Trustees name three to DKU boardBoard approves University application to Chinese ministry at exec meeting

Duke denies wrongdoing in lax cases

Some med schools add humanities reqsby Maggie Spini

THE CHRONICLE

Anatomy, pharmacology, microbiology, pathology—these are components to a laundry list of science courses students must pass before delving into the world of medicine.

Some medical schools, however—including those at Yale, Stanford, Cornell and Mount Sinai—are expanding their curriculums to include humanities classes that embrace the notion that medicine is more than a scientific practice.

“I do think that a doctor needs to develop the skill of at-tending to the human dimension of clinical medicine... to be able to read between the lines of a patient’s narrative,” Dr. Jeffrey Baker, director of Duke’s Program in the Histo-ry of Medicine, wrote in an email. “This is not an optional skill. One can make big mistakes and waste a lot of money on expensive tests if this aspect of medicine is neglected.”

Currently, the only humanities requirement in Duke’s School of Medicine is a medical humanities workshop in the fourth year. However, third-year students have the option of completing a year-long research project in non-scientific disciplines such as ethics, history, religion or

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from Staff ReportsTHE CHRONICLE

Crystal Mangum was charged Monday with first-de-gree murder in the death of her boyfriend.

Mangum, who falsely accused three members of the men’s lacrosse team of rape in 2006, was indicted by a Durham County grand jury on a charge of first-degree murder and two counts of larceny, the Associated Press reported. The indict-ment comes 15 days after Mangum was charged with assault with a deadly weapon following the stabbing of Regi-nald Daye, her boyfriend.

Mangum has been held in the Dur-ham County jail since April 3 after she

allegedly stabbed the 46-year-old Daye in the torso with a kitchen knife after an argument.

Crystal Mangum

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by Zachary TracerTHE CHRONICLE

Duke has denied it did anything wrong in its handling of rape accusations against members of the 2006 men’s lacrosse team.

The denials come in lengthy legal fil-ings and address claims that Duke offi-cials misled the players and improperly disclosed some private information to the Durham police. In the filings Duke also de-nied claims that the nurse who examined Crystal Mangum—the woman who falsely accused three lacrosse players of raping her in March 2006—made up evidence or altered the examination report. The two lawsuits were filed by players who were not charged with rape.

The University’s two responses, filed Thursday, mark the first time Duke has formally addressed the factual allegations raised in the two lawsuits. The 732 pages of filings also provide insights into the legal strategies Duke’s attorneys may use as they defend the University and its employees.

In the documents, Duke states that any damages the lacrosse players may have sus-tained were caused by the false rape alle-gations made by Mangum and the botched prosecution conducted by former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong.

“The causation issues here I think are very real,” said School of Law professor

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by Lauren CarrollTHE CHRONICLE

At its most recent meeting, the executive com-mittee of the Board of Trustees named Duke’s three representatives to the board of Duke Kun-shan University and approved the University’s documentation for the new campus for submis-sion to the Chinese Ministry of Education.

The committee has selected James Roberts, executive vice provost for finance and admin-istration; Thomas gorrie, a member of the Board of Trustees; and Provost Peter Lange to sit on the board of Duke Kunshan University. The committee officially revealed its decision to the new appointees at its April 8 meeting.

“I’m very grateful to [the DKU board mem-bers],” President Richard Brodhead said in an interview Monday. “They will give the strongest possible representation for Duke’s interests.”

Board of Trustees Chair Dan Blue called the representatives “naturals” for the positions because of the variety of skills they will bring to the DKU board, which will have oversight of the new campus’s policies and operations while still reporting back to Duke’s administration. He highlighted Lange’s expertise in academic programming, Roberts’ involvement in Kun-shan financial planning and gorrie’s position

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ukrainian president Viktor yanukovych is hosting a conference in Kiev to get funding for a new containment shelter 25 years after chernobyl’s no. 4 reactor exploded. european commission presi-dent Jose barroso, who arrived Monday, urged states to contribute as a venture involving France’s Vinci and bouygues works on the foundations.

“i am confident that those events to-morrow will bring about the desirable results, notably to secure the necessary funds to complete the safety work at the chernobyl site,” barroso said at a press conference in the ukrainian capital.

Washington - the supreme court on Monday turned down a plea from five chi-nese Muslims held at guantanamo bay, cuba, that the justices consider their re-quest to be resettled in the united states.

a trial judge had ordered such a plan for the inmates, known as uighurs. they have been held since 2002, but the u.s. government has agreed that they are not terrorists and pose no threat.

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the court on Monday declined to re-view the appeals court decision. there were no noted dissenters, and four jus-tices wrote to explain that it was enough that the government was working to en-sure the release of the men to another country.

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Law school musical shows changing attitude toward Nixon

On-campus farm draws interest from professors, students

by Michael ShammasTHE CHRONICLE

The Duke School of Law is finally warming up to one of its most infamous alumni.

For years, faculty and students at the law school have ex-pressed ambivalence toward Richard Nixon—who gradu-ated third in his class at the law school in 1937 and served as president of the Duke Bar Association—especially after the Watergate scandal was exposed in the early 1970s.

But perceptions are changing.“At the time of Nixon’s resignation, the law school com-

munity felt embarrassed,” said Justin Becker, Duke Law’s student body president. “[But now] the whole school, in-cluding both past and present students, more openly em-

braces Nixon as an alumnus.”Becker recently directed the play “Tricky Dick,” which

premiered April 1 at a sold-out Durham Arts Center. The play—which portrays a young Nixon as a morally-troubled Duke law student running for president of the student body—was performed last year, but with fewer cast mem-bers, a different script and not much recognition from the University’s administration, according to a recent New York Times article. However, after glowing reviews from at-tendees, Duke Law Drama Society won the “Most Active in Law Student Life” award, and “Tricky Dick” became an eagerly anticipated event.

Becker said that before “Tricky Dick,” law students mostly kept any goodwill they felt toward Nixon secret. As a result

of the play, however, he said he thinks the law school will begin to embrace Nixon more. As a sign of the former presi-dent’s rising popularity at Duke, the musical starred about 50 professors, students and administrators.

Slavik gabinsky, who graduated from the School of Law last year, was one of the students most involved in creating the play.

