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THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2009
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ONE HUNDRED AND fifth YEAR, ISSUE S5
Admission yield steady in recession
by Julius Jones The chronicle
Members of the Duke and Durham community, as well as visitors from around the country, will gather to honor the memory of John Hope and Aurelia Franklin Thursday. “A Celebration of the Lives of John Hope and Aurelia Whittington Franklin” begins at 11 a.m. in the Duke Chapel. The event marks the couple’s 69th wedding anniversary. Aurelia Franklin died in 1999 and in accordance with the Franklins’ wishes, no funeral services were held. Former president Bill Clinton will give the featured remarks for the event alongside Vernon Jordan, a prominent attorney and civil rights advocate who was a long-time friend of both Franklin and Clinton. Other speakers Thursday include President Richard Brodhead, trustee emerita Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Thavolia Glymph, professor of African and African American studies. In addition to speakers, musical guests will perform during the service. Eric Pritchard, a violinist and associate professor of the practice of music and James Ketch, a trumpeter and professor in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s department of music will perform pieces composed in memory of Aurelia and John Hope Franklin, respectively. There will also be a performance by the Fisk University Jubilee Singers—representing the alma
by Toni Wei
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More Blue Devil hopefuls than usual will be denied admission off the wait list for the Class of 2013. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag estimated that about 100 students will be admitted off the wait list and 70 of those students will ultimately enroll at Duke, bringing the number of acceptances for the incoming class to a total of more than 4,100. With most offers of admission already accepted or rejected, Guttentag said he expects total yield this year to be around 41.5 percent, slightly higher than the Class of 2012’s 40.5 percent. “It’s not a dramatic increase, but a step in the right direction,” he said. “If we could continue this over time it would become significant. We see this as one step in the process and we would like to see this level of improvement every year.” Guttentag noted, however, that yield numbers are not final until move-in day in August. “In about two weeks, assuming nothing unusual happens, I would say we will tell people on the wait list that we’re done for the year,” he said. This year’s expected wait list enrollment is much lower than last year’s, when slightly more than 200 students were enrolled off the wait list. Guttentag attributed this decline to adjustments made by the admissions office after
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Safety concerns may move Tailgate to Main Quad by Toni Wei
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The early-morning raucousness and costumed debauchery that has come to characterize Duke Tailgate may no longer be the same this coming Fall. Administrators and student representatives from Duke Student Government and Duke University Union have been meeting for several months to discuss possibilities for the change, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said. “I think one of our greatest concerns about Tailgate is that it be safe.... I think that being said there are a number of ways that we can get there, and that’s why we’re continuing to talk with the students,” Wasiolek said. “My hope is that we will always have an opportunity for students and others to engage in Tailgate, but the dangerous behaviors that have come along with our past tailgates—I think most of us agree has got to come to an end.” Wasiolek said moving tailgate to the Main West Quadrangle is one option being considered. Other options include keeping it in its current location in the first lot of the Blue Zone and allowing cars in or dispersing students throughout the Blue Zone. “I think moving it to the quad is kind of declining in favor because we’re very opposed to it—it would be disruptive, and it would turn people off, and that’s not what we
would want to do,” said sophomore Pete Schork, DSG vice president for athletics and campus services. “Additionally, it would not be good for the grounds at all—having it in a lot just makes it easier to clean.” DSG President Awa Nur, a senior, said moving tailgate to Main Quad would force students who did not want to tailgate to do so, particularly during morning tailgates. “At the same time there’s a lot we can control in the Blue Zone—who’s getting in, what alcohol people are drinking—it becomes very different on the Main Quad, and I honestly don’t think it was a well-planned idea,” she said. Schork said he has been in favor of expanding Tailgate to have space for people who want to keep the current form of Tailgate and for those who want a more traditional tailgate that includes cars and grilling. “I think most students are either for or against Tailgate, it’s kind of a polarizing thing,” Schork said. “I think it’s an opportunity to turn it into something that can accommodate both sides. I think we can come up with a solution that makes everyone happy.” Nur said administrators and DSG representatives had several meetings earlier in the Spring and had their first
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“The creativity, the spontaneity, the way that it is really a participatory art, not passive.... It’s always surprising and interesting.”
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Tailgate could be moved to the West Campus Main Quadrangle for the upcoming year after adminstrators expressed concerns about safety.
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Obama admin.rejects more Shooting at D.C. museum corporate pay restrictions WASHINGTON — A gunman exchanged fire with security guards inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Wednesday. U.S. Park Police Sgt. David Schlosser said the gunman walked into the museum with what he described as a “long gun.”The gunman and a security guard were shot. Both were taken to the hospital, but the extent of their injuries was not immediately known. U.S. Park Police initially gave slightly different information, saying three people had been shot. Fire department spokesman Alan Etter told CNN a third person was hurt after being cut by broken glass. Several witnesses said they saw the security guard on the floor and bleeding. The museum normally has a heavy security presence with guards positioned both inside and outside. All visitors are required to pass through metal detectors at the entrance, and bags are screened.
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WASHINGTON — Talking tough but stepping gently, the Obama administration rejected direct intervention in corporate pay decisions Wednesday even as officials argued that excessive compensation in the private sector contributed to the nation’s financial crisis. Instead, the administration plans to seek legislation that would try to tame compensation at publicly traded companies through shareholder pressure and less management influence on pay decisions. At the same time, the administration drew a sharp line between the overall corporate world and those institutions that have tapped the government’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. The administration issued new regulations Wednesday that set pay limits on companies that receive TARP assistance, with the toughest restrictions aimed at seven recipients of “exceptional assistance.”
