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Emma Baccellieri News Editor For members of the Duke community interested in entrepreneurship, access to start-up funding and networking support is now a little easier.

The University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative has announced the launch of a Duke angel network—designed to Eric Toone connect entrepreneurs in need of funding with “angel” investors able to meet their needs. A new philanthropic fund known as the Duke Innovation Fund will invest in start-ups created within the network, creating an even larger pool of capital.

Over the last two years, the I&E Initiative has worked to develop a variety of resources to help Duke’s entrepreneurs translate their ideas into action. Until now, however, the funding to put these individual ideas into practice has been difficult to secure.

“The piece that’s really been missing, the piece that sort of squares the circle and brings it all together, is access to money for early stage innovation,” Toone said.

The network will exist on a website open to anyone with a Duke affiliation, including alumni, faculty, students and staff. Individuals interested in investing will be able to browse through different options and connect with the teams behind the projects.

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our months after the death of the Duke Lemur Center’s most famous resident—Jovian (left), best known for his role as the titular character on PBS’s “Zoboomafoo”—the Center is honoring the beloved lemur at the West Campus Bus Stop from 2 p.m to 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Though Zoboomafoo has passed away, his legacy lives on—with the birth of his final grandchild, the first lemur to be born at the Center in 2015. Young Isabella (above) is happy and healthy, the Center has reported.

Setting the standard: N.C. innocence commission is model for others Sarah Kerman The Chronicle

Special to The Chronicle Duke Law students and faculty have assisted the N.C. Innocence Inquiry Commission in court-related innocence work.

After success in advocating for wrongfully convicted individuals, the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission is looking to expand its reach through increased funding from the state government.

The NC Commission, established in 2006, is an independent agency that reviews claims of innocence from people who believe they have been wrongly convicted of a felony. The commission, the

first of its kind in the nation, has worked side by side with Duke Law’s Wrongful Convictions clinic in court-related innocence work. The NC Commission remains the only neutral state-sanctioned commission with subpoena power in the nation, giving it unique authority in solving innocence cases.

“It is the only state that has such a commission, and it can work relatively quickly, which is a good thing,” said Paul Cates, communications director at the Innocence Project, a national nonprofit See Innocence on Page 8

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“We have noticed an increase in traffic through the store, but it has not The Chronicle caused any disruptions,” said Jim WilkThe main student entrance to the erson, director of Trademark Licensing Bryan Center officially closed for con- and Stores Operations.

When the University Store is closed, struction over spring break and will not the Bryan Center can be accessed reopen again until the Summer.

The new entrance—scheduled to re- through the North entrance by the Bryopen by July 14—will feature a single an Center roundabout. set of doors and a glass entry mimickStill, some students think the project ing the design of Penn Pavilion the new is an inconvenience.

“We are just trying to get from Point West Union building currently undergoing construction. The construction is A to Point B in the fastest amount of part of the overall plan to improve the time and Duke makes that increasfunctionality and aesingly harder every sethetics of the area. mester,” junior Umer just noticed it today. I Ahmed said.

“I just noticed it today,” said freshman Others were less sat down with my cofCindy Li. “I sat down fee and was like ‘what is go- annoyed at the inconwith my coffee and was venience and more like ‘what is going on?’” ing on?’” concerned about the The outer set of financial side of the — Cindy Li project. doors of the old entrance had already been removed over “I just think it’s unnecessary to be winter break but students still had ac- spending money to be building pretty cess to the plaza entrance until the doors on buildings,” Li said.

According to the design plan, the new week before spring break. The entrance to the University Store is serving as the entrance is slated to be 26-feet tall and primary interim means of entry to the enclose 353-square feet. Central to the

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plan for the entrance is its use of light and translucent materials to create a soft glow. The entrance was designed by

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Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Bull City Street Food, a Durham-based food truck which serves an eclectic sampling of foods from around the world, is a candidate for the campus food truck lineup.

A new food truck with a rotating themed menu is a candidate for the campus lineup.

