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by Carleigh StiehmTHE CHRONICLE

Hoping to fit in more time for his love of bird watching and return to his love of teach-ing, Jim Siedow announced his decision not to seek another reappointment as vice provost of research.

Since the announcement—officially made Nov. 11—the committee appointed to select his successor has had its first meeting. The deci-sion, Provost Peter Lange noted, will be made in April. During a time with concerns about the future of federal funding and the appointment of a new provost looming, Siedow said his suc-cessor will have a unique set of challenges to tackle.

“If the federal government really, seriously cuts back on funding, it is going to put the squeeze on all of the major research universi-ties—of which we are one,” Siedow said. “There is a limit to what anyone in this office can do to change that.”

But change has been a constant throughout his time here, Siedow noted.

“We are always trying to facilitate research,” Siedow said. “But the means to make that hap-pen have changed quite a bit.”

He noted that an increasing amount of funding is coming from industry sources rather than government-based grants.

“It’s a really rapidly changing environ-ment for research funding because of what’s going on with the federal government and

by Jenna ZhangTHE CHRONICLE

Women’s Center Director Ada Greg-ory has moved to a new position as the executive director of the Office of In-terdisciplinary Program Management.

The office—previously led by Rick Tysor—facilitates interdisciplinary teaching and research at Duke. As the office’s new director, Gregory will be providing administrative and fiscal oversight for several institutes across the University that provide teaching, re-

search and other related programming on a wide range of issues. The Women’s Center has yet to find a replacement.

“Unfortunately, my role will be much more administrative, so I won’t have as much direct contact with students,” Gregory wrote in an email Monday. “That’s definitely what I will miss the most.”

Susan Roth, vice provost for interdis-ciplinary studies, said Gregory applied for the job and was clearly the best can-didate among many.

Tysor, who will now become the exec-utive director of academic administra-tion at Stetson University, said Gregory is highly capable of filling his position.

Although Gregory’s new position comes with many responsibilities, she hopes to continue working with the Women’s Center.

“I’m sure that my new position will be demanding, but I’ll keep up with them in whatever ways I can,” she said.

See SIEDOW, page 12

See GREGORY page 5

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Jim Siedow announced that he will not seek reappointment for his position.

HOME COOKING

Ada Gregory leaves the Women’s Center

by Daniel CarpTHE CHRONICLE

Duke got what it had been waiting for all season—a balanced performance.

Behind some productive bench play, hard-nosed defense and tenacity on the glass, the No. 10 Blue Devils defeated No. 22 Michigan 79-69 Tuesday night in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

For the first time this season, junior Quinn Cook led the way for the Blue Devils (7-2) with 24 points, becoming the first player other than freshman Jabari Parker or redshirt sophomore Rodney Hood to pace Duke this season. All 24 of Cook’s points came in the second half, including a perfect 10-of-10 perfor-mance from the line.

“Quinn was magnificent,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “The whole game, even though he didn’t score in the first half, he man-aged the team well. We told him to be very aggres-sive in the second half.”

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Partisan politics force politicans to act on party lines rather than for the good of those they represent, said Ed Rendell, former governor of Pennsylvania.

During his Tuesday night speech at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Ren-dell—who was the Democratic governor from 2003 to 2011—discussed current is-sues faced by the U.S. government and criticized the partisan state of politics. Following the address, the floor opened up to questions from the audience.

“It was an honor to have Governor Rendell speak at Duke,” said senior Mat-thew Barnett, president of the Public Policy Majors Union. “He did an excel-lent job of explaining the importance of compromise in politics.”

Rendell criticized both parties for letting political motivations take prece-dence over the country’s interests, cit-ing Congress’s failure to pass legislation requiring universal background checks and the delay of the current immigration reform bill as examples. After a mem-ber of the audience asked Rendell how he could be certain that the legislation in question was not approved due to po-

litical considerations, he challenged the audience to think of one reason why uni-versal background checks would not be feasible.

Rendell blamed the recent increase in political partisanship on redistricting, the 24-hour news cycle and the elimina-tion of earmarks. He criticized political parties for their failure to compromise with the opposition.

“If I could do one thing for Washing-ton I’d like to play a song constantly in the hallways of the capital,” he said. “It’s a Mick Jagger song called ‘You Can’t Al-ways Get What You Want.’”

But, he added, if politicians are will-ing to compromise, they can find solu-tions.

On the matter of the new health care law, Rendell congratulated President Barack Obama on having the courage to act on a hot-button issue. He encouraged the government to tell senior citizens the truth that Medicare is running out of money and scolded politicians for not trusting Americans with the truth.

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Expert disinters legalities of leaving fortune to pets

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Adrienne Davis, vice provost of Washington University in Saint Louis gave a talk Tuesday about pet inheritance.

by Krista Rose NiemeierTHE CHRONICLE

More and more people are choosing to leave their fortunes to pets.

In a presentation at the School of Law on Tuesday, Adrienne Davis, vice provost of Washington University in Saint Louis, ex-plained the growing trend of pet inheritance and the legal challenges it involves.

Davis studies irregular intimacy involved in polygamy, pet inheritance and racial and feminist theories and is especially interested in “people who have these attachments that other people don’t understand.”

Since 1923, when the first case of pet in-heritance was upheld in the United States, many pets have become rich upon their own-ers’ demise, Davis said

Legal issues involved in pet inheritance are gaining attention at an important time when 12 to 27 percent of pet owners have pet provision in their wills.

In one case, owner Leona Helmsley in-tended to leave $12 million to her terrier dog Trouble. However, lawyers were faced with the challenge of finding a caretaker for the dog.

Trouble’s inheritance was eventually re-duced to $2 million following legal troubles. Additionally, Helmsley’s desire to have Trou-ble buried in the family mausoleum was pre-vented by laws against burying pets and hu-mans together.

The case of Helmsley and Trouble re-

ceived media attention because of the large amount of money involved and its demon-stration of unstable pet inheritance laws.

As Davis said, “in inheritance law, there’s no do-over.” Therefore, those who plan pet inheritance into their wills should take pre-cautions such as outlines for checking on the pet’s wellness, immediate provisions for care, funding and animal identification.

The phenomenon is also engendering outrage in those who do not understand how a pet could need millions of dollars or why a pet is valued more than a child.

“The outrage is not unlike the way people get upset about other forms of irregular in-timacy such as gay marriage or polygamy,” Davis said.

The truth is that many owners pamper their pets with gifts, treats, clothing and other unimaginable luxuries. For lawyers and pet owners, Davis said, this means that pet inheri-tance laws need to be more closely examined.

Matt Diton, a second-year law student, ex-plained that he attended Davis’ presentation because he was interested in the legal side of pet inheritance cases.

“I had heard about some of the stories in the news and wanted to learn about the legal qualifications of them,” Diton said.

These stories stretch from the previously deceased Alexander McQueen and Leona Helmsley to living celebrities like Betty White and Oprah who have already indicated their plans to leave money for their dogs.

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A new bookshop opening in downtown Durham signals the resurgence of indepen-dent bookstores.

The bookstore—named Letters—will be selling mostly used and rare books and some selections of new books. Its unique demo-graphic is not expected to detract greatly from the business of other small bookstores in the area, and its creation reflects the improving atmosphere for bookstore growth. It will open its 313 West Main Street location either this Friday or next Tuesday. One of the strongest features of the shop will be children’s books, said Land Arnold, founder of Letters.

“Every neighborhood needs to have a bookstore, and while there are already some great ones out there, I am sure that Letters will be able to offer something different,” Arnold said.

Arnold was one of the three founders of Flyleaf Books, a bookshop that opened in Chapel Hill in 2009. He left the business five months ago and decided to start his own shop here in Durham.

“This city is beautiful and there is so much happening, and I want to be part of the revital-ization,” Arnold said.

Arnold feels that his previous experience in the book industry will allow him to best meet the needs of his customers, and to ad-vance a unique feature of Letters—its philan-thropic involvement.

Letters is in partnership with Book Har-vest, a nonprofit that donates children’s books to low-income children in the Triangle area. The proceeds from children’s books at Letters will go to Book Harvest, Arnold said.

He said that despite the popularity of e-books and large retailers like Amazon, he is

confident that his new store will attract its own audience.

“E-books have leveled out part of the mar-ket in the past, but the shift towards e-books has slowed down tremendously,” Arnold said. “Letters has a beautiful space with a great col-lection, and I will be here to help the readers find what they want to read.”

Owners of other small bookstores echoed Arnold’s impression.

The sales revenue of the Regulator—an in-dependent bookshop on Ninth Street— has declined compared to five years ago, but has been on the rise since the start of this year, said co-owner Tom Campbell.

The Regulator opened 36 years ago and its consumer base consists of nearby residents of varying demographics, as well as graduate and some undergraduate students from Duke.

“Many of our books are academic, so they are useful especially for grad students,” Camp-bell said. “Durham is a well-educated city, and there are a lot of people here who want to read books.”

Campbell added that although the open-ing of Letters may have a slight effect on the business of The Regulator, the two shops will not become direct competitors as they oper-ate in different markets.

“The other store focuses on mostly used books while 90 percent of our sales revenue comes from new books,” Campbell said.

The Gothic Bookshop, a Duke-owned bookstore located in the Bryan Center, saw a decline in its sales in the past few years due to the popularity of Amazon, said operations manager Kathy World.

“Many undergrad students buy their books through Amazon Student, which includes free shipping,” World said.

Due to a renovation of the Bryan Center earlier this year, the Gothic Bookshop lost a large portion of its space and was shut down from February to August. Despite having less space, the amount of business coming into the store after the renovation remains steady, World said.

World said that she feels that more people

are starting to realize the value of reading books in a traditional format and to support independent bookstores such as the Gothic Bookshop.

