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The Durham Police Department has come under fire from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Durham Fostering Alternatives to Drug Enforcement Coalition following claims of racial profiling and unethically paying informants. The SCSJ and Durham FADE Coalition have unearthed evidence that the DPD pays unconstitutional conviction bonuses to undercover informants in drug cases, creates license checkpoints for drug interdiction and uses federal grant money to fund undercover marijuana buys in black neighborhoods. Assistant Chief of Police Jon Peter denied the accusations that the department racially profiles drug arrests after two attorneys produced documents that marijuana arrests have increased 70 percent since Police Chief Jose Lopez took office, with the vast majority of those arrested being black. “Durham really stood out like a sore thumb. It had one of the largest racial disparities in the state, with respect to African American drivers,” said Ian Mance, a Soros Justice Fellow and civil rights attorney from SCSJ who created the report. He noted that SCSJ uploaded search

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Duke engineers have created the world’s first three-dimensional acoustic cloaking device, an innovation that distorts sound waves to give the impression an object is not present. University researchers in the electrical and computer engineering departments set out to discover how they could best manipulate sound. The device is the first of its kind able to acoustically cloak sound coming from any direction and researchers are considering various applications for the object. To make this technology possible, Steve Cummer, professor of electrical and computer engineering, said two goals had to be met—the device needed to absorb all waves in contact with it and not cast an acoustical shadow from the absence of sound waves. “This is totally fundamental research,” Cummer said. “We’re not aiming this at any particular application, we’re just trying to show the kinds of things that can be done.” Although this device is the first of its kind, Bogdan Popa, a research scientist in electrical and computer engineering, noted that the Amanda brumwell/The Chronicle

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DSG hears presentations on tuition, library renovations By Hayley Trainer The Chronicle

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Two administrators spoke to DSG members Wednesday evening about tuition at Duke.

Provost Peter Lange and Executive Vice Provost for Finance and Administration James Roberts addressed the Duke Student Government senate Wednesday night about tuition and affordability. The discussion followed the Board of Trustees’ approval of a 3.9 percent increase in undergraduate tuition for the 2014-15 academic year. Lange said that each dean of the University’s schools takes several factors into consideration when determining tuition rates, such as programmatic needs, affordability, market

factors and alternative revenue sources. Each dean then uses these factors to individually determine their school’s tuition. Lange noted that Duke’s tuition and its annual increase are comparable with those of peer universities. Several of Duke’s peer institutions have also raised tuition for the 2014-15 academic year. Stanford University’s Board of Trustees approved a 3.5 percent increase, the University of Pennsylvania’s board approved a 3.9 percent increase and Dartmouth’s board approved a 2.9 percent increase. Lange noted that student tuition goes

toward supporting many factors to enhance the student experience, including more than 60 undergraduate majors, 23 languages taught, and the University’s 8:1 student-to-faculty ratio. “Most of our peers are around 7 or 8 to 1 [student-to-faculty ratio],” Lange said. “In the past few years, we’ve been doing a lot more things that utilize the small student to faculty ratio, like senior theses.” Although 53 percent of undergraduates paid full costs of attendance in the 2012-2013 academic year, the University’s See dsg, page 6

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Carl Bernstein talks journalism, breaking Watergate Renowned journalist Carl Bernstein will come to the University Friday March 21 to discuss his journalism career and experiences breaking the Watergate scandal, which led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. The Chronicle’s Elizabeth Djinis spoke to Bernstein about the changing nature of journalism in the digital age and the ways our society consumes media. The Chronicle: What made you decide to come to Duke to speak? Carl Bernstein: Quite honestly, i’m represented by a speakers bureau and i love speaking, especially to students, and they said ‘hey, there’s an event at Duke’ and i’d love to do it. TC: Given your young start, what do you think originally pulled you to journalism? CB: Well, i went to work when i was 16 years old as a copy boy at the Washington Star and i’m actually writing a memoir about my five years at the star from age 16 to 21. i was a 16 year old kid with the greatest seat in the country. At the time it was a better newspaper in most regards than the Washington Post, probably next to the new York herald Tribune. i had fabulous reporters who taught me and nurtured me and there was an excitement about it the first time i walked into that newsroom for a job interview. The minute i walked into the newsroom i knew that’s what i wanted to do. TC: President Stanley’s press release announcing your professorship at Stoneybrook University called you a “true American icon.” how do you think your reporting during Watergate fits into the larger American narrative? CB: obviously the Watergate reporting that Bob [Woodward] and i did was in a tradition of in a strain that runs through American reporting of trying to find out what’s really going on and we were able to find out what was really going on in a criminal presidency. in the piece that Bob and i wrote for the 40th anniversary of Watergate in the Washington Post, you’ll see how beyond what we even thought at the time nixon’s was a criminal presidency way beyond just a break in at Watergate. And in terms of how it figures in the national narra-

