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onTherecord“The brands that dominate are brands that touch you and

connect with you in ways that others don’t.” —McKinney CEO Brad Brinegar on advertising. See story page 3

kunshan update The Cataracs cancel LDOC performance

by Sony RaoTHE CHRONICLE

Acclaimed indie-pop duo The Cataracs will not be a part of this year’s Last Day of Classes celebration, LDOC committee co-chairs announced Tuesday.

Representatives of Indie-Pop Music, the Cataracs’ record label, canceled The Cataracs’ performance to allow the band to attend an awards show April 27. The Cataracs was recently nominated for an award by the American Society of Com-posers, Authors and Publishers for “Pop Song of the Year,” and the pair plans to attend the gala in Los Angeles, Indie-Pop Music Vice President Carlo Fox wrote in a Tuesday email to The Chronicle.

“This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportu-nity and a major stepping stone in their career as young writers [and] producers,” Fox wrote. “The group would love to re-schedule and get a chance to perform for their Duke fans.”

Junior Lindsay Tomson, co-chair of the LDOC committee, said the group received an email Friday from Indie-Pop Music re-garding the band’s conflict. Students were subsequently notified of the change in an email Tuesday morning.

“I’m not sure if we can reschedule with the agency; I think it depends on how our relationship continues with them,” Tomson said in reference to the possibility of a future Cataracs

Satell takes plea deal for child porn chargesby Nicole Kyle

THE CHRONICLE

Senior Cliff Satell pleaded guilty to five misdemeanors fol-lowing a plea bargain in a case stemming from his possession of child pornography.

According to court documents, Satell was sentenced to 18 months of supervised probation and a suspended sentence of 90 days in jail. He does not have to register as a sex offender and will serve jail time only at the judge’s discretion if he violates the terms of his probation.

Satell was first charged in April 2009 with fel-onies related to obtaining and possessing ma-terial containing images of pre-teen and teen boys engaging in sexual activity. If convicted of those charges—second and third degree sexual

exploitation of a minor—he would have had to register as a sex offender. Instead, Satell was convicted Feb. 9 of five counts of misdemeanor preparation of obscene materials for dissemina-

tion, which means that Satell intended to distribute the obscene materials.

“Given what he was charged with and assuming they could prove what they charged him with, this is a very good deal for him,” said James Coleman, the John S. Bradway professor of law. “He went from... very serious felonies that would require him to register as a sex offender to... misdemeanors that carry very little time in jail, that did not require him to register as a sex offender—that’s huge.”

Satell’s lawyer, William Cotter, did not respond to requests for comment. In a telephone interview, Satell declined to comment on his case.

A week after pleading guilty, Satell violated the conditions of his probation by testing positive for marijuana. When Satell’s pro-bation officer, Quanda Edwards, searched his home, she found less than half an ounce of marijuana along with six bongs, a mari-juana grinder, a smoking humidifier, a scale and drug trafficking

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Indie-Pop Music canceled the Cataracs’ LDOC performance so they could attend the ASCAP awards show. They were nominated for “Pop Song of the Year.”

by Lauren CarrollTHE CHRONICLE

As Duke Kunshan University moves for-ward, concerns about the risks involved with the endeavor continue to surface.

Construction on the campus has pro-gressed in recent months, yet the lack of certain details about funding, the cam-pus’ surrounding environment, Chinese local support and the value of expanding globally have caused some to question the plans.

Some faculty members are concerned about the magnitude of the anticipated multi-million dollar investment, but many recognize the benefit in establish-ing a global presence, said Craig Hen-riquez, Academic Council chair and a biomedical engineering professor. Until more faculty members are aware of the details of the endeavor—such as which professors will teach or research at DKU—many will remain skeptical of the project, he added.

“Everyone is trying to get a handle of what the costs are,” Henriquez said. “[Currently], only a handful of faculty are involved, and the rest are wondering if it’s a good investment until they see it in action.”

In a document released last month, ad-ministrators acknowledged the project’s potential financial risks, such as relying on philanthropic support, holding Kunshan accountable for its financial commitments and dealing with potential fluctuations in

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Campus takes shape amid doubts

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Sanaa, yemen — When yemeni secu-rity forces opened fire monday on anti-government demonstrators in two cities, killing at least 12 and wounding scores, president ali abdullah Saleh was miles away, seemingly determined to stretch his 32-year-old rule. in front of hundreds of cheering supporters in the south-central city of dhamar, he declared: “i will never betray the trust you gave me.”

yet, two days earlier, in a meeting with his advisers, Saleh was weighing a new opposition plan for his departure. “he is not holding on to power,” insisted yasser al-awadi, a senior ruling party official who was at the meeting. “his intention is to transfer power to a person who repre-sents the peoples’ will.”

in private, Saleh has indicated to advis-ers and diplomats that he wants to step down. in public, he has become stead-fastly defiant in the face of revolution.

WaShinGton, d.c. — Florida rep. debbie Wasserman Schultz will succeed former Virginia Gov. tim Kaine as chair of the democratic national committee, a move aimed at putting a proven televi-sion presence and able fundraiser from a swing state atop the organization head-ing into 2012.

“in selecting debbie to lead our party, president barack obama noted her te-nacity, her strength, her fighting spirit, and her ability to overcome adversity. president obama expressed great admi-ration for her as a leader, and he was hon-ored that she accepted this important challenge on behalf of the democratic party,” Vice president Joe biden wrote in an e-mail to supporters informing them of the move.

Wasserman Schultz will be the first fe-male chair of the dnc since debra delee lead the organization in the mid-1990s.

Dem. National Committee looks for a new voice

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Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

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Last year on April 15, 2010 thousands of individuals descended on the nation’s capital in hopes of hav-ing their voices heard on tax reform. Officially dubbed “Tax Day,” the day individual income taxes are due to the federal government, has become associated with a surging Tea Party. Last year, more than 80 Tea Party groups organized hundreds of thousands of protestors. Tax Day this year lands on April 18.

“i sincerely apologize to everyone who was offended by its content; it was my inten-tion to be satirical, not hateful. my original intent was simply to show that there are valid reasons to stay in college in an admittedly less-than-original format, through the caricatured mind of a duke fan, not to imply that Kyrie irving ‘owes’ duke stu-dents another year, or anything of the sort. - chris cusack”

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Music 139: Music and Modernism (ALP, W)WF 2:50 PM - 4:05 PM, Stephen JaffeSurvey of 20th and 21st century composers, including Debussy, Stravinsky,Bartók, Varése, Ives, Ellington, Shostakovich, Messiaen, Elliott Carter, SteveReich, and Osvaldo Golijov. Topics include the changing role of thecomposer in society, the evolution of music through technology, thecomposer's dialogues with vernacular music and other traditions, andrelationships to literary and visual modernism.

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Fall 2011Music 121S: Music in Renaissance England (ALP, W)TuTh 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM, Kerry McCarthyExplore the music of sixteenth-century England in its cultural context, alongwith its relationship to other contemporary arts. Topics will include musicin Shakespeare, the lives of composers and performers, the transformationsof English sacred music during the Reformation, and the role of women in theEnglish musical Renaissance. No technical experience in music is required,just open ears and an open mind.

Music 124: The Rise of the Orchestra (ALP, CCI, CZ)MW 4:25 PM - 5:40 PM, Bryan Gilliam and R. Larry ToddThe rise of the modern orchestra as a musical and cultural institution from itsnarrow central European origins in the 18th century to its current status in theworldwide culture industry. Students will compare historical recordings oforchestras and attend rehearsals and concerts of the Duke SymphonyOrchestra.

CEO stresses emotion in advertising

NC may see increase in charter schools

by Stephanie TsimisTHE CHRONICLE

Students hoping to break into the world of advertising learned some of the tricks of the trade Tuesday night.

Brad Brinegar, chair and CEO of McK-inney, an independent advertising agen-cy based in Durham, spoke to a group of students about his career as the second speaker of the Duke Marketing Club’s CEO Speaker Series. McKinney’s clients include Sherwin Williams, Nationwide Insurance and Nike.

After receiving his undergraduate degree in anthropology from Dart-mouth and completing an MBA in fi-

nance at Columbia Graduate School of Business, Brin-egar began his advertising career at the Leo Burnett USA agency in 1979. Twenty-one years later, Brinegar became the CEO.

In 2002, Brinegar moved to the Triangle to lead McKin-ney as CEO and chairman.

Brinegar said that when he was first offered the posi-tion of CEO, he declined and offered instead to buy the

company—an offer that was denied. Brinegar said he joined the company anyway as McKinney was the right “Pe-tri dish” in which to create an agency that would thrive in the digital world.

