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CollegiateACB to be sold due to media attention by Carleigh Stiehm
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After more than 1,500 topics that span 103 pages on the Duke section alone, the founder of CollegiateACB has decided to sell the university gossip forum due to recent negative attention the website has received. Since its launch almost exactly two years ago, the Duke page has remained steadily in the top five most active universities on the site, said CollegiateACB founder Tim O’Shea. Following the firestorm of media attention surrounding The Chronicle’s Feb. 14 profile on Lauren, the freshman adult film actress, the site exploded with negative attention. More than 800 new threads have been posted to the Duke section in the past 30 days. O’Shea is selling the website through an auction online. Bids are accepted via a Flippa account. In the description, O’Shea wrote that one of the reasons that he wants to sell the site is because recent media attention “is something that has deeply impacted relationships with friends and family.” “The whole Duke debacle has helped it gain more notoriety than it already had,” O’Shea said of the site. “The traffic is the highest it has ever been.” Rather than being a place for expression, CollegiateACB became a place known for harmful comments and potential bullying, O’Shea said. He noted that he no longer wanted to read
The University received a $10 million donation to help fund the ongoing renovations to West Union Wednesday. The donation was given by the Crown family—including Board of Trustees member Paula Hannaway Crown, Trinity ’80—and will be used to “create opportunities for social and intellectual interaction” in the renovated union, according to a Duke News press release. The donation comes after Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said the University would be using private philanthropic gifts to help fund the West Union renovations in an interview with The Chronicle March 2. “A university thrives when it offers inviting spaces for faculty and students to gather and connect in a host of programmed and unprogrammed ways,” President Richard Brodhead said in the press release. “This thoughtful gift, at the heart of Duke’s campus, is truly a gift for the entire Duke community. We are grateful to the Crown family for their generosity and vision.” Plans for the renovations have gone through a number of iterations over the past year. The remodel is being funded in large part by an $80 million donation that the University received from the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment in
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AccessDuke presented undocumented students initiative to Senate By Hayley Trainer The Chronicle
AccessDuke, a coalition of students with the goal of supporting undocumented students in the undergraduate admissions process, spoke to the Duke Student Government senate Wednesday night about their initiative. The coalition created a proposal to the University administration to help undocumented students gain equal access to and support from the University. Five undergraduate
representatives from AccessDuke addressed the senate about what they see as current problems with the University’s admission system and their proposed solutions. “We want the administration to say, ‘Not only do we admit undocumented students, but we welcome them here with open arms,’” senior Adam Rodriguez said. Senior Jacob Tobia, vice president for equity and outreach, presented a proposal to the senate to support the AccessDuke initiative,
and the senate will conduct the vote to determine support at next week’s meeting. One of the problems noted with the current admission system is the use of needaware, rather than need-blind, admission for international students. Sophomore Jessica Del Villar said this system often discourages undocumented students from applying and noted that currently five to 10 percent of undocumented high school students go on to higher education.
“This leaves a large percentage of collegeeligible students stagnant and not able to move forward with their education,” Del Villar said, noting that the administration does not report how many undocumented students apply yearly and how many are admitted. When completing the undergraduate application, undocumented students are required to identify as either domestic or See dsg, page 10
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Incoming DUU president hopes to see more consistent programming
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Junior Gregory Moore will take over as president of DUU for the next academic year.
Perhaps best known for its Last Day of Classes committee, the Duke University Union has a much wider impact on the student experience than most realize. The new president of DUU—which is composed of 15 student programming and activities committees, including Small Town Records, JAZZ@ and the Coffeehouse—took office March 21 with hopes of better engaging the student body with events throughout the semester. Junior Gregory Moore succeeded senior Lynn Vandendriessche for his one-year term. The Chronicle’s Carleigh Stiehm spoke with Moore about his plans for the 2014-15 academic year.
The Chronicle: What are your main goals for the year? Gregory Moore: i have two main goals for this upcoming year. The first is to create consistent programming throughout the year, where each week students can count on there being several DUU events. right now, we have a tendency to cluster our programming in the later parts of the semester, often having multiple large events in the same week and fewer large events during other weeks. The second main goal focuses on navigating the upcoming reduction in programming space. The present construction has reduced event spaces considerably with the West Union offline. This upcoming year, i aim to explore underutilized locations for programming like Central Campus in order to diversify the locations of events and provide easily accessible events for all students.
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has a lot to gain from increased collaboration, both within DUU and with other campus organizations, programming in varied venues and putting on more consistent events.