Bull City Street Food, a Durhambased food truck that was started in October, presented to the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee Monday night. The truck offered an eclectic menu, including coconut curry chicken on rice noodles, shrimp po-boys and handcut rosemary fries.

“The premise of our truck is to try to bring different types of food from different regions around the country and around the world,” said Harry Monds, BCSF owner and executive chef. “Most trucks latch on to one niche. I just get a little tired from the same thing from the same truck.”

Recent menu themes have included Mardi Gras, Southeast Asia and Nashville cuisine. BCSF also offers vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free options upon request.

DUSDAC was impressed by Monds’ enthusiasm and the low prices for sizable, filling portions.

“Everything seems to be really rich in a good way,” DUSDAC co-chair Gregory Lahood, a senior, said. “You’re not just getting a shrimp po-boy with shrimp and cole slaw. You’re getting capers, fresh tomatoes and a nice homemade sauce.”

Although all committee members enjoyed their meals, some voiced concerns—in particular over the lack of healthy options. Another point mentioned was that BCSF is hard to catego-

rize or advertise as a result of the constantly changing menu.

“I don’t think we can compare this to anything we have because it’s so unique,” Lahood said.

Based on recent student feedback, DUSDAC is considering food trucks that may replace one or more of the current vendors and fill in gaps in the types of food offered. Last week, the committee heard a presentation from AmigoSan, a Hispanic-Asian fusion truck, and will sample fare from Belgian Waffology next week.

In other business: In addition, Noodles & Company— an Italian option—and Guglhupf—a German bakery and café—reached out to the committee about the possibility of becoming Merchants-on-Points vendors.

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Duke to host first-round game in NCAAs

Sameer Pandhare Beat Writer The road to the Final Four will again run through Durham.

The Blue Devils were awarded a No. 4 seed in the 2015 NCAA tournament by the selection committee when the bracket was revealed Monday evening. Should Duke advance to the second weekend, they will travel to their regional in Spokane, Wash., and will not have the luxury of playing in nearby Greensboro, N.C., which is another of the regional sites.

“We’re excited to have an opponent and play and it’s an honor to host anytime in the NCAA tournament,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said.

Duke (21-10) will host 13th-seeded Albany (24-8) Friday at noon at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The winner of that contest will meet the winner of the matchup between No. 5 Mississippi State and No. 12 Tulane in second round action Sunday for the right to go to the Sweet 16 in Spokane.

“Albany is a great program,” McCallie said. “My former assistant Katie AbrahamsonHenderson coaches there and she’s done a fabulous job with the program. They have some nice players and like everybody else in this tournament, they’re a very good team.”

The Blue Devils will face a difficult path through the Spokane region if they hope to reach the Final Four in Tampa Bay, Fla., for the first time since 2006.

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Graphic by Georgia Parke | The Chronicle No. 4 seed Duke will host No. 13 seed Albany at Cameron Indoor Stadium Friday at noon in the opening round of the NCAA tournament as the Blue Devils start their journey to the Final Four.

playing in the ACC—earned the top seed after a dominant run through the Big Ten. Tennessee was awarded the second seed, and Oregon State will have the opportunity to stay close to home as the No. 3 seed. At 30-0, Princeton—the only undefeated team in women’s Division I college basketball and the champion of the Ivy League— was given a No. 8 seed by the selection committee and could meet the Terrapins in the second round.

Although the Blue Devils are happy to be hosting once again, it appears that Duke’s 10 losses prevented the committee

from giving the Blue Devils as high of a seed as the squad thought it deserved.

“We were a four-seed and that’s not indicative of our body of work and I don’t like that,” McCallie said. “We had a 12 RPI and with who we played and what we did... but that’s where they slotted us.”