Senior Christine Hall, president of the Duke Marketing Club, said Brinegar was chosen to be part of the speaker series because of McKinney’s desire to create a greater partnership with Duke students looking to pursue a career in advertising.

“I loved hearing about how the landscape of the indus-try is changing,” said Hall, who is also The Chronicle’s cre-ative services student manager. “It really is a crucial time for new grads to jump into the field.”

After showing an old “Got milk?” commercial, one of Brinegar’s “all-time favorite pieces of advertising,” he dis-cussed how advertising is about more than just increasing business for clients.

“I don’t believe that creativity and business results live apart,” he said. “The only point of the thing we do is to [connect with our audience].”

In another video during the presentation, Brinegar

by Michael Shammas THE CHRONICLE

The North Carolina General Assembly is debating a bill that could change the face of public education in North Carolina.

Republican legislators are pushing for Senate Bill 8, a measure that would allow the opening of 50 new charter schools each year and lift the limit of 100 such schools in the state. The latest version of the bill passed in the Sen-ate and is expected to be discussed by the House Finance Committee today.

Charter schools receive more independence than tra-ditional public schools, including the ability to enroll stu-

dents who are not exclusively from one school district. The schools are expected to reach certain educational bench-marks as outlined in their charters, and because they are funded by federal and local governments, they cannot charge tuition.

Republicans tout charter schools’ capacity for greater independence and educational innovation, though Dem-ocrats and many public school administrators fear that an increase in the number of the schools would siphon money away from other important areas of public educa-tion, including traditional public schools. If passed into

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Duke junior earns Goldwater Scholar award

from Staff ReportsTHE CHRONICLE

A Duke junior was named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar in Science, Mathematics and Engineering, the University announced Tuesday.

Vivek Bhattacharya, an A.B. Duke Scholar from Cary, North Carolina, won the award in recognition of his undergraduate research in physics and economics, according to a Duke news release. Through the national award, he is eligible for up to $7,500 toward annual tuition and expenses.

Bhattacharya has conducted phys-ics research with Steffen Bass, associ-ate professor of physics, using com-puter skills to model the extremely

hot sub-atomic molecules that existed millionths of a second after the Big Bang.

Bhattacharya’s economics research models simu-late bidding behaviors in online auctions, which might “help us design tools to increase government revenue and reduce government costs” when trying to sell a contract or product, he said in the release. Bhattacha-rya has worked on this research with Andrew Sweeting and James Roberts, both assistant professors of eco-nomics.

Bhattacharya is president of the Math Union and a teaching assistant for economics, the field in which he will apply for graduate school.

Duke has had a total of 70 Goldwater Scholars since the program began in 1988. This year, two other stu-dents—juniors Daphne Ezer and Farzan Beroz—were among the award’s honorable mentions.

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Certificate projects provide hands-on field experience

by Ashley MooneyTHE CHRONICLE

Rollin Say, a premed senior completing the global health certificate, conducted fieldwork in Brazil last summer where he focused primarily on community-based research in a remote Amazonian village. Say part-nered with a Brazilian nongovernmental organization, which he had already worked with during a DukeEn-gage independent project.

Say’s research was part of the student fieldwork pro-gram. Students looking to conduct fieldwork projects can seek funding from several grants, many of which are funded by the Duke Global Health Institute, and programs like DukeEngage. Students and officials say the program has provided students with a unique, first-hand experience in resolving health-related issues worldwide.

“The most rewarding part of my project was simply the opportunity to live within such a remote commu-nity,” Say wrote in an email.

The program, which combines academic inquiry with community service, is currently required for all students pursuing the global health certificate but is also open to other students interested in international healthcare. Past fieldwork projects have focused on a wide range of medical and social topics, including HIV/AIDS, maternal health and specific methods of providing medical care to rural communities all over the world.

“DGHI fieldwork has both [community service and research] within what it does, but it also looks at some of the ethical issues that are involved with working with

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A group of Duke researchers found that some Twitter users are indirectly revealing their political affiliations without nec-essarily tweeting about politics. The three researchers, graduate students in political science, analyzed the accounts politicians, celebrities and institutions follow on Twitter as well as the users that follow those accounts. This process allowed the researchers to place users on a spectrum ranging from the far left to the far right. The Chronicle’s Julia Ni spoke to David Sparks, one of the researchers and a doctoral candidate, about the findings of this study and its implications.

the chronicle: Why did you choose to explore this issue?david sparks: Our paper is actually about ideology in

primary elections and whether relatively extreme ideology is an advantage or disadvantage to candidates in primary elections. So the problem is, it’s not easy to estimate ideol-ogy for people who have never formally cast a vote in Con-gress. We use Twitter as a source of information on which we could base our estimates and look at whether the more extreme ideology was actually advantageous. After doing that, we added a bunch of entities, political figures and interest groups to see if their estimates matched with what we would expect.

tc: Could you explain the methodology of your study?ds: Essentially, we collected a list of political and public

figures with Twitter accounts and identified each individu-al following and being followed by each of them. We made this into a huge matrix, several million rows long, of 1s and 0s and found the correlation between each of the in-dividuals we were interested in. Then, we used a technique called non-metric multidimensional scaling to essentially reduce the amount of information required to represent the patterns driving following preferences, finding that something very like ideology was a factor. As it turns out, our estimates correlate very well with existing measures of ideology, which are based on roll-call voting in Congress.

tc: How did you decide which organizations and indi-viduals to analyze?

ds: For political figures, we tried to find every incum-bent Senate and House [of Representatives] member on Twitter. At the time we collected the data—which was in

Fall 2010—we think we had a complete list of all House and Senate members on Twitter at that time. And then, also, we think we had a complete list of every Senate pri-mary challenger on Twitter. So we tried to come up with individuals from both sides of the spectrum. We tried to be complete. As for non-political figures, mostly, we just sat down and tried to decide who would be interest-ing... media members who covered the election, some celebrities.

tc: What were the most surprising or unexpected results?ds: I think the most surprising thing about the estimates

was that we got a very, very nice discrimination between

Republicans and Democrats. If you look at our estimates—which go from about negative 1 to 1.5—at the 0 point, it’s almost exclusively Democrats to the left and Republicans to the right. So it discriminates almost perfectly between parties, which was pretty cool. We were glad to see that. So in this study, we did find that relatively extreme ideology was an advantage to helping people win primary elections. There were a lot of interesting estimates. If you looked at the estimates we did for Senate challengers, the far right is inhabited almost exclusively by candidates affiliated in some way with the Tea Party, which sort of makes sense and is a confirmation that our method was doing what we were thinking it would do. And then, some interesting specific

“So in this study, we did find that relatively extreme ideology was an advantage to helping people win

primary elections.” — David Sparks,

Duke researcher, doctoral candidate

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Q A& with David Sparks


The following Fall 2011 courses all count towards the certificate:

Intro to Latino/a Studies in the Global South with Prof Antonio Viego, LSGS 100S/SPAN 120S/AAAS 199S/LIT 162ES

Reading Latina and Latino History through Literature with Prof Claudia Milian, LSGS 181S/SPAN 181S/ICS 131GS

Latino/a Voices in Duke, Durham, and Beyond with Prof Joan Clifford, LSGS 106ES/SPAN 106ES

Mayas, Aztecs and Incas with Prof Walter Mignolo, LSGS 155/SPAN 155D/ICS 155/CULANTH 157

Health, Culture, and the Latino Community, LSGS 106/SPAN 106A

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The interdisciplinary certificate, Latino/a Studies in the Global South, provides students with comparative, historical, and cultural knowledge of Latino communities. Open to students from all disciplines, the certificate offers a better understanding of Latinos in the United States and provides an extra credential as you leave Duke for the “real world.”

