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Three new athletic practice and recreation fields–two artificial turfs and one grass–will open to all students and faculty Dec. 13. The fields, located along Frank Bassett Drive behind Wallace Wade Stadium, are the athletic department’s first project financed by the Duke Forward capital campaign. The athletics segment of Duke Forward, centered on the theme “Building Champions,” aims to raise $250 million to support operating costs and the athletics endowment, as well as transform athletic facilities over the next three years. “This is the first step in creating more and better playing surfaces for our students at Duke and also fulfilling our master plan,” wrote Mike Cragg, deputy director of athletics and operations, in an email Monday. The next steps of the athletics plan include breaking ground for a track and field stadium and installing new bleachers and lighting for Koskinen Stadium. Duke Athletics also plans to upgrade Olympic sports facilities and Wallace Wade and Cameron Indoor stadiums. Eventually, there are plans to create a plaza connecting Wallace Wade, Cameron and other sports venues that will put the multipurpose William David Murray Building in a more prominent location. “We have to do the construction strategically,” said Senior Associate Director of Athletics Tom Coffman. “As we move around, upgrading facilities, we just have to be smart about what will be needed to be used when.”

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Coffman cited poor gameday experiences for student athletes, coaches, fans and alumni as the catalyst behind the construction. “It’s important that athletics, as one

of the front porches of campus, is attractive,” Coffman said. “Our venues are not See fields, page 3

Gamma Phi Beta is preparing to recruit its first Duke pledge class in the Spring, becoming the tenth sorority on campus. Following the formal Panhellenic Association recruitment process for Spring, the new chapter will conduct public relations efforts and announce its extension process. Consultants from Gamma Phi Beta visited campus the week of Nov. 10 and hosted an information session. In contrast to the nine chapters currently on campus, Gamma Phi Beta will recruit unaffiliated juniors and seniors, as well as freshmen and sophomores. The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life announced in April that Gamma Phi Beta would be joining the Greek community, after the Panhellenic Association made the decision to expand in Spring 2012. “We look for people that we think are going to be a part of our community and mesh well with the community,” said Clarybel Peguero, assistant dean and director of fraternity and sorority life. “Gamma Phi Beta really sold us on that it would be able to come in and really be a part of our Duke community,” The addition of the new chapter will serve to alleviate the burden on the current sororities of accommodating the large numbers of interested students. Gamma Phi Beta will also provide a new option for women who might choose not to rush at See gamma, page 8

DSG representatives seek to add courses that engage Durham by Patricia Spears The Chronicle

Duke Student Government representatives are working to increase Duke engagement with Durham affairs. Recognizing the changing politics in North Carolina, as well as student interest for increased involvement in local and regional affairs, DSG senators are working to help create more courses that focus on Durham history and politics. Sophomore Mousa Alshanteer, senator for Durham and regional affairs, worked in conjunction with freshman James Ferencsik, senator for academic affairs, to gauge faculty interest and develop a plan moving forward. “Too often…Duke becomes a kind of bubble,” said Orin Starn, chair and professor of cultural anthropology. “Students don’t leave campus. They go off to study about Af-

rica, about Asia…but aren’t really as aware of cultural issues, historical issues, political challenges closer to home.” The University used to offer many classes on local and state governments, the history of Duke and the history of the region, including the involvement in the civil rights movement, noted Alshanteer, who is the editorial page managing editor for The Chronicle. These classes were extremely popular, he added, but interest in global affairs and changes in faculty forced a decline in courses of this nature being offered. Some of these courses remain—generally through service-based learning—but are offered inconsistently, Alshanteer said. Although there are many existing connections between the University and the surrounding community, only a select few have students directly involved.

Junior Ray Li, vice president for academic affairs, noted that though service-learning courses brought students closer to the community, not all students have time for such a commitment, and these new courses may be more accessible. This type of community-based classwork is not unique to Duke. Many other schools in North Carolina—such as Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—as well as peer institutions like Brown University and Stanford University, offer courses about state and local affairs, Alshanteer said. He stressed that the new courses would not just be for history majors, but would encompass a wide range of interests, possibly including cultural anthropology, African and African American studies, women’s studies and engineering.