“I was the president of the Duke Law Drama Society and I wanted to do something sexy and risque for my last show,” he said. “When going through the potential central themes, Nixon was unavoidable as a linchpin.”

Money earned from the musical went toward Duke’s

by Alejandro BolívarTHE CHRONICLE

Duke’s new on-campus sustainable farm is preparing to reap the fruits of its labor.

With its first harvest scheduled for later this month, the students working on the Duke University Campus Farm are pub-licizing their efforts to the greater Duke community. Five students founded the Duke Forest-based farm as part of a class project last Spring, Emily Sloss, farm proj-ect manager and Trinity ’10, wrote in an email Monday.

The students have since garnered sup-port from Bon Appetit Management Com-pany, faculty members and other students. Bon Appetit, which operates on-campus eateries like the Marketplace and the great Hall, agreed to purchase 100 percent of the farm’s products. The crops will be collected later this month and served in several Bon Appetit venues, Sloss said.

“Everything is growing beautifully and we have exceeded expectations of where this project would be at this time, considering it was just an idea a year ago,” Sloss said.

Some Duke professors have encouraged their students to get involved with the farm through their classwork.

Charlotte Clark, a visiting professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment, taught the class last semester that sparked interest in the farm. This year, she asked a group of students in her environment course to de-velop a plan to market the farm.

Marketing proposals include advertising farm work days via listservs and hanging signs on the Bryan Center plaza, holding a house course on the farm and promoting indepen-dent studies, said Allyson Morton, a junior in Clark’s class. Morton added that the farm ad-visory board is responsible for implementing special to the chronicle

Duke professors are encouraging students to get involved with the on-campus sustainable farm. Students in Markets and Management Studies 170 developed a marketing plan for the farm as a final project.

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Congratulations to the following students, student organizations, faculty, and administrators who have been awarded Duke University’s most prestigous campus-wide honors for leadership and service. Recipients accepted these honors at the

Student Affairs Distinguished Leadership and Service Awards program on April 18, 2011.

William J. GriffithUniversity Service Awards

Recognize graduating students who have made outstanding contributions to each of

the following three communities:

Duke CommunityRebecca Agostino

Maddie BurkeBecki FeinglosBrooke Hartley

David Murray KahlerDana Oppermann

Katie PatellosLaurel Sisler

Michelle Sohn

Durham and LocalBryan MorganKatherine Xu

Global CommunityJack Jiakun Zhang

Faculty And Staff Student Interaction Award

Recognizes one University administrator who, through his or her individual efforts, has aided in the development of students

outside of the classroom experience.George Grody

Leading At Duke AwardsRecognizes one member from each non-

graduating class who demonstrates outstanding contributions to the Duke,

Durham, and/or global communities. Also, recognizes student organizations that have

demonstrated high ethical standards and an outstanding commitment to the mission of

the Duke University community.

New Student OrganizationGreek Woman’s Initiative

First-Year StudentHelen Cai

Sophomore StudentDerek Mong

Established Student OrganizationBlue Devil’s United

Junior StudentMing Jiu Li

Vinayak Nikam

Duke University Union Service Award

DUU Best CommitteeInnovations

DUU Most Improved CommitteeDuke Student Broadcasting

DUU MVPElliot Johnson

Distinguished Leadership and Service Awards

Recognize graduating students whose collective contributions to Duke and larger

communities--through extraordinary leadership in their curricular and co-

curricular endeavors--are grounded in values that support the University’s mission as found in the Duke Community Standard. Awards are given in each of the following

five categories:Building Alliances Through

Collective EngagementRebecca Agostino

Commitment To DiversityAliza Lopes-Baker

Promotion Of The Ideals Of Community

Jack Jiakun ZhangExpanding The Boundaries

Of LearningBen Getson

Demonstration Of IntegrityAnnie Kozak

Julie Anne Levey Memorial Leadership Award

Dan Stefanus

Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award

Alex Reese

Algernon Sydney Sullivan AwardAlice Mao

Alumni Association Forever Duke Award

Susan FosterStephen Temple

Duke Student Government AwardsSam Veraldi

Elizabeth Fox, Ph.D

Baldwin Scholars Unsung Heroine Award

Brooke HartleyDana Oppermann

Rebecca OrtegaKatie Patellos

Dora Anne Little Service AwardJulia Finch

Trent SerwetzSophie Smith

Lars Lyon Volunteer Service AwardNicole Sales

Class of 2012 Leadership and Service Award

Alexandra AbendFaith Villanueva

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In Egypt, tourism paying the cost of freedomby Fredrick Kunkle

THE WASHINgTON POST

gIZA, Egypt - Saad Ahmed has a lot of time on his hands these days.

Usually at this time of year, hordes of tourists swarm the Egyptian merchant’s souvenir shop and many others like it at the foot of Egypt’s mightiest pyramid, snap-ping up postcards, ornamental papyrus and enough statuettes of King Tut to create a kitschy necropolis back home.

But Egypt’s revolution has scared away millions of foreign tourists, the lifeblood of the nation’s economy, and now this ancient kingdom of tombs resembles a ghost town.

“I’m losing a lot of money,” said Ahmed, 63, a retiree who sold property near his home in the province of Qena five years ago to buy one of the souvenir shops near the great Pyr-amid of Cheops on Cairo’s outskirts.

A lot of people have been losing money after the uprising that forced President Hosni Mubarak from office more than two months ago.

Although the revolution has lifted the hopes of many Egyptians eager for a more prosperous, democratic future, the turmoil has walloped the nation’s economy, in no small part because of the drop in tourism. Merchants who cater to tourists say the post-revolutionary drop in business has been much more severe than the slowdown after gunmen killed a group of tourists in Luxor in 1997.

Between Jan. 25 and Feb. 1, at least 1 million tourists cut their visits short or chose not to come at all, Egypt’s new min-ister of tourism, Mounir Fakry Abdel Noor, said in an interview.

In February, tourism was off 80 percent compared with last year, and it fell 60 per-

cent in March, Noor said. That is a crip-pling blow for a sector that accounts for one of every seven Egyptian jobs and makes up about 11 percent of the nation’s econ-omy. “Tourism is the number one foreign-currency earner in Egypt,” Noor said. “It’s obviously very important.”

