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Two weeks ago, junior Shilpa Modi and a small group of interested students held an intimate dinner with 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Wahu Kaara, which was funded by the University through Duke Conversations. The same source of funding was used last year to bring former fraternity member Eric Weinberg, Trinity ’O6, to speak about continuing brotherhood in Sigma Nu fraternity after graduation. Because of the increasing popularity of the program, which brings people as diverse as Kaara and Weinberg to campus, the $150,000 allocated to Duke Conversations annually ran dry this year for the first time since its inception in Fall 2006. The Office of Student Affairs and Facilities stopped accepting applications Feb. 1 and set the deadline to hold a conversation for April 18. But some students said they question the lack of stringency in the approval process for guests. After the program ran out offunds, senior
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Capoeira Brasil, a dance and martial arts group, performs at Springternational Friday. The event held on the Main Quadrangle featured manyethnic and cultural foods, artwork and performances.
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A student committee recently finished an entirely student-compiled South Asian Studies Report, which calls for an expansion of South Asian studies at Duke. The report, approved as a resolution by Duke Student Government two weeks ago, recommends short, intermediate and long-term changes to the University’s curriculum—including more diverse South Asian course offerings, the creation of a SouthAsian Studies certificate and a Center for South Asian Studies. The* South Asian Studies Committee was commissioned by Diya to write the report after the Facebook group titled Duke South Asian Studies Initiative, which was created last Fall to assess student interest, received a positive response, said Diya Political Chair Aneesh Kapur, a junior. Junior Tariq Mohideen, DSC liaison to the Duke South Asian Studies Committee, said the group researched South Asian departments at Duke’s peer institutions, talked to faculty and sent out a mass e-mail survey to Duke students to determine their SEE DIYA ON PAGE 5
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Sophomore Alison Whitaker and junior AmandaBlumenherst embrace after the Blue Devils captured their 13th straight ACC Championship in Daytona Beach, Fla., Sunday.Duke won by one stroke over Virginia, and Blumenherst captured her third straight individual title.
from Staff Reports A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. in the Chapel today for graduate student Alexander Ney, who died unexpectedly last Wednesday. He was 29. Ney was a third-year Ph.D. student in molecular cancer biology and a research assistant studying breast cancer in the lab of Donald McDonnell, professor of pharmacology and cancer biology. He was also an Iraq war veteran —a captain in the 82nd Airborne Division—and was awarded a Bronze Star for saving the lives ofsoldiers under his command. The close-knit group in the McDonnell lab could always rely on Ney for advice about science—and about life, said Carolyn Dusell, a graduate student and research assistant who worked alongside Ney in the McDonnell lab. SEE NEY ON PAGE 8