Large areas along the Japanese coast were devastated by an earthquake and resulting tsunami March 11. The disas-ter disabled the cooling systems of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, which caused some degree of meltdown in three of the plant’s reactors. The explosions triggered fears of radiation-related illnesses and international concern over the safety of nuclear energy. Al-most one month after the earthquake, The Chronicle’s Matt Barnett spoke with radiation safety expert Dr. Robert Reiman, general secretary of the Duke University Medical Center’s Ra-diation Safety Committee.

the chronicle: Can you describe what happened to the facility and how that damaged the reactors?

robert reiman: Following the earthquake, the four active reactors at the plant all shut down automatical-ly and safely as designed. Unfortunately, the tsunami caused both the primary and backup cooling water sup-plies to the reactor cores to fail. Even when a nuclear reactor is shut down, excess heat from the decay of ra-dioactive byproducts must still be removed, so the cool-ing system pumps must still work. Without sufficient cooling water, this buildup of heat has caused the dam-age to the reactors.

tc: What part of the reactor is leaking radiation?rr: Fortunately, the initial releases into the air due

to hydrogen fires and explosions have stopped. Radio-activity at very high levels has been found in surface water near the plant and in seawater. It isn’t clear ex-actly where the water containing radioactive material is coming from. Candidates include pooling of water beneath the reactor cores, or cracks in concrete elec-trical conduits that filled with contaminated water dur-ing attempts to cool the reactor cores by pouring huge amounts of seawater directly on them.

tc: What kind of radiation is leaking?rr: Radioisotopes released in this type of accident

include xenon-133, iodine-131, cesium-137 and stron-tium-90. By far the most abundant is xenon-133, fol-lowed by iodine-131. The others are released in much

smaller amounts.tc: How does radiation travel through the environ-

ment, and how long will it persist?rr: The good news about xenon-133 is that it isn’t

soluble in water and doesn’t chemically react with any-thing, so it simply disperses in the atmosphere and de-cays away in a few days. The bad news about iodine-131, if released into the atmosphere as particulates, is that it will settle out onto farmland and dairy pasture. When eaten by cows, iodine-131 in the contaminated grass can get into milk, which may be consumed by people. Iodine-131 concentrates in the thyroid gland, and ir-radiation of the thyroid gland can lead to health prob-

lems later in life, especially for infants and children. Strontium-90 and cesium-137 can settle into the soil, where they may be incorporated into groundwater or certain plants such as lichens and mushrooms. They may get into people after they drink contaminated wa-ter or eat meat from large game like wild boar or elk. These radionuclides have long half-lives, and may per-sist in the environment for decades.

tc: What steps can be taken to remove radiation from the environment?

rr: Based upon our experience with the Chernobyl reactor meltdown in 1986, most things people can do to remove contamination from the environment aren’t very effective. However, there are ways to minimize the adverse effects. For example, natural dilution in the atmosphere and ocean by winds and water currents can reduce radioactivity levels to the point where there are no health concerns. Iodine-131 has a radioactive half-life of about eight days, so it doesn’t persist in the envi-ronment for more than a few months after the release of radioactivity stops. In the same way, non-perishable milk products like cheese and evaporated milk need not be discarded, but can be safely used after a few months of storage.

tc: How will the radiation affect people living near the damaged reactors?

rr: Unless the situation gets significantly worse, there will probably be no measurable health effects among people living near the reactors. To be conser-vative, the Japanese government has evacuated most residents from areas within about 20 kilometers of the plant.

tc: With respect to the radiation, what would you say is Japan’s biggest concern at this point?

rr: Unfortunately, the biggest concern is the eco-nomic impact on the Japanese seafood export, farming and dairy industries. Irrational fears about eating foods that may be contaminated at levels far too small to cause

Q A& with Dr. Robert Reiman

Special to the chronicle

Dr. Robert Reiman, a radiation safety expert, spoke with The Chronicle on the potential effects of radiation from Japan’s Fukushima plant. SEE reiman ON PAGE 7


law, the bill would also create an independent board to oversee the schools.

In an interview with The Chronicle, State Senator Rich-ard Stevens—R-Wake and the primary sponsor of the bill—said he believes an increase in the schools will ultimately benefit public education in Durham and in the state in general.

“Charter schools [provide] some flexibility so that they can improve down the road,” he said. “Some people [oppose them because they] think they aren’t public schools, but... they’re just a different type of public school.”

Stevens said that Republicans are trying to ensure the finished bill is a bipartisan effort. House members of both parties are currently meeting with Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue, and Democratic lawmakers are playing a substan-tial role in finalizing the bill, he noted.

“The biggest advocate for charter schools in the coun-try is actually President [Barack] Obama,” Stevens said. “This isn’t a partisan issue, but people have different views about them.”

Some Durham Public School Board members have voiced opposition to the present version of the bill. They say it would be financially unfeasible for the number of charter schools to increase without a corresponding hike in funding.

“As it’s written now, it would be devastating,” school board member Natalie Beyer said, according to The Herald Sun. “It would be devastating on top of two years of budget cuts that we’ve already endured. We’re still not far enough into this budget cycle to know the impact on the classroom for the Fall, for 2011, but this bill would be devastating.”

Brian Ammons, assistant professor of the practice of edu-cation, wrote in an email that although charter schools can sometimes provide a superior education to students, they of-ten widen socioeconomic and racial divides.

“I have no opposition to charter schools per se. What I find problematic is the idea that they are a panacea for the challenges of educating a democratic society,” he said. “I have real concerns about the race and class re-segregation that seems to be going on in charter schools.”

CHARTeR SCHOOLS from page 3

by Joby Warrick and Liz SlyTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON - A U.S. envoy arrived Tuesday in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi to begin talks on possible financial help to the Libyan opposition amid reports of fresh setbacks for anti-government forces in the key port city of Brega.

Chris Stevens, a former U.S. Embassy official in Tripoli and the highest-ranking U.S. representative to travel to Libya since the uprising began, will explore ways to open the funding spigots for an opposition movement that is desperately short of cash and supplies, a State Department spokesman said Tuesday.

“We’re well aware that there’s an urgency,” spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. “The Transitional National Council does need funding if it’s to survive, and we’re looking for ways to assist them.”

But Stevens, who was expected to remain in Benghazi

for several days, brought no fresh promises of political or military support from Washington, which has declined so far to either arm the rebels or grant symbolically important diplomatic recognition. Italy joined France and Qatar on Monday as the first states to formally recognize the Tran-sitional National Council as the legitimate government of Libya, with Kuwait and several other countries considering similar moves.

The visit came amid news of a rebel retreat from Brega, a hub for oil exports and the scene of see-saw battles over the past two weeks. Rebel fighters were pushed back un-der heavy rocket and artillery file, the Associated Press re-ported, as momentum appeared to shift again, this time in favor of loyalist troops dug in around the town.

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continued to pound the besieged town of Misurata, killing a 10-year-old child and a radiology technician at the local hospital, accord-ing to a doctor at the hospital who spoke on the condition

of anonymity out of concern for his family’s safety. Though NATO planes were heard flying overhead, there have been few airstrikes against Gadhafi positions, leaving people in the town feeling abandoned and betrayed, he said. “Instead of a no-fly zone we have a no-safe zone,” he said.

Despite the apparent losses in Brega, opposition lead-ers say they are preparing to begin exporting crude oil to raise money for the transitional council. A large oil tanker steamed into Tobruk in rebel-held eastern Libyan to take on an estimated 1 million barrels of crude, Bloomberg News reported.

The rebel group has struggled to raise money since the start of the uprising, lacking the means to sell oil and failing so far to find enough foreign funders and donors. Billions of dollars in Libyan cash sits in European and U.S. banks, frozen by U.N. sanctions and out of reach, for now. Toner,

US Envoy arrives in Libya to help opposition fighters

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If Senate Bill 8 is ratified, 50 new charter schools would open. The bill would also eliminate the current cap of 100 such schools statewide.


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African and African-American Studies AAAS 123S: Civil/Human Rights Activism

Biomedical Engineering BME 260L: Devices for People with Disabilities

Chemistry CHEM 109: Chemistry Outreach

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Cultural Anthropology CULANTH 161S: Human Rights Activism CULANTH 161AS: Civil/Human Rights Activism

Dance DANCE 154S: Performance & Social Change

Documentary Studies DOCST 113S: Digital Photography: Transience DOCST 126S: Civil/Human Rights Activism DOCST 193S: Documentary Engagement

Education EDUC 89S: Teaching with Robots EDUC 100: Foundations of Education EDUC 108S: Language Arts and Social Studies EDUC 111FCS: Pursuit of Equality EDUC 112S: Children, Schools, and Society EDUC 118: Educational Psychology EDUC 163: Educational Leadership EDUC 166: Exceptional Learners EDUC 170S: Economic Literacy & Engagement EDUC 170S: Critical Studies in Education

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Sociology SOCIOL 99JFCS: The Limits of Obligation SOCIOL 162: Adulthood & Aging SOCIOL 164: Death & Dying

Spanish SPANISH 106A: Health, Culture, Community SPANISH 106ES: Latino/a Voices in Duke, Durham

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global health,” said Lysa MacKeen, DGHI student projects coordinator.

Due to political limitations, Say did not succeed in col-lecting data for his project analyzing the impact the intro-duction of a new telemedicine system would have on the health attitudes toward healthcare of people in this com-munity. Still, he said the experience was valuable.