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The Southern Fried Poetry Slam, one of the nation’s most prominent “slam” poetry competitions attracted 18 individual and 23 team competitors to the Bryan Center Saturday.
Slam contest brings top poets, captivating verses by Julius Jones THE CHRONICLE
Soul flowed through the Bryan Center Saturday as Duke hosted the Southern Fried Poetry Slam. The event, which took place in the Reynolds Theater, was the culmination of a three day tournament to crown the best “slam” poets in the Southeast. Eighteen individuals and 23 teams paticipated in a tournament-style competition located throughout Durham from Thursday to Saturday. Event organizers said Durham was chosen to host the event because it is known throughout the region to have a vibrant poetry scene. The Southern Fried Poetry Slam is considered one of the most prominent poetry competitions in the country, surpassed only by the National Poetry Slam. “It’s wonderful,” said Regina Johnson, an organizer of the event, describing the slam poetry scene. “That’s the only word I can think to describe it, ‘wonderful.’ Have you ever had a hard day at work? It’s the perfect opportunity to just relax.” Performers and artists said although all poets have unique styles and ways of moving the audience with their narratives, they all shared one thing at the event—talent. “Honestly, as with anything, we go on a scale from zero point zero to 10.0 and on
that scale from one to 10, I would say most people here are at least a nine,” said Kosher, a poet from Oklahoma City and a member of a team called Poets in the Streets. Kosher describes his style as “soulful,” yet able to speak with “rapid fire” speed. “I speak honestly and with rhythm,” he said, adding that he always seeks to educate his audience with politically conscious and aware content. Jodi Lasseter, a Durham resident who considers herself a fan of slam poetry and regularly attends events throughout the community, said she finds the content of the poetry most appealing. “The creativity, the spontaneity, the way that it is really a participatory art, not passive,” Lasseter said. “It’s always surprising and interesting.” For many in the audience, the event did not disappoint and they found the poetry captivating. The subject matter, rooted in some of the most difficult types of human experiences, brought the audience to their feet with applause. One performer spoke about an older male cousin who used to rape him on Sundays, and wondered aloud why God had decided to rest on the Sabbath. Another poet told the story of a suicide attempt that was interrupted by his young daughter who ultimately became
He may have traversed the globe twice over, but come Fall, renowned journalist and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will be travelling to Durham. Kristof will speak at Duke Sept. 17 in Reynolds Theater, Colleen Scott, associate director of the Baldwin Scholars program, confirmed Wednesday. The lecture will be open to the public and is part of Kristof’s tour to promote his new book, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.” His Nicholas Kristof wife Sheryl WuDunn coauthors the work. “The basic message of the book is that if you want to address global poverty, if you want to address extremism, then the best way to do that is through gender—that means educating girls and bringing them into the economy,” Kristof said. Kristof’s message to college students in particular, resonates from his years of work in developing countries—he wants more Dukies to take a year before or during college to travel and volunteer abroad, especially in the developing world, to invest in a “lifelong commitment and transformative experience.” “I think that’s a hugely important part of an education,” Kristof said. “Things like sex trafficking, they’re so far away we tend not to think of them, they’re very easy
to tune out. I hope that in the course of visiting I will... maybe inspire a few to get more involved.” “Half the Sky” is a call to arms against female oppression in developing nations, chronicling stories of struggling women in Africa and Asia who battle prostitution, sex slavery and domestic violence. But the tales of struggle are juxtaposed with those of success—of women who have broken through their ceilings of oppression and are now helping others do the same. “He’s the big voice in the world and he’s using his voice to highlight the issues the people in WISER are passionate about,” said Sheryl Broverman, associate professor of the practice of biology and co-founder and NGO chair of the Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research. “We hope it’ll kick off discussion on campus about the role gender plays in international development.” Two hundred free copies of the book will be distributed at the beginning of the event, Scott said. A question and answer session and book signing will follow the lecture. The two-time Pulitzer prize winner is coming to Durham because it is “a city with a lot of educated people and a bookbuying city,” said Flip Porter, Kristof’s representative. WISER and the Baldwin Scholars program are sponsoring the event with various other departments and campus organizations, including DukeEngage, the Kenan
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Few gets overdue roof replacement newsbriefs by Toni Wei THE CHRONICLE
Few Quadrangle is surrounded by scaffolding and construction fences for a second consecutive summer. The University is currently replacing the roof of Few, a project deemed necessary during the quad’s extensive renovation last year. “While we were doing the Few renovations it came to light the Few roof needed to be replaced,” said Gary Thompson, director of facilities, planning and operations for Residence Life and Housing Services. “Because it’s such a prominent feature of West Campus, it needed to be absorbed as a University project.” Baker Roofing Company, which was involved in some patchwork construction during Few’s last round of renovations, is handling the replacement. The project will cost around $8 million, Thompson said. But the contract will be unaffected by the University’s budget cuts and moratorium on new construction projects because the
deal was finalized last year. Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, said the roof was not completed with the renovations last Fall because there was a delay in the University’s selection of the roof tile. “[The roof problem] came up and it just took a long time to vet through the different options, and as the decision process was in mode, we were continuing with the Few project because we had a strict deadline to get Few back open,” Thompson said. “By the time it was vetted out, it was clear it would not be part of the Few renovations, it would be a stand-alone project.” Thompson added that the process of selecting a tile for Few’s roof took longer than expected because it would set a precedent for the other roofs on West Campus. No other roof replacements are currently scheduled. “Few kind of looks a lot like the other buildings on SEE FEW ON PAGE 6
Sowers named Duke Hospital CEO
Kevin Sowers has been named chief executive officer of Duke University Hospital Tuesday. Sowers has served as interim CEO since Dr. William Fulkerson, Duke University Health System senior vice president of clinical affairs, retired from the position last June. Sowers first joined DUHS as an oncology nurse 24 years ago and was chief operating officer of DUHS for the last six years. He has previously served as interim CEO of Durham Regional Hospital. Throughout his career, Sowers has headed organizational initiatives aimed at improving clinical quality, patient safety and patient satisfaction, according to a University statement released Tuesday. He has also contributed to numerous hospital changes, including expanding the emergency department and intensive care nursery, renovating operating rooms and establishing North Carolina’s only pediatric cardiac care unit. Sowers is largely known for his philosophy on leadership, organizational change, mentorship and cancer care. In 2006, he received the Duke University School of Nursing Distinguished Alumni Award and was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2008.