“We have tremendous pride in the Gothic Bookshop, and Duke’s and Duke Stores’ com-mitment to the Gothic Bookshop,” wrote Jim Wilkerson, director of Duke University Stores, in an email Tuesday. “Its role in supporting Duke’s academic and faculty-centric culture is as strong as ever.”

Due to high readership in Durham and the Triangle area, there will always be oppor-tunities for independent bookstores, wrote Ted Conner, vice president of economic devel-opment and community sustainability at the Durham Chamber of Commerce, in an email Tuesday.

“The market for the independent book-stores will not be huge, but present and sub-ject to growth,” Conner said.

Conner noted that big box retailers and independent bookstores each have their own respective strengths, and the success of inde-pendent bookstores depends on their ability to market themselves and win the attention and hearts of their potential customers.

“The independent bookstores who can fo-cus or specialize in certain subject niches are better positioned to succeed,” Conner said.

The independent stores are working to-wards finding innovative approaches to attract and retain their customers.

Campbell said The Regulator hosted an event last Saturday when they invited a num-ber of authors into the store to present their books and to interact with readers.

“We want to find things that will make people want to come into our store,”

New store Letters to open amidst indy bookshop revival

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Letters, a new bookshop in downtown Durham, will open its doors to the public soon.See LETTERS, page 5


Following a semester that saw a successful bas-ketball campout and legislation to encourage more focus on graduate housing, leaders of the Graduate and Professional Student Council are looking ahead to their Spring goals. The Chronicle’s Carleigh Stiehm checked in with GPSC president Amol Ya-dav, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering, and vice-president Shannon O’Connor, a fifth-year PhD/MD candidate in biomedical engi-neering, to reflect on this semester and preview the upcoming year.

The Chronicle: In your opinion, what were the biggest accomplishments of GPSC this se-mester?

Shannon O’Connor: This semester has been especially great for GPSC. Our general assembly, with more representatives from across Duke than ever before, meets every two weeks. Our executive committee of 15 meets additionally twice a month and other GPSC committees are meeting all the time—all to serve our Duke community.

We’ve kept on with our yearly commit-ments. Our finance committee read dozens of student group funding applications and gave $24,000 for student group initiatives for the fall alone. The Basketball Committee ran a phenomenal and safe basketball campout early in the semester to welcome all the new graduate and professional students to Duke, celebrate the community we have and get Duke basketball tickets. GPSC News has been going strong with weekly updates on GPSC progress and all the exciting events Duke has to offer. Our social chairs have hosted stellar Thirsty Thursdays, tailgates, toga parties and so much more. We welcomed speakers at all our general assembly meetings, including Major Sara-Jane Raines, the operations com-mander of Duke Police; Dr. Richard Riddell, the Duke University vice president and univer-sity secretary; Stefani Jones, the [Duke Student Government] president; and Anna Kenyon, the Duke student medical insurance manager. The GPSC luncheon series is underway, where students can share a meal with some of the most influential members of Duke’s adminis-tration. Every general assembly representative has signed up for a university committee, so

we are well-represented across Duke.We’ve delved into some new areas this

year, too. The Chronicle has covered each of our general assembly meetings this semester. We’ve organized successful family-centered social activities and all sorts of new, creative events. A new committee, Bridging GaPs, was established as a group to follow-up on ideas from last Spring’s retreat. Its first initiative, GPSC House Thursdays, is underway with new, fun events at the GPSC house including pumpkin carving and game nights. We have been working very closely with the Duke po-lice. We solicited student feedback regarding campus safety, then met with the leaders of Duke police, who have been very receptive to making changes, being more vocal to stu-dents about their initiatives, coming to our GA meetings and writing for our GPSC News. We passed a housing resolution, urging the creation of a position to ensure safe and ad-equate housing for every grad/prof student. We were well represented at NAGPS—which we hosted last year at Duke—and one of our exec members has been elected to the execu-tive committee of NAGPS. Our community service committee helped organize a 5k race for charity, and a strong Movember campaign to raise awareness about men’s health issues.

TC: Are there any major ongoing initia-tives that will continue to be worked on next semester?

SO: There are always ongoing initiatives with GPSC. We’ve established a few new com-mittees over the course of the semester to ex-plore topics such as sustainability and endow-ment transparency, as well as finding better ways to reach out to grad/prof students who don’t usually get involved. Our logo design contest is ongoing, and we’re soliciting ap-plications for spring student funding. Plus, we’ve held a brainstorming session at each general assembly meeting to allow the whole assembly to help solve problems faced in dif-ferent schools. These projects are in the earli-est stages—stay tuned.

Amol Yadav: The housing committee will

analyze various student surveys that Student Affairs conducted regarding off-campus housing and provide recommendations to the administration. The endowment trans-parency committee will research DukeOpen and Divest Duke initiatives and report back to the GA. We will try to equip GPSC house with basic entertainment facilities like TV, projec-tors and host events on the theme of ‘Bridg-ing Gaps’ to bring students from various schools together. We will have a exec board retreat in early January to come up with long-term vision for GPSC. Organize the annual GPSC retreat in February with GA reps to discuss improvements in the functioning of our organization and meetings. Some of our members will attend the regional southeast conference of NAGPS to build connections with neighboring universities.

TC: What are your goals for next semes-ter?

AY: Make sure Housing, Dining BS Resi-dence Life updates neighborhood reports and creates a central resource for informa-tion regarding off-campus housing. Develop a vision document to serve as a guide for fu-ture Presidents of GPSC.

SO: In addition to spring student fund-ing and a new GPSC logo, we’re organizing a spring formal, retreats for both exec and the GPSC general assembly, Young Trustee elec-tions, a transformation of the GPSC house into a useful place for graduate and profes-sional student to be, exciting speakers both at the luncheons and at the general assembly meetings, some graduate-and-professional-student-oriented LDOC events and even more exciting social events based on feed-back from the social survey.

TC: What has been your favorite GPSC related moment so far this year?

AY: Passing the housing resolution unani-mously. Off-campus housing is an issue which has come up for years but nothing construc-tive was done to solve it. I took it as my per-

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sonal goal for this year. We created a com-mittee this summer that met with HDRL and came up with short-term and long term plans to solve the issue of safety and affordability. A resolution demanding immediate creation of a new position in HDRL that will specifically work for off-campus housing was passed by our GA. Sending the resolution officially to Larry Moneta and receiving an acknowledge-ment that a position will be created ASAP was a very rewarding moment for me.

TC: If you could say one thing to all of Duke’s graduate and professional students, what would it be?

SO: Plug in. There are over 100 graduate and professional students working so hard on exec, in the GA and on committees all to make the Duke community more vibrant. No matter what you’re looking for—a beer at Thirsty Thursday, trivia nights, a football game starting with a tailgate, a legislative fo-rum of people from every department across Duke, free food, a committee to work on unsolved problems, concerts, movies, lunch with an administrator, a few days to hang out with friends and get basketball tickets or even a forum to share your research—GPSC has it. Go to a GPSC event, strike up a conversation with someone from another discipline, build a bridge and make our community that much better.

AY: The biggest complaint from U.S. Con-gress is that graduate students are not as orga-nized and vocal as undergraduates. We have a long way to go to match the level of advocacy, passion and commitment that undergraduate students show for student issues. Our board is aware of that and it is our long term goal to bridge that gap. To achieve that goal will require strategic planning, solid institutional memory and tremendous support from the administration. Our current exec board is thoroughly committed to lay the founda-tion of that dream so that future boards can carry the mission ahead. If you believe in that dream, GPSC doors are always open for you.

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Campbell said.Arnold said he aims to develop a strong

social media presence and advertise Letters through newsletters of local businesses.

“My short term goals are modest—to be able to pay my rent and bills as I get to know the downtown community better,” Arnold said. “I will be buying books from customers also, so I have left plenty of room on the shelves to grow.”

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Gregory joined the Women’s Center in 2008, after more than 15 years of ex-perience working in the criminal justice and violence prevention fields. Her list of achievements include implementing a new reporting system for gender vio-lence, developing the Project Change pre-orientation program and spearhead-ing the Moxie Project—a civic engage-ment program in New York City funded through DukeEngage.

“She is brave and compassionate about all things related to women’s rights and equity on campus,” wrote Amy Cleckler, gender violence preven-tion and services coordinator at the Women’s Center, in an email Sunday. “I will truly miss working for her.”

Gregory graduated from the Univer-sity with a bachelor’s degree in politi-cal science in 1992, and she received a master of arts in liberal studies in 2004. She joined the Durham Police Depart-

GREGORY from page 1

ment in the ’90s. There, she became involved in the on-the-ground work of violence prevention against women. Her work in law enforcement would eventually lead to a career in violence prevention.

As a police officer, Gregory became increasingly aware of the lack of atten-tion paid to issues of domestic violence and sexual assault by law enforcement.

“After answering 911 calls at all hours of the day and night, I was con-cerned about the ways in which domes-tic and sexual violence was—or often was not—addressed,” Gregory said. “I had two hours of training in the [police] academy about how to read protective orders—and that was sup-posed to prepare me to negotiate the complex, violent and sometimes lethal relationships to which I was called to intervene.”

Gregory’s concern led her to spear-head several landmark projects in vio-lence prevention. She helped develop the department’s first Domestic Vio-lence Unit, founded the Durham Vio-lence Advisory Council and was instru-mental in the implementation of the first statewide, automated victim infor-mation and notification system. After leaving the department, she continued her advocacy of gender violence pre-vention and women’s issues in policy, before coming to work at Duke for the Kenan Institute for Ethics as associate director. At the Women’s Center, she supervises an office which provides counseling and advocacy for nearly 150 students and delivers prevention education to more than 2,000 students each year.

“She’s a real-life wonder woman,” said senior Caroline Hall, an intern at the Women’s Center.

Many staff and interns at the Wom-en’s Center have expressed deep admi-ration for Gregory and regret the loss to the Women’s Center her promotion will bring.