tive, a large part of our national narrative has to do with the presidency and this was an aberrant presidency. A lot of our national narrative has to do with what we call the ‘American system’ and what happens in Watergate that is so extraordinary. The whole American system worked magnificently—Woodward, myself, the Washington Post, the legislative branch magnificently did its job, the Senate Watergate committee, the house Judiciary itself did its job, the Chief Justice of the United States pulled together an unanimous decision that ordered richard nixon to give up his tapes, that said no one including the president of the united states cannot abide the law. republicans by and large were the crucial factor— they gave legitimacy both to the vote for impeachment in the house Judiciary Committee and republicans, led by Barry Goldwater, told richard nixon that he was going to have to resign. The system worked and it might be the last time the American system worked so well. TC: To clarify, how do you think Woodward and your experiences fit in the idea of the “American Dream”—the underdog taking down the “Man?” BC: i don’t think this is about taking down anybody. i think richard nixon took himself down and again, institutionally, there was a response to his excess. We happened to be in the right place and the right time in the right institution to be able to. our objective was to never “take him down” or anything of the kind and…the break-in at Watergate was just a small part of the huge criminal conspiracy to undermine the electoral system basis of American democracy to violate the constitution through numerous break downs. listen to richard nixon on the tapes, read the section where richard nixon orders his assistants to fire bomb the Brookings institution, to break into the safe, crack that safe, so this wasn’t about us bringing down the President. This was about us finding out what had happened and, again, if it figures in a national narrative or tradition or something that we were younger and that some of our more senior colleagues had been hoodwinked into believing our own nonsense how well-ordered the

nixon White house was, they could never be so incompetent or foolish or criminal as to do the things they did. But we had none of those preconceived notions as to what nixon and his people might be willing to do. TC: how do you think your reporting process and, in turn, writing process for Watergate would have been different in the digital age? BC: i don’t think that if history works, i don’t think there’s any way of knowing. The only thing that i can say with any certainty is that i think the way information is received by too many people in our culture today is— instead of with an open mind and instead of looking for the best attainable version of the truth, to the extent that most people were perhaps in 1972—too many people today are looking for information to reinforce their already held ideologies, prejudices, orthodoxies, and that makes it very difficult for real reporting to be considered in a thoughtful way. i think that too much of our news today is not considered—too much of it is not generated in a thoughtful way because too much of it is aimed at satisfying people’s desires for more information about what they already believe. The problem is as great or greater at the receiving end. our culture has the polarization that you see in Washington, it extends to our culture at large—it’s not just political, it’s social, we have a polarized country in many, many ways. Part of that polarization is a lack of willingness to…look at information in an open-minded way. obviously, we have a different configuration of media today because of cable news, because of all the rest, because i think the real differences lie in a reluctance of consumers information to seek out the best attainable version of the truth, [that] is really what good reporting is. The internet has contributed to it, cable news has contributed to it, if there’s any institution that has contributed to it, i think that Fox news has disproportionately partly and talk radio. especially. in the ‘80s and the ‘90s, moving into Fox news, the fact that there is so much on the internet and on cable news See BeRNsTeiN, page 5

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White House plan would expand climate data access by Juliet Eilperin The washington post

WASHINGTON — The White House launched an initiative Wednesday aimed at expanding the use of climate data nationwide, to help communities cope with the effects of global warming. The effort includes making federal data more accessible through the climate.data.gov website and launching a design competition to demonstrate the extent to which Americans are vulnerable to coastal flooding. The administration also is releasing new federal map data to depict which parts of the nation’s infrastructure are vulnerable to climate change and is enlisting Google, Esri and other private firms to distribute and store data. White House counselor John Podesta and presidential science adviser John Holdren told reporters that the initiative would allow government officials and businesses to prepare for rising sea levels, flooding and drought. “This begins to make clearer what the risks are of inaction,” Podesta said. The idea of creating a centralized climate data center dates to 2006, during the George W. Bush administration, and

the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration formally proposed its creation in 2010. NOAA’s administrator at the time, Jane Lubchenco, called it a National Climate Service, because it is modeled loosely on the National Weather Service. Congress, which was controlled by Democrats, called for an independent review of the proposal. But Republicans later rejected the plan after taking control of the House. In an interview Wednesday, Lubchenco called the effort “very timely. As we saw at NOAA, the requests for information are just escalating exponentially . . . It’s not just data, it is being able to visualize it, to manipulate it, and to tailor it to the decisions you are making.” Holdren said the effort is “broader” than the 2010 plan and “brought more resources to bear” by involving other agencies as well as the private sector. The climate service has practical appeal beyond the political dispute over global warming: NOAA signed a memorandum of understanding with the Western Governors’ Association in June 2011 to provide it with climate data on drought and other issues.

Jack Dangermond, chief executive of Esri, said his software company had already analyzed how a one-meter rise in sea level would affect the New York City area; 780,000 people would be displaced. But the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, an industry group that opposes federal limits on carbon dioxide, said the idea is part of an effort to justify stricter regulations based on the prospect of harmful climate impact. Although the data initiative will come out of agencies’ existing budgets, the group said the administration is already spending too much on infrastructure in the name of climate readiness. “Even as millions of Americans experience continued economic plight, the White House is expending enormous resources, including billions in taxpayer dollars, on the president’s pet project: ‘climate change preparedness,’ “ Laura Sheehan, the group’s spokeswoman, said in a statement. “The administration’s new climate change website will further bolster its fear-inducing vision of the future, which sounds more and more like a scene out of a Hollywood movie.” Some private firms are joining with

the administration to launch the initiative. Esri will work with the District of Columbia and 11 other cities to create free “maps and apps” for state and local planning officials. The technology giant Google will donate 1,000 terabytes of cloud storage for climate data, along with 50 million hours of high-performance computing. Mary Glackin, a longtime career official at NOAA who served as the agency’s acting administrator at the start of the Obama administration, said it was important to enlist the help of the private sector to modernize the way businesses and consumers access climate data. “Our climate services are back in the 1940s, and our problems are really the problems of today,” she said. Dawn Zimmer, the Democratic mayor of Hoboken, N.J., which was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, said in a statement that the move allows her city to conduct “a data-driven analysis” of flooding risks and solutions. “As we work with a team of experts to make Hoboken more resilient, it is critical that we have the tools and data necessary to anticipate the impacts of climate change,” she said.