Albertson appointed chair of CEE Professor of civil engineering John Albertson will become chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering July 1, Tom Katsouleas, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, wrote in an e-mail to the Pratt community Monday. Albertson will replace professor of civil and environmental engineering Lawrie Virgin, who will return to the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science faculty, according to Katsouleas’ e-mail. Part of the Pratt School of Engineering faculty for seven years, Albertson also chaired the Engineering Faculty Council from 2008 to 2009. In addition to serving in administrative roles on several faculty committees within Pratt, Albertson contributes to the University’s strategic planning process for environmental engineering and works as an adviser to the Irish Evironmental Protection Agency, which helps to evaluate the threats to soil resources in Ireland. —from staff reports
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KRISTOF from page 3 Institute for Ethics and the Women’s Center. Kristof has been a columnist for the New York Times since November 2001 and is known for being the first journalist to shine a national spotlight on human rights issues in third world countries, such as the genocide in Darfur and human trafficking. His September speech will also help campus groups like WISER move forward—beyond fundraising and toward more education about women’s roles in global economic development, Broverman said. In addition to Duke, other institutions will also host Kristof on tour, including the University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, the University of California-San Diego and Hofstra University, Porter said.
SLAM CONTEST from page 3 his reason to carry on living. Ocean, a performer from Slam Charlotte—the winning team and two-time national champion—said the poets perform for the love of the art. “We travel locally and stay in cities close to us,” she said, noting that the majority of the team’s members work full-time jobs, which limits their performances to the weekends. For Ocean and her teammates, slam poetry is about allowing the audience, through the power of words, to experience the artists’ emotions. “I just try to go back to the moment and the emotion that I had when I first wrote the poem,” she said.
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The American Dance Festival is kicking off its 32nd consecutive six-week dance festival in Durham today. As reported by The New York Times in 1982, ADF was considered one of the nation’s “most important art institutions” by Jonathan Olds, then-executive vice president of Liggett Inc. The festival brings together dancers, choreographers, students and community members in a mission to explore the cultural significance of modern dance. Through eight world-premiere shows, one U.S. debut and four reconstructions of classic work, the performances will explore the relationship between modern dance and ballet. “Our theme is [to] explore ‘Where Ballet and Modern Meet,’” said Jodee Nimerichter, co-director of ADF. “This year we really wanted to focus on the impact that each dance form, both ballet and modern, have had in their development of current artistic expression. We want to look at the boundaries that do or do not exist between the two different art forms.” This year, the programs will begin with Shen Wei Dance Arts from June 18 to 20. The entire piece of three parts will be performed together for the first time in the new Durham Performing Arts Center downtown. The Shen Wei Dance Arts has earned worldwide acclaim since its introduction at the 2000 ADF. “My friends and I are excited to see the Shen Wei performance. I’ve heard that they do amazing dances. It’ll definitely be a good show to watch,” senior Nan Lin said. Another highlight is the Emanuel Gat Dance, which will be performed from June 22 to 24 at Duke’s Reynolds Theater. Originally from Israel, Gat will show a world pre-
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The American Dance Festival will open its six-week season today. The festival, in its 32nd year of operations in Durham, will begin with performances directed by Shen Wei, who choreographed the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. miere duet with music by R. Strauss, Riad al Sunbati and The Beatles. “Every year we try to do as much traveling as possible to see work not only within the U.S. but also outside of the U.S,” Nimerichter said. “I saw 30 to 40 different works in Israel. When I came back, we decided it would be exciting to do a highlight of what is happening there with Israeli choreographers.” American Dance Festival was founded at Connecticut College in New London, Conn. in 1948. Almost 30 years later, the program relocated to Duke University. New York dance choreographer Mark Dendy, a North Carolina native and a past ADF student, will be performing two sitespecific works from June 18 to 20. To make the performances more accessible to the community in a poor economy, the organization has a “Dance on a Dime” discount program with specific deals for community members, groups, students, se-
niors and college employees. “We continue to try to embrace the community with ticket prices by keeping the performances affordable so people of all economic background can attend,” Nimerichter said. In addition to performances held at DPAC downtown and the Reynolds Theater on campus, the American Dance Festival sponsors a six-week school for students between ages 16 and 18, and a four-week school for young dancers between ages 12 and 16. The ADF provides community service programs such as a year-round program for young performers, a free seminar and panel discussion series featuring choreographers and guided tours of classes and workshops. Performances will continue in Durham until July 25, concluding with performances by Hollins University, a highly selective dance program with students from around the world.
