April 14, 2010

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Election marred by absences

Judiciary OKs app extension

Holding court

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by Carmen Augustine

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A lack of communications left some candidates out of the Graduate and Professional Student Council’s Board of Trustees committee elections Tuesday evening. Ten graduate students were elected to six different Board of Trustees committees. Three nominated candidates, two of whom said they were never told when the elections would be held, were not present at the elections. The students said that their ability to be elected to the committees was hampered by this miscommunication. The third student could not be reached for comment. “How am I supposed to be involved if they’re only letting people who are involved [with GPSC] be the representatives?” said Aris Baras, a student in the Fuqua School of Business and the School of Medicine. Baras was nominated for a seat on the Medical Center Affairs Committee. She added that she received a GPSC e-mail Tuesday at 2:54 a.m., but it did not note that the general assembly would be voting on representatives or taking nominations for the Board of Trustees standing

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Junior Reid Carleton won the third-set tiebreaker of a marathon match against No. 19 North Carolina’s Jose Hernandez to propel the No. 14 Blue Devils past the rival Tar Heels, 4-3, Tuesday at Ambler Stadium.

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In a meeting Tuesday, the Duke Student Government Judiciary ruled that a second extension of the campaign packet deadline was constitutional—validating the applications of 13 candidates previously deemed ineligible to run for Senate, vice presidential and class positions. The campaign packets, which qualify students to run for office, were originally due April 2 at 5 p.m. But DSG Attorney General Var Shankar, a senior, extended the deadline to April 7 at 5 p.m to accommodate students who were out of town at the NCAA Final Four. The Judiciary ruled Shankar’s extension unconstitutional April 9, citing the Election Commission as the sole body responsible for modifying the election process. At that point, students who submitted campaign applications after the initial deadline were disqualified. Eight of the 13 students who were eliminated from the election filed suit against the Judiciary’s ruling in an April 10 e-mail to Chief Justice Matt Straus, a sophomore. Straus notified the complainants Sunday morning that their case was dropped because it was an appeal of the case that the See election on page 9

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Fisseha and Shen join DSG race against Brown by Taylor Doherty and Lindsey Rupp THE CHRONICLE

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Junior Metty Fisseha, who is running for VP of athletics and campus services, says her range of campus experiences qualifies her for the position.

Save the bonobo handshakes! Noted bonobo conservationist Claudine André shares her history, PAGE 3

Junior Metty Fisseha and sophomore Yingyi Shen will join the race for the position of Duke Student Government vice president for athletics and campus services. The addition of Fisseha and Shen to the ballot comes after a last-minute DSG Judiciary ruling Tuesday evening that extended the deadline for submitting campaign applications. Fisseha, a Chronicle columnist, is a Duke University Union representative, and Shen is a member of the DSG Judiciary. The two join the athletics and campus services race alongside freshman Chris Brown, a Durham and regional affairs senator who was profiled by The Chronicle Tuesday, before the Judiciary validated the campaigns of Fisseha and Shen. Fisseha said because her candidacy officially began Tuesday night, her platform is still “in the making.” But Tailgate, Duke busing and transportation and dining would all be essential areas of her work, if elected. Fisseha noted that although she could not feasibly reach out to every student on campus, she said she can serve as an effective intermediary between the administration and students. See acs on page 10

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Sophomore Yingyi Shen, who is running for VP of athletics and campus services, stresses inclusiveness and practicality in her campaign.

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“With a higher budget, we are going to have more and better events that are open to everyone.”

­—WXDU Director Marc Loeffke on DUU’s budget allocations. See story page 3

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Obama to outline proposal Mine chief faces challenges for returning to space WASHINGTON, D.C. — When explosions rocked the nation’s deepest coal mine in 2001, a veteran mine safety activist flew to Alabama and confronted those investigating the blast. Joseph Main, safety director for the United Mine Workers of America, wasn’t shy in his dealings with federal officials he thought were whitewashing the investigation and failing to include the families of the 13 dead miners. “He screamed, he pounded his fists on the table. He’d swear and kick chairs,” recalled Dennis O’Dell, a former colleague. “Miner safety has been Joe’s life.” Today, Main is running the agency — the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration — whose investigators he attacked on that September day nearly a decade ago.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama will announce plans Thursday to retain and revise some aspects of the discarded Constellation rocket and capsule system, will commit to selecting a rocket capable of carrying astronauts to deep space within five years, and will allocate $40 million to put together a job retraining program for Florida space workers who will lose their jobs when the shuttle is grounded next year. Addressing workers, astronauts and lawmakers in a much-anticipated speech at the Kennedy Space Center, Obama will flesh out the new NASA architecture for returning Americans to space that was first proposed in his 2011 budget announcement. Those proposals — to kill the Constellation program and jump-start development of a commercial space industry that could take its place — were met with substantial bipartisan opposition.

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LONDON, Britain — Britain’s Conservatives Tuesday pledged “urgent action” to cut the record budget deficit and protect the country’s top-grade credit rating if it wins the May 6 general election. Leader David Cameron suggested his party will shrink the size of the state and said he will go further and faster than the ruling Labour Party in cutting the deficit, which at almost 12 percent of economic output rivals that of Greece. “We have to deal with this deficit and we have to take early steps to do that,” Cameron said at an event in London Tuesday to publish the party’s election manifesto. “The challenge is to get more for less.” By scaling back the role of government, the Conservative leader said voters will get a chance to take a more active role in running services, providing the

money to cut the deficit and lower taxes. The debate over which party has the best policies for cutting the deficit and averting a return to recession is dominating the election campaign. Polls suggest neither the Conservatives nor Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour Party, which issued its election platform Monday, has enough support to win a majority in Parliament. Cameron urged voters to back his vision for a “big society” in favor of Brown’s desire for “big government.” “We can make things better without spending more money,” Cameron said. “Why? Because communities with the power to determine their own destiny will solve the social problems that cause spending to rise in the first place. Good government costs less with the Conservatives.”

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Sabrina Hossain feeds the goats on the family’s farm, in Spotsylvania, Virginina. Her husband, Duke graduate Mukit Hossain, recently left his corporate job as a telecommunications executive in order to start his own organic goat farm that delivers halal meat, goat meat that is in accordance with Islamic law. Hossain says his new job is the most rewarding and peaceful job he has ever done.

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Q&A with Claudine André

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As a special portion of Duke’s “Primate Palooza,” renowned bonobo conservationist Claudine André will speak at 7 p.m. today in Love Auditorium. Andre founded and now runs the only sanctuary for bonobos in the Democratic Republic of Congo, called Lola Ya Bonobo. Bonobos, like chimpanzees, are primates and are only found in Congo. The Chronicle’s Tullia Rushton sat down with André to discuss her role and interest in bonobo conservation. The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. The Chronicle: How did your involvement and passion for bonobos develop? Claudine André: In 1991 we had a very bad period—it was not war, but it was a difficult political period for Congo.... The story begins like this: After one month, two months, three months [of strife that] I don’t remember very well, a man brings me a baby bonobo. [It was] almost dead with pneumonia, and the director of the [local] zoo says, “Oh Madame Claudine, don’t put your heart in this animal, it’s a bonobo and they never survive in captivity, 100 percent die. We never have [had] one.” So it was a... challenge—because they all die, [I was determined that] this one would survive. TC: How has political violence and war affected the bonobo population? CA: The country was hurting and the bonobo habitat was with military occupation for 60 months and it was a very bad period for bonobos because there were a See andré on page 8

by Ray Koh

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special to The Chronicle

Bonobo conservationist Claudine André will speak tonight at 7 p.m. in Love Auditorium as part of Duke’s “Primate Palooza.” André is the founder of the only bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Duke University Union’s new executive board is gearing up for the last events of the year and preparing for next year’s. At their meeting Tuesday night, the new DUU executive board members met for the first time without the outgoing leaders. They finalized budget allocations for each of the 15 committees Saturday and briefly discussed them Tuesday. “We are going to provide the opportunity for every committee to put on awesome events,” said Chief Financial Officer Ben Condon, a junior. He said the total allocation was $684,124. Each committee’s budget was based on what the committee needed for its events and what its budget was last year. The general funding, however, remains unknown until the size of next year’s freshman class is finalized, Condon said. He noted that DUU keeps a general fund of about $20,000 to $30,000 for buffer. “There were some budget increases and decreases among committees,” Condon said. “We looked at each committee and what its ideas were for next year, and decided accordingly.” One committee with a decreased budget See duu on page 7

