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The ChronicleThe independenT daily aT duke universiTy
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011 ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, ISSUE
133www.dukechronicle.com
Golfers benefit from equipment loans, Page 9
NC Division of Alcohol Law Enforcement may be cut, Page 3
onTherecordKen... had a huge impact on building our school
both
physically and intellectually. Nich School Dean Bill Chameides
on Dr. Kenneth Knoerr. See story page 3
Walsh named permanent finance VP
See walsh on page 7
Rushdie speaks on role of the novelistby Joanna Lichter
THe CHRonICLe
acclaimed author Salman Rushdie spoke about the power of
literature to address human freedoms and conflict in the
con-temporary world, where public events increasingly impact
pri-vate lives.
Rushdie, author of 10 novels including Midnights Children and
The Satanic Verses, spoke Tuesday before a sold-out audi-ence in
page auditorium about instances when literature helped to bring
down brutal regimes. In situations where the truth is obscured,
Rushdie feels novels can shed light on true stories out-side
government reports and prejudiced information.
prose, the literary novel of the poet, has been historically and
still is at the forefront of opposition of tyranny, Rushdie said.
no one owns the novelists vision except for the novelist... he has
the power to make and remake reality and explore it in a man-ner
and on the terms he chooses that are not dictated to him by anyone
else.
Rushdies speech, public events, private Lives: Literature and
politics in the Modern World, marked the eighth annual John Hope
Franklin Humanities Institutes Distinguished Lecture. He was
introduced by FHI Director Ian Baucom and Srinivas Special to the
chronicle
Author Salman Rushdie, pictured speaking to students, discussed
the notion of viewing novelists as news gatherers bringing national
issues to public attention. See rushdie on page 7
Tim Walshby Lauren Carroll
THe CHRonICLe
one person was injured when a tree fell on a moving vehicle on
Campus Drive in front of the financial aid office Tuesday
af-ternoon.
The injured passenger was taken to the hospital, but their
condition was unknown Tuesday night, said Chief John Dailey of the
Duke University police Department. Traffic was blocked on Campus
Drive between the West Campus traffic circle and anderson Street
for more than two hours after the incident, with vehicles were
redirected to Duke University Road. In order to access buildings
along the blocked-off area, people had to walk around the scene.
police opened one lane at approximately 4:30 p.m. and allowed
vehicles to proceed eastbound along the route.
The accident occurred around 3 p.m. when amy Cleckler,
co-ordinator for the Womens Centers gender violence prevention
program, and a campus visitor were traveling toward east Cam-pus. a
tree on the lawn of the financial aid office fell onto the hood of
their silver Honda Fit. Joe Jackson, director of grounds,
sanitation and recycling, said older trees of this sizearound 36
inches in diametertend to fall when there is a lot of wind and the
soil is damp.
although the smaller branches and debris in the street were
cleared yesterday evening, the trunk, which remains in the
finan-cial aid offices lawn due to its weight, will be removed
within the next one to two days, Jackson said.
In my 16 years [at Duke], never have I experienced this kind of
situation, Jackson said, adding that he has seen trees fall
be-fore, but never on a car.
by Matthew ChaseTHe CHRonICLe
after serving a nearly five-month term as interim vice president
for finance, Tim Walsh will assume the position officially,
effective immediately, the University an-nounced Tuesday.
Since his arrival at Duke in 2004, Walsh has served as assistant
vice president and controller for finance and has overseen Dukes
largest division of central finance. as vice president for finance,
Walsh will be responsible for financial components across the
University and the Duke University Health System, including
accounting, re-porting and other finan-cial functions.
The transition has been great, Walsh said of his recent role as
interim vice presi-dent. I obviously had existing contacts from my
work here over the past six years... and we have an outstanding
team of profes-sionals in finance on whom I was able to rely for
support.
Walsh replaces former vice president for finance Hof Milam.
Milam left the post in December to become senior vice president for
finance and administration and chief fi-nancial officer at Wake
Forest University.
During the search for a replacement, the University hired a
consultant to con-duct a three-month national search, execu-tive
Vice president Tallman Trask said. The University considered
approximately 100 peopleall of whom, except for Walsh, were
external candidates, Trask noted.
In the end, it seemed clear to me that [Walsh] was the best
choice given what Duke needs right now, he said, adding that
administrators desired a candidate who understands how Duke works
under a period of some stress.
Throughout the past seven years, Walsh has overseen projects
such as the Duke ad-ministrative Reform Team, which found ways to
save the University more than $60 million annually in recent years.
He has also worked on financing the Universitys inter-national
activities and increasing transpar-ency through a monthly reporting
process of the Universitys financial performance. Walsh has also
recently served as chair of the Research administration Continuous
Improvement initiative, which supervises the Universitys $800
million research en-terprise component.
chaSe olivieri/the chronicle
Strong winds caused a large tree on the lawn of the financial
aid office to fall onto Campus Drive, around 3 p.m., hitting a
moving vehicle and injuring one person.
Fallen tree causes detours, damage
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BeiJinG, china When fears of radiation spreading from Japan
prompted a rush on iodized salt in china, a weekly newspaper posted
the story on its website under the headline: panic buying in
Guangdong, Shenzhen and Dongguan; iodized salt out of stock,
nuclear panic in Japan spreads.
Within minutes, government censors called the economic observers
vice chief editor, Zhang hong, and asked us to delete that post
immediately, he said.
in a small act of defiance, Zhang left the story on the site,
but he changed the sec-ond part of the headline to read: Salt
bu-reau said the stock is sufficient.
that March 17 incident is just one ex-ample of the daily, even
hourly, tussle be-tween editors of chinas state-controlled media
and the communist governments army of propaganda officials and
censors who want to shape every aspect of what chinese citizens
read, see and think.
virGinia Fifteen years after banning parole, virginia has defied
the nations high recidivism level, returning a lower rate of
prisoners to incarceration than many other states, according to the
first state-by-state comparison of recidivism.
although the states recidivism levels have edged up slightly
since 2000, vir-ginias 28.3 percent recidivism rate for prisoners
in the three years after their release in 2004 is well below the
nations 43.3 rate percent during the same peri-od, according to the
pew center on the States study.
the pew study comes as states battle skyrocketing prison costs
amid steep budget shortfalls. corrections spending by states tops
$50 billion a year and is the second-fastest-growing budget
expense, behind Medicaid, according to pew. vir-ginia has cut
prison spending and closed 10 corrections centers since 2009.
Virginia manages to cut spending and recidivism
Democrats may extend tax cuts on the wealthy
Its morning again in America.
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Blossom Terry (shown above) receives breast milk from a donor
mother beacuse her biological mother is unable to produce a
sufficient amount. Commonly referred to as wet-nursing, this
practice is getting a new look due to technology. On Facebook,
lactating women are forming milk-sharing communities, where
meetings are scheduled in order to exchange bottles of frozen
breast milk.
During todays 2011 WnBa Draft, three Duke players were drafted
and invited to their respective teams training camps. Senior point
guard Jasmine thomas was selected in the first round as the 12th
pick by the Seattle Storm, who currently leads the Western
conference and won the 2010 title. ive never been to Washington
before, but im excited to play in...Seattle, thomas said.
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Join AEPi and KKG as they provide cute little animals for you to
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Discussing George Groszlilly library, 4-5p.m.