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FEW from page 4 West,” Hull said. “The reality was what we did for Few was going to be what the University would need to do for the rest of the buildings on West, so there was a process in selecting the best kind of tile for that.” The University finally selected the same clay tile as the one currently on West Campus roofs, Thompson said, although slate was also considered. The roof replacement began right after students moved out of dorms for the summer and is expected to be completed in early October, Hull said. “Our other option was to start the project late in the Spring, and we didn’t think having that going on during finals was a good idea,” he added. “We also hoped to avoid Last Day of Classes, all that excitement—we didn’t want to have students think it would be fun
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to turn the scaffold into a jungle gym, so we thought prudence was the best way to go.” Hull said he hopes most of the noisy construction work will be done this summer so that students will not be inconvenienced when they move in to Few this Fall. Thompson said some of the construction that is finishing up now is intended to protect people who are walking around the site. He added that construction fencing may be reconfigured when classes begin and that entrances will be protected. “Aesthetically, it might not be pleasing, but it shouldn’t pose any problems for anyone,” he said. RLHS will inform all residents of Few about what to expect, and all of the necessary details will be part of materials they will receive upon moving in, Hull said. “We’ll make sure they have appropriate access in and out of the building,” he said. “Hopefully they’ll be affected as little as possible.”
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Baker Roofing Company, which took part in the Few Quadrangle renovations last Fall, is replacing the dormitory’s roof. The project is expected to cost around $8 million, adminstraters said.
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meeting of the summer last Friday. “We’re starting over from where we were in April,” Nur said. “In April, we came to a consensus about some of the issues, but right now there’s no consensus yet.” Meetings will continue to take place until a solution is reached, Wasiolek said, adding that administrators and student groups “may have had a different understanding of things than [meeting participants] had in the Spring.” Wasiolek said ideas are currently still being generated, and it is unclear when a decision will be reached. “I think what’s most important for us right now is for everyone to basically agree on the goals of Tailgate and that there is some plan to try to assess over the next several weeks how students perceive Tailgate, so right now we’re really taking one step at a time in the planning process,” Wasiolek said. DSG sent a survey concerning Tailgate in an e-mail to the student body June 8, which will be used to assess students’ opinions of tailgate. Schork said the preliminary results are already telling and contain some surprising elements, adding that he hopes the administration will take the results seriously. Still, the survey’s importance will depend on how many students respond to it, Wasiolek said. “That will certainly play a key role, and it’s hard to know what impact the survey will have, but regardless I think it will give us additional information,” she said.
“I think one of our greatest concerns about tailgate is that it be safe.” — Sue Wasiolek, dean of students Nur estimated Wednesday that about 1,250 responses had been received. In determining what will actually happen at Tailgate, she added that student reaction to any changes must be taken into account. “I will strongly argue that a large part of [what happens at Tailgate] is student responsibility,” she said. “We can’t regulate personal responsibility and I would hope that next year’s students allow for some restraint and take responsibility of their Saturday mornings.” Schork said as long as student opinion continues to be considered, the process will go smoothly. “I think both us and administrators acknowledge there’s some way we can make Tailgate better, but people think of changing Tailgate as a bad thing, and I think there’s a way we can improve it without making it less fun,” Schork said. Wasiolek said the condition of Tailgate next year is going to depend on how students react and embrace whatever plan they derive. She added that she hopes students remember that the tailgating experience should be about football. Although discussions to change Tailgate happen every year, Nur said the nature of Tailgate will change autonomously as the football program improves. She added that more students attended games last year than in years prior. “Tailgate was static because the football program was static, but that’s not the case anymore,” Nur said. “I predict that natural change will occur, and that will be moderated by students—I don’t think the future plan is going to come from DSG or the administration.”
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ADMISSIONS from page 1 taking the numbers from the previous three years into account, which led to a higher number of students admitted in March, and fewer students admitted in May. “The second thing is that as far as we can tell, other colleges are admitting fewer students from the wait list this year than last year... so we anticipated that we would be able to admit fewer this year than last year,” he said. This year’s lower number of wait list acceptances disappoints about 1,300 students who will not receive a belated admissions offer. Guttentag said this year’s 1,400 person wait list contains a couple hundred more students than usual. “It happened fairly naturally—and not unexpectedly—as a result of such a larger applicant pool,” he said. “In situations like that, when you see the kind of increase we saw this year, it’s hard to deny many students we might have admitted the year before, so it’s a natural response to put more students on the waiting list.” Guttentag said in terms of what the admissions office is looking for in a potential student, the wait list decision process is similar to the regular decision process. “The only difference is that if there are particular gaps or particular areas where we’re over enrolled, that will affect who gets in off the wait list,” he said. “For example, we’ve admitted no one to [the Pratt School of Engineering], since we’re completely full in Pratt, so there’s no need to admit anyone.”
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Duke’s yield remains significantly lower than that of peer institutions. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, the University of Pennsylvania has a pre-wait list yield of 63 percent, and The Harvard Crimson reported a 76 percent yield for Harvard University before admitting students off the wait list. Yield was expected to be higher this year than last year, but Guttentag said he was aware that the situation was subject to change. “We saw a dramatic increase in applications, a dramatic downturn in the economy and we knew other colleges would face similar circumstances, but we didn’t know how they would respond—there are a lot of variables, a lot of unknowns,” he said. “There was more uncertainty this year than in years past.” Guttentag said several measures were taken in an effort to encourage students to choose Duke. “We spent more energy contacting parents, expanding Blue Devil Days—very successfully—and we gave students the opportunity to tell us about specific areas of interest, and then we responded to those areas of interest,” he said. Guttentag said although it was certain the economy had an impact on yields this year, it will take the summer to analyze those effects. “I know that we’ve seen an increase in interest in financial aid, but what will take some analysis is to understand exactly which families the economy affected the most and how families’ behavior changed—were they going to schools that offered more scholarships, were they admitted to more state universities—all of that takes a while to figure out.”