TC: What do you feel was DUU’s greatest strength or accomplishment this year? GM: This past year, DUU made huge internal progress. We clarified committee responsibility, redefined executive board roles and restructured our budgeting process. These changes will allow this upcoming year’s [executive] board to hit the ground running and focus on programming. externally, all of the committees of DUU have put together a number of popular and well-attended events, a precedent that we plan to continue next year. To highlight one committee, Small Town records did an especially great job increasing its presence on campus and signing new artists. its studio is now booked constantly for recordings by TC: What is your prior involvement with student and guest artists. i think [Small Town DUU and why did you want to become the records]’s progress is great not only for the future DUU, but also for the future of stupresident? GM: i became involved with DUU in the dent artists on campus. Spring of freshman year as the Jazz@ committee chair. in filling that role over the last two TC: The lDoC performances were selectyears, i gained experience programming on ed by a DUU committee. What do you think of a regular basis with Jazz@ the Mary lou and this year’s lineup? GM: This year, i am really excited that managing events in unconventional venues on campus like the Keohane patio. Addition- there is a wide range of musical genres being ally, collaborations were a large part of Jazz@’s captured in the lDoC lineup. The lDoC programming. i wanted to become DUU committee puts a lot of effort into researching president so that i could weave my experienc- musical talent to include in the lineup each es from Jazz@ into DUU’s programming as a year, and the event is consistently among the whole. This upcoming year especially, DUU most memorable for many Duke students.
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TC: For students who haven’t had the opportunity to interact with DUU, how would you describe your organization? GM: Broadly, i would describe DUU as an organization dedicated to servicing the student body’s desire for extracurricular enrichment. DUU does so by providing a portfolio of frequent, high-quality entertainment and engagement with concerts, speakers, live broadcast and much more. More specifically, DUU is the largest student-run programming body at Duke. it is comprised of 14 programming committees, each with its own dedicated body of graduate and undergraduate students. The chairs of each committee sit on the DUU [executive] board along with about a half dozen non-programming student members who manage external affairs and the overall operation of the Union. how DUU exactly carries out each event is extremely varied between the committees, each with their own programming focus. All Duke students are welcome to join the committees and play an active role in planning events encompassing lDoC to radio broadcasts. i encourage anyone who wants to become involved to reach out to myself or anyone else on the executive board.
TC: if there was one thing that you would want students to know about the upcoming year, what would it be? GM: This upcoming year, DUU will be putting into effect more convenient ways for students to give feedback on our programming. Be on the lookout for emails and comment boxes around campus in the Fall.
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DHVi finds lupus antibodies may hold key to HiV cure by Zaynah Alam The ChroniCle
researchers at the Duke human Vaccine institute recently found that a patient diagnosed with both lupus and hiV produced antibodies that limited the effects of the latter. The broadly neutralizing antibodies produced by this patient have only been seen in the later stages of a small portion of chronically hiV-infected individuals, when it is already too late to prevent the effects of the virus, said Mattia Bonsignori, a faculty member of DhVi and the lead author of the study that discovered this. This finding, however, provides evidence that inducing these antibodies could limit hiV infection in earlier stages. “The hypothesis was that auto-reactive broadly neutralizing antibodies weren’t being made in the vast majority of people that contract hiV because the immune system targets them as harmful,” Bonsignori said. “And we’ve got this person with lupus and hiV and bam, out of one person we’ve found broadly neutralizing antibodies.” lupus refers to a collection of autoimmune diseases that cause the immune system to go into hyperdrive and attack healthy tissues in the body. in contrast, hiV ultimately inhibits the immune system. The group’s finding that individuals with autoimmune diseases can limit the reproduction of the hiV virus suggests that overriding this control might be the key to engineering a vaccine, said Garnett Kelsoe, a professor of immunology and co-author of the study. Further research is being conducted on how to safely and feasibly overcome the im-
mune controls that prevent the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies in the general population. laurent Verkoczy, an assistant professor in medicine and pathology and co-author of the paper, has been able to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies in mice models without autoimmune problems. “So far, it is encouraging that no clinically adverse effects have been reported in passive transfer studies using 2F5, the broadly neutralizing antibody we have been learning how to induce in mouse models,” Verkoczy said. The patients dually-diagnosed with hiV and lupus were “extremely important” as they provide evidence that a treatment would work in humans, he added. “They not only show what might occur under ideal circumstances but something that actually clearly works in human populations,” Kelsoe said. Although these findings further illustrate the path toward a future vaccine, Bonsignori stressed that this does not mean lupus itself prevents or cures hiV—rather, the effects of lupus simply set the stage for antibodies to develop that strengthen the immune system against hiV. “The relevance of these kinds of antibodies is for vaccine development, in which you plan to elicit that kind of response before you get in touch with the virus itself,” Bonsignori said. “People with lupus, like all individuals, should protect themselves from contracting the virus in the first place.” The preventive nature of the DhVi See dHVi, page 10
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ing death threats towards women on the College of William and Mary’s page, CollegiateACB worked with the university and police to track the student. The IP addresses led police to Benjamin Zavelsky, a freshman at the College of William and Mary, who was subsequently arrested and expelled, O’Shea said. CollegiateACB was not the first website to provide an outlet for university gossip. Alumnus Matt Ivester—Trinity ‘05—founded JuicyCampus.com in 2007. The website was the first major anonymous college gossip website. After JuicyCampus shut down in 2009, two graduate students from Johns Hopkins University and Wesleyan University created CollegeACB—which subsequently led to the Panhellenic Association to petition for the University to ban it from campus. What started as a spring break project between friends, O’Shea and his then-partner founded CollegiateACB as a safer alternative to previous gossip sites. “The difference between me and other people is that I knew the repercussions that this could have,” O’Shea said. “I was able to remove thousands of posts that others probably wouldn’t have.” Unlike previous sites, key words from threads on CollegiateACB cannot be found through search engines, thus more thoroughly protecting the anonymity of students who are discussed on the threads. Whoever purchases the site will have control over how its ethics are guided, O’Shea said. But he hopes that they continue to maintain the standards he has set. As for the criticism that CollegiateACB allows students to unfairly be called out on the Internet, O’Shea said that it says more about the people who hide behind the anonymity of their computers to put down their peers than it does about the students being discussed. “It really just shows who they are as a person,” O’Shea said.