April 16 -17, 2010 Duke Arts and Academics Programming

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2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Politics of the South Today, Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center Fifty years ago Terry Sanford was elected governor of North Carolina, hailed as a moderate/liberal alternative to the traditional southern politician. What is his legacy, and how has Southern politics changed since then? Robert Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy Studies and History, leads a discussion with John A. Drescher, Jr. M.A.’88, executive editor, News & Observer; Faulkner Fox, author and lecturing fellow, Department of English; and Kerry Haynie, associate professor and associate department chair of Political Science.

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Fifty Years of Bonkistry – and Counting, French Family Science Center Auditorium James Bonk, professor of chemistry, is celebrating 50 years of introducing Duke students to the fundamentals of chemistry and is still going strong. Join Chemistry chair Warren S. Warren and Alvin L. Crumbliss, dean of the Natural Sciences, in congratulating Professor Bonk, who will then discuss sustainable energy, interspersed with demos of hydrogen balloons, a model hydrogen car, and liquid nitrogen ice cream!

Spotlight Speakers 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center Dave Karger ’95, senior writer for Entertainment Weekly magazine, appears regularly on The Today Show, where he discusses the Oscars and entertainment trends. He has written more than 30 EW cover stories and writes a seasonal blog called OscarWatch for EW.com. He will interview actor and screenwriter Jack Coleman ’80, a constant actor Dav e Karg er 30 years known for his roles in such hits as Dynasty and the sci-fi series Heroes, and Kevin Gray ’80, whose Broadway, Off-Broadway, and National Tour credits include leading roles in The King and I and the Phantom of the Opera, and is currently appearing with the symphony tour Three Phantoms in Concert.

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2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Memories of Duke and JFK, Rare Book Room, Perkins Library Retired Lt. Commander Ted Robinson ‘40 will reminisce with Alex Roland Ph.D. ‘74, professor of history, about working his way through Duke during the Great Depression, winning a commission in the Navy, and serving in Torpedo Boat Squadron 6 with John F. Kennedy in World War II. Robinson’s memoir, Water in my Veins: the Pauper Who Helped Save a President, reveals his part in rescuing Kennedy and surviving crew of PT 109 after it was rammed by a Japanese destroyer.

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2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Health Care: Why It Passed, Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center Panel: Donald H. Taylor Jr., assistant professor of public policy, Center for Health Policy, and assistant professor of community and family medicine and nursing, School of Medicine; Barak D. Richman, professor of law at Duke Law School; and Kevin Schulman, associate director, Duke Clinical Research Institute, professor of medicine, School of Medicine, and professor of business administration, Fuqua School of Business.

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2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Talkin’ Jazz, Von Canon A, Bryan Center Do you just love jazz and wish you understood it better? Have you ever wondered why a song is played one way and sometimes another? Come sit in with John Brown, director of jazz studies, when he and a quartet of local musicians perform tunes to inspire a dialogue on the notes and nuances of jazz.

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Obama says nuclear summit adds to world’s security by Edwin Chen and Roger Runningen THE washington post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama said Tuesday a summit on nuclear security was concluding with a strong agreement among 47 countries that the world’s nuclear stockpiles must be secured to reduce the chance of terrorists getting an atomic device. “We have seized the opportunity,” Obama said at a news conference at the conclusion of the two-day summit. “The American people will be safer and the world will be more secure.” In a 12-point summit communique, the U.S. and 46 other nations gathered for the meeting pledged “sustained and effective international cooperation” on Obama’s goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear material in four years. The representatives and heads of state from around

the world spent two days discussing a plan of action for locking down global nuclear stockpiles. Obama has said the most significant security threat is the potential for al Qaeda or other terrorist groups to acquire the materials to develop a nuclear weapon through theft or illicit sales. Opening the summit’s plenary session earlier, Obama said the world must recognize the changed nature of the nuclear threat. “Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history—the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up,” Obama said. That requires “we summon the will, as nations, as partners, to do what this moment in history demands,” he said. The leaders and representatives at the summit reaffirmed their commitment to preventing terrorists from

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obtaining “information or technology” required to use nuclear material and to maintain security of such supplies, according to a copy of the document obtained by Bloomberg News. The communique recognizes the role of the United Nations as well as other organizations to enforce compliance “within their respective mandates and memberships” and it calls on states to “work cooperatively” by requesting and providing assistance as necessary. Obama also got agreements from individual countries on actions to secure nuclear material. The U.S. announced Monday that Ukraine will relinquish its entire stockpile of highly enriched uranium and convert research reactors to use lower-grade fuel. Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is in Washington for the summit, separately announced that his country will send spent highly enriched uranium to the U.S. for processing to make it unusable for a weapon. Canada also joined with the U.S. and Mexico in a plan to convert highly enriched uranium from a Mexican research reactor, the White House said Tuesday. The action will result in the removal of all high-grade uranium from Mexico, according to a White House statement. Chile previously has agreed to give up its stockpile. In another step toward eliminating such material, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov signed a protocol Tuesday in which each side agrees to dispose of 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium, enough material for about 17,000 nuclear weapons. The U.S. and Russia’s Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement had been stalled since 2000 over differences on implementation. In addition, Obama said several nations at the summit agreed to bolster security at ports to block smuggling of nuclear material. Two potentially high-risk sources of illicit nuclear materials, Iran and North Korea, weren’t invited to the summit and aren’t specifically part of the agenda. Obama said at the news conference that the United Nations is moving toward tougher sanctions if Iran doesn’t comply with demands it halt any attempt to enrich uranium. Cooperation on sanctions is a sign that “international diplomacy” is making it more possible to “isolate” countries like Iran and North Korea. “I want to see us move forward boldly and quickly,” he said.

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Judge orders Mississippi Letter sent without approval, county to end segregation McDonnell spokesman says by Spencer Hsu

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping black students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county’s only majority-white school, the U.S. Justice Department announced. The order, issued by Senior Judge Tom Lee of the U.S. District Court of Southern Mississippi, came after Justice Department civil rights division lawyers moved to enforce a 1970 desegregation case against the state and Walthall County. Known as Mississippi’s cream pitcher for its dairy farms and bordering Louisiana 80 miles north of New Orleans, Walthall County has a population of about 15,000 people that includes about 54 percent white residents and 45 percent African American residents, according to the U.S. Census. For years, the local school board has permitted hundreds of white students to transfer from its Tylertown schools, which are about 75 percent African American and serve about 1,700 students, to another school, the Salem Attendance Center, which is about 66 percent white and serves about 577 students in grades K-12. The schools are about 10 miles apart. Salem became “a racially identifiable white school while the student enrollment of the Tylertown schools has become predominantly black” because of the transfers, U.S. officials alleged in December,

based on data from the 2007-2008 school year, according to Lee’s order. At the same time in Tylertown four K-12 schools, “District administrators group, or ‘cluster,’ disproportionate numbers of white students into designated classrooms... resulting in significant numbers of segregated, all-black classrooms at each grade level,” the judge wrote, summarizing the Justice Department lawyers’ case. The Walthall County School District did not file a response to the case, Lee wrote in approving the government’s desegregation plan. “More than 55 years after Brown v. Board of Education, it is unacceptable for school districts to act in a way that encourages or tolerates the resegregation of public schools,” Thomas Perez, U.S. assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division, said in a written statement. “We will take action so that school districts subject to federal desegregation orders comply with their obligation to eliminate vestiges of separate black and white schools.” Walthall County School Superintendent Danny McCallum declined to comment, saying he had just received the judge’s order. The school system’s lawyer, Conrad Moore, did not immediately respond to messages left with his office. Walthall school officials have said they will comply with the consent decree. But they have pointed out that because of