CELEBRATION from page 1 mater of John Hope and Aurelia Franklin. A large number of students are planning to attend the event to honor John Hope Franklin and the legacy he left behind. “It’s a nice thing that the University is doing for him because he has done so much for the University and the country—It’s just really great that so many people, so many important people like former president Clinton, are going to attend,” senior Lindsay Roach said. Students said the fact that a former president of the United States is speaking makes the event event even more meaningful. “Of course, I was really excited to hear he was coming and I have never heard him speak before,” said senior Tiffany Gillis, who is leaving her work early to ensure she has a seat at the event. “I’m really excited to be able to be up close and hear him speak in person.” Officials expect the campus to be crowded Thursday as the University is also hosting three Durham high schools’ graduation ceremonies. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early for the event due to the limited number of seating and parking available. Overflow seating will be available in Page Auditorium, where guests can watch the event via closedcircuit television. The event will also be streamed online via live webcast and aired on UNC-TV. Parking will be available in the Bryan Center’s parking garage, as well as the parking lots on Duke University Road near Campus Drive.
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Seniors Nate Freiman (top) and Andrew Wolcott (bottom) were both selected on Day 2 of the MLB Draft Wednesday.
Despite missing out on an NCAA tournament bid in 2009, four Blue Devils were rewarded for stellar seasons by having their names called on Day 2 of the Major League Baseball Draft Wednesday afternoon. Senior first baseman Nate Freiman— Duke’s all-time home run leader and a second-team All-ACC pick last season— was the first Blue Devil chosen, drafted in the eighth round (No. 234 overall) to the San Diego Padres. Freiman was selected in the 28th round of the 2008 draft by the Texas Rangers, but elected to stay in school for his senior season, making him eligible for the draft once again. In his senior season, he led Duke with a .356 batting average and topped the ACC—which sent two teams, North Carolina and Virginia, to the College World Series—with 20 home runs. “I really haven’t ever regretted that decision—coming back to school was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever made,” Freiman said about returning to school. “I had another year of college baseball, wanted to get my degree, really liked Duke, and the extra year of baseball was a blast…. It was totally worth it.” Head coach Sean McNally said Freiman’s influence was felt by the Blue Devils on the field and in the clubhouse this year. Duke finished 35-24 this season, its best record in McNally’s four years at the helm. “It was really important for us [to have Freiman return]—he’s such a big bat in the middle of the lineup,” McNally said. “But more than that, his leadership, his presence, he was a great example for the rest of our players.” Freiman is set to report to minicamp in Arizona in the coming weeks, but said he isn’t sure what level of minor league baseball he will be assigned to. Senior pitcher Andrew Wolcott was the second Duke player selected, plucked by the Arizona Diamondbacks
in the 17th round. Wolcott said he might have considered going pro after his junior season if there had been some interest from major league clubs, but he was not drafted in 2008. In response, Wolcott had by far his best collegiate season as a senior, leading Duke with an 8-3 record and a 2.66 ERA. Duke outfielder Tim Sherlock’s father, Glenn Sherlock, is a bullpen coach for the Diamondbacks, and the elder Sherlock sent his congratulations to Wolcott Wednesday. “I got a message from [Glenn Sherlock] saying, ‘See you in the bullpen,’ Wolcott said. “I just answered, ‘I hope so.” A third senior, catcher Matt Williams, was also taken Wednesday. Williams started nearly every game behind the plate for Duke in his four seasons, and he was drafted with the 560th overall pick by the Chicago Cubs in the 18th round. “I’ve talked to the guys and I’m just really excited for them. It’s an exciting day for us and for our program,” McNally said. “The three seniors [Freiman, Wolcott and Williams], not drafted out of high school, have really maximized their time as students and as players and its great for them to be recognized and rewarded. They certainly earned it and deserved it.” The fourth and final Blue Devil selected on Day 2 was outfielder/pitcher Alex Hassan, a Boston native, who was taken by his hometown Boston Red Sox in the 20th round. Hassan is a junior and could return to school next year, as Freiman did this season. He has not yet made a decision on his future. Current Blue Devils weren’t the only players with Duke ties attracting major league attention. Three incoming recruits—catcher Steven Baron, shortstop Marcus Stroman and pitcher Cameron Coffey—were also selected Wednesday. Baron was the highest-rated player SEE BASEBALL ON PAGE 12
A Magical solution to the Blue Devils’ problems If you’re a Duke basketball fan keeping up with the NBA Finals, you’ve probably noticed some eerie similarities between the Orlando Magic and our very own Blue Devils. I’m not referring to occasional J.J. Redick cameos, when he comes into the game and takes an ill-advised jump shot or two. No, I’m talking about the fact that the Magic utilize the same offensive scheme last year’s Duke team did, working with an undersized lineup that thrives on shooting 3-pointers. There’s just one large difference—Orlando has a dominant center that allows it to play small, Archith spread the floor more effectively and create space for its shooters. Many Duke fans have speculated that the Blue Devils were one good big man away from making a Final Four run last year. The Magic seem to have proven this theory, as Dwight Howard’s presence on the floor gives their three-point shooters wide-open looks. This is especially true with respect to forwards Hedo Turkoglu and Rashard Lewis, who fill the exact same roles
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that Duke wings Gerald Henderson and Kyle Singler did. The 6-foot-10 Lewis is a matchup nightmare in the NBA.Though undersized, he’s a deadly sharpshooter from beyond the arc. Lewis’s versatility was on full display in Game 2 of the NBA Finals, when he finished with 34 points, including 6-of-12 from long distance, by repeatedly torching slower Laker power forwards . Singler held a similar role in the offense as an undersized power forward for the Blue Devils, preferring to stay on the perimeter and knock down outside shots. In fact, in Duke’s lone win over North Carolina in the past three years, part of the Blue Devils’ success came because of Singler’s ability to draw Tyler Hansbrough away from the painted area and make threes. Turkoglu, meanwhile, is also a skilled perimeter shooter but has carved out more of a niche for himself as a slasher and creator. In crunch-time situations, the Magic often give Turkoglu the ball and let him improvise. Last year, Henderson played almost the same way, as a solid jump shooter who also did damage attacking the rim. SEE RAMKUMAR ON PAGE 12
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Sophomore Kyle Singler, like Orlando’s Rashard Lewis, is undersized for a power forward, but both present matchup problems for defenders.