Esteemed jazz guitarist Marty Grosz will discuss the life and
work of his father George Grosz. The talk will be in Thomas
Room.
Duke Symphony Orchestra Baldwin aud., 8-10p.m.
Come out to Baldwin Auditorium and witness the Duke Symphony
Orchestra performing with Jung
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Chinese censors continue to crack down on media
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Budget concerns may force state to cut ALE
by Kelly ScurryTHe CHRonICLe
The streets may soon be clear of aLe. north Carolina is
considering eliminating
the state Division of alcohol Law enforce-ment in order to cut
costs. The n.C. House of Representatives appropriations
subcom-mittee considered a proposal to cut aLealong with 70 other
potential cuts to the states public safety and justice programslast
Tuesday. The proposal was created by Republican legislative
staffers and aims to trim costs, including closing some prisons and
drug treatment centers. The proposal went before the budget
subcommittee of the Senates appropriations on justice and public
safety committee, though it is not yet deter-mined when the
committee will vote.
Cutting aLe would save the state ap-proximately $9.5 million and
cut 137 jobs, though its elimination could mean more work for the
state, as police officers and other resources would have to
compensate for the loss of aLes specialization, said Thomas Caves,
special assistant to the sec-retary of the north Carolina
Department
of Crime Control and public Safety and is a legislative liaison
for the department.
In bad economic times, [legislative staff members] look at many
options and show legislators ways to save money, Caves said. The
aLe elimination would be a hugely problematic option.
according to its website, aLe is primar-ily responsible for
enforcing laws regard-ing the sale, transport and consumption of
alcohol, though it also enforces tobacco, controlled substances and
gambling laws throughout the state.
Much of aLes efforts deal with under-age drinking and undercover
work, as the division works with various federal agencies on a
variety of security issues, including ter-rorism, noted patty
McQuillan, a public information officer for the Department of Crime
Control and public Safety.
aLe is unique in having full arrest authority for the entire
state, McQuillan said. The cut of aLe would leave a hole in law
enforcementits agents have special training that would make
chaSe olivieri/the chronicle
Seniors gather in bars around Durham as part of the Senior Pub
Crawl Tuesday night.
Learning to crawl
See ale on page 8
from Staff ReportsTHe CHRonICLe
Kenneth Knoerr, former director of graduate studies for
environmen-tal Sciences and policy in the nicho-las School of the
environment, passed
away Monday. The professor
emeritus of hydrology and environmental meteorology served on
Dukes faculty for more than 50 years, joining the faculty in 1961
as an assistant professor of forest cli-matology and gaining
emeritus status in 2002. Ken has been a long time and val-
ued member of our faculty, and some-one who had a huge impact on
building our school both physically and intellec-tually, said
nicholas School Dean Bill Chameides in a statement issued by the
nicholas School. He will be missed.
Knoerr was promoted in 1966 to as-sociate professor of forest
meteorology and was appointed associate professor of biometeorology
two years later. He became professor of forest meteorol-ogy and
hydrology in 1972.
In addition, Knoerr was a well-known researcher both at home and
abroad. authoring more than 50 peer-reviewed studies, Knoerr was
consid-ered an expert in microclimatology,
mountain meteorology, forest fires and watershed hydrology. He
was of-ten cited for his research on managing forest lands and his
studies helped to clarify how forests interact with the
at-mosphere. Knoerr was also one of the first to develop physical
models which demonstrate how plants and the envi-ronment
interact.
Most recently, Knoerr focused on investigating more than 100
forest fires that have occurred in the United States during the
last hundred years. His goal was to use his findings to improve the
safety of forest managers and firefight-ers. His research also
identified com-mon causes behind these unexpected changesincluding
wind behavior in mountainous terrain and the potential flammability
of forest fuels.
Knoerr earned his bachelors de-gree in forest management in 1952
from the University of Idaho and re-ceived his phD in forest
meteorology in 1961 from Yale University. He also received a Master
of Forestry degree in silviculture from Yale in 1955. Before
joining the Duke faculty, he served as a research forester in the
U.S. Forest Service from 1956 to 1961.
Knoerr was also a member of the american association for the
ad-vancement of Science, the american geophysical Union, the
american Me-teorological Society and the Sigma Xi honor
society.
Knoerr leaves valued Nicholas School legacy
Ken Knoerr
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AHA studies rate of cardiac death in NCAA athletes
by Michael ShammasTHe CHRonICLe
March Madness is over without incident, but ac-cording to recent
studies the threat of sudden death in athletes due to cardiac
arrest remains too high for comfort.
a study released april 4 from the american Heart association
found the rate of sudden cardiac death in nCaa athletes is one in
44,000 a year, with basketball players at the highest risk. The
research was spurred by several incidents early this year in which
high school athletes hearts stopped during athletic events. The
tragedies have spurred cardiologists at Duke and oth-er
universities to search for reasons why apparently healthy athletes
are suffering from these attacks and to find ways to prevent
them.
Dr. Thomas Bashore, cardiologist and Duke profes-sor of
medicine, and said electrocardiographswhich measure the hearts
electrical activitycould help detect abnormalities that could lead
to sudden death when athletes exert themselves.
an eCg helps pick up those [individuals] with a congenital long
QT syndrome and those with a lot of premature beats, he said. I
think athletes [are re-quired to] get an eCg in Italy, but [they
are not] in this country because of the potential costs.
When athletes die due to a stopped heart, it is of-ten sudden
and unexpected, as in the case of Michi-gan high school junior Wes
Leonard who collapsed in early March after scoring a game-winning
shot dur-ing a basketball game. The audiences cheers after the win
quickly gave way to panic as the 16-year-old
See cardiac arrest on page 8
by Greg Miller and Karen DeYoungTHe WaSHIngTon poST
pakistani officials threatened Monday to impose new limits on
CIa drone strikes in their country and to expel agency operatives
whose missions are not ap-proved by Islamabad, escalating a
high-stakes feud be-tween the counterterrorism allies, U.S. and
pakistani officials said.
The demands, which were conveyed as top spies from the two
countries met at CIa headquarters in Virginia, represent an effort
by pakistan to exert more control over the covert CIa war being
waged inside its borders.
pakistani officials have expressed mounting frustra-tion with
the accelerated pace of the CIas predator air campaign and the
expanded presence of agency opera-tives, including a security
contractor who fatally shot two pakistani men in Lahore in
January.
Still, any new restrictions on the CIas activities in pakistan
could have far-reaching consequences for the U.S. pursuit of
al-Qaida and its top leaders, who are thought to be based in the
countrys tribal belt.
The frictions were the focus of a meeting Monday between CIa
Director Leon panetta and the head of pakistans Inter-Services
Intelligence directorate, Lt. gen. ahmed Shuja pasha.
a senior pakistani official called the tone of the meeting
cordial but said pasha made clear that the CIa-ISI relationship had
suffered a breach of trust and had to be reconfigured with a clear
code of con-duct.
We need to know who is in pakistan doing what, and that the CIa
wont go behind our back, said the official, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity be-cause of the sensitivity of the issue.