The revolution has also slowed other sec-tors. Jobs have been lost, foreign investment has dried up and inflation has increased. The stock exchange opened only late last month after a two-month shutdown.

The government reported last week that food prices have skyrocketed 48 percent in a nation that is already the world’s largest importer of wheat. Lines form in neighbor-hoods when trucks arrive with scarce canis-ters of cooking fuel.

All of this has added stress to an econo-my where 22 percent of people live below the poverty line, according to World Bank figures.

Finance Minister Samir Radwan said this month that Egypt’s economic growth had slowed to an estimated 2.5 percent this year, compared with 5.3 percent in 2010.

Radwan also suggested that Egypt might need to lean on the gulf oil states for aid - an idea tartly swatted aside by Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, the leader of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has run the country since Mubarak stepped down. Tantawi told Egyptian re-porters that Egypt was not a “beggar.”

The revolution’s impact on the econ-omy has made some Egyptians impatient about the continuing calls for change dur-ing regular protests in Tahrir Square.

Mohamed Al-Masry, a businessman and former president of the Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce, said

most Egyptians in the business community have been supportive of the revolution. But some also long for the return of stability.

“This is the cost of freedom, so okay, we are ready to expect this,” he said. “But only for a certain time.”

Although calm has partially returned, some Egyptians remain focused on the poor economy, particularly in the cluster of shops near the giza pyramids that local Egyptians call “tourist town.”

On a recent day, the arrival of almost every new visitor drew a pesky mob of wheeler-dealers, especially because there were so few customers on the dirt streets near establishments such as the Kingh Tut Bazaar, the Cleopatra Papyrus gallery and the Sphinx guest House.

Ahmed, the souvenir shop owner, said business has been so slow that he laid off his multilingual sales staff for a month. That’s left him and his young grandson to mind the store, and neither speaks English, Russian or any other foreign language.

A block away, Abrahim Fikhry, 41, said the revolution has killed his business too. Fikhry runs a shop dealing in aromatic essences that used to draw as many as 20 people a day before the revolution. These days, he feels happy to get two people browsing among the stoppered vials filled with a rainbow of aro-matic liquids such as mint, amber or musk - which is distilled from gazelle kidneys.

“The economy is very bad,” he said, add-ing that he’s also feeling pinched by rising food prices.

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Giza resident Abrahim Fikhry, 41, operates an aromatic essences shop close to the Giza pyramids, a major tourist attraction. The revolution in Egypt has severly hurt businesses that rely on tourist revenues.

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the marketing proposals. Although the Duke farm is a student-led

initiative, the students involved in the project are reaching out to faculty members as well.

Clark said she is planning a faculty workshop at the farm May 9 to encourage Duke professors to incorporate sustainabil-ity practices into their syllabi.

Students in a class taught by Martha Reeves, associate director of markets and manage-ment studies, developed a marketing plan for

the farm as part of their final class project. “Rather than sell a product, they’re trying

to create awareness among the Duke student body that the farm exists,” Reeves said.

Junior Eduardo Leal, who is in Reeves’ class, said his group will film a 30-second television advertisement, as well as use print ads and social media sites such as Facebook to promote the farm. The group is also cre-ating a logo for the farm to “establish a clear and definite brand,” he added.

“What better and more trusted source [is there] than your peers to produce the food that you eat,” Leal said.

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Thomas Metzloff, a civil suit specialist who is not involved in the case. “[Duke claims] any injury comes from what Crystal Mangum did initially and then what Nifong did.”

Lawyers for the players declined to com-ment on the filings, as did Michael Schoe-nfeld, Duke’s vice president for public af-fairs and government relations.

None of the 41 players involved in the two suits were among the three Mangum falsely accused of rape in 2006. Those players—David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann—have settled with Duke but are currently suing Durham of-ficials. The city of Durham, Durham Police Department officers and Nifong are also named in the two suits filed by the unin-dicted players, but have not yet filed their responses. They have until June 14 to file responses to all three suits.

One suit involving 38 unindicted play-ers was filed in February 2008, and a sec-ond suit involving three unindicted players was filed in December 2007. The wrongly indicted players filed their suit against Dur-ham in October 2007. A federal judge al-

lowed the three suits to proceed March 31 after rejecting some claims.

In the filings, Duke defends the sexual assault examination that former Duke Uni-versity Health System nurse Tara Levicy per-formed on Mangum. The lawsuits accused Levicy of fabricating evidence and altering her initial examination report in order to support Mangum’s claims and Nifong’s case.

Levicy states in the documents that all claims she made were consistent with her examination of Mangum.

“Levicy specifically denies that she ever provided false or misleading information to any investigators working for the Dur-ham Police Department or for the District Attorney’s office or to anyone else,” one fil-ing reads.

But KC Johnson, a history professor at Brooklyn College and City University of New York graduate Center who blogs about the lacrosse case, says Levicy’s claims in the filings are not credible.

“Her story shifted over time, and it shift-ed over time in ways that did not reflect what was in her report,” he said.

He pointed out that a report issued by North Carolina Attorney general Roy Coo-per said there was no medical evidence to

confirm Mangum’s account that she was raped. Cooper’s report was issued shortly after he declared that the three wrongly in-dicted players were innocent in April 2007.

“The [nurse] based her opinion... large-ly on the accusing witnesses’ demeanor and complaints of pain rather than on objective evidence,” Cooper’s report stated.

In the filings, Duke lawyers wrote that they could not discuss details of Mangum’s medi-cal information because of privacy laws.

Duke’s responses show that some Uni-versity officials had doubts about Mangum’s claims almost immediately after she report-ed them. A day after Mangum reported be-ing raped, former Duke Police Chief Robert Dean told Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek that Mangum “was not credible and that the allegations would likely go away.”

In the documents, Wasiolek and several other Duke officials also denied claims that they encouraged the players to discuss the situation with them by promising that they would not discuss the conversation with

Durham police. Wasiolek, President Rich-ard Brodhead and Executive Vice Presi-dent Tallman Trask admitted to meeting with some team members but denied mak-ing promises of confidentiality. They also said they did not discuss those meetings with Durham police.