Much of the impetus for the new courses was the student interest in recent changes in state politics, including voting laws, Li said. Ferencsik said that a portion of this initiative would include programming aspects. Senators hope to engage local politicians and representatives of non-governmental organizations, as well as attend city council meetings. He said the desire to engage and make a difference in the community is a main benefit of the new coursework “If you don’t understand the world immediately outside of Duke, you don’t understand Duke, you don’t understand yourself as a student,” Ferenscik said. Even if not all students take these courses, those who do will make the student body better informed about the local community, Li See Education, page 8

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Google secures victory over Authors Guild DGHI brings pediatric care to Guatemala by Aubrey Temple The ChrOnICle

In light of Google’s nov. 14 victory in a lawsuit against the Authors Guild, students can continue using Google Books as an academic research tool. The lawsuit began in 2005 after Authors Guild, a collective organization of author representatives, accused Google of digitizing millions of books without copyright permission. The organization claimed that Google’s online library, Google Books, primarily served to enhance their website and gain a competitive advantage over fellow online search engines and demanded that the company pay $750 for each scanned book. Google’s victory was announced by U.S. circuit judge Denny Chin. University leaders noted that the case’s significance carries past its immediate effects on Google itself. “This ruling sets an important precedent that allows analogous projects to proceed going forward without the risk of legal liability,” said Jennifer Jenkins, a senior lecturing fellow at the School of law. Jenkins noted that the verdict safeguards the use of valuable research tools. As a result, Duke students can continue to benefit from Google Books as an academic aid. Universities not only allow students to use Google Books but also enable them to use the program well through teaching them how to use it, said Kevin Smith, director of copyright and scholarly communications at the Duke University libraries. he added that, within the court room, Justice Chin strongly emphasized the importance of Google Books for research. Google Books contribution to the public played a role in the verdict, said Jenkins. The court ruled in Google’s favor because it recognized a significant public benefit from Google Books and recognized Google Books as fair use of copyright material. Jenkins added that fair use allows use of copyright material without permission if it is socially beneficial and does not interfere with legitimate markets of its author.

“Fair use is presented based of the facts that are presented to the court of a particular case,” Smith said. “So the outcome may not be the same for other similar cases.” The ruling stated that Google Books makes books more readily accessible, allows users to view how words and phrases have changed over time and helps libraries preserve literature through digitization, Jenkins noted. The project has additional benefits in its ability to aid print disabled populations—such as blind people—and increase featured authors’ marketability and presence. Much of Google’s defense aligned with the reasons given in the court ruling for the corporation’s victory. In addition, the defense documents claimed that Google’s use of the online library was only “indirectly commercial” and did not earn revenue from the display of the author’s work. Google Books came about in 2004 when an agreement to digitize current and out-of-print works was approved by various libraries from major research institutions such as harvard University, Oxford University and Stanford University as well as the new York Public library. These institutions sent trucks of books to many of Google’s secret locations and digitized them using sophisticated technology, Jenkins said. Google also implemented the program Partner Project, which allows an author to make certain specifications about how their work is presented and conduct a deal to allow Google to digitalize their work. Jenkins noted that Google scanned books from the libraries without permission because the project would have been impossible otherwise. “Trying to find all the owners of those books would have been impossible...the time it would have taken to get copyright permission from all those authors would have been ridiculously long—the project would have become unrealistic,” Jenkins said. Although the final verdict was in Google’s favor, Authors Guild plans to appeal the original decision. “So it’s not over, but it was a big decision,” Smith said.

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A multidisciplinary team from Duke is providing pediatric surgical care and research in Guatemala, where access to medical services is limited. led by henry rice, a professor of pediatric surgery at the Duke Global health Institute, a team of Duke Medicine and DGhI faculty members partnered with the Moore Pediatric Surgical Center in Guatemala City to provide pediatric surgical care and education over the last three years. The team includes surgeons, anesthesiologists, technicians and student trainees. rice began building relationships with a small group of pediatric surgeons in Guatemala while visiting frequently to build houses with his family. The project, which started as a smaller base effort, has now grown into a multi-faceted platform that involves education and research initiatives. rice said the environment in Guatemala forces the staff to perform their jobs with fewer resources and less money. The platform is about providing state-of-the-art care in an environment that does not have the resources the staff is used to working with. This fosters a learning experience that cannot be duplicated elsewhere and also provides cost-effective models of care to emulate upon leaving Guatemala, he added. “The care we want to provide is as high-quality as at Duke or anywhere else,” he said. “how we translate quality into working with less resources is the most challenging and rewarding aspect.” Using advanced techniques, the team works with Guatemalan experts to study how health care limited by financial, structural and cultural barriers affects Guatemalans’ access to care and how these barriers can be overcome. rice said these same problems and solutions can be applied to areas such as Durham, as well. rice returns to Guatemala every six months and the whole team visits roughly once a year. They have taken two major trips to Guatemala so far and provide operations to approximately 50 children per trip. rice calls the program a “win-win” for all who are involved. By sharing techniques with staff in Guatemala and working closely in a challenging environment, Duke faculty and trainees provide care to children but also develop a sense of camaraderie, he said. “It is wonderful to be able to augment our own clinical care by augmenting care in Guatemala, “ he said. “You get used to seeing staff trudging through their jobs. But in