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RICHMOND, Va. — Letters telling more than 200 felons in Virginia that they had to write a “personal letter to the governor” to get their voting rights restored were sent in error, a spokesman for Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday, adding that the potential requirement is merely a “draft policy proposal.” The letters sent to felons said that, “as a new requirement,” non-violent offenders must provide a “personal letter to the governor explaining the circumstances of your arrest and conviction.” They were also told to detail their efforts to get a job, seek education and participate in church and community activities, and why they believe their rights should be restored. The governor’s letter went on to say that failure to do so would result in applications being closed “with prejudice.” “The letter was sent without approval by a well-meaning staffer attempting to continue to process requests even while new procedures were being considered,” said McDonnell spokesman Tucker Martin. McDonnell, a Republican, is revamping

the entire system for felons to have their rights restored as he works to process every application within 90 days. Other governors have taken six to 12 months to process applications. Martin said media outlets, including The Washington Post, were incorrect in reporting that the governor’s office had decided to require the letters to the governor. “As this paper and other media outlets have been told, this remains a draft policy proposal. Nothing has changed,” Martin said. The Post reported that Secretary of the Commonwealth Janet Polarek and deputy secretary Christie Heath said in an interview last week that while McDonnell was still considering broader changes to the process for restoring voting rights, the decision had been made to require offenders to submit letters. Heath said 213 nonviolent felons have applied to have their rights restored since McDonnell was sworn into office in January. Ninety-five percent of them have written letters to the governor by an April 1 See letter on page 7

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jackson browne to receive The Duke LEAF Award Sat., April 17 • Page Auditorium 2 p.m. Free and open to the public Browne is being honored for his extraordinary body of work as an environmentalist, songwriter and musician. His most stirring and inspirational works include “Lives in the Balance,” “For Everyman,” “The Pretender,” “Before the Deluge” and “The Drums of War.”

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gpsc from page 1 committee representatives. Baras called the elections a “complete s- show.” After the meeting, former GPSC vice president Yuvon Mobley, a second-year graduate student in the department of molecular genetics and microbiology, said this year’s notification procedure differed form last year’s. “Last year I do know that I personally sent e-mails to all of the individuals who had been nominated giving them the date of the meeting and the format,” Mobley said. Outgoing GPSC Vice President Adam Pechtel, a third-year law student, said the bylaws do not require the Executive Board to send another notification of the date and time of the election to the candidates. “It was on our Web site, on GPSC News, as far as I know, and we could have sent some reminder e-mail and we probably should have but I mean, it slipped my mind and they have a responsibility as candidates to find out when the elections are,” Pechtel said. “Although [sending a reminder e-mail] would have probably been a best practice that we should in the future implement, it’s not something we’re required to do.” GPSC President-elect Daniel Griffin, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in classical studies, added that the election date was posted in the minutes from GPSC’s March 23 meeting, which were available to view on the GPSC Web site. Crystal Withers, a third-year MD and Ph.D. student who was nominated to run for the Medical Center Affairs committee but did not show up to the meeting, said she could find information about the committees but not about the election on the Web site.

“I don’t know where the sites are where they give details about meeting agendas,” Withers said. Griffin said GPSC is working to include more students, but getting people involved had been a problem this year. He added that as president, he hopes to further promote student involvement next year. Mobley and Yang Yang, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in physics, were elected Faculty, Graduate and Professional School Affairs representatives. Emeline Aviki, a student in Fuqua and the School of Medicine, was elected to the Medical Center Affairs committee. Griffin and Yvonne Ford, outgoing GPSC President and a fourth-year Ph.D. student, were elected Institutional Advancement standing committee representatives. Mili Doshi, a first-year Fuqua student, was elected Undergraduate Student Affairs committee representative. Ali Saaem, a graduate student in biomedical engineering, and Karen Lilley, a first-year Fuqua student, were elected Business and Finance standing committee representatives. Liz Bloomhardt, a third-year graduate student in mechanical engineering and a Chronicle columnist, and Caleb Varner, a student in Fuqua and the Sanford School of Public Policy, were elected Facilities and Environment standing committee representatives. In other business: GPSC members also approved a new strategic plan at the meeting. The plan calls for GPSC to improve communications with graduate students, advocate for graduate students in the Duke community and provide opportunities for graduate students to engage with communities beyond the University. A table of contents and executive summary

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Former GPSC vice president Yuvon Mobley, a second-year graduate student in the department of molecular genetics and microbiology, speaks in front of the committee during elections Tuesday. were also added to the plan. The mission statement was adapted from GPSC’s bylaws and a vision statement was created, Pechtel said. Griffin said the new plan will act as guidelines for GPSC’s activities in the coming years. He added that the Strategic Plan was revised based on GPSC’s goals and aspirations. “[It’s] a way for us to identify what problems we might have in achieving our goals,” Griffin said. Some students expressed discontent with the changes made to the plan. Bloomhardt said she was under the impression that the Strategic Planning Committee was to only make minor changes to the plan. “These are not minor changes,” Bloomhardt said. Some students were also worried that the new plan was directed to a different

audience than the previous one. The new plan is more of an internal strategy for GPSC, Bloomhardt said, not one to present to administrators. Griffin said he thought this document was better organized to present to Board of Trustees members. The 2010-2011 budget was also approved. More funds were allotted for group funding and student life. Graduate student Campout for men’s basketball tickets has been set for October 1-3 said Basketball Committee co-Chairs Allison Schmitt and Rebecca Wilusz. Wilusz is a biomedical engineering graduate student and Schmitt is a graduate student in chemistry. Campout will be held at the same site as last year, where there will be space for both tents and RVs.

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duu from page 3 was the Major Attractions committee, said President Yi Zhang, a junior. The newly formed Innovation committee, which will put on creative and new events, received approximately $15,000. Zhang explained that Major Attractions plans to hold more events in Page Auditorium, instead of more costly venues like Cameron Indoor Stadium. Major Attractions received a smaller budget because of the decision to use less expensive venues. Committees with significant budget increases include the Coffeehouse, VisArts and WXDU, Zhang said. WXDU received a larger budget because the committee plans to hold new concerts for students and the community, said returning WXDU Director Marc Loeffke, a junior.

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“We wanted to use the resources within our DJs,” Loeffke said. “They know a lot of local and touring bands, and we really wanted to take advantage of this unique knowledge resource.” Loeffke declined to comment on the exact budget numbers for this year and next year, but he said the increase was “significant.” He said one new major event that WXDU will sponsor next year is the “Rock Lotto.” The committee will gather about 60 musicians from the Triangle area and put their names in a hat. Then, four names drawn out of the hat will form a band and have six weeks to practice. The band will play at a concert after practicing for the given time period, Loeffke said. “I am really excited for next year,” he said. “With a higher budget, we are going to have more and better events that are open to everyone.”

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DUU Chief Financial Officer Ben Condon (left) and President Yi Zhang share a laugh at Tuesday’s DUU meeting. At the meeting, the union finalized its 2010-11 budget allocations among its 15 committees.

letter from page 5 deadline, Martin said Tuesday. State Sen. Donald McEachin, D-Richmond, who opposes the changes, said he was baffled as to why the governor’s office was collecting letters from applicants if they were never going to use them. “It raises an eyebrow,” McEachin said. “If they’re not going to use the essay, why have they written people and told them they’re going to use the essays? It’s starting to look like the gang that can’t shoot straight.” The proposal was met with heavy criticism from Democrats, civil rights groups and those who work with felons to restore their rights. They said McDonnell’s proposal would turn a nearly automatic process into a subjective one that may prevent poor, less-educated or minority residents from being allowed to vote. Virginia would be the only state in the nation to require a letter for the restoration of civil rights, according to Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy group.

