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Duke cancels Kornbluth to follow Lange as new provost classes Monday due to weather by Georgia Parke The chronicle

For the fifth time this semester, classes were canceled Monday due to a severe weather policy. The policy will be in place from 2 p.m. until 9 a.m. Tuesday morning. Monday classes were cancelled after 2:30 p.m., but Duke clinics have remained open according to normal schedule. essential service positions also remained at work. According to the DukeAlert website, the University is operating normally on Tuesday after 9 a.m. The decision to enact the policy and cancel class was made after consulting with a meteorologist and receiving information from the national Weather Service, said Kyle cavanaugh, vice president for administration and emergency coordinator. A difficult afternoon commute was expected for people traveling to and from the University, leading to the closure. he noted, however, that the weather did not turn out to be as severe as originally forecasted and there has not been as much precipitation as expected. The buses have been running on a normal schedule except routes have been added near Duke hospital to accommodate workers leaving early. north carolina State University, north carolina central University and The University of north carolina at chapel hill all canceled classes, starting See CLASSES, page 3

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Kornbluth has been a faculty member since 1994 and will succeed Lange as provost. by Danielle Muoio The chronicle

Sally Kornbluth, James B. Duke Professor of Pharmacology and cancer Biology, will succeed Provost Peter lange as the new provost. Kornbluth has been a faculty member since 1994 and has served as vice dean for basic science at Duke hospital since 2006. As vice dean, Kornbluth oversees the biomedical graduate programs in the School of Medicine and implements programs to support research in the science department. She will be the first

female provost at Duke. “i’ve been at Duke for 20 years and i love Duke,” Kornbluth said. “i’ve really enjoyed working with faculty, students and staff to develop new programs to improve the overall quality of life in the School of Medicine, and being given the greater opportunity to do this on larger scale is really exciting.” The Board of Trustees appointed Kornbluth at their meeting Saturday. Vice President and University Secretary richard riddell said the selection committee—formed by Brodhead to select the new provost— brought forward four candidates. Brodhead

then interviewed each of the four candidates, discussed his thoughts with the executive committee and brought forward an endorsement to the Board. Kornbluth said she would talk to all of Duke’s schools to understand the faculties’ priorities before crafting any new plans. She added that she plans on working with lange to become familiar with all the aspects of Duke Kunshan University. “i think it is important to have a place in Asia, but i also think it’s important to look at how Kunshan will help the Duke mothership,” Kornbluth said. in terms of moving forward with online education, Kornbluth said she plans on getting “serious faculty input” by those who would be providing the content for online courses. “That is not something i would force top down,” Kornbluth said regarding online education. Kornbluth added that it is important to consider the “distinctive Duke flavor” the University can add to online courses. “Duke as an institution is well known for its strong interdisciplinary education, and it’s important to think of how we would put a unique Duke stamp on educational opportunities,” she said. lange praised the appointment, noting that he has been impressed with Kornbluth in the past. “i consider her a highly valuable colleague,” lange said. “She’s also a superb researcher and has a keen intellect.” Kornbluth researches cell proliferation and programmed cell death, which provides a greater understanding for cancer and degenerative disorders. See KORNBLUTH, page 4

Trustees approve tuition hike and West Union funds by Danielle Muoio The chronicle

The Board of Trustees convened in Palo Alto this weekend to elect a new provost, approve tuition rates for the 2014-15 academic year and tour Stanford University’s campus, among other items. The trustees ventured to Palo Alto because Duke and Stanford have multiple similarities, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. he noted that Stanford and Duke are both major research universities with large medical centers and a strong athletic program. The trustees visited Stanford to discuss higher education and innovation and entrepreneurship. Schoenfeld noted that the trustees had a “robust discussion” about tuition rates for

the 2014-15 academic year before approving a 3.9 percent increase in undergraduate tuition, raising the cost from $44,020 and $45,800. The full cost to attend the University—which includes tuition, room, board and fees—will therefore increase from $58,278 this year to $60,533. The trustees approved tuition increases for all 10 of Duke’s schools, including a 4.9 percent change for both the Fuqua School of Business master’s of business administration and the School of nursing—to $58,000 and $40,365, respectively. Schoenfeld said the trustees look at Duke’s position in the market and the justification for costs prior to approving a new tuition rate. “The tuition goes up because we continue to invest more in our students,” Presi-

dent richard Brodhead said. “The value of what we offer has risen significantly over time.” Jim roberts, executive vice provost for finance and administration, said in a Feb. 21 national Public radio blog post that the cost of tuition is actually a discount when you consider the investment going into each students’ education. The blog post noted that tuition goes to dorms, food, health services, administrative and academic support salaries and construction and renovations. Schoenfeld said it is important to realize that not everything is paid for with tuition and that philanthropy, grants and gifts from the endowment all play a role in funding costs to run the University. he did note, however, that ongoing construction

and renovations were considered when discussing tuition rates for the following academic year. riddell said the trustees voted to release another $5 million to order steel to continue the West Union renovation project. The overall projected costs of the renovations is currently $95 million, riddell said, adding that a resolution passed at the Board meeting was to release only $40.3 million of the $95 million until funding is reassessed at the Board meeting in May. The University received $80 million from the charlotte-based Duke endowment in 2011 to fund renovations to Baldwin Auditorium, West Union and Page Auditorium. See BOT, page 4

