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New bill would cut community college federal loan program in NC, Page 3

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from Staff ReportsTHE CHRONICLE

A female graduate student was robbed at gunpoint on Ninth Street early Thurs-day morning.

An armed man approached and pro-ceeded to rob the graduate student, who is pursuing degrees in the Fuqua School of Business and the Nicholas School of the Environment, around 12:25 a.m.

The 28-year-old was walking from her ve-hicle near the 1000 block of Ninth Street. The male took the victim’s purse before flee-ing in a red, large-body pickup track that was driven by a second male, Kammie Michael, Durham Police Department public informa-tion officer, wrote in an email Thursday.

The victim’s handbag and its con-tents were valued at $145, according to the DPD incident report.

The victim did not suffer any injuries from the robbery, the report states. The suspects have not been discovered.

The armed man is described as a His-panic male, age 18 to 24, with a medium build and height ranging from 5 feet 4 inches to 5 feet 6 inches. At the time of the robbery, he was wearing dark cloth-ing and a hooded sweatshirt.

The accomplice in the truck was de-scribed as a male with medium build, 5 feet

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by Lauren CarrollTHE CHRONICLE

Administrators are confident that aca-demic standards will be maintained at Duke Kunshan University despite restric-tive Chinese Internet policy. How the Uni-versity will maintain these standards, how-ever, remains unclear.

In a document released in March, ad-ministrators guaranteed academic free-dom—including unrestricted Internet and library access—because it is an integral component of DKU’s success as a model of western education in China. The joint agreement document between Duke, the city of Kunshan and DKU’s legal partner, Wuhan University, stipulates that certain academic quality standards must be met, Provost Peter Lange said in an interview March 29. The agreement is expected to be completed and approved in coming weeks, though Lange said he was not at liberty to discuss the terms of the agreement.

“Academic freedom in teaching, re-search, scholarly communication and ac-cess to information [are] key ingredient[s] of academic quality,” the document, which was prepared by the Office of the Provost and the Office of Global Strategy and Pro-grams, states. “Duke will need to take the lead in ensuring that these principles are woven into the fabric of daily life at Duke Kunshan University.”

Although administrators have repeated-ly expressed their confidence in obtaining unrestricted Internet, certain details have yet to be revealed.

When the issue of academic freedom was raised at the Academic Council meet-ing in March, President Richard Brodhead said he is “fairly certain” that the DKU cam-pus will have unrestricted Internet, noting that he believes some Chinese universities already have unlimited access on their cam-puses. Brodhead did not, however, explain the details of the Internet arrangement be-tween DKU and the Chinese government.

“We need to insist on [these values], but we can’t be naive to think they will be practiced the same way [as in the United States],” Brodhead said at the meeting. “It does seem better to learn something about China—to help our students to learn to ne-gotiate these differences—than just to say it’s impossible.”

The Chinese government monitors Internet traffic, censoring content that it believes to be threatening to the state, said Ken Rogerson, who has expertise in international Internet policy and serves

Re-evaluation of roles needed for health reform

by Dana KrausharTHE CHRONICLE

Health care reform requires a comprehensive re-examination of our shared responsibilities both in Durham and across the Unites States, a local hospital administrator said Thursday.

Kerry Watson, president of Dur-ham Regional Hospital, spoke with Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells Thurs-day about health care challenges. The talk was the fourth and final install-ment in the Chapel’s lecture series “Dean’s Dialogues: Listening to the Heart of Durham.”

Watson explained the ways in which his career path has shaped his ap-proach toward health care and man-

agement. When he was a young man, he participated in a job opportunity program for underprivileged youth at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hospital system, where he experienced the menial aspects of hospital operations, such as cleaning the facilities.

“I have worked in the trenches of a hospital, which I think has given me a unique perspective on the so-called ‘lower levels,’” Watson said, noting that each employee, regardless of position, plays a crucial role in ensur-ing that every patient receives quality care.

When asked by Wells about his

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The National Council of Resistance of Iran said the alleged plant makes cen-trifuge parts for Iran’s uranium enrich-ment program and is closely tied to Iran’s Defense Ministry. The dissident group also claimed that Iran already has made components for 100,000 centrifuge ma-chines, far more than is needed to supply the country’s known uranium facilities.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hospitals and regulators fail to record at least 90 per-cent of patient injuries, infections and other safety issues, a study found.

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After the Spring semester, cable services will no longer be offered in student dorm rooms.

Associate Dean for Residence Life Joe Gonzalez announced the change April 6 in an email to the student body and discussed Duke Student Government’s concerns about the change at its meeting Thursday night.

Although individuals will lose the ability to purchase cable services, all televisions in

common rooms on East and West Campus will switch to high-definition television de-livered over the internet, Gonzalez said.

“As part of the transition [away from cable], we will be instituting HD [IPTV] in the common rooms, but one of the things that we do lose is the cable support for the student rooms,” he said.

He added that the University decided to downsize because of the high expenses re-quired to support the system. In the email

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Community colleges may opt out of federal loan program

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Federal funding for student loans may not be guaranteed for the thousands of community college students in North Carolina, after the state Senate ratified House Bill 7 Monday.

Under the new bill, community colleges are allowed to opt out of the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program, which assures student access to low-cost federal loans. This means colleges will not be re-quired to provide students with the resourc-es to obtain federal loans, which reverses a 2010 Senate decision that mandated that all 58 of the state’s community colleges of-fer the program by July 1, 2011.

The state House of Representatives passed the new bill in March and after Monday’s Senate vote, it awaits the signa-ture of Gov. Bev Perdue.

Rep. Glen Bradley, R-Franklin, Hali-fax and Nash—a co-sponsor of the bill—said that with its ratification, North Caro-lina is able to offer “more education to more people” in a manner that will work better for the economy and North Caro-lina schools.