Former Gov. Ernie Fletcher, R-Ky., required a personal essay, but his Democratic successor Steve Beshear removed the requirement in 2008. In 39 states, voting rights are automatically restored after a felon completes their prison sentence, probation or parole, Mauer said. In the remaining states, felons must petition a governor or board. Polarek will hold a meeting with the ACLU, the NAACP and other groups that work with felons on Wednesday to talk about changes the governor’s office is making to the process. “This is a rather odd way to make policy, but we’re delighted if they’re serious about dropping the requirement of a lengthy personal letter to the governor,” said Kent Willis, executive director of the Virginia branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. In Virginia, under a system designed by former Gov. Mark Warner, a Democrat, felons convicted of nonviolent crimes have been able to apply to have their voting rights restored by filling out a one-page form with information about their arrest and conviction.

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andré from page 3 lot of guns and bullets in the forest. So more and more baby orphans arrive and through [that], I realize we have to do something with the [Congolese] government. TC: Beyond just the dangers that the war presented, why is it that bonobos are commonly hunted for and killed? CA: Bushmeat [the meat of wild animals, killed for subsistence or commercial purposes] is the first big problem of bonobos. It’s a phenomenon that we cannot stop because nothing works against this. Millions of dollars are used by big conservationists to try to do something against [the hunting], but I didn’t see any results because it’s a mix of different factors. It’s not only poverty... but also war in Congo. You can imagine how [many] guns, how much mess is in this country, so it’s easy to go in the forest and kill everything. TC: In addition to providing safety to orphaned bonobos, what else goes on at the Lola Ya Bonobo sanctuary? CA: [We have created an] education program. We have now 30,000 kids who come every year. We are also forming a reintroduction program to put [more] of these bonobos back into the wild—the original forest, almost 1,000 kilometers from Kinshasa.... We currently have 55 bonobos [at the sanctuary], because we already gave a group of nine back in the forest and we are preparing a second group of 10 to go back. TC: Despite the widespread problems facing the bonobo population, what do you hope you accomplish personally to aid their conservation? CA: I think the main goal I have is [to] speak about bonobos, for people to know about bonobos before they disappear.... Education, all the time. I do not have the power to [do it alone], but I can speak all the time. I can make interviews and go to the radio. I can go to the television shows. I can speak about bonobos and I can see the results.

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abroad, have been cast... it’s indicative of how we let presumptuous post-adolescent teenagers with drinking problems and perJudiciary had ruled on April 9. sonal vendettas control DSG.” Yesterday’s judicial ruling, however, upPrior to the extension, Robinette’s race held the Election Commission’s decision to was uncontested. move the final deadline for campaign packDSG Executive Vice President Gregory ets to April 13 at 9 p.m. Election day will now Morrison, a junior, said the original candishift from April 14 to April 20 and campaign- dates have a clear advantage over the new ing will last until polls close April 20. Students candidates because they had an extra week were informed of the changes yesterday in a of campaigning. Morrison further argued blast e-mail sent around 5 p.m. for the constitutionality of the Election “The judicial precedent set [in the April Commission’s decisions, pointing to an 9 ruling] applies specifically to the instance election bylaw in DSG’s constitution. in which the Attorney General—without an “The Election Commission will set the official vote of the Election Commission— time and date which campaigning will bemoves the date which campaigning will gin,” the bylaw reads. “Any electoral situabegin,” the Judiciary’s majority opinion tion not covered in this bylaw or any other reads. “In this case, the date that campaign- DSG bylaw or the DSG constitution will be ing begins has not been changed, and all resolved by the Election Commission.” actions taken by the Attorney General have Morrison said the Final Four weekend been accompanied by an official vote by qualified as an unusual circumstance that the Election required the Commission. Election Com“Justice has been served—they’re mission’s inHence, the judicial preceervention. able to run, the election is more tBecause dent does not many apply and this students were competitive and more people can be viewed pre-occupied are involved. There is a much as an entirely with basketball separate deand away in Inmore highly qualified pool of cision; the dianapolis, stucandidates.” prior decision dents who norstill stands.” would — Mike Lefevre, mally Junior Jushave applied tin Robinette, DSG chief of staff and president-elect did not have who is runthe chance, he ning for a stuadded. dent affairs senate seat, filed a complaint “We are trying to accommodate a major just minutes after candidates were notified disruptive event in the life of the Univerof changes to the election policy. Robinette sity, and to change the deadline to honor said he thinks the extended deadline is un- justice,” Morrison said. fair because it affects the campaigning proFormer DSG attorney general Meg cess and postpones election day. Foran, a senior, said the election bylaws He added that the voting process offi- were intentionally broad to grant wide aucially started a few days ago, as some stu- thority to the Election Commission so that dents studying abroad sent in absentee dilemmas such as this can be resolved efballots via e-mail. Students studying abroad ficiently. may send in absentee ballots beginning “The Election Commission has a great three days prior to the election. deal of latitude in actions where unex“While I submit my petitions on time, fol- pected events come up. We must maintain low regulations and guidelines and respect that latitude for the Election Commission the rule of law, this does not apply to oth- to maintain its job and rule under uners in DSG leadership currently, and now precedented, unexpected circumstances,” we have extremely unqualified candidates Foran said. “We have to deal with them joining every DSG race,” Robinette said. and implement them without being wor“Once the balloting process has begun, ried about getting sued. It makes it very and once numerous votes, including votes difficult to do our jobs.”

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anyways,” Shen said. “All this unhappy stuff actually gives us a chance to go through all the bylaws by DSG—I think the best way to Fisseha cited her involvement at the Unitest a rule or test a law is by practice.” versity as a considerable advantage to her canJunior Yiwen Zhu has worked with Shen for didacy and called herself the “realistic canditwo years on the Duke University Math Union. date.” She noted that her relationships with Zhu said Shen has been approachable and administrators like Director of Dining Services dedicated as secretary for the union this year. Jim Wulforst give her an advantage over “She’s extremely committed to anythe other candidates. thing that she does, she puts 110 to 120 “I’ve always had this in me, the “One thing that I want to emphapercent in—she definitely goes beyond size is I’m going on my fourth year at desire to run for DSG... [and] I am what is expected,” Zhu said. Duke,” she said. “There is something Shen recused herself from the two the candidate that would be able most recent cases heard by the Judiciary to be said for having been on campus and having experienced on a daily bathey directly affected her camto bring about the most change.” because sis a lot of the things that I would be paign. She initiated a complaint against addressing if I were elected.” — Metty Fisseha, the Judiciary’s April 9 ruling, which invaliFisseha is a political science maher campaign, and said she contactDSG VP for ACS candidate dated jor and serves as a consultant for the ed the 12 other disqualified candidates to University Consulting Group—a DUU join her as complaintants. At least eight committee that helps campus organidid, including Fisseha herself. zations coordinate events. She also serves as late-night dining options to campus and Shen said she filed a complaint for the candia marketing assistant for the newly founded starting a peer-tutoring program for infor- dates because she thought the Judiciary’s April Duke Department of Campus Recreation. mal physical education classes. 9 ruling—which deemed an election deadline “I’ve been very extracurricularly active,” FisAlthough Shen has not been a member extension unconstitutional—was incorrect. seha said of her time at Duke. “I’ve always had of the Senate either, she said she has ample “I was in the Judiciary, so I have the electhis in me, the desire to run for DSG... tion bylaw and I saw their reasoning [and] I am the candidate that would be and thought that was not good,” Shen “I’m not a politician, but I can able to bring about the most change.” said. “I may win or may lose... but if I UCG Vice President of External Affairs still do something to make stu- cannot defend my own lawful right, Will Benesh, a junior who has worked with who will trust me?” dents’ lives more awesome as a Fisseha on a number of initiatives this seBrown, who was profiled in Tuesmester, cited her dependability and ability day’s Chronicle because he was the regular student.” to contribute as major strengths. only candidate for the position, said — Yingyi Shen, that although the situation could have “She’s always followed through on her commitments,” Benesh said. avoided, he approved of the JudiDSG VP for ACS candidate been “She’s easy to get in contact with, she’s ciary’s ruling. dependable.... She’s been a really He also noted that allowing more good contributor to my committee.” candidates to compete increases student Shen, a current member of the Judiciary, knowledge of the Constitution and the by- participation in DSG and voter turnout. hopes to represent all students on campus laws from her almost two years as an associ“It’s something that will be corrected in the next year. ate justice on the Judiciary. future—we learn from our mistakes,” Brown “Even though I’m not a political science “I have improved myself [on the Judi- said. “I’m running a campaign now, so it’s more major, I’m not a politician, but I can still ciary]... sometimes I feel so bad about the of a competition now, but I signed up for office do something to make students’ lives more party we ruled against, but we have to do it to run a campaign so it’s part of the job.”