Duke officials also denied that they did anything wrong in their disclosure of some players’ DukeCard swipe records to Dur-ham police. The players claimed that the University turned over the information im-properly and then misled the players about the disclosure.

The University admitted that Duke po-lice Sgt. gary Smith gave the DukeCard records to Durham police Sgt. Mark got-tlieb March 31, 2006. Different Duke of-ficials later received a subpoena for the records and notified the players. But those officials, including former DukeCard office head Matthew Drummond, were unaware that Smith had previously provided those records, the filing states.

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literature, Baker said. This year, four students chose to pursue this track, a number he said is about average.

Erik Becker, a fourth-year medi-cal student, spent his third year exploring his interest in the doctor-patient relationship at the conflu-ence of medicine and theology.

“The vast majority of what a person experiences when they become ill—especially when that illness threatens their [life]—has to do with how they iden-tify themselves, what is valued in their lives, their relationships with others,” Becker wrote in an email. “As a physician, it should be part of my responsibility, my covenant with my patients, to ad-dress—or at least acknowledge—all the ways in which their illness-es impact their lives.”

Becker took classes ranging from medical ethics to cross-cultural perspectives on pastoral care during his third year. This curriculum, he said, made him more attuned to the spiritual needs of patients experiencing illnesses in ways not limited to physical pain.

Dr. Margaret Humphreys, Jo-siah Charles Trent professor of the history of medicine, noted that humanities studies can sen-sitize medical students and doc-tors to what they do not know about a patient’s illness.

“In listening to patients we need to be alert for the meaning that symptoms and events have

for them, a meaning that may not be immediately clear on the surface,” she wrote in an email. “Literature calls for us to ‘get in-side the head’ of a person in the story, a person whose life and ex-perience are alien to our own.”

As both a physician and histo-rian, Humphreys said she knows firsthand about how having a lack of data can affect the con-clusions one makes.

“We [historians] are always dealing with incomplete data and have to come to grips with creating accurate accounts in spite of that incompleteness. Doctors must learn to deal with that sort of uncertainty as well,” she said. “While my historical training and medical work both appeal to my fascination with solving puzzles, they likewise re-quire a willingness to go ahead and act even when the knowl-edge base may be inadequate.”

Colleen grochowski, associate dean of curricular affairs for the Duke School of Medicine, said currently the humanities is a “cur-ricular thread” that is integrated into other required courses in the first, second and fourth years.

Although Baker said he thinks learning medical hu-manities is “at least” as relevant as acquiring knowledge of basic sciences for aspiring physicians, especially for those concerned with patient care, he does not foresee Duke making humani-ties courses required.

“The great challenge at Duke is that the third year is devoted to research. That

leaves only one year to cover the two years of pre-clinical work covered in other medi-cal schools,” he said. “Students feel great pressure to master an enormous amount of mate-rial. And they have to pass the same boards as everyone else.”

Becker said that although he thinks it is beneficial for medi-cal students to be well-versed in humanities, he does not think requiring humanities courses is necessarily practical.

“I think that the people who are going to get the most benefit from such required coursework would probably be the ones who would seek out opportunities to study the material on [their] own,” he said. “The others will probably roll their eyes and grumble about learning some-thing that’s not on the boards or clerkship exams,” he said.

That recognition, though, does not devalue the role of seeing the patient as being more than his or her symp-toms, he said.

“Taking time to connect with the patient about their life and illness, to provide guidance and wisdom from a place of caring, to truly be there for a patient for whom perhaps no other medical interventions are avail-able or possible, should remain the first and foremost duty and obligation of the physician,” he added. “Every student should have the opportunity to be ex-posed to a curriculum that in-cludes attention to the person who is the patient.”

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Daye died 10 days after the in-cident in Duke Hospital after suc-cumbing to his injuries, WRAL reported.

This is not the first time since the lacrosse scandal Mangum has been in custody. In February 2010, after an argument with a different boyfriend, Mangum was charged with attempted murder and arson, among other charges. Police said Mangum set some of his clothes on fire in a bathtub and assaulted him in front of her children, in addition to threat-

ening to stab him, according to court documents.

In December, Mangum was convicted of misdemeanor charg-es of child abuse, injury to person-al property and resisting an offi-cer, according to jail documents.

Mangum first gained notoriety in March 2006 when she falsely accused members of the Duke la-crosse team of rape at a team par-ty, where Mangum was employed as a stripper.

The players were declared in-nocent in April 2007 after state officials determined there was no credible evidence supporting Mangum’s claims.

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DUKE’S LITTLE LEAGUE HEROMark Lumpa honed his skills on the diamond in William-

sport—and Saudi Arabia

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Duke’s club cycling team won its first ever conference championship, the Division II title in the at-lantic Collegiate Cycling Conference, this weekend. They now await the nationals competition in May.

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It must feel good to be back on top.The aCC lacrosse tournament begins

on Friday, and unexpectedly, Duke is the no. 1 seed in the four-team bracket. Despite ranking one spot behind rival Maryland in the latest Inside Lacrosse

poll, the Blue Devils earned the conference regu-lar season title after amassing a perfect 3-0 aCC record.

So what is rea-sonable to expect

from this team in the postseason?Last Saturday’s 13-11 win over then-

no. 7 Virginia suggests a second nation-al championship is a realistic goal—even though the Cavaliers were missing pre-season all-america Steele Stanwick—especially when one also considers last month’s 9-8 nail-biter over then-no. 3 Maryland and a 14-9 victory in Chapel Hill on Mar. 3. an early-season win over

then-no. 10 Loyola highlights Duke’s performance in nonconference games.

any prediction of a repeat national championship would be pretty optimis-tic, though.

The Blue Devils have two major problems that they have to fix quick-ly to avoid an early playoff letdown: struggles on the road and a sieve-like defense. The team has compiled an abysmal 1-4 record outside of Durham, and that lone victory was just a few miles down Tobacco Road against then-no. 8 north Carolina. Duke also fell to then-unranked pennsylvania in a major early-season upset.