“I know I can speak for everybody when I say that we are so sad that she is leaving, but we’re incredibly excited to see what she will do in capacity over the interdisciplinary institutes and ini-tiatives,” wrote Maya Flippen, junior and gender equity and leadership intern at the Women’s Center, in an email Sunday.

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“I lived in Pennsylvania for a while, and I think Rendell was a great governor,” said Maria Broderick, a resident of Dur-ham. “He brought up some very interest-ing points today, and made us reconsider some as well.”

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Duke head coach David Cutcliffe earned ACC Coach of the Year honors for the second season in a row, the At-lantic Coast Sports Media Association announced Tuesday afternoon.

Cutcliffe received 62 of the 65 fi rst-place votes. Boston College’s Steve Adazio received two fi rst place votes and Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher re-ceived one.

“For our program, for our staff, for our university, that’s big,” Cutcliffe said. “I humbly accept that, knowing that there were a lot of right choices and that I’m about that much of it. I’ve said it time and time again, it’s the perfect storm to be surrounded by so many fi ne people.”

Cutcliffe is the fi rst Duke coach to win the award in back-to-back seasons since Steve Spurrier received the hon-or in 1988 and 1989.

Leading the Blue Devils to their fi rst 10-win season in program history, Cutcliffe’s Duke squad will represent the ACC Coastal Division in this week’s conference championship game.

The Blue Devils will make a trip to a bowl game in consecutive years for the fi rst time in 101 seasons of Duke football. Cutcliffe’s 10 wins this sea-son match the Blue Devils’ total from the years 2000-07.

“His passion, his confi dence, just his will to not be denied—that kind of trickles down into our players and program,” redshirt junior quarter-back Anthony Boone said. “His pas-sion started when we fi rst got here. It was him telling us that he was going to change the program.”

Cutcliffe was also named a fi nalist for the Maxwell National Coach of the Year award alongside Auburn’s Guz Malzahn and Missouri’s Gary Pinkel.

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Receiving 62 of the 65 first-place votes, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe was named ACC Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season.

All aboard the band-wagon

With the ACC Championship game approaching, Duke’s campus is more focused on football than it has been in a long time, or maybe ever. After all,

the Blue Devils have never won 10 games, never played in the con-ference title game and never been to back-to-back bowl

games before now. And they have been

playing football for a long time.Duke, or Trinity College as it was then

known, fielded its first football team in 1888. Trinity’s squad went 4-1 that year with John Franklin Crowell at the helm. That name might sound familiar—in his spare time, Crowell also served as the school’s president.

Now, more than a century later, the Blue Devils are rewriting the record books. And the hype surrounding Duke football has mul-tiplied each week as the wins pile up and the milestones are passed.

Students, North Carolina residents and the nation have given the Blue Devils a certain amount of celebrity that comes with being a

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Duke finding its identityby Bobby Colton

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What a difference a week makes.Nine days after allowing 90 points

to Vermont at Cameron Indoor Sta-dium on 64.8 percent shooting, the No. 10 Blue Devils put on an impres-sive defensive display against the No. 22 Wolverines.

“We played an outstanding defen-sive game tonight—not a good one,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

Outstanding may be an under-statement. Big man Mitch McGary was limited to seven points on 2-of-6 shooting for the first 38 minutes of the game before scoring eight points in garbage time. Guard Nik Stauskas entered the day averaging 20.3 points per game, but was held to just four points and two field goal attempts—both of which he missed.

In nine days time, Duke (7-2) was able to completely revamp its defense to keep Michigan (5-3) at bay. Although there were strong in-dividual performances—namely by senior Tyler Thornton and freshman Matt Jones—it was a team effort that propelled the Blue Devils. After a fo-cus on offense through the first few weeks of the season, the team is com-ing together defensively as it moves ERIC LIN/THE CHRONICLE

Putting its defensive intesnity on display in a home victory against Michigan, the Blue Devils continue to make strides after struggling to begin the season.See DEFENSE, page 8


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hot, new sports story. What Duke is doing is unique, and people want to be a part of that. The New York Times even sent some-one to Durham to get the scoop on the Blue Devils and bring their story into the national limelight. In other words, Duke football has made it.

Look at game attendance. The Blue Devils opened the season against N.C. Central to a crowd of fewer than 23,000. Sure the Eagles aren’t exactly the cream of the college football crop, but everybody likes watching a 45-0 shut-out victory.

By week three, Duke was 2-0 for the first time since 1998. With Georgia Tech coming to town, the battle to stay undefeated was on. That’s a story fans can get behind. But fewer than 22,000 showed up. The Blue Devils lost to the Yellow Jackets and then lost again at home to Pittsburgh the following week, and the Duke football season was right on track.

But then something incredible happened. The Blue Devils beat Troy and Navy at home and knocked off Virginia on the road. They followed that up with an upset of then No. 16 Virginia Tech in Blacksburg—the first road win against a ranked opponent in 42 years—and returned to a campus that genuinely cared. Duke stood 6-2 with N.C. State coming to Durham, and people hung banners from their windows on West Campus, DSG sent out emails urging people to go to the game against the Wolfpack and the school stood be-hind its team in a way that I had not seen in my three years at Duke.

Then 32,000 people showed up to watch the Blue Devils secure their seventh win.

More than 30,000 fans came the following week and stormed the field following Duke’s

win against then-No. 24 ranked Miami on Se-nior Day.

The last two weeks the Blue Devils played at Wake Forest and North Carolina with a no-ticeable contingent of Duke supporters in the stands. The idea of the Blue Devils having a road presence and a traveling fan base would have been absurd two years ago coming off back-to-back 3-9 seasons.

And now with arguably the biggest game in Duke history approaching, my inbox is full of emails about purchasing a ticket for Saturday’s game.

When I first began to notice the attention that the Blue Devils were getting in the second half of the season—from the student body, ad-ministrators and the nation as a whole—the first thing I felt was jealousy.

For those who have been going to every game since freshman year, for sports writers who have covered the team each week, even before the record-breaking victories, for those people who supported the team and were proud of Duke football before it went viral, it felt like outsiders were jumping on the bandwagon.

And it hurt.But did the team feel the same way? No.

They were just happy to play in front of a crowd. They understand that people are be-ing drawn to the program only because it is winning, but that doesn’t matter. Playing in front of fair-weather fans is better than playing in front of no fans.

But as a sports fan, the sudden influx of supporters bothered me. Anyone who has ever supported a losing team knows the pain that comes with continual defeat. To the new-comers, this pain was unknown. They hadn’t suffered through any losing and didn’t belong in the stands.

People will always get behind a team that is winning, especially when their narrative is as powerful as the one the Blue Devils have produced this season. And there will always be fans who were there before it was cool. And they will always be inclined to look down on the newcomers, the unworthy, who didn’t ex-perience the pain of losing and the humilia-tion of supporting a loser.

I am saying all this from the perspective of three years of Duke fandom. Imagine what Blue Devil fans from the pre-Cutcliffe era must be saying about fans like me. To them, I am the newcomer, the bandwagon fan. To them, my one season of supporting a losing team does not count me in the ranks of the truly faithful. I imagine that many of these old-er fans were bothered by the newcomers even

more than I was.As the magnitude of what Duke was doing

this season set in, though, my jealousy started to melt away. After a while, I didn’t care that people only supported the Blue Devils now that they were winners. I realized there is no point in jealously guarding the team, as if its success could only be enjoyed by those who were there for the losing as well as the win-ning. What Duke football is doing this year is too important for that.

This year, the Blue Devil bandwagon has enough room for everybody. Whether you’ve been a fan for three weeks, three years or three generations, this year’s Duke team is yours to proudly support.

The bandwagon leaves Saturday for Char-lotte—all aboard.

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The Blue Devils’ run to the ACC championship game has given rise to a new era of Duke football fans, many of whom don’t remember the team’s past struggles.

Although Cook stole the show in the second half, it was productive play from the Blue Devils’ bench that gave them the spark they needed.

Matt Jones played a career-high 18 minutes, and although he scored just two points and did not hit a shot from the floor, his defense on Michigan’s leading scorer, guard Nik Stauskas, kept Michigan’s of-fense from finding a rhythm throughout the first half.

The Wolverines (5-3) shot just 8-of-26 from the floor in the opening 20 min-utes, and although the Blue Devils man-aged to hit just 4-of-13 3-point attempts, Duke went into the locker room with a 32-22 advantage.

Stauskas, who entered the contest aver-aging a team-high 20.3 points per contest, managed just four points and did not hit a field goal in the contest.

“We took away their best player, Staus-kas, and we took away their three-point shots,” Hood said. “We did a great job. We talked, and we gained rebounds and we scrapped for loose balls. We can score the ball—that’s not the issue. We have to have that defensive mindset, and that’s what’s going to get it for us this year.”

Shifting away from its frenetic run-and-gun pace, the Blue Devils chose to slow things down on both ends of the floor against Michigan, milking the shot clock on offense and grinding out defensive pos-sessions to get stops.

“Duke is known for defense. We got tired of people saying that we couldn’t play defense,” Cook said. “ESPN was doing spe-cials on us about not playing defense—well deserved because we weren’t—but we got tired of that.”

Playing the most productive minutes of his career, redshirt sophomore Marshall Plumlee battled down low with Michigan

forward Mitch McGary. Although McGary recorded a game-high 14 rebounds, it was Duke that outrebounded the Wolverines 32-31. Many of Plumlee’s biggest plays did not show up in the box score—he altered shots, clogged up passing lanes and fought on the glass to make an impact.

Parker made crucial buckets early in the second half to maintain Duke’s comfort-able lead. The Chicago native attacked the paint relentlessly, even when he was being guarded by McGary, and put his post moves on display in the second period.