There has to be a greater sharing of information, in terms of what
the CIa wants and is doing. They have to stop mistrusting the ISI
as much as they do . . . you cant have us as your
ally and treat us as your adversary at the same time.pasha asked
the CIa for a complete list of its em-
ployees and contractors in pakistan and made clear that some may
be asked to leave, the official said. The pakistanis also said that
they wanted a reduction in the number of predator strikes and more
timely in-formation about intended targets before attacks are
launched.
CIa officials sought to play down the disagreement and signaled
that joint counterterrorism operations would continue.
Director panetta and general pasha held produc-tive discussions
today, and the CIa-ISI relationship remains on solid footing,
agency spokesman george Little said. Todays exchange emphasized the
need to continue to work closely together, including on our common
fight against terrorist networks that threaten both countries.
even so, U.S. officials acknowledged that pasha pushed to
restructure the relationship and to impose new requirements on the
CIa.
The pakistanis have asked for more visibility into some things,
and that request is being talked about, a U.S. official said. The
official said there have also been discussions on ways to further
expand the part-nership. The bottom line is that joint cooperation
is essential to the security of the two nations. The stakes are too
high.
For that reason, disagreements between the CIa and the ISI have
generally led to more public recrimi-nations than actual
disruptions in their joint counter-terrorism work. But pakistani
officials signaled Monday that the dynamic could change because of
a perception in Islamabad that the CIa has overstepped.
perhaps most worrisome for U.S. officials is the threat to place
new limits on the drone campaign,
Pakistanis threaten to impose new restrictions on CIA
activities
See Pakistan on page 12
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The Duke Microfinance Leadership Initiatives trunk show featured
farmers market goods and hand-made crafts. A portion of the sales
were donated to Durhams Latino Credit Community Union.
Junk in the trunkGadhafi rides out intl pressure, sanctions
By Simon DenyerTHe WaSHIngTon poST
TRIpoLI, Libya Forced on the de-fensive on the battlefield,
Libyas rebels are also struggling in the economic war of attrition
with Moammar gadhafi, de-spite the backing of the West.
global efforts to isolate gadhafi and cut off his economic
lifeline have put significant pressure on his government. But
president Barack obama and other naTo leaders may find that
sanctions do not bring gadhafi to his knees as quickly as hoped, if
at all.
The panic that gripped the Libyan economy at the height of the
crisis has sub-stantially abated and the government has implemented
a series of measures to cope with the sanctions and the loss of
hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.
The economic situation appears more chaotic in the rebel-held
east, with the collapse of much of the public sector and the
shuttering of oil production.
In the long run, sanctions will be quite devastating, said
Mustafa Fetouri, MBa program director at the academy of grad-uate
Studies in Tripoli, the capital. But we have had this situation
before, and we have the experience to deal with it.
Keeping the economy afloat amid tight international sanctions is
costly and Finance Minister abdulhafid Zlitni said in an interview
that the govern-ments money might run out in a few months.
nevertheless, the British-educated economist was optimistic that
this would buy the government enough timeto probe for gaps in the
international com-munitys resolve, to find a compromise that keeps
gadhafi in power or to per-suade old friends to help.
Just go back to history, Zlitni said. When sanctions were
imposed in the 1990s, africans just broke them. They came over here
with their planes and their presents.
The current sanctions are considerably tougher than those
imposed by the Unit-
ed nations in 1992 and 1993 over Libyas alleged role in the
bombing of a pan am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.
nevertheless, cracks are appearing in the global coalition
seeking to isolate gadhafi, after the african Union pro-posed a
peace plan this week that called for a cease-fire and dialogue but
would seem to leave gadhafi firmly in power. gadhafi backed the
plan, but the rebels rejected it.
In the international arena, we are seeing a lot of interventions
to find an end to this, and this is what makes me optimistic this
is going to end soon, Zlitni said.
In the meantime, sanctions are clearly having an effect in the
areas under gad-hafis control, though his government appears to
have found a way to manage.
In Tripoli, fuel is being rationed to a tank a week, while cash
withdrawals from banks have been capped at the equiva-lent of $400
a month. Interest rates will be doubled this week to attract money,
much of which is traditionally kept at home, back into the banking
system.
The government has increased pub-lic-sector salaries by 50
percent to en-courage Libyans to fill the gaps left by the exodus
of a substantial proportion of the workforce.
That exodus left fuel pumps un-manned and bakeries, normally run
by egyptians, shuttered. But Libyans are gradually stepping in. The
huge lines at gas stations reported a week ago have all but
disappeared, and bread shortag-es have eased after young women were
enlisted to help. on the black market, the Libyan dinar shot up to
3 against the dollar, from 1.3 before the crisis, before pulling
back to less than 2.
Hospitals are functioning, but many factories and shops remain
closed, con-struction work has stalled, and imported foods are
starting to disappear from store shelves. The price of cooking
oil
See libya on page 12
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For more details, visit
http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/osaf/awards
Congratulations to the following students, student
organizations, faculty and administrators, who have been nominated
to receive Duke Universitys most prestigious campus-wide honors for
leadership and service. Awards will be presented at the Duke
University Leadership and Service Awards Ceremony, to be held at
5:00 p.m. on April 18, 2011, in Scharf Hall at the Michael W.
Krzyzewski Center for Academic and Athletic Excellence.
Announcement of Nominees
Duke University Leadership and Service Awards
by Lori Montgomery and Zachary GoldfarbTHe WaSHIngTon poST
WaSHIngTon, D.C. president Barack obama plans this week to
respond to a Republican blueprint for tackling the soaring national
debt by promoting a bipartisan approach pioneered by an independent
presidential commission rather than introducing his own detailed
plan.
obama will not blaze a fresh path when he delivers a
much-anticipated speech Wednesday afternoon at george Washington
University. Instead, he is expected to offer support for the
commissions work and a related effort under way in the Senate to
develop a strategy for curbing borrowing. obama will frame their
approach as a responsible alternative to the blueprint unveiled
last week by House Republicans, according to people briefed by the
White House.
Letting others take the lead on complex problems has become a
hallmark of the obama presidency. on health care, last years tax
deal and the recent battle over 2011 spending cuts, obama has
repeatedly waited as others set the parameters of the debate,
swooping in late to cut a deal. The tactic has produced significant
victories but exposed obama to criticism that he has shown a lack
of leadership.
Like the House gop budget plan, the Senate effortled by three
Democrats and three Republicans known as the gang of Sixaims to cut
around $4 trillion from the debt over the next decade. But the
group is looking to reduce spending in all categories, while urging
a rewrite of the tax code that would raise revenue. The House
budget would cut spending on domestic programs while protecting the
military and preserving george W. Bush-era tax cuts, including
those for high earners.
The work of the gang of Six is modeled on recom-mendations of
the fiscal commission obama appointed last year. asked Monday about
their work, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the
commission had cre-ated a framework that may help us reach a deal
and a compromise.
The fiscal commission showed that you need to look at
entitlements, you need to look at tax expendi-tures, you need to
look at military spending, you need to look at all of these issues,
Carney said. You cant simply slash entitlements, lower taxes and
call that a fair deal.
everyone, he said, must share in the burden of bring-ing our
fiscal house into order.