In a rule change this postseason, the host sites for the tournament’s opening weekend were not predetermined ahead of the bracket reveal. Instead, the top four seeds in each region—the tournament’s top 16 teams as chosen by the committee—will host. The one exception is No. 3 Louisville,

which will travel to Tampa Bay for its opening weekend on the home court of No. 6 South Florida. The Cardinals’ home arena, the KFC Yum! Center, is being used as an opening-weekend site for the men’s tournament.

Duke has now hosted the tournament’s first two rounds in six of the past seven years.

“It’s anytime, any place, anywhere at this time of the year,” McCallie said. “It’s a great opportunity to get there, play well, really get after it and be successful and move on.”

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Blue Devils head downtown to take on Lions Brian Pollack Beat Writer Duke is leaving campus, but still staying at home.

The Blue Devils will play their first games at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park this Columbia season when they host Columbia for a twovs. game series Tuesday and Wednesday at 6 Duke p.m. Duke played six TUESDAY, 6 p.m. games at the DBAP— Durham Bulls Athletic Park which is also home to the Durham Bulls minor league team—a season ago, posting a 3-3 ledger.

Playing in a minor league stadium is a special occasion for any college team, but this opportunity is especially so for the Blue Devils, since the DBAP is considered one of the top venues in minor league

baseball and contains several allusions to the classic movie “Bull Durham.”

“It’s exciting for all of us. It’s an incredible ballpark,” head coach Chris Pollard said on the weekly Duke Baseball Show. “[It is] truly one of the best ballparks in the country at any level. The renovations over the last two years have only made a great ballpark even better. It’s a fun experience for our players. I know it’s certainly one of the reasons many of these guys have chosen come to play at Duke—the opportunity to come and play at this ballpark.”

In order to repeat some of its success from last year at the DBAP—such as a 2-0 defeat of N.C. State ace and eventual No. 3 overall draft pick Carlos Rodon—Duke (14-5) will have to score some runs for a pitching staff that has been rock-solid all season. In an effort to jumpstart an offense that has been sluggish at times, Pollard shuffled his lineup during the past

week—sliding freshmen Jack Labosky and Evan Dougherty down in the order and bumping up Peter Zyla and senior Mike Rosenfeld.

Rosenfeld, in particular, has been a bright spot for the Blue Devils in his final year in Durham. The catcher leads the team in each of the three major offensive categories, with a .345 batting average, a .465 on-base percentage and a .431 slugging percentage. In addition to his tangible contributions at the plate, Pollard praised Rosenfeld’s excellent glovework behind the dish and competitive, grind-itout attitude.

The rest of the Duke hitters might benefit from a change of scenery away from the deep fences of Jack Coombs Stadium. Whereas the notoriously pitcherfriendly Coombs features a traditional, symmetric fence all the way around, the DBAP has several nuances—including a mini Green Monster in left field—that

makes life easier on batters.

After the midweek two-game set, the Blue Devils will play three more games this weekend at the DBAP, giving Duke’s young hitters the chance to take advantage of a more fortunate environment and settle into a groove offensively.

“Consistency is what we’re striving for offensively. We haven’t found it yet,” Pollard said. “We’re really good at times and at times, we don’t have a good approach and that’s part of what you’re going to get when you have four freshmen in the lineup and two sophomores who didn’t get a lot of atbats last year.”

Columbia (3-6) will have the same opportunity to utilize the DBAP’s friendly confines and put up runs in bunches. The Lions opened their season three weeks ago by splitting four games with then-No. 6 Houston, piling up 24 runs in the final three See Baseball on Page 5

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The Lions—coming off back-to-back Ivy League championships—should provide a stiffer challenge for Duke than their fellow Ivy League member Yale, which the Blue Devils routed 13-3 March 10. Pollard is close with Columbia head coach Brett Boretti, and noted that Boretti is very excited about the potential for his squad this year.

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t the beginning of this month, Sweet Briar College in central Virginia announced it would be closing next year, over a century after its founding in 1901. A small, private liberal arts women’s college, Sweet Briar is the most recent victim of the trend amongst women’s colleges that saw their numbers shrink from roughly 230, in the 1960s, to just 43 this year. The closure is the result of mounting costs, declining interest in small liberal arts schools and questions raised about the value of women’s colleges today.