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HackDuke produces innovative technology by Tessa Vellek The ChrOnICle

hackDuke—the first 24-hour hack-a-thon at Duke—assembled students and individuals from the American tech community earlier this month, resulting in innovative new technology created in just a day. There were 102 projects and approximately 540 students from around the country competing, said hackDuke founder Dennis li. hackDuke bussed students to the University from approximately five other schools, and students from more than 15 schools attended overall. Twenty judges worked in pairs to evaluate the projects according to a grading rubric. The winning project was a battery-powered glove system that can interpret sign language into a text translation and then speech, but participants produced many other promising projects as well. “When you’re forced to do [a project] in 24 hours, it’s pretty cool to see what you can get done in that time,” junior Tyler nisonoff said. “I think everyone always exceeds their expectations.” Duke students developed new technology involving art, gaming and language, for example. nisonoff—along with junior Chinmay Patwardhan, junior ryan Toussaint and senior Austin ness—created an app called Art Genius that won second place. nisonoff said the app will crowdsource annotations of images, which will both teach people about art history and allow them to

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explore art in new ways. The team is planning to launch the app over winter break. “We wanted to modernize [art history] and create a new interface for learning about art and all its intricacies,” nisonoff said. “The hope is that if you get enough people on the site, people who know a lot about certain images or certain periods of art can add their expert knowledge to the images.” Another project hoped to modernize the way people around the world play video games by avoiding

the computer installation process and lowering fees. “Computers are changing, but the way we play games hasn’t changed,” senior William li said. “PC gaming has become very, very resource intensive. Although we do have significantly more hardware space now, the games are taking up more space.” William li and his teammates call their cloud gaming project “Sora,” which he said could revolutionize the world of video games. It would allow gamers to pay by the

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hour instead of per game, and without taking up hard drive space. li said he has a solid business plan and will compete with the project in the Duke Startup Challenge. he said he is “in it for the long haul.” First, though, li must tackle copyright infringement issues because their model is similar to other media-sharing technologies such as Pandora, Spotify and netflix. “We don’t have any precedent on [copyright] issues…. It’s a place where you have a whole library of contents for subscription fees,” li said. “For Pandora at least, they pay the artist based on how many times the song is played. That’s exactly what we’re going to do. I don’t see why game publishers will reject that idea.” Cash prizes were awarded for the top three projects as well as a “novice prize,” but the top 11 projects were presented to the entire group and are featured on hack Duke’s website. Art Genius was awarded second prize and Sora was one of the top 11. “We were expecting more softer projects, like a phone app or a website, but instead what we got were a lot of really, really impressive projects that used hardwares,” Dennis li said. Dennis li was pleased with the success of this year’s event and said there are plans for another hack Duke next year. “I’m still kind of in shock at the fact that we pulled it off,” Dennis li said.

FIELDS from page 1 fan-friendly at present, so our goal is make that better.” The slated athletic renovation and construction projects, including the new athletic fields opening soon, are estimated to cost $100 million, Cragg noted. “It’s not as if we’re going out there and just being spendthrifts,” Coffman said. “We’re impacting the entire athletics campus with a sum of money that most schools are spending just on their football games alone.” Project manager Audrey Frasca, among others, noted that the artificial turf will allow the fields to be used all year without having to worry about overuse. “Playing on fields yearround would actually be really nice,” freshman Matt Gherman said. “The fields will be located pretty conveniently from dorms on West.” Coffman said that providing accessible space for students to exercise is a high priority for the athletic department. “We’re doing all of this, not just for the athletics, but also our recreational space,” Coffman said. “We’re trying to make sure all of our 600 plus student athletes and the University community are benefiting.”

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Senior captains Ali McCurdy (left) and Chelsea Cook (right) could play the final home games of their collegiate career this week when Duke hosts N.C. State and North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium with a chance to win the conference title. “[Hopper] did a really great job against us,” Nagel said. “We’re obviously going to have to do better. Our blocking defense has to be better to be successful against them this time.” In addition to blockers, Duke will counter Hopper with senior libero Ali McCurdy, who holds the ACC’s all-time digs record and tacked on 14 more against the Seminoles. Another bright spot was junior setter Maggie Deichmeister, who leads the ACC with 11.39 assists per set. Sophomore outside hitter Emily Sklar is another weapon on the Duke offense, pacing the team with 3.98 kills per set, good for second in the conference. Sklar’s 10-kill performance against Florida State was her 24th match in double-digits this season. The Blue Devils will then close out the season against North Carolina Friday, and if they defeat both the Wolfpack and the Tar Heels, they will clinch the ACC title. Two days after facing the Tar Heels, Duke will learn its seeding for the NCAA tournament, which begins Dec. 5. Currently No. 18 in the NCAA RPI, the team is in contention to potentially host two rounds of the tournament. “These are two very important matches for us, because these two senior captains [McCurdy and Chelsea Cook] have had great success in Cameron,” Nagel said. “We just want to help them end on a very strong note and send them off in style, but we don’t want them to finish up playing yet.”