While lawmakers in both parties say they support the principle
of shared sacrifice, its particulars are proving no less thorny
than any other deficit reduction strategy. The gang of Six has been
struggling for weeks to reach agreement on a framework for budget
changes that would leave policy details to be worked out in
legislative committees.
aides say the group is very close to an agreement, and
administration officials had hoped one could be announced this
week. But two Republican members, Sens. Tom Coburn (okla.) and
Saxby Chambliss (ga.), said Monday that no deal is likely to be
announced until after lawmakers return in May from a two-week
easter recess.
Itd be pretty hard for [obama] to hitch himself to something
that doesnt exist yet, Coburn said. Theres nothing Ive agreed to
that could be announced this week.
Democrats briefed on obamas speech said its pur-pose is to seize
the initiative from Republicans as Wash-ington turns from a bitter
but narrow debate over spend-ing cuts in this years budget to the
broader matter of how to reduce the size of the government in
coming years. The White House and congressional leaders in both
parties are particularly concerned about a looming vote to raise
the legal limit on government borrowing, set at just under $14.3
trillion.
Treasury Secretary Timothy geithner has warned that Congress
must raise the limit by early July or the Treasury Department will
default on its obligations, destabilizing global financial markets
and inviting a new recession. Republican leaders, who recently won
the single largest spending reduction in U.S. history in the fight
over the 2011 budget, say they will be unable to muster the votes
needed to help raise the limit unless obama offers what they deem
to be a meaningful plan to cut future spending even more
deeply.
The White House has been pressing for a stand-alone debt limit
bill, but no one thinks such a bill could pass the House. By
offering a vision for deficit reduction that goes well beyond his
most recent budget blueprint, ad-ministration officials said, obama
is acknowledging that a more serious conversation about entitlement
spend-ing and taxes will be required to persuade Republicans to
lift the limit.
While Carney promised that the speech would of-fer explicit
targets for reducing deficits over the long term, people briefed by
the White House said they expect obama to lay out a general
approach with few details.
So far, neither party appears to have a clear strat-egy for the
debt limit vote. House Budget Committee Chairman paul Ryan, R-Wis.,
told the Chicago Tribune on Monday that his party wants to see
statutory limits on federal spendingand ideally a framework for
rein-ing in the skyrocketing cost of Social Security, Medicare and
Medicaidin exchange for Republican support.
Democratic strategists say they think independent vot-ers
crucial to obamas re-election next year want him to function as a
centrist consensus-builder.
Independents abandoned the party last year as concern grew about
government deficits and spending. But obama also must worry about
his liberal base, which views pro-tecting entitlement programs
central to Democratic party orthodoxy.
one liberal group, the Campaign for americas Future, began
mobilizing Monday to ramp up pressure on the White House in advance
of obamas speech.
The group sent an e-mail alert asking its members to contact the
White House and warn against cuts to Social Security and
Medicare.
Roger Hickey, co-director of group, said many on the left fear
that obama will try to find a middle ground with Ryaneliminating
the Democrats ability to present them-selves as the saviors of
Social Security.
Bipartisan group to guide presidents deficit plan
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WALSH from page 1RUSHDIe from page 1Walsh said his biggest
challenge as
vice president for finance will be to bal-ance the Universitys
many diverse pri-orities, including its administrative re-search
practices, its academic missions and the growth of the University
health system.
We have to support all three of those missions every day, he
said. They all have their unique priorities and we have to help
them achieve them.
Walsh added that the University has effectively used technology
in its core business processesa practice it should continue to
utilize in the future. He noted that the University has, for
example, established an im-aging system which was able to
elimi-nate millions of pieces of paper each year.
Milam said he applauds Dukes deci-sion to hire Walsh, adding
that he has strong organizational skills and was ef-fective while
working with DaRT.
It was a huge project that was criti-cal to dealing with the
budget gap at Duke, and it required an unbelievable amount of
coordination, analysis and patience, he said. It was a very
chal-lenging project.
Walsh added that his experience leading DaRT was important
because it emphasized the need to develop rela-tionships across
Duke.
We dont want to operate as inde-pendent silos, we want to
operate as a single University, he said. Duke is uniquely
positioned to collaborate. We want to build on the existing
re-lationships across Duke in order to maximize the positive
outcomes for our faculty, staff and students.
aravamudan, dean of humanities and an english professor.
For over a 30-year writing period [Rush-die has] transformed the
history of the nov-el, altered and enriched the aesthetic
pos-sibility of the english language, Baucom said. [He] promises to
continue and build on that rich tradition of challenging and
opening common addresses, which our previous [FHI] guests have
established.
In the past, novelists served as news gatherers for society in
bringing national issues to public attention, said Rushdie,
pointing to authors like Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe
who used their works to expose the evils of slavery. In the modern
world, Rushdie said novels can continue to serve an integral role
in tell-ing meaningful stories and uncovering cultural conflictsas
opposed to some contemporary news sources, which he said have
ulterior motives that affect their abil-ity to remain
objective.
We have a situation where opinion polls tell us the most trusted
news network in this country is Fox news. This makes one feel
worried about the american people... if they actually want the news
or prefer the precarious fiction that appears on the Fox news
program, Rushdie said. Literature is the place where you find
truth.... Its a level of news which is much more profound than
whats being offered in the so-called news media.
Rushdie also addressed literatures pow-er to showcase
individuality, as it imbues characters with uniqueand sometimes
inconsistentqualities to reflect human nature. In an era where some
influential figures promote conformity, Rushdie said the novel can
act as a vehicle for both per-sonal development and the
establishment
of common ground with others. The novel understands that the
human
self is plural, contradictory, fragmented, awkward and sometimes
irreconcilable with itself and is changeable and mutable, he said.
Yet we live in an age where the growing power of identity politics
tries to urge us into... much more narrow, fixed, solid and unitary
ideas of the self.
Rushdie closed his speech by urging students to push out
boundaries and be-come active in movements for change. He connected
this to his own literary struggles when Iranian religious leader
and politi-cian ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwaor call
for murderagainst Rush-die for The Satanic Verses. amid this threat
to his life, Rushdie never faltered in his original intent to speak
about hard-ship associated with Islamic identity and religion.
The problem with the world we live in is that there are those
who dont want the universe opened a little more, Rushdie said. The
counter force can be very pow-erful and very hard to resist and
sometimes the consequences for the writer can be very serious...
all of us do this kind of work knowing the risks, would still say
it has to be done because thats the job.
after his speech, Rushdie responded to questions from the
audience. When asked about his thoughts on multiculturalism,
Rushdie said he fears that the mixing of cultures is becoming
confused with cul-tural relativismthe ability of individuals to
claim preferential treatment based on their different values.
When you go down that road youve created not just a morally
indisputable situ-ation but [also] a divisive one, he said. In any
open country, it must be possible to ar-gue about value and
practices, not to ring a fence around communities by virtue of
their culture.
Senior Karan Chhabra, co-president of Diya, said he felt the
author provided valuable insights and connected well with the
audience.
I was very pleased with how well he able to bridge the
intellectual and the personal, Chhabra said. He managed to comment
critically on work, politics and society, but was also [able] to
engage the audience in a very human way and con-nect with students
who have never heard of him as well as scholars who have studied
him for years.
The event was sponsored by the FHI, Diya, office of the
president; office of the provost; office of the Vice provost for
the arts; office of the Dean and Vice provost of Undergraduate
education; Center for philosophy, arts and Literature; Duke
Is-lamic Studies Center; north Carolina Con-sortium for South asian
Studies; and the John Spencer Bassett Memorial Fund.