“When community colleges partici-pate in this federal loan program, it plac-es a lot of strings on what they cannot do,” Bradley said. “Colleges are then hav-ing to go after people to pay back loans who will have no hope of paying them back whether or not they have a success-ful education.”

Senate Minority Leader Martin Nes-

bitt, D-Buncombe, however, called the bill a “step in completely the wrong di-rection” in supporting education.

Nesbitt said all North Carolina Demo-crats in the Senate voted strongly against the bill, indicating the vote was along party lines. He also said Democrats proposed amendments such as conducting a survey to more effectively assess student needs before passing the bill and prohibiting community colleges from offering student loans at a higher interest rate than that of the previ-ously required program. All of the proposed amendments were ultimately rejected.

“The answer [the Republicans] were giving me was that they don’t really know what is going on out there, they don’t care what is going on out there and they don’t want to know what is going out there,” Nesbitt said.

According to a North Carolina Sen-ate Democrats news release, more than 850,000 students were enrolled in com-munity college classes in the 2008-2009 school year, making North Carolina’s community college system the third larg-est in the country.

Rep. W.A. Wilkins, D-Durham, Person, who opposed the bill, said it is unclear how many students will lose access to fed-eral loans—and subsequently, an educa-tion—due to the ratification of the bill.

Bradley said the government is obligated to help the poor gain an education but noted that the current

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Students may perform better academically if they are treated as gifted, according to a recent U.S. Department of Education study of a North Carolina program.

The research is an evaluation of Project Bright Idea, a program that ran from 2004 to 2009 in North Carolina and was designed to increase the number of children from underserved populations in gifted and academically challenging programs.

Between 15 and 20 percent of the 5,000 kindergar-ten through second-grade students who participated in the program met their district’s criteria as academically gifted within three years compared to 10 percent of the 5,000 students in a control group. The students who participated in Project Bright Idea were from 11 North Carolina school districts that received federal funding for low-income students.

The premise behind the program originally came from a report for the North Carolina State Board of Education in 2001 compiled by William Darity, chair of African and African American studies at Duke. The report studied the lack of participation of kids from underrepresented groups in accelerated educational tracks, Darity said.

“Giftedness is associated with a set of behaviors,” Dar-ity said. “Everyone can develop these sets of behaviors. It is something that can be nurtured—it’s not innate.”

Margaret Gayle, director of the American Associa-tion for Gifted Children at Duke, co-designed Project Bright Idea more than 10 years ago because Darity’s re-port reflected the need for change in school curricula. She aimed to create “nurturing programs” to expose all children to a higher level of thinking at a young age rather than assume some students are more capable than others. In these programs, students are obligated to speak in complete sentences at all times and par-ticipate in activities often reserved for older children, such as debates.

Project Bright Idea emphasizes teaching “gifted intel-ligent behaviors” compiled from prominent research-

ers who study behavioral patterns in the field of talent identification and education, Gayle said. Teachers in the program undergo three years of intense re-training that addresses classroom techniques and expectations about students’ potential.

“Part of our work is changing teacher dispositions of students,” Gayle said. “They don’t challenge them be-cause they don’t believe these kids can do these things.”

The results may impact the long-term planning of el-ementary school curricula.

“It has really shown us that children can learn at very high levels when teachers can teach these behav-iors,” said Mary Watson, principal investigator for the project and director of the Exceptional Children Divi-sion of the Public Schools of North Carolina. “It’s a transformational model for improving scores for all students.”

Two North Carolina schools, Northeast Elementary in Kinston and Town Creek Elementary in Winnabow, have continued the teachings in a program now called Project Bright Tomorrow.

Terry Cline, superintendent of Lenoir County schools, said he implemented the program when he first came to the district in 2004, and since then the program has scaled up into higher grades and into a middle school.

“These are high-minority, low-income schools where people haven’t expected a lot,” Cline said. “But this [pro-gram] has changed our whole school system. Scores have gone up, the students’ language is different and it has helped build thinking skills.”

The program impacts children immediately, Cline noted. Northeast Elementary School, a Project Bright To-morrow school in the district, has seen a nearly 20 point increase in its end-of-grade exams since the program’s inception.

These results have compelled educators to take the program seriously and spurred interest throughout North Carolina and in other states to implement similar curriculums.

“I’ve had other states express interest,” Watson said. “This may be our next step.”

Gov’t shutdown could delay US troops’ paychecks

By Craig TimbergTHE WASHINGTON POST

BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Robert Gates ex-pressed concern Thursday about the potential impact of a government shutdown on U.S. troops, who could face delayed payments if Congress and the president fail to reach a budget deal soon.

In a question-and-answer session with about 175 sol-diers at Baghdad’s Camp Liberty, one asked about the impact of the looming shutdown.

“First of all, you will get paid,” Gates said, joking that it’s wise for governments “to always pay the guys with guns first.”

But he added that a shutdown would mean that mili-tary personnel would get partial paychecks for the first half of April. If a shutdown extended into the second half of April, paychecks would stop coming until the federal government resumed normal operations. Any missed pay would be reimbursed at that time.

Gates said an interruption would hurt military fami-lies, many of whom now live paycheck to paycheck. “I hope this thing doesn’t happen,” he said.

Gates made his remarks on the third day of a Middle East trip that included an initial stop in Saudi Arabia to meet with King Abdullah.

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framework is doing more harm than good, putting students “in debt for the rest of their lives.” Using the 2006-2007 U.S. housing crisis as an example, he noted that education subsidies—like housing—can often raise consumer costs, as the required program was doing for North Carolina students.