Sweet Briar’s financial and enrollment troubles were two bigger obstacles to keeping the college open. College President James Jones cited an all-time low in enrollment and national market trends as crippling Sweet Briar’s financial solvency. Tuition dollars were vital to the upkeep of the college since $56 million of its otherwise considerable $84 million endowment were locked up for particular uses.

As we have written in the past, the debate about the value of liberal arts education continues as students seek more focused curricula. Additionally,

small liberal arts schools are increasingly difficult for students to commit to given the rising costs associated with earning college degrees that demand compensation through employability.

But perhaps the biggest contributor to Sweet Briar’s problems is the question of what value niche all-women’s colleges offer to today’s applicants. The benefits are many and intuitive. An allwomen’s school affords women the chance to be uniquely empowered by a welcoming community.

This space for confidence and growth is fertile ground for the development of capable and influential women who go through an undergraduate experience largely insulated from the palpable academic and social gender bias constantly scrutinized at co-ed schools. But this separation can be a double-edged sword because graduates, particularly of geographically isolated colleges, largely fail to experience firsthand the gender inequities they may encounter later in their post-graduate careers, however well prepared they may be in theory.

Many would respond that students have the rest of their lives to engage with gender inequality

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and experience the consequent gender dynamics, but co-ed schools stand to offer this upfront without the diversity problems inherent to singlegender colleges. Duke’s Baldwin and WHO singlesex housing sections provide niches that balance spaces for female empowerment and development alongside a co-ed experience, emphasizing the benefits of an all-women’s school and an engagement of gender issues without the full-time insulating costs.

Unfortunately, this model of provisioning spaces for women in a co-ed university was not possible given Sweet Briar’s founding documents, but we applaud co-ed universities that prioritize ensuring this balance of spaces, signaling the lesson learned from the era of women’s schools and guaranteeing their core ideas carry forward as the landscape of higher education shifts. Yet, there might be a silver lining to find in the decline of these smaller niche universities if it indicates female applicants today feel more socially enabled to make co-ed schools their first choices compared to in 1901 and the 1960s.

On forgiveness

Hopefully this marks a turn for the better and , Duke Law— faculty and students—will now feel it acceptable to become engaged when the constitutional (and moral) rights of accused Duke students are at stake...

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the space in my heart that was taken by anger, for love. I talked to someone new about you recently, excitedly recounting our many adventures. Becky, you would have been so proud—because laughter replaced the tears.

On a particularly emotional day last week, I spoke with our friend Ege—she lives in your and Susan’s old room now!—and we concluded that if there’s a heaven, then you Becky, are surely one of its inhabitants. You’re in a better place than any of us, escaping the wheel of life, death, and rebirth. I hope that you’re having some fun. Say hi to Maya An-

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GUEST COLUMN the difference. Now I do. A few weeks before Spring Break last year, I got into a heated argument about forgiveness. We debated whether it was possible to forgive someone for a hypothetically heinous misdeed or if forever hating the person was par for the course. My counterpart argued that forgiveness was a sacred tenet and that it was necessary for peace.

I felt small – I just could not imagine forgiving someone who hurt a person dear to me.

Ongoing resentment seemed like a necessary part of my human response to such a transgression.

But my recent actions haven’t matched those stubborn words. My memories of us kayaking down Blackwater River, scurrying around campus taking pictures for the Round Table scavenger hunt and creating a fire hazard in the common room while watching Duke basketball leave a more lasting impression. As cliché as it sounds, I’ve cleared out

gelou!

Becky, it may seem silly to take spiritual advice from “The Lion King”, but bear with me.

Remember when Simba looks into the pool of water, and upon Rafiki’s encouragement, finds his father Mufasa? Well, when I look in the water at the duck pond in the gardens, I may not see a fierce red-haired beauty with a pixie cut, but I do see some of your grace, enthusiasm for life and ambition for learning. I also see a fraction of your humility and your ability to put others at ease. Finally, I see your ability to forgive. Because I know you always had it in you and now, I’m starting to, too.