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became unresponsive and fell to the floor. He was later
pronounced dead at the hospital.
Despite the risks, many athletes with undetected heart problems
continue playing sports until they suffer cardiac arrest. They are
often unaware of the increased danger of heavy physical activity
because many routine physicals are unable to detect the underlying
problems that cause car-diac arrest. abnormalities are also subtle
and difficult to detect, Bashore said.
The most common underlying problem with the ath-lete who has
sudden death during exertion is... a profound thickening of the
heart muscle, he said.
Bashore said he does not know how the athletics De-partment
screens athletes for heart problems.
I would guess that Duke does an eCg and probably an
echocardiogram on their athletes, but I actually do not know that,
he said. I suspect they use someone in sports medicine or the
undergrad clinic to do their screening.
Several members of the athletics Department did not respond to
requests for comment.
Sophomore georgie Kerber, who played football last year, said
the University did routine physicals to ensure football players
were healthy when he was on the team.
I know we definitely had to do a physical where they checked our
hearts, he said. I know that they monitor us pretty closely every
day [and] everyone always has to go check in with [football
Director of athletic Training Hap Zarzour]... to make sure that
everything is physi-cally okay.
Kerber said he cannot remember whether or not Duke required
players to have an eCg taken.
Sophomore Mary nielsen, a member of the field hock-ey team, said
she thinks the University takes adequate mea-sures to screen its
athletes.
We get our blood pressure and pulse taken in physi-cals, then if
you tell your trainer about your symptoms, you get eCgs,
echocardiograms and stress tests, she said. My teammate actually
got diagnosed with [a heart condition last week]... her heart would
stop or beat ex-cessively fast at random times. She cant play again
until a heart electrical specialist talks about potential surgery
with her.
Ultimately, no matter how often screening occurs, sudden cardiac
death cannot be completely prevented, Bashore said. athletes often
subject their bodies to great amounts of physical stress, and much
of this burden is placed on their hearts.
although the thought of cardiac arrest is frightening, the heart
is a persistent muscle, and the probability that it will stop
beating is extremely small, he noted.
The sudden death incidence is very low, Bashore said. [The
reason they] quickly make the news [is] because it affects an
apparently healthy young person.
CARDIAC ARReST from page 4
it costly to train local police officers and sheriff deputies.
Caves said aLe will likely experience some cuts, though
he noted that if the entire division is eliminated, its duties
and responsibilities may fall on the shoulders of local and county
law enforcement.
although aLes elimination would likely affect the Dur-ham
community, it would have a negligible effect at Duke, as enforcing
the Universitys alcohol policy on campus would remain in the
jurisdiction of the Duke University police Department, said DUpD
Chief John Dailey.
aLe doesnt spend a lot of time on campus, Dailey said. [The
agency] predominantly enforces alcohol use off campus.
Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek also said that if aLe is
eliminated it would have more of an impact off campus, but she
added that students must recognize that every time they break the
law, on or off of campus, they are taking a risk.
Currently, the office of Student Conduct receives com-munication
from aLe when a student is cited by an aLe officerusually off
campus, said Stephen Bryan, associ-ate dean of students and
director of the office of Student Conduct. He added that there is
currently only one aLe agent for Durham County.
Duke has joined forces with aLe agents in giving edu-cations
programs for fraternities, sororities and other or-ganizations on
state and University policy on alcohol con-sumption, Bryan said,
adding that it is unknown whether students will change their
behavior and whether this will increase the prevalence of underage
drinking if students believe they would have a smaller chance of
exposure.
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chronicle Graphic BY nicholaS SchWartZ
An American Heart Association study has revealed that basketball
is the NCAA sport with the highest rate of sudden cardiac deaths.
Overall from 2004-2008, 1 in 11,394 NCAA basketball players suffers
a sudden cardiac death.
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by Scott RichTHE CHRONICLE
The relationship between college golfers and equip-ment
companies may be closer than the casual fan knowsbut it isnt likely
to change anytime soon.
The financial burden of playing golf, combined with amateur
rules that allow and even encourage golf suppli-ers to provide
players with reduced price or free equip-ment, has led to an
unusual NCAA-sanctioned system that allows elite teams to receive
better equipment from manufacturers. Its all thanks to college
golfers being allowed to maintain prior relationships with club
manu-facturers while competing at the collegiate level.
What tends to happen, head coach Jamie Green said,
is that the better the player is... the more likely a company is
to offer the player equipment, without charging the uni-versity for
the equipment.
An uneasy relationship?While NCAA regulations prohibit companies
from di-
rectly sponsoring or providing equipment to individual players
while they are in college, suppliers are allowed to supply
equipment to their favorite players. They do this at reduced or no
cost, via athletic departments, who loan the equipment to players
for use while at the uni-versity, according to Duke Assistant
Director of Athletics
The spring semester is coming to an end. The sun is out, the
birds are chirping and preparations for LDOC are finally beginning
in earnest.
Yet despite the cheery atmo-sphere, Im betting that most of you
still feel empty. For the first time in months, something is
missing from the life of every Duke studentcollege basket-ball.
Yes, Duke was unceremoni-ously knocked out of the tourna-
ment more than two weeks ago. But even in the teams absence Blue
Devil fans still had something to cheer forfirst anyone that was
playing North Carolina, and then for (or, in a surprising number of
cases, against) Butler in the Final Four.
Then students had a week of Kyrie Irving will-he-or-wont-he
speculation to devour. But even that came to a close last week,
albeit not with the ending Duke fans, who dreamed of an
Irving-Austin Rivers mega-backcourt, envisioned.
There are no more games to be played, no more statistics to be
analyzed, no more questions to be asked. Except for the one no one
wants to answerwhat now?
At a school where life revolves around basketball even more than
that impending Chemistry midterm or semi-formal, its a hard
question to answer. How does one make use of the extra time once
spent waiting in line for hours in K-ville? What do you talk about
now that the brackets are complete and Irvings decision
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Whats in the bag?The interesting relationship between club
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freshman Robert Huber won his fourth game of the season last
night, pitching six innings and only allowing three earned
runs.
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It only took one out for freshman Chris Marcon-cini to set the
tone in last nights victory over Da-vidson (16-16). Working with a
1-0 count, the Duke right fielder launched a solo home run over the
right-center field wall.
The Blue Devil offense never looked back, leading Duke (20-16)
to a solid 7-5 victory.
I think that really set the tone for the first half of the ball
game, head coach Sean McNally said. Chris was aggressive on a
fastball. He put a great swing on it.... [It] certainly gave us a
jump start with one swing of the bat.
Marconcini has been on fire as of late. Despite the fact that
Duke dropped two of three from Boston Col-lege this weekend,
Marconcini hit .538 in the series and had five RBI.
The Blue Devil attack was not a one-man show, however, with
fellow freshman Jordan Betts joining the long ball club. In the
third, after an infield single by Will piwnica-Worms, Betts hit an
opposite-field, two-run homer that cleared the right field fence
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is made? Many Duke fans will utilize the tired-but-true just
wait until next year approachfilling the void left by actual
basketball news and competition with inane speculation and
dreaming. That method serves its pur-pose, but loses effectiveness
rather quicklyone can only salivate over Rivers potential or
analyze the plum-lees improvement for so long while retaining his
san-ity.