Michigan began to claw its way back in the second half, trimming Duke’s lead to 46-40 with 9:01 to play. In stepped graduate student Andre Dawkins, who had played just three minutes in the first half. Dawkins came off the bench shooting, knocking down two 3-pointers in a minute to push his team’s lead back to double digits.

“Those two threes were just huge,” Krzyzewski said. “They’re going to make a push... and Andre—boom, boom—put us up by 12. I’m really happy for him.”

Dawkins’ sweet shooting appeared to spark his teammates’ shooting stroke as well. Cook, who dished out nine assists in the game, got into the act as well, knock-ing down two 3-pointers down the stretch, including a big shot with less than five min-utes to play that pushed Duke’s lead to 16.

Earning their first win against a ranked opponent this season, the Blue Devils played what could have been their most complete game of the season. After strug-gling through nonconference games in the NIT Season Tip-off, which culminated in a loss to Arizona, it appears Duke is finally beginning to find its identity as a team.

“We’re getting better. We’re a little more cohesive. We’re getting to know one another a little bit more, and we have to keep that going,” Krzyzewski said. “The best way we can become cohesive is on the defensive end.”

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closer to ACC play.“We’re still trying to figure our-

selves out, but in the last two weeks I think we’ve taken big steps—espe-cially on the defensive end of being connected and understanding what the coaches want and need from us,” Thornton said.

The defensive cohesion was hard to miss. Thornton and Jones worked in tandem to take Stauskas out of the game. All three Duke big men—Josh Hairston, Amile Jefferson and Marshall Plumlee—provided constant energy and tenacity defensively as well as on the glass against McGary and the Wol-verine frontcourt. Point guard Quinn Cook held his counterpart Derrick Walton, Jr. to just one assist and forced three turnovers.

For the first time this season, the game wasn’t about an offensive explo-sion from forwards Jabari Parker or Rodney Hood—who combined for 29 points on 12-of-27 shooting. Parker and Hood were held to fewer than 20 points in the same game for the first time, let-ting the spotlight shine on the entirety of the Duke team. Without the focus falling on one or two players, the inter-dependence between Blue Devils paid significant dividends.

“Since the Vermont game [de-fense] has been our emphasis, and I think since that game we’ve done a great job of communicating and be-ing more together on the defensive end,” Thornton said.

Every player who saw action tonight for the Blue Devils contributed, in-cluding the guys off the Duke bench. Jones played a career-high 18 minutes despite going 0-for-4 from the floor but was granted a longer leash than he had enjoyed in his previous eight games for his defensive effort. Jeffer-son played significant minutes for the second straight game and matched a

season-high with six rebounds after a three-game stretch logging 12 minutes or fewer. Andre Dawkins redefined in-stant offense with his pair of threes in his first 54 seconds on the floor in the second half. Even Plumlee got into the act, playing his heaviest minutes since Nov. 18 and matching his career-high with three rebounds.

But one player was conspicuous-ly missing from the team-wide effort: sophomore guard Rasheed Sulaimon. Sitting at the end of the bench next to Alex Murphy and Semi Ojeleye, Sulai-mon did not remove his warmups once, watching from the bench the entire game. Krzyzewski made the situation very clear—Sulaimon was simply being outplayed by the guys now ahead of him in the rotation.

“He has to play better than the guys who played tonight,” Krzyzewski said. “He contributed great from the bench.”

The mantra all season from Krzyze-wski and his players alike has been that this team needed to grow together as the season wore on. Parker, Hood and Dawkins all played zero collegiate min-utes last season. Tyler Thornton, Josh Hairston and Amile Jefferson are all playing radically different roles than they were a season ago. It seems the only constant for this team between the two season is Cook’s presence as the point guard spot.

But now, one month into the regu-lar season, the growth is finally starting to show. Duke basketball isn’t the Ja-bari Parker show, it’s not the Rodney Hood show and it’s not devoid of de-fense. Duke basketball is evolving into a total-team effort, and the results will improve along with the improved com-munication.

“We started out this season as a group of individuals who were talent-ed,” Hood said. “Now we’re a team, es-pecially on the defensive end. And if we get hot offensively, nobody can get in our way this year. We have to keep that defensive mindset.”

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hot, new sports story. What Duke is doing is unique, and people want to be a part of that. The New York Times even sent some-one to Durham to get the scoop on the Blue Devils and bring their story into the national limelight. In other words, Duke football has made it.

Look at game attendance. The Blue Devils opened the season against N.C. Central to a crowd of fewer than 23,000. Sure the Eagles aren’t exactly the cream of the college football crop, but everybody likes watching a 45-0 shut-out victory.

By week three, Duke was 2-0 for the first time since 1998. With Georgia Tech coming to town, the battle to stay undefeated was on. That’s a story fans can get behind. But fewer than 22,000 showed up. The Blue Devils lost to the Yellow Jackets and then lost again at home to Pittsburgh the following week, and the Duke football season was right on track.

But then something incredible happened. The Blue Devils beat Troy and Navy at home and knocked off Virginia on the road. They followed that up with an upset of then No. 16 Virginia Tech in Blacksburg—the first road win against a ranked opponent in 42 years—and returned to a campus that genuinely cared. Duke stood 6-2 with N.C. State coming to Durham, and people hung banners from their windows on West Campus, DSG sent out emails urging people to go to the game against the Wolfpack and the school stood be-hind its team in a way that I had not seen in my three years at Duke.

Then 32,000 people showed up to watch the Blue Devils secure their seventh win.

More than 30,000 fans came the following week and stormed the field following Duke’s

win against then-No. 24 ranked Miami on Se-nior Day.

The last two weeks the Blue Devils played at Wake Forest and North Carolina with a no-ticeable contingent of Duke supporters in the stands. The idea of the Blue Devils having a road presence and a traveling fan base would have been absurd two years ago coming off back-to-back 3-9 seasons.

And now with arguably the biggest game in Duke history approaching, my inbox is full of emails about purchasing a ticket for Saturday’s game.

When I first began to notice the attention that the Blue Devils were getting in the second half of the season—from the student body, ad-ministrators and the nation as a whole—the first thing I felt was jealousy.

For those who have been going to every game since freshman year, for sports writers who have covered the team each week, even before the record-breaking victories, for those people who supported the team and were proud of Duke football before it went viral, it felt like outsiders were jumping on the bandwagon.

And it hurt.But did the team feel the same way? No.

They were just happy to play in front of a crowd. They understand that people are be-ing drawn to the program only because it is winning, but that doesn’t matter. Playing in front of fair-weather fans is better than playing in front of no fans.

But as a sports fan, the sudden influx of supporters bothered me. Anyone who has ever supported a losing team knows the pain that comes with continual defeat. To the new-comers, this pain was unknown. They hadn’t suffered through any losing and didn’t belong in the stands.

People will always get behind a team that is winning, especially when their narrative is as powerful as the one the Blue Devils have produced this season. And there will always be fans who were there before it was cool. And they will always be inclined to look down on the newcomers, the unworthy, who didn’t ex-perience the pain of losing and the humilia-tion of supporting a loser.

I am saying all this from the perspective of three years of Duke fandom. Imagine what Blue Devil fans from the pre-Cutcliffe era must be saying about fans like me. To them, I am the newcomer, the bandwagon fan. To them, my one season of supporting a losing team does not count me in the ranks of the truly faithful. I imagine that many of these old-er fans were bothered by the newcomers even

more than I was.As the magnitude of what Duke was doing

this season set in, though, my jealousy started to melt away. After a while, I didn’t care that people only supported the Blue Devils now that they were winners. I realized there is no point in jealously guarding the team, as if its success could only be enjoyed by those who were there for the losing as well as the win-ning. What Duke football is doing this year is too important for that.

This year, the Blue Devil bandwagon has enough room for everybody. Whether you’ve been a fan for three weeks, three years or three generations, this year’s Duke team is yours to proudly support.

The bandwagon leaves Saturday for Char-lotte—all aboard.

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The Blue Devils’ run to the ACC championship game has given rise to a new era of Duke football fans, many of whom don’t remember the team’s past struggles.

Although Cook stole the show in the second half, it was productive play from the Blue Devils’ bench that gave them the spark they needed.

Matt Jones played a career-high 18 minutes, and although he scored just two points and did not hit a shot from the floor, his defense on Michigan’s leading scorer, guard Nik Stauskas, kept Michigan’s of-fense from finding a rhythm throughout the first half.

The Wolverines (5-3) shot just 8-of-26 from the floor in the opening 20 min-utes, and although the Blue Devils man-aged to hit just 4-of-13 3-point attempts, Duke went into the locker room with a 32-22 advantage.

Stauskas, who entered the contest aver-aging a team-high 20.3 points per contest, managed just four points and did not hit a field goal in the contest.

“We took away their best player, Staus-kas, and we took away their three-point shots,” Hood said. “We did a great job. We talked, and we gained rebounds and we scrapped for loose balls. We can score the ball—that’s not the issue. We have to have that defensive mindset, and that’s what’s going to get it for us this year.”

Shifting away from its frenetic run-and-gun pace, the Blue Devils chose to slow things down on both ends of the floor against Michigan, milking the shot clock on offense and grinding out defensive pos-sessions to get stops.

“Duke is known for defense. We got tired of people saying that we couldn’t play defense,” Cook said. “ESPN was doing spe-cials on us about not playing defense—well deserved because we weren’t—but we got tired of that.”

Playing the most productive minutes of his career, redshirt sophomore Marshall Plumlee battled down low with Michigan

forward Mitch McGary. Although McGary recorded a game-high 14 rebounds, it was Duke that outrebounded the Wolverines 32-31. Many of Plumlee’s biggest plays did not show up in the box score—he altered shots, clogged up passing lanes and fought on the glass to make an impact.

Parker made crucial buckets early in the second half to maintain Duke’s comfort-able lead. The Chicago native attacked the paint relentlessly, even when he was being guarded by McGary, and put his post moves on display in the second period.