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Some worried whether Duke’s second-round NCAA tournament loss to Mercer would be head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s last. Not only did the Hall of Fame coach put those rumors to rest—he upped the ante. At a rare postseason press conference Wednesday, Krzyzewski recounted five-year segments from the 2000s to the 2010s before laying out his plans for next five years in Durham. Should that plan hold true, the 67-year-old head coach would remain at the helm of the Blue Devils through the 2018-19 season. “I’m looking forward to the next five years,” Krzyzewski said. “I’m going to be here during that time.... There’s not like, ‘When is he going to retire?’ and all that. I’m looking forward to playing that out.” Krzyzewski had previously put retirement rumors to rest when he accepted an offer last May to stay on as the head coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team through the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Five more years on the Duke bench would give Krzyzewski—the current all-time wins leader for men’s See KRZYZEWSKI, page 6
Mike Krzyzewski sat down yesterday for a rare end-of-season press conference. He spoke about the season’s disappointing conclusion: the team’s second NCAA tournament Round of 64 exit in three years. He spoke about the need for more leadership, both on the court and from him. He spoke about the conference’s glory days: “The greatest basketball I’ve ever seen in the conference was in the ‘80s.” He spoke of his greatest regret as a coach in the last five years… not redshirting Ryan Kelly. After the Mercer loss, I tried to cobble together a column on this season but struggled to reach any conclusion. Is there anything to say, a lesson to be learned? Maybe about one-and-dones not working for Duke’s system? No. Sure, the years with Austin Rivers and Jabari Parker ended too early, but as Krzyzewski said, the narrative about one-and-dones would be awfully different had Kyrie Irving stayed healthy in 2010-11. Yet as Krzyzewski reflected on this
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With 24 NFL teams on hand, a group of six former Duke football players did their best to impress the scouts in attendance in hopes of receiving a phone call come May 8—the first day of the NFL Draft. Headlined by cornerback Ross Cockrell, the Blue Devils took part in Pro Day Wednesday at Pascal Field House, running through a series of drills that will have major implications for their dreams of playing on Sundays next fall. Despite nearly half the football team filing in to support their teammates, the atmosphere was eerily quiet, with each move being scrutinized by the scouts in attendance. But head coach David Cutcliffe was confident in his players’ ability
to thrive in the moment for which they had spent the past couple months preparing. “It’s different, but I think it’s allowing them to focus,” Cutcliffe said of the quiet environment. “This isn’t playing football. This isn’t really [like] a team sport at this point. This is a lot more like standing over a putt and making a putt. This is an individual focus and I think they just kind of go inside themselves and zoom in to execute what they’ve got to do this day.” Coming off a stellar performance at the NFL Combine, Cockrell was the Blue Devil with the highest draft stock entering Pro Day. Some were skeptical about the cornerback’s decision to give the same drills another shot, as it seemed like he had reached his ceiling in Indianapolis. But as he did at the Combine, Cockrell did nothing but further the case See PRO DAY, page 7
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Division I basketball with 983 victories—a good chance to surpass longtime Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt, who amassed 1,098 wins at the helm of the Lady Volunteers. With his focus on long-term goals, Krzyzewski noted that the first pillar of his five-year plan is developing better on-court leadership for his Blue Devils. “In a game, it’s my job to create an environment where we can function as one and there’s leadership and you can react to every situation,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s what we didn’t do as well [this year]. As we go into next season, that’s a primary concern and obviously other things will improve accordingly.” With freshman Jabari Parker and redshirt sophomore Rodney Hood yet to announce their decisions to return to school or enter the NBA draft and a final scholarship offer still out for undecided 2014 big man Myles Turner, Krzyzewski’s picture of the 2014-15 Blue Devils has yet to come into focus. An added variable when addressing how Krzyzewski will coach and recruit in the next five years is the potential of the NBA raising the minimum age requirement from 19 to 20. Newly-appointed league commissioner and Duke alum Adam Silver has set raising the age limit as a priority for the league, citing that an additional year of maturity and leadership will help the NBA’s young players further fuel competition. “Sometime during that five-year period I believe that the 20 and two rule will come in, but I don’t know when. I think
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the NBA wants that,” Krzyzewski said. “I think that would be good for basketball: NBA [and] college.” Krzyzewski’s comments on the NBA’s current one-and-done minimum age requirement come on the same day that the centerpiece of his 2014 recruiting class, center Jahlil Okafor, said in an interview with Sports Illustrated that forcing players to stay in school for more than a year would be unfair. Citing that his teams do not always have time to tinker and make decisions on the fly, Krzyzewski emphasized the importance of supporting his younger players with strong leadership. This year’s 2013-14 squad was led by Parker and Hood, two players in their first years playing for Duke. “Guys who talk on the court—not to the other team or to the officials— they’re in a constant state of trying to figure out what the hell is going on and trying to get their group to react accordingly,” Krzyzewski said. “You can see that, and that’s not as alive and well.” Reflecting on a season that many view as a disappointment, Krzyzewski once again tried to maintain a broader perspective. Despite Duke’s untimely NCAA tournament exit, the Blue Devils’ struggles this season may have revealed important building blocks that will help in Krzyzewski’s next five years. “We didn’t have a bad season. I’ve had bad seasons. We had a horrible ending,” Krzyzewski said. “When you’re making decisions you don’t do it because you lost a big deal... you’re looking at the full body of work.”