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WASHINGTON — Colleges and universities in 25 states must meet performance requirements to receive at least part of their funding from state governments as education experts increasingly focus on closing the gap between the number of students who enroll in post-secondary institutions and those who actually graduate. States differ in their performance incentive structures for funding. Washington, Hawaii, Texas and Massachusetts allocate part of their funding to twoyear institutions using performance measures; Arizona, Mississippi, Florida, Pennsylvania and Maine apply metrics only to four-year institutions. Another 16 states measure both two- and four-year institutions, according to data compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The measures of post-secondary performance vary widely by state, the conference report found. Most states measure the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded or the six-year graduation rate. Arkansas, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia award additional points for higher numbers of graduates in science, technology, engineering and math fields. In Florida, four-year universities are judged in part by the success of their graduates. In fiscal 2014, the state allocated $20 million in performance funding based in part on the median average full-time wages of undergraduates employed in the state one year after graduation. Other states award money based on school improvement. Two- and four-year institutions in Louisiana are measured in part based on how their reten-

tion rates change: If more students stay in school, more funding is provided. Louisiana lawmakers apply at least 15 percent of base appropriations, one of the highest percentages of performance-based funding among any state, to school allocations. Massachusetts community colleges will have to pay more attention to performance metrics than most schools in other states. The Bay State will award half of all base funding to schools that issue the highest percentage of certificates, and to schools where students complete the highest number of entry-level math and English courses. North Dakota calculates nearly all of its base funding by the number of credit hours completed at twoand four-year institutions. Most states award much smaller percentages of their higher education dollars on the basis of performance, usually about 5 percent. Five more states — Montana, Colorado, South Dakota, Georgia and Virginia — are moving to implement performance-based funding mechanisms. In Montana, 5 percent of base funding will be awarded based on performance standards, though the criteria have yet to be developed. South Dakota, too, is working to develop performance criteria. Colorado will award up to 25 percent of its funding of more than $650 million on the basis of performance, though the legislature must act on standards proposed by the state Commission on Higher Education. Beginning in 2017, Georgia schools will compete for new appropriations on the basis of performance, while Virginia will allocate half of all school funding based on performance and incentives.

police from page 1 data from the State Bureau of Investigation database. From a total of more that 15 million recorded traffic stops, he said it was clear that Durham had an abnormal stop practice, with a very high rate of stopping African American drivers. Following this red flag that DPD’s practices fell outside of the norm, the SCSJ began investigating more of the department records. One of the most disturbing finds, Mance said, was that the department pays secret cash rewards to drug informants based on the effectiveness of their testimonies or cooperation. Although it is DPD’s policy to pay informants for working on these higher level cases, an official statement maintained that the amount of these bonuses does not depend on if a conviction is achieved. “The Durham Police Department denies any unethical or illegal activity as it relates to the paying of bonuses to confidential informants,” the statement read. “The Police Department has never paid for convictions, only cooperation through case completion.” In a memo obtained by The Chronicle from Peter to Chief Assistant District Attorney Roger Echols dated Feb. 18, he noted that it is a common law enforcement practice nationally to not pay confidential informants until after trials are concluded. “I have no concerns about there being integrity issues related to bonus payments for [confidential informants] after case completion,” the memo stated. The department is asking their police attorney to review practices to ensure that there are no procedural or legal issues in how they handle informants and their payment. “They haven’t had a lot of time to respond. We threw a lot of information at them in a very short period of time. I want to give them the opportunity to review the information and do their own investigation before we do anything further,” Mance said. A June 2012 study written by Frank Baumgartner— Richard J. Richardson Professor of political science— alleged racial disparities in traffic stops, searches and arrests in Durham. In the study, he reported that in Durham county, black drivers were 162 percent more likely to be stopped for a seat belt violation than a white driver. “Statewide, blacks are 77 percent more likely than whites to be searched for identical offenses, while Hispanics are 96 percent more likely to be searched,” the study read. “Representing not just a sample of police stop-and-search activity in North Carolina, but all stopand-search activity statewide over more than 3,800 consecutive days, the report provides powerful evidence of profiling and differential treatment of minority drivers.”

cloak from page 1 findings build on a series of advancements in several disciplines. The research started with electromagnetics, Popa said, citing a theory developed over the course of 2005 and 2006 stating that with the right materials, scientists could make objects invisible. Cummer decided to extend this theory to acoustics and work began in this direction. Cummer added that, although the researchers are not the only ones working on techniques to manipulate sound, they created much of the original theory and discovered the types of material properties needed to achieve this effect. “This has been a problem we’ve been working towards for the past five years, starting with the theory, and then sitting down with computer simulations and figuring out how to design the materials,” Cummer said. To achieve these goals, the research team applied a series of mathematical design tools to the problem to ascertain what kinds of material properties were needed to produce an effective cloak, Cummer said. They engineered a structure made of plates carefully spaced apart, at particular angles and perforated with holes of specific diameter. “These properties allow the material to intercept the sound waves, redirect it around, and make the sound come out with the same phase and time delay that it would have had if the object hadn’t been there,” Cummer said. To test whether the device actually worked, Cummer and his colleagues placed a small sphere under the cloak on top of a flat surface and directed short sound bursts at it from various angles. They then mapped how the waves responded to the object under the cloak and compared this map to those generated by the object without the cloak and ones generated by the flat surface without the object or cloak.