ACC expansion extends season through holidays After the dust settled from last year’s conference realignment boom that left the ACC with 15 schools, the most asked questions were about how the new programs would affect the league’s football and basketball profiles. But the addition of three more schools had an unexpected consequence for the Duke volleyball team: Because of the altered schedule, this year they have to spend Thanksgiving in Durham. In recent years, the regular-season finale came on the Tuesday before Turkey Day. The Blue Devils would practice Wednesday morning and then fly home after that to spend Thanksgiving with their respective families before returning for the NCAA tournament selection show and practice that Sunday. This year Duke plays Wednesday and Friday, so all of that is gone. But that doesn’t mean Thanksgiving is lost: The coaches, players and staff will celebrate together at the University Club in Durham along with team family members, who are coming to town from all across the country. “I think it’s nice that we’ll have that early lunch and you still have the opportunity to hang out with your family individually that night,” senior Ali McCurdy said. “Different

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families come on different weekends, and it will be cool that the majority of people’s families are here for the first time altogether.” Head coach Jolene Nagel said she thought the Thanksgiving respite was a nice treat in previous years because the team could be so worn down by the end of the season. The trip home would allow the players to prepare for finals, rest any injuries and relax with family and friends. Now that Nagel is in charge of the festivities, she said there’s a “method to [her] madness” and scheduled the team feast for 1 p.m. so they have time to digest before Friday’s showdown with North Carolina. And before chowing down, they will practice to get ready for a game that has implications both in the ACC and for the NCAA tournament. Entering Wednesday at 16-2 in conference play, Duke will win the league title outright if it wins its final two games against N.C. State and North Carolina. The Blue Devils also have a chance to host the first two rounds of the NCAA if their RPI is high enough. Sixteen teams get to host and the Duke currently ranks No. 18 in the latest RPI rankings, though wins against two teams ranked in the top-50 might be enough to give them that two-spot boost. That could determine if Friday’s Senior Night is the last time Chelsea Cook and McCurdy, the team’s only two seniors, play at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Nagel said she hopes there is a respectable turnout for Friday’s celebration for Cook and McCurdy, who are also the team’s two captains. See BEATON, page 5

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After watching its 11-game winning streak get snapped last weekend, Duke returns home with a chance for revenge against N.C. State. The No. 15 Blue Devils return to Cameron Indoor Stadium, where they have a 13-0 N.C. State record this season, for vs. their final two matches of the season. They No. 15 Duke begin with the Wolfpack Wednesday at 2 WEDNESDAY, 2 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium p.m. before concluding the regular season with senior night Friday at 3 p.m. against North Carolina. “When we go on these road trips, we’re gone from Friday to Sunday, and that’s a challenge for these student-athletes,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “It’s exciting to be home just because... we’ve had to play in their facilities and that’s not easy.” Duke (25-4, 16-2 in the ACC) was swept by then-No. 19 Florida State Sunday, their first loss since Oct. 13—when they fell to the Wolfpack in Raleigh. The Blue Devils battled in the first two sets, and ended up locked at 22-22 in each. Florida State, however, was able to pull away due to 20 Duke attack errors and a 15-kill performance by sophomore outside hitter Nicole Walch. The Seminoles handily defeated the Blue Devils 25-17 to take the match. “It’s not that we played poorly, we played pretty well,” Nagel said. “Maybe that’s why it was hard to watch. We were so close but just didn’t finish on a couple of things to make the difference.” Duke’s battle with Florida State resembled its earlier match with N.C. State this season. Although the Blue Devils took command of the match with a 25-22 win in the first set, the Wolfpack (20-10, 11-7) fought back to notch 25-15, 25-21 and 25-21 victories. Two key pieces to N.C. State’s victory against Duke—and its defense all season—were liberos Alston Kearns and Rachel Eppley, who combined for 19 digs against the Blue Devils. Kearns leads the Wolfpack with 448 digs on the season, and Eppley is third with 242. Both have appeared in every set N.C. State has played this season. Powering N.C State’s attack this season is junior Dariyan Hopper. Against the Blue Devils, Hopper tallied 18 kills for a team-high .484 hitting percentage. The outside hitter’s offensive prowess has been a problem for opponents all season, as she leads the Wolfpack in kills, kills per set and total points.