Michigan began to claw its way back in the second half, trimming Duke’s lead to 46-40 with 9:01 to play. In stepped graduate student Andre Dawkins, who had played just three minutes in the first half. Dawkins came off the bench shooting, knocking down two 3-pointers in a minute to push his team’s lead back to double digits.

“Those two threes were just huge,” Krzyzewski said. “They’re going to make a push... and Andre—boom, boom—put us up by 12. I’m really happy for him.”

Dawkins’ sweet shooting appeared to spark his teammates’ shooting stroke as well. Cook, who dished out nine assists in the game, got into the act as well, knock-ing down two 3-pointers down the stretch, including a big shot with less than five min-utes to play that pushed Duke’s lead to 16.

Earning their first win against a ranked opponent this season, the Blue Devils played what could have been their most complete game of the season. After strug-gling through nonconference games in the NIT Season Tip-off, which culminated in a loss to Arizona, it appears Duke is finally beginning to find its identity as a team.

“We’re getting better. We’re a little more cohesive. We’re getting to know one another a little bit more, and we have to keep that going,” Krzyzewski said. “The best way we can become cohesive is on the defensive end.”

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closer to ACC play.“We’re still trying to figure our-

selves out, but in the last two weeks I think we’ve taken big steps—espe-cially on the defensive end of being connected and understanding what the coaches want and need from us,” Thornton said.

The defensive cohesion was hard to miss. Thornton and Jones worked in tandem to take Stauskas out of the game. All three Duke big men—Josh Hairston, Amile Jefferson and Marshall Plumlee—provided constant energy and tenacity defensively as well as on the glass against McGary and the Wol-verine frontcourt. Point guard Quinn Cook held his counterpart Derrick Walton, Jr. to just one assist and forced three turnovers.

For the first time this season, the game wasn’t about an offensive explo-sion from forwards Jabari Parker or Rodney Hood—who combined for 29 points on 12-of-27 shooting. Parker and Hood were held to fewer than 20 points in the same game for the first time, let-ting the spotlight shine on the entirety of the Duke team. Without the focus falling on one or two players, the inter-dependence between Blue Devils paid significant dividends.

“Since the Vermont game [de-fense] has been our emphasis, and I think since that game we’ve done a great job of communicating and be-ing more together on the defensive end,” Thornton said.

Every player who saw action tonight for the Blue Devils contributed, in-cluding the guys off the Duke bench. Jones played a career-high 18 minutes despite going 0-for-4 from the floor but was granted a longer leash than he had enjoyed in his previous eight games for his defensive effort. Jeffer-son played significant minutes for the second straight game and matched a

season-high with six rebounds after a three-game stretch logging 12 minutes or fewer. Andre Dawkins redefined in-stant offense with his pair of threes in his first 54 seconds on the floor in the second half. Even Plumlee got into the act, playing his heaviest minutes since Nov. 18 and matching his career-high with three rebounds.

But one player was conspicuous-ly missing from the team-wide effort: sophomore guard Rasheed Sulaimon. Sitting at the end of the bench next to Alex Murphy and Semi Ojeleye, Sulai-mon did not remove his warmups once, watching from the bench the entire game. Krzyzewski made the situation very clear—Sulaimon was simply being outplayed by the guys now ahead of him in the rotation.

“He has to play better than the guys who played tonight,” Krzyzewski said. “He contributed great from the bench.”

The mantra all season from Krzyze-wski and his players alike has been that this team needed to grow together as the season wore on. Parker, Hood and Dawkins all played zero collegiate min-utes last season. Tyler Thornton, Josh Hairston and Amile Jefferson are all playing radically different roles than they were a season ago. It seems the only constant for this team between the two season is Cook’s presence as the point guard spot.

But now, one month into the regu-lar season, the growth is finally starting to show. Duke basketball isn’t the Ja-bari Parker show, it’s not the Rodney Hood show and it’s not devoid of de-fense. Duke basketball is evolving into a total-team effort, and the results will improve along with the improved com-munication.

“We started out this season as a group of individuals who were talent-ed,” Hood said. “Now we’re a team, es-pecially on the defensive end. And if we get hot offensively, nobody can get in our way this year. We have to keep that defensive mindset.”

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Junior point guard Quinn Cook led the Blue Devils to a win against Michigan by scoring all 24 of his points in the second half and dishing out nine assists.

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Members of Duke’s Student Government are working to add more courses about local history and politics to the course registry. Duke already offers a number of classes on Durham, North Carolina and the American South—giving students more chances to wrestle with local and regional issues. This not only promises to give students a better grip on local politics, but will also encourage students to embrace the region’s history as their own, transgress the imaginary boundary between Duke and Durham and become active agents in their city.

A number of centers and departments—including the Center for Documentary Studies—currently offer courses that encourage students to explore Durham. Ideally, the proposed course additions would build on the successes of current course offerings. Many of these courses include a service-learning component, and while service-learning is valuable, the time required to participate in these classes can sometimes repel students who are interested in Durham but overburdened by other commitments. The proposed courses would not include a service-learning element and may, as a result, allow students to study Durham without having to

negotiate the time constraints imposed by classes focused on service.

The DSG representatives behind the new initiative have circulated a petition to gauge

student interest in Durham-centric courses. In general, students seem keen on classes that tackle local issues. Not only are Durham-based service-learning courses very popular, but students are also signing up for classes that dive deep into local politics. Steve Milder, a visiting professor in the history department, is teaching a class next semester on human rights and social movements that focuses primarily on events like last summer’s Moral Monday protests. The class, which can accommodate 30 students, is already full—suggesting perhaps that students see Durham’s contested political terrain as rich soil in which to explore broader questions of social justice and human rights. If the popularity of this course is indicative of a general interest in local affairs, then it would make sense for departments to offer more courses of this kind.

Durham’s historical record is shot through with issues that students care about. Urban planning, race relations, economic theory and many other topics compose the story of Durham’s growth and metamorphosis, and all of these issues intersect with students’ varied academic interests.

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An independent judiciary is the hallmark of a functioning democracy. Judges, especially those primarily responsible for interpreting

the Constitution, need to be able to reach decisions based on constitutional principles without undue extraneous political pressure. Naturally, this principle of judicial independence runs up against

the democratic theory of government, under which power is based on the consent of the governed. According to Alexander Hamilton, judges were responsible for enforcing the people’s will as expressed in the Constitution and prevent abuses of power by the legislative and executive branches. Ever since the emergence of political parties in the 1790s, however, the impartiality of the judiciary has been compromised by partisanship in the nomination of federal judges. The effect of this partisanship was magnified last week when two federal appeals courts upheld state laws imposing sharp limits on abortion and birth control.

The Fifth Circuit, in the case of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services v. Abbott, reversed in part the district court’s permanent injunction preventing two provisions of H.B. 2 from going into effect. The Texas law requires doctors who perform or induce abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where the abortion is performed or induced, and it limits the use of abortion-inducing drugs to a protocol approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The Circuit Court found that Abbott is likely to succeed on the merits with respect to the hospital privileges provision because the provision does not facially (i.e., based on a plain reading of the text of the bill) impose an undue burden on women seeking abortions in Texas. Planned Parenthood contended at trial that the measure would block 22,000 Texas women’s access to abortion services, and the district court found that 22 counties in the Rio Grande Valley would be left without access to abortion services if the provision went into effect. Ironically, the Circuit Court noted that, since abortions were only performed in 13 of Texas’ 254 counties before H.B. 2 was enacted and since 90 percent of women “would be able to obtain an abortion within 100 miles of their respective residences,” the relevant provisions of H.B. 2 do not impose an “undue burden in a large fraction of the relevant cases.”

The Fifth Circuit’s opinion is plagued by limits in the constitutional doctrine and a problematic definition of the “relevant cases.”

First, since the Supreme Court held in 2007 in Gonzales v. Carhart that it is limited to a facial analysis of a statute in determining whether it imposes an undue burden on a woman’s right to choose, the Fifth Circuit here did not have to look at H.B. 2’s legislative history. Even the briefest of glimpses at the conditions of the bill’s enactment would reveal Sen. Wendy Davis’s marathon filibuster to prevent the closure of all but five abortion clinics in Texas, as well as the two special legislative sessions that Gov. Rick Perry called in order to pass the law. H.B. 2 was not passed in order to improve women’s access to safe abortions. It was passed to limit that access. And it closed most of the few clinics that provided access to abortion services in Texas.

Second, the Fifth Circuit completely ignores the population that will be most affected by the new restrictions. In fact, in his reply brief to Planned Parenthood’s appeal to the Supreme Court, Abbott contends that “the closure of abortion clinics cannot be an undue burden absent findings or evidence that patients will encounter a substantial obstacle to obtaining abortions from other providers.” But the need for such a finding is nothing more than legal smoke and mirrors to disguise the law’s purpose to limit access to abortion services. Moreover, the effect on individual patients is inevitable. The typical abortion patient today is no longer the middle-class high school or college student who does not want her life derailed by motherhood. Rather, 20-something single mothers of color are the typical patients. Due to a steady decrease in access to contraception for poor women since the 1990s (before the Affordable Care Act went into effect), 69 percent of women who have abortions have incomes within 200 percent of the poverty line. Travelling 100 miles to get access to abortion services is, plain and simple, an undue burden on these women.

Hon. Priscilla R. Owen, who wrote the opinion for the Fifth Circuit, was confirmed as part of a deal made with Senate Republicans. But earlier this month, even though Democrats control the Senate, President Obama has been unable to get any of his nominations for the D.C. circuit court confirmed because of Senate Republicans’ filibusters. As a result, conservatives are becoming increasingly entrenched in the federal courts. This imbalance threatens the ability of the judiciary to remain independent, and results in morality-based legislation that undermines constitutional principles established by Roe v. Wade and its progeny.