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The results showed that the cloak was able to almost completely mimic the map generated by the naked flat surface. “To make something invisible in this way you need to surround it with a shell that can take the incident wave energy, soak it up, bend it around itself, and then fill in the region behind it so that it looks like the wave’s traveled straight through the object when in reality it’s traveled around it.” Cummer said. The device has diverse possible applications but Cummer said the cloak was not designed with any particular implementation in mind. Popa and Cummer named broad potential uses of the application, ranging from acoustic lenses for underwater communication devices to hiding objects from sound and sonar detectors. More work is required, however, before the device can be made commercially available. “It’s not perfect yet, but we’ve just proven that this technology is possible,” said Lucian Zigoneanu, research associate in electrical and computer engineering. Zigoneanu added that the cloak is two times the size of the object underneath it and would ideally just be a thin coating not increasing the object’s size. Ideas for how best to apply the object are still in the works, Cummer said. “Now that we know that this can be done and we know something about how we can do it, we’re talking to lots of people who have specific ideas about applications,” Cummer said.

Bernstein from page 2 that is presented from an ideological perspective is different than the configuration of information at the time of the ‘70s. But, again, I think it’s a very complicated equation and you can’t just look at the media and you have to

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look at the people of the country who are a is huge... I don’t see a diminish in there. And I reflection of the media. think great editors have always been the exception, not the rule. So I don’t think we should TC: Do you think the internet is the cause also be nostalgic about those things. of this societal change or merely a factor that helps to encourage it? TC: Finally, what advice do you have for any BC: I think they fed each other but I think journalists starting out in the world of today’s we are a culture that is less interested in the media? truth as we are, we look for easy answers that CB: I would hope that real journalists who feed our prejudices and ideologies and reli- are starting out now are young people who are gious beliefs and political beliefs. We are not as interested in the best attainable version of the open-minded to the truth and not interested truth. Incidentally, I think it’s possible to even in seeking it out. That’s not to say a lot of peo- pursue the best attainable version of the truth ple are interested in it but, in terms of a cul- and that doesn’t necessarily mean that you tural norm, I would say it’s much diminished. can’t work for a magazine with a point of view that has a political outlook. But I think there’s TC: Do you think the role of the editor has a huge difference between being informed by decreased in the digital age? Certainly more a political philosophy and being bound by a people consume media digitally than they political philosophy in such a way that it enused to, which perhaps takes away from the courages you to obscure or ignore the truth... idea of an editor selecting the most important By and large uncommitted media—meaning stories for a day’s paper. institutions, newspapers, websites, broadcast BC: You have to differentiate the term and cable outlets—that are interested in the “media.” It means all kinds of institutions and best attainable version of the truth without quasi-institutions. It means a website with four beginning from a particularly political or people. It means a hundred different things, ideological point of view, I think that that’s whereas if you were talking about “news me- a starting point and that the most important dia” in the 1960s-’70s, you were really talking thing is really to understand how much work about newspapers and television broadcasts. is required. If you look at All The President’s So the definition has expanded exponen- Men, the movie, it’s almost like a basic primer tially but no, I think the role of the editor at about what reporting is. [It is] about knocking the New York Times, the Washington Post, on doors, using common sense—nothing very the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, is ev- exotic...tough, hard slogging, and that too may ery bit as great as it was before. I think though have always been exceptional but it might be that you also have “editors” at places like Fox even more exceptional today. I think reporters or MSNBC whose job is not to produce infor- also tend to be bad listeners—the most valumation that meets a popular standard held by able thing that a reporter can do is be a good its audience rather than make decisions news listener because I think if you allow people to values... I don’t think this is too complicated, talk and you get to people who you believe it’s pretty easy to identify what publications have information about a particular thing that and networks do serious news in the sense of you’re covering, they tell you what they believe the best attainable version of the truth. Now, is the truth… I think there’s a problem of regranted, there also has been economic prob- porters not being good listeners. I think again lems in the newspaper—and print business it’s about open-mindedness, hard work, comparticularly—but I think the role of the editor mon sense—those are the essential elements.

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Following its first automatic relay qualification in program history, Duke will send a program-record six athletes to compete in the 2014 Women’s nCAA Championships in Minneapolis. led by seniors Christine Wixted and lauren Weaver in the final swims of their collegiate careers, the Blue Devils will take to the water Thursday morning through Saturday evening to compete in six individual events and two relays. The country’s top swimmers will compete in one of the fastest meets in the world, with competitors including olympians Missy Franklin, Breeja larson and elizabeth Beisel. “it can definitely be intimidating when you first walk out on the pool deck,” head coach Dan Colella said. “But watching their faces and their body language, i think they are ready to go. They are excited and hungry. They realize it is a huge accomplishment to make it here.” Weaver was invited to compete in the 50-yard freestyle, and her senior teammate received invitations in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke. having secured their places in the meet, both swimmers will be allowed to compete in other individual events in which they have achieved nCAA B-standards. Weaver will add the 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly, and Wixted will also compete in the 200-yard individual medley. The seniors’ best chances to score points for Duke will be in their invited events. Weaver holds the 21st-best time in the 50-