In fairness, the other three away losses were against top-10 teams notre Dame, Syracuse and Denver, and the aCC Tour-nament will be held at Koskinen Stadi-um. The Blue Devils will be able to im-prove their nCaa Tournament seeding immensely with a successful weekend,

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Before freshman pitcher Mark Lumpa committed to Duke, and before he led The Bolles School to back-to-back Florida state championships, he played in the Little League World Series twice—as a member of the Saudi arabian team.

Lumpa learned the fundamentals of america’s pastime in an unusual place, the middle of the Saudi arabian des-ert. Since his father, Robert, works for the Saudi aramco oil company, Lumpa grew up in the small company town of Udhailiyah, two hours away from the nearest baseball field in Dhahran. The drive between the two isolated Saudi aramco compounds is nothing but desert, with only sev-eral small villages visible from the road.

“The only people that played baseball in my town were me and my brother,” Lumpa said. “every single day my dad would get off work and we’d be done with school, and we’d have to drive two hours to Dhahran for practices. So going down we’d read or do homework. We had to.”

The trips were worthwhile, though. Dhahran, with its constant influx of american and european players, has become a perennial international powerhouse in the Lit-tle League World Series, as the town’s team has earned a berth in the tournament for the past 11 years.

after watching his older brother, Craig, play in the pic-turesque stadiums of Williamsport, pa. twice, Mark made the cut the following year as one of only four 11-year-olds on the 2003 team.

“It was intense,” Lumpa said. “We had two-a-days, morn-ing practices and then late afternoon practices. We’d have

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but the team will eventually have to travel to Baltimore, Md., for the national champi-onships. So far, there seems to be little indi-cation that the Blue Devils can beat three ranked opponents in a neutral field setting.

What’s more, defense has been Duke’s achilles’ heel away from Koskinen all season long. While the Zach Howell-led attack rates third in the nation in scoring offense, the defense gives up an average of 9.07 goals, ranking in the bottom half of Division I.

It all starts with goalie Dan Wigrizer, whose save percentage of 53.8-percent rates 26th in the nation, over six points lower than the rival Terrapin’s niko am-ato. Without a stronger performance in net, the Blue Devils will find their season over faster than CJ Costabile ended notre Dame’s a year ago in the national champi-onship game.

There is hope for Wiggy, though. He is coming off arguably his best week of the sea-son, earning aCC Defensive player of the Week honors after racking up 11 saves—eight in the second half—and four ground balls in the win over Virginia. His perfor-mance will, more than any other factor, determine the difference between a quick nCaa Tournament exit and a trip back to Baltimore for the national semifinals.

Costabile, who along with Howell was nominated for the 2011 Tewaaraton Tro-phy as the country’s top collegiate lacrosse player, was a third-team all-american a year ago, and will be largely responsible for picking up any of Wigrizer’s—and the rest of the defensive unit’s—slack throughout the postseason.

Duke will also have to narrow the gap in the turnover battle. The team, on average, creates 10 fewer turnovers than it produc-es, and ranks outside the top half national-ly in both categories. While the offense has

shown its ability to capitalize on the oppor-tunities it creates, as evidenced by its 12.87 goals per game, the back unit simply can-not afford to give opposing teams chance after chance to score.

Wigrizer, Constabile and the rest of the defensive unit will have to prove them-selves once again in a first round aCC Tournament matchup against the Cava-liers’ top-ranked scoring offense. a win Fri-day, though, would just be one small step towards an elusive repeat national champi-onship, one that will only make it back to Durham if the Blue Devils can take their hot play on the road.

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Goalie Dan Wigrizer is coming off his best week of the year, a good sign for Duke’s repeat chances.

workouts also. It was competitive, and you weren’t just fighting to make the team. Since you knew who was going to make it, you were fighting for a spot to be a starter.”

In 2003 Lumpa did not see any time as a pitcher, but by 2004 he was a seasoned veteran, hitting in the three-hole and starting on the mound. In both years the Dhahran team dominated the Middle east and africa Region Tournament that took place in Kutno, poland.

“We would mostly play american kids that lived on military bases throughout europe,” Lumpa said. “Both years we played germany in the finals, and both years, more or less, we destroyed the competition. When I was 12, we outscored our opponents 120-4, give or take a few runs.”

But despite the Saudi arabian team’s dominance in the qualifying rounds, and de-spite the bleached blonde hair they sported as a symbol of team unity, they struggled to move out of pool play both years. In 2003 they lost to Curacao and then were over-whelmed by a superior Japan squad that won the entire tournament. The next year, they lost to Curacao again before losing to Mexico in extra innings after a walk-off home run.

In the two tournaments, Lumpa was exposed to different styles of play—not to mention completely different cultures.

“all the kids lived in one area called The grove [in William-sport],” Lumpa said. “You would eat with them, and they also had a rec center where you could hang out with kids from the other teams. You got to interact with them and even with the lan-guage barrier it didn’t matter, you could figure out a way.”

after Little League, the ballplayers in Dhahran and the sur-rounding towns moved on to professional-sized fields. as some kids hung up their cleats, there were less teams and the best play-ers were more consolidated. It was here that Lumpa honed his skills on the mound before coming to the United States for high school.

“You got to know them,” Lumpa said of his competition. “You knew how to pitch some-body and you knew what they were going to throw you. But it didn’t take anything away from the game. We still enjoyed it.”

Mark’s brother Craig chose to attend The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Fla. because he wanted the year-round baseball weather that comes with the South. Mark initially looked at other boarding schools, but decided to join his brother at Bolles.

as a freshman on junior varsity, Lumpa played infield. When the varsity team made it to the state finals in Sarasota, Fla., Lumpa was one of the few freshmen invited to join the roster. The following year, Lumpa was used sparingly on the varsity squad, but managed to post a 4-0 record from the mound.

Before his junior season, Lumpa was intended to be one of the two starting pitchers for the Bulldogs, but after the other pitcher was injured, Lumpa became the no. 1 in the rotation. Despite his small stature at 5-foot-7, he went 11-0 with a 0.87 eRa on the year.

“I’ve always been one of the smaller guys on the team, but I never let that get to me,”

Lumpa said. “If anything, I’ve always used that for motivation. I’ve been told, ‘oh he can’t do that because he’s not the prototypical pitcher’.... I try to prove people wrong and show that I’m capable of doing anything.”