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But the crucial point in this analogy, the difference between success on the part of the Magic (dethroning the defending champions and the MVP on their way to the finals) and failure on the part of Duke (getting beaten by Villanova in the Sweet 16) is the final piece of the puzzle for Orlando—their very own Superman. The Magic have been successful because Howard is a rebounding machine. His offensive game is nothing spectacular—most of his points come on put-backs and dunks, and Howard does not have any dominating lowpost moves or a reliable jump shot. But solely because of his size and strength, Howard has averaged 15.3 rebounds per game in the playoffs. His presence allows players like Lewis and Turkoglu to get away with parking on the perimeter, because they know they have Howard to pick up the slack on the boards. Duke lacked a stabilizing force that would have allowed its undersized lineup to make noise in March, like the Magic have done this month. The Blue Devils didn’t need Brian Zoubek and Lance Thomas to be Dwight Howard, nor did they need their two interior players to be prolific scorers. Duke simply needed a big man to rebound, block shots and draw attention in the paint. This coming year, both of Duke’s recruits are DirkNowitzki style big men—Mason Plumlee and Ryan Kelly— whose strength is in their versatility, not in their skills in the paint (though in fairness to Plumlee and Kelly, they are just freshman. No one saw Redick turning into a scoring machine, so watching either turn into a legitimate presence down low shouldn’t come as too big a surprise). Consequently, the Blue Devils didn’t fill the hole that plagued them in 2008-09. In the loss to Villanova that ended the Blue Devils’ season, Duke was outrebounded, 49-34, by an equally perimeter-oriented team. It should also be noted that the Magic have succeeded despite having mediocre guard play. Their shooting guard position is a rotation between Redick, Courtney Lee and Mickael Pietrus, all of whom have struggled offensively in the playoffs. And even after the loss of All-Star point guard Jameer Nelson to a shoulder injury in February, the team has progressed through the playoffs with a less capable replacement, Rafer Alston. The guard play was so unreliable that Turkoglu ran the offense in the waning moments of Game 2. But the Magic have kept winning with their versatile lineup because they have a big man who can get rebounds and take up space in the paint, showing that the Blue Devils could
of any Blue Devil taken in the draft, as the Seattle Mariners chose him early with the 33rd overall pick. Like Hasson, Baron, Stroman and Coffey will decide whether to pursue a major league career or enroll at Duke in the next month or so. “We had a sense that [our recruits] definitely would be drafted,” McNally said. “I expect them to come to school and I’m really excited about the opportunity to coach them, and we’ll see how the summer plays out. “To have four of our guys drafted and three of our incoming guys as well, it speaks to what we’ve done and what our future is here.”
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Tailgate debate circular Tailgate, as students cur- nities while students carried rently know it, has existed in on with their traditional celits costumed and beer-can- ebration in the first lot of the laden form at Blue Zone. Duke for several Students were staff editorial years now. permitted to Minor changes are pro- drive into the first lot for 30 posed and passionately de- minutes before the event to bated by students and admin- drop off stereos, grills or othistrators annually, but the er supplies, but all cars were basic elements of Tailgate re- required to be moved. main static from year to year. This past football season, And administrators’ con- the University introduced cerns about the weekly Fall Game Day festivities on Main festivities in the Blue Zone West that included food and are raised every summer as other attractions intended football season approaches. to lure students away from Three years ago, the the Blue Zone and make University administration the pre-football experience decided to dissociate itself more attractive to the wider from Tailgate by withholding student body. formal support for the event. Most students seemed Then, in Fall 2007, adminis- satisfied with their tailgating trators reversed this decision. experiences this year—both The University provided on Main West and in the Blue food, water and other ame- Zone—but once again, admin-
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istrators are insisting on making their annual changes. Three solutions on the table now include: adding cars to the first lot of the Blue Zone, dispersing students throughout the entire lot and, most drastically, moving Tailgate to Main West. The first two options would be returns to previous Tailgate arrangements, and it is not clear what the latter proposal would mean, as Tailgate in its current form is hard to envision on Main West. What seems clear is that the Game Day alternative has failed in the eyes of the administration—it has not prevented a small, but rowdy, group of students from raging in the Blue Zone. But students, or at least the highly visible minority of students who care about Tailgate,
have never offered a clear consensus for what they want from the event either. Some argue to “keep it the same,” while others want to “change it back” to its 2006 model. We have no unified vision for Tailgate either. Administrators’ concerns about student safety and school representation are valid, but moving it to Main West seems counterproductive and potentially more dangerous. At the very least, Tailgate, as it existed this past season, kept students in an isolated area where they could be contained and supervised. And, as others have rightly argued in the past, the only thing that will drastically change Tailgate is a winning football team. A squad that, before last season, notched only two wins in three sea-
sons gave students plenty of reasons to focus on Tailgate as a singular party and ignore the game itself. But last year, the football team under new coach David Cutcliffe took a huge step forward. Now that an embarrassing program is finally starting to turn itself around, students and administrators can reasonably expect the Tailgate issue to fix itself. With last year’s football season finally giving students a reason to leave the Blue Zone before kickoff, administrators just need to be a little more patient. Although last football season ended with a five-game losing streak, we believe a strong season by Cutcliffe’s team next year could mediate the annual studentadministrator Tailgate standoff once and for all.