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they are capable of swimming faster than what they qualified with. After four seasons, it’s not a meet with anxiety. They are here to really try to accomplish something.” When the Blue Devils earned their nCAA A-standard in the 200-yard medley relay, they secured automatic advancement of their four relay swimmers—

With nonconference play officially over, the Blue Devils face a tough weekend of top-tier ACC teams. no. 13 Duke welcomes Virginia Tech and no. 7 Virginia to Durham for a full weekend of conference competition. After Virginia battling the hokies, Tech Duke will hope to vs. defeat the defendNo. 13 ing nCAA champion Duke Cavaliers for the first Friday, 3 p.m. time in 12 matchups Ambler Tennis Stadium when the two teams square off Sunday. No. 7 returning from Virginia a trip to San Diego, vs. where they swept San No. 13 Diego State before Duke falling narrowly to then-no. 2 oklahoSunday, 3 p.m. Ambler Tennis Stadium ma, the Blue Devils (9-4, 1-0 in the ACC) take to their home courts feeling optimistic about the rest of the season. “We came up short [against oklahoma], but i think it showed us that we are

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Senior Christine Wixted returns to the NCAA Championships with the nation’s 22nd-best time in the 100-yard breaststroke. yard freestyle with 22.19 seconds—the time that earned her the bronze at the ACC Championships. Wixted enters the meet 22nd in the 100-yard breaststroke and 29th in the 200-yard breaststroke with times of 1:00.01 and 2:10.10, respectively. “The tough part is getting here,” Colella said. “if they can repeat what they did to get here, they have a very good chance of scoring and being All-Americans. i know

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Playing their 10th contest in just 12 days, the Blue Devils rounded out a tiring stretch of competition with another win. Duke bested Princeton 7-1 Wednesday afternoon at Jack Coombs Field in the Blue Devils’ 11th-straight home tilt. An impressive performance from the mound and two 1 productive innings PRIN DUKE 7 at the plate gave Duke the necessary ingredients for a victory—its seventh of the 10-game stretch and fifth in a row. “Today was a very solid performance,” head coach Chris Pollard said. “i thought we played great defense…. We

did a good job of picking guys up when we had guys in scoring position in the fourth and fifth innings.” The game remained scoreless through three innings despite the Tigers (3-8) notching two quick hits in the first inning. Duke (14-8) managed a hit of its own in the second but left two runners on base. excitement mounted in the fourth frame as Duke avoided a Princeton score after the Tigers stranded Danny hoy— who went 4-for-4 on the day—on third thanks to two infield groundouts and a strikeout. leading off with a line drive down the left field line in the bottom half, Duke senior Jordan Betts notched his 11th double of the season. Designated hitter Matt Berezo stepped up next and dropped down a sacrifice bunt to bring Betts home. After Princeton’s first baseSee BaseBall, page 9

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Weaver, Wixted and freshmen Jessica Sutherland and Maddie Rusch. Duke is also allowed to take an additional two relay alternates, so sophomores Chelsea Ye and Kathryn Eckhart will make their first NCAA Championship roster. Because Duke qualified with the 200-yard medley relay, they will also be able to swim the 200-yard freestyle relay, in which they have a B-standard time. The opportunity for younger swimmers to experience this meet will be invaluable to the team in future seasons. “They know what it takes to get here,” Colella said. “This is incredibly invaluable. This is what its about. Being here and experiencing this, they are here as relay swimmers, but I know they absolutely have their eyes set on individual events next year.” Additional Blue Devil faces on the pool deck will also change the tone of the meet for Duke’s individual swimmers. “Having a group of six here for moral support is huge,” Colella said. “Christine and Lauren had each other last year, but there’s no question when you look around and see some of the other teams how important it is to have that support.” Defending champion Georgia leads the field with 17 qualifying athletes, led by seniors Melanie Margalis and Shannon Vreeland. California follows closely behind them with 16 qualifiers, including Franklin. With the Bulldogs’ strength in the sprints and relays, they have a good chance of repeating their title. They also hold the advantage of potential diving points against the Bears and fellow title-contender Florida.

M. TENNIS from page 7 definitely up there with the top teams in the country,” junior Raphael Hemmeler said. “Oklahoma’s ranked No. 1 now in the country, and I definitely think this trip helped to give us some confidence going into a huge weekend.” While Sunday’s matchup against Virginia will be the featured bout of the weekend, the Blue Devils must first beat Virginia Tech (8-5, 1-1). Duke and the Hokies both enter Friday’s matchup coming off 4-3 losses to ranked opponents, with Virginia Tech having fallen to then-No. 19 Boise State. This season’s Virginia Tech squad is led by sophomore Amerigo Contini, ranked 24th nationally and riding a five-match win streak in dual competition. “They may not be ranked as high as a team like Virginia, but they’re very dangerous,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “They’re definitely better than their ranking, and they’re going to come here trying to beat us badly. We just need to make sure we [have our] full focus on Virginia Tech, and then after that we can start to think about the next match.” The next match for the Blue Devil squad is one of the biggest so far in the season. Featured as one of the USTA’s College MatchDay matches covered by ESPN3, the contest will deviate from the usual format—singles will be played first, with doubles happening only in the event of a 3-3 tie at the end of singles. “The USTA is really promoting college tennis hard,” Smith said. “They’ve invested a lot of resources and money into promoting these 10 biggest matches of the spring season, and we’re fortunate to be one of them.”