Joline Doedens is a second-year law student. This is her final regular column of the semester. Send Jo-line a message @jydoedens.

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The politics of independence

My brain and I have been play-ing a super fun game recent-ly. It’s called “Reflect on ev-

ery poor decision you’ve ever made ever.” It’s like Sorry, except you’re the only player, so you just repeatedly screw yourself over.

Like many self-proclaimed “90s kids,” I am burdened with an insa-tiable appetite for nostalgia. (Current

freshmen who, at this point, “relate,” let me remind you that you were likely still wetting the bed when the 90s end-ed). Perhaps for this reason, as a cur-rent senior and perpetual overachiev-er, I’ve already gotten a head start on nostalgizing for next year. These last three and a half years, there were laughs and fun and happy times—at least, I’m sure there were. At the moment, I’m preoccupied thinking about all the stupid s--- I did.

A “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” episode once taught me that, for every decision we make, an alternate universe is created. Maybe this is only true for Melissa Joan Hart, but I like to think, perhaps, somewhere out there, there is a me who made the exact right decisions with her college career. She got involved in all the right things and made the right friends directly from the start. She never procrastinated, avoided organic chemistry, never ate at Panda Express and always knew when that last shot of tequila wasn’t a good idea. (Hint: It was never a good idea.) Now, she’s got a six-figure salary job, 6,655 new best friends and is 36-24-36 (only if she’s 5’3”). Maybe she even has a sassy talking cat.

Sadly, however, I’m not living in that universe. And as I get closer to the end of college, my hindsight only gets clearer. I shouldn’t have taken that class or gone out that night or dated that guy. I should never have started that fight or trusted that friend. I should have had a V8.

Finding there aren’t yet enough things in my 21 years of life to regret, my brain has gotten creative and has resorted to constant, almost obsessive marinating on even the most miniature of things. Mostly, this means focusing on idiotic things I’ve said that, two seconds after they left my mouth, I felt like Hagrid right after he told Harry about his three-headed dog: I shouldn’t have said that. I should NOT have said that. As someone with a notably lacking verbal filter and a publicized column best described as a written impulse control problem, this is especially problematic, as I’ve given my brain a lot to work with. Even when I’m not consciously thinking about my idiocies, my brain is always there to remind me. Remember that one

time you said that one dumb thing? Well, now you do! Let’s think about it for two straight days.

But more than the things I punch myself for having done, what I find myself regretting are the things I didn’t do. In high school, when people told me college was short and I would have to pick and choose what I committed to, 16-year-old me was

pretty sure that, much like traffic laws, it didn’t really apply to me.

Two seconds later, senior year sucker-punched me from behind. And although I did a lot of cool stuff in college, I feel like I missed out on tons of possibilities. I didn’t join an SLG, participate in DukeImmerse or get to know many professors. I didn’t ever ask anyone out, and, when I made commitments to others, I never took a risk. Through inaction, I let friendships fade. Hell, sometimes I feel like throughout all of college, I had not really expressed my true self to people—I was too caught up in reputation, other’s opinions and “supposed-to-be’s.” As the year comes to a close, I’m wondering what could have been these past three years if I had seized the opportunities right in front of me.

I’d love to be able to say I’m happy for my mistakes and what I missed out on. Yet one of the most terrifying parts of senior year is you don’t know if everything will be OK. Your life’s course is probably more unsure than it’s been in years, if not in your whole life. And although I’m happy now, I have no idea if, in 20 years, I’ll look back on my time in college as a wonder or a waste.

So, here, in my final column of the semester, to which I’ve ascribed importance due to its finality, I offer a word of advice: It’s OK to regret. It’s fine to miss out sometimes or make mistakes. Regret is life’s best teacher, and what are we here for if not to learn?

But most of all, DO things. College is perhaps the last time in our lives when basically everything we could want to do is provided for us and within five minutes at all times (that is, until we’re in old people homes). So stop thinking about what you’re supposed to do or what others think or what’s cool. You have nothing to lose, so take a chance. Be it taking a class out of your comfort zone, joining a new club, asking someone out or even just letting the world see your weird self—do it. You won’t regret it.

Lillie Reed is a Trinity senior. This is her final column and the final installment of the weekly Socialites feature of the semester. Send Lillie a message on Twitter @LillieReed.

i wanna eat the whole cake Turning left off Duke’s East Campus, Durham’s Main Street is a straight shot for a stretch. Try it—go as far

as you remember. There’s Brightleaf, bus-tling on the right, Shooters tucked behind other bars—the Federal, James Joyce. This is well-worn pavement for students at the University, each inch a faded memory.

Keep going. Pass a pair of complexes: West Village and Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company’s Chesterfield, old cigarette factories, one recycled, one forsaken. Farther. Past Five Points, bricks on the

street now, the frozen bull twisting somewhere. Past the cupcake shop, the nightclubs, the art-spaces and eateries.

Find St. Philip’s Episcopal Church on a surprisingly lush East Main block, an oasis. You haven’t seen tree trunks so thick since you left campus.

The skyscrapers, squat as they were, are all gone now. One block ahead, another tall building rises in their place, beige balconies with metal railing. Sometimes, especially in the evenings, you can see eyes in the gaps, blinking back through the golden wash. This is Oldham Towers, not yet two miles from Duke’s campus. The poverty rate in this census tract is 37.6 percent.

You do not look like you live in public housing, so you move quickly.

Alston Avenue soon interrupts. Main then bends a slight left, and East Durham tumbles forward. The bricks have fallen away, replaced by worn vinyl slats and suburban shrubbery. By East Durham Park, about four miles from East Campus, you’ve arrived at 44 percent poverty.

If time-pressed, visit Lakewood instead. A mile and a half south of the Nasher Museum of Art’s duck breast medallions (available on food points), find 85 percent of a neighborhood officially impoverished, what Olive Joyner of the Durham Interfaith Hospitality Network calls “‘I don’t get any money all month, and I switch out my food stamps to buy personal hygiene items’ poverty.”

These are faraway neighborhoods, though they are nearby, and they are Durham.

They are a different Durham, one with nearly four times as many black people in poverty as whites, the highest racial disparity among North Carolina’s 100 counties. Here, motorists stopped and searched and sometimes beaten are 82 percent black, though the county itself is mostly white. A 17-year-old can be shot dead in a cop car here, a Honduran migrant yelled instructions in English, then executed by police on his front lawn.

The typical Duke student—cloistered a mandatory three years behind the gray barriers of East and West Campuses, the hedges and black metal of Central—does not know this Durham, though this Durham knows the typical Duke student.

I was in a cab this spring, stopped at CCB Plaza, when the driver, an Iraqi man named Akil, turned and said: “right here.” He told me how the student was drunk

and hadn’t paid, hitting him on the head and leaving instead. I could say nothing.

“But mostly,” he added, “they are nice people.”

Akil is, of course, right. The students of Duke University are mostly nice people. They arrive as kids, so often from suburban high schools, and are minted into promising adults, with stamped certificates as proof. There are glass-encased dining halls, star lecturers and summer programs in between. Older people drudge over every detail.

The first three years, when they are required to live on campus, is a package, an experience. It is also a fantasy and a tyranny. It is eyes wide and mouth agape when I inform outsiders that this, my final year, is the first one I do not live where I study and work. Unsimulated, these have been the best of my times here.

Because Duke students (nice as they are) behave as all other humans do: within their constraints. And the Duke University campus (nice as it is) is one magnificent, dignified, Gothic-and-Georgian constraint.

The three years yawn before a first-year dumped fresh at a dormitory like a sentence. They are told—for most like never before and never again—that these, no one else, are their people. Kept safe from the jagged edges of a city so sharply divided along race and class lines, former children find themselves vulnerable to new dangers.

Some remain uprooted, haunting a handful of designated areas where appointments are kept. Others embrace the condition, delving headlong into “greek” tribalism inscrutable outside the stone walls. The price of “belonging” in the fictive realm may be steep, beginning at formalized exclusion, semester dues and imposed physical trauma, including a 38 percent chance of sexual assault.

There are important externalities, like the “probably hundreds of thousands of dollars” it took to manage Duke’s tailgate binges. I will never forget the Saturday evening when I stepped onto the Main Quad that I and some other unaffiliated students shared with two fraternities. The grass was hidden under a carpet of stinking cans. An elderly housekeeper stood picking them up one by one, listening, with me, to distant whooping.

I could say nothing.We can be more than the distant

whoop, a multinational enterprise expanding into China as children miles away grow hungry and drop out. A community built on the exclusion and exploitation of its periphery draws the odium of an empire.

Abolish the three-year mandate. Then, maybe, we will look around and see ourselves.

Prashanth Kamalakanthan is a Trinity senior. This is his final column of the semester. Send Prashanth a message on Twitter @pkinbrief.

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Members of Duke’s Student Government are working to add more courses about local history and politics to the course registry. Duke already offers a number of classes on Durham, North Carolina and the American South—giving students more chances to wrestle with local and regional issues. This not only promises to give students a better grip on local politics, but will also encourage students to embrace the region’s history as their own, transgress the imaginary boundary between Duke and Durham and become active agents in their city.

A number of centers and departments—including the Center for Documentary Studies—currently offer courses that encourage students to explore Durham. Ideally, the proposed course additions would build on the successes of current course offerings. Many of these courses include a service-learning component, and while service-learning is valuable, the time required to participate in these classes can sometimes repel students who are interested in Durham but overburdened by other commitments. The proposed courses would not include a service-learning element and may, as a result, allow students to study Durham without having to

negotiate the time constraints imposed by classes focused on service.