SOFC chair explores future of the position Tuesday is Duke Student Government election day and there is a new position on the ballot. For the first time, the chair of the Student Organization Funding Committee will be elected by the undergraduate student body. Sophomore Davis Treybig, a current member of the committee, is running unopposed for the position. The committee allocates funding from the student activities fee to recognized or chartered student groups. The current chair, junior Joyce Lau, sat down with The chronicle’s Carleigh Stiehm to discuss the role of SOFC, the 40 Percent Plan and her concerns about the election process The Chronicle: What is the role of the SoFc chair? Joyce Lau: The SoFc chair oversees the SoFc committee. i am a non-voting member unless there is a tie and i really help facilitate discussion of all of the funding allocations and the recognition process as well as oversee all of the meetings that we have every Tuesday. i also sit on the DSG executive board and propose sort of the general direction of SoFc in terms of if i think there should be any sort of modifications made to the bylaws or any sort of new processes that need to be codified or evaluated—i think that we have shown that through the passage of the SoFc bylaws, the auditing process and the dechartering of groups as well as the transparency stuff that we have been doing as well. TC: What do you think about this being the first time SoFc chair is elected by the undergraduate student body? JL: i think there are a couple of reasons why the SoFc chair should not be an elect-

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ed position. The first is that i think unlike the other positions on the DSG exec board, the SoFc chair is largely one that is more internal. i guess you could argue [the executive vice president] is also pretty internal, but the fact is the SoFc chair takes a really thorough knowledge of sort of the funding processes that have to happen. And—unlike the other VP positions or even the DSP President—there aren’t other people in the room who are there to sort of help you navigate the process. really, as the SoFc chair, you are the expert on the committee in terms of like knowing how the meetings run. i also think that there is a more direct conflict of interest when the person who is allocating or heads the meeting to assign funding allocations is campaigning for endorsement. There is a more direct conflict of interest there than with any other position on the exec board. Davis is going to do a fantastic job—and he is running unopposed—but if he needed to have actually gone to endorsement meetings, i don’t know what those endorsement meetings would have looked like besides saying that we would change the guidelines for SoFc such that it would benefit your group more. Which, given that it is a zero-sum game with $700,000, really, by telling one group that you are going to give them more funds, the implicit understanding is that you are going to be taking funding from a group with smaller membership or a group whose membership isn’t as active in voting. That is just a much more direct conflict of interest. And finally, i just don’t think that fundamentally, it should be a political position. it

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Lau, the current SOFC chair, does not believe that the position should be an elected one. is largely an advisory body to the Senate— which is elected already—and should be giving an unbiased, third-party sort of opinion of what the appropriate funding allocation should be given what other benchmarks are for funding guidelines. i think this campaign has shown that campaigns at Duke, even though we are in the Duke bubble, can still get very political and that putting the SoFc chair in a position where they really are subject to that political pressure is not a good thing for the position. A lot of people who are on SoFc are people who are not extremely political, and i know that for this election and in future elections, it is going to discourage people on the committee from actually running. Which means that the people who are running the committee could potentially be individuals that have never sat on the committee before. Which, again, i think would be extremely problematic. TC: What are the biggest challenges that you think SoFc has faced this year? JL: i think as with any group that has limited resources but more people asking for money than there is, obviously there are people who are upset with the committee for not giving them the full funding that they want, and i think that has lead to backlash politically. That is always difficult, i have never been much of a [public relations] person myself, but i think promoting greater transparency and really making sure that students understand that we get $1.5 million in requests every year and we only have $700,000, so it isn’t anything personal or biased really when we decide not to allo-

cate a budget in full. With the 40 Percent Plan and everything, there has been a lot more scrutiny of the committee in general that i don’t think is extremely warranted just because the improved transparency and the rewriting of the bylaws has been something that has been happening since August. right now, i think it is largely perceived as something that has been reactionary to 40 Percent, which is just wrong. We have been working on this since August, and the 40 Percent Plan didn’t come up until the end of the first semester. There is no way we could have compiled a 30-page document in just the span of a few weeks. There has been a lot of positive changes, and that’s not to say that SoFc is perfect, its definitely not. There are many problems with it, but i think we have made a really great effort at being unbiased with our funding allocations. TC: What else do you think students should know as they get ready to cast their votes? JL: Davis is going to do a great job. he is running unopposed, but vote for him. he did a great job on the committee. SoFc, it is not like we are the big bad government or anything. it is just a group of individuals. We are students just like everyone else on this campus. i don’t think there is any need to be scared or intimidated by the process. it is definitely something that we are happy to work with any individual that has suggestions about how to make the funding process better or more transparent, and we really encourage people to reach out to SoFc if they have any questions about anything.