Lumpa was a workhorse during that postseason, pitching a complete game in the second contest of the regional finals series, and then closing out the last inning of the game the next day. In the state semifinal, Lumpa threw a complete game and only allowed one earned run.

“The first time [we won the state championship] it was kind of unreal,” Lumpa said. “But I actually didn’t get to play in that game, so I knew that next year I wanted to come back and play in the championship game. I knew I didn’t want my senior year to end any differently.”

Due in large part to Lumpa’s dominance, it didn’t. after Lumpa posted a 13-0 re-cord and a 0.63 eRa his senior year, a Bolles squad with high preseason expectations found itself back in the state championship game. In the semifinals, Lumpa pitched a complete game, and in the championship he was called in for relief in the top of the seventh. The score was tied with two outs, and the bases were loaded.

Lumpa forced a groundball that was taken care of by David perkins, who had also already committed to Duke. perkins made the play and then hit a game-win-ning double with a man on second in the bottom of the inning.

after his second straight championship win, Lumpa arrived at Duke having never lost a game in high school. In a sport where even the best players are far from perfect, Lumpa’s 28-0 record stands out as an anomaly.

The freshman has had some trouble adjusting to the college game, but he’s performed well out of the bullpen for Duke, ap-pearing in 18 games with a 3.91 eRa.

“What stands out about him is his fastball is basically a cut-ter,” Duke head coach Sean Mcnally said. “He’s not a velocity guy, he’s not a guy that’s going to blow you away. But he’ll beat

you with movement and command…. Basically every pitch he throws is a cutter and that helps him keep the ball off the barrel.”

Lumpa hopes to continue to progress on the mound throughout his time at Duke, but his extensive innings in high school have already proved to be an asset for the Blue Devils. Mcnally explained how he can always count on Lumpa for mul-tiple innings of relief.

“He’s a really important guy for us because he’s a guy that has a rubber arm,” Mcnally said. “He can pitch everyday.”

prior to Duke, Lumpa’s experience with the Dhahran team and Bolles had condi-tioned him to be a champion. Despite the Blue Devils middling record, he hopes to con-tinue that mentality at his new school.

“There’s a difference between being the underdog and the team that’s expected to win, but I don’t let that change the way I play,” Lumpa said. “I still expect to go out there and do the best I can, to compete and win games. That’s what I did in high school, and that’s what I’m trying to do here. It’s not any different in the aspect of how hard you work, it’s just how outsiders view you.”

“The only people that played baseball in my town were me and my brother.... We’d have to drive two hours to Dhah-

ran for practices.” — Mark Lumpa

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move on from past mistakes. Reputation management

can be especially helpful to those who have received negative attention in the na-tional media. Last week, The Chronicle reported that Dr. Anil Potti—the Duke can-cer researcher who resigned this year when allegations of faulty research caused three clinical trials to be canceled and several of his papers to be retracted—had hired the firm Online Reputation Manager to perform dam-age control on his public image. Since taking Potti on as a client, the firm has cre-ated a Facebook page, Twit-ter account, and at least five websites dedicated to en-hancing Potti’s online repu-tation. There is no mention of Potti’s retracted papers or

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potential employers and pa-tients. Choices about medi-cal care count among the most important decisions in a person’s life, and ought to made with full information and proper reflection. Potti’s efforts to hide all the facts undermine patients and em-ployers’ ability to make fully informed choices.

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I have learned a lot during my four years at Duke, but one of the most important things I’ve learned is how to be efficient with my time.It’s the end of the semester, my senioritis has

reached an all time high and the spring weather is making it nearly impossible to concentrate. As I type this, the warm sun is pouring into the third-floor causeway, reminding me that if I had written this earlier, I would have been able to join my friends at the pool.

So, in order to leave Perkins ASAP (I’ve got FOMO, you know), I’m go-ing to kill two birds with one stone: This is my final column as an under-graduate, but it will also serve as my second-to-last writing assignment for one of my English courses. How’s that for efficiency?!

The assignment: Write a one-page farewell statement to the class.

But I am going to write a farewell statement to all of my class friends.

“Class friend” is a term I use casually in my ev-eryday jargon. I define a class friend as someone I have or have had class with (duh) and also some-one I would probably never have met had I not had class with this person.

My teammates, sorority sisters and roommates think it’s hilarious that I make a valiant effort not only to befriend my classmates, but also to actively seek them out in social settings.

In the Great Hall: “Oh, a class friend! I’ll go sit with her.”

At Shooters: “Hey, it’s my class friend! I’ll see if he wants to be my beer pong partner.”

On Spring break in Miami: “No way! A class friend shopping on Collins Avenue! I need to say, ‘Hi.’”

On Facebook: “You have one friend request from Josh Hammer.” Who’s that again? Oh yeah, he’s my class friend. I accept.

The relationships I’ve built with my class friends are clearly not comparable to those I’ve made with my teammates, my sorority sisters and my room-mates, but how could they be? I only spend three hours a week in each of my four classes and more often than not, the majority of our time together

is spent listening to professors and furiously tak-ing notes.

No, my class friends and I probably won’t be lifetime pals, but I will remember them fond-

ly when I reminisce about the academic chapter of my time at Duke. My true class friends have never called me a nerd when I wanted to discuss the readings further. They have never called me a dummy when I asked for help with a problem set. And they always greeted me with a smile, both inside the classroom and when I accost them from across the dining room at Parker and Otis.

Interacting with the other students is at the heart of what has made Duke so special for me. I find my class friends to be some of the most inter-esting and accomplished individuals I’ve encoun-tered during my time on this campus. And now I’m going to embarrass them.

To Greg: You + a passion for constitutional law + four years of hard work = Harvard. Con-gratulations.

To the other Molly: Our love for Paris and the countless American novels we have struggled to finish (“Absalom, Absalom!” comes to mind first) make our shared name and class friendship some-thing I will never forget.

To Charlie: You have graduated and probably won’t read this, but I think you are incredibly brave for jetting off to the Mississippi River Delta to teach ninth-grade math. I hope your experi-ence has been worthwhile.

And to all my other class friends that I have not mentioned by name, thank you for always being entertaining, for usually being friendly and for consistently upping my number of Fa-cebook friends and Gchat contacts over the past four years.