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Even if students won’t be around, she said local Durham fans can provide the support they deserve. “We’re all hoping we can pull out some good wins and be ranked in the top 16 so we can play a few more in Cameron,” Cook said. “It’s kind of a bummer that a lot of the student population won’t be there Friday, but hopefully we’ll still be able to get a good crowd because it’s the Duke-UNC rivalry, and it’s a big game in the ACC as well.” Thursday’s catered extravaganza may not have the touch of home that most people are used to, but McCurdy said her father may bring along a few pies to make sure there are some aspects of the traditional

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The evolution of dance Duke launched its dance program in the 1930s, housing a small clutch of enthusiastic students and instructors in the Physical Education department. Since then, the dance program has grown tremendously. It has expanded its course offerings, tripled its staff and positioned Duke as one of the only top universities in the country that offers rigorous dance instruction alongside high-quality training in the liberal arts. Last weekend’s student dance performance, November Dances, reflects the astonishing growth of the dance program, reminding us that Duke, a university known for its students’ academic and athletic successes, contains an incredible wealth of artistic talent. The students who performed and choreographed pieces for November Dances wove a series of intricate stories with their bodies, assembling alternatively beautiful and bracing scenes with athleticism, sophistication and panache. The performance was gripping, and we congratulate the dance program—its students, instructors and supporters—on their success. The expansion of Duke’s dance program in the 1970s was catalyzed by the American Dance Festival, a week-long celebration of dance that takes places every year in Durham

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and that put down roots here in 1977. The current achievements of the program and its participants do not stem from ADF alone . In the last decade, Duke has placed the cultivation of the arts high on its list of institutional priorities, devoting considerable attention and resources

Editorial to University’s arts programs. In its most recent strategic plan, released in 2006, Duke committed to breathing new life into the arts. As the success of the dance program reveals, Duke has begun, in most areas, to make good on its commitment. Dance seems to have achieved a particular cachet at Duke. Duke actively recruits dancers, and the quality of dance instruction at the University sets it apart from other top colleges. Moreover, dance groups like Defmo and Dhamaka enjoy a high profile on campus, and their performances tend to draw big crowds. These groups collaborate on several wellattended dance showcases that speak to the popularity and visibility of dance on campus. Duke also offers a number of dance classes

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for students without dance training and, in doing so, has created a culture that places considerable value on dance as an artistic practice and cultural form. In addition to increasing the quality and visibility of dance and other art on campus, Duke has worked hard to provide students interested in the arts opportunities to translate their passion into careers. Of the professional guidance programs Duke offers for arts students, DEMAN weekend is the most notable. Devoted to providing students information about careers in the arts and entertainment industries, DEMAN serves an incredibly important role on a campus for which professional success toooften means folding into the crowds headed to law, medicine, consulting or finance. Even as it offers sobering advice about the difficulties of an artistic career, DEMAN weekend not only heartens students, but also gives them resources, often in the form of professional contacts, that they can use to launch careers. We are pleased by the growth of the arts at Duke. And, once again, we congratulate the dance program on a wonderful performance.

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aturday, Nov. 23. Silence abounded as we shifted the ball around the field in relentless preparation. The stands to our left were a mere skeleton, empty and void of life, while we spent the afternoon practicing and talking tactics. You could see the breath of hard work and groundwork and preparation in the still air. The next day, we were competing in the National Championship. Today, we were practicing,

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like the hundreds of times we did before. And we had been to that title game in our minds—hundreds and hundreds of times before. But here we were. Sunday, Nov. 24. The Norfolk air was biting; brisk wind incessantly tousled our ponytailed hair as we rose with familiar cadence up the stairs and onto our chartered bus, the chariot to our impending destiny. We found our seats, and I turned off the world, slipping headphones over my cold-bitten ears. The bus slowly rolled away from our hotel, the place we’ve surely emblazoned in our memories as our championship week home. We were on our way. We were on our way to the National Championship, this time not simply in our minds. This time, for real. I looked out the glossy window intently as we crossed intersections and passed empty side streets. I sat with legs propped against the seat in front of me, shoes untied and forehead leant up against the tinted and fingerprinted windowpane. The world below moved on with its usual speed and monotonous tone. Women walking dogs. A man bundled in layers, hands exposed, attempting to fix the chain on his bicycle. I watched the scuffed, blackened sidewalk serve as an avenue for these everydayers. They had no conceivable way of knowing what was going on inside that bus in that moment. And they never will. Last year, we didn’t even make the NCAA tournament. We crapped out early and often from games and, eventually, from our season. And we wouldn’t let it happen again. Last year, we lost in the first round of the ACC tournament, a loss that perhaps we deserved. Our season ended, but we continued. We practiced the following week, and the following week, until the Final Four—a Final Four we couldn’t even sniff being a part of—and learned how it felt to have a championship length season. And here we are now, living in one. Reaching the National Championship is just about the extent of a dream that you can have in the sport of field hockey, unless you’re looking to play internationally, and here we were. For so many, playing on the Sunday before Thanksgiving is hardly even a dream. It’s untouchable. It’s impossible. And here we were.