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On the other side of the net, the first four Blue Devils in the lineup hold national rankings, and the two remaining—Hemmeler and sophomore Josh Levine—have each won four matches in a row and only lost five combined matches all season. With singles play coming first in Sunday’s contest, the Duke squad will not have the opportunity to gain an advantage from the early doubles point, something they’ve relied on in all but one of its wins this year. “We are a really deep team. I feel like we have a lot of good players, and I think we are great competitors,” Hemmeler said. “We have played really well, we have practiced really well, prepared really well [and] played with a little bit of a chip on our shoulder. We are excited for the rest of the season, and I think that makes us dangerous.”

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man fumbled the toss, Berezo made it to first while Betts scored to put the Blue Devils up 1-0. After being hit by a pitch in his first at bat, outfielder Ryan Deitrich hit a shot over the left field fence to knock in Berezo and give the redshirt senior his first home run as a Blue Devil. A transfer from Pennsylvania, Deitrich had the most experience facing Princeton—the two Ivy League teams faced off throughout Deitrich’s career with the Quakers, while Duke hasn’t competed against the Tigers since 2004. “It feels really good, not only to have my first home run of the season, but to [have it] come against Princeton, who I’ve played against for the past four years, it was kind of sweet to get it against them—especially after the first at bat,” Deitrich said. “I don’t really think they were throwing it at me intentionally… [but] I kind of took it personally in my next at bat and made them pay for it.” With a 3-0 lead to protect, redshirt sophomore Conner Stevens took to the mound and promptly retired the first two batters with back-to-back strikeouts. A fly out to left field ended the inning and sent the trailing Tigers back onto the field. A leadoff double from redshirt junior Mike Rosenfeld put a Blue Devil in scoring position. Then Betts, returning to the plate, connected on a hit to left field and pushed Rosenfeld to take third. Berezo tried to bunt again, leaving one foul and missing the ball on the oth-

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met Becky DeNardis for the first time during Round Table rush. My first conversation with her was 12 months later at a holiday party where she told me how she loved watching funny Shaquille O’Neal videos and looking up cute animals on the internet. We didn’t talk again for a whole two years when I happened to be visiting her roommate, Fei Gao, at 10 p.m. on a Friday night. The three of us ended up staying up until 4 a.m. that night in one of the first multi-hour conversations that would build the bulk of our friendship. Becky was my best friend. She knew everything about me. I knew everything about her. We spent that first long conversation talking about her hair, and how she felt cutting it off. We spent another couple hours that night complaining about being women in STEM—a conversation topic that would come up way too often afterwards. We became closer during the next semester, and all of a sudden, we were roommates and best friends. I would feel terrible, because I would keep waking her up with my alarm. She got me hooked onto Diet Coke and popcorn. We literally used to talk for at the very least a couple hours every single day. It got so bad that we decided we had to set rules for when we could talk. We decided to do this thing where we worked for 45 minutes and then we could talk for 15 minutes. I think our record was six sessions in a row. Every Monday, we would go to weight training class, do 45/15s together, and then, we would order Chai’s. We

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both loved the edamame. We made silly plans. We were both going to work for a couple years, and then we were going to be badasses and go to this cool New York university together that offers this artsy computer science/entrepreneurial combo degree, and I can’t remember the name of it right now. We used to over-analyze texts and write emails for each other, because we never knew what to say. And she would send me music. She introduced me to Delta Rae, and we went to their concert together. I have a huge list of songs she sent me on Spotify that I still haven’t listened to. We were supposed to go on a road trip this summer. Those messages I sent her this week on Facebook are going to remain unread. She wrote me a letter when I left Duke. She wrote that she particularly remembered a night when Fei, Becky and I came back early from a party on Friday night, and we decided we were going to be super serious and listen to sad music and be “sophisticated.” But we all just ended up falling asleep on each other on our futon. She wrote that she remembered feeling completely content. I was too. I just took for granted that we were going to have so many more moments like that. We had so many plans. And I’m still in shock, and I’m so confused. I literally just cannot express how much Becky meant to me— how much she means to me. I miss her so much. I love you, Becky.

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ecky had long hair when I first met her. I had forgotten that. I was reminded that her red locks used to be flowing as I clicked through photos on Friday, mourning a friend whose life was cut short. See, a few months into knowing her, she cut it all off and started rocking the pixie cut. It surprised me. This shy, quiet woman had made a bold move most were too scared to even attempt. But I would learn boldness and surprises were kind of Becky’s things. She had a lightning-quick sense of humor. When people mistook her quiet for docility, they would soon learn she could always best them in a war of wits. She was a skilled soccer player. Her frame was tiny, but she could zip down the field. She was a computer science wiz, so much so that professors would ask her to take their classes. She was both in action and words a fierce advocate for women in tech fields. She had great taste in music. The tracks she lis-

tened to were often obscure gems that would get stuck in your head for days. I knew when I first met her was that she was kind and warm. What surprised me was that this seemingly had no limits. She was the first person to pop down the hall to offer a kind word when you were having a hard week. She was ready to drive to RDU to pick you up anytime. She gave incredible gifts that were thoughtful reflections of the recipients’ personality. She grew into all of these qualities in her time at Duke with a ferocity I’ve never experienced in anyone else. She blossomed into a woman who I was, and am, proud to call my friend. I feel privileged to have seen her grow into a force of nature that could do anything. I think I forgot she had long hair because bold just looked so good on her. Nathan Nye, Trinity ’13