The DSG representatives behind the new initiative have circulated a petition to gauge

student interest in Durham-centric courses. In general, students seem keen on classes that tackle local issues. Not only are Durham-based service-learning courses very popular, but students are also signing up for classes that dive deep into local politics. Steve Milder, a visiting professor in the history department, is teaching a class next semester on human rights and social movements that focuses primarily on events like last summer’s Moral Monday protests. The class, which can accommodate 30 students, is already full—suggesting perhaps that students see Durham’s contested political terrain as rich soil in which to explore broader questions of social justice and human rights. If the popularity of this course is indicative of a general interest in local affairs, then it would make sense for departments to offer more courses of this kind.

Durham’s historical record is shot through with issues that students care about. Urban planning, race relations, economic theory and many other topics compose the story of Durham’s growth and metamorphosis, and all of these issues intersect with students’ varied academic interests.

In general, making local affairs the subject of greater academic inquiry promises to benefit both Duke students and the City of Durham. If structured correctly, courses about Durham will not imbue students with some vague desire to “make Durham a better place.” Rather, they will help students understand how to approach Durham on its own terms, appreciate its history and traditions and work with the community in a way that respect residents’ autonomy.

We often tout the benefits of cross-cultural learning, and Duke shells out big bucks to send students across the world to learn about cultures and societies different from our own. But Durham also has much to teach us. Even if our stay here is short, knowing the history of this city adds depth and richness to our experience of it. We support more opportunities to learn about Durham and the region.

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An independent judiciary is the hallmark of a functioning democracy. Judges, especially those primarily responsible for interpreting

the Constitution, need to be able to reach decisions based on constitutional principles without undue extraneous political pressure. Naturally, this principle of judicial independence runs up against

the democratic theory of government, under which power is based on the consent of the governed. According to Alexander Hamilton, judges were responsible for enforcing the people’s will as expressed in the Constitution and prevent abuses of power by the legislative and executive branches. Ever since the emergence of political parties in the 1790s, however, the impartiality of the judiciary has been compromised by partisanship in the nomination of federal judges. The effect of this partisanship was magnified last week when two federal appeals courts upheld state laws imposing sharp limits on abortion and birth control.

The Fifth Circuit, in the case of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services v. Abbott, reversed in part the district court’s permanent injunction preventing two provisions of H.B. 2 from going into effect. The Texas law requires doctors who perform or induce abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where the abortion is performed or induced, and it limits the use of abortion-inducing drugs to a protocol approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The Circuit Court found that Abbott is likely to succeed on the merits with respect to the hospital privileges provision because the provision does not facially (i.e., based on a plain reading of the text of the bill) impose an undue burden on women seeking abortions in Texas. Planned Parenthood contended at trial that the measure would block 22,000 Texas women’s access to abortion services, and the district court found that 22 counties in the Rio Grande Valley would be left without access to abortion services if the provision went into effect. Ironically, the Circuit Court noted that, since abortions were only performed in 13 of Texas’ 254 counties before H.B. 2 was enacted and since 90 percent of women “would be able to obtain an abortion within 100 miles of their respective residences,” the relevant provisions of H.B. 2 do not impose an “undue burden in a large fraction of the relevant cases.”

The Fifth Circuit’s opinion is plagued by limits in the constitutional doctrine and a problematic definition of the “relevant cases.”

First, since the Supreme Court held in 2007 in Gonzales v. Carhart that it is limited to a facial analysis of a statute in determining whether it imposes an undue burden on a woman’s right to choose, the Fifth Circuit here did not have to look at H.B. 2’s legislative history. Even the briefest of glimpses at the conditions of the bill’s enactment would reveal Sen. Wendy Davis’s marathon filibuster to prevent the closure of all but five abortion clinics in Texas, as well as the two special legislative sessions that Gov. Rick Perry called in order to pass the law. H.B. 2 was not passed in order to improve women’s access to safe abortions. It was passed to limit that access. And it closed most of the few clinics that provided access to abortion services in Texas.

Second, the Fifth Circuit completely ignores the population that will be most affected by the new restrictions. In fact, in his reply brief to Planned Parenthood’s appeal to the Supreme Court, Abbott contends that “the closure of abortion clinics cannot be an undue burden absent findings or evidence that patients will encounter a substantial obstacle to obtaining abortions from other providers.” But the need for such a finding is nothing more than legal smoke and mirrors to disguise the law’s purpose to limit access to abortion services. Moreover, the effect on individual patients is inevitable. The typical abortion patient today is no longer the middle-class high school or college student who does not want her life derailed by motherhood. Rather, 20-something single mothers of color are the typical patients. Due to a steady decrease in access to contraception for poor women since the 1990s (before the Affordable Care Act went into effect), 69 percent of women who have abortions have incomes within 200 percent of the poverty line. Travelling 100 miles to get access to abortion services is, plain and simple, an undue burden on these women.

Hon. Priscilla R. Owen, who wrote the opinion for the Fifth Circuit, was confirmed as part of a deal made with Senate Republicans. But earlier this month, even though Democrats control the Senate, President Obama has been unable to get any of his nominations for the D.C. circuit court confirmed because of Senate Republicans’ filibusters. As a result, conservatives are becoming increasingly entrenched in the federal courts. This imbalance threatens the ability of the judiciary to remain independent, and results in morality-based legislation that undermines constitutional principles established by Roe v. Wade and its progeny.

Joline Doedens is a second-year law student. This is her final regular column of the semester. Send Jo-line a message @jydoedens.

JolineDoedenswait a minute

The politics of independence

My brain and I have been play-ing a super fun game recent-ly. It’s called “Reflect on ev-

ery poor decision you’ve ever made ever.” It’s like Sorry, except you’re the only player, so you just repeatedly screw yourself over.

Like many self-proclaimed “90s kids,” I am burdened with an insa-tiable appetite for nostalgia. (Current

freshmen who, at this point, “relate,” let me remind you that you were likely still wetting the bed when the 90s end-ed). Perhaps for this reason, as a cur-rent senior and perpetual overachiev-er, I’ve already gotten a head start on nostalgizing for next year. These last three and a half years, there were laughs and fun and happy times—at least, I’m sure there were. At the moment, I’m preoccupied thinking about all the stupid s--- I did.

A “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” episode once taught me that, for every decision we make, an alternate universe is created. Maybe this is only true for Melissa Joan Hart, but I like to think, perhaps, somewhere out there, there is a me who made the exact right decisions with her college career. She got involved in all the right things and made the right friends directly from the start. She never procrastinated, avoided organic chemistry, never ate at Panda Express and always knew when that last shot of tequila wasn’t a good idea. (Hint: It was never a good idea.) Now, she’s got a six-figure salary job, 6,655 new best friends and is 36-24-36 (only if she’s 5’3”). Maybe she even has a sassy talking cat.

Sadly, however, I’m not living in that universe. And as I get closer to the end of college, my hindsight only gets clearer. I shouldn’t have taken that class or gone out that night or dated that guy. I should never have started that fight or trusted that friend. I should have had a V8.

Finding there aren’t yet enough things in my 21 years of life to regret, my brain has gotten creative and has resorted to constant, almost obsessive marinating on even the most miniature of things. Mostly, this means focusing on idiotic things I’ve said that, two seconds after they left my mouth, I felt like Hagrid right after he told Harry about his three-headed dog: I shouldn’t have said that. I should NOT have said that. As someone with a notably lacking verbal filter and a publicized column best described as a written impulse control problem, this is especially problematic, as I’ve given my brain a lot to work with. Even when I’m not consciously thinking about my idiocies, my brain is always there to remind me. Remember that one

time you said that one dumb thing? Well, now you do! Let’s think about it for two straight days.

But more than the things I punch myself for having done, what I find myself regretting are the things I didn’t do. In high school, when people told me college was short and I would have to pick and choose what I committed to, 16-year-old me was

pretty sure that, much like traffic laws, it didn’t really apply to me.

Two seconds later, senior year sucker-punched me from behind. And although I did a lot of cool stuff in college, I feel like I missed out on tons of possibilities. I didn’t join an SLG, participate in DukeImmerse or get to know many professors. I didn’t ever ask anyone out, and, when I made commitments to others, I never took a risk. Through inaction, I let friendships fade. Hell, sometimes I feel like throughout all of college, I had not really expressed my true self to people—I was too caught up in reputation, other’s opinions and “supposed-to-be’s.” As the year comes to a close, I’m wondering what could have been these past three years if I had seized the opportunities right in front of me.

I’d love to be able to say I’m happy for my mistakes and what I missed out on. Yet one of the most terrifying parts of senior year is you don’t know if everything will be OK. Your life’s course is probably more unsure than it’s been in years, if not in your whole life. And although I’m happy now, I have no idea if, in 20 years, I’ll look back on my time in college as a wonder or a waste.

So, here, in my final column of the semester, to which I’ve ascribed importance due to its finality, I offer a word of advice: It’s OK to regret. It’s fine to miss out sometimes or make mistakes. Regret is life’s best teacher, and what are we here for if not to learn?

But most of all, DO things. College is perhaps the last time in our lives when basically everything we could want to do is provided for us and within five minutes at all times (that is, until we’re in old people homes). So stop thinking about what you’re supposed to do or what others think or what’s cool. You have nothing to lose, so take a chance. Be it taking a class out of your comfort zone, joining a new club, asking someone out or even just letting the world see your weird self—do it. You won’t regret it.

Lillie Reed is a Trinity senior. This is her final column and the final installment of the weekly Socialites feature of the semester. Send Lillie a message on Twitter @LillieReed.

i wanna eat the whole cake Turning left off Duke’s East Campus, Durham’s Main Street is a straight shot for a stretch. Try it—go as far

as you remember. There’s Brightleaf, bus-tling on the right, Shooters tucked behind other bars—the Federal, James Joyce. This is well-worn pavement for students at the University, each inch a faded memory.

Keep going. Pass a pair of complexes: West Village and Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company’s Chesterfield, old cigarette factories, one recycled, one forsaken. Farther. Past Five Points, bricks on the

street now, the frozen bull twisting somewhere. Past the cupcake shop, the nightclubs, the art-spaces and eateries.