Blue Devil diehards can turn to other Duke sportsthe mens
lacrosse team is defending their national championship, both mens
and womens tennis are once again Top-25 programs and Jack Coombs
Field is once again home to baseball this season. But the la-crosse
season doesnt truly heat up until tournament time, tennis is an
individual sport and the Blue Dev-ils are struggling on the diamond
this year. In short, Dukes spring slate of sports will satiate only
a niche of sports fans.
What about the world of professional sports? The NBA is full of
former Blue Devils, and the best team in the Eastern Conference,
the Chicago Bulls, is home to both Luol Deng and Carlos Boozer. But
Duke basketball is defined by effort and teamworkqualities that are
a rarity in the star-powered NBA. That will leave most Blue Devil
fans wanting more.
Other leagues, perhaps? The most highly contested two-month
period in sport, the NHL playoffs, is about to beginbut even this
hockey nut can admit that only the Northerners and playoff-beard
lovers among us will navigate to Versus to catch a midweek playoff
matchup. Baseball season is also underway, but it is hard to invest
the same energy into the first 20 games of a 162 game season that
students did into every game in Cameron.
So, what now? There are a lot of answers, but Im guess-ing for
most fans none of them are too satisfying. At this point, all there
is to do is sit back, relax and enjoy the love-ly Southern
weather.
Oh, who am I kidding. Can we begin the countdown to Countdown to
Craziness already?
RicH from page 9
baseball from page 9several feet. The home run was the freshmans
first ca-reer long ball and pushed Dukes team season total to
seven.
On the mound, the Blue Devils were led by freshman Robert Huber,
who battled for six innings, surrender-ing three runs while
striking out six Wildcat batters. The right-hander, however, ran
into trouble with two outs in the top of the fourth inning. After
conceding a walk, Huber gave up an RBI double to Davidsons
nine-hole hitter Daniel Gerow followed by an RBI single to center
by lead-off man Seth Freeman. Huber was able to limit damage,
though, as he got Forrest Brandt to fly out to centerfield for the
final out.
Im really pleased with his growth and development, McNally said.
Hes doing everything better and better each time up. Commanding his
fastball, mixing his pitches and using his breaking ball and his
change-up. You see his confidence growing.
In the bottom of the eighth, holding onto a slim 6-4 lead, the
Blue Devils added a crucial insurance run, using their typical
small-ball approach to extend their lead. Sophomore Marcus Stroman
laced a single to left field. He then proceeded to steal second and
score on Aaron Cohns opposite field poke through the hole past the
outstretched glove of the Wildcat second baseman.
I thought the run was huge, McNally said. It gave us the cushion
we needed. We knew the heart of their order would get up and battle
us to the end. It ended up being a crucial run for us.
Despite a perfect one-two-three 8th inning, junior Joe
pedevillano struggled in the final frame, giving up a two-out
triple and double. After walking the clean-up hitter Danny Weiss,
closer David putman closed out the Duke victory, striking out
Andrew Barna looking on beautiful 1-2 curveball.
After the victory over the Southern Conference foe, the road
gets significantly harder for the Blue Devils. This weekend Duke
will travel to Charlottesville, Va. to face the class of the ACC in
No. 2 Virginia.
Virginias going to be a tough series, McNally said. Theyve got a
great team and a great program. If we play well, well have an
opportunity to win. We played well tonight so we think that will
help us get on the right track, [but] well have to be at our best
this week-end, no question.
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With the basketball season past, scott Rich is left to wonder
how Duke students will get their sports fix in april.
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after losing two of three to boston college over the weekend,
the blue Devils rebounded last night, topping Davidson by two
runs.
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golf from page 9for Compliance Todd Mesibov.
Additionally, players will normally communicate both with the
companies and the university to get their pre-ferred equipment from
their preferred supplier.
Lets say ping wants to give a set of irons to one of our
players, and our player would benefit from that, Green said. The
company sends that equipment to us, to Duke, and then we distribute
that equipment to the player. Thats kind of the way it needs to
work under the NCAA umbrella.
The university may act as a middle man between sup-pliers and
players, but the motivation for the arrangement exists in part for
companies benefit. Duke sophomore Brinson paolini holds no
illusions about companies rea-soning for supplying equipment.
paolini, who plays ping clubs and has done so for at least four
years, is thankful that the system, combined with Greens policy of
not forcing any brand of equipment on his players, has allowed him
to continue playing with the equipment he is comfortable with. But
he also acknowl-edges that companies expect players loyalty, both
now and during their future careers, in return for equipment.
From the suppliers standpoint, theyre developing these
relationships for a reason, paolini said. Theyre try-ing to make us
branded. Theyre trying to make me brand-ed to ping for the rest of
my life, so if I turn pro hopefully theyll want to sign me, but for
the rest of my life theyre going to want me to buy ping clubs and
the people around me to buy ping clubs.
According to Green, many programs, Duke included, will encourage
said relationships to allow players to com-pete with the best
possible equipment.
Sometimes well even have equipment companies bring equipment for
the guys to try and test, Green said. Obviously the goal there is
to try to find the best fit for the player. So there is some
relationship building there.
While it would seem that this conflicts with the NCAAs amateur
mission, Mesibov said that regulations regarding golf equipment are
no different than those for other sports.
The equipment that our players get is not equipment the
suppliers are giving them, it is equipment that Duke University is
letting them use for participation on the Duke University [team],
Mesibov said. The golf pro-gram loans the equipment to our players
the same way our basketball program gets basketballs.
An uneven playing field?The impact of suppliers on the college
game goes beyond
their relationship with players, however. Both Green and paolini
acknowledged that companies are more likely to pro-vide equipment
to schools or players who are more success-ful, and can display the
equipment to a greater degree.
paolini offered an example how the other company he deals with,
golf giant Titleist, provides performance-based incentives.
If youre playing well theyre going to give you stuff that only
tour pros can get, paolini said. Titleist gives tour putterstheyre
impossible to getbut theyll give them to top amateur and college
players.
Whats more, higher profile amateurs who are ex-posed to
potential suppliers before college will have more options and
likely access to higher quality equip-ment. The combination gives
the elite schools an added advantage over the competition in their
equipmentin golf, the quality of clubs and balls has a much greater
impact on a players ability to compete than equipment in other
competitive sports.
Its a huge benefit to be able to have your clubs completely
dialed into your characteristics as a golfer, paolini said.
While such disparities in equipment quality do exist, Green said
that theyre simply a result of the infeasibility of supplying
expensive golf equipment to every college and amateur golfer.
And among the top schools and golfers, he said the dif-ference
is often negligible.
When you talk about every single player in college golf... at
that point is it a little unfair? I think at that point
the answer is probably, yeah, Green said. It probably does
create an environment where theres a bit of haves and
have-nots.
There might be a slight advantage, but in the end, I think its
kind of negligible. It comes down to getting fit for the right
equipment.... Our sport is such that the guys that come in and
play, most of them play at courses at home that give them the
chance to try different types of equipment.
While Mesibov acknowledged that such disparities ex-ist, he
maintained that the NCAA treats golf no differently than any other
sport, and likened the difference in equip-ment quality to programs
having different quality practice facilities and even Southern
schools being able to practice more often thanks to cooperative
weather.