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Durham Bulls Athletic Park to receive a $19 million upgrade by Jack Parker The chronicle

The Durham Bulls Athletic Park, already a jewel in the revitalized downtown’s crown, is getting major upgrades. This offseason, workers and team officials have been working to renovate the stadium in time for opening day April 3 with a more modern fan and player experience. Roughly $19 million is being poured into improving a variety of aspects of the ballpark, ranging from the playing surface to the lights, according to a team press release. “The Durham Bulls were our first main destination attraction when they came to town in the mid to late 90’s, and they’ve served as a real beacon for our community,” said Ted Conner, vice president of economic development and community sustainability at the Durham Chamber of Commerce. Since 2005, the Bulls have regularly placed near the top of the Triple-A International League in attendance and

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at 3 p.m., 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively. Durham Public Schools dismissed students three hours early and canceled all after-school activities. “Right now we know that we’re going to see freezing temperatures through tonight and into tomorrow morning,” Cavanaugh said. “If the evening holds on, we should be in pretty good shape tomorrow.”

drew nearly 500,000 fans last year. The construction of the stadium and the commercial success of the team sparked the development of the American Tobacco Campus, the Durham Performing Arts Center and multiple office buildings around the ballpark. “By upgrading the ballpark, it reflects the city of Durham’s commitment as well as the owner’s commitment to maintaining quality baseball and a quality attraction here in Durham, which we’re excited to see,” Conner said. The excitement surrounding the extensive upgrades extends to the Duke community, which has invested in Durham’s development. Scott Selig, the Duke associate vice president for capital assets, said the ballpark renovation and similar projects have positive effects on the University. “The renovation of the Durham Bulls Athletic Park increases the rising tide of excitement in downtown Durham,” Selig wrote in an e-mail Monday. “[The rise of

downtown Durham] helps to recruit the best faculty staff and students to Duke.” The decision to update DBAP came hand-in-hand with an agreement reached in April between the Bulls and the City of Durham to extend a lease that will keep the Bulls in Durham until 2033. Given the long-term commitment, the team and the city felt renovations were necessary. Specifically, DBAP will receive three new HD video displays, an improved sound system, revamped field irrigation infrastructure, more comfortable seats, sustainable field lighting, new picnic areas, added concessions, improved concourse sightlines and a new luxury suite called the PNC Triangle Club. Scott Carter, Durham Bulls director of marketing, explained in an e-mail Wednesday that the city agreed to pay $6 million of the construction costs at the outset of the project and that the Bulls are responsible for the rest. He said the funding being dedicated to the project

will be well worth it. “A majority of the overage went to more concessions upgrades, video displays and the new PNC Triangle Club,” Carter said. “The weather has not been kind to us this winter to say the least, but the work being put in to make the DBAP one of the best venues in the country is on track.” Conner is also convinced that the Bulls and the city of Durham will receive a positive long-term return on their investment. “It’s going to generate a much more attractive fan experience,” Conner said. “We expect to see current fans returning to the ballpark and we think the renovations will expand the attraction to new fans.” While certainly expensive, the stadium makeover serves as yet another reinforcement of downtown Durham’s viability and appeal. Spring is right around the corner, and never more so than at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

Cavanaugh said the decision to implement the policy, which was released just after 10 a.m., was made early to allow people ample time to return home before the worst of the sleet and rain began to fall. The decision on whether to reschedule classes will be made in the coming days at the discretion of the Provost’s office, Cavanaugh said. “It’s too soon to say anything definitive, but to a first approximation I ex-

pect we will have to provide an opportunity for classes to be made up,” wrote Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, in an email Monday. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said that administrative policies regarding weather have not changed but this has been one of the coldest winters the University has experienced in recent memory. “I’ve had enough of it,” Moneta said.

