: They could have been en route to Europe, like the 365 engulfed off the Italian island of Lampedusa when their boat capsized in October. It is impossible to say for sure. The desert destroyed too much of the story. Still, some facts are certain. These former humans were fleeing poverty of an intensity most of us cannot imagine. Niger ranks dead last on the United Nations Human Development Index, 80 percent of its population facing food insecurity. Nearly one in five Nigerien children is malnourished, in some regions one in two. An estimated 80,000 people make the perilous journey through the Sahara each year, many of them climate refugees, all of them economic migrants. Africa will be the hardest hit among all continents by climate change, despite being historically least responsible for the crisis. Rainfall in the Sahel has decreased by 25 percent in the last 30 years, and droughts have increased in severity and frequency. Crop yields will fall by as much as 22 percent by 2050. In Niger, billboards advertise lotteries for food. Mobile phone companies raffle off sacks of grain as top prizes. Shortages at the moment, however, are more of sympathy than of seed. Food is plentiful in many of Niger’s markets, but it is out of reach to ordinary people. Speculation on agricultural commodities since 2006 has been linked to price increases of up to 300 percent for some basic staples, a situation that United Nations Special Rapporteur Jean Ziegler has called “silent mass murder.” In the United States, a single country whose emissions surpass that of the entire African continent, the murder of Africans (silent or loud) does not ever resonate much.

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Lillie Reed is a Trinity senior. Her column is part of the weekly Socialites feature and runs every other Wednesday. Send Lillie a message on Twitter @LillieReed.

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because Pentagon budgets are notoriously opaque. They are also known for being large. (Probably a lot of sacks.) Michael Shurkin, a former CIA analyst who took the revolving door to the RAND Corporation, told the New York Times that the new Air Force base in Niger is part of the U.S. response to “a security environment in Africa that is increasingly more complex and therefore more dangerous.” Wherefrom this complexity-thereforedanger? Unlike the erased histories of those found in the desert, we know a fair amount about America’s recent past in Africa. And a single point is enough to start tracing the shape of the beast. May 23, 2013: Arlit, the town in Niger that the migrants left behind, saw suicide car bombs explode at a Frenchoperated uranium facility. Taking credit for the strike was an Algerian militant, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, groomed into violence during the U.S.-backed Afghan war against the Soviet Union. It was claimed retaliation for the joint U.S.French intervention in Mali, whose state collapsed after a coup led by an American-trained officer. That coup was part of a trend: U.S.-trained armies have seized control in two other Sahel nations—including Niger—in the past eight years, trying and failing in one more (Chad, 2006). Triggering the takeover in Mali was the prior U.S.-led bombing of Libya. Tuareg fighters once in Qaddafi’s service looted his weapons caches, crossed over into their native northern Mali and declared independence. An even broader picture: In 2006, before the U.S.’s military’s latest global command in Africa—AFRICOM—was born, 11 African countries ranked among the Fund for Peace’s top 20 “Failed States.” That number is now 16. It is easy enough to see these cycles of violence, to step back from the insanity in building more bases, emitting more carbon, speculating on more commodities… all at once, blind to the suffering of those who bear the burden. But in the desert of compassion, Africans are invisible, and profits loom bright. Prashanth Kamalakanthan is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday. Send Prashanth a message on Twitter @pkinbrief.

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Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Exciting courses for Spring 2014 For more information please contact 668-2603 AMES 118S/REL 161YS Religion and Culture in Korea This course introduces you to the dynamics of contemporary Korean religions: Shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam and new religions including Kimilsungism. From a global perspective, we look critically at the diverse expressions of Korean religions in popular culture, politics, economy, literature, sports, and media. You will gain a firm grasp of how contemporary Korean religions reflect Korea’s two-pronged effort, namely, to be international and at the same time to preserve its unique cultural, ethnic heritage. Professor Hwansoo Kim

AMES 311S/AMI 266S/ICS 311S/VMS 354S

Poetic Cinema

Sources of “resonance” in international cinema, especially in films from Asia and the Middle East. Aspects of film construction which conduce to intense experience for viewers. Yasujiro Ozu, Satyajit Ray, Tsai Ming-Liang, Lee Changdong, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and others. Introduction to indigenous aesthetics in India, China, Japan, Korea and the Arab World. Professor Satti Khanna

AMES 322/REL 263/ICS 323 Mystical Literature This course aims at exploring and examining the tradition of mysticism in literature of world, British, and American writers. The objective is to introduce graduate and undergraduate students to numerous genres and literary works that manifest a deep religious attitude or experience as a way of life and cross-cultural phenomenon. Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad

AMES 335/HIS 228/AMI 337/ICS 336 Chinatowns: A Cultural History Explores the intersection of space and ethnicity through the myriad ways Chinatown has circulated as memory, fantasy, narrative, myth, in the dominant cultural imagination, and how lived realities of overseas Chinese communities, Asian American history, and changing conceptions of “Chineseness” have productively engaged with real and phantom Chinatowns. Research will emphasize multi-disciplinary approaches, such as urban history, architecture, ethnography, economics; or engagement in a creative project. Professor Eileen Chow

AMES 339/REL 386 Local Islams A hands-on introduction to the Sufi, Salafi, Sunni, Shia, and Nation of Islam Muslims in the area and to the diverse locales, ethnicities, and practices of the Muslim community at large. A scholarly examination of Islam in America, African American Islam, mosque and school, interfaith and pluralism, and Islamic feminism. Includes field trips and group projects in the local community, films and literature about American Islam. Students will forge local relationships that will deepen and enrich your intellectual understanding of Islam, Muslims, and America. Professors Ellen McLarney and Abdullah Antepli

AMES 390S Serial Fictions: The Art of ‘To Be Continued...’ Seminar looking at the forms that seriality has taken: from Arabian Nights and Journey to the West, to Victorian serialists like Dickens and Conan Doyle, to daily ‘funnies’ and comics, anime and manga, contemporary genre fiction and endless movie sequels, this course will focus on diverse media (oral traditions, modern novels, cinema, soap operas, graphic novels, fanfiction, transmedial narratives, social media) that use the serial form as audience lure and aesthetic device. Professor Eileen Chow

AMES 410/CULANTH 366/AMI 410 Trauma in In Asia, the map of Asia was radically redrawn. The old imperial powers were forced to give up most of their colonial possessions. As new nation states were established, new colonial powers sought to replace the old European powers. One of the main tools employed by the international community in carving these new political entities and in dividing areas of dominance was territorial partitioning. The latter was anything but peaceful, and exacted a high psychological toll, both individually and collectively. It was, in other words, traumatic. This course explores how this traumatic experience was represented in documentary and narrative films in Asia, from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Professors Nayoung Aimee Kwon and Shai Ginsburg AMES 415S/CULANTH 315S/VMS 416S/LIT 315S/ICS 415S Interethnic Intimacies This course examines the cultural politics and political economies of interethnic intimacies or intercourse of and about “Asia. Literature, visual culture, and history will be read along with theories of critical race studies, gender and sexuality, postcolonialism, globalization. Topics range from missionaries and picture brides to movements of transnational capital and labor, from techno-Orientalism and “Asian exotica” to international adoptions, from virtual realities to military prostitution to interracial romance. Asks why cultural representations matter in the ways societies produce and consume objects of desire and repulsion. Professor Nayoung Aimee Kwon

AMES 422S Arab Women Writers Through fiction, film, autobiography and new media, students will be exposed to the writings of women from Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria, Morocco, the Arab Gulf and Egypt. Students will consider several key questions: How do Arab women contest the notion that feminism is a Western ideology? Are Arab women’s demands for justice, freedom and equality a recent trend? How have global politics impacted the articulation of Arab women’s rights? Have the recent revolutions in the Arab world shaped a new discourse? The course will address major debates surrounding the roles of women in war, marriage, and Islamization. Professor miriam cooke

AMES 439/CULANTH 335/WOMENST430/LIT 429/AMI 439/VMS 439 Queer China This new course will examine queer-themed Chinese cultural phenomena, particularly literary and cinematic works from twentieth century China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. We will examine how the shifting configurations of identity and desire reflected in queer texts are informed by an array of socio-cultural, legal, and practical considerations. Readings will also include historical, anthropological, and sociological writings, as well as works in queer theory and gender studies. The undergraduate and graduate sections of this course will cover similar material, though the graduate section will pursue the material in more depth. Professor Carlos Rojas

AMES 482 The Arabian Nights in the West

The course aims at introducing the student to the most popular world literature in the West, The One Thousand and One Nights (alf layla wa layla). This collection of Oriental frame tales captured the imagination of generations of Western readers and prominent writers. The Arabian Nights presents in both classical Arabic and vernacular- fairy tales, romances, fables, legends, parables, anecdotes, erotica, debates, and adventures in which the main narrative is embedded within a preliminary narrative. The Night’s narrative techniques have appeared in the works of other English and European writers in a steady stream up to the modern times. Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad