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Campus Council stays in shadows Group will explore Visibility, efficacy Duke gender issues are central issues by

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The Duke Student GovernExecutive Board created an Undergraduate Committee on Gender Wednesday, which will be responsible for researching gender issues on campus and creating concrete policy recommendations with the

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Amidst campus-wide discussions about improving the Duke experience to “create open spaces” and “foster community,” Campus Council has an increasing role in advocating change in the realm ofresidential life.

In recentyears, however, Campus Council has faced criticism for remaining under the radar for much of the undergraduate population, lacking innovative programming and adhering to the status quo of past agendas.

Although members saidit has taken a new and more effective turn this year, students said they are still largely in the dark regarding the organization’s mission and work.

The organization’s mission statement says it is one of the leading campus groups working to generate effective policies and programming for students.

“As the primary governing body of residential life issues, we strive to enhance campus life by implementing fair and thoughtful policies, in addition to providing quality programming throughout the year,” the mission statement reads. “It is our goal to make living on campus a safe, educational, and enjoyable experience for all.”

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The commitwill be run by two student cochairs who will formulate research questions and select committee Paul Slattery members from student applicants. A timeline for procedures, however, has not been set, Executive Board members said.

“Gender is a persistent unit of analysis across University documents, which is appropriate,” said DSG President Paul Slattery, referring to the Women’s Initiative study completed in 2003. “But it has been insufficiently connected to undergraduate policy decisions.”

Slattery, a senior, said the committee would have three distinct benefits: it would be student-led, which could help create a more comfortable atmosphere for discussion; it would require real policychanging ideas from the results of committee research; and it would focus on gender issues as a whole instead of just women’s issues. tee

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Campus Coundl has worked to reinvent itself by creating new events thisyear, such asthe Endless Summer celebration held earlierthissemester on theMain West Quadrangle.

“The conversation should include the men on this campus,” senior Gina Ireland, DSG vice president for academic affairs, wrote in an e-mail. “These issues have predominantly been approached from the perspective of women as opposed to the perspective of gender. Duke’s men are a vital component of this conversation.”

Former Duke president Nan Keohane, who commissioned the Women’s Initiative, said she supports the formation of the committee.

“I am confident that it will make a difference,” she wrote in an email. “Undergraduate leadership in this area is essential ifreal change is to occur on any campus.”

Although it will be up to the two committee co-chairs to decide on research questions and issues, Slattery said he would expect to see the topic of space and living arrangements with regard to gender discussed, and Ireland said she wanted to see a focus on the lack offemale leadership on campus.

Donna Lisker, the outgoing director of the Women’s Center and associate dean of undergraduate education, said she would like to see the problems identified in the Women’s Initiative, such as the hook-up culture, dealt with more fully in the new committee.

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Graduating seniors majoring in economics and second-year students in themasters ofbusiness administration program are usually nervous about their job placement.

93 but this year; they may have reasons to be anxious about their futures. big-name Wall Street companies, 92 such as Bank of America, may be hiring fewer graduates from Duke this year, said many seniors currently seeking jobs in the finance industry. ' (i “It’s reasonable to say that there’s

a lot of uncertainty in the market because of the credit crisis, and that may have translated to a lot more cautious hiring,” said Connel Fullenkamp, associate director of undergraduate studies and associate professor of the practice in the economics department.

Fullenkamp said reorganizations within companies have had a big effect on their number ofhires.

“Bank of America has been taking some losses lately with the promises of some reorganization,” he said. “And a

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Selective living groups will be evaluated by a new student committee starting in early December, yet many group leaders said the committee’s requirements are tough to meet and the details of the assessment process remain unclear.

“The expectations have changed because now there’s a whole [new] set ofcriteriawe have to meet,” said Maxwell House President Aijun Madan-Mohan, a senior.

“It’s definitely been a challenge, because a lot of the events we do don’t necessarily fall into those categories.”

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Bomber kills 29 in Baghdad

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WASHINGTON —The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month’s deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned.

The immunity deal has delayed a criminal inquiry into the Sept. 16 killings and could undermine any effort to prosecute security contractors for theirrole in the incident that has infuriated the Iraqi government.

“Once you give immunity, you can’t takb it away,” said a senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.

State Department officials declined to

confirm or deny that immunity had been granted. One official—who refused to be quoted by name—said; “If, in fact, such a decision was made, it was done without any input or authorization from any senior State Department official in Washington.”

Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd and FBI spokesman Rich Kolko declined comment.

FBI agents were returning to Washington late Monday from Baghdad, where they have been trying to collect evidence in the Sept. 16 embassy convoy shooting without using statements from Blackwater employees who were given immunity.

Three senior law enforcement officials

said all the Blackwater bodyguards involved—both in the vehicle convoy and in at least two helicopters above—were given the legal protection as investigators from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security sought to find out what happened. The bureau is an arm of the State Department.

The law enforcement and State Department officials agreed to speak only if they could remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the inquiry into the incident.

The investigative misstep comes in the wake of already-strained relations between the United States and Iraq, which is demanding the right to launch its own prosecution of the Blackwater bodyguards.

U.S. schools see high dropout rates by

Nancy Zuckerbrod THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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It’s a nickname no

principal could be proud of: “Dropout Factory,” a high school where no more than 60

percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to theirsenior year. That dubious distinction applies to more than one in 10 high schools across America.

“If you’re born in a neighborhood or town where the only high school is one where graduation is not the norm, how is this living in the land of equal opportunity?” asks Bob Balfanz, the researcher at

Johns Hopkins University who defines such

a school as a “dropout factory.”

There are about 1,7Q0 regular or vocational high schools nationwide that fit that description, according to an analysis ofEducation Department data conducted byjohns Hopkins forThe Associated Press. That’s 12 percent ofall such schools, no more than a decade ago but no less, either.

While some of the missing students transferred, most dropped out, Balfanz says. The data tracked senior classes for three years in a row —2004, 2005 and 2006—t0 make sure local events like plant closures weren’t to

blame for the low retention rates.

The highest concentration of dropout factories is in large cides or high-poverty rural areas in the South and Southwest. Most have high proportions of minority students.

These schools are tougher to turn around, because their students face challenges well beyond the academic ones—the need to work as well as go to school, for example, or a need for social services.

Utah, which has low poverty rates and fewer minorities than most states, is the only state without a dropout factory. Florida and South Carolina have the highest percentages.

A suicide bomber rode his bicycle into a crowd of police recruits in Baqouba Monday, killing at least 29 people in a province that has become a battleground among U.S. forces, al-Qaida militants and Shiite radicals.

Sarkozycondemns helpto Darfur President Nicolas Sarkozy Sunday condemned an attempt by a French group to spirit more than 100 children out of Chad on the grounds that they were orphans from Darfur in danger of being killed.

Witness speaks in civil rights case The FBI used mob muscle to solve the 1964 disappearance of three civil rights volunteers in Mississippi, a gangster's ex-girlfriend testified Monday, becoming the first witness to repeat in open court a story that has been underworld lore for years.

37 arrested in baseball riots Police in riot gear cleared several large crowds gathered around Fenway Park early Monday after the Red Sox won their second World Series title in four years. Police said they made 37 arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct.

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Prof tackles science and ideologies by

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The first of six scheduled speakers

participating in the Provost’s Lecture Series “On Being Human,” Simon Blackburn, a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, delivered a

well-attended lecture entitled “How Are We To Think About Human Nature?” at Love Auditorium in the Levine Science Research Center.

Blackburn, the former Edna J. Koury distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, cautioned against placing too much faith in purely scientific interpretations of human nature, emphasizing that environmental and cultural influences should not be ignored.

“One of the inescapable facts ofhuman

existence in the world as we know it is our to a very important and pervasive part of talent to evolve concepts and strategies the environment,” he said. through which to view that world,” BlackHe also raised the question of the extent burn said. to which human nature can be understood In his speech, Blackburn stressed to at- from a biological standpoint. tendees that they should not “Our physiology itself let the personal beliefs of scineeds interpretation,” enlists taint the scientific reBlackburn said. “My imPROVOSTS sults they produce.

I cr'THDC CEDICC pression is that psychology “We must look out for the i-CCTUKE ScRIES today finds itself in retreat division between ideology and from physiology, as if you science, or in other words, cannot really claim to know between what is said by scienOH being human what we do without knowtists and what science actually ing the detail available to says,” he said. brain scans and what goes He recognized, however, on inside our brains.” that environmental factors would ineviProvost Peter Lange said that he was tably influence—and be influenced by— very pleased with the first lecture of the sepeople. ries, which will continue until April.

“Appealing to culture is just appealing “I thought it was an excellent start to the series, very clearly and engagingly laid out,” he said. “As the series goes on, we’re going to hear contrasting viewpoints and that will bring each one into sharper focus by having them reflect off the others.”

Freshman Nick Altemose said he decided to attend the lecture after seeing posters for the event around campus and being urged to attend by his professors. He added that he thought Blackburn did an effective job of pulling together various fields into one cohesive topic.

“It was a really good mixture of different perspectives on what defines human nature, and I think his point is that not any one perspective is entirely correct,” Altemose said. “When we attempt to define human nature entirely by one theory or one mbdel, we end up misrepresenting it.”

Blackburn ended on an uplifting note, advising the audience to be both careful and grateful when considering human nature —“a question old as philosophy itself.”

“Trust in your own sense of humanity is a very important thing to keep hope of,” he said. _

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Grad and band sections in Cameron to stay put by

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Men’s head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski wants to make the Cameron Crazies crazier, and he has an idea.

During “Blue Devil leadership: Courtside in Cameron with Coach K” last Monday, he appealed for a student-led response to move the graduate student section to the opposite side of the court in Cameron Indoor Stadium to exert as much pressure on the visiting team as possible during the second half of games.

The move would mean that visiting teams would shoot facing the graduate students in the second halfof games.

Following the request, more than 500 students—predominantly freshmen—joined a FaceKEVIN HWANG (LEFT) AND WEIYI TAN(RIGHT)/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTOS book group and many of the Men's basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski asked that the graduate student section (left) switch sides with the band (right) so that opposing teams would shoot into members sent e-mails to University administrators in support of the graduate students during the second halfof games. Although the change will not be made this year,Director ofAthletics Joe Alieva said he would consider it in thefuture. the movement.

“It sent a strong message, and But because of time constraints leva said because graduate students “My goal is to create the best the need to move the graduate and previous ticket sales, this “stustudent section, Krzyzewski has the administrators do listen,” Kanalready bought their tickets, moving possible atmosphere in Camdent activism” will not be rewardthem to the smaller section across eron,” he said. “We will set up a resisted this solution. tha said, recalling Alieva’s acknowled with immediate changes, said the court would pose difficulties. committee to study Cameron for “We don’t want to mess with edgement of the flood of e-mailshe “To move sections at this point next year to maximize the atmoCoach K’s opinion on where he has been receiving from students. junior Sunny Kantha, Duke Student Government vice president is not possible because it would sphere in the building.” wants his benches,” Kantha said.

Rutter wrote in an online corKantha, who Alieva charged “But at this time, he does not want respondence that he created for athletics and campus services. require demolition and construc“It is true, at the end of the tion, and we are simply too close with assembling the committee, to move his benches around.” the Facebook group because he Freshman Patrick Rutter, crewants to showhis appreciation for game, at crunch time, you want to the start of the season for this said he is excited to find students the opponent shooting into the to happen,” he said. who would be interested in lookator of the Facebook group, has Krzyzewski’s “extra effort for the craziest section possible,” said Although the freshmen’s efforts ing into the issue and seeing what urged group members to send a freshmen this year.”

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“I hope it sends a message to zzani, a senior.

Alieva said he is looking into posAlthough many have proposed Richard Brodhead and Alieva to Coach K; that we are here,” RutBut Director of Athletifs Joe Al- sible solutions in the future. ter said. switching the benches and saving act on Krzyzewski’s proposal.

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Enrollment in China abroad program sinks by

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Duke Study in China has extended its application deadline for Spring 2008 until

Nov. 5 because oflow enrollment.

Last year, in its first year as a Spring program, study abroad in Kunming, a city in southwestern China, drew an enrollment of 15, said Dana Watson, Duke Study in China program coordinator.

This year, participation dropped to 12, with only three students from Duke.

“The reason that Duke has a low number is because of lack of promotion,” said Carolyn Lee, director of the Chinese language program in the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature. “This is a surprise to all of us, given how well the students received the program the past Spring.”

Lee, however, said she is not worried about the program’s future because she attributes this year’s low participation to internal changes within the Chinese department.

“The coordinator for the program was newly promoted to the position, and I myself was on leave, so I certainly did not SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE expect this to happen,” she said. “There really is not a problem with enrollment. Fifteen studentsstudiedabroad in Kunming,China last year, but only 12—threefrom Duke-have signed up thisyear.

It’s the lack of promotion. So the number one priority in our agenda is promotion with Summer ranking second, and Spring Margaret Riley, associate dean and director this year.” coming in a distant third—Lee said she is ofthe Office of StudyAbroad, wrote in an e-mail The program in Kunming, the capital of not concerned about participation in the that Duke Study in China was the third most Yunnan Province, is hosted in conjunction Spring semester. popular study abroad program in the Spring, with Washington University in St. Louis “In our observation, it does not affect after Oxford and Beaufort to Bermuda, and Wesleyan University. For 25 years, it the enrollment much whether we have In addition to the Spring program in was offered in the Fall, but is now entering the program in the Fall or the Spring,” she Kunming, the department also offers a twoits second year in Spring semester due to said. “There were needs from our partner month Summer program in Beijing, scheduling needs, Lee said. universities, so we decided to give it a try, Watson saidthe Summerprogram is much and now we are on a trial period to see how more popular than the Spring program, with Although Fall is typically the most popular semester for students to study abroad—- it will go. about 80 studen ts participating this past sum”

men Lee attributed the difference in Summer and Spring enrollment mainly to financial and academic scheduling reasons.

Both Lee and Watson, however, said they are confident Kunming offers a

unique experience.

“Other universities like Princeton and Harvard already have programs in Beijing,” Watson said. “Duke is unique in the sense that it offers a program in Kunming, which allows students to see a different aspect of China, to meet more cultural minorities.”

Andy Cunningham,, a senior double majoring in International Comparative Studies and AALL with a concentration in Chinese, spoke highly ofhis experience in Kunming last Spring.

‘You are in a community that includes almost all of the 54 ethnic minorities in China and you experience one of the last areas ofChina that hasn’t been modernized and Westernized,” he said. ‘You become engaged and excited in a part of China, immersed as a student, a citizen and for me, in my host family, as a son and a brother.”

Fourteen percent of AALL majors with a Chinese concentration and 46 percent of Chinese minors have studied abroad in China, Riley said.

Noting a growing interest in Chinese across the United States due to China’s economic development and increased political stability, Lee estimated that about half of the students in Chinese language classes at Duke are non-native speakers.

For some, studying abroad can make this curiosity more than just an academic interest.

“Rather than an abstract concept, my understanding of China has become a personal connection, a global interest with a personal connection,” Cunningham said.

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they did on a particular event, I think it was a good job,” she said.

COUNCIL from page 1

Other students said they know so little Under Fire about the organization that they did not Campus Council President Ryan Todd, a understand how Campus Council could be senior, said the organization is an intermeof use to them. diate between Duke Student Government, “I don’t really know what the point of the campus’ chief policy-lobbying organiit is,” sophomore Nadine Gloss said. “My zation, and the Duke University Union, the life is fine without Campus Council, to be honest.” major student programming body.

Todd acknowledged that the organiza“Despite the fact that we are a much smaller body with [fewer] organizational retion has struggled with student awareness, sources [than DSC and DUU], we manage to adding that last year was more “stagnant” than usual. makejust as much of an impact,” he said.

Some students said, however, that CamHe added, however, that its relatively pus Council is less prominent than these small size—22 elected members—contribother major student bodies. utes to the organization’s lack of visibility.

“There’s DUU and there’s DSG, and Campus Council has only one-fifth as Campus Council is sort of a hazy organimany members as DSC and one-sixth the zation that you hear about come election budget of the Student Organization Fitime... and then you never hear about nance Committee. them again,” said junior Ashley Dunfee, a In addition to comments about Campus resident assistant in Kilgo Quadrangle.

Council’s low visibility, some students said Several students said they have remained the organization fails to foster a sense of unaware of the purpose of Campus Councommunity at their events. cil since they first set foot on campus.

“If their idea is to create community, “As a freshman, I didn’t even know Camthey should make efforts to that end as pus Council existed,” junior Qing Wang said. opposed to constructing the whole idea of “I’m not quite sure what the function of Caman event around free stuff,” Dunfee said. pus Council is—what is [its] mission?”

“Standing around in a free T-shirt line for Wang said though she was a member of hours doesn’t... create community.” her quadrangle council last year, she only hears about Campus Council through the Making Changes smaller organizations in which she is inIn order to have a greater impact in the volved. She added, however, thatshe has noundergraduate community, the organizaticed a rise in the number ofactivities Camtion has recently made efforts to be more responsive to student interests. pus Council has hosted over the past years.

“We sat down at the end of last year and Junior Odera Umeano, president of Duke Africa, said though she has worked talked about the successes and what we with Campus Council on charity event “Misneed to change,” Todd said. “We’ve done sion for Darfur,” she is unaware ofany other more policy, programming and structural work the organization is involved with. changes.”

The organization has streamlined their “I don’t really know what Campus Council does on a larger scale, but as far as what budget of$45,000 per semester to focus on

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the Legislative Intent program to encourage members to set individual goals that Todd cited the annual “Welcome Back” the public could access, but many of their event Campus Council hosted in August as agendas fell through because they were too such an event, which included an “Endless ambitious for one year, said Vice President Summer” theme this year and was well-reKevin Thompson, a junior. ceived by students.

This year the program has been retooled He noted that organizing larger-scale, so that the Executive Board will choose less frequent and themed events—instead three or four practical projects from the of last year’s weekly Fridays on the Plaza that ideas submitted by members, he added. he said were unsuccessful—allows for each Todd said Campus Council has also atprogram to have a “degree of novelty.” tempted to increase visibility in a number Campus Council has also made an ef- of new ways, including distributing pamphlets at the beginfort to collaborate with other ning of the year, “There’s DUU and there’s student groups meeting twice per semester with quad in order to make DSG, and Campus Council councils and invitprogramming is sort of a hazy organization ing students from more appealing.

“We really felt outside the organiyou hear about come election zation to sit in on that there’s an added value [to] time and then you never hear programming comcammittees as “ad hoc” general about them again.” members. pus community to coordinate Ashley junior Dunfee, events with othThe Future of er campus orgaThe recent release of the Interim Renizations,” Todd said, noting that Campus Council has worked with more than 30 orport on the Undergraduate Experience in ganizations thus far this year.

September has led to an increased focus Of the student groups with which Camwithin Campus Council on the residential pus Council has partnered this year, it has experience highlighted in the report. most significantly strengthened ties with The organization’s policy committee is the Union, Todd said. currendy drafting a response to the Interim Report that will be presented to adminHe and DUU President Katelyn Donnelly, a senior, said they meet frequently to istrators, Thompson said. coordinate programming, and representa“The [Campus Culture Initiative] basitives from both groups form committees cally opened a door for us to look at the on joint events. housing model and see if it was actually “Every other programming we’ve turned working,” he said. “At the time [before the out this year has been pretty much in conreport was released], we were satisfied with cert with the Union, and if it hasn’t been in the status quo.” concert with them, it’s been with their full Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for resiattention,” Todd said, adding that Campus dential life and co-advisor to Campus Council has been able to solicit a more diCouncil, said the group is currently disverse array of student input on programcussing the best ways of improving the ming by working with DUU. housing experience.

“The work they’re putting into that is reDonnelly added that many students on DUU do not usually run for Campus ally going to pay off before the year is over,” Council. he added.

Jay Ganatra, Trinity ’O7 and president “Having more opinions and collaborating on programming allows you to access a of Campus Council in both 2005-2006 and broader, more diverse opinion so you can 2006-2007, said the organization has grown have a better gauge on what events are goconsiderably since its inception in 1995, ing to be successful,” Donnelly explained. and particularly in the last four or five years, “Campus Council is an elected body and from the number ofactivities it hosts to the DUU is a larger group of students intersize of its budget. He added that the presested in programming [who are] generally ence of many newcomers this year will steer artistic and creative and art-focused. So, by the group toward focusing on larger issues working with the Union, I think Campus like campus community and quad identity.

Council has accessed a more diverse base “Last year we had a lot of veteran leadof students.” ership, [and we] might [have been] too DUU has garnered praise for revampfar deep in to get a picture of everything,” ing its programming, budget and overall Ganatra said. “Now is the time the adminapproaches to planning events this year, istration is definitely going to have a big rewhich Donnelly said was comparable to the sponsibility of taking on some of these bigrestructuring of Campus Council. ger picture issues. It’s tough because you’re Last year, Campus Council launched not going to see immediate results.” events

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to accepting job offers at the end of a summer internship, rather than search-

“I wouldn’t go so far to say that there will be a decrease in MBA hiring, because no banks have canceled their January interviews,” Flournoy said. “But is it reasonable to say that there [was an] unsettledness in New York [City] last week? Yes.” Fullenkamp added that he thinks Duke students will still place well in jobs.

“If the big name Wall Street banks are cutting back, then these Duke students will end up at equally interesting and challenging jobs that will also lead to really good careers,” he said. “It will be a lucky year for smaller firms, because they will get a lot of good graduates that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to attract.”

ing around, those things, more than anything else, “All of my fellow interns this summer have big impacts on hiring.” just took their offer,” he said.

This year’s MBA candidates from the It might be more important this Fuqua School of Business said they are year for students to have back-up plans, also feeling nervous because of the occurFlournoy said. rences of company consolidation in the She added that there are currently past few months. no numbers to support the suspected “Morgan Stanley has announced layoffs decrease in the number of job offers to last week,” said Meg Flournoy, associate diFuqua graduates. rector of the Career Management Center The hiring season for business school at Fuqua. “Bank of America mentioned students planning to graduate in 2008 has the most robust amount of layoffs.” not yet ended, so statistics have not been Fullenkamp said, however, there might made available. be other reasons for the decrease in hiring.

“I have heard students say off the cuff that they have been told by Bank of America that there are less spots to fill,” Fullenkamp said. “I think it will be reasonable to expect some other banks to participate in the cuts.”

Emma Rasiel, director of undergraduate studies and associate professor of the practice in the economics department, said it is possible fewer seniors have been hired because of an increase in job offers following summer internships. She added that more students than ever have worked for internships on Wall Street and were hired direcdy from those experiences.

“The banks hired more juniors for their summer programs than they ever have last year,” Rasiel said.

Senior David Kuritsky, an economics major, said he was offered a job at the end of his summer internship thisyear.

“All I know is that, for the company I work for, they said they were recruiting less students on campus this fall,” he said. “Iff had to guess, [hiring] was worse GLEN GUTTERSON/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO [than last year].”

Kuritsky added that students are be- Although investment banks, like Bank of America, recruited students at Duke's Career Fair thisfall, students say ing a lot more cautious when it comes some may be hiring fewer Duke graduates thisyear than in past years, citing the uncertainty ofthe market.

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Ireland and Slattery both said the committee would be particularly timely and relevant for Duke now. In the next two years, extensive changes are expected in undergraduate policy, and DSG would like the committee to influence those decisions, Slattery said.

“The issue isn’t new, but the Women’s Initiative, which is the most relevantand rigorous University document to date, has lost its place in the campus conversation,” Ireland said.

Slattery added that the committee is not just a DSG initiative, but it is meant to be run by students from all parts ofDuke.

“The charge calls for a broadly representative committee, which is particularly important because the committee will need members who can communicate effectively with many different subsets of the student population,” he said. “This is not owned by or about DSG it’s about undergraduates as a whole.”

Others, however, said they believe the committee may not have a strong influence over campus culture.

“I don’t think this committee is necessarily the answer to fixing larger gender issues on campus,” said Duke University Union President Katelyn Donnelly, a senior. “My experience with committees is there is a lot of talk, which never leads to any definite action. It is a first step, however.”

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“We really are focusing on This is the first full year the opening up to the quad and openResidential Group Assessment ing up to die greater community,” Committee will review both greek said senior Drew Hoffman, presiand non-greek groups with secdent of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. tions on West Campus and score But some groups said the details about how they will be evaluthem based on their demonstrated contriated under the butions to new “We really are focusing process are their members, quadon opening up to the ambiguous.

“This rangles and quad and opening up to isn’t [like] the larger Duke corhthe greater community.” a class project where munity, Drew Hoffman, they give us said Joe of Gonzalez, Delta Tau Delta president ahowrubric we’re associate dean for going t° t> e residential life. graded,” said Round Table CoThe annual scores will deterpresident Varun Leila, a senior mine which groups get priority in and editor of recess.

Round Table and other selecchoosing new sections on campus tive living groups based in Few at the end of a three-year rotation, he said.

Quadrangle are under higher pressure than groups in other quads Although the process enforces new standards for groups, to do well on the assessment, so it does not require them to sigthey can choose the best housing alternative while Few undergoes nificantly change their programming or behavior, said senior renovations next year, said senior David Melton, a RGAC member Matt Sperber, president of Alpha and president of the InterfraterEpsilon Pi fraternity.

“It’s our No. 1 priority right now nity Council.

The process requires groups because the effects are very immediate, so we would like to perform to document how their activities fulfill goals of group conduct and as well as possible,” he added. intellectual focus, for example, Leila and fellow Round Table and present them to members of Co-president Jessica Ferreyra, a the committee. junior, said a poor score on the asSelective living group leaders sessment could cause their group, said the guidelines of the new or any other in Few, to split across process have encouraged them to campuses and jeopardize their host more quadrangle-wide activi- sense of unity.

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MEDCALF ACC PLAYER OF THE WEEK Forward Joshua Medcalf earnedthe conference's weekly honors after recording three goals and an assist over Duke's last three contests.

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It wasn’t the way Duke wanted to close out its fall season.

After winning their own classic Oct. 8, the No. 13 Blue Devils came up short Sunday and Monday at the Collegiate Match Play Championship in Greensboro, Ga. Duke posted perhaps its poorest tournament performance of the season Monday, as top-ranked Charlotte knocked the Blue Devils out of the consolation bracket by a 3-1-1 score. The match against the 49ers began Sunday but concluded Monday due to darkness. Earlier on the first day, Duke fell 4-1 to Florida, which will compete today for third place.

“When you lose matches you definitely walk away with an empty feeling, so we definitely don’t feel very good right now,” head coach O.D. Vincent said. “Winning one match out of 10 is a pretty poor outing, so we don’t want to forget what that feels like.”

Much like in its match against the Gators, Duke got off to a very poor start Sunday versus Charlotte and was unable to recover despite some strong play late Monday morning. The Blue Devils’ lone victory on the day came courtesy of juniorAndrew Giuliani, who defeated Trevor Murphy 1-up.

Giuliani, a NewYork City native, began his match on the back nine and trailed by two at the turn, but won three consecutive holes to take the lead. The match was suspended at sunset with just three remaining, but Giuliani held on to earn his team a victory.

In the other four matches, Duke was able to keep the scores relatively close. Only junior Clark Klaasen, however, earned any points for the team. Klaasen played to a draw

with 49ers junior Stefan Wiedergruen, who led for most of the roundbefore Klaasen tied the score with a win on the pair’s 16th hole.

“When you hear of teams feeding off each other positively, it happens negatively too, and I think that happened in the Florida match and it definitely happened in the Charlotte match,” Giuliani said. “The consensus among the guys was that they didn’t give their matches away, but that Charlotte really earned them.”

In the three weeks between tournaments, the Blue Devils conducted a kind of internal match play tournament in order to determine which six players would travel to Greensboro. Giuliani, Klaasen, freshmen Wes Roach and Matthew Pierce, and senior Michael Schachner finished in the top five, earning them a place in this weekend’s lineup.

Sophomore Adam Long, who came in third at the Duke Golf Classic, finished sixth in qualifying and was not slated to play in the match play tournament.

Pierce, however, felt that the team had a better chance against Charlotte with Long in the lineup, and gave up his spot to the

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With this weekend in itsrearview mirror, Duke now moves into an NCAA-mandated offseason with limited organized practice time. The Blue Devils do not return to the course until February at the Gator Invitational in Gainesville, Fla. “We really have three and a half months to look at our games and figure out where we can get better, because ultimately we want to be where [Charlotte is] and we want to be the No. 1 team in the country,” Giuliani said. “That’s our goal, and I think it’s definitely in reach with a good offseason.”

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After Goestenkors’ departure last April, some followers of the women’s basketball team might have suggested that a superficial face lift like the one

in Cameron’s media room would have been akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic for a sinking program. In the press and around campus, Director of Athletics Joe Alieva was skewered for his inability to retain Goestenkors. Duke then swung and missed on its top replacement choice and was forced to scramble to find a viable alternative.

Only time will tell for sure, but right now it seems like that negative prognosis couldn’t be further from the truth.

From all signs so far, the coach Alieva did hire appears to have reinvigorated the program and breathed life into a SEE BEATION ON PAGE 12

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Even in a season when the running game has struggled consistently, Duke's performance Saturday was by far its worse to date. The Blue Devils averaged half a yard per carry and only two players managed to finish in the black. Catching Duke rushers from behind and smothering even the most promising run plays, the Seminoles proved themselves to be the fastest team the Blue Devils have faced all season.

Miscommunication and poor timing ruined potentially big pass plays for Duke all day. Although it took quarterback Thaddeus Lewis and the rest of the Blue Devils' aerial attack some time to get in sync, Duke finally started to click by the fourth quarter, but by then it was too little, too late.

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The front four stepped up big in a game against a speedy Florida State team. Although Duke surrendered almost 200 yards on the ground, it continuously frustrated the Seminoles once they got inside the 30-yard line. The rush defense was a major reason why Florida State had seven red-zone possessions, but just 25 points.

After a few shaky throws from renewed starting quarterback Drew Weatherford in the opening minutes, the Florida State gunslinger soon settled down and began to pick apart the Blue Devils' secondary. Although Duke managed to force 16 third downs, the Seminoles converted on seven of them, all of those coming on passes.

The Blue Devils deserve a lot of credit for the defensive schemes they deployed, limiting Florida State to its lowest score in the 16-game series between the two teams. Although the defense was dominated statistically, the score is all that matters in the end, and Duke's defense managed to keep the Seminoles within reach for the entire game.

ighest marks: P Kevin Jones

edshirt freshman, who averaged almost 40 yards over his seven punts, 'd Duke stay in the field-position battle. This kept Florida State at bay Jong with a strong defensive effort, attributed to the Seminoles scoreld goals—not touchdowns—on three of their five scoring drives.

Hit the books: The running game

The three-headed stable of running backs—Justin Boyette and Ronnie Drummer—combined for just touches, contributing to the abysmal performance the Blue Devil running game.

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Since departing Michigan State to fill the post left vacant when Goestenkors bolted for Texas, McCallie has done several things that have brought welcome changes from the previous regime.

She’s interacted more with, the community. Her commitment to reaching out and speaking to fan groups of all types was highlighted by her appearance as emcee ofDuke’s GameDay extravaganza Saturday preceding the men’s Blue-White scrimmage. Coach G often talked about wanting to improve attendance at women’s game, but Coach P is backing up those words with action. The women’s team has more than 4,000 season tickets sold for next season, a total that’s already 1,100 higher than a year ago.

In addition to her embracing of the community, McCallie has made a point of embracing the best basketball resource Duke has to offer: Coach K. It’s been a virtual lovefest so far between Krzyzewski and McCallie, with McCallie praising their relationship any time she gets the chance. Krzyzewski returned the favor by recognizing McCallie and her team at halftime of the men’s Blue-White game and even showing up himself to the women’s scrimmage Sunday.

Duke has never had the Blue-White game for women before, but nonetheless Krzyzewski’s appearance at any women’s game is highly unusual and indicative of the improved relations between the women’s basketball program and the rest of the athletics department. It would be an understatement to say that Goestenkors was unpopular within the rest of Duke Athletics by the time of her departure.

The other varsity coaches spoke volumes by failing to show for the rally to convince Goestenkors to stay, and some athletics department officials struggled to contain their glee when it was announced that she was leaving.

Goestenkors wasn’t just icy with her peers; she wasn’t exactly a joy for the media to work with either. McCallie has been significantly less glib than her predecessor, displaying a willingness to be honest and open about all facets of her lifeTincluding her family. When asked about the importance of improving the popularity ofwomen’s basketball in the Triangle area at a press conference last week, her blunt answer was refreshing: that she couldn’t care less about North Carolina or N.C. State, only about Duke.

It remains to be seen what actually happens on the court, but a coaching change could prove fruitful there, too. There’s no doubt that Goestenkors produced a litany of successes at the helm of the Blue Devils, growing the program into the women’s basketball juggernaut it is today. But her struggles in key situations were also wellchronicled. Over the past two years, she looked like a deer in the headlights as her team squandered the 2006 national championship and allowed her flirtationwith another job cloud and ultimately doom last year’s title run.

The jury is still out on McCallie. But according to reports, she’s been working the team into better condition than ever, which could pay dividends come postseason.

More important than wins right now, however, is the positive vibe McCallie has created with her arrival in Durham. The coaching shakeup that was once talked about as a potential deathblow to women’s basketball at Duke may prove as the final missing piece on the quest for the Blue Devils’ first national championship.

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Nobel Prize-winning proreturning to Johns Hopkins on board will bring in the is a twofold disappointment rising stars that will be winfessors are no promise of exfor the Duke ning the N(> cellence in themselves. They pditnrial cuiiuimi bel Prizes of are, however, a compelling community. the future.”

Firstly, symbol of excellence—to it marks the departure of Regrettably, the hope that prospective, undergraduan eminent, politically en- editorial expressed has not ate and graduate students, and to potential faculty regaged scholar, whose con- yet been fulfilled, tinued partial ties to Duke To equate a university’s cruits—and Duke would do we should be grateful for. Nobel count with its quality well to add more of them to its ranks.

Secondly, however, the an- would be to grossly oversimnouncement is an unwelThe investment replify the matter; we do not come reminder of a fact we claim that the Nobel meaquired to recruit and reare reluctant to dwell upon: sures teaching ability in the tain top-notch scholars, For a university of its stand- least. But considering the when viewed in light of ing, Duke is sadly lacking in University’s prestige and Duke’s $5.9-million enNobel Prize winners. sky-high aspirations, that dowment, is relatively small. The returns in en“A Nobel Prize winner, Agre is our sole claim to Nosomething Duke has been bel fame is surprising and hanced prestige, recruitmissing for many years now, disappointing. ing power and intellectual is a welcomed addition to This is all the more true vitality, however, would be the University,” The Chron- because Duke’s commitwell worth the expense.

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Faculty are the foundation of a university; grand and cosdy construction projects are only worthwhile if the resulting buildings house the best minds and the best resources available. Duke should commit itself to attaining preeminence in just one or two fields and allocate its resources to recruiting preeminent scholars in those areas.

Duke’s meteoric rise in university rankings in the late ’Bos came from one such effort.

Duke staked its reputation on transforming its English and literature program, convincing Stanley Fish and other star scholars to join Duke’s faculty. This conscious effort to focus resources and build excellence in one de-

partment cemented Duke’s reputation as a national, Ivycaliber institution.

Duke cannot realistically—and should not—seek to hire Nobel laureates by the dozen. It can, however, deliberately build superb collections of scholars and teachers in certain areas, therefore creating auspicious conditions for prize-winning scholarship. Any Nobel Prizes that result will be all the proof necessary for a school that has long had something to prove.

As the 2005 editorial pointed out, “Breeding a Nobel Prize winner... is another thing entirely.” A reputation for excellence can be built by hiring laureates; it can only be maintained, however, by producing them.

A nonsmoker’s plea Here’s

a phrase I never thought I’d begin a column with: Good going, Tar Heels.

According to a statement released last week, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will prohibit smoking within 100 feet of campus buildings beginning Jan. 1, 2008. Although the Duke University Medical Center took similar steps when it went “100percent tobaccofree” last summer, the rest of the University currently bans only indoor kristin butler

So although we should be careful not to exaggerate the risks of secondhand smoke (admittedly, the vast majority of people will never actually get sick), we can safely conclude that nonsmokers are justified in actively minimizing their exposure. For this purpose, policies like the one UNC has announced represent an important—if still flawed—step in the right direction.

In Carolina’s case, there are legitimate questions about the ban’s practicality. Under current guidelines, students will be responsible for reporting violations and a written warning is the most serious penalty available. Without better enforcement and harsher consequences, it’s hard to see how this ban can realistically succeed.

Then again, at least it’s more promising than the smoking (except wflfi all deliberate speed rationale on Central CamVice President for Student Affairs Larry pus, where it is Moneta offered The Chronicle last week. In an epermitted with the roommate’s consent) mail to reporters, Moneta insisted that the UniverIn other words, we have some catching up to do sity has done enough by “placing ash urns at some That’s because here at Duke, unsuspecting distance from entries, with reasonable seating and students are still routinely blanketed with secondsuch” and that a larger ban does not seem likely. hand smoke in doorways, at bus stops, on crowded Look, UMo, even James B. Duke—that would walkways and other campus thoroughfares. For be the guy holding a cigar in front of the Chapel—those of us who find smoking a filthy, low-class feared cigarettes, to the point where he tried to habit, such widespread disregard for nonsmokers’ keep his family members from smoking them. (That preferences can be frustrating. didn’t stop him from selling packs stamped with the What’s alarming, though, is mounting evidence Latin phrase “for the public good” to the general that those involuntary puffs pose an unacceptable public, of course.) health risk, Much like “Buck,” Duke students today underIt should come as no surprise that clouds of stand that cancer sticks ruin lives.That is why a majorsecondhand smoke contain more than 60 known ity of us choose not to smoke them. Faced with credcarcinogens and at least 4,000 other chemicals, ible evidence from the surgeon general that “any” among them formaldehyde (which, appropriately, exposure to secondhand smoke can be dangerous, is also used to embalm dead bodies), carbon monthis University has a responsibility to do more than oxide and even cyanide (used in Nazi death champrovide “reasonable seating and such.” Guidelines bers) . But were you aware that Surgeon General requiring smokers to stand away from buildings, Richard Carmona asserted last year that, “There is sidewalks and passersby would represent an approno safe level of exposure?” priate balance between each group’s needs.

Indeed, Carmona’s groundbreaking report, Unsurprisingly, some smokers disagree. In a let“The Health Consequences of Involuntary Expoter to The Daily Tar Heel, UNC sophomore Alex sure to Tobacco,” concluded that, “The health Lim asserted that the ban represents “a cruel and effects of secondhand smoke exposure are more stigmatizing control placed onto an easily bullied pervasive than we previously thought.... [ItJ is not minority,” suggesting “people with overly sensitive a mere annoyance... [but] a serious health hazard” lungs should learn how to hold their breath.” that is responsible for “tens of thousands of preSuch objections seem more than a bit bizarre. mature deaths among nonsmokers each year.”

Although smokers once claimed the right to light Those statistics work out to an estimated 3,400 up wherever they pleased—indeed, it was once lung cancer deaths and 46,000 heart disease fatali- customary for students and professors to smoke ties attributed to passive smoking last year, along during class—the days of entitlement and arrowith heightened risks of stroke, respiratory disgance are long gone. tress, hardening of the arteries and breast, nasal Nonsmokers, it’s time to draw a line in the ash sinus and nasopharyngeal cancer. Even people and defend our right to breathe freely. who aren’t sick risk lasting damage to their DNA, according to a 2006 study that documented such Kristin Butler is a Trinity senior. Her column runs changes in 125 Nevada casino workers over time. every Tuesday.

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intrigues me, but trees, more so than the grasses, orchids, mosses and ferns, offer a sense of grandeur. Riding through southern Virginia this past weekend, soft white cotton-candy clouds mirrored the cotton fields below. I was riding into a movie set, perfect for any scene, viewing a flawless painting through my windshield.

Stands of bright orange pumpkins punctuated the small towns. I lost all desire to work on my laptop in the car and surrendered to the view. chrystal stefani I saw a couple of cotchange from within ton fields between Emporia and South Hill where farmers had chosen to leave a single mature tree, possibly an oak, where the horses pulling the plows cooled off years ago. A rare and provocative sight, those trees are, standing there as mute sentries of a distant time.

It’s easy to see old trees in other countries. Aging trees in Great Britain, for example, are given lots of support from the state. The English Heritage and the National Trust maintain parks throughout the country. Various props support the weak or broken limbs.

Perhaps somewhere in the United States older trees are cared for in this way, but if so, I haven’t seen them.

Send me an e-mail if you know ofany.

However, our Department of Energy is engaged in fascinating research on genetically modified trees. The DOE supported research that completed the genome of Populus trichocarpa, the black cottonwood tree, in 2004. A company called ArborGen down in Charleston, S.C., will put these and other genetically modified trees on the market this fall. Soon we can buy some for our own backyards.

Any potential solution to climate change deserves serious scrutiny. That’s why I lifted both eyebrows when I read about ArborGen in the August issue of Popular Science and rushed to check it out.

Do we really need genetically modified trees? Well, maybe we do. It makes sense that the land and habitat violated by machines and chemical fertilizers might be rejuvenated by science as well.

My point? That my knee isn’t jerking to kick genetic modification. I am considering a friendlier view toward genetically modified organisms and trees in particular. Perhaps tropical reforestation will eventually be the fruit of this research. Think of it, students: a career growing profits from tropical hardwood nurseries and exporting them to the developing world.

Take a look at the company Tropical Hardwoods in Costa Rica, a for-profit forest regeneration project.

For $l,OOO you can plant 100 nonmodified, native hardwoods and reap the harvest. The golden-faced monkey and other animals are returning to the this rainforest plantation. You can either use the wood yourself or have it sold for you.

I am not terrified by the idea of genetically modified trees, but curious. What do the scientists here at Duke think?

There are a few areas of concern. The science of genetics is advancing so rapidly with incredible successes in medicine and research, but a specific set of problems exists with genetically modified crops.

Many of those problems stem from unnecessary federal subsidies.

In the past decade, FDA-approved crops were planted in the Third World before being thoroughly tested.

Parts of India where this happened are now referred to as the “suicide belt” because so many farmers gave up the good fight after severe crop failures, funding restrictions and quotas.

Furthermore, U.S.-subsidized modified crops dumped in the Third World destroy the fragile markets of local farmers in India and Africa. Could these same problems occur with trees? Possibly, but. not if we’ve learned anything. Agreements between American-based agricorporations and poverty-stricken provincial regulators in India required small farmers to grow genetically modified crops in such away that almost makes these farmers look like guinea pigs. Indian economist Devinder Sharma has written on these topics with great passion.

Ownership, safety and utility are all ethical issues I’d like to hear more about from the scientists working in the field. The complexity requires more in-depth media coverage. Journalists and editors need to look deeply and not shy away from these topics. If we don’t stand for something we will fall for anything.

I stand for more information.

The goals ofArbor Gen’s GM trees are to speed up production of paper. We will not know the safety or restorative uses of genetically modified silviculture for years, perhaps decades, but all we’ve learned about invasive species and the potential spread of modified pollen suggests proceeding with both caution and an open mind.

Call me romantic, but I still think of a forest as a sanctuary of undiscovered wonders culinary, botanical and medicinal. But I am going to keep an open mind.

Chrystal Stefani is assistant to the director of undergraduof Physics. Her column runs every

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35 years later Toward

the end of each semester, when I log into ACES, I’m met with the same message: ‘You have a hold on your account! Must clear overdue balance with the Bursar’s Office.” This message has been a part of my life for a while now, so it no longer comes as a surprise. In fact, each semester as registration approaches, I expect it I often wonder how those 50 to 75 black students who participated in the 1969 Allen Building takeover would respond to this nagging rer minder of the expense of education. I wonder what they think about the status of black students at Duke today. I’m even more curious to know how. they feel about aria branch the fact that the majority of round three the demands they submitted to the administration have not been met in the more than 35 years since their protests. Of the 11 requests thestudents presented to the administration in 1969,three are pertinent to today’s discussions on race at Duke: admissions, recruitment and financial aid for black students.

Demand three states; “Since Duke claims to be representative of the Southeast, and since the percentage of blacks in the area is 29%, we want the black student population to reach that number by the fall of 1973.” Interestingly enough, the Class of 2011 is 28-percent Asian and only 9-percent black.

Even though the label “Asian” encompasses many different cultural groups, as does the term “black,” it is clear that the Allen Building request has not been satisfied for blacks.

Though the University may now seek to represent the nation at large rather than the region, it’s hard to imagine Duke ever becoming 30-percent black. The structure offinancial aid and admissions at Duke combine to hinder black enrollment.

This leads to the fourth Allen Building demand: “We want financial reassurance for black students. Decreased scholarships threaten to limit the number of returning black students.” The block on my registration qach semester has become an ongoing joke between my parents and me.

For some students in more dire financial circumstances, the message could signal the end of their Duke careers.

But obviously that message can only apply to students who have already made the choice to attend Duke. Many prospective black students don’t even have the chance to receive the message because after one glance at the price tag, their parents toss the application in the dumpster. While there are some scholarships designed to increase black enrollment, there simply are not enough. If financial aid can convince black students of lower socioeconomic backgrounds that it is possible for them to finance a Duke education, then Duke must make it easier for them once they arrive. This certainly doesn’t mean blocking their registration each semester because of a relatively insignificant $l,OOO balance.

Finances aside, it is generally accepted thatwild inequities exist in school systems across America. The eighth demand from the Allen Building takeover addresses this problem.

“We want academic achievement in high school [rather than standardized test scores] to be the criterion for black students for admission to the University. We believe the criteria for entering black students are oriented toward white middle class students, and therefore are inadequate for determining academic potential,” students said.

Research abouthow standardized tests do not necessarily predict the academic potential of black students abounds.

The SAT is a good predicter of education level and social environment, but it does not necessarily indicate intelligence or aptitude. Standardized test scores aren’t capable of factoring in a student’s socioeconomic background or school. It stands that the test scores of students who go to underprivileged schools (disproportionately black and other disadvantaged minority students) will reflect that fact. I am in agreement with the students of the Allen Building takeover that overall academic performance, not test scores, must be the main factor in admissions decisions and in predicting what a student’s academic prowess will be in the future. If admissions implements this new standard, the number of black students who are admitted to Duke will increase and enrollment will skyrocket.

I tutor my fourth-grade friend, Malik, twice a week at his school near East Campus. Sometimes I’m saddenedbecause it’s unlikely that he’ll have the educational advantages I’ve been afforded. The students at his school are excited because for the first year, the bathrooms in their school have mirrors and the stalls have doors. Who will be the one to tell Malik that because he comes from a low- to middle-class background, he can’t become a Blue Devil?

AriaBranch is a Trinity junior. Hercolumn runs every other Tuesday.

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