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Tim Cook, Fuqua ‘88 and CEO of Apple Inc. The Board of Trustees appointed Sally The remodel of Baldwin began first and to- Kornbluth, James B. Duke Professor of taled $15 million. In May 2013, the Board of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, to be Trustees rejected the plan for the West Union the next provost at their meeting Saturday. remodel that was expected to cost more than Riddell said the selection committee $100 million, delaying construction and re- formed by Brodhead to select the new prosulting in a redesigned plan intended to cost vost selected four candidates. Brodhead between $70 and $90 million, The Chronicle then interviewed each of the four candipreviously reported. dates, discussed his thoughts with the ExWith renovations to Baldwin and West ecutive Committee and brought forward Union now expected to total $110 mil- an endorsement to the Board. lion—$30 million more than the initial donation for the projects—the changes from page 1 to Page will be “largely cosmetic,” said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask. Philanthropists are stepping in to help fund Kornbluth was named vice provost of acaboth the West Union and Page projects, he demic affairs Sept. 29, 2011, but decided not added. to take the position in order to continue her In addition to their official Board meet- biomedical research. ing, the Trustees toured Stanford and the “Basic research issues—that’s where my heart is,” Kornbluth said in a 2011 interview surrounding area. Brodhead said he was inspired by Stan- with The Chronicle. “I started to get more ford’s d.school—an institute dedicated deeply involved in the provost’s office. Though to designing solutions to identified prob- I really feel that [Lange] and his team are fabulems. lous, the issues aren’t as exciting to me as the “You see its potential relation to a place research issues.” like Duke,” Brodhead said. Dr. Victor Dzau, president and CEO of the Although there are many facets of Stan- Duke University Health System and chancelford’s campus that are similar or could be lor of health affairs, said Kornbluth’s decision translated to Duke’s campus, it is impor- to turn down the vice provost of academic aftant to recognize the differences between fairs position in 2011 shows that Kornbluth is the two, Schoenfeld noted. “adaptive and decisive.” He noted that the vice “Among the many things the trustees provost position was not as comprehensive of a took away was that they are two very dif- position as vice dean so she chose to remain in ferent kinds of places and that Stanford is her original role. “Now that this is a bigger job she looks at blessed with both the resources and location that Duke simply doesn’t have,” he it very differently,” Dzau said in an interview, said. “If you look at endowment, for in- referring to the provost position. “I also think stance, it’s much bigger.” this reflects on the University very well just beDuke has an endowment of $6 billion, cause she said no they didn’t hold it against whereas Stanford’s endowment is $18.7 her.” billion. Dzau said he is thrilled Kornbluth is beThe Board also visited Google head- coming provost because she can analyze issues quarters and had a sudoku_410A private dinner with and always come up with a solution. from page 1

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“I endorsed her when President Brodhead tion that provides advice to decision makers was thinking about her,” Dzau said. “I think and the public—Oct. 2013. Kornbluth is also she is one of the most effective leaders I’ve ever a fellow at the American Association for the met. She gets the job done.” Advancement of Science. Kornbluth has won two awards for her Brodhead also commended Kornbluth’s teaching abilities. In 2012, Kornbluth received problem-solving skills. “She has a long history where she listens the Basic Science Research Mentoring Award to people, hears their diagnosis of what they from the School of Medicine, and in 2013 need and then thinks of a solution that ben- she received the Distinguished Faculty Award efits many people,” Dzau said. “Then people from the Duke Medical Alumni Association. afterwards like her solution better than they Additionally, she has mentored 25 doctoral like their own.” candidates. Brodhead formed a selection committee to Kornbluth said she prefers to spend time listening to the perspectives of all individuals select the new provost after Lange announced rather than coming to a snap judgement. in August that he was stepping down. The Dzau added that Kornbluth’s thorough committee was chaired by George Truskey, the understanding of the health system will be an R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson professor of biomedical engineering and senior associate asset when she serves as provost. “I would say that when the economy is dean for research in the Pratt School. tough and funding is tough it is important we Among the committee’s other members have someone who also understands the medi- were faculty members, students, trustees and cal side because we are part of a team and sup- an administrator: Ellen Davis, the Amos Ragan port the university in a big way,” Dzau said. Kearns professor of Bible and practical theolDzau will be stepping down from his posi- ogy at the Divinity School; Katherine Franz, tion at DUHS June 30. Dzau said he is confi- associate professor of chemistry; Michael Platt, dent Brodhead and Nancy Andrews, dean of director of the Institute for Brain Science and the School of Medicine and vice chancellor of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; for academic affairs, will be able to fill his and Richard Schmalbeck, the Simpson Thacher Kornbluth’s positions, respectively, in a timely and Bartlett professor of law; sociology profesfashion. sor Lynn Smith-Lovin; Maurice Wallace, assoKornbluth will be the first provost to come ciate professor of English and African and Affrom a medical field since Keith Brodie, who rican American Studies; senior Stefani Jones, took the role in 1982 and had a background president of Duke Student Government; Amol in psychiatry. Lange noted, however, that a Yadav, president of Duke Graduate and Profesprovost’s individual skills tend to matter more sional Student Council; trustees Frank Emory than his or her academic background. and Betsy Holden; and Benjamin Reese, vice “It’s your qualities as a person, as a scholar, president of the Office for Institutional Equity. as a faculty member, as a learner that really Lange is the longest-serving provost in have the biggest impact on what you do in the Duke history, stepping down after 15 years of job,” Lange said. service in June. As provost, Lange has worked Kornbluth also has oversight of the Insti- on two capital campaigns—Duke Forward, the tutional BioSafety Committee—a part of the University’s current campaign, and Campaign National Institutes of Health office of science for Duke. Lange appointed all of the Univerpolicy that provides institutional oversight sity’s current deans as well as two-thirds of curThe New York Syndication of recombinant DNA. SheTimes was named to theSales rentCorporation faculty members. He was also a driving 620 Eighthnonprofit Avenue, New York, N.Y. Institute of Medicine—a organizaforce10018 behind Duke Kunshan University. For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 For Release Tuesday, March 4, 2014