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someone was working on or what building a lab was in, all I received was letters. It wasn’t simply the new language that befuddled me either. When I was finally able to decipher the letters enough to know what building I worked in, I still struggled in finding my actual desk. I work in a grey upholstered cubicle, and for the first two days it was a little hard to find, lost amid the countless other identical cubicles. Of course, there were also more positive attributes to my new environment. When five o’clock rolls around, my co-workers leave. I suppose that should have been obvious to me, that nine-to-five jobs really do end at five. There are no grad students that never seem to sleep, no articles to read over the weekend. At 4:55 p.m., my boss simply told me to have a good day and enjoy the sunshine. Now, two full weeks into being an intern at one of the largest BME companies on the planet, I’m slowly learning that maybe my friends and family realized something I somehow missed. After all, out of the wide listing of classes ACES boasts, it is always the BME classes that catch my eye. Biological Transport? Medical Devices? Sign me up! In terms of intellectual fulfillment, researching with a company is every bit as exciting as researching at a university. True, the corporate culture may be a bit confusing, and I’m sure I’ll still be swimming through an alphabet soup of jargon for a few more weeks. However, whether my final goal is a product or a paper, I’m still asking questions, analyzing data and trying to come up with an answer. Perhaps enjoying a job that directly applies to my major isn’t so strange after all. Although career fairs have told me over and over that major doesn’t matter and anyone can end up anywhere, I can’t help but feel satisfied with the realization that actually being an engineer really is fun. Vanessa Kennedy is a Pratt senior. This is her final column of the summer session.
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entourage can bathe even the roomiest campus in a glowing aura of importance.” Duke can bring someone recognizable, powerful and brilliant to campus—but the president trumps anyone. The University boasts a respectable, if infrequent, history of witnessing U.S. presidents on campus. In 1905, president Theodore Roosevelt made a visit to the then-Trinity College to recognize the school’s dedication to academic freedom during the Bassett Affair. In 1903, Professor John Spencer Bassett caught flack from Southern Democrats when he praised Booker T. Washington in an article published in a scholarly journal, but the Board of Trustees kept Bassett on the faculty, and two years later Roosevelt showed up to commend the school’s decision. In 1959, John F. Kennedy campaigned at Duke en route to a tight win over Richard Nixon, Law ’37; not to be outdone, Nixon stopped by his alma mater in 1966, two years before he finally made it to the White House. In 1988, Ronald Reagan gave a 15 minute antidrug speech in Cameron, which drew about 200 protesters. In his commencement address to the class of 1997, Carter told graduates, “We have been given a treasure in our life of all those things—some greatly magnified, particularly for the graduates of Duke— and we rarely share.” A year later, George H.W. Bush warned against “international terrorism,” “Islamic fundamentalism,” “the spread of chemical and biological weapons,” and “narco-traffickers.” I e-mailed Associate University Archivist Thomas Harkins to see if other presidents have made visits, official or otherwise, but he could only add Kennedy and Nixon to my list. It is possible, however, that memories of some presidential sightings have been lost in the past: the University does not have a “comprehensive list of famous visitors,” Harkins wrote. And at 11 a.m. today, Clinton’s arrival at the Chapel’s mobbed stone steps will become the most recent of these visits, officially ending the 11 year drought. Duke students will clamor around the swung-open wooden doors, squeeze through the throngs of onlookers and clamor for a view of the man who led the nation during their impressionable childhoods—the Duke students on campus for the summer, that is. It seems almost a waste that, after more than a decade without an appearance by our nation’s number one, a large majority of the student body is elsewhere in the world, on break for the summer. Duke has the leverage to bring speakers as prominent as Clinton, and it should use this leverage to bring them more often—hopefully at a time when students can actually see them.