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The good of this place One day—maybe sooner, but probably later—we might forget about a certain basketball game played last week. We might not remember it was Brian Zoubek who forced Gordon Hayward’s miss and then grabbed the rebound, or that it was Kyle Singler who ran into a glass door in the waning seconds or that it was Nolan Smith who posed on the court where his late father won the same championship in the same city 30 years ago. The intimate details will prove fleeting; they always do. Ben What I will remember, more than anything, is where I was when Duke won its fourth national championship. It’s in this sense of place that memories form, where everlasting bonds are made, where a community is forged. That Monday—it seems so long ago, already—I chose to stay on campus rather than drive to Indianapolis, having analyzed the benefits and downsides of both situations for entirely too long. I was banking on a beautiful North Carolina spring day, one that would validate my decision to be here, and yet I still would never have expected 80 degrees and sunny, perfect in every way. Walking to the Armadillo Grill around 4 p.m. to save seats for the 9:21 p.m. tip, I saw a slew of tour groups camped out on Main West quadrangle, the same

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Cohen

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Senior Dylan Arnould was unable to win at No. 3 singles, but still ended his final home match victorious thanks to Reid Carleton’s late heroics.

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The interplay of old and new on Duke’s campus is what makes the school so special for Ben Cohen.

Reid Carleton let out a victorious roar and slammed his racket to the ground. The junior had just scored the clinching point of No. 14 Duke’s 4-3 victory over No. 19 North Carolina (165, 6-3 in 3 UNC the ACC) DUKE 4 in a contest that was somehow even closer than the score would suggest. In a moment that neatly summarized what was by all accounts a tumultuous afternoon, Carleton’s teammates rushed to his side on court one of Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center—joined by members of the Duke men’s soccer and wrestling teams— after a five-hour long affair that initially started on the outdoor courts of Ambler Stadium and was full of exciting and unusual turns of events. “I’ve been a part of college tennis for a long time,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “And that was the most amazing finish I’ve ever seen.” Carleton, who at one point led North Carolina’s Jose Hernandez 3-2 in the second set after winning the first, 6-4, surrendered four straight games to send the match to the third set. By the middle of the final set,

the other courts had cleared off and left the ledger in a 3-3 tie—it was clear that the Carleton-Hernandez match would determine which school would earn bragging rights. After Carleton won the first game of the third set to take back control, Hernandez broke Carleton’s serve in an intense, back-and-forth game to regain his momentum from the second set. He then held his own serve and broke Carleton for a second consecutive time to take a 4-1 lead in the third set. With all the momentum going against him, Carleton managed to break Hernandez’s serve to give himself a fighting chance. The next game, on the Blue Devil’s serve, might have been the longest in a match filled with long games. Carleton staved off multiple break points in that crucial game, and both players were visibly tired at the end of point, resorting to lobbing the ball rather than hit it directly. “We played a bunch of long games today, but that was probably the most important long game,” Carleton said. “He had a bunch of break points to make it 5-2 and if he had made it 5-2 the match most likely would have been over.”

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Duke dropped a close contest to Davidson Tuesday, 4-2, but the Blue Devils take the field again today against UNC Greensboro at 6 p.m. in Cary

Despite a preseason No. 1 ranking and a strong start to the season, the Blue Devils have lost their pace during recent weeks, dropping to sixth in the national polls. Coming off three consecutive losses Wake in ACC play, Duke Forest looks to bounce back vs. today against Wake Forest in WinstonNo. 6 Salem at 4 p.m. Duke A notable trend WEDNESDAY, 4 p.m. over the past three Winston-Salem, N.C. losses is the team‘s inability to win despite taking the doubles point. Sophomore Monica Gorny and junior Reka Zsilinszka have won three straight doubles matches at No. 1. Senior Elizabeth Plotkin and freshman Mary Clayton have also won three straight doubles matches at the second position. However, the team has still dropped each match because of weak performances in singles play.

“We spent a lot of time working on our doubles and now we’re at the point where were winning routinely,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “They should learn to build off that confidence. When we were losing doubles we were playing singles with a sense of urgency, and now that we’re winning doubles we don’t go to singles with the same sense of urgency. That’s something that we really stressed, continue to work at the doubles the way we did but continue that intensity in the singles match play.” Zsilinszka is the only player in singles with a winning record over the past three games, taking all three matches at No. 2. Senior Amanda Granson and Clayton each have won just a single match and junior Ellah Nze and Gorny have lost three straight contests. The team hasn’t been able to find a consistently successful singles rotation, and it is something that needs to be addressed moving forward, especially going into the ACC tournament next week.

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Junior Reka Zsilinszka is the only Blue Devil with a winning record in her last three matches. Performing better in singles play isn’t the only part of their game that the Blue Devils (17-5, 5-3 in the ACC) need to work on. See w. tennis on page 15

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cohen from page 11 area where, hopefully, we would blaze the benches later that night. It was Blue Devil Days, of course, and campus never looked better. It was nearly impossible to walk from Alpine to the Bryan Center without spotting someone in a Duke jersey, someone else sporting a Duke shirt, defying the standard that it’s somewhat gauche to be seen in a uniform away from Cameron Indoor Stadium. Friends lounged on the Plaza and drank on the quad, basking in the sunlight. For one day, at least, Duke was everything any wannabe Dukie could have wanted. At one point, we were all iterations of those pre-froshes on the quad, awed by architecture and struck by the ease with which everyone handled themselves. (Four years later, I still am, sometimes.) When I first visited campus, in the summer before my junior year, our tour group walked around in a torrent of humidity, dripping sweat with each step. We took refuge in the air conditioning of Perkins—the construction of von der Heyden, next door, made it hard to hear our tour guide—and the tour ended on Towerview Road, with Cameron lurking, small and unimpressively, across the street. On the inside, the stadium was awesome and charming, almost enough to make me forget the powerful heat and the ineptitude of the tour guide. It was quiet. Peaceful. It felt like home. The next year, when I compiled my college list, I was still hesitant about applying to Duke. My tour, after all, had been underwhelming, to the point where the trip to Cameron salvaged it, rather than enhancing it. My mother convinced me with common sense, as is her wont. “You’re not going to apply to Duke?” she asked, rhetorically. “Why wouldn’t you?” There wasn’t really an answer. Even as a New Jersey kid—or maybe, given the demographics of Durham, it’s not so surprising—I had grown up with Mike Krzyzewski on the television, with Duke on the winner’s line my annual NCAA Tournament bracket, with Shane Battier as my imaginary teammate on the driveway basket. It’s trite for most to claim that they chose Duke because of basketball, but I don’t have any other excuse. Without the

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The scene on campus after the men’s basketball team won the National Championship was what Ben Cohen hoped to witness when he applied to Duke four years ago. ubiquity of Duke Basketball, I wouldn’t be here right now. I was accepted, fortunately, several months later. A few days earlier, Duke had lost in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16, and still, I couldn’t shake myself of the idea of attending a university that epitomized the interplay between academics and athletics. The admissions department’s decision filled my computer screen, and right then, I knew: I wanted to spend four years at Duke, and only Duke. This University, it’s often said, is built on a series of binaries, evident as soon as any prospective student walks up Chapel Drive. Duke is a new campus that looks

old, a liberal arts college flourishing within a research university, a cuttingedge global institution in a sleepy Southern city. And while Duke is a world-class university—pat yourself on the back—its global image is fashioned off the success of the basketball team, specifically, and the athletic department as a whole. Duke is a recognizable brand, and not simply because of the intellectual stimulation in a single seminar. Athletics, in short, bring out the best in this place. That idea isn’t revolutionary, for sure, but it’s worth reiterating after last week, when the University buzzed with an aura unlike anything I had ex-

perienced in four long years. I realized, then, that it wasn’t so much basketball that brought me to Duke, but what basketball represented. Walking through campus felt like wiggling into a photo shoot for the school, and it became even more uncanny by thinking about what those high school seniors must have thought of this big, beautiful place. That night, a bonfire did, indeed, sway till the morning’s wee hours, and the next morning, a rush of students poured into Cameron one last time, and all it did was trigger a thought that no senior ever wants to have. It made me never want to leave.

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m. tennis from page 11 Hernandez eventually began to cramp up, and Carleton took advantage. “I knew that he was cramping—he ended up taking an injury timeout during that game,” Carleton said. “I was just trying to win that game and go after every single ball and give myself a chance.” With Hernandez leading five games to four in the third set, and up 30-love—just two points away from earning a victory for the Tar Heels—the Durham sky let loose just enough rain to delay the match. Most of the North Carolina fans that had made the eight-mile trek down to see the match assumed that Carleton could not put together a rally and left under the assumption that Hernandez was comfortably in control. Having seen the rest of the match, they should have known better. “It was a bizarre situation with Hernandez cramping up,” Smith said. “Reid did a great job of prolonging the match, and conditioning came into play.” The match moved inside and both players were given the opportunity to warm up again. That gave Carleton a chance to collect himself and regain his focus, and it also meant that Hernandez’s cramps would continue to set in. By the end of the match, Hernandez, who put in a herculean effort to fight through the pain, was barely able to walk—near the end, he double faulted a point during which he did not even try to jump on his serve. Once indoors, Carleton fought back to force a tiebreaker. After falling behind 5-2, the junior reeled off five consecutive points and won the match after Hernandez’s return went wide on Carleton’s final serve. Carleton’s spectacular finish, however, would have been meaningless without strong performances from the other Blue Devils. Although Duke (15-6, 8-1) lost the doubles point of the match, with the top pairing of Carleton and freshman sensation Henrique Cunha losing for the first time since Jan. 30, the Blue Devils rebounded in the singles portion. Like Carleton, Cunha won his individual match as No. 1. The victory is the 13th straight for Cunha—who is No. 3 nationally—though, like Carleton, he needed a comeback to make it happen. Cunha lost a first-set tiebreaker but rallied to win the next two sets 6-3, 6-2, gaining momentum as he went along. Beyond his contribution to the match ledger, Cunha’s win came at a crucial time—tying the team score at three—and brought energy to the Ambler Stadium crowd. The other individual victories for the Blue Devils came from the bottom of the lineup. Junior Jared Pinsky won his fourth straight match in straight sets against North Carolina’s No. 5 Zach Hunter while sophomore Luke Marchese managed to stay undefeated in the ACC by beating Andrew Crone 6-2, 7-5. Senior Dylan Arnould, who lost from the third spot, still felt more than satisfied with the conclusion of his final match at home. “It was the most amazing match I’ve ever been a part of in my four years here,” he said. “I really couldn’t ask for a better ending.”

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w. tennis from page 11 Ashworth said that some sort of refocusing needs to be made for both the Wake Forest match, and for the rest of the season. “We have to make sure we have the right energy,” Ashworth said. “Our team walked onto the court after winning doubles and thought that the teams were just not going to compete in the singles and they did, they out-competed us. Win or lose the doubles we have to make sure we give it our best shot. Every team is going to give us a fight based on the history of our program. We have to rise to those expectations. This weekend we didn’t and it’s been something we’re trying to remind ourselves of, whether we’re playing one in the country or 50.” Historically, the Blue Devils have

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performed very well against the Demon Deacons, holding a commanding 51-4 all-time record, but this game brings a sense of urgency considering Duke’s last few losses. Early in the conference schedule, Wake Forest (8-12, 2-6) beat a very good Georgia Tech team that beat the Blue Devils last week in Atlanta. The Demon Deacons’ top doubles team of senior Sasha Kulikova and freshman Kathryn Talbert are ranked No. 36 in the country, presenting a challenge to the Blue Devils’ doubles lineup. “Wake’s really good,” Ashworth said. “When they go on the court they play with a lot of intensity…. They’re loud and they’re going to be all over us from an emotional standpoint, so we have to make sure we match that. As long as we can match the emotional and mental intensity that they’re going to bring, then we’ll be fine.”

fromstaffreports Duke loses tight game to Davidson, 4-2 Sophomore Eric Pfisterer pitched his first career complete game, but it wasn’t enough as the Blue Devils (19-14) lost to the Wildcats, 4-2, at USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary Tuesday. Pfisterer surrendered one run over his final seven innings, but the damage done early proved to be all the offense Davidson would need. The Wildcats (14-19) scored three runs in the pivotal second inning. Pfisterer walked Will General with one out, then gave up consecutive singles to Tommy Piacenza and Seth Freeman before shortstop Michael Zeblo slammed a double to bring home two more runs. Wildcat starter Brian Russell held Duke to one run on four hits in six innings of action, and Davidson relievers Andy Bass and Mike Frongello limited the Blue Devils to one more run over the final three innings. Leadoff hitter Ryan McCurdy got on base three times, and shortstop Jake Lemmerman had two RBI, but the rest of Duke’s bats went cold in the team’s first nonconference loss in 14 games. The Blue Devils didn’t strike out once against the Wildcats, but grounded into four double plays to quash potential rallies. Duke had a chance to cut into the lead in the eighth inning after Lemmerman brought home freshman Marcus Stroman on a sacrifice fly. The Blue Devils then had runners on the corners with two out, but Frongello escaped the jam to preserve a 3-2 lead. The Wildcats tacked on an insurance run in the ninth inning and Duke wasted another opportunity with two baserunners to end the game. The Blue Devils continue their homestand today in Cary against UNC Greensboro (14-18) at 6 p.m. Duke is 5-2 against the Spartans all time, and 4-2 under head coach Sean McNally. The teams have split the last four contests, all high-scoring routs in which one team topped the 10-run mark. Blue Devils face off against North Carolina tonight The women’s lacrosse team ends ACC regular-season play today with a trip down Tobacco Road to play rival North Carolina at 7 p.m. No. 5 Duke (11-3, 2-2 in the ACC) is coming off a win against No. 19 Boston College, 12-11, after coming back from a five-goal deficit. Sarah Bullard led the Blue Devils with four goals with Kat Thomas pitching in three goals and the game-winning score with 7:23 left to play. No. 2 North Carolina (11-1, 3-1) beat Maryland on Saturday, 13-9. Tar Heel goalie Logan Ripley was recently named ACC Player of the Week on April 12. Ripley averages a 5.19 save percentage this season and has started every game for North Carolina in the net. The Tar Heel offense is lead by trio Corey Donahue, Kristen Taylor and Becky Lynch. Donahue and Taylor each have 31 goals on the season with Lynch pitching in a total of 25. Duke boasts a slim 12-10 advantage over North Carolina in the all-time series going into the match. The Blue Devils, with a perfect 5-0 record on the road this season, seek to gain their first win in Chapel Hill since 2006 when they beat the then-No. 3 Tar Heels 10-8. Similarly, North Carolina looks to extend its untainted 7-0 record at home this season. If Duke does not come out on top in today’s matchup, it will be the first three-loss ACC season for the Blue Devils since 1997.