“I feel that this experience was perhaps the most forma-tive of my entire Duke career. I learned a great deal about the community as well as about myself in the month I was there,” Say wrote.

Another student deeply affected by her experiences in the program was junior Sneha Shah, who studied maternal mortality last summer in Naama, a small Ugandan village.

Shah received funding for her trip from the Aalok S. Modi Global Health Fieldwork Fund, created in memory of a Duke student who passed away Feb. 2008. Although not pursuing a global health certificate, Shah said she thought that much of her work has held to the theme of global health, specifically her involvement with Duke Global Medical Brigades and Foundations for the Interna-tional Medical Relief of Children.

“In Uganda, many women delay coming to the hospital, and I wanted to understand what the root cause of this was,” Shah wrote in an email. “I found that many women actually wanted to deliver [their babies] at the hospital, but they had no way of getting there.”

In Uganda, Shah led a task force of community mem-bers to develop emergency medical transport insurance, which guarantees transport to the nearest hospital during delivery and maternal complications. She said her mission was to decrease maternal morbidity and mortality by estab-lishing concrete options for unplanned emergencies.

“The most rewarding parts of the project were actually the challenges I faced and what I learned about global health work and about myself,” Shah wrote. “I came in with the wrong mindset of how we needed to ‘fix’ a problem.”

Shah added that her role as a volunteer was to be a cata-lyst in fixing the problem, not the solution.

“The people of the community have such potential, wis-dom, and desire to address the issues of their community. The resources are also available,” she wrote. “We were sim-ply the link between the two and the facilitators of change for what they deemed was a necessary step forward for the community.”

Say and Shah’s personal accounts are only a few of the hundreds of fieldwork experiences that the Global Health Institute has helped make possible.

“I think that the abundance and diversity of student fieldwork grants highlight not only DGHI’s commitment to grounded, real-world education, but also the staff’s extraordinary responsiveness to the desires of students,” wrote senior Brian Clement, who conducted life-history interviews with Bhutanese refugees in southeastern Nepal for his fieldwork project last summer. “DGHI’s willingness to respond to student input has produced some of the most rewarding experiences I have had at Duke.”

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health effects will harm those industries.tc: Is there a risk of an earthquake in North Carolina

causing a similar situation?rr: That’s hard to say. Significant earthquakes haven’t

occurred in North Carolina in the past few centuries, and future earthquakes aren’t likely. But that doesn’t mean they can’t occur, so nuclear reactors are designed to sur-vive earthquake damage. Having said that, accidents like the one in Japan that are the result of natural disasters

are causing the regulatory agencies in the United States to review power reactor safety.

tc: Anything else you’d like to add?rr: Everyone’s been pretty focused on the radiation

aspects of this disaster. Let’s not lose sight of the fact that over 10,000 people have died, hundreds of thou-sands have suddenly been made homeless and many others whose homes survived are still without electric-ity or clean water. Although the minimal health risks from radiation need to be addressed, the Japanese people have a lot of other more urgent things to worry about.

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the State Department spokesman, said U.S. Treasury of-ficials were exploring ways to free up the money for the opposition, even as it continues to evaluate the rebels.

“We’ve been proceeding cautiously, working to estab-lish contacts not only with the TNC but with a number of other opposition leaders as this opposition govern-ment evolves,” Toner said. He confirmed that there had been no decision on granting diplomatic recognition or providing military aid or training to rebel groups.

The spokesman also declined to endorse any of several apparent peace overtures floated in recent days by both the rebels and aides close to Gadhafi. A plan attributed to Gadhafi’s second-oldest son, Seif al-Islam, proposed a possible peace deal in which Gadhafi would step down as leader while Seif would serve as a transitional figure until a new Libyan government was formed.

“There’s a lot of plans being bandied about,” Toner said. “What’s clear is that it’s really up to the Libyan peo-ple and the Libyan opposition to decide how this looks. “

In Tripoli, Libyan deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaim said Libya was open to “any political solution,” and said the government would be prepared to consid-er political reforms or elections if the rebels laid down their arms.

But he also dismissed the possibility of negotiations with the Transitional National Council, saying the rebel government amounted to little more than an “armed militia” that had been infiltrated by al-Qaida and was supported by a minority of Libyans.

Acting Libyan Foreign Minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi arrived in Turkey for talks with its government, just a day after he delivered a message from Gadhafi to Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in Athens.

Turkey and Greece, both NATO members, have said that they want to listen to proposals from both sides on a way to end the violence. Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas said after meeting with Obeidi that “there is mobility, and there is a chance, albeit small, for a politico-diplomatic solution.”

Sly reported from Tripoli. Special correspondent Karla Adam in London and staff researcher Julie Tate in Washington contributed to this report.

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the size of Duke’s total investment. “We believe we understand the principal strategic and

operational risks, though we acknowledge that there is always the risk of the unknown and the unanticipated,” the document, which was produced by the Office of the Provost and the Office of Global Strategy and Programs, states.

Although the administration has put forth detailed in-vestment plans, some aspects of long-term financing are still unclear to administrators themselves.

Details of DKU’s potential initial enrollment and tu-ition costs are not concrete, Executive Vice President Tall-man Trask said. He believes it is too early to predict how soon DKU will become self-sufficient through revenue generated by tuition.

“The reality is, until [students] actually show up, if the numbers turn out to be more than expected, we’ll have to reconsider and go back to the faculty and Trustees with a different discussion,” Trask said.

Kunshan and Duke will split operational cost sub-sidies for the first six years—with Duke covering 52 percent—and Kunshan will rent the campus to the University at no cost for 10 years. These agreements are expected to be renewed in the future under their current conditions, Trask said.

The cost to the University throughout DKU’s first six years is expected to total $37 million in addition to the $5.5 million previously spent on design and construction oversight. The University will also draw a $13.3 million loan from central administrative funds for campus furnish-ings, Trask said.

Because the investment comes shortly after the Univer-sity cut funding from the Durham campus in light of the economic downturn, questions have arisen about the up-coming spending in China.

“Over the last couple of years [the University has] had to cut $125 million, and now we are going to be sending a good amount of money to Duke Kunshan,” said political science professor Paula McClain at the March 24 Academ-ic Council meeting. “But all of the money they take in will stay within that institution. Are we going to be squeezed even more?”

Henriquez said faculty tend to get anxious when the University “experiments.” He added, however, that he has observed significantly less excitement from his colleagues about DKU than he expected. Faculty are concerned that they will not be able to continue Durham initiatives be-cause of the costs of projects in Kunshan.

“It’s hard to find people who are hyper-enthusiastic about this—that’s a little surprising to me,” he said. “[En-thusiasm is] not as evident as it should be at this point.”

‘incalculable’ rewardsFew Dukies in Durham have seen the campus’ develop-

ment first hand, but one Kunshan local has visited the site and expressed confidence in the project.

American investment company owner Virgil Adams has been investing in Kunshan for 15 years. He recently moved his company, New Frontier Investments, to the re-gion because he believes it will eventually emerge as the “Chinese Silicon Valley.” Adams has been closely follow-ing DKU’s construction, occasionally tracking its progress in his blog, “My Kunshan.”

Based on his experience as a developer in the region, he believes Duke’s decision to build a campus in China will induce “incalculable” rewards. Adams acknowledged that the initial budget might seem steep but said a prediction of DKU’s value in 20 years could vastly exceed believable expectations.

“Any university that does not jump at an opportunity to be here is going to get left by the wayside of history,” he said in an interview. “I cannot imagine how Duke could make any money off this in the first five years, but in 20 years, this will have a phenomenal, immeasurable return on investment for Kunshan and Duke.... You can’t even imagine it—no one can.”

Provost Peter Lange echoed the importance of estab-lishing a global presence. The advantages are hard to see when working in a nation with a “complicated political landscape” like China, he said.

“We need to remember this is a major strategic initiative for the University—it’s easy to lose sight in the thousands of details,” Lange said. “When one is evaluating risks, it’s always worthwhile to think about the risks of doing nothing.”

‘i’ll believe it when i see it’In addition to observing DKU’s progress from afar,

Adams was able to get a tour of the construction site last month—a privilege typically reserved for Duke adminis-trators and Kunshan officials. When he first visited in late 2010, he said, there was almost no activity or indication that work was being done and he was skeptical that the project would be finished by its expected completion date of late 2012. When he visited again in March, his opinion changed. That time, construction crews had begun work on the school’s foundation and were constructing base-ments, he said.

“[Last year], I said it doesn’t look like anything is going to open in the next three years,” he said. “This time, it was obvious work was being done.”