As the closing horn droned its fateful buzz, most of the team collapsed hollowly, realizing the dream was over. It was done. The result was theirs. The trophy was theirs. We stood with tepid gaze as they celebrated, and embraced so longingly and lovingly each of our sisters. We were done—some of us for the year, some of us for good. We may feel we’ve done wrong, and if we feel that way, there’s little we can do to remedy it. Maybe we did do wrong. They found the back of the goal on Sunday and we didn’t. We lost. But how lucky we were to have seen the field that day? How lucky were we to have practiced another week or two weeks? We were lucky. We are lucky. Even to lose on Sunday, we are lucky to have danced so many days. In this heartbreaking moment, it’s near impossible to recognize, but we are so, so lucky. It’s no shock or secret that hockey doesn’t make national headlines the way football or basketball does. But for players, this is our moment. My teammates and I came to Duke with this at the forefront of our minds. We don’t talk about making the National Championship. We talk about winning the National Championship. We hustled for 24 games this season. We fought incessantly for wins and fought incessantly during losses just the same. We attacked together. We flourished together and failed together. We cared about a greater togetherness. We were one, and while this loss hurts more than others, this team is untouchable in its character and devotedness. This team will go on, without these seniors, sure, but poetic justice will incur in due time. We will hoist that trophy in due time. I can’t be thankful for Sunday’s loss, but I am thankful for Sunday’s lesson. We won’t always come out on top, in sports, in work and in life. It’s about the journey. Trust in the journey. Trust in the system and the strategy. Trust in the ones running beside you. Sometimes we weathered the storm and sometimes it down poured on us. But it was a journey of electric moments—moments you can’t buy or get out of classes. You can’t put a number or a grade on this experience. You can’t feel this passion and pride or pain and power in any classroom. My heart remains heavy and high in my throat to say goodbye to this team. To this program. To this athletic department. So I won’t. Thank you, Duke, for the opportunity to be a Blue Devil. But I can’t say goodbye. I can’t omit wearing that uniform from my memory, and I never will. I can’t say goodbye, so I’m not. I will always be a Blue Devil. And so will the women who competed on Sunday night. We were women at work that evening, not girls playing sports. Women unafraid to get hit. Women proud to hit someone and hit them hard. We were Blue Devils that night, blue collars out. And we always will be. We are Duke. Ashley Camano is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Send Ashley a message on Twitter @camanyooo.

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arlier this month, multinational aerospace corporation Boeing threatened to relocate production of its 777X commercial jets away from the Seattle area if the union that represents its workers did not agree to its provisions for an eight-year contract extension. The proposed contract would have included a $10,000 signing bonus and replaced pensions with higher matches for 401(k) savings plans, but the local branch of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers expressed concerns over high health insurance costs and limits on pay raises to 1 percent every other year. Local IAM president Tom Wroblewski went so far as to physically tear up a copy of the contract at a union meeting, later explaining that by rejecting the deal he had “preserved something sacred.” In response, Boeing immediately began soliciting bids from other regions of the country interested in providing a home for 777X production and is expected to announce its decision at some point in early 2014. Boeing’s actions have not gone unnoticed. Kshama Sawant, a Seattle Central Community College economics teacher who was recently elected to the Seattle City Council, spoke out sharply against Boeing, arguing that their threats amounted to “economic terrorism” and encouraging local machinists to simply seize the plant and take control over production themselves. “The only response we can have if Boeing executives do not agree to keep the plant here is for the machinists to say the machines are here, the workers are here, we will do the job, we don’t need the executives,” Sawant explained to an enthusiastic crowd of union supporters. “The executives don’t do the work, the machinists do. The workers should take over the factories and shut down Boeing’s profitmaking machine.” Sawant, who identifies as a socialist and whose website advertises popular slogans like “free-market failure,” “capitalism in crisis” and “human needs, not corporate greed,” suggested that the machinists could put the seized capital equipment toward the production of buses rather than drones or “destructive, you know, war machines.” Although Sawant also rightly points out that Boeing has grown big off of government privileges such as tax incentives and defense contracts, her endorsement of an unlawful seizure of property and the socialist economics from which it stems are drawing sharp criticism from all quarters. At Slate, for instance, Matthew Yglesias writes that machinists with one very specific set of skills are not likely to be successful at orchestrating a complete overhaul of an entire manufacturing center and coordinating all of the higher-level execution it would entail. “Can Boeing’s front-line workers actually retool an airplane factory and turn it to bus production and win contracts to sell buses that raise enough revenue to keep everyone employed?” he asks, noting that things like plant overhaul, supplier and customer relations and forecasting the demand for buses all fall under a legitimate role for executives. “Only time will tell for sure, but the real world answer is ‘no.’”