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season and years past, I couldn’t help but think about a gem of wisdom from the most didactic professor I’ve had at Duke. As he handed out course evaluations as is required at the end of every semester, he proceeded to tell us how stupid they were: How can you evaluate the importance, virtues and lessons from a course immediately after taking it? Your evaluation would have more perspective and value, he said, if you could fill it out after you graduated. Then you could fill out another at your five-year reunion. Then on your wedding day, then when you have kids. This would continue until you lay on your deathbed, when you would be handed one final course evaluation. If you could remember anything about the course in that ultimate moment, doesn’t that say a whole lot more than the cluttered impressions from today? To me, it is still too early to know how I will remember the 2013-14 season. All I can feel now is the disappointment, but how will I remember it in five years? The 2011-12 season is an inevitable comparison for this one: In both years, a Duke team, led by a star freshman we figure to be a one-and-done, got bounced as a top-three seed during the first song of the Big Dance. Despite the disappointment from the 2011 NCAA tournament, my strongest memory from that season will always be The Rivers Shot. With 11 seconds left, he began taking the ball down the court. With five seconds left he curled around Mason Plumlee’s pick. With three seconds left he stepped back from the 3-point line and stared down a mismatched Tyler Zeller. Then he took a slight step forward and hit the first game-winning buzzer beater in DukeNorth Carolina history. While the Duke-Syracuse games this year were amazing—and I suspect Jim Boeheim’s ejection will be a tale told
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for a long time—there is no matching memory from this season. But there has to be something else here other than the pangs of defeat. Krzyzewski said he doesn’t like to judge the program in one-year snapshots. He looks at five-year periods, but how about four? The 2006-07 season was the worst in recent memory as the Blue Devils entered the NCAA tournament with a No. 6 seed and lost in the first round to VCU. During ACC play that year, Duke lost four games in a row and fell out of the rankings. In a 2012 TV special “Leadership for Life—Coach K’s Golden Edge” Jon Scheyer discussed this rough patch and how discouraged the freshman class was. Scheyer says Krzyzewski told them that if they continued to do what they were doing they’d win a national championship before they left. “I don’t think our seniors could have predicted this, anywhere near this kind of success through our career, just based on how our freshman year went,” center Brian Zoubek said after Duke beat Butler for the 2010 national championship. This isn’t to say Duke is guaranteed a championship in 2017 (or next year for that matter) but our memory of this season will evolve as the program evolves in the next few years. And as Krzyzewski looks forward to next year and why the leadership may be stronger, he said it begins with this year’s conclusion. “Sometimes you learn more from losing: Why did you lose?” Krzyzewski said. Any obituary of this season is incomplete without waiting to see how its legacy shapes future seasons. Even Krzyzewski sounded different yesterday: The man who has written books and been in TV specials about his leadership ability addressed his own need to better cultivate leadership on the team. So give me a year or three until I can draw a conclusion from this Duke season. Or ask me on my deathbed when I’m filling out course evaluations.
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Juwan Thompson, defensive end Justin Foxx, wide receiver Brandon Braxton and former Duke quarterback Sean Schroeder—is one of many players around the NCAA that will enter the draft on the fringe of making it to the next level. A successful Pro Day performance is something that can go a long way in terms of boosting one’s draft stock. Despite being unsure of what the future holds, Anunike was confident in his performance and hopes to hear from an NFL team in the coming months. “I think I did well today. I think I did everything I wanted to do,” Anunike said. “[I] came out here and performed, showed all the hard work I put in over these last 10 weeks or so and now it’s a waiting game. This is the first step towards the biggest career change of my life.” The Blue Devils will now wait to hear back from teams about individual workouts in the coming weeks. The players will hope to follow in the footsteps of former Blue Devil quarterback Sean Renfree, who broke Duke’s eight-year NFL Draft drought when he was chosen KHLOE KIM/THE CHRONICLE Catching every single pass thrown his way, defensive end Kenny Anunike showed off his in the seventh round of the 2013 draft hands for NFL scouts at Duke’s Pro Day. by the Atlanta Falcons. With Pro Day behind them, it’s just a matter of waiting from the line of scrimmage and dis- last night was, ‘Don’t drop nothing.’ until May. played his catching ability, something Drop into coverage and just look natural Regardless of whether any of the players he has not needed since he was recruit- at it, because I didn’t really do that too are drafted, Cutcliffe praised the group for ed to Duke as a tight end. But Anunike much in college. But I definitely worked their dedication as Blue Devils. proved he hadn’t forgotten how to haul on it because I heard a few guys talking “You can look at all of them and tell in passes, as he didn’t drop a single ball about dropping me into coverage at the they’ve worked,” he said. “Not only since throughout the Pro Day activities. next level so I went ahead and prepared the end of the season, they’ve worked “I didn’t drop a single thing today,” for that, and I think I did really well.” the entire time they’re here and they’re The New York Times Syndication Corporation Anunike said. “That’s one thing I said Anunike—along with running backSales a representation of the program.”