When administrators first presented tentative plans for the Chinese campus, they anticipated that the first phase of construction would be completed sometime in 2011. Challenges such as finalizing agreements with a partner university contributed to the project’s delay. In January, the University established a partnership with Wuhan University, and if its appeal to the Chinese Min-istry of Education to establish a campus is approved, DKU should be able to enroll students for Fall 2012 academic programs.

Although the campus is making obvious strides in construction, Adams said Kunshan locals remain largely unaware of the project. He believes the limited publicity can be attributed to the many other large and fast-paced developments happening throughout the city, causing Duke to get “lost in the shuffle.” A lack of significant Duke presence contributes to the minimal Chinese pub-lic response, he added.

“The credibility of the endeavor might get called into question, not in a negative way,” Adams said. “The Chinese are saying, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it.’”

Additionally, DKU is not readily visible to many Kun-shan citizens. Located near the Suzhou Industrial Park, the campus is about a 20-minute drive from downtown Kunshan and is surrounded by vacant land with business complexes on the other side of the empty lots, he said. Although largely industrial, he believes that this area is a smart place for Duke to invest because of significant re-search taking place nearby.

“People are going to start up the future Google or Ap-ple in Kunshan, and what’s the value of that investment?” Adams said.

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Although Duke students love basketball, baseball contains equally compelling storylines, Tom Gieryn writes.

Baseball’s return good news for all sports fans

Coach K’s influence extends beyond the court

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TomGieryn

The end of basketball season can some-times be bittersweet on Duke’s campus, where hoops is king. But it’s nice to know there’s something to look forward to in the seven months between games in Cam-eron Indoor Stadium: It’s baseball season

again.For those of you

that have loved the game through the years as much as I have, you know the anticipation I’m talk-ing about.

You’ve sat through a winter of trade ru-

mors and free-agent signings and a spring of headlines about players in the “best

shape of their lives.” You’ve heard the trash talking from

fans of rival teams and listened to the pun-dits blather on about what’s going to hap-pen, as if they already saw the advanced screening.

and now you’re just ready to get on with the games, with the summer, with the march toward october, where miracles happen.

You know exactly what Christina Kahrl, a writer for Baseball prospectus, means when she describes baseball as “a thing of its own, with a soundscape you can hear in the back of your head without prompting…a living thing moving at its own unhurried pace, a

by Harrison ComfortTHe CHRonICLe

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a three-part series spotlighting the connection between the NBA and Duke Basketball. Yesterday’s emphasis was on how Duke’s power brokers achieved their positions in the NBA. Today’s story focuses on how Duke influenced them. Tomorrow, The Chronicle looks at

an uncertain future of those entering the NBA Draft. While many of Mike Krzyzewski’s former players have thrived in

professional basketball, this success also extends to those who came into contact with the Hall-of-Fame coach, but never even suited up for the Blue Devils.

Krzyzewski’s knack for inspiring others has left lasting impressions both on and off the court, whether they be on the basketball team’s former head manager or the nBa’s second highest-ranking executive.

and his uncanny ability to maximize others’ potential starts with the fundamental mes-sage he preaches to his teams.

“Coach K uses an expression with his team and that is about being ‘all-In,’” said adam Silver, the nBa deputy commissioner. “He finds a way to make everyone feel, whether

you’re the person booking the travel arrangements or responsible for the uniforms, that they are equally part of the team. There’s no doubt that that’s a large part of why he’s so successful…. He finds a way to get the best out of everyone.”

Silver, who did not meet Krzyzewski until after he graduated, saw firsthand how the Hall-of-Fame coach interacted with the USa Basketball personnel in the 2008 Beijing olympics, and he has applied a similar attitude to the Commissioner’s office as he leads the League’s global expansion and collective bargaining agreement.

nick arison, who assisted with the national Team’s day-to-day operations and currently holds an executive position with the Miami Heat, learned the importance of buying into a team concept when he served as the Blue Devils’ head basketball manager. Working with Krzyzewski on both the collegiate and international level taught him about the time commitment necessary to establish a winning culture. The hard work also yielded gratify-ing rewards.

“Being a Duke manager, you are totally immersed in [the program],” arison said. “Your personal schedule revolves around the team schedule, games, practices, meetings,

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daily escape from the everyday race.”There are many of you, though, who are sports

fans but not baseball fans, and I can understand that. appreciation of the game is much easier when you know the stories behind the action: the pitcher recov-ering from surgery, the rookie adjusting to life in the big leagues. Baseball brings out those storylines like no other sport because it’s a game that has plenty of time for them.

Baseball has time for stories because it’s the only game that doesn’t have a clock ticking overhead. The players make their own time: as long as a team doesn’t make outs, it gets to keep batting. There’s no buzzer and no play clock. The game paces itself, and the spaces get filled up with the people that make the game.

But it’s those spaces that seem to turn most peo-ple off from baseball. “Baseball takes forever,” peo-ple complain, in spite of the fact that the average game length of two hours and 50 minutes isn’t that much longer than the average college basketball broadcast, and is dwarfed by the nFL’s four-hour time slots.

If it isn’t long, then it’s at least slow, they say, even though a January 2010 study by the Wall Street Jour-nal concluded that “the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an nFL game is about 11 minutes.”

as the nFL and the nBa ride the rails on an ap-parent crash course to labor strife and lockouts, baseball is as healthy as it’s ever been. That’s not

to say the sport hasn’t had its ups and downs, since it had its own lockout back in the mid-1990s and is still haunted by the specter of steroid use that in-filtrated the game in the decade that followed the 1994 strike.

But baseball is now ahead of other sports in regu-lating performance-enhancing drugs, and the cur-rent stretch of labor peace is nearly unprecedented in modern sports.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m a fan of other sports, too, and I look forward to Monday night Football and Sunday night Hoops as much as anybody. But base-ball is a different kind of investment altogether.

pick a team and watch them for a while, and you’ll get used to the rhythm of the announcers, until their voices almost become a comfort. You’ll get to know the stories that shape the players that shape the games, and those stories are as diverse as can be.

enjoy an athlete with a little quirky humility? Think of the former astros hurler Roy oswalt, who asked for, and received, a $200,000 bulldozer for winning a start in the 2005 national League Cham-pionship Series.

Like a little Cinderella story? Look no further than the nationals’ Rick ankiel, who re-invented himself as a hitter when he couldn’t live up to the lofty expecta-tions set for him as one of the game’s most heralded pitching prospects.

need a tale of redemption? Baseball has those, too, in the likes of Josh Hamilton, who overcame drug ad-dictions and off-the-field issues to become one of the most feared hitters in the majors.

In fact, for most baseball fans, it’s as much about the people who play the game as the game itself.

But even the old-fashioned nine-inning baseball game is ironically perfect for contemporary society. In today’s world of hyper-attention and multi-tasking, base-ball fits right in. It’s a perfect thing to be watching while you’re doing something else. Turn it on as background noise while working on a problem set. Fall asleep to the chatter of extra innings.

You can afford to miss a pitch or two, because the game isn’t in a hurry. even if you are.

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“In today’s world of hyper-attention and multi-tasking,

baseball fits right in. It’s a perfect thing to be watching

while you’re doing some-thing else.”

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Former Blue Devil and eSPn basketball analyst Jay Bilas recalled how Mike Krzyzewski challenges his players to reflect on the meaning of winning.

and the travel…. But by being willing to do that and put-ting in the huge time commitment, I was part of one of the greatest basketball programs there is, if not the greatest, and in my opinion, the best coach in college basketball.”

In addition to encouraging the “all-In” concept, Krzyzewski forces his players to self-reflect and evaluate how they can improve their individual performances. This introspective approach pays dividends over the course of a season, whether in the locker room or the front office, and helps players and executives alike focus on accomplishing future goals. So even if the team is win-ning, Krzyzewski focuses more on the team’s progression than its victorious results.

“I’ve never heard [Coach K] say a win is a win,” said Jay Bilas, the eSpn basketball analyst who helped lead Duke to the 1986 national Championship game. “He might be the most unhappy person on the planet during a win streak if he feels it’s going to hurt them in the long run…. He’s always challenged us to think about winning…and taught us to evaluate where and who you are right now, not just as a person, but as an organization.”

Yet while Krzyzewski encourages individuals to evaluate their team contributions, he also guides players to help them maximize their potential. Serving as an educator rather than just a basketball coach, he remains a mentor to

former players and stays loyal to those who have supported his team concept, providing advice in basketball, personal matters and even life-changing decisions.

“I’ve never made a major decision in my life without talking to Coach K,” new Jersey nets general Manager and former Blue Devils captain Billy King said. “Whether it be taking a gM job or coaching job, I’ve always talked to him for advice and guidance.”