All sides, however, acknowledged the inherent discrep-ancies in
the system, not only on the course but off it. Giv-en the nature of
the game, though, there doesnt appear to be another
alternative.
Its kind of a loophole in the system, paolini said. But were not
getting extra benefits by getting these clubs, be-cause we need
them.
Theyre trying to make me branded to Ping for the rest of
my life, so if I turn pro hopefully theyll want to sign me.
Brinson Paolini
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Libya from page 5
has risen more than fourfold, as has the cost of a packet of
spaghetti.
But Libya has more than a decade of experience living with, and
subverting, sanctions. And the harder they bite or-dinary people,
the easier it will be for Gadhafi to blame the West, as he is
do-ing with some success, Fetouri said.
In the east, the fighting and the temporary partition of the
country have all but destroyed the economy. Most of the countrys
oil comes from the east, but Gadhafis forces have worked hard to
disrupt production, which has halted. Rebels shipped out a tanker
of crude last week, with Qa-tar acting as middleman, but just two
tankers worth of oil remain in stock.
The vast majority of Libyans in the east work in the public
sector and were paid out of Tripoli before the fighting began.
Rebels have managed to keep salaries coming, but money is running
out. Electricity is cut off for two hours a day, and unless oil
production re-sumes, the diesel needed to power the generators will
run out within two to three months, officials say.
Across the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, city engineers,
doctors, law-yers and businessmen sit at home and wait for the
violence to end. Lines for bread and gas are lengthening.
Gadhafi loyalists retain control of Ras Lanuf, home to the
countrys larg-est refinery, and there is continued fighting over
the oil town of Brega. Rebels still believe they have the stron-ger
hand economically as long as they control the border with Egypt and
re-ceive international support.
But for now, securing the oil fields is our biggest source of
concern, said Ali Tarhouni, finance minister in the Transitional
National Council, the self-appointed rebel government.
In Tripoli, Zlitni is trying to make a virtue out of a
necessity, arguing that western Libya will just have to live
without oil.
Oil is not always a good thing. It is a depleting asset; one day
it will stop, he said. If people dont realize this and pull up
their socks, there is going to be a disaster.
Oil revenue has made many Liby-ans lazy, he said. If you have
children, sometimes you have to smack them to make them behave
themselves. You dont like to do it, but you have to.
Correspondent Leila Fadel contrib-uted to this report from
Benghazi.
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which Panetta once referred to as the only game in town in terms
of lethal operations against al-Qaida. The Paki-stani threat was
first reported Monday by Reuters.
The CIA carried out 118 drone strikes in Pakistan last year,
more than in all the previous years of the program combined,
according to independent estimates. The campaign has been more
sporadic this year, possibly because of CIA-ISI frictions, with the
most recent strike conducted March 17.
Pakistani officials said they plan to press the CIA to restore
the rules that were in place at the beginning of the program, when
strikes were intermit-tent and the agency typically gave no-tice to
or sought permission from the Pakistani government before a missile
was launched.
The process was revised toward the end of the George W. Bush
adminis-tration. Amid worries that Pakistan was not pursuing
al-Qaida aggressively enough, the CIA ceased providing
no-tifications and dramatically acceler-ated the pace of
airstrikes.
More recently, Pakistani officials have expressed alarm over the
scope of the CIAs presence inside their country, as well as an
alleged expan-sion of agency operations aimed at gathering
intelligence on Pakistans nuclear program as well as militant
groups with links to the ISI.
The arrest of CIA contractor Ray-mond Davis heightened
suspicions that the agency was conducting unilat-eral operations
deep inside Pakistan. The possibility that the country might seek
to expel some CIA officers was first reported by he New York
Times.
The CIAs station in Islamabad is one of the agencys largest in
the world and is thought to employee hundreds of operatives,
analysts and contractors. The actual number of CIA employees there
is classified.
Largely because of the Davis case, a U.S. official said, they
want us to have less of a footprint, less ability to maneuver and
not to have operational capabilities in their cities and watch over
what theyre doing.
Pakistan was also angered by the tone of a progress report
issued by the White House last week. The report praised the
Pakistani military for con-fronting militants but concluded that
there was no clear path toward de-feating the insurgency in
Pakistan.
Pakistan from page 4
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Last week, indie-pop duo The Cataracs sent the Last Day of
Classes Committee a disappointing messagethe group had decided to
cancel their scheduled LDOC per-formance to at-tend an awards show
instead.
This development, which seriously threatens the integ-rity of
the entire LDOC lineup only two weeks before the show, highlights a
series of lackluster results from the LDOC com-mittee and calls the
structure of the group into question.
In the past LDOC has been planned by an independent committee
and jointly funded by Campus Council and the Duke University Union,
along with an allocation from the student activities fee and
fund-raising. But, now that Duke
Student Government and Campus Council have success-fully merged,
the composi-tion of the LDOC committee needs to change. In the
future LDOC should fall under the
sole purview of DUU, whose broad experi-
ence will ensure the commit-tee can pick and hold on to
top-notch performers.
The Cataracs cancellation is disappointing, though it may have
been unavoidable. But it highlights shortcomings in the LDOC
planning process and in the structure of the LDOC Committee
itself.
In recent years, the LDOC committee has tended to se-lect one
easily recognizable headline act and filled out the remaining
docket with lesser known filler bands. The name
recognition that comes with these primary artists can gener-ate
excitement. But these big name artists too often turn out to be
heavy on style and short on substance, leaving students
dissatisfied with the seemingly disinterested performers.
Instead of emphasizing name recognition or populari-ty for its
own sake, the commit-tee should place greater prior-ity on the live
performance prowess of the artists that they book. In order to
accomplish these aims, we propose that DUU plan the logistics and
ex-ecution of LDOC festivities.
The LDOC committee currently seeks applicants from the entire
student body to fill some spots. The intent behind this is
admirable. But even partially separating the LDOC committee from
DUU
ignores the valuable resources and experience DUU mem-bers can
and should provide.
DUUs considerable expe-rience and access to resources make it
uniquely suited for the substantial undertaking that is LDOC. DUU
members are genuinely committed to and well versed in student
program-ming initiatives. DUUs track record on recent performanc-es
is excellent. It has brought Lupe Fiasco, John Legend and Chiddy
Bang to campus in the last year, with much suc-cess. These events
are similar to LDOC, and we expect the group will be able to
execute LDOC to similar acclaim.
The new LDOC subcom-mittee of DUU should focus on staffing the
committee with individuals who are intimately familiar with live
shows. These
students have invaluable knowl-edge about which performers will
put on the best live shows, irrespective of name recogni-tion of
the potential acts.
The committee also needs to select students who have ex-perience
in dealing with music executives and drawing up con-tracts.
Including these sorts of students could help avoid the
cancellations that have hurt re-cent LDOC efforts.
The DSG-Campus Coun-cil merger has created an op-portunity to
improve one of Dukes most exciting and en-joyable annual events. To
en-sure that LDOC continues to provide students with the
end-of-year experience that they are looking for, DUU needs to take
the lead on coordinating and executing LDOC festivi-ties from this
point forward.