Becky, you were always part of us and you always will be. Only you, Becky.

Love, Nonie Nonie Arora is a Trinity senior and member of Round Table selective living group.

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ere’s a fun fact: about three and a half years ago, a significant portion of the current senior class were vegetarians. For our summer reading book, we read “Eating Animals”, a horrifying expose of the factory farming industry. While nobody ever did a survey of how many people actually read the book and changed their eating habits, the number was significant enough that there was a running joke that Duke had assigned the book to lower food costs in the Marketplace.

This effect, as far as I can tell, has almost entirely dissipated. Many of my friends soon went back to their old eating habits. I ate meat again the first time I went home, and over the years my eating habits returned to what they were, and I just stopped thinking about it.

When I think about this, I know how irrational and wrong my actions are. Realizing that I lack the willpower to take responsibility for a

ers, armed with nothing but the rights to free speech and assembly, the statements of principle produced during and immediately after the Revolutionary War and their own persuasive skill, have sought to hold America to its principles.

Would it have been preferable if we could have just changed society instantaneously?

Certainly. Would it have been plausible? Certainly not—not when consensus was so delicate already. And would we have been better off if we couched our language in order to avoid sounding hypocritical? Of course not.

If I were a better person, I’d never eat another bite of meat—factory farming is bad and eating meat isn’t good for the environment and I don’t know enough about animal nervous systems to know how much they really suffer but I do know enough to be worried and to take their pain seriously.

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Floss and the power of habit

s a dental hygienist, the second thing my grandma would often say to me after “Hello” was, “You haven’t been flossing, have you?”

Well, I’m finally flossing, though truthfully not at her behest. My rededication to dental health has far more to do with some advice I received last summer than my Grandmother’s insistence or a New Year’s resolution. It has to do with habit, one of many that I’m working to form.

If I told you that to maintain a close relationship with a friend from your freshmen dorm you had to meet with them once a month, you probably wouldn’t call me crazy. Maybe you’d even take it as some wise advice. I know I’d even go so far as to strike the agreement, vowing to meet once a month.

But then a midterm comes up, or a party, or the Carolina game. Suddenly after meeting only once over five months, the five minute run-ins at the Bryan Center stand as the only way to catch up, and a time to reaffirm your commitment to meeting at least once a month.

The case might be a little extreme, but it certainly illustrates the point. It’s always easier to say you’re going to do something than to actually do it. Life usually interrupts the following through, and that’s frustrating.

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problem, I’ve simply stopped acknowledging its existence.

I’ve watched myself respond like this to other issues, too. I’ll encounter a problem so overwhelming that the only appropriate response to it seems to be to dedicate too big a portion of my life to solving it. I’ll flirt for a while with doing so, but when I can’t, I just let it disappear from my conception of the world.

I know why I do this. Being consistently aware of major issues and doing nothing to solve them feels wrong for two reasons. For one, it really hurts to acknowledge both a major problem and our human weakness not to do the appropriate amount to solve it.

And, for another, it’s socially unacceptable.

It’s hypocritical. You’re going to feel strongly about animal rights and still eat meat? You’re going to feel that money controlling politics is terrible for the country and then still benefit from that money? You’re going to believe that rampant inequality is a sickness with which our society is plagued, and then spend your whole life trying to get ahead?

Hypocrisy isn’t allowed. We think it feels wrong. Immoral.

But today, I’m defending it.

I think we often forget how essential hypocrisy is to our identity as a country. Remember the good old days? We acknowledged that “all men are created equal” while we declared some men three-fifths of a person. We declared ourselves a “government of the people, by the people, for the people,” yet we did not allow the majority of the people to vote.

We declared that all men are “endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,” among them “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” yet we enslaved over 10% of our population and violently forced indigenous peoples into submission.