that he deserves to play at the next level by putting forth a 12-rep performance on the bench press and a 39-inch standing vertical, which were two reps and 2.5 inches higher than Cockrell’s results in Indianapolis. After running the 40-yard dash in 4.56 seconds a month ago, Cockrell said his times in each of his two runs Wednesday were better than his Combine performances. Cockrell said the opportunity to go out and perform with his teammates one last time was the main reason he decided to participate in Duke’s Pro Day. “I just wanted to be out here with my teammates,” he said. “It’s my last goaround with some of these guys and I want to enjoy the day with them. I did have the opportunity to go to the Combine but that wasn’t with the guys I came in here with, the guys I did something special with, so I wanted to enjoy that.” Although Cockrell has long been known for his leadership qualities and reputation as a great teammate off the field, it has been his physical form that has NFL scouts talking. “What a lot of these guys are seeing over these two workouts is Ross’ poise and [that] he’s really, really smart and [has] great integrity,” Cutcliffe said. “The intangibles are incredible. What’s shocking them are the tangibles of Ross Cockrell. I think Ross is making a statement. He’s not just smart, he’s fast.” Kenny Anunike, a sixth-year senior defensive end, showed off his versatility when he dropped back into coverage
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education, in its current form, is simply too young to successfully replace the classroom model. It is not hard to envision a future in which technology is integrated into the modern liberal arts institution. In an age of increasingly innovative technological change, Duke should integrate technology to the extent that it produces higher quality students and bodies of knowledge. It is important, however, to balance the wave of online education with the understanding that some modes of learning can only happen through direct human interaction. Some communities of scholarship are best built in shared physical space, and the development of true rigorous critical thinking requires a more interactive and dialectic process than most online courses currently allow for. So long as technology falls short of in-person learning, online experimentation should remain supplementary to the classroom experience. The future of online education remains uncertain. Of course, this uncertainty should not cause us to write off classroom innovations altogether. Instead, we should weigh a desire to pursue online education platforms against the reality that such technology cannot, in its current form, replace the value of human interaction.
are empty words that serve no purpose other than to remove the pressure of having to reveal anything real about ourselves. Because I have felt a lot of things. I have felt happy, sad, ecstatic, lost, inadequate, hopeless— but rarely have I ever simply felt “good.” Rarely do I feel just “OK” or “fine” or any of the other meaningless filler words we’ve adopted into our
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but feel unbearably overwhelmed and overstressed. And from the looks of it, I’m not the only one. Almost instantaneously, everyone seems so busy all of a sudden. With less than four weeks of classes left, we’re all trying to finish strong. And as the end of the semester closes in, I can’t can’t help but notice an increase in the types of conversations that have become standardized here: “Hey! Oh, hey! How are you? Good. You? Good.” Cue brief awkward pause until someone delves into an explanation of what they did over Spring Break or what they’re doing this summer or how incredibly busy they are ALL the time. What gets to me, though, is the crux of the answer. “Good.” What a wonderfully generic response that tells you absolutely nothing about the other person’s personal or emotional livelihood. Congrats. You now know exactly the same information you knew five minutes prior to entering the conversation. Don’t get me wrong. I do this, too. When I’m rushing to class or waiting in line at ABP, I’ll see a friend and ask them how they’re doing under the assumption that I’m going to get an answer like “good” or “OK” and then respond with something equally as generic. And sure, sometimes the conversation delves into other topics, but, for the most part, it stays on the same superficial spectrum it began on. Sometime I wonder if anyone who asks the question, “how are you?” ever actually expects a genuine answer anymore or if it’s kind of just this social norm we continue out of politeness. But I don’t think people resort to this answer with the conscious intention of being dishonest or deceiving the listener. It’s just kind of something we’ve come to do naturally. We go to Duke. We go to this amazing school with amazing resources and amazing people. Everything’s amazing, so if you’re not, then there must be something wrong with you. You must be unappreciative. You must be ungrateful. Your problems must not be real. And so we reiterate that we’re good, that we’re OK. But “good” and “OK” are neither feelings nor emotions—they are placeholders. They
vocabulary. I am alive, so aggregately I am amazing. But, comparatively, sometimes I am anything but. I have been on this campus long enough to understand what’s so problematic about a culture where everyone is OK. Where questions like “how are you?” are answered in terms of how much we’ve accomplished lately rather than how we’re functioning as people. Where personal problems are swept under the rug in favor of constructing a more pleasant narrative. By conforming to a norm that we’re all doing fine, we perpetuate a climate that allows for the times when we desperately do need help to go unaddressed. And when that happens, when people feel this constant pressure to conceal their sadness and hurt, eventually they break. I have listened in stunned silence to stories of prolonged pain and unbearable loss. I have seen people I know succumb to patterns of self-destruction and harm. I have watched people I care about break down right in front of me. And, through it all, I have watched as these same people insist that they are doing just fine. But it’s even more troubling when it’s a relative stranger—when I see someone I barely know who is so obviously in dire need of help. And I wonder who is asking them how they are doing, and, more importantly, who cares enough to get an honest answer. It’s OK to not be OK. But more importantly, it’s OK to express that. People aren’t mindless, unemotional robots with no capacity for emotion. More often than not, they want to hear about your struggles, and they probably want to share some of their own, too. I’m trying this new thing where I refrain from uncommunicative, nonspecific answers. I’m trying to be honest, and I want others to do the same. So, next time you see me eating at the Law School or studying/ people-watching in Vondy (basically the only two places I exist), come have a conversation with me. Tell me about your day. Tell me about your life. Tell me about anything you want as long as it’s real. I promise, I want to listen. Michelle Menchaca is a Trinity sophomore and the editorial page online editor. Her column runs every other Thursday.