Most importantly, Krzyzewski leads by example in han-dling the spotlight. He teaches those around him to de-velop a thick skin and stay focused on fulfilling one’s obli-gation to the team.

This has proven especially helpful for arison in Mi-ami. The Heat acquired olympic gold-medalists Lebron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade from Krzyzewski’s national Team in the off-season, spawning a media frenzy that still persists.

“The other thing that Duke really prepares you for is the scrutiny and media attention,” arison said. “There aren’t many college programs that are like that. So to be able to handle the interviews and demands on your time off the court, I think being at Duke prepares you for that.”

Ultimately Krzyzewski, similar to the university at which he coaches, has a multi-faceted influence on for-mer students.

“one thing that Duke prepares you for, as well as Coach K, is not just to be a pro basketball player,” King said. “It prepares you for life.”

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Freshman robert Huber pitched six shutout innings in only his second career start as Duke held off Wofford 7-5 Tuesday night at Jack Coombs Field.

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In the midst of a brutal aCC stretch, it’s vital for Duke to take advantage of its nonconference matchups as an op-portunity to build confidence and pick up a win.

against Wofford last night, Robert Huber pitched six scoreless innings, and the Blue Devils survived a late rally to beat the Terriers 7-5 at Jack Coombs Field.

Huber was dominant in his second career start for Duke (17-14). The freshman gave up only two hits and didn’t

surrender a walk. “That was as good a start as

we’ve had this year,” head coach Sean Mcnally said. “He mixed three pitches and really command-ed his fastball well. I’m really ex-

cited for Robert. He’s worked very hard, and it’s great to see him get results.”

Huber gave up two hits in the second inning, but the freshman caught fire in the third as he retired 12 straight batters before he was relieved at the start of the seventh.

“I was just going with the flow,” Huber said. “[My pitch-es] were working well together…. I was just getting up there and throwing strikes, and I knew the infielders were making plays behind me.”

The Blue Devils jumped out to an early 5-0 lead in the second. after three consecutive singles from Jordan Betts, Will piwnica-Worms and Dennis o’grady to begin the in-ning, Marcus Stroman dropped a triple down the right field line to score all three baserunners.

“I think everyone is just starting to feed off each other,” Mc-nally said. “It’s nice to see Worms get going. Stroman got a big hit. That really helps the young guys and helps our offense.”

Stroman scored soon after when angelo LaBruna slapped a grounder to second base for the RBI. after Ryan Munger walked, Chris Marconcini added the fifth run by ripping an RBI double.

alex Wilson replaced Terrier starter eric eck in the third and was effective in shutting down the Blue Devils in

his four innings of work. He scattered three hits and gave up zero runs.

But Duke added two more insurance runs in the seventh after Wilson was relieved by Ryan Traylor. The Blue Devils loaded the bases, and after o’grady struck out and Stroman grounded into a fielder’s choice at home, it looked as though Duke would leave three bas-erunners stranded.

But LaBruna came through again by stroking a line-drive to center field that drove in two runs. He was 2-3 on the night with three RBIs.

“The bats are starting to come on,” LaBruna said. “guys are starting to feel really good at the plate…. especially in the mid-week games, we have to work on doing the little

things and playing well so that when we get to the aCC games, we can just execute.”

The Terriers’ bats came alive in the eighth during a five-run rally that put the pressure on the Blue Devils. In his second inning of relief, Ben grisz struggled as Wofford (14-16) strung together four hits, including two doubles.

Stroman switched from second base to the mound, and although he gave up a single that scored two of grisz’s baser-unners, he struck out the next two batters to end the inning.

Stroman took care of business in the ninth and picked up the save. Tonight the Blue Devils look to gain more momentum and earn another nonconference win against UnC-greensboro.

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away, the committee will try to secure a full line-up in time for the celebration, said LDOC committee co-chair Will Be-nesh, a senior.

Tomson said the committee is current-ly looking for an artist of the same indie-pop genre that would appeal to Cataracs fans, adding that the group must consid-er artists within a certain price range.

Several students expressed concern about The Cataracs’ withdrawal and re-cording artist Dev’s ability to perform a solo act.

“It’s disappointing,” said sophomore Jennifer Wang. “I’m glad that Dev is still performing, but I don’t think her performance will be as good without

the Cataracs.”Tomson also noted that the committee

shared similar concerns about the rest of the lineup.

“We considered if we wanted [Dev] to perform without The Cataracs,” she said. “But the students were excited about her and at this point we can’t af-ford to lose another artist on purpose. She performs by herself a lot, so we aren’t worried about it.”

This is not the first time an artist has canceled an LDOC performance. In Spring 2008, rapper Lupe Fiasco called off his scheduled appearance in order to go on tour with rapper Kanye West, singer Rihanna and alternative band N.E.R.D.

Although Fiasco was verbally resched-uled to perform the following semester, he did not perform at Duke for nearly three years, until March 31, 2011.

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notes, according to the violation report.Under the terms of his conviction and

probation, Satell is required to submit to warrantless searches of his person, ve-hicle and premises and is in violation if he downloads—or otherwise possesses—any type of pornography. He is not allowed to use illegal drugs and is required to submit to drug and alcohol testing at the direc-tion of his probation officer.

After being arrested for violating his probation, Satell was released on $20,000 bond and appeared in court for a hearing Feb. 28. A month later, the court ordered Satell to enroll in and complete drug edu-cation and rehabilitation classes.

Mark McCullough, the Durham Coun-ty assistant district attorney who handled Satell’s case, said the case and outcome are not typical. He added that the sen-tence could have been far more severe if the case had gone to trial because Satell would have been tried on the original charges.

“He could have gotten 100 to 165 months in jail,” McCollugh said. “Say he had gone to trial and been convicted, he would have qualified for probation and probably gotten it, but the suspended sen-tence would have been much higher.”

McCullough said Satell would have qualified for probation because this was his first offense.

The Chronicle previously reported that Satell was expected in court in December. McCullough attributed the delay to the nature of the plea deal and the negotia-tion process.

“Once in Superior Court, negotiations go on, and it took a while to negotiate and come to an agreement as to how to handle this case,” he said.

Satell is still listed as a student on Duke’s online phonebook and is still on campus. The Chronicle reported in No-vember that Satell said Duke concluded its disciplinary process and that he was scheduled to graduate in May.

Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek de-clined to comment on Satell’s case due to student privacy rules. But she said the Un-dergraduate Conduct Board sometimes decides on students’ cases before the criminal justice system does.

Wasiolek said that in general, when a student is charged with a crime, the stu-dent can be temporarily suspended if he or she poses a threat to campus, but oth-erwise the conduct board addresses the matter.

“If the student is found to have com-mitted a misdemeanor in the court, we don’t necessarily judge the allegations based on the way the criminal court sys-tem found them,” she said. “Evidentiary rules are different and the standard of proof is different. We hear the case based on the Duke Community Standard not on criminal law.”

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described his company’s founding philos-ophy—successful advertising is all about emotional connection.

“’I’m not sure that I really care about what people think about my brand be-cause I know that most of the decisions [consumers] make have nothing to do with thinking,” he said. “If you’re not catching people emotionally, you’re not going to catch them at all.”

Brinegar added that McKinney creates “an irrational attachment between people and brands.” This attachment is facilitat-ed by advertisements, which lead consum-ers to favor one brand over the other in the marketplace setting. Most purchases come down to “why should I buy it from you,” he noted.

“The brands that dominate are brands that touch you and connect with you in ways that others don’t,” he said. “That’s why Nike is twice as big as Reebok, [but] they’re selling the same thing.”

Reinvention, Brinegar added, is also an essential component to McKinney’s success.

“Everyday [while] something is going well, a crisis is around the corner,” he said. “We’re constantly challenging the status quo.... We really believe there is a fundamental change going on everyday in our business. That’s what makes it so exciting.”

Brinegar concluded his presentation by commenting on the increasingly fast pace of technological advancement and the uncertain future of the advertising industry.

“I don’t know what the right move is for tomorrow.... We have to say ‘Let’s put 20 hooks in the water and see what hap-pens,” he said. “I know that 19 of them are going to come back dry, but whatever comes back on that one hook is what’s go-ing to propel us forward. “

Senior Anita Raheja, vice president and director of exposure of the Duke Market-ing Club, said she appreciated hearing about Brinegar’s unconventional career path.

“[Brinegar] showed that if you want [a career in advertising] and that’s your goal, you can get to it in several ways,” she said. “He showed that a company is not comprised of just one type of person.”