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The fifth-ranked women’s golf team is perhaps one of the most geographically diverse squads in the history of Duke athletics.

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Dubbed the “international house of Golf,” the 2002 Duke women’s golf team received national attention for capturing the nCAA championship with a team featuring five international players and just one American. Twelve years later, Duke women’s golf is once again seeking to leverage diversity into the ultimate goal: a national championship. ranked fifth in the nation, this year’s Blue Devil squad represents seven different countries on its eight-person roster. “in order to be the best team in the country, you have to recruit all over the world,” assistant coach Jeanne Cho said. “That’s just the nature of the sport now.” Just two of Duke’s eight golfers are from the same country—freshman Yu liu and sophomore Yi Xiao, both of whom hail from China. Senior Alejandra Cangrejo and sophomore Celine Boutier came to Duke from Columbia and

France, respectively. Senior laetitia Beck grew up in Caesarea, israel, which is home to the country’s only 18-hole championship layout. Canadian junior irene Jung spent her childhood in nova Scotia, Canada, playing golf just six months of the year due to weather. Both Jung and Beck attended boarding schools in Florida with the goal of developing their games in high school. Freshman Sandy Choi was born in South Korea, but lived with her family in San Diego during high school. her classmate, esther lee—the only American-born golfer on the team—grew up and went to high school in Southern California. “This year, because we are all not from the United States, there is more understanding about our background,” Boutier said. “We’ve been through the same struggles, and i think it has been better.” The influx of foreign talent across nCAA women’s golf since the early 2000s can be attributed largely to the student-athlete model of the United States, which allows college athletes to compete at the highest amateur level and earn a

degree at the same time. if they were to stay in their home countries, most foreign golfers would be forced to choose between pursuing a career in the sport and continuing their educations after high school. American universities allow them to do both. “College athletics is huge in the Unites States,” said Cho, who hails from France but played her college golf at Florida. “it’s almost nonexistent in other parts of the world.” Although nCAA women’s golf has become increasingly international since Duke’s title run in 2002, the Blue Devils fielding a team comprised almost entirely of foreign players this season remains the exception to the rule. Arizona State is the only other top-10 team with more than four international golfers on its roster this season. “This is probably as diverse as it’s been in my three years,” Jung said. “i see that we are probably the most diverse team on Duke’s campus, and that’s pretty cool.” Due to Duke’s success signing elite international talent, head coach Dan Brooks has developed a reputation for recruiting across the globe. Despite this

success, Brooks has left the country just twice for recruiting during his 29 years at Duke. The allure of the nCAA and the nature of elite junior competition brings the world’s top recruits to Brooks’ doorstep. During middle and high school, junior golfers travel from around the world to play in top American tournaments, which are well-attended and closely followed by college coaches. But with more and more coaches flying overseas to recruit, Brooks says that he too will travel more internationally to watch and talk to prospects in the coming years. “The minds of these prospects are definitely changing,” he said. “if you look around there’s a lot of foreigners playing. The level of golf is very, very good. You’ve basically expanded the pool of talent.” in addition to creating a supportive team dynamic, the clash of cultures on the Duke squad has produced some light-hearted moments. From working through simple misunderstandings to learning to love the food of another teammate’s culture, openness and understanding are necessary parts of See international, page 8

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in our view, a misreading of student concerns. Junior Lawrence Nemeh has verve, and we admire his challenge to traditional models of leadership. But Nemeh seems unfocused, and we question his ability to take hold of the unwieldy DSG apparatus and put it to good use.