Over the course of the past two hundred years, we have come closer to living up to the ideals we created at the nation’s inception. For centuries, hordes of social reform-

But when my Dad made me my favorite dinner of flank steak when I got home freshman year, I deemed his feelings and my taste buds more important than all of those considerations.

Recently, I’ve allowed my convictions about meat back into my life. Doing so is uncomfortable. It feels wrong to question my behavior so regularly, and it feels uncomfortable to remember the lecture I gave about pig welfare last night and then enjoy the bacon in my salad the next. But now I eat less meat, and I consciously seek out meat that’s responsibly raised. This is doable for me, and it’s doable for society—it’s far more plausible to get everyone to eat 25 percent less meat and seek out better sources for it than to make 25 percent of the population vegetarian. I think it’s a way forward.

My once idealist vegetarian class of 2015 is about to head into the workforce. So many of you, I know, were considering devoting your lives to causes that are important to you, and, at least for now, you’re not. Other considerations came into play, and now you’re doing consulting or banking or working for a corporation whose mission means nothing to you. It’s possible that holding onto those ideas which once seemed so motivating will start to feel uncomfortable, even immoral.

Don’t let it.

You’re not doing enough about this messed up world, and I’m not doing enough.

But if we remember that and come to live with it, then one day we’ll get the chance to advocate for our corporation to make a more socially responsible choice. We’ll be in a grocery store and feel like we can pay more for responsibly raised meat or choose something else for the night. We’ll find a way. We must not let our fears about not doing enough prevent us from doing anything at all.

That’s where the power of habit comes in, and it’s something achieved by nothing more than a decision.

Advice so simple rarely proves to be wrong. The decision to actively form the habits you want to form is a powerful one—something that, in reference to Coach Bo Schembechler, almost invariably results in getting a little bit better each day, rather than getting a little bit worse.

In fairness, there are a lot of people who have spent considerably more time studying habit than I have. There’s no dearth of books, essays and studies, all of which advocate the best way to identify and formulate that perfects habits and routines.

Some say that it takes 21 days, but in reality I think it takes one firm decision, and one shining example. In my case, that example happened to be pearly white, or at least heading in that direction.

More often than not, the routine before bed constitutes a brute hurry to get the bare minimum done and collapse in a heap. When I purchased this first set of floss picks, I set them at the edge of my sink, and probably didn’t touch them for a week. It wasn’t until I revisited the advice from last summer that I actually dug in.

Imploring myself to floss, rather than diving into bed, seemed like a conscious, and at times burdensome, task to undertake. But a week in, it became clear that that deliberate decision, and only mild amounts of elbow grease, meant that flossing was something that had to be done each night.

It didn’t necessarily take 21 days, nor did it require a self-help novel or proof of results. It took a point of deliberation, and some well-articulated advice; some words of wisdom that seems all the more sage with time.

Applying this newfound conviction to all other aspects of life isn’t nearly as easy. Cultivating and maintaining a close relationship can’t be achieved at the sink every night, nor does it cost $4.99. There remains a distinct effort that has to be isolated and encouraged, and I don’t think I ever would’ve found it in a book or the “New York Times”.

Where to next? I’m sure going the library for at least an hour each day would be a good habit to form, but so might promising myself to read for an hour.

It may not be a candy shop, but there certainly are lots of appealing options.

Those decisions, about which habit will be best and which will come next, actually seems exciting. Each avenue represents an opportunity to improve, and something about constantly getting better acts as motivation enough.

Bizarre as it may be, flossing each night has become something to look forward too, and not just because my grandma has started to notice. The deliberation, completion and afterward gratification makes so simple a task part of a huge reward. It’s been a fortunate microcosm for how I’d like to better govern my own life, and you’d hardly think a piece of string with fluoride could pull that off. Ultimately, it may just mean that my grandma starts bugging about my hair.

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Ellie Schaack is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

Caleb Ellis is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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that aims to exonerate the wrongfully convicted and advocate for reforms to the criminal justice system.