Nesbitt agreed that statistics show an increasing number of students are going into debt after graduat-ing from college, but added that community colleges that opt out of the program will force students to pay even higher interest rates. According to the release, the current program allows students wanting to enroll next Fall to pay a 3.4 percent interest rate on federal loans. The current interest rate on most private student loans is approximately 7 percent.

“[The Republicans] don’t want to prohibit loans,” he said. “They want to prohibit federal loans to drive people into the private market so they can make money off of these students.”

Nesbitt also said if the state wants to continue work-ing to give all North Carolina residents equal access to education, the state must be proactive.

“Ignorance is a terrible thing,” he said. “But I think some people think education will happen without even trying. But it wont—not in this world.”

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as the director of undergraduate studies for public policy. Many Chinese Internet regulations are similar to those in the United States, such as blocking content that includes violent threats against the government or child pornography, but with even stronger restric-tions, he added. He also noted that through negotia-tion, foreign journalists were allowed to freely browse the Internet in designated locations during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Limited freedom of information would pose many challenges for DKU students, particularly those study-ing business, said Helen Sun, author of “Internet Policy in China: A Field Study of Internet Cafes” and a com-munications professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. The restrictions the Chinese govern-ment imposes to protect its own interests make it dif-ficult for people to learn about western business prac-tices, Sun said, noting that people are even unable to search for the term “Communist Party.”

“There’s no way you can do business without dealing with the government,” she said. “[DKU] is going to see those barriers.”

There are, however, ways to navigate around what some call the “‘Great Firewall of China,’” Sun said, not-ing that young people are finding ways to access restrict-ed pages like Facebook. People are able to use virtual private network software to access the Internet through foreign countries.

The University has already established its own VPN that allows faculty and students to access Duke email and library information from abroad and remote loca-tions, Rogerson said. Students participating in study abroad and DukeEngage programs in China told The Chronicle in November that they were able to access sites blocked in the country by using the VPN.

Rogerson added that it is possible for DKU and the Chinese government to come to an agreement about Internet freedom through an official contract.

“The best possible thing to do is have a line in the contract that says, ‘We have free and open access to the Internet,’” he said. “Past history says conversations could work, but not every conversation has worked.”

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Iraq, with a year-end deadline looming for the depar-ture of the remaining 47,000 troops. U.S. combat op-erations ended last year, though many still leave bases for training operations with Iraqi soldiers.

Gates said the United States is open to continuing a smaller U.S. presence if Iraqi officials make a formal request, preferably sometime soon. U.S. Ambassador James Jeffrey told Gates in a meeting Thursday that U.S. troops were “the glue” holding Iraq’s security to-gether.

In his remarks to the troops, Gates recalled that dur-ing his first visit as secretary, in December 2006, a fire-fight was taking place in the background at a similar event.

About one third of the troops he addressed Thurs-day were from the Army’s Second Brigade, First Infan-try Division. “This brigade lost 100 soldiers during the surge, but the difference you and those around you made in this country is evident around you every single day,” Gates said. “This has been an extraordinary suc-cess story for the U.S. military.”

In brief remarks afterwards to journalists, Gates re-flected on his tenure, saying, “When I took this job, I was asked what my agenda was, and I said, Iraq, Iraq and Iraq.”

He declined to rate his own performance as the end of his tenure approached, saying, “I’ll let people judge for themselves.”

In a half-hour briefing with journalists, Gen. Lloyd Austin, the U.S. military’s top commander in Iraq, said Iraq’s national security forces have developed to the point where they could handle most internal threats. But he said the same was not true of foreign enemies.

Iraq has little air power and too few tanks and artil-lery; the U.S. military also still provides significant lo-gistical and intelligence assistance, including airborne radar capacity.

Austin expressed concern as well about al-Qaida in Iraq, which took responsibility for an attack last week in Tikrit that killed at least 57 people.

“AQI has never left,” Austin said. “They are still here. They still have capability.”

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Michael added that Durham police officers are conducting “directed patrols in this area” in response to the robbery.

Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call investigator Jason Salmon at 919-560-4582, ext. 29238, or CrimeStoppers at 919-683-1200.

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It may have been the move that changed Duke’s en-tire season. With the team off to a slow start after two straight defeats, head coach John Danowski decided to switch freshman Jordan Wolf and Christian Walsh from midfielders to attackers.

“It just seemed on paper to be a better fit [for them to be midfielders],” Danowski said. “But after we lost to Penn 7-3, we decided to get them back into their comfort zone…. The rest is kind of history.”

The two starting attackers helped the Blue Devils (8-3) reel off seven straight victories before they finally lost to Syracuse, the No. 1 team in the nation. As the second and third-leading scorers

on the team, both players have been critical to No. 4 Duke’s success.

Walsh, at 6-foot-1 and 205 pounds, is the bigger of the two players. From Baltimore, Md., Walsh has scored 13 goals this season and assisted on seven more. At this point in the year, though, the freshman believes there’s still much room for him to improve.

“I don’t know if it has clicked.” Walsh said. “I’m still waiting for that moment. I’ve had a couple good games, but also a few really bad games that I haven’t been satis-fied [with].”

Wolf, at 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, has accumulated 20 goals and 12 assists. Hailing from Wynnewood, Pa., he is currently leading the team in assists and ranks second in goals scored. The freshman made his im-pact felt in the first game he ever started, scoring the winning goal in overtime against ACC rival, and No. 7 team in the nation, Maryland.

“I attribute everything to my coaches and team-mates,” Wolf said. “They’ve helped me out along the way. I’ve been fortunate to be at the right spot at the right time.”

This upcoming Saturday, the freshmen and their teammates travel to Bethpage, N.Y., to face No. 10 Den-ver (7-2) in a neutral field contest. The Pioneers average 13.11 goals per game, the second-best scoring offense in the nation.