Editorial Junior Will Giles is Sunder’s closest competitor. An outsider committed to making DSG more accountable to students, Giles has a novel and refreshing vision of what student government should be. He understands student concerns and cares about internal reform. But his policy solutions—like eliminating at-large senate positions and appending an equal rights amendment to the DSG constitution—seem weak, vague or ill-conceived. Moreover, Giles lacks strong ties with the administration—a prerequisite for effective advocacy—and has little experience with DSG politics. In some ways, this year’s presidential race recalls the 2006 DSG election. Dissatisfaction with DSG was running high, and Elliott Wolf,

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a charismatic outsider who promised change, squeezed out a victory against a set of more traditional candidates. There are no Elliott Wolfs in this race. Unlike this year’s would-be reformers, Wolf recognized that meaningful institutional change requires an expert understanding of existing procedures, strong relationships with administrators and a willingness to descend from the realm of big ideas to grind out solid policy. Wolf sought to change DSG, but, instead of crying vaguely for reform, he took command of the existing structure and put it to work for students. As Jimmy Soni wrote in 2007 of the DSG presidency, “rabblerousing means little without skillful and diplomatic negotiation to match.” We agree. The real choice, in our view, is between a typical DSG candidate and a newcomer who desires change but lacks the experience and connections to see it through. If you want new blood in DSG and are not afraid to take a serious risk, vote for Giles. If, however, you want a conventional candidate who has enough experience to make small improvements, vote for Sunder. We endorse Sunder, but do not expect student involvement in campus governance to increase during her administration. We hope she proves us wrong.

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“Meet the Marketplace” event. Employees will be featured in videos, sit down for discussions with students and suggest their favorite recipes for the students to sample. The event will focus on students getting to know the staff—not just knowing their name, but really getting to know the people they interact with at the Marketplace on a personal level. “Meet the Marketplace” will last all week and culminate in a celebration at the end of the week.

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and selection of an upperclassman meal plan. Yet nearly every upperclassman I know tells freshmen the same thing, “I miss the Marketplace a lot. Enjoy it while you can.” The food is good, and the space is inviting. But neither of those is what makes the Marketplace so special. It’s the people, the environment. Never again in our Duke career will we get the chance to see all of our friends— and, indeed, all of our class—every night in the same place. As we get older, we get busier. Duke students tend to replace sit down meals with friends with a sandwich to-go in between meetings and classes. In the midst of the West Union construction and the loss of multiple vendors on campus, much of Duke Dining and Duke Student Government’s focus has been on improving the West Campus dining experience while we wait for the new West Union to be finished. We’ve expanded vendor hours on Central and West and made improvements to the Penn Pavilion. Yet we realize that, while West Union construction necessitated that most of our focus be on West Campus, we couldn’t forget about the Marketplace, where 30 percent of our campus eats the majority of their meals. We recognized the importance of students and the Marketplace staff making meaningful connections in order to live up to Duke Dining’s motto of “more than a meal.” Our idea is simple: At the beginning of the school year, a few weeks after the new freshmen arrive on campus, we will hold a

Senator Priyanka Venkanagari, Vice President for Services Lavanya Sunder—who was the one who came up with the idea—and I met with Stanley Lyons, a long-time employee at the Marketplace, to gauge his opinion on the idea. When we did, he told us how many students he has personally gotten to know over the years, and how many names and stories he remembers. He agreed that student-staff connections were important to enhancing the Marketplace experience. Not only could this project improve students’ opinion of the Marketplace, but it could also make the employees more excited about doing their job each day. We are not so naïve as to think that one week’s worth of programming will realize the goal of having each student forge a relationship with an employee, or several, at the Marketplace. But we hope that by starting the process of putting a name and a story to a face, we can kick off an incredible year at the Marketplace and combat the age-old complaint that going to the Marketplace every day is “too repetitive” as the year goes on. Hopefully, with the support of the Duke Dining administration and the Marketplace staff, “Meet the Marketplace” week can become a reality and help make every dining experience at the Marketplace “more than a meal.” Billy Silk is a Trinity sophomore and DSG senator for services. His column is the fourth installment in a semester-long series of biweekly columns written by members of Duke Student Government. Send Billy a message on Twitter @DukeStudentGov.

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just returned from Common Ground. For me, the four-day retreat simultaneously felt like the best and worst experience I’ve had at Duke. While I felt united with other participants who had the courage to talk about their experiences within and outside of Duke, I also felt disturbance at how my own subconscious words and actions have negatively affected my peers. Now that I’m back inside my own comfortable Duke bubble, I want to traverse the student body and fight against the effects of unknown privilege, heterosexism and patriarchy—but I know doing so isn’t easy. I know, for example, that many readers likely jumped to conclusions about the rest of this column from my first mention of Common Ground. Students criticize the retreat for

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grown desensitized to what goes on around us every day because students refuse to have conversations about uncomfortable topics. We pretend that Duke shields us from any struggles related to socioeconomic status, race or gender. The truth is that Duke is a medium for these issues to fester without notice. At Duke, there are students who feel comfortable going out to eat every weekend and who worry more about the DukeCard phone app working than about their financial ability to add some extra food points. There are also students who are homeless when they leave campus, who skip meals in case their parents need extra financial support and who wonder whether their families will be able to eat when they wake up each day. The former precede trips