Farewell, class friends. I can only hope that my future “work friends” will be as classy as you.

Molly Lester is a Trinity senior. This is her final column.

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during storm”We thought it might be useful to pro-

vide additional information about the activity this weekend to help ensure the safety of students and other members of the Duke community, most of which was included in an article posted on Duke Today on Sunday following the storm.

Throughout the day Saturday, we were monitoring the situation closely and were in regular contact with lead-ers from campus, facilities, the health system, police, communication and student affairs. We were prepared to launch communication in the event the storm threatened the campus.

If the tornado watch for Durham had been upgraded to a tornado warn-ing, the DukeALERT emergency no-tification system would have been im-mediately activated to direct people to take shelter.

Duke’s outdoor warning system was also tested about 3:30 p.m. Saturday before the storm arrived in Durham. Given the power outages that were be-ing reported in other communities, the sirens and a test message were activated

to ensure everything was working prop-erly in case it was needed.

During the day, Duke University po-lice were in constant communication with a subscription weather service that provided us specific information con-cerning the track of the storm and any tornadic activity in the area.

Precautionary plans began as early as Friday as Athletics moved to reschedule a men’s lacrosse game against Virginia Saturday for earlier in the day to avoid the incoming storm.

Duke University Hospital was also on alert after the storm in preparation to receive large volumes of patients from several small regional hospitals.

We were fortunate that Duke and Durham were not directly impacted by the storm, but we were prepared to warn the community had there been an im-minent threat of danger.

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She is the typical Duke student. Her lifelong dream is to help peo-

ple, join the Peace Corps and immerse herself in other cultures. She has been volunteering since she was seven years old. Her eyes light up whenever she describes the myriad of ways that Duke students can volunteer in Durham. She wants to transform the Duke-Durham relationship. She wants to change the way Duke students volunteer and join students’ efforts with ex-isting Durham volunteer organizations.

She is a brilliant actress and an extreme-ly bright student. Her smile entrances not only the audience, but also the large circle of friends around her.

Josephine, whose name I changed to protect her identity, is the typical Duke stu-dent. Yet, in a way, she is not.

When she was 12 years old, Josephine was diagnosed with depression. When she was 17, the diagnosis changed to bipolar disorder type I.

Josephine has had to face significant stigma about who she is. Her application for study abroad is currently delayed indefinite-ly while the program she chose investigates her health. After discovering her condition, her boyfriend dumped her with a simple “I can’t be with someone like you.”

She has coped with the disorder since the diagnosis. Her medication regimen is complicated and difficult to manage. But the treatment has worked. She hasn’t had a single manic episode since December of last year.

Bipolar disorder is distinguished by two contrasting phases: depression and mania. During depression, the disorder is charac-terized by lack of motivation and depres-sive mood. Mania, on the other hand, can have symptoms that include hyperactivity, insomnia, euphoria, aggressiveness and a combination of other manifestations. Mainstream depictions of manic episodes are often violent and frightening. Howev-er, neither describes Josephine. She is not only generous, but has a strong spirit and bubbly personality.

However, Josephine is anything but

carefree. She has cut herself on numerous occasions and has tried to commit suicide once. Physically inflicting pain on herself

gives her a sense of power and control over her feel-ings and emotions. It al-lows her to feel pain when she wants to, how she wants to. Like many other individuals with depres-sion, Josephine sometimes feels as though “the world would be better off” with-out her. The pain of self-harm somehow drowns

out those thoughts. Now, Josephine no longer cuts herself.

She controls her impulses with little tricks that don’t scar as permanently as cutting does. Whenever she feels out of control, she holds an ice cube in her hands until it starts to hurt. Then she watches as the ice cube withers in her hand, as her emotional pain drains between her fingertips.

It is possible to control the disorder. It is possible to live a successful and fulfilling life. Josephine’s mother, aunt and grand-mother all have similar diagnoses. They all lead rewarding lives. Her mother has a successful career, and her aunt has recent-ly returned to college to earn a bachelor’s degree. The family has a running joke that Josephine and her aunt have midterms and problem sets due on the same days.

Josephine’s family members are not the only ones who have learned to live with their disorders. The National Institute of Mental Health cites that there is a lifetime prevalence of 3.9 percent in the U.S. adult population. That means over 11 million people will at some point in their life de-velop bipolar disorder.

Josephine’s purpose in life is guided by a sense of responsibility to help others as long as she is able. She does not consider her illness as a debilitating hindrance. It merely enlightens her perspective and strengthens her resolve.

Josephine’s diagnosis was an unfortu-nate turn of fate, but it isn’t her destiny. Her destiny is much more than that.

Rui Dai is a Trinity sophomore. This is her final column of the semester.

A typical Duke student

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If we have any sense at all, we should get a lot from our experiences at Duke. But do we give back enough? We ought to

stop and ask ourselves occasionally: Is this university better for having had me as a student? Have I left this place better than I found it?

If you can’t answer “yes” to both questions at the end of four years, then that truly is a wasted opportunity.

President Richard Brodhead once told me that “being president of Duke is different from be-ing president of other universities be-cause, in part, Duke has such a sense of unrealized potential.... It’s about work-ing with everyone else to realize what Duke could be.”

You could substitute “student” for “president” and end up with an equally true statement: Being a student at Duke is different from being a student at an-other university because Duke has such a sense of unrealized potential—the peculiar challenge of being a student here is to be part of the realization of that potential. Duke changes a lot in four years. How have you and I, in our own ways, been that change?

Terry Sanford, who was president at Duke from 1969 to 1985 and one of our school’s great leaders, said in his last meeting with the faculty, “We will continue to shape our own destiny in our own way in our own place.” In that same speech he termed Duke’s restless search for excellence our “outrageous ambitions.” Many of us harbor “outra-geous ambitions” for ourselves in terms of personal achievement. But what are your outrageous ambitions for the Uni-versity?

It’s not trivial to ask such a question. Students are the heart and soul of this institution. We are its reason for being. Why should we not, then, be a driving force in the University’s development? Especially for those not yet in the final chapter of your Duke career—but also for those of us who are about to gradu-

ate—I would like to propose an ethic of University service.