uke students seem to have a knack for making the national news. In recent years, we have had members of the lacrosse team accused of rape (but later acquitted), a senior rating her sexual encounters in a PowerPoint and, most recently, a student working in the porn industry all pop up in national news outlets. I do not intend to pass judgment on these individuals, but I do wish that outside sources would acknowledge a more ordinary student—one who is more indicative of the Duke community at large. Becky DeNardis was one such ordinary Duke student. Actually, she was an extraordinary one. Although she was always loath to mention her own accomplishments, they were incredible. Majoring in both computer science and math, she was invited to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, and, before her senior year had even begun, she already had a job offer at Google. More important than her academic and professional accomplishments, she was genuinely caring and thoughtful and had a sharp, biting sense of humor. Becky represents all that can be so great about Duke students: their intelligence, their humor, their compassion. Duke has been deprived of one of its brightest stars, and we need to acknowledge how brightly Becky’s star burned. Let’s forget all the other Duke students who have been in the news lately and rally around one of our greatest, Becky DeNardis. May she rest in peace, and may she not be forgotten. Rhyne King, Trinity ’14

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e have a different perspective on Becky than everyone else in the Duke community; we’ve known Becky since she was born. She was always a bright, inquisitive child who loved learning. That made her an excellent student, and that made us proud. Her academic achievements got her accepted to Duke and that made her proud. When she started her studies, she was reserved and reluctant to assert herself. During her time at Duke, we saw her transform from a timid girl into a self-confident young woman. To us, this was at least as important as the education she was receiving. She truly blossomed during her time at Duke. We want to thank everyone in the Duke community, especially the members of Round Table, who contributed to this wonderful transformation. You touched Becky directly but also touched us, her family. Without reservation we can say that the time Becky spent at Duke were the best days of her life.

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or some, she was a patient teacher; for others, she was an eager student. For some, she was a passionate leader; for others, she was a caring teammate. For some, she was a loyal confidante; for others, she was a crafty prankster. But for all, she was a wonderful friend.

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t is difficult to define what Becky DeNardis meant to the Round Table family because she meant so many different things to so many different people. For some, she was a patient teacher; for others, she was an eager student. For some, she was a passionate leader; for others, she was a caring teammate. For some, she was a loyal confidante; for others, she was a crafty prankster. But for all, she was a wonderful friend. A conversation with Becky left you a little happier and a little more enchanted by the world. Her sentences usually began with, “I wonder if…” or “If this…” or “If that…” She had boundless curiosity and profound intuition. Walking through section, you could often find Becky planning her latest Nerf Gun sneak attack on unsuspecting victims, watching obscure movie trailers in between study sessions or lacing up her sneakers to get ready for soccer, zumba or weightlifting. She had a penchant for study rooms all across Few and had a strange knack for finding uncharted and exotic study spots. She had a bottomless pit of almonds in her room and handed them out liberally. She was her own curator of music and would enthusiastically share it with others. Occasionally, her “newest” hipster song had already been on the Top 40 for a couple months. She was well known for “the Becky”—a famous dance that resembled

Carlton’s from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. No one could ever figure out her Halloween costumes— ranging from Audrey Hepburn to Eloise. She once planned a “smear campaign” against the Round Table presidents, planting flyers accusing them of “pizza sabotage.” She often tried, unsuccessfully, to convince others that she’d never lied before in her life. Becky’s own words paint a fuller picture than anything else we could say. On her Round Table application as a freshman, she answered this question: If you were to be recognized by posterity for one thing, what would you like to be known for? “Besides the given, my dazzling charm and incredible strength, I would most like to be remembered for my willingness to help other people. I would like to use the abilities I have to help people in some way. I am interested in finding more efficient, ecologically sustainable ways to distribute our world’s diminishing resources, as well as designing affordable products to provide people in developing countries with basic necessities. Along with furthering humanity with these types of advancements, I would also like to be remembered for helping people on a more personal basis, with their daily problems and conflicts.” We miss you, Becky, and we love you.

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he Round Table alumni community offers its sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Becky DeNardis, who was lost far too early in her already extraordinary life. We are especially heartbroken for the current and recent Round Table members who loved and supported Becky. The bonds formed in selective living groups are some of the strongest at Duke, lasting far beyond students’ four years on campus. As alumni, we wish we had the chance to welcome Becky and get to know her as deeply as you have. Round Table has always provided its members with a source of inspiration, comfort and true friendship, and we know that you will draw upon these elements as you honor Becky’s memory. Please know that hundreds of Round Table alumni are thinking of you at this difficult time and will be there for you when you need us. Round Table Alumni Community

Le Qi, Pratt ’15

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ecky was one of the most genuine people I have ever met. She was so comfortable just being her own self, something that is so rare.

— Le Qi

Round Table

e lost a brilliant mind that was not yet finished with the incredible impact she could have had on the world, but more importantly we lost a beautiful person who offered the purest kind of friendship, who has entirely left a mark on the souls of those around her.