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to the WaDuke by telling the latter that they still have privilege compared to the rest of the world. Some students argue that affirmative action is unequal and assume that their black peers only got accepted into Duke because of their race. Many Asians feel torn between selfsegregating into their ethnic groups at Duke and “acting white” at Greek life functions. Non-white students walk into their discussion sections and feel that they must speak for their respective minority groups to be represented. Men at Duke wonder why women have to be so sensitive while they complain about the frequency of being “friend-zoned.” Women at Duke are often stuck in a dichotomy between being a b---- and being a whore. They worry about their safety on a daily basis when they are statistically more likely to be sexually assaulted before graduation than they are to catch the flu in a given year, and, as a result, they mentally prepare every time they go out as though they are heading into a war zone. I didn’t return from CG feeling like I am one of 60 newly indoctrinated Duke liberators of justice. I’m not a better person from the retreat. Conversely, CG has shown me how unconsciously ignorant I am of the struggles of those who walk around me. I now seek to understand perspective before forming judgments. Of course, students should not be expected to renounce their longstanding understandings of our society because CG participants return from an eye-opening experience. But they should realize from the impact it makes on its participants that these issues are real, scary and worth learning about, because they affect us all. Every morning at Common Ground, I woke up with other sleep-deprived participants to the tune of “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody.” I relied on the piercing pop music to wake up from my comfortable lull of sleep to be exposed to a variety of incredible experiences and perspectives. Our situation at Duke is no different—we walk around in a dream state with shades on, comfortable but ignorant. It’s time for a wake-up call.

2013. The case overturned a measure, passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2003, which required that private groups receiving federal government funds to fight AIDS and other diseases globally have “a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking.” At first brush, this seems positive. Sex trafficking is monstrous. Prostitution, even in those countries in which it is legal, often creates an environment in which sex trafficking is possible and sex workers are marginalized. But presenting this single opinion limits private groups in the ways in which they work with sex workers requiring medical treatment. A group which does not condemn the livelihood of the people it works to support is much more effective than one which does. The issue of free speech, however, goes beyond the practicality of the law. The Supreme Court overturned the law in this case, citing that the First Amendment guarantees the government cannot force its citizens to profess specific opinions. Placing conditions on the receipt of federal funding is standard. Normally when a group receiving funding finds those conditions prohibitive, they are just expected to decline funding. Yet, the Supreme Court also recognized precedent that dictates the U.S. government “may not deny a benefit to a person on a basis that infringes his constitutionally protected ... freedom of speech even if he has no entitlement to that benefit.” To me, this is a clear and compelling argument for the First Amendment. It is cases like these for which the First Amendment was crafted: to protect the speech of the people even when they do not match the opinion of the government. But it seems as though most discussion on freedom of speech is prompted by unpleasant or offensive viewpoints and governments and communities questioning the individual’s right to say such things. In 1984, Ray Luc Levasseur was arrested for his involvement with the United Freedom Front, a domestic terrorist organization responsible for targeting companies which supported the apartheid regime in South Africa and orchestrating multiple robberies and bombings. After being released from prison in 2004, Levasseur was invited to speak at a forum on his trial at the University of Massachusetts. The event prompted a heated response from the university and the local community. (Think the Duke response to Charles Murray, but magnified.) Local Police Chief Robert P. Frydryk asserted that, “the organizers are out of touch with reality. It’s shameful that they use their position as educators to turn terrorists into folk heroes.” Ultimately, the talk was canceled. Its organizers questioned the glorification conferred upon the actions of the United Freedom Front and balked to present Levasseur as a valid academic. This case is not a clear violation—our freedom of speech does not guarantee us podiums at universities from which to lecture. This was a question of “should we?” rather than “must we?” However, it still merits consideration. If Levasseur’s presence would have presented a threat, either from the mere logistics of hosting him or if his speech sought to incite violence, then I would argue the correct call was made. But Levasseur asserted that his speech would not be violent. There didn’t seem to be a threat of violence by inviting him. Losing his presence meant losing a wholly different perspective on an academic panel designed to present all sides of his trial. Presenting a radically different perspective might just have enough academic value to justify giving the podium to a man with an unpleasant past and undesirable opinions. So much of what is said is unsavory. Racist and sexist drivel fuels anonymous gossip boards like CollegiateACB. People are unkindly honest to friends, family and acquaintances. Speech which incites violence and speech which reveals private information without basis or permission is unacceptable. But if majority opinion was enough to label certain statements prohibited, we would be in a very different university, and, in fact, a very different country, today. Sure, I believe that some speech should not exist. And yes, some is not used in ways anybody would consider positive. But when it comes down to it, there is a burden on us to determine when things merit ignoring. Freedom of speech is powerful, and engaging in dialogue is often productive. But just because someone has found himself or herself a soapbox does not mean you are obligated to listen. Speech is a right, but we must affirm that dialogue is a privilege.