Yglesias is right. If laborers were generally capable of running factories and satisfying consumer needs better than capitalist executives—even accounting for the fact that a number of natural-born, state-imposed or sociologically rigid factors might be working against them— we would expect to see at least some real world evidence of this. Although it is true that state regulations generally favor existing corporations at the expense of newcomers and smaller competitors, Sawant and the machinists are still to some extent free to pool their resources together,

ver the past few months my boss (Duke University) has been sending around a veritable frenzy of messages urging me to put my courses online. The messages are kind, helpful, nurturing; they recognize my eagerness to get up to date on technology and to learn the many exciting ways I can bring my classes into the 21st century. The premise is that I’m still hauling my old handwritten (or typewritten) notes into class, standing regally at a big podium and reading lists of facts out loud to an auditorium packed with reverent, note-taking students. There is good news, says my boss: No longer need I

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invest in capital equipment and collectively own and operate a bus production facility. So why don’t they? What Sawant and her supporters overlook is that collectively owning a bus production plant places a greater burden on the machinists than the current voluntary hierarchical structure, which means that a takeover of the plant might hurt the machinists more than it would help them. For one thing, there are obvious costs associated with violently seizing somebody else’s property, especially if you believe—as Sawant does—that government regularly bestows favor upon business over labor. The machinists would be risking punishment, injury and even death to seize the plant in the first place. Past that, though, operating the plant on a collectively owned basis exposes each machinist to a larger degree of risk and responsibility. The reason wagelabor tends to prevail has less to do with exploitation and structural violence than it does with the practical concerns of the laborer. Most individuals have it within their power to restrict their consumption, invest in capital equipment and produce goods to sell on the market. But restricting consumption can be undesirable, especially when there is no guarantee that anyone will buy what you’ve been making. And this is where the capitalists come in: By providing the machines and raw materials workers need, and by assuming any risk that the goods simply won’t sell, the capitalist makes it possible for the laborer to draw a discounted wage and forego ownership of what he produces in exchange for a steady, reliable and predictable return on the labor he undertakes. This is an admittedly oversimplified description of an incredibly complex process, but then, so is Sawant’s. Kshama Sawant is right when she says that nobody needs executives. She might be more helpful to her constituents, however, if she abandoned her rhetoric, put people over her own politics and asked why it is that so many of us want them.

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be confined in the prison of the Languages Building, with its chalky blackboards and snoozing students—the world is my classroom! The only obstacles are my insecurity, my fear of the unknown and my discomfort with technology. Dostoevsky and I have spent many hours pondering the nuances of these communications. We have decided that before the conversation gets too far down the road, we need to clear up some misunderstandings. The first misunderstanding my boss seems to have is the delusion that the reason I’m not “MOOCing” is that I’m worried about whether or not the technology is going to work. In spite of some venting on these pages about mishaps with the knobs, screens and wires, I’m pleased to report that, with tactful visits by Kim from OIT, they have generally been overcome. I have learned, for example, that you have to make sure things are plugged in, and some higher-order things like which buttons you should never, ever press. Miraculously, as even my students can attest, we have wrestled the technology into submission. That misconception was pretty easy to clear up. Others, also fairly primitive, have to do with terminology. In some of my boss’s messages, certain terms seem to be getting mixed up: “MOOCs,” “online resources” and “multimedia.” OK, yes, I admit it: I do fantasize that 100,000 human beings out there are eager to hang on my (and Dostoevsky’s) every word. Hey, live with a teenager for awhile and you wish just ONE person would listen to you. Seductive as this whole dream is, I have not yet taught one of these things, which is known as a “massive open online course.” This deficiency aside, I hope that my boss is able to distinguish between the above entity (online courses) and other uses of technology in the classroom. Multimedia teems in my classroom and in the classrooms of my colleagues. A typical class period up in 320 Languages will feature, at a minimum, a short musical piece or a Youtube clip. We might watch a scene from a film or I might give a PowerPoint—one with cool photographs or images, by the way, not the stupid kind with bullet points. We have even Skyped with an author during class time. A student might share a link, or someone who has foolishly brought in a laptop or one of those tiny devices might be asked to Google something (a quote from Genesis, say, an elusive date, a news item or photo). What are seraphim? Why would Pushkin mention them? Let’s take a look. What IS the seventh deadly sin? What exactly is “ekphrasis”? As a smart colleague from down the hall puts it, “In this day and age, information is readily available a Google search away. What could have taken years of research for a person to find out 25 years ago takes two seconds to figure out. Conveying information is no longer the goal of education in humanities.” Knowledge is a living thing, and always has been. It has never been an object that you memorize in order to prove later that you’ve memorized it (“Why would you want to do that anyway?” interjects Dostoevsky). Knowledge feeds on conversation. The wonderful thing about literature is that the conversation is three-way: teacher, student, author—and believe it or not, one of them can be dead and still dominate the conversation. The wonderful thing about the classroom is that this conversation takes in real time, with actual human beings looking one another in the eye. Another colleague says: “No forum requires more effort and ensures more intense, effective engagement and understanding than the so-called ‘face time’ of a live course in which a professor not only lectures about a topic but also asks questions, answers questions, guides analytical discussion of a topic or a text and facilitates interactions between students as well as between students and professors.” People—real people, not their avatars—flock to Duke from all over the world. Why don’t they just stay home and log on? My guess is that they are drawn not by the prospect of serving as fact-delivery receptacles in a process that one of my teachers calls “the data dump,” but by the promise of participating in an ongoing, real-time, living conversation in a unique physical space that was created precisely for that purpose. 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.