When I look back at the time we have shared here at Duke, I see
moments of great joytaking the woman or man of our dreams to the
formal, discovering the beauty of a Shakespeare play and burning
benches after winning a national championship. There have also been
instances of great sorrow when we have lost friends and loved ones,
when we have failed to get the grade or the job we wanted and when
our romantic relationships havent worked out the way we envisioned.
But we have overcome these setbacks and most of us will remember
the positive experiences and the successes more than anything else.
Perhaps the sum of all these experi-ences amounts to what many
adults call the happi-est four years of their lives.
But I dont think thats the case. I also believe that this
nostalgic thinking hinders our ability to fully enjoy the pleasures
in life outside of Duke both as students and after graduation. As
Duke stu-dents, we have been bombarded with an onslaught of
opportunitiesopportunities to study and en-gage abroad, to join a
dozen different groups and to teach courses to other students.
And if you are anything like me, you probably had a hard time
deciding which opportunities to pursue and which to pass up. (In
fact, I was having such a hard time that I actually designed my own
major in Decision Science to try to figure it out!) It is
exceedingly hard to accept the notion that you might never get to
do something again if you pass it up.
Yet the fear of passing up a temporary oppor-tunity makes us
unwilling to choose options that might be the most beneficial for
us. Though we may know that a particular choice is best, all too
often, we pass it up in favor of another that we know will vanish
soon. Anybody who has ever enrolled in classes that are only
offered during a single se-mester knows what I mean. Anybody who
has ever passed up the more practical romantic partner for the one
who plays hard to get understands what Im talking about.
The solution? We must abandon our fear of dis-carding
possibilities that will vanish. That means selecting the job we
really want rather than the one that wants us to decide by next
week. That means passing up on an exotic vacation to honor a
commit-ment to be there for a best friend. And most of all,
it means abandoning the premise that these four incredible,
fun-filled and richly rewarding years at Duke will be the best four
years of our lives.
Over the run of this column, I have tried to provide insight
into why you should consider pursuing a breadth of opportunities at
the University of North Carolina at Cha-pel Hill now, even though
it seems like they will be there next weekend or next semester or
next year. Its a challenging personal choice, but liv-ing my life
in two different shades of blue has enhanced my college expe-rience
tremendously.
When we graduate, a door will close to usper-manently. But
countless other doors will open, and it will be up to us to choose
which ones to enter and which ones to close for good. This involves
riskrisking reshuffling our priorities, risking missing out on
beneficial experiences and, ultimately, risking making the wrong
choice.
We have all led unique lives here that have chal-lenged us and
rewarded us in ways we could never have imagined. We all shared
moments that will look great when we look at each others Facebook
pages and try to make sense of our experiences.
But the best is yet to come. Starting over summers in college
and continu-
ing after graduation, each one of us will begin our lives away
from Duke. They will take place in dif-ferent locations and be
filled with different peo-ple, but they will contain hints of our
past as well. The memories of our times here at Duke must re-main
because anyone that has ever loved, anyone who has ever made a
friend or lost one, anyone who has ever stayed up all night
cramming for a big exam (or had an all-night conversation with a
good friend when they should have been study-ing) has been changed
by those experiences.
But we cannot remain in these moments. So whether we will soon
leave Duke for the summer or for good, lets celebrate our time
together here, but, more importantly, lets celebrate our futures
apart. Lets celebrate our ability to discern between the vanishing
options and the best options and choose the ones that are best for
us, whether that means taking a different job or simply taking a
trip down the road to Chapel Hill.
Chris Edelman is a Trinity senior and a Robertson scholar. This
is his final column.
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Well, its April, and that can only mean one thing. Its time for
campus to be invaded by a myriad of high school seniors with
obnoxiously large name tags and the enthusiasm that so often
characterizes those who have yet to become jaded by the pressures
of col-lege. Although some students here tend to find tour groups
filled with inquisi-tive parents and overwhelmed students
irritating and bothersome, I personally consider them my favorite
part of the West Campus scenery. Seeing them re-minds me of my
first visit to campus and of every reason why I love this school so
much. It reignites in me the excitement that I had upon first
stepping into the Duke Chapel. And thats exactly why Ill be hosting
two prospective freshmen during this weeks Blue Devil Days.
After spending a while at a school, it becomes all too easy to
point out the negatives and forget about the posi-tives. Certainly,
Ive written my fair share of disparaging critiques in past columns.
Despite its flaws, I still firmly believe that Duke is the best
school out there and the best school for me. I can only hope this
article reaches a few of the p-frosh coming this week. To enlighten
those of you not blessed to have me as a host, this is why I love
Duke.
Im from Southern California, and I went to an inde-pendent
Catholic high school. With that combination, it was almost assumed
that Id be going to Georgetown University, the University of Notre
Dame or the Uni-versity of Southern California. Indeed, as I began
the process of applying for college, all of these schools were
considerations, but one stood above the rest: Stanford University.
All the best students from my school went there, and I strove to be
listed in those ranks. For at least five years, every student who
had been admitted to Stanford had accepted, including those also
admitted to Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia
University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy.
As I toured the country looking at colleges, I kept thinking
about what everyone had told me, When you
see the right school, youll just know. Walking through Stanford,
it was easy to see why so many of my predecessors had chosen it.
Its a beautiful school with stellar academ-
ics and championship athletics, very much like Duke. But
something was missing, and I concluded my tour uncertain. Months
later, remembering a suggestion from my college counselor, I
decided to visit Duke on a whim. No one from my school had gone to
Duke in almost 10 years. My path to becoming a Blue Devil was
certainly not an expected one. But after setting foot on campus, I
knew Duke was where I wanted to be. Like Stanford, Duke had all the
tangibles: academic, athletics and atmo-
sphere. But it was the intangibles that really sold me. Most
schools attract a certain type of student. If you
make the wrong choice and arent that certain type, it can be
hard to find your place and make friends. Duke isnt one of those
schools. We are incredibly diverse and em-brace our differences. We
make connections with people unlike ourselves and develop
exceptionally strong bonds based on the tight-knit community for
which Duke is fa-mous. If youve spent any time in the freshman
dorms on East Campus or in Cameron Indoor during a game, you know
that the Duke community is alive and well. I believe it is that
strong community aspect that is the fi-nal ingredient for a perfect
school. In short, Duke has it allit is the quintessential college
experience.
If there is one thing to take away, know this: Youll hear people
say that Duke is second tier or that its a place for people who got
denied from the Ivies. We dont really care about the people who say
those things. Duke is an absolutely amazing academic institution,
but it is so much more than that. It is a spirited community filled
with friends that will be a part of your life forever. The energy
is contagious. Its what I felt when I visited as a high school
senior. Its why there are people who turn down Harvard, Yale or
Stanford to come here. Im one of them.
Scott Briggs is a Trinity freshman. This is his final column of
the semester.
In 33 days, Ill no longer be a student at Duke for the first
time in eight years.Since Im staying at Duke for residency, I wont
be leaving, but I have a feeling it wont be the same. Ill never
have an excuse to come to campus, park in the Allen Building
parking lot, sit on the plaza eating a Loop burg-er, stand on Main
Quad lis-tening to a concert or watch-ing a bonfire burn.
Now, when I walk around campus, my own memories call out to
me.
I remember pulling up in the parking lot in front of Blackwell
on my first day, walking into the common room to pick up my room
key. I remember painting the bridge underne