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a touch of ginger its ostensibly paradoxical selectivity and its uncanny tendency to turn even the most privileged of students into self-identifying Duke idols. Having been rejected from the retreat three times before finally getting in this semester, I understand how easy it is to hold these beliefs. Yet the students who denounce Common Ground without having participated in the retreat are not dissimilar to those who judge their peers without any understanding of their experiences within Duke culture. So let’s not start by dealing in subjective terms. Here are some facts: According to the Congressional Budget Office, between 1979 and 2007, income has grown by 275 percent for the top 1 percent of earners, but only by an averaged 40 percent for the next 99 percent. Over 50 percent of Duke students receive financial aid. Studies show that children find white Barbie’s more beautiful than black ones and that employers are more willing to offer jobs to white individuals if they have the same credentials as other black applicants. Popular culture subjugates women. Music videos depict women as hyper-sexualized objects. Hollywood movies and New York Times Bestsellers rarely offer a female protagonist independent of other men. Women’s achievements are often portrayed as secondary to men’s (think Duke Basketball). One in four women is sexually assaulted by the time she graduates from college, most often from acquaintances or friends. Before Common Ground, I did not fully understand the impact that these simple statistics have on fellow students. I still don’t. It’s one thing to read about social inequality, but it’s another thing entirely to sit down with strangers and friends and hear their stories. I saw, heard and felt the pain of friends who I now realize I have hardly known for the past year and a half. I tried looking within myself for struggles related to race, gender and socioeconomic status, but I couldn’t find any to share. It’s easy to list these statistics off the top of my head, just as I’m sure it’s easy to read them without a second glance. And that’s scary, because the numbness implies that things will not be changing any time soon. We have

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I have the right to write whatever I want. And it’s equaled by a right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.” –Brad Thor, American thriller writer. Freedom of speech is a fundamental and powerful guarantee. It separates nations like the United States with its protections from those nations that limit, outlaw and compel the speech of their citizens. Still, evolution has not reached the point where we are unoffended by hurtful language, where we can chalk all tactlessness up to freedom of speech. It is dangerous to consider freedom to offend as fundamental as freedom of speech. It is dangerous when people begin to feel entitled to their epithets. This is not to say that freedom of speech must be re-examined or rearticulated, but, in practice, is there a way in which we can balance free speech with consideration and compassion? Much like violating individuals’ rights to speak freely, compelled speech restricts individuals and organizations from expressing their own opinions and pushes them to present an exterior which often does not line up with their own values. Consider the case of Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc. that came before the Supreme Court in

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the team’s identity. “Some of the funniest things that have happened are because someone is trying to negotiate the little cultural differences that exist in their communication with each other,” Brooks said. “We have a lot of fun with it.” Brooks took into account the international aspect of recruiting when hiring Cho four years ago. Cho—who speaks Korean, Spanish, French and English fluently—has used all of her languages to recruit foreign or first-generation American golfers for Duke. Cho, who is usually the first member of the Duke coaching staff to contact recruits, has helped Brooks discuss Duke with prospects and their families. These discussions transcend mere translation. For parents who are deciding to send their children thousands of miles from home to a foreign country, Cho provides them with a comforting sense of familiarity.

Cho continues to build and maintain relationships with international families throughout their four years on campus. “Sometimes when you communicate, it’s not just about language,” Cho said. “Different cultures share different standards. You only have such limited opportunities to get to know these players, and when they come on campus you try to get to know as much as possible. I think the cultural differences are also a big part.” On the team, English is spoken to avoid exclusion, and the amount of time the team spends together brings to light how much the players have in common despite the distance between their hometowns. “Everyone has come from a place that’s really far away or outside of the U.S.,” Cho said. “I think for that reason they have found their family away from their families.” The pressures of a potential professional golf career, adjusting to Duke and living thousands of miles from home are all experiences the entire team shares.

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“It’s amazing how much common ground there is,” Brooks said. “The fact that they are from a lot of different countries just sort of becomes a non-issue. It’s just there.” After ending the 2013 season with a second-place finish in the NCAA Championships, Duke has its sights set on capturing a sixth national title this May. So far, the Blue Devils seem to be on track to replicate the success of the original “International House of Golf.” But whether or not the Blue Devils hoist a championship at the end of the season, the greatest impact this team has made may be off the course. A group of individuals that came from four continents, seven countries and eight unique experiences have forged a bond larger than their sport.

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