Denver has two of the top six players in the nation in terms of points per game, as well as the third-best goal scorer in the country, 6-foot-4 junior Mark Mat-thews. The Blue Devils will have a tough game as they look to rebound from their 13-11 loss against Syracuse

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Caroline Spearman is one of many Blue Devils to battle injuries—she played for the first time this year on Saturday.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Spearman, Bullard return after injuries

by Patricia LeeTHE CHRONICLE

Over the past couple of years, the Blue Devils have grown used to dealing with injuries.

With several of their top veteran play-ers—including junior goalkeeper Mol-lie Mackler and redshirt junior Emma Hamm—missing most of the season last year, No. 4 Duke had to deal with chang-es in both its offensive and defensive

play. This season has been no different.Despite returning four starters, the

Blue Devils (9-2, 2-1 in the ACC) have dealt with two other significant injuries. One of their losses on the defensive end was senior Caroline Spearman, who battled injuries all fall. The offense also lost veteran midfielder Sarah Bullard to a stress fracture.

SEE W. LACROSSE ON PAGE 11

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Playing time up for grabs in off-season

by Andrew BeatonTHE CHRONICLE

For the Blue Devils, this season ended much like last season: losing in the Elite Eight, and wondering what could have been.

This off-season, however, feels different. Not only are three key seniors graduating, but former head coach Gail Goesten-kors’ final recruiting class is depart-ing. Although head coach Joanne P. McCallie coached Jasmine Thomas, Krystal Thomas and Karima Christ-mas for all four of their seasons at

Duke, their absence means that it would seem like this upcoming team is Coach P’s first from top to bottom.

Regardless of perception, though, McCallie sees no difference in the two teams.

“To me it’s no different,” she said. “This year was the year it was entirely my players for me.”

The three seniors’ absence next year will undoubtedly shake up how playing time is distributed throughout the team. The seniors, led by Jasmine Thomas, combined for over 86 minutes per game this year and started together in all but one of the games.

“You feel so grateful for what you’ve had…. They’ll never be replaced,” Mc-Callie said.

While their leadership may not be replaceable, their minutes will have to be taken by somebody.

The natural reaction may be to look to next year’s class of incoming freshmen—highlighted by prized five-star post play-er Elizabeth Williams—but much of the solution may already be on the roster with the current class of freshmen. At the be-ginning of the season, it boasted five of the nation’s top recruits.

Despite their early season hype, not all of the freshmen lived up to their potential this season. Caught up in a rotation that made use of all 11 players on the roster, Richa Jackson, Tricia Liston and Chloe

Off-season Preview

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MEN’S TENNIS

Back on the road, Duke to face ACC opponents

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Freshman Chris Mengel has come into his own lately, winning seven of his last nine matches.

by Alex YoungTHE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils hit the road this week-end for a pair of key ACC matches.

No. 11 Duke (14-7, 5-1 in the ACC) trav-els to Atlanta to face No. 18 Georgia Tech

(15-2, 6-1) on Friday and then to Clemson (15-7, 2-5) on Sunday.

The main concerns for the Blue Devils will be stopping Yellow Jacket senior Guiller-mo Gomez and win-ning doubles matches, according to head coach Ramsey Smith.

“We’ve been fo-cusing on doubles all week,” said Smith. “I think that’ll be the key this weekend. Their No. 1 doubles beat us in the fall, and we’re really look-

ing forward to that rematch.”Back in November, then-No. 1 Reid Car-

leton and Henrique Cunha fell to then-No. 43 Kevin King and Juan Spir of Georgia Tech 8-5 in the quarterfinals of the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships. This weekend’s rematch will pit the No. 14 Yel-low Jacket pair against the sixth-ranked duo of Carleton and Cunha.

Last weekend, Duke’s top doubles team

split matches against Virginia and Virginia Tech, losing to the Cavaliers’ No. 2-ranked Drew Courtney and Michael Shabaz but bouncing back by defeating the Hokies’ Will Beck and Pedro Graber. As a team, the Blue Devils fell 6-1 to top-ranked Virginia—snapping a four-match winning streak—but bounced back on Sunday against Virginia Tech by the same margin.

The Yellow Jackets, meanwhile, are coming off a five-match winning streak. Led by Gomez—who is 26-6 in singles matches this season—and Spir, they are undefeated at home.

“Georgia Tech is really good,” Smith said. “I think this is the best team they’ve had in 10 years. They’re strong from top to bottom.”

Gomez enters the weekend on a nine-match winning streak, and will face Cunha in what Smith referred to as the “most im-portant” singles match of the weekend.

Despite the high-profile status of that match, Duke will rely heavily on its freshmen, who have played a central role in Duke’s suc-cess so far this season. Chris Mengel has won seven of his last nine outings and Fred Saba has gone 22-14 overall for the Blue Devils.

“We knew it was a good class on paper—the No. 1 class—but they’ve really proven to be a special group of guys,” Smith said. “I knew Fred and Chris were going to be slated into singles, but Cale [Hammond] snuck into the doubles line-up and is 5-0 [in dual match play]. He’s been working as hard as anyone and earned his spot.”

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“This has happened to us so frequently in the past few years that it doesn’t really faze us anymore,” said Bullard, who will return to action this weekend. “I think we’ve done an amazing job stepping up in the past few years to make up for what

we’ve lost, and we’ve shown a lot of resil-ience.”

With the senior back for this week-end’s road matches against No. 14 Bos-ton College (8-4, 1-3) Saturday and Brown (5-4) Sun-day, the Blue Dev-ils will have a more powerful offensive presence—Bullard led the team in goals last season—as well as increased senior leadership and higher morale.