GAMMA from page 1 all or withdraw from recruitment, Peguero said. The number of first-year women who decide to rush each year has remained steady over the past few years, while the number of sophomores who decide to participate in sorority life has increased dramatically, Peguero said. In 2008, there was one sophomore who went through recruitment, versus 2012, when there were 60. Although not all of the University’s sororities are currently at chapter total—the average number of members per chapter— Panhel is not concerned. “These numbers are to keep the chapter sizes similar, but being under that doesn’t mean a chapter is bad or in trouble,” howard said. “Gamma Phi Beta is just another option that will inevitably provide a different sorority experience than the established chapters.” Currently, Gamma Phi Beta does not have a housing assignment on campus. Peguero said she did not believe that this would impact the chapter’s recruitment numbers. “I think that will be one thing that will set them apart,” she said. “In the meantime, they can say, ‘This is who we are and we

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don’t have housing, but these are the opportunities we do have.’” last year, 475 women registered for recruitment and 364 received bids, compared to 504 registrants and 373 bids the year before. Of the women who register for recruitment but do not receive a bid, the majority are those who drop out during the process, said Panhel President Katie howard, a senior. So long as a potential new member “maximizes her options” by accepting invitations from every house to which she is invited during recruitment, she is guaranteed a bid on Bid Day, howard added. Overall, those who withdraw may discover that sorority life overall is not for them, decide to join a selective living group instead or simply not find a fit with any of the chapters on-campus, said sophomore lauren King, director of Panhel public relations. The addition of Gamma Phi Beta will provide another opportunity to join Greek life for the women who do not find a match with any of Duke’s nine current sororities. “A woman might go through recruitment and find that this is not for them and they would like to be a founding mother of another chapter,” Peguero said. “We have plenty of women who do not go through the process entirely because maybe they don’t find a connection, so here’s another opportunity.”

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this kind of environment, you see them active, engaged and smiling.” rice’s project is centrally organized by the DGhI, but is funded by Duke Medicine and two non-governmental organizations, Mending Kids International and the Shalom Foundation. A recent grant from the Karl Storz Foundation also funded a Guatemalan laparoscopy center where a high-level laparoscopy was recently performed. “Our goal through this endeavor is one that is ongoing and long lasting,” he said. “It is not a short-term initiative and our team really takes pride in that. Benjamin Silverberg, master’s student in global health, spent three works over the summer learning anthropologic and qualitative practices with rice’s team in Guatemala. he said the most rewarding aspect of the trip was a medical mission he participated in that enabled him to set up mobile clinics in remote locations and evaluate people for surgical needs. “The mission, and the experience as a whole, took my classroom studies and put them into real-life practice,” Silverberg said. “My experience in Guatemala put everything into context and showed me why people give up their vacations to volunteer there.”

Though the project is still in an early development stage, there is potential for new research programs in the area. David Boyd, associate professor of the practice at DGhI, also runs student research training sites in Guatemala. his projects among the indigenous Maya people focus on herbal medicine, illnesses and breast-feeding practices. Boyd said health challenges are far greater in Guatemala than in other places he has done research in previously such as Malaysia, Bolivia and China. Malnutrition is prominent and many kids need surgery, but cultural barriers may make some Maya feel uncomfortable in hospitals and many are unable to afford medical care. “It is important in a place like Guatemala to realize that barriers to access health care can be cultural as well as financial and geographic,” he said. “The primary advantage of this research is that it allows us to see how people break down these barriers.” By combining outside research with classroom projects, Boyd demonstrates the project’s potential to transform not only the lives of Guatemalan citizens, but also the ways in which Duke students learn. “I bring my world into the classroom and the classroom into my world,” Boyd said.

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said. Junior Derek rhodes, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, said that the raleigh-Durham area is the region where most Duke alumni can be found. As a Durham native himself, rhodes has served as an advisor to those senators working on the new courses. “I think I have a different perspective. This is something I’m really passionate about because I’m from Durham, I’m from the city,” rhodes said.

Senators have presented to DSG and met with Steve nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, as well as various faculty members in order to gauge interest in teaching, li noted. There is a petition circulating online that students can sign to show their support. Alshanteer said that this project aims at long-term sustainability, but new courses could be offered as soon as next semester. “It’s a very fast-paced initiative,” he said.

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