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t is that time of the year again, and one of the most well-established Blue Devil Muslim traditions is coming up: Islamic Awareness Month. Every year after Spring Break, Duke’s Muslim community puts together an array of events in hopes of increasing overall knowledge and appreciation about Islam and Muslim cultures on our beautiful Gothic-istan (I hope I coined this cute term), mainly among non-Muslims. Organized Muslim communities on
gives the participants an opportunity to hear scholars and Muslims themselves address these pressing issues. Most people hear only about Muslims but do not often hear enough from Muslims themselves. The overall impact of these annual Islamic Awareness Month activities cannot be underestimated. They often trigger rich and helpful conversations and create momentum for further engagements and learning opportunities for those who take advantage of IAM events.
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got a lot of hate during The 40% Plan campaign—in The Chronicle, the Weedicle, on Facebook, and in person. I didn’t enjoy it, but to be clear, I can’t complain about it. You don’t play football and then grumble about being tackled. But I mention this fact for the question it raises—why bring this upon myself? Indeed, the “why are you doing this?” question was one I received repeatedly throughout the campaign. I was a second-semester senior, with his next four years planned out, launching a campus-wide movement for a very esoteric and seemingly random amendment to a student government constitution. Didn’t
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campus organize IAM and many other similar events throughout the year, as they see these efforts fulfilling one of the most important, timely responsibilities placed on their shoulders—to be a helpful resource in the community in which all can turn to for furthering education and clarification on pressing issues related to Islam as a religion and Muslims as people. In a time and society where Islam is often grossly misunderstood, all sorts of confusion and frustration occur over issues related to Muslim cultures and Muslim-majority societies. For many people today, the main source of information about Islam and Muslims is exclusively through popular media. Many Americans have very little or no prior knowledge, or experience, to process the information that they receive through this media. Therefore, IAM and many other similar activities respond to an important need and address the knowledge gap in our society. The Center for Muslim Life and Duke’s Muslim Students Association, in partnership with several Duke departments, student organizations and local Triangle communities, have put together numerous lectures, film screenings, panels, art exhibitions and spoken word nights in the hope of creating helpful spaces and experiences for members of the Duke and local communities to tackle timely questions and issues around Islam and Muslims locally, nationally and internationally. The content of these IAM events often covers a very broad spectrum from theology to politics, from history to international relations, from various forms of art to media and more. IAM brings outstanding renowned scholars, politicians, diplomats, clergy, activists and artists from all over the world to Duke’s campus and taps into known and unknown treasures of Duke and the Triangle community. Every year, Blue Devil Muslims raise the bar higher and increase the substance and content of IAM events, doing a huge service to all of us. IAM activities are far from biased and uncritical “propaganda” as some skeptics and critics might claim. Both in its aspiration and its commitment, IAM is really not a cheap “Islam is a religion of peace, all is rosy” delusional attempt. On the contrary, IAM aims not to leave out any relevant topic or theme, however controversial or sensitive it might be. It
This year’s IAM features Embrahim Rasool, South African Ambassador to the United States, who will be speaking on March 28 in Goodson Chapel at 4:30 p.m. Ambassador Rasool, a Muslim South African scholar and human rights activist, was a close aid and comrade to the late Nelson Mandela. As a Muslim leader, Rasool worked very closely with Mandela on his “Long Walk to Freedom” autobiography, specifically on matters regarding Mandela’s legacy of faith and dialogue. Famous Syrian pianist Malek Jandali will provide a feast of culture and music in the Nelson Music Room on March 27. His concert is an attempt to honor the victims of the shameful conflict in Syria. On Sunday, March 30, the Duke Coffeehouse will host our spoken word night, where renowned SyrianAmerican artist Omar Offendum will be featured, along with a Muslim fashion show featuring other artists. On April 1, one of the most famous young American-Muslim intellectuals, Haroon Moghul, will be discussing hot topics about Islam and Muslims with our very own Ebrahim Moosa. Last but not least, IAM features a premiere of an amazing movie—“Enemy of the Reich” on April 4 at Griffith Theater. The film is about a Muslim woman, Noor Inayat Khan. Throughout the 1930s, an unimaginable evil tore through Europe, as Hitler’s Third Reich terrorized its way to domination. During these tumultuous times, a young Muslim woman living in Paris found her calling. Khan grew up in a home that fostered faith and hope. Leading with her heart, she overcame her quiet nature and joined Winston Churchill’s covert operation to give the Allies a new chance at victory. This film is her story. I hope many members of our Duke family and local residents will take advantage of the rich IAM opportunities by attending these great events. For those of you who attend, I hope that you will be in conversation with Duke’s Muslim community so as to improve its future IAMs. I, for one, can’t wait to see you all there. The full schedule and details of this year’s IAM can be found online at www.dukemsa.org.