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Vote Schork for presidentJunior Pete Schork, the

current executive vice presi-dent and a long-time DSG representative, is the right choice for president. Schork’s deep institutional knowledge, his strategic ap-proach to student advocacy and his levelheaded prama-tism distinguish him from the other candidates. We are con-

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Board endorses Pete Schork for president.

Vote Bhutani for EVPAlthough sophomore Gur-

dane Bhutani has a relative lack of interest in the inter-nal affairs of the Senate-—the usual purview of the EVP-—we were impressed by his extensive knowledge about a wide range of the issues that will face students in the com-ing year. Bhutani’s advocacy focused platform has more potential than his opponent’s narrow, rules focused plat-form. The Editorial Board en-

dorses Bhutani for executive vice president.

Vote Osa for RLD VPIn a crowded field for vice

president for residence life and dining, junior Esosa Osa stands above the competition. Osa has lived on all three of Duke’s resi-dential campuses. She boasts broad knowledge of residential issues and has an impressive understanding of the particu-lar relevancy of each problem. She is the most qualified candi-date to represent students dur-ing the transition to the house model and the rennovations of the West Union Building. The Editorial Board endorses Osa for vice president for residence life and dining.

Vote Lieu for ASE VPJunior Christina Lieu’s

experience, knowledge and optimism set her apart in the race for the vice president for athletics, services and en-vironment. We are excited by her expansive vision for the new position and her ex-perience in enviornmental issues. The Editorial Board endorses Lieu for vice presi-dent for athletics, services and environment.

Vote Simpson for SL VPBoth candidates for vice

president for student life fall short on substantative policy propsoals. But the broad knowledge and rich campus experience of junior Ebonie Simpson make her the clear choice over sophomore Mi-chael Habashi. The Editorial Board endorses Simpson for vice president for student life.

Vote Danesh for AA VPCurrent vice president

for academic affairs Kaveh Danesh, a junior, runs unop-posed for re-election. Danesh’s prospals are sometimes ab-stract and theoretical. But he is a passionate and brim-ming with constructive ideas. The Editorial Board endorses Danesh for vice president for academic affairs.

Vote Swain for DRA VPSophomore Alexandra

Swain runs unopposed for vice president for Durham and regional affairs. A Durham native, Swain’s professional-ism and savvy make her a fine choice, even if her propos-als are sometimes nebulous. The Editorial Board endorses Swain for vice president for Durham and regional affairs.

The other day, I was shocked—shocked!—to read that Duke’s undergraduate admissions rate had fallen to 12.6 percent. Granted,

undergraduate admissions hadn’t been a priority of mine since April 2003, but I seemed to remember that it was easier to get into Duke back in the day.

As it turned out, I was right. When I was admitted to Duke, as a member of the Class of 2007, 22.5 percent of applications for admis-sion were successful.

This realization led to some serious questions: Who are these geniuses that can get into a school with an admis-sions rate of 12.6 percent? Are they smarter than me? Are they better than me? Were they created out of spare parts with mutant half-computer, half-human brains by an evil scientist deep in the bowels of University of Ingolstadt? Most impor-tantly, if I applied to Duke today, would I have gotten in?

Racked with newfound self-doubt, I went to see Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergradu-ate admissions, to see if he had any answers that would make me feel better.

I asked if the 18-year-old version of me would have gotten into Duke had he applied this year.

Unfortunately, Guttentag told me, my origi-nal admissions file was no longer available, since I was no longer an active undergrad; otherwise, we could have pulled my file out and compared it to this year’s admitted students. (The fact that I typed my application on an actual typewriter—seriously—could not have helped its shelf-life.)

Anyway, he continued, the easy answer is, “Yes, of course you would’ve gotten in.” He cited the fact that I had been admitted to Duke’s medi-cal school as evidence that I had obviously been successful and should have been admitted. But I wasn’t interested in knowing with the benefit of hindsight whether I should have been admitted; I wanted to know if I would have been admitted.

This was a more complex question, though apparently one that Guttentag gets asked every five years by self-doubting alumni like me. He tells them that if they applied now with the same credentials they applied with when they got in five, 10 or 15 years ago, then there’s no way they would be admitted. “The older we get,” he says, “the more we look at these applicants and real-ize they are nothing like we were when we were in high school.” But, he adds, students applying now have opportunities that those applying years ago did not have—opportunities like more ad-vanced placement and other advanced courses

and summer science lab projects.Basically, the kid that gets into Duke now is

the same type of kid that got in a decade ago—same intelligence, same enthu-siasm, same engagement—only these kids are more prepared and accomplished. Guttentag says that the new kids aren’t smarter, they just bring more appealing qualities to the table. They’re the more highly evolved version of the 18-year-old me.

But this seems just a little too simple. An admissions percentage has a numerator—the kids who

get in—and a denominator—the kids who apply. Maybe the kids making up the numerator are largely the same, but the denominator is bigger. In 2003, I applied along with 16,704 other high school seniors for a spot at Duke; this year, there were nearly 30,000 applications.

For a variety of reasons—demographics, re-newed appreciation of the importance of a Duke degree in an uncertain economy, the fact that students apply to more schools than ever before, the national media’s reporting on Duke’s ini-tiatives to increase affordability and access, the Common Application—competitive colleges like Duke are receiving nearly twice as many applica-tions as they received eight years ago. And hav-ing so many qualified applicants, Guttentag says, means that “we’re going to make a lot of great students and families unhappy.”

So would I have been one of the great but un-happy students?

“The real answer,” Guttentag said, “is that, if the qualities that you demonstrated as an ap-plicant almost 10 years ago were applied to the opportunities our applicants now have, I expect that you would be similarly competitive.”

Competitive, yes. But would I have gotten the thick envelope or the thin envelope?

“We make admissions decisions on the basis of how someone appears in the context of that applicant pool that year,” Guttentag said. “When the pool changes quickly, it is entirely possible that students admitted one year are not admit-ted in another.... People now are approaching applying to Duke with a real sense that nothing is certain.”

So there’s the answer: If I had been born eight years later, I might have gotten in, but I also might not have gotten in.

Not as reassuring as I had hoped.

Alex Fanaroff is a fourth-year medical student. His column runs every Wednesday.

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I was tired. My eyelids had developed a mind of their own, and seemed to be losing their fight against gravity. It was Thurs-day afternoon, and while I sat in Perkins with my MCAT notes

in front of me, sleep was awfully tempting.

I woke up after an hour. I looked up groggily around me. Still quiet. I started to kick myself. I had just wasted an hour on sleep. These MCAT notes weren’t going to study themselves. I looked at my watch. It was 2:30 p.m. Then I remembered that the Lupe Fiasco show was that night.

At that moment I was torn into three separate directions: I wanted to go to my room and curl up into bed. I needed to buckle down and finish studying my MCAT notes, and I also wanted to leave, meet up with my friends and go to the show. I realized that my predicament was indicative of the dilemmas many college students face.

Good grades, a good social life or enough sleep? Choose two of the three. At that moment I could have taken a nap, then studied. I could have studied then gone to the show. I could have taken a nap and then gone to the show. Not all three. The importance of good grades is obvious. At the same time, a so-cial life is what college is supposed to be about—these are our years of irresponsibility, folks! After this, we can no longer party whenever we want or meet so many similar people in one place. I took a few deep breaths and got back to work. After struggling through a couple of hours of physics and organic chemistry, I packed up my things, put a hat on backwards and ventured over to Central Campus to see Mr. Fiasco, despite my aching eyes and a groggy mind. What would you have done?

Sleep has been identified as an important factor in memory function, concentration and motor skills. In fact, if you have gone 28 hours without sleep, according to a 2000 study published in Oc-cupational and Environmental Medicine, you could potentially have equally impaired cognitive and motor abilities as someone with a Blood Alcohol Content of 0.1 percent. Should we have des-ignated drivers in Perkins?

In 2009, a study in the Journal of Adolescent Health reported that 25 percent of 1,125 students surveyed got 6.5 hours of sleep or less each night. Many students wait until the weekend to catch up on sleep. Yet that beneficial catch-up sleep is almost negated if students drink alcohol. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol interferes with normal sleep patterns. This means that even if people fall asleep more quickly after drinking, they sleep more fitfully during the second half of sleep. This can occur even if you consume “a moderate dose of alcohol” six hours before you go to bed. The sleep after a night of drinking is not restful and doesn’t rejuvenate us the way a night of sober sleep would have.

College students are limited by time. It often appears that there is not enough time for us to do all that we want in a day. Most of us want to get all that we can out of college, and this includes making good grades while still leading fulfilling social lives. Sometimes our ambitions to have both of these means we forfeit important shut-eye. Although time is a major constraint, the fact that staying up to social-ize with friends interferes with sleep, and it is pretty hard to study while sleeping, means that these three things are mutually exclusive.