“I’m really excited for Sarah, and I think any time you’ve had a First Team All-American player... who misses that much of the season, that’s a really tough thing to experience,” head coach Ker-stin Kimel said. “It’s clearly not how she envisioned her senior year being, and we’re just trying to keep her expecta-tions and our expectations very realistic. I’m not necessarily worried about how she’ll fit back in, and it’s more of her be-ing comfortable and having the chance to ease back on to the field.”

Spearman’s return also bodes well for the Blue Devils. The senior, who played her first game in 11 months this past Sat-urday against No. 2 Northwestern, will

help anchor Duke’s defensive effort.“She’s one of our top returning de-

fenders and she’s taken a couple of weeks to get back, but we’re excited that she’s an option for us now,” Kimel said. “Now, it’s up to us coaches to figure out how we can best utilize her.”

Both of the players are excited for this weekend’s contests and look for-ward to playing more minutes, especial-ly after taking away a different perspec-tive of the game from watching their team’s matches over the past couple of months.

“It’s very challenging to be on the side-line, but you have to work extra hard outside

of practice to come back, and I’ve learned so much by watching,” Spearman said. “I’ve been working my way back into practice and I realized how much I miss it.”

And with these two players getting back into the rhythm of things, Duke will hope to come away from the weekend with two victories in two straight days.

“It’s exciting to have two games in a row, and it’s really going to help us prepare for playing the next game, fa-tigued and challenged to play just as hard as we did the day before,” Spear-man said. “It’ll be great for the ACC Tournament coming up in the next couple of weeks.”

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Wells saw limited playing time throughout the year and were unable to make the quick impact that many expected.

The prize of the class, Chelsea Gray, ex-celled in running the point, though, and Ha-ley Peters proved to be an effective offensive weapon during her time on the court. Mc-Callie, however, expressed disappointment in how the girls transitioned to college as a unit.

“Time management is something that those young players have to learn,” the coach said. “They can do it all, but they have to learn how to do it all. What I noticed is that not ev-erybody was in the gym extra.... I’m hungry for more—those kids can do more.”

Next year, McCallie expressed opti-mism that the freshmen will have matured enough that they can make sure to get in the proper workouts, and be comfortable in welcoming the new class.

Those new recruits include two big frontcourt players in Williams and Amber Henson, who should be able to replace the strength of Christmas and Krystal Thomas. The lone guard is Ka’lia Johnson, who joins an already deep backcourt with Gray, Wells, Liston and rising senior Shay Selby.

“The returning group of eight must in-tegrate the new group of three very quick-ly,” McCallie said. “It has got to be an ex-tremely special summer.”

Next year, McCallie is cognizant that there is no replacing an All-American in Jas-mine Thomas and a go-to scorer like Christ-mas. So, it will have to be a group effort to match their production, even if the coach isn’t quite sure how things will turn out.

“The whole team will step up, everybody has an opportunity. I don’t know the an-swers yet,” she said. “You want [the gradu-ating seniors] to come back next year and be really proud of the team.”

last weekend. “We were very disappointed about

our overall approach to the [Syracuse] game.” Danowski said. “Denver is an ex-cellent team, and this is a big game in the national picture.”

With only four more regular season

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The Blue Devils hope that the two fresh-men will continue to have a great impact on the team’s success, as Duke goes down its final homestretch.

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In less than a year and a half, the first crop of Chinese students will enroll in Duke Kunshan University. While it is not yet known how many students will matriculate or how much they will pay in tu-ition, it is clear that the construction of DKU is well under way.

The success or failure of this grandiose project will have serious implications for the way Duke and other insti-tutions of higher education define themselves in a global-ized world.

This is the second edito-rial in a series of two about the ongoing construction of DKU. Yesterday we dis-cussed the steps the admin-istration must take to get faculty members on board

with the Kunshan project. Today we will explore how the University community should react to Duke’s new campus in the world’s most populous nation.

Many ques-tions about this project still lin-

ger and the administration should continue to answer them as best it can. Although this Board has been critical of the lack of available in-formation about Kunshan in the past, we believe it is time for the campus dialogue sur-rounding the China campus to shift in its scope.

The debate is no longer about whether or not Duke should build a campus in China—that is a foregone conclusion, whether we like it or not. The Kunshan ef-

fort has already been ap-proved by the Board of Trustees, critiqued by the Academic Council and set on an irrevocable course by the administration.

Now it is time for the University community to fo-cus on defining Kunshan in its own terms and to work to understand what the project means for higher education.

It is easy to say what Kunshan should not be. It should not become a mere reputation builder for Duke, a tool the University uses to garner publicity and rev-enue in China. Nor should it be an attempt to under-take a form of educational colonialism that imposes American teaching values on a foreign culture.

It should not be a reaction

to the international expan-sion of Duke’s peers. While there is clearly a scramble for China already underway—Stanford University is build-ing a facility at Peking Univer-sity, and New York University recently announced plans to open a campus in Shanghai by Fall 2013—Duke’s actions cannot be dictated solely by other universities.

What Kunshan should be is a window into a coun-try that is the world’s second largest economy but also one of its most frequently misun-derstood nations.

Students and faculty should view the Kunshan campus as an opportunity to overcome this misunder-standing. Anxiety about Chi-na pervades the American business and political land-

scape, often colored by cul-tural bias and xenophobia. Duke Kunshan University should serve as an avenue to break down these cultural barriers.

All members of the Duke community are stakehold-ers in this effort abroad now. It is time for us to take ownership of this project. And while we should still question the administration rigorously every step of the way, we must replace ob-structionism with construc-tive criticism.

We harbor tremendous optimism for Duke Kun-shan University, provided that students, faculty and the entire University com-munity turn their attention to making this project the best it can be.