I have anything better to do with my life? Today I want to answer the “why did you do this?” question—but I don’t want to directly answer it in relation to The 40% Plan. Because frankly, we’re all tired of hearing about it, and no one more so than me. Instead, I want to answer the broader question, the more important question—why do I do what I do at all? I think it’s a significant question for all of us to ask ourselves, especially in college. And I’ll answer it in part by delving in to two aspects of my identity. The first I have written about before— my grandmother’s journey to this country. After World War II she was forced in to labor in East Germany as a nanny and housekeeper, given just enough food each day to survive. A river existed nearby, dividing East from West Germany, and eventually my grandmother resolved to flee, asking the local car mechanic the location of the river’s shallowest part. Crossing in the dead of night while hiding from armed guards, wading in water up to her neck despite being unable to swim, my grandmother successfully escaped. She made her way to Berlin and then America. This story serves as a perpetual source of inspiration to me, reminding me of the American Dream, but above all, of the sacrifices paid by those who preceded me. The second aspect I have written about before as well—I am a cancer survivor. But while I’ve written a great deal about my battle with cancer itself—maybe too much—I haven’t detailed as significantly the struggle that (hopefully) comes afterward: survivorship. Survivorship, simply put, is the process of determining how one’s experience fighting cancer impacts his or her life and gives it greater purpose. My survivorship journey has been acutely conflicting. On the one hand I feel a need to live in the moment—soak in life to its fullest. I wrote about this in a column my junior year. But there is another element—one that directly and consistently counteracts the first. While the former is a desire to live in the now, the other is a desire to press on to the future; I feel an unrelenting obligation not to waste my life because, frankly, I value so greatly the second chance I have at it. This most often manifests itself in the form of ambition, but in reality it is a form of fear—a fear of failing to live up to my potential. I believe fundamentally that every person is born with tremedous potential. Some of us are born great artists. Others great scientists. Some amazing writers, and others fantastic entrepreneurs. I call these gifts from God. Others might call them genetic coding. Some others might
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call them simply destiny. What matters most, I think, is the acknowledgement that all human life has inherent value and the potential to impact society. It is this belief that gives my past struggle with cancer purpose—it ignites an unremitting desire to discover what my gifts might be and to use them the best I can. This isn’t to say I consider myself especially gifted. It isn’t to say I consider myself especially brilliant. But it is to say I care very deeply about not wasting whatever gifts I might have been given. This pursuit has been the defining mission of my survivorship since August 23rd 2008, the day I swallowed my last chemotherapy pill. You see, what unites the many threads of this column—my grandmother’s story to my survivorship journey to my belief in the gifts of God—is this: all of us are born blessed, but far too few are born with the opportunity to realize their blessing. My grandma did not have the opportunities I have today. Cancer patients across this country do not have the opportunities I have today. Children walking in to a crumbling school, if they have a school at all, do not have the opportunities I have today. When you consider that twenty-two percent of U.S. children live in poverty and 22,000 children die each day from destitution, we can, for better or worse, proclaim ourselves members of the world’s superheroes. It is another question whether we deserve this honor, but it does us no good to deny our privilege. We love to talk about privilege on this campus, usually focused on race, gender, or sexual orientation. To me, survivorship and my grandma’s story, they’re both about another kind of privilege—the privilege of opportunity. The privilege of the opportunity that health brings, that education brings, that the sweat and effort of preceding generations bring. I am privileged to have professors that want me to succeed, a family that loves me, and a safe country to call home. Above all, I have the privilege to be breathing—the privilege to be living at all. The truth of the matter is that, as much as I might want to believe my successes in life are the result of my own doing, they are just as much, if not more, due to the work of others who created an environment in which I could thrive. Others have bestowed upon me the privilege of opportunity, and it is my responsibility to fulfill the promise. I am utterly committed to doing so. I truly thought The 40% Plan would make Duke a better place. I truly feel government is my best way to impact the world. I very well might be wrong on both fronts. Seventy percent of the campus thought I was wrong on at least one of them. But the fact of the matter is this—I don’t regret it. I will continue searching for the talents I might have been given, I will continue to use them the best I know how, to fight for things I believe in— because to do any less is to betray that child of six years ago, laying in a hospital bed in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, fighting desperately to live and praying for opportunities like the ones I have today. It’s as simple as this—in keeping with Jesus’s parable of the talents, I think wasting opportunity is a sin. Not repeatedly searching for ways to use your gifts to help other people is a sin. Not respecting the great privilege that others have afforded you is a sin. And to the end of my days I will seek to recognize these realities. It is why I do what I do. Daniel Strunk is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday. Send Daniel a message on Twitter @DanielFStrunk.