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head to West Campus for food. Instead, they can make the short walk to the Devil’s Bistro, saving them time and added frustration. As welcome an addition as the Mill Village complex is, it is only a first step to making Central a more livable place. Because the existing apartments on Central will remain intact for at least the next several years, administrators must continue to improve the Central Campus experience. A huge priority must be combating the perception that Central Campus is unsafe. Poor lighting and the occasional robbery contribute to a shared feeling among many Central residents that they are not secure walking around their apartments. Although statistically Central is no more dangerous

than East or West Campus, as long as this sentiment exists, it must be addressed. Better lighting and better landscaping could make Central look more like it is part of Duke’s campus and make students feel more at ease. Dividing the campus into neighborhoods, as recently suggested by Campus Council, should also be considered. Not only could this improve navigability of the labyrinthine campus, but breaking Central down into smaller geographic units would also increase opportunities for community-building. A relatively small, fourbuilding complex like Mill Village can make a difference on a large campus like Central. And although it may not be a huge leap forward, one step is better than none.

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pring is in the air, our favorite local sports team has seized the day and school is at an end. No one wants to read about current events, the problems of domestic politics, how humanities Ph.D. students won’t get academic jobs or the vagaries of our democracy. With that in daniel bessner mind, I have demutatis mutandis cided to end my column on a more sanguine note than usual; that is, with a list of TV shows and movies that I think people need to watch. Some of them are familiar, and others less so. Hopefully, some readers will be exposed to programming of which they happened to be unaware. Now, in no particular order: 1) “Peep Show” (2003-present). Without a doubt one of the best comedies of the last decade. With the barest of setups—Mark is a credit analyst, obsessed with World War II, self-loathing doormat, Jeremy is an unemployed, wouldbe techno musician—“Peep Show” has transformed into one of the funniest TV series I’ve ever seen. Also, the first five seasons (“series” in the Queen’s English) are available on Hulu, facilitating the ease of viewing. 2) “Archer” (2009-present). Unfortunately, this seems to have been mostly overlooked, although FX has renewed it for a second season. It basically follows the trials and tribulations of the white-collar workers of the International Secret Intelligence Service. As many reviews have described it, however, it is more of a “workplace” comedy—but way funnier than the maudlin “The Office”—than a spy show. Either way, hilarious. 3) “Real Time with Bill Maher” (2003-present). A show I avoided for a long time, and only recently got into watching. Although sometimes the program is weighed down by the ignorance of celebrities (see: Cameron Diaz), more often than not Bill Maher is able to get some heavy hitters— including James Carville, Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie—and even some celebrities who offer incredible social and political insights, such as Chris Rock. Either way, Maher’s generally libertarian perspective is refreshing, and his comments trenchant, generally insightful and, most importantly, honest. 4) “Smiley Face” (2007). So-called “pot

comedies” are generally uninspired affairs, either focusing on the ridiculous (e.g., “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle”) or the asinine (e.g., the Cheech and Chong oeuvre). Smiley Face, nonetheless, is unique among stoner comedies in that it is: 1) actually hilarious and 2) stars a female. Before this movie, I had only been familiar with Anna Faris’s work generally, mostly from “Scary Movie”(s). In this film, however, she demonstrates herself to be a comedienne of significant gifts. Revolving around the mistaken ingestion of baked goods that had been tampered with, the “Communist Manifesto,” and being an out-of-work actress in LA, this is a great, and unfortunately under-seen, movie. 5) “The Great Happiness Space” (2006). A portrait in sadness. “The Great Happiness Space” is a documentary examining a so-called “host club” in Osaka, Japan. Host clubs (as opposed to “hostess clubs”) are basically nightclubs where women come to drink, party and most importantly pretend like they have a boyfriend. Essentially, for a fee, the various “hosts” employed by a club act like the patrons boyfriends, giving them advice, listening to their problems and, on occasion, having sex. Once you choose a host, you are stuck with him for the rest of your patronage. The film only gets more interesting when you discover that most of the patrons are themselves prostitutes. 6) “The Baader Meinhof Complex” (2008). This German-language film examines the history of the Rote Armee Franktion (Red Army Faction), an extremist left-wing group that arose in the wake of the student protest movements of 1968 by Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin. The RAF, as it was known, used terrorist tactics as a means to call attention to their often-muddled causes. The film is balanced in its judgments and analysis of the fraught political climate of Germany in the late-1960s and 1970s. Anyone interested in German history, the history of the left or political violence should check out this film. And, finally, two recent classics that everyone must check out are “The Wire” and “Arrested Development”—it doesn’t get better. If anyone has any other suggestions, please post them in the comments section to this article online—I’m always looking for good entertainment. Daniel Bessner is a third-year Ph.D. student in European history. This is his final column of the semester.

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his weekend I saw a spectacular performance of “Rent,” one of my favorite Broadway musicals put on by Hoof ‘n’ Horn. It got me started thinking about numbers. The catchphrase from Rent’s opening song, “Seasons of Love,” is the number of minutes in a year, 525,600. Compare this to more than 25 million—the number of people who have died of AIDS worldwide since its discovery in 1981. Or 33.4 million— sue li the number of people who were, as Rent’s “La philosopher’s stone Vie Boheme” would proclaim, “living with, not dying from” HIV/AIDS at the end of 2008. As members of the developed world, we tend to have more relevant issues threatening our nation: the economy, terrorism or poverty within our own borders. In our daily lives, we focus on the more immediate task at hand. Even taking into consideration recent national and international tragedies, compared to the 200,000 people lost in the Haiti earthquake, the 4,287 Americans killed in Iraq and the 2,973 Americans who died in the 9/11 attacks, AIDS is still the leading cause of death in developing nations and the number one cause of death in Africa. A recent study predicted that within the next 25 years, AIDS will join heart disease and stroke as the top three causes of death in the world. Team America parodies Rent with the song “Everyone has AIDS.” The irony is in how we have forgotten about the millions who live with the disease. HIV is an insidious virus that affects those who can afford to suffer the least. Prevalence of HIV within a nation correlates with average income levels, placing the greatest burden on developing nations struggling with other diseases, poverty and hunger. According to the UN, it has become the number one cause of death for women worldwide, an outcome resulting from ever present gender inequality, sexual violence and the lack of services for women. Up to 70 percent of women worldwide have been forced to have unprotected sex, according to UNAIDS. Since 1994, Rent, put simply, a rock musical about AIDS, or more expansively, a cultural phenomenon, has brought back one of the world’s most important issues to the table. Through the performance of its characters who are more alive near death than some healthy people will ever be, Rent showcases love that makes no distinction between race, gender or sexuality. Aside from its soundtrack, I believe that it is this story of survival, hope and the human condition that has captivated audiences and has allowed the musical to deliver its political message to the world. Rent measures “the last year on earth” of seven friends in Lower East Side Manhattan in “daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee, in inches, in miles, in laughter, [and] in strife.” Although it would be ludicrous to compare second semester senior year to the experience of those living with disease, I am inspired by the characters in Rent who face the great unknown with courage and compassion, and even more by the individuals who live their reality. Their fate and mine are not nearly the same, but at times I too feel as if I live with a deadline, waiting for the end of my life at Duke. I’ve learned from Rent, however, that in these last few weeks the greatest joy is not in the numerous activities one can do but just being alive at Duke itself. As the cast of Rent sings, “I can’t control my destiny. My only hope is just to be.” There are 151,200 minutes in one semester. As of today, there are 31 days left before graduation. Looking back, I won’t remember the “report cards” and, in Duke’s case, not “speeding,” but parking tickets. Instead, I measure in interviews, bonfires, Common Ground retreats, late night sing-alongs, concerts at the Coffeehouse, free T-shirts, friendships, relationships and championship games. And, of course, I measure in love. Despite the mistakes that have been made, forget regret, otherwise life—and these last 43,200 moments so dear—are yours to miss. Before I go, I take from Mimi Marquez and Roger Davis the lesson that there is no other course— no other way—but to live like there’s no day but today. “There is no future and there is no past. I live this moment as my last.” Sue Li is a Trinity senior. This is her final column.