The sitting U.S. president was too busy launching a reelection campaign to meet for this column, but I did stop by the Al-

len Building where the president of Duke University, Richard Brod-head, agreed to let me into his of-fice. What follows is an account of our conversation, edited for clarity and brevity.

Green Devil: Can you describe the process you went through in deciding to sign the American Col-lege and University Presidents’ Cli-mate Commitment [in 2007, also signed by nearly 300 other colleges and universities, that set in motion the drafting of Duke’s Climate Action Plan and the commitment to reaching carbon neutrality by 2024]?

Richard Brodhead: You start by asking the ques-tion, does this university believe in sustainability? Yes. Do we believe that humans have an impact on the environment? Yes. Do we believe, therefore, that over time humans should alter their behavior so as to show greater respect for the environment? Yes. We also wanted to have confidence we could actually live up to the commitment, which pledges some de-gree of reduction over time, so we did some analysis to make sure that there was a realistic path by which we could actually achieve those reductions.

GD: Have any outcomes of the University’s commitment surprised you?

RB: I never would have foreseen the change in energy sources [from coal to natural gas]. The number of undergraduates taking classes offered out of the Nicholas School [of the Environment] has doubled over the last five years. That seems to me to be a very striking fact. But then there’s something else that I’ve just always found very re-markable about Duke. Duke, more than many other universities, rejoices in student initiative. For example, some engineering students had the idea that they could devise a house, in which they would invent the systems, and the systems would be more sustainable and more ingenious than systems com-mercially available. So the University gave a piece of land for this project and actually invested mon-ey in it and lo and behold, the Smart Home, the first LEED Platinum certified college residence on Earth, came into existence. Another example is the farm. A group of students thought it would be good for their fellow students to have more of a sense of where food comes from.... They had very good an-swers to our questions, so Duke helped them find a piece of land in Duke Forest that is now the farm.

GD: Have you read“Eating Animals” by Jona-than Safran Foer, the summer reading for the in-coming Class of 2015?

RB: I haven’t read it yet. I have read “The Omni-vore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan, and that is my very favorite of the works in that genre.

GD: What is the educational role of the University in promoting sustainability to students?

RB: I am not a believer that uni-versities should tell students what to think, but that we should create a climate in which people learn what some of the serious issues are [in our society] and what the choices are in approaching those issues. I would be disappointed if any student came [to Duke] who didn’t leave here with

more of a sense of the human and the natural.GD: How important is environmental sustain-

ability to Duke and to the future of the institution?RB: It’s obviously very important. We take seri-

ously the things we’ve learned about the impact of humans on the planet. We are also a great cen-ter for the study of the environment, so we want our practices to be informed by our teaching. We would also like the practices of the University to sit before the students as silent instructors about choices they themselves should reflect on.

GD: As the University’s priorities shift and evolve, does sustainability remain a priority?

RB: I do not regard sustainability as in com-petition with other priorities of the University. I regard it as a good thing to do, and therefore it’s a value that we continue to try to understand and to put into practice as we go about other projects. For example, when we dealt with the municipal-ity of Kunshan about the possibility of building a campus there, we were very overt about our en-vironmental expectations. In fact, in China, you often meet an even greater level of concern about the environment because the threat is so much more evident there. Sustainability, properly prac-ticed, leads to economies over time and is in our economic self-interest as much as anything else.

GD: How do you practice sustainability in your own life?

RB: Recycling is a concept that was invented in my lifetime, and I would say I am a fairly observant recycler. My eating habits have also changed sig-nificantly. I now eat healthier, more local things. I also like to grow things. I don’t have a vegetable garden here, but I have had many in my lifetime. And having a sense of the connection of the labor of growing things to the process of eating them is a powerful thing.

Liz Bloomhardt is a fourth-year graduate student in mechanical engineering. This is her last column of the semester.

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Louise is undoubtedly dead by now, but 35 years ago she was a 72-year-old waitress at George’s Greek Restaurant in Athens, Ohio—a tough, assertive

woman with an unruly mop of snow white curls. In her white work shoes, she measured 4 feet 10 inches, which meant she was close to the tabletops and the customers’ faces; she could take orders and lay the plates down without bending over and was the fastest server in the place. That translated into more tips. And in an era when we made 80 cents per hour, tips meant the differ-ence between paying the rent and dying in a ditch. Louise was one of the best co-workers I’ve ever had, a wisecracker with a real talent for complaining and commis-erating. At the end of the lunch rush, we used to sit at the counter and count the tips—mostly coins in those days—and she used to groan, rubbing her arthritic knees, and say, “What I need is a good lying down job.” I think she had something else in mind, but I took what I needed of her advice and went to graduate school in the humanities.

Thousands of books and several languages and coun-tries later, I find myself craving a lying down job of my own. Turns out there’s no such thing. Though it is true that some of my work can be done in jammies, there’s a lot of running around and shouting, too. Done right, reading the great books should keep you up at night, should stir dormant parts of your brain, should present you with new ways of looking at the world, should make you strap on your hoppin’ shoes.

One of Anton Chekhov’s characters says that outside the house of every satisfied person, there should be a man standing at the door, tapping on it with a hammer to remind him that misfortune—illness, poverty, loss—lurks out there, claws ready. Some people view a great novel as something like that hammer-wielding man—a disgrun-tled, restless, maladjusted psychopath who just can’t wait to ruin your day. Some books are like that. But others become your friends. And some great books hammer at your door shouting to you that the world is full of un-speakable joy, if you’d only take the time to peek outside. One of Tolstoy’s early readers wrote him that he loved “War and Peace” so much that when he reached the end, he immediately turned back to the first page and read it again straight through.