dsg from page 1 international, which can create an environment of secrecy and insecurity, Tobia said “Currently, students will check ‘international’ and then will call or have their school counselors call and say that they are undocumented,” Tobia said. “We want to take secrecy out of it.” Tobia noted that only three percent of international students who request financial aid consideration on their application are admitted. “Surely there’s a symbolic meaning more broadly, because if students knew that they could be admitted on a need-blind basis, they will be much more likely to apply,” Tobia said. To solve these problems, AccessDuke proposes need-blind admission to undocumented students who can prove their state residency, assistance in the admissions process by way of a specialized admission officer and financial aid counselor, recruitment activity for immigrant communities and a press release made by the administration to announce these changes. “We’re coming to students now to get a louder voice so that
we can go back to the administration and get their attention,” Rodriguez said. In other news: The senate granted chartered status to two student organizations: the Arts Annex Advisory Board, a group that will make decisions pertaining to the Arts Annex and generally promote the arts on campus, and PhotoClub, a group for student photographers at all levels to connect and learn from each other. The senate approved Student Organization Finance Committee allocations of $2,750 to the Black Student Alliance for their Earth, Wind and Fire event March 29 as part of BSAI weekend, and $1,650 to Delta Sigma Theta to bring LC Coleman, author of How to Be Your Own Hero, to campus April 3. SOFC chair Joyce Lau, a senior, presented the annual budget guidelines, an explanation of what SOFC will and will not fund during the next academic year. Lau explained that the budget will only be used to fund capital expenditures of chartered student groups and will not fund giveaways, decorations, or alcohol. The budget will be presented to the senate at the next meeting and will be voted on by the senate April 9.
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Executive Vice President Nikolai Doytchinov, a junior, introduced several constitutional amendments, including changing the name of the Student Organization Finance Committee to the Student Organization Funding Committee, allowing the executive board to issue executive orders as legislation when the senate is not in session by a two-thirds vote, not requiring the President’s signature for acts of the senate and executive orders to go into effect, removing the Residential Governance Structure article and removing the titles of the affiliate members. A second reading of the amendments will take place at next week’s meeting, and if they are passed by two-thirds of the senate, they will appear on a referendum on the April 10 ballot for rising sophomore, junior and senior senators. President Stefani Jones, a senior, presented a three year contract with Jeremey Lindsley, an attorney that provides free legal advice for students every Thursday at University Center Activities & Events. DSG currently pays Lindsley $75 per hour for his counsel, and the new contract will increase his rate to $95 per hour. The senate will vote on the contract’s approval after the second reading at the next meeting.
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donation from page 1 2011—intended to supply funds for renovations to Baldwin Auditorium and Page Auditorium, as well as West Union. The current plans for the West Union, however, exceed the original allotted amount for all three renovation projects. Vice President and University Secretary Richard Riddell said the overall projected cost of the West Union renovations is currently $95 million in a previous interview with The Chronicle. The Board of Trustees passed a resolution at their March meeting to release only $40.3 million of the $95 million until funding was reassessed at their next meeting in May. The remodel of Baldwin totaled $15 million and finished shortly before the start of the 2013-14 academic year. Work on West Union was originally slated to begin after commencement in May 2013, but the Board of Trustees rejected the plans presented to them at their May meeting—renovations totaling more than $100 million, The Chronicle previously reported. Construction began on West Union July 2013 and is set to finish in Spring 2016. The new union will feature a variety of dining venues, student gathering areas and multipurpose spaces. The other contributors of the $10 million donation are Paula Crown’s husband, Jim Crown, his brother A. Steven Crown and Steven’s wife, Nancy Crown. Steven and Nancy Crown are the parents of Keating, Trinity ’00, and Connor, Trinity ’13. The extent of the renovations to Page is yet to be seen, but they will be “largely cosmetic,” Trask said. He noted that the projects are being partially funded by private, philanthropic gifts to cover the difference between the original $80 million donation and the total cost of West Union and Page renovations. Danielle Muoio contributed to reporting.
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research distinguishes the discovery from previously documented “cures” for HIV, such as the case of Timothy Ray Brown, who received a blood stem cell transplant from a naturally HIV-resistant donor for his leukemia that eradicated his HIV infection in 2008. “This concentrates in particular on helping us understand how we can make the immune system generate an effective broadly neutralizing antibody response, as part of a preventative vaccine—those are genetic or therapeutic cures,” Verkoczy said.