Innocence work in North Carolina is unique, because the NC Commission has neutrality and subpoena power. Usually reserved for the state, subpoena power allows the commission to take custody of evidence and test it without having to go to court.

Kendra Montgomery-Blinn, School of Law ‘03 and executive director of the NC Commission, said that subpoena power has allowed them to experience success in fact-finding in difficult cases.

“There have been 18 cases where the court was told evidence was no longer existing, and the NC Commission has been able to locate it,” said MontgomeryBlinn, who served as student director of Duke’s Wrongful Convictions clinic during her time in law school.

“Some of our cases are from the 1970s—when we go in Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle to look for physical evidence, it’s often just missing.”

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Montgomery-Blinn noted that unlike the Innocence Project, which is a non-profit that does both innocence work and policy advocacy, the NC Commission does not get involved in policy recommendation in order to maintain its neutrality.

“We have a very narrow focus—our job is only to investigate and evaluate the case as fact-finders,” she said.

The NC Commission is also unique because it receives state funding. Cates noted that the Innocence Project faces back-logs nationally because of lack of staffing to meet demand. The NC Commission, on the other hand, receives a combination of state and federal grant funding to counter such problems.

This year, the NC Commission is requesting $100,000 from the state for DNA testing, forensic testing and consulting with scientific experts—an increase from the only $14,921 provided for this purpose in previous years. Federal funds from the National Institute of Justice have supplemented their state funding in the past but it is uncertain whether this will be renewed as the grant expires in 2015.

Already, the NC Commission has experienced more demand for its services than it can account for. With more than 1,600 claims submitted in the past eight years and eight successful exonerations, MontgomeryBlinn said, other states have taken note.

“Where I’d really like to expand is other states— North Carolina is still the only state with an Innocence Inquiry Commission that does this type of work,” she said.

Montgomery-Blinn noted that several states have approached her and some have written proposals for similar commissions, though it remains to be seen whether other states will follow through.

“I’m really hopeful that we won’t be the only one for now,” Montgomery-Blinn said.

The commission has been responsible for the release of prisoners such as Joseph Sledge—exonerated this January after 36 years behind bars for murders he did not commit, as the commission proved with DNA evidence.

James Coleman, co-director of Duke Law’s Wrongful Convictions Clinic and the John S. Bradway professor of the practice, noted the importance of innocence work—though it does not come without pushback.

“There’s concern that too many exonerations undermines perceived legitimacy of the justice system,” he said.

But rather than undermining the system, Coleman said he believes innocence work represents a safety valve in the system, showing that judges and prosecutors are human and sometimes make mistakes.

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continued from page 1 Though a number of other universities have similar angel networks, the opportunity for general philanthropy offered by the Duke Innovation Fund will be unique, Toone noted. Individuals who wish to contribute to Duke entrepreneurship more broadly, rather than investing in a specific venture, will be able to donate to the fund—which has opened with a $2 million commitment from the University’s senior administration.

But the I&E Initiative hopes that the network will build partnerships that extend beyond finances. Ideally, the network will allow for a give-and-take of ideas and the formation of strong relationships, said Kip Frey, a member of the network’s steering committee and professor of the practice of law and public policy.

“There’s a broader goal of creating a very active community around the world of Duke-affiliated people who not only invest, but who mentor, who offer advice, who help with due diligence,” Frey said. “What we really hope that this network does is energize that community around the entire lifecycle of start-ups.”

Staff from the I&E Initiative will oversee the network, ensuring that investors are accredited by the Securities and Exchange Commission and that due diligence is performed. The initiative hopes to close the first investments later this Spring.

The network will offer opportunities to Duke affiliates worldwide, but it comes at an especially exciting time for entrepreneurs in the Research Triangle area.

The region’s universities and human capital make it a natural fit for the growing start-up community, Toone said.

“Although this is a national phenomenon... central North Carolina is particularly well-suited for it, and Duke is obviously interested,” Toone said.