Somewhere in there, there has to be some lying around. Writer, medical doctor and global health spe-cialist Chekhov—who crossed 10 time zones in a peasant cart, who built schools and libraries, who toiled to rid the Russian countryside of cholera and famine, who treated a wide variety of the uglier and more disgusting peasant ailments without charging fees, who wrote a huge demo-graphic study of the penal colony on Sakhalin Island, who

created more characters than any other Russian writer (yes, more than Dostoevsky and Tolstoy) and who revolu-tionized the world theater and the short story—all while suffering from the tuberculosis that caused his death at

age 44—used to complain constantly of his laziness, hanging around and “shoot-ing the breeze,” he would say.

Given the result, you have to assume that some of that downtime was a neces-sary part of the writer’s work. You can see a lot when you’re not moving fast, after all. One way to test this is to walk down a road you usually drive. When you do this, you don’t have to look constantly straight ahead to the next strip of highway. There’s the teeming of microworlds below, the vast, infinite sky above and, with luck, someone by your side. Do this enough and you’ll

wonder why you’re in a hurry to get anywhere else. Writers offer you this option. They’ll create an interest-

ing character and set him off on a plot of flight or quest, a journey from one place to another, from childhood to adulthood, from East to West, from something to noth-ing or from nothing to something. Something like your journey through life. At the end, you’ll realize that the point was not to get to the end but to spend some time on the road with the guy, looking around.

Consider this a possible plan for your time at Duke. One of my sophomores emailed me this past Fall to let me know that she couldn’t enroll in any of the courses she wanted this Spring. Turns out, all of them were in future business, practical skills, money making, man-agement, startups and pre-careers, and every last one of them was filled up. “Chto delat?” the Russians would say: “What is to be done?”

One option is to consider taking a course that has to do with where you are, rather than where you think you’re going. While you’re waiting for things to happen in your life, sign up for a few good books. Call it a lying down course.

Carol Apollonio is an associate professor of the practice in Slavic and Eurasian studies and a faculty member in residence in Wilson Dormitory.

There is, perhaps, no time more fondly remembered for me than that of America in the 1920s, when wealth was there for the taking, jazz was the sound of the times and

the Prohibition was making mil-lions for the men we now call bootleggers.

It was utterly and entirely a time all its own, and I speak with-out sarcasm. I sincerely wish that I could have been there.

At the height of the era, a man named F. Scott Fitzgerald delivered a novel that painted a picture of life in the Jazz Age, replete with the relaxed splen-dor of the rich and the hard-learned lessons of the upwardly mobile, a bildungsroman of sorts for the America of the age. It was more, though, than just a portrait or a snapshot of the times—it was a book that, like its readers, hesitated to tip its hand, and delayed indefinitely its judgment of its characters in favor of reserving the right to simultaneously condemn and to admire them.

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life,” the narrator says, and so, it seems, the author was as well. Fitzgerald does not, at any point, hand down his verdict on the wealthy. He elects instead to do battle with himself—wanting while wanting not to want. A man who seemed to be constantly in conflict with him-self, he longed for something he thought he shouldn’t have, like an addict.

There was a reason that Fitzgerald always wrote about the rich, and there was a reason that what he wrote always sold—not the novels, at the time at least, but certainly the stories. Ameri-cans wanted to read, and Fitzgerald wanted to write, all about the wealthy. They wanted both to condemn and to admire, to be disgusted and to be entertained, to be both enchanted and repelled by what the author rightly dubbed “the inexhaustible variety of life.” And it worked—Fitzgerald made money off his stories, and America subsisted on the consumption of his in-between dreams of the ruling social elites.

So what’s changed since then? Well, the short answer is ev-erything, not least of all our relations with those ruling elites. Elements of American history as disparate and divorced from one another as the G.I. Bill and reality television brought down the divide between the wealthy and the rest of our world and brought their lifestyles and lives into our collective mind in a way that demystified them and made them more accessible. Their lives are no longer the stuff of legends, but of late night television and cheap periodicals.

But the more things change, the more they stay the same—if the title of the song “Mo Money, Mo Problems” isn’t a contempo-rary paraphrasing of Gatsby, then I’m not sure what is. Sure, it’s missing the codified language and lyrical dexterity of “The Great Gatsby,” but what use are they in a world that’s now narrated by those aforementioned upwardly mobile? Those are decadences of a distant past, when the wealth was not accessible and lan-guage was a signifier, and the lifestyle of the elite could only be recounted to us by someone who’d always been a part of it.

So what, then, is Kanye West? Well, in many ways he’s the ce-lebrity we’ve always loved to watch, one who agrees with Fitzger-ald that, when it comes to the wealthy, he can’t make up his mind. Surely, he makes up part of a larger trend in hip-hop music where wealth is still, as it has always been, something to be shown off, and Prohibition is still making millionaires, albeit with weed rather than whiskey. But West also brings more to the table.

Kanye West, unlike others, uses his rags to riches story as a source of introspection and personal meditation, just like Fitzgerald did. West is confused by his wealth and is unsure, publicly as well as within himself, what exactly to make of it. It has been his dream, as it has been ours, for his waking life. Now that the wealth is here, it’s hard to cope with the fact that it brings its own problems. It’s hard for him to believe that he might not want parts of that which he has always wanted, and he resists coming down on one side or the other, perhaps for his own good.

In that, though, he is in good company. Fitzgerald never figured out how he felt about wealth and the variety of life, and so we’ve been trying to do it for him for close to a century. You might even say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that “The Great Gatsby” paved the way for “The College Dropout,” and that so long as West remains deadlocked, he will enjoy longevity as we try to figure it all out for him.

Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs every Friday.