— Karmyn McKnight

ecky was one of the most genuine people I have ever met. She was so comfortable just being her own self, something that is so rare. I think anyone who has ever met her would agree that she is one of the kindest, warmest people and always carried around a positive attitude towards everything she did and everyone she knew. She would rarely, if ever, be upset or angry with anyone and was always very understanding and welcoming towards others. No matter how busy she was, she would always make the time to listen to you if you had a problem or even if you wanted to talk about nonsense. Becky’s compassion was infectious, and she certainly made me want to be a nicer and more caring person. Becky also had such an aptitude for and love of learning computer science. Whether she was talking with me about her Google internship or discussing a project in class like a PacMan game that never lost, her face lit up and you could tell how passionate she was about the classes she took and the work she was doing. Becky was one of the brightest people I know at Duke and was always on top of her schoolwork and grades, but she was humble about it and never liked to boast about her many accomplishments. I wish I could have spent more time with her and gotten to know her even better, but I will never forget the memories I have had with her, and I want to thank her for being such a great friend.

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can honestly say that I would not be in Round Table if it wasn’t for Becky’s infectious smile and welcoming care. When I attended the rush info session two years ago, she was the very first Round Tabler I talked to. She was a quiet, quirky person hugging the side of the room, and I was a quiet, quirky person who just wanted to hug the side of the room. I would not have come back to the next rush event if I hadn’t had such a pleasant conversation with Becky. We talked about women in STEM fields, and that was my first introduction to Becky’s incredible drive and passion for the things she cared about. Becky was impossible to dislike. She was clever and sassy with a heart of gold. Never have I met another person who is so willing to drop everything to help a friend in need, no matter how trivial or grand the friend’s concern. I will miss Becky’s wide grin, her nerdy humor and her quick wit. I’ll miss watching her zigzag through the RT hallways, listening to her talk about the latest thing she found fascinating and catching her as she briefly popped her head into the common room just long enough to give a heartfelt greeting to everyone there. We lost a brilliant mind that was not yet finished with the incredible impact she could have had on the world, but more importantly we lost a beautiful person who offered the purest kind of friendship, who has entirely left a mark on the souls of those around her. Karmyn McKnight, Pratt ’15

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March 20-24 EXHIBITIONS

Media Arts + Sciences Lab Posters. Panels describing the 9 new MA+S labs with words and images. Thru April 30, 2014. Corridor Gallery, East Duke. Free. Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist. Remarkable paintings by American artist Archibald Motley, master colorist and radical interpreter of urban culture. Thru May 11, 2014. Nasher Museum of Art. Free. My White Friends. “Racial-identity portraits” by photographer Myra Greene. Thru May 17, 2014. Center for Documentary Studies. Free. Night in the City of Light: Paris’ Cabaret 1881-1914. Academic Focus Gallery, Thru June 29, 2014. Nasher Museum of Art + Cheap Thrills: The Highs and Lows of Cabaret Culture in Paris, 18811939. Thru May 31, 2014. Perkins Gallery, Duke University Library. Free.

EVENTS March 20 Music Lecture. Richard Fleming (Bucknell University). “Listening to Cage: ExperimentationChanceSilenceAnarchism.” 4:30pm, FHI Garage, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, 1st floor. Free. Wind Instrument Master Class with Gremlins Duo. 7:30pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building. Free. Master class with Kronos Quartet violinist John Sherba. Sherba will listen and offer feedback to Duke student chamber music ensembles. Repertoire to include Bartók’s Contrasts (trio for clarinet, violin, and piano) and Prokofiev’s Sonata for Two Violins. 8pm, Nelson Music Room, East Campus. Free. March 21 Lecture Series in Musicology. Inventing Yvette Guilbert, the ‘diseuse fin de siècle’ with Jacqueline Waeber (Duke University). 4pm, Room 101, Biddle Music Bldg. Free. MFA|EDA Thesis Exhibition Opening Kickoff. The MFA in Experimental & Documentary Arts’ opening reception for the Class of 2014 thesis exhibit followed by film premieres. 5pm, Power Plant Gallery and Full Frame Theater, American Tobacco Campus. Free. Public conversation with David Harrington & Will Robin. Kronos founder David Harrington and Will Robin, Scholar-in-Residence at the North Carolina Symphony, will discuss forty years of boundarybreaking chamber music. 7pm, Alizarin Gallery, 119 W. Main St., 2nd Fl., Durham. Free. Concert. Katharina Uhde, violin & R. Larry Todd, piano. Works by Beethoven, Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim, and Franck. 8pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free. March 23 Organ Recital Series Concert. University Organist Robert Parkins will presents “Magnificat,” a program featuring music by early Iberian and French composers, plus works of Bach and Rheinberger on the Brombaugh and Flentrop organs, assisted by Kristen Blackman, cantor, and members of the Duke Vespers Ensemble, Brian Schmidt, dir. 5pm, Duke Chapel. Free.

SCREEN/SOCIETY

All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (N) = Nasher Museum of Art. (SW) = Smith Warehouse Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium. All events subject to change. 3/20

The Devil Came on Horseback (SW) - discussion to follow Rights! Camera! Action!

3/23

An evening w/ Nikyatu Jusu ’05 (W) Screening of short films + Q&A w/ the filmmaker. AMI Showcase: Alumni Filmmaker Homecoming Series

3/24

Silent Comedy Shorts (rare program of restored/recovered classics) AMI Showcase: Silent Cinema Series (See website for details.) ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

This message is brought to you by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Music Department, Duke Performances, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University Libraries, Screen/Society, Department of Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.