This service can take many forms. To work properly, student government

needs more than 100 stu-dents to fill various posi-tions. There are nearly 700 clubs that need presi-dents, vice presidents and treasurers. There are a cappella groups that need singers, orchestras that need musicians, doz-ens of teams that need players. The Admissions Office needs tour guides; the Chapel needs stu-

dents to help serve communion. The many campus publications all need contributors and editors and readers. Professors need research assistants and RLHS needs RAs.

You have a special talent. (Why else would they have let you in?) Find a way to use that talent to make Duke better. Goodness knows the University could use the help. What we do to contribute to the University in time and talent and love and criticism and service is what we do to realize that unrealized potential. It’s what we do to shape Duke’s destiny. University service shouldn’t be some-thing that is an accidental byproduct of being a student; it ought to be an inten-tional undertaking. University service need not involve fancy titles or grand endeavors; it can as simple as being the face of Duke in your hometown.

Sanford said that “Duke aspires to leave its students with an abiding con-cern for justice, with a resolve for com-passion and concern for others, with minds unfettered by racial and other prejudices, with a dedication to service to society, with an intellectual sharp-ness and with an ability to think straight now and throughout life.” Duke leaves us with all of that and more.

But what will we leave Duke?That, my friends, is now up to you.

Gregory Morrison is a Trinity senior and the former Executive Vice President of DSG. This is his final column.

And to Duke University, I leave...

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The last time Nixon’s legacy was seriously in the spotlight was in 1981, Becker said.

In that year, faculty voted to urge the trustees not to build a Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library next to campus despite a personal plea by Duke President and former governor of North Carolina Terry Sanford to bring the library to the University. In the end, faculty and administrators de-cided against building the library. The vote tally was 35 to 34.

In fact, Nixon’s presence on campus has been controversial since his vice pres-idency. In 1954, a committee of Duke fac-ulty voted not to award Nixon—who was then in his first term as vice president—an honorary degree after he agreed to speak at the University’s commencement ceremonies. Nixon later chose not to speak at graduation that year.

Even today, no University building has been named in honor of Nixon, and his portrait —the only painting of the former president Duke owns—remains locked away in a vault, for fear of vandalism.

The painting was briefly brought out for display April 1, in anticipation of the musical, before being promptly locked up again.

Still, faculty may not be ready yet to put the portrait on display, said William Reppy Jr., Charles L.B. Lowndes Emeri-tus professor of law.

“As for hanging the Nixon portrait once again, I cannot guess how the govern-ing faculty would vote today,” he wrote in an email. “There are sure to be concerns of vandalism or theft if we do hang it again.”

However, Theresa Newman, clinical professor of law, said she believes now stu-dents would be interested in learning more about Nixon and his legacy at Duke.

“The Duke Law students are under-standably interested in Richard Nixon as an alum of the school,” she said. “Al-though their program, ‘Tricky Dick,’ spoofs his time at Duke, I think many students would welcome a program that explored President Nixon’s contribu-tions at Duke and throughout his life.”

In fact, the law school is already con-sidering doing more to commemorate Nixon. There have been discussions about one day putting his portrait on per-manent display with a plaque emphasiz-ing the successes of Nixon’s career, which include opening relations with China.

“While we do not have wild celebra-tions in honor of him, this step to pub-licly display him again, though tiny, ex-hibits a general warming to the idea that he is one of us,” Becker said.

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nixon has long been a controversial figure on campus. His portrait (center) was briefly put on display April 1 in anticipation of the musical“Tricky Dick” but is otherwise kept locked in a vault out of fear for vandalism. However, the play, which spoofed nixon’s time at Duke, indicated a warming attitude toward the law school alumni.

as chair of the Duke University Health System’s Board of Directors, as well as his previous affiliation with the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations.

Gorrie, Lange and Roberts will fill three the seven total seats on the DKU board. Wuhan University, DKU’s Chinese legal partner, and the city of Kunshan will each select two members to fill the remaining four seats, according to the Duke-Kunshan Planning Guide, a docu-ment produced by the Office of the Pro-vost and the Office of Global Strategy and Programs and released last month. Kun-shan and Wuhan have not yet appointed their representatives, Brodhead said.

According to the document, any decisions made by the DKU board will have a five-vote requirement, which will ensure at least one Duke vote on each decision. Lange said he anticipates the entity will meet at least once per year. He also expects that the Duke members will use teleconferencing to meet from the United States with the Wuhan and Kunshan representatives.

The Board of Trustees chose not to include a representative from the Fuqua School of Business, even though it was the “driving force that introduced us to Kunshan” and will be a major compo-nent of DKU, said Blue, Law ’73 and a Democratic state senator.

“We’re looking at a much broader role and presence,” Blue said. “There could have been someone from Fuqua, but we think the representation selected by the Board best represents Duke at this time.”

Lange said each member will bring a variety of skills that will be a “very good compliment to the Board,” noting that his own immersion in the Kunshan project and commitment to Duke academics will be strong assets to his role as a board member.

“I’m very pleased since I’ve been well involved with the project all along,” Lange said.

Additionally, the executive committee of the Board of Trustees approved Duke’s legal proposal to the Chinese Ministry of Education, an application required by the Chinese government in order to of-ficially establish DKU as a legal and edu-cational entity. Duke plans to submit the proposal by mid-May, and administrators expect that the submission will be ap-proved within three to six months.

The contents of the document—a 47-page agreement between Duke, Kunshan and Wuhan University—are summarized in the planning guide, Lange said. Some of the agreement’s details, which are not included in the planning guide, have yet to be finalized.

The three partners are still negotiat-ing “various topics related to leasing” contained in the document, Brodhead said. He added that these issues are high-ly technical and unrelated to much of the faculty’s discussion about topics such as questions about academic freedom in China. He also noted that the Board of Trustees will be able to see changes to the document as they are finalized.

“There have been so many de-tailed documents to work through —something was going to fall to the later part of the process,” Brodhead said.

Blue said the Board of Trustees was comfortable approving the submission despite some ambiguity because members have been extensively involved in the proj-ect’s planning process up to this point. He noted that the remaining uncertainties are not “deal-busting problems.”

“There may be a few things unre-solved, but we have confidence in the administration to take care of them,” Blue said.

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