Find St. Philip’s Episcopal Church on a surprisingly lush East Main block, an oasis. You haven’t seen tree trunks so thick since you left campus.

The skyscrapers, squat as they were, are all gone now. One block ahead, another tall building rises in their place, beige balconies with metal railing. Sometimes, especially in the evenings, you can see eyes in the gaps, blinking back through the golden wash. This is Oldham Towers, not yet two miles from Duke’s campus. The poverty rate in this census tract is 37.6 percent.

You do not look like you live in public housing, so you move quickly.

Alston Avenue soon interrupts. Main then bends a slight left, and East Durham tumbles forward. The bricks have fallen away, replaced by worn vinyl slats and suburban shrubbery. By East Durham Park, about four miles from East Campus, you’ve arrived at 44 percent poverty.

If time-pressed, visit Lakewood instead. A mile and a half south of the Nasher Museum of Art’s duck breast medallions (available on food points), find 85 percent of a neighborhood officially impoverished, what Olive Joyner of the Durham Interfaith Hospitality Network calls “‘I don’t get any money all month, and I switch out my food stamps to buy personal hygiene items’ poverty.”

These are faraway neighborhoods, though they are nearby, and they are Durham.

They are a different Durham, one with nearly four times as many black people in poverty as whites, the highest racial disparity among North Carolina’s 100 counties. Here, motorists stopped and searched and sometimes beaten are 82 percent black, though the county itself is mostly white. A 17-year-old can be shot dead in a cop car here, a Honduran migrant yelled instructions in English, then executed by police on his front lawn.

The typical Duke student—cloistered a mandatory three years behind the gray barriers of East and West Campuses, the hedges and black metal of Central—does not know this Durham, though this Durham knows the typical Duke student.

I was in a cab this spring, stopped at CCB Plaza, when the driver, an Iraqi man named Akil, turned and said: “right here.” He told me how the student was drunk

and hadn’t paid, hitting him on the head and leaving instead. I could say nothing.

“But mostly,” he added, “they are nice people.”

Akil is, of course, right. The students of Duke University are mostly nice people. They arrive as kids, so often from suburban high schools, and are minted into promising adults, with stamped certificates as proof. There are glass-encased dining halls, star lecturers and summer programs in between. Older people drudge over every detail.

The first three years, when they are required to live on campus, is a package, an experience. It is also a fantasy and a tyranny. It is eyes wide and mouth agape when I inform outsiders that this, my final year, is the first one I do not live where I study and work. Unsimulated, these have been the best of my times here.

Because Duke students (nice as they are) behave as all other humans do: within their constraints. And the Duke University campus (nice as it is) is one magnificent, dignified, Gothic-and-Georgian constraint.

The three years yawn before a first-year dumped fresh at a dormitory like a sentence. They are told—for most like never before and never again—that these, no one else, are their people. Kept safe from the jagged edges of a city so sharply divided along race and class lines, former children find themselves vulnerable to new dangers.

Some remain uprooted, haunting a handful of designated areas where appointments are kept. Others embrace the condition, delving headlong into “greek” tribalism inscrutable outside the stone walls. The price of “belonging” in the fictive realm may be steep, beginning at formalized exclusion, semester dues and imposed physical trauma, including a 38 percent chance of sexual assault.

There are important externalities, like the “probably hundreds of thousands of dollars” it took to manage Duke’s tailgate binges. I will never forget the Saturday evening when I stepped onto the Main Quad that I and some other unaffiliated students shared with two fraternities. The grass was hidden under a carpet of stinking cans. An elderly housekeeper stood picking them up one by one, listening, with me, to distant whooping.

I could say nothing.We can be more than the distant

whoop, a multinational enterprise expanding into China as children miles away grow hungry and drop out. A community built on the exclusion and exploitation of its periphery draws the odium of an empire.

Abolish the three-year mandate. Then, maybe, we will look around and see ourselves.

Prashanth Kamalakanthan is a Trinity senior. This is his final column of the semester. Send Prashanth a message on Twitter @pkinbrief.

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the sequestration, shutdown and changing priorities for different agencies,” said Terri Lomax, vice chancellor for research, inno-vation and economic development at North Carolina State University.

She added that research administrators need to always be looking for new sources for funding and hope to optimize the money that they do receive.

Grant applications that represent more than one department or interdisciplinary area of study tend to receive much more funding than more traditional requests, he noted.

Sally Kornbluth, vice dean for basic sci-ence—Siedow’s counterpart at the School of Medicine—said many of impending challenges to research funding are shared between the two schools.

“Maintaining strong funding in a tight re-search economy is going to continue to be a major challenge for Duke and our peer institu-tions,” she said. “Duke is well-poised, however, for the many interdisciplinary opportunities in research, as Duke has been investing in and building interdisciplinary research teams for a number of years.”

Decreasing federal investments and the in-creasingly unpredictable nature of federal bud-geting are additional challenges for Siedow’s successor, said Melissa Vetterkind, director of the Office of Federal Relations.

Among the traits most important for the per-son who next takes the role are “a certain degree of political astuteness and a good sense of hu-mor,” Vetterkind added.

“It is always good to keep it in perspective and to maintain a sense of humor,” Siedow said. “You can’t let every crisis be an event where the sky is falling. You have to keep calm.”

Kornbluth and Siedow collaborate on many of the issues that impact research across campus.

She highlighted Siedow’s sound judgment and thoughtfulness as traits that made him an ideal vice provost—characteristics that Kornblu-

th noted she hoped to see the successor.

A decade of growthIn his 12 years as vice provost, Siedow has

tackled many challenges to smooth research procedures. Although the bulk of his time is spent managing issues with compliance, he has also had to oversee large-scale potential finding losses—the details of which he is not at liberty to disclose.

As regulations from government continue to grow, the job of ensuring all researchers are complying has become increasingly difficult, he noted.

Lange noted that Siedow was responsible for overseeing the complete overhaul of the system for reporting conflicts of interest in research—switching the traditional paper filing system to a user-friendly online interface.

From establishing the Duke Office of Ex-port Controls to chairing the committee that aligned summer salary funding with federal regulations, Siedow has been a key factor in overseeing the distribution of hundreds of mil-lions of dollars in funding.

At the beginning of his term in 2001, the University oversaw $375 million per year in research and development expenditures. Last year, Duke oversaw more than $1 billion worth of research funding, making it the fifth larg-est research university in the nation. Although much of this growth happened in the medical center, under Siedow’s guidance, campus-based research expenditures grew by 73 percent.

“We have had a huge uptick in research—for which he can’t take all of the credit—but building all of the systems to manage that has been his responsibility,” Lange said. “He has also encouraged new kinds of research and more collaborative grants.”

Siedow emphasized his goal of providing means for researchers to pursue their goals rather than having to refuse them.

“Our role is to make things happen,” Siedow said. “Our goal is not to tell faculty that we can’t do something. Our goal is to try and figure out

how we can do it, and at the end of the day if it turns out to be illegal, then we will let the legal people tell us we can’t do it. We are’t going to be the ones to tell the faculty what they can’t do.”

A system to collect surveys following paper-work submission allowed researchers to let Sie-dow know when parts of the process were hin-dering their ability to work effectively.

Although his office receives some negative feedback, the vast majority of faculty has been satisfied with the processes he has put in place, Siedow said.

“Our office works with Jim to develop and implement Duke’s federal research agenda,” Vetterkind said. “We tap into his expertise on a wide range of issues, from federal funding of research to export controls to compliance and regulatory burden. He has been a wonderful resource and advocate not only for Duke, but for the nation’s research enterprise as a whole.”

Lange highlighted Siedow’s largest accom-plishments as managing the growth and infra-structure of research.

“He is extremely well-organized and very committed to his job,” Lange said. “He is always very straightforward—when he sees problems, he lets you know so you can fix them.”

Siedow excels at balancing both the human and academic aspects of his job, Lange said.

Building effective compliance structures without making the system unnecessarily com-plicated for researchers was a major obstacle that Siedow had to overcome in his time, Lange noted.

Returning to his passionThe timing of his stepping down coincides

with Lange’s decision not to seek reappoint-ment as provost, as Siedow wants his successor to have time to form their own relationship with their new boss.

“I hate to leave a new provost in the lurch,” he said “But I am confident that they will find someone new who will come in and hit the ground running.”

In addition to continuing his term as an

associate editor for the Journal of Biological Chemistry—a job that requires him to read about 300 manuscripts a year—Siedow will re-turn to his true passion of learning and teach-ing biology. He said that he hopes to serve as a mentor for students and young researchers.

The decision not to seek reappointment comes after Siedow broke one of his own guidelines.

“My own personal philosophy of higher administration is that nobody should serve in one position for more than 10 years,” he said. “So I have already broken my own rule by two years.”

After 10 years, Siedow noted, an adminis-traion can become too comfortable in a posi-tion and stops looking critically to improve what they are doing.

A Texas native, Siedow received his bach-elor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969 and completed his Ph.D. in plant biochemistry at Indiana University in 1972.

Before becoming vice provost, Siedow joined the Duke community as an assistant professor of botany in 1976 and received his full professorship in 1987. From 1994 to 1996, he chaired the Academic Council and was the dean of faculty development in Arts and Sci-ences from 1997 to 1999.

“If you are not going to be a dean, among the provostial positions, I think this is actually the best of the lot,” Siedow said. “There are a lot of interesting things that you do related to the research enterprise.”

Siedow took the position following the “un-timely death” of his predecessor, Charles Put-man. He noted that Lange personally asked him to consider the position.

“[Siedow] has just done a great job,” Lange said. “Everybody respects his integrity. his intel-ligence and the way he has conducted himself in that office, and that makes a big difference on the research side where research compli-ance and all of that is such a big factor.”

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