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he most bamboozling adjective in all of collegiate English: “awkward.” It would be impossible to briefly capture all of its poignant usages, so important is it to our conversations. For our generation, “awkward” has become a catch-all for everyone and everything that is irredeemably repellent. It’s infinitely better to be caught being mean or spiteful or evil: Those are just flaws that might be connor southard amended. Here at Duke, it dead poet seems that “awkward” is a terminal condition. If you’re generally agreed to be awkward, you’re lost in a foreign country wherein all the inhabitants are put off by your presence and afraid that it might be catching. Spend too much time around that which is awkward, and you might one day awaken to discover that you, too, have lost that intangible quality that separates you from the state of awkwardness. Catch the disease, and you’ll have no choice but to tramp off to a distant Awkward Colony in either the high Himalayas or the depths of the Amazon River Basin. You’re awkward, and you can never be anything more. Interactions, too, can of course be awkward. I don’t know of a single person who doesn’t occasionally relish a really cathartic confrontation. Fights, scraps, arguments, shouting matches—call them what you will, but we all need to have our purely angry, aggressive moments. But those subtle, passiveaggressive moments of mere awkwardness? Excruciating beyond belief, and never a good thing. Worse, the cumulative effect is once again true: Have too many awkward moments, and you’re permanently set to “awkward.” That’s a lot of connotative baggage for a word that we haven’t yet really defined. The Oxford English Dictionary gives a number of definitions for “awkward,” the best of which is probably this: “Untoward or unfavourable for one’s purpose; ill-adapted for use; clumsy in operation.” That all seems to fit with “awkward” as we tend to use it, especially because words like “untoward” and “ill-adapted” give that wonderful Victorian resonance to the definition of a term that we use socially—you can’t be awkward by yourself. You can only be awkward within a social context, and being “ill-adapted” means you’ve somehow failed the age-old middle school test of worth: “fitting in.”

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Just like Victorian Brits, Duke students seem to have an abiding interest in what is socially right and what is socially wrong (or awkward). It’s just one of our defining neuroses, and it may be the most pernicious and contradictory. After all, aren’t we given to Bacchic revelry and free-spirited raging? Aren’t we egocentric and spoiled, and doesn’t that mean that we’re capable of acting without regard to “social norms”? We might do or be all of those things, but I’ve never been anywhere that features so many people so interested in describing and adhering to some particular, detailed, petty model of social propriety. It’s due to our peculiar obsession with social realities, in whatever way we choose to grapple with them. This evening, a passel of prominent organizations (including Panhel, Interfraternity Council and the Honor Council) is holding a forum on the moral and cultural significance of gossip websites, like College ACB and such. That may or may not be a worthwhile exercise—given current trends, it won’t be long before there’s a campus-wide forum held to discuss which kind of fertilizer gets sprayed on the beleaguered Main Quad. Still, it would take a student body given to actively studying “Duke Social Life” and literate in all the (supposed) intricacies of our school’s (supposedly) complex structures to make any kind of public matter of a petty gossip site. That we are socially aware beings is due as much to evolution as anything else—we’ve all got a little chimpanzee in us, we all like to be part of a troupe. But let’s take a step back and recognize that, while anyone who knows anyone else has a few social loyalties and prejudices, reality consists of more than social constructs. If we make too much of a point of social details and distinctions—and overuse the vague language of social anxiety—there’s the nagging risk that we’ll actually start to believe the derivative drivel coming out of our reactionary mouths. Whatever else you may be, you don’t want to start being a boring, chimp-like conversationalist, Primate Palooza aside. In short, “awkward” is the kind of word that we’re better off leaving to 19th century vicars with an abiding interest in ferns. Language is all about conceits; that’s half the fun of it. But I’ve had about enough of this “awkward” stuff. I hereby move that, from this moment forth, only Larry Drew II’s basketball passing be described as “awkward.” Connor Southard is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Wednesday.

Duke-UNC collaboration runs wide and deep

he April 9 Chronicle editorial “A Robertson report card” did an excellent job of describing the success of the Robertson Scholars Program in “developing strong leaders and providing the support for civically kelly jarrett engaged students to turn guest column their ambitions into real, impactful projects.” But the Robertson Scholars Program has also had a more positive impact in promoting collaborative efforts between the two campuses than the editorial suggests. As the editorial board noted, the establishment of the Robertson Scholars bus has greatly facilitated the ability of faculty and students from each university to attend classes, programs and events at the other. It is also noteworthy, however, that it builds on prior connections between the two Tobacco Road rivals. Among the meaningful collaborative programs between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that predate the Robertson Scholars Program by many years are Title VI area studies programs such as the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the North Carolina Consortium for South Asian Studies. Equally significant is the catalytic effect of the Robertson Scholars Program for other Carolina-Duke ventures. Since its inception, both universities have launched the nation’s first public-private joint graduate education program in German, the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German. More recently, the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies was established, formalizing decades of collaboration between scholars and students at the two institutions. Plans are now underway to establish a DukeUNC graduate certificate in Middle East Studies and, eventually, a joint Ph.D. program modeled on the success of the joint graduate program in German. In many depart-

ments, there are joint Duke-UNC graduate student reading groups, and for the past seven years there has been a Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Research Conference that has achieved national prominence. The two institutions also collaborate in less visible but no less essential areas of university education. These include language instruction, library acquisitions and collection development. We cooperate in offering a wider selection and scope of instruction in languages such as Persian, Turkish, Urdu and other less commonly taught languages than either university could muster on its own. Crucial to each university is the labor of librarians: They exchange information and coordinate purchases so that Duke-UNC library collections complement rather than duplicate each other, insuring scholars and students at both universities access to the broadest range of materials in their fields. Finally, many departments and programs at Duke and UNC regularly work together to co-sponsor conferences, programs and events, sharing the costs of bringing highprofile guest speakers and scholars to the Triangle. Duke and UNC faculty regularly collaborate on research projects and publications. Faculty members from each university regularly speak in classes, give lectures or participate in scholarly or extracurricular events on the other campus. Accessibility by bus to the other’s campus makes all these activities infinitely more doable­—and more enjoyable. In short, there is a vibrant, pervasive academic synergy between Duke and UNC that reverberates at all levels of our two universities. The Robertson Scholars program has been a catalytic force to increase the long-standing collaboration that preceded its formation and has improved because of it. Kelly Jarrett is senior program coordinator of the Duke Islamic Studies Center.

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Coach Mike Krzyzewski Book Signing

Friday, April 16 | 1pm - 3pm The Gothic Bookshop Upper Level, Bryan Center In addition to a purchased copy of any book written by Coach K, Coach K will be happy to sign one additional piece of Duke memorabilia at this special signing.

Duke University’s Independent Bookshop Upper Level, Bryan Center Phone: 919.684.3986 Monday - Wednesday: 8:30am - 7pm Thursday & Friday: 8:30am - 8pm Saturday: 9am - 6pm

www.gothicbookshop.com