don’t really remember much from my debut at Shooters. Like most who have ever visited Durham’s most notorious nightclub, my memory is, at best, selective, when it comes to sifting through the details of my time there. I do retain a distinct vision of an old man wearing a large hat with a bunch of shiny, metallic fishing hooks walking over to where I stood chatting up a female acquaintance. He must have noticed I was thoroughly enjoying myself, as he commented, “Ain’t this the good life, kid?” before stumbling back toward the bar. Dr. George Vaillant attempts to breach a slight variation of this question—what exactly is the good life?—in the Grant Study, a longitudinal examination of 268 former Harvard graduates. Vailliant and his cohorts have extensively chronicled (and continue to chronicle) the lives of each subject in an attempt to garner some answer as to what constitutes a life well lived. The study has generated a fair amount of ben brostoff buzz in the social science combro’s stuff munity, but for all its hype, has only produced a few modest conclusions. This is to be expected, as the enterprise is so gigantic an undertaking and asks so many of the big questions that concrete answers would naturally be few and far between. As Vaillant himself would likely concede, the human condition is beyond academic understanding. Yet in no way does this hinder him or anyone else from trying to understand it. A profile of Vaillant and his research in the most recent Atlantic Monthly is titled “What Makes Us Happy: Friends Matter. Cholesterol Doesn’t. Lessons from an Amazing 72 Year Study.” Predictably, the article itself doesn’t tell you what makes us happy. Vaillant offers trends in the way of explanation of the complex phenomena of life. He suggests physical and psychological long-term good health is predicated upon six major factors: mature adaptations (positive coping mechanisms including altruism, humor, and anticipation), stable marriage, not smoking, not abusing alcohol, some exercise, and a healthy weight. Among the subjects who checked out well for at least five of these factors at age 50, 50 percent were labeled “happy well” at 80, while only 7.5 percent were considered “sad-sick” (Vaillant neglects to define these terms in the Atlantic Monthly piece, and the other 42.5 percent isn’t accounted for in the article). Again, the Grant Study’s conclusions aren’t exactly groundbreaking. Perhaps, then, the real value of Vaillant’s work isn’t in its stated purpose of figuring out the means to the good life, but rather the lens it offers into disparate human journeys. Joshua Wolf Shenk, the author of the Atlantic feature, writes that the men’s lives “become worthy of Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky.” Vaillant and his colleagues weave narratives of the subjects of the Grant Study that have no apparent logic. A 50-year-old subject, convinced that “God is dead,” stubbornly refused to believe he had told researchers he attended mass four times a week as a college sophomore. A retired man obsessed for the better part of his life with the demise of his career answered “all the time,” when asked if he had ever felt calm and peaceful. The most well adjusted men at the study’s beginning nearly 72 years ago are often now clinically depressed or dead. In short, the Grant Study (at least the excerpts included in Atlantic Monthly) reads more like a novel than a report on aging, the subjects resembling Philip Roth protagonists moreso than human guinea pigs. Even Vaillant as an individual doesn’t fit into a logical model. Perplexed by his own father’s suicide, his interest in longitudinal studies in part stems from a need to understand what caused this tragedy. Thus, Vaillant’s brother speculates that studying other lives might be an attempt by Vaillant to discover the right way to live his own life. Neither the researcher nor his study fits seamlessly into the type of objective, empirical model that has long been the foundation of the modern science. So, after roughly 200,000 years of human existence, we still don’t have a scientifically backed method telling us how to live the good life (barring the 2007 single “The Good Life” by Kanye West featuring T-Pain). But Vaillant has given us myriad real life case studies that prove what Literature has stressed for centuries: that human life is inherently nonsensical. Explanations of life grounded solely in reality sometimes just don’t suffice. Consequently, expecting things to make sense (a safe assumption in academia) is probably too much to ask when envisioning the good life. Good life or not, most things outside of the classroom—especially Shooters—seem beyond logical comprehension. Fortunately, what we can’t comprehend may be what makes life good in the first place.
Nathan Freeman is a Trinity senior. This is his final column of the summer session.
Ben Brostoff is a Trinity sophomore. This is his final column of the summer session.
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or God’s sake—head to the Chapel! Now! Bill Clinton is speaking! If it’s not after 1 p.m., you have no excuse to be anywhere but beneath those towering stone spires and gigantic arching buttresses, listening to the ex-POTUS pontificate about John Hope Franklin, who passed away last March after a lifetime of scholarship and dedication to his duty as an historian of African-Americans in America. Today, stuck right in the middle of the summer session doldrums that sweep through campus every nathan freeman June, a speaker with good night, some serious megaand good luck wattage is paying the Gothic Wonderland a visit. And judging by Duke’s recent track record, the chance to see a former or current Leader of the Free World on campus may not come around again anytime soon. Given the impressive array of distinguished guests who take the time to stop by Duke, it may come as a surprise that no U.S. president has graced campus in more than 11 years. Since Jimmy Carter delivered the school’s commencement speech to the Class of 1997 (his grandson was a member) and George H.W. Bush delivered it to the Class of 1998 (Vice President Dan Quayle’s son was a member), Duke has sat on the sidelines as other schools have managed to lure a president to speak to students. Sure, the past decade has witnessed some superstar visitors—we’ve seen Oprah give grads their final send-off, heard The Rolling Stones rock Wallace Wade, and brought Robert Redford in to pick up an award. But it’s been move than a decade since Duke has nabbed one of our 44 presidents. There has always been great demand for commanders-in-chief to speak at college campuses, and despite their busy schedules—whether they be in or out of the Oval Office—they often find time to stop by. Even as he courted controversy with his appearance at the Jesuitrun Notre Dame, Barack Obama’s commencement address was generally seen as a prize for the university. “In recent years politicians have been given a run for their money at commencement time by anchorpersons and Hollywood celebrities, but loftily placed public officials, especially those who can be credibly deemed statesmen, are still the most sought after speakers—and the biggest ‘get’ of all, of course, is the President of the United States,” Hendrik Hertzberg wrote in a May 18 column for The New Yorker, where he is a political commentator. “The President is a statesman ex officio, a guaranteed publicity magnet and a person whose fame and
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