A lying down job

CORRECTIONSamantha Lachman’s “Making an (im)PACT”

column April 7 incorrectly stated the years of Kevin Jones and Andrei Santalo. Jones is a senior, and Santalo is a sophomore. The Chronicle regrets the errors.

lettertotheeditorIn response to “Get faculty on board with Kunshan”

It ought to be pointed out that the proper procedure would have been to present a coherent and responsibly detailed vision for Kunshan to the faculty before com-mitting to this venture. Once again, however, the Duke administration has chosen to bypass faculty counsel on another major issue of strategic planning, preferring instead to present the Kunshan adventure as a “fait (pr-esque) accomplit.” Even more disturbing is that this par-ticular initiative highlights the administration’s growing confusion as to Duke University’s identity. We are (and hopefully will remain) a dynamic and complex research institution in Durham. What we are not (and should not pretend to be) is some multinational corporation ped-dling an increasingly amorphous and empty commodity marketed as the “Duke Experience.” Had The Chroni-cle’s independent Editorial Board done due diligence, they would have inquired about the collateral effects of the Kunshan adventure on our finances here at Duke, which, contrary to the starry-eyed projections of our ad-ministration, remain a zero-sum game.

For some time now, the administration has been financially squeezing and intellectually starving its aca-demic core units (aka departments), and it continues to do so even now, ostensibly because of a sizeable bud-get deficit in Arts and Sciences. This worrisome devel-

opment has manifestly reinforced the University lead-ership’s strategy (well known to observant faculty) to shift attention and support to new centers, programs and a flurry of often uncoordinated and ephemeral initiatives—of which Kunshan is only a recent and con-spicuous instance. Much of the growing resistance to the Kunshan adventure (correctly noted in the edito-rial) stems from the faculty’s pervasive alienation from, and distrust of, a University administration that con-sistently fails to consult its faculty’s collective expertise and wisdom before the fact. No doubt, it is assumed that the Academic Council and other relevant bodies will eventually rubber-stamp a project in Kunshan that, when the question is posed, will have advanced beyond recall, even as its intellectual merits, financial rationale and institutional necessity were never convincingly articulated. A less high-handed and more timely, con-sultative approach would have allowed everyone to consider and evaluate the Kunshan adventure’s com-parative merits vis-a-vis various other, far less cost-inten-sive (albeit less headline-grabbing) proposals, such as a formal and focused comprehensive faculty exchange initiative.

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approach to improving the quality of patient care, Watson explained that hospital workers need to show empathy toward patients, stressing the need for “sensitivity and responsiveness” in order to view the patient as a person and not merely a disease to be treated, as practitioners are often trained to do.

With regard to more controversial health care issues on the national stage, Watson explained his concern with growing socioeconomic gaps in care delivery. He cited the inadequacy of primary care as a contributing factor to stresses on emergency rooms, which he has witnessed in Durham Regional.

“The difficulty is how to accept that the system needs to change,” Watson said, adding that vague notions of responsibility among the many participants in health care—such as hospitals, patients and insurance compa-nies—contribute to the problem.

The stakes are high, Watson noted, predicting that the nation will face a “system of ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’” unless it forms the necessary partnerships between physi-cians, patients, primary care givers, insurance companies and government to confront an aging population with fewer resources and caregivers.

In his capacity as president of Durham Regional, Watson has spearheaded efforts to foster accountabil-

ity among these groups in order to improve the qual-ity of care.

He explained a project aimed at training and edu-cating patients to monitor their health outside the hospital in order to combat the significantly higher rates of readmission they saw among poorer patients. Watson said this project led to a 50 percent decrease in readmission rates—a triumph for the hospital’s ef-forts to make individuals feel more responsible for their own health.

“If you expand that as a practice process beyond that small group, you can imagine what we can be do-ing to help people take control of their own health,” he said.

Watson stressed this individual responsibility with re-gard to Durham, where he said that a sense of despair and low expectations prevails among the socioeconomi-cally disadvantaged. Nurturing a sense of personal ac-countability in the medical arena is merely one element of empowering people to improve their vision for what they can accomplish in life, he noted.

Jordan Thomas, a prospective freshman visiting campus, said he can understand how Watson’s back-ground enabled him to better empathize with pa-tients.

“It is inspiring how Mr. Watson had a story about con-quering the despair he found in Durham to rise to the position he has in his administration,” he said.

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Kerry Watson, president of Durham Regional Hospital, spoke with Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells Thursday on local and national health care reform.

to students, Gonzalez wrote that the necessary upgrades to continue to offer cable would cost “in the neighborhood of $1 million.”

“Less than 15 percent of our rooms have cable, so most students are doing something different, if they’re even watching TV,” he said. “Should Duke transition to a dif-ferent model, we would need [everyone] to pay for cable. There just wasn’t a clear student consensus that all on cam-pus were willing to foot the bill for that type of service.”

Junior Ben Goldenberg, interim vice president for resi-dence life and dining, said cutting the cable services may affect more students than Gonzalez initially considered.

“I think people [on East and West] will survive, and their quality of living won’t be tremendously affected,” Golden-berg said. “But on Central, I see that as being a huge issue [because] Central living is much more self-sufficient. In your apartment, you want the amenities of apartment-style living, so that’s where I see the issues.”

To make up to students for the loss of cable, the Univer-sity will try to provide other services.

“We are willing to look at [instituting satellite TV] for Central in particular, given the different levels in need,” Gonzalez said. “This is one avenue we’re exploring, in ad-dition to others, such as subsidized Netflix.”

In other business:Freshman Patrick Oathout, an academic affairs sena-

tor, gave a presentation on why he filed a complaint with the DSG Judiciary last night regarding the way in which names were presented on ballots. He said the change from alphabetical ordering of candidates’ names to a randomly generated ballot was not approved by the Senate and was thus unconstitutional, though the Judiciary unanimously upheld the decision in the election Tuesday night.

Sophomore Alex Swain, next year’s vice president for