Did you ever stay up late studying for an exam and then per-form worse than you expected? You probably felt that all the time you spent studying went to waste. Instead, you should have cut your losses and gone to sleep. It has been shown that sleep allows us to consolidate information in our brains and to better retrieve that information when it matters.

Have you ever gone out one night or been around friends, because you wanted to “unwind,” only to find that you were cranky, negative and generally bringing down the mood of the group? Has this ever coincided with being tired from a lack of sleep the night before? Instead of going out with your friends, a better way to unwind would have been to jump in bed and get a good night’s rest.

We frequently forgo sleep to study or party instead, but a lack of sleep actually impairs our performance in either of these capaci-ties. A rested, alert mind is necessary for success in any aspect of life, and sleep is necessary for maximum brain performance.

Balance is key in college, and it often takes years before we learn how to achieve an optimal combination of studying, social-izing and snoozing. Many of you got about four hours of sleep last night—if you were considering going out tonight, or pulling an all-nighter, maybe you should think again. Get some sleep.

Milap Mehta is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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According to a study conducted by Dave Kohl, pro-fessor emeritus at Virginia Tech, 80 percent of Americans say they don’t have goals. Another 16

percent do have goals, but they don’t write them down. Less than 4 percent write down their goals, and less than 1 percent review them regularly. This small percentage of Americans earn nine times more, over the course of their lifetimes, than those who don’t set goals.

Clearly, the relationship between goal-setting and money-making isn’t a strictly causal one. But, hey, even if the mere act of setting goals causes your lifetime wealth to increase by 20 percent (instead of 900 percent), that still seems like a pretty good reason to start planning seriously for the future.

Setting goals is something most of us Duke students do obsessively, anyway. We’re notoriously driven and ambitious—I’m sure you know people who won’t be content unless they get into Yale Law, score 40 on the MCAT, make it to the Dean’s List every semester or be-come president of their student organizations.

These are all great goals to have, but I don’t believe that goals, regardless of what they are, have much in-trinsic value.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a pretty compulsive goal-setter myself: At last count I’ve written down 56 goals that I’d like to achieve in 2011. But if we think about some of the most inspiring goals we’ve already reached, I dare say they’ve been somewhat of a letdown. When we set a goal, we often think to ourselves, “Wow, it would be AMAZING if I pull this off!” When we actually do pull it off, however, the feeling is good and there’s defi-nitely a sense of accomplishment—but it’s almost never as amazing as we thought it would be. We expected to feel like a 10, yet when it’s all said and done, we feel more like a seven or an eight.

Since achieving a goal, in and of itself, doesn’t bring us the fulfillment we desire, what then is the real pur-pose of setting goals, from an individual perspective? I’ve come up with three.

1. Having goals enhances the quality of your life right now.

Having something to reach for gives us a sense of an-ticipation about the future. Goals make it more enjoy-able to live in the present, because you’re excited about what you’re working to achieve.

I spent two years in the military before coming to Duke. I served as an infantry battalion manpower offi-

cer, and many of my men were elementary and middle school dropouts. They felt like they had little to look forward to after their two years in the military were

over. They were unlikely to attend col-lege or land high-paying jobs, and had no idea how they were going to make a living. Many of them went AWOL (Absent With-out Official Leave) and as punishment their mandatory military service was ex-tended. Because they didn’t have concrete goals they wanted to achieve once they left the army, they felt like serving more time wasn’t delaying the start of their actual adult lives. Understanding their thoughts reinforced my belief in goal-setting as a

way to make your present reality more enjoyable.2. Goals determine the kind of person you want

to be.For instance, if your goal is to speak to a crowd of

10,000 people, then you’re going to need to be some-one who has a certain amount of courage. You’re also going to need to be someone who is sufficiently knowl-edgeable about a subject that 10,000 people would want to listen to you.

At the end of the day, it’s less about the goals you achieve, and more about the person you become through striving toward those goals. It’s satisfying when you work hard and attain success, but the true prize is how you’ve matured and grown.

3. Goals guide you toward your final destination.Many of us have grand dreams of what our future

looks like—what kind of family, career, car, house and influence we’d like to have. But grand dreams are real-ized by taking small, unassuming steps. Goals are pre-cisely those steps that help us get to our fantastic final destination, although we need to keep in mind that fulfilling our wildest desires, on their own, will likely leave us feeling like a seven or an eight on the scale of fulfillment.

In closing, the US Army employs a model of lead-ership called “Be. Know. Do.” In essence, it states that you first need to be clear about exactly who you want to be before you can decide what you want to know. Only then should you decide what you want to do.

So go ahead and be an achiever. In fact, feel free to be an overachiever. Just be sure to put the “being” be-fore the “knowing,” and the “knowing” before the “do-ing.” That’s the key to meaningful goal-setting.

Daniel Wong is a Pratt senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

lettertotheeditorA second listen

Professor [Anthony] Kelley’s April 1 column “A melody? Word.” bears more than a whiff of both elit-ism and you-kids-get-off-my-lawn stodginess. To be sure, crafting a stirring melody is one way to dem-onstrate musical prowess. But suggesting that it’s the only way is not far from saying that orchestral music is somehow more musical than, say, the White Stripes’ minimal guitar-and-drum arrangements. Complexity and difficulty of execution are not the only currency of music. To suggest otherwise is to invoke the conven-tional lowest-common-denominator musical views of a safely suburban middle-class America that has ren-dered “American Idol” a weighty authority in matters of musical taste. That Kelley—who, judging by his cre-dentials, really ought to know better—would cite the show in support of his thesis ought to demonstrate to any reader that thesis’ essential poverty.

Hip-hop—like all other forms of music—is not a monolithic and undifferentiated whole. To hear Kelley tell it, hip-hop artists simply loop “composi-tions written by other people” and talk over them. And certainly there are some artists who do this. (P-Diddy, I’m looking at you.) This kind of remix-

ing—making the audience hear an old song in a new way—provides its own valuable and important musical challenges to the listener. But more to the point, there are many hip-hop artists who compose original melodies. Kelley himself points to Jay-Z’s backing tracks—but these are not, in Kelley’s esti-mation, enough to make Jay-Z a true musician, just more like one. The truth, of course, is that, “here in the West,” we have a proud, millennia-long tradi-tion of treating the poetic spoken word as music. Homer and Virgil couldn’t even get three words into their most famous compositions without refer-ring to their art as singing.

I urge Professor Kelley to listen—actually listen—to some Eminem, Kanye or old-school Snoop Dogg. The melodies may be unconventional; they may not be Bach or Ben Folds or the Beatles, but melodies they are. They may be sung or they may arise out of the interplay of the vocalist’s voice rising and falling against the backing music. If Kelley can’t hear them, it’s not because they’re absent.

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things like Kelsey Grammer coming out on the right and Jane Fonda did come out on the left. Jesse Jackson is a little bit to the left. Basically, a lot of the things that we would expect to happen did happen. Every time we found [a] Michelle Malkin [or] Sean Hannity to the right, that was an interesting finding because it shows the mechanism does seem to work.

TC: Do you think the results you ended up with ac-curately depict the political affiliations of the people and organizations you studied? How so?

DS: Well, I think it’s tricky in that it does not necessarily say something about their own personal ideology. I think we need to be really careful because I think what we’re actually measuring is the perception of their ideology or partisanship, not necessarily that which they themselves hold. And in some cases, what we measure doesn’t represent their personal or perceived ideologies. So, for example, Katie Couric is quite far to the left and that was totally surprising. I don’t think

she is as liberal as it comes out necessarily, but I think rather that during the 2008 election, her interview with Sarah Palin may have generated large numbers of liberal-leaning Twitter users who also follow liberal Senators and Democrats. And that is why she is being correlated with those individuals. So, this needs to be taken with a grain of salt, especially for those working outside the realm of politics. And again, I think it’s important to emphasize that this is perception and not neces-sarily true reality of how these individuals behave.

TC: What opportunities are there for future research in other fields or using other social networking sites?

DS: There are many ways we could use Twitter behavior to study political phenomena. One in which we are particularly interested is the use of “retweets” and hashtags to trace the dif-fusion of ideas throughout the political online network. Do ideas or messages tend to emanate from a few central party leaders, or are they more grassroots-driven, with ideas dissemi-nating from non-elites, throughout the network and eventually appropriated by more visible political elites? The vast amount of data being generated daily on sites like Twitter and Face-book presents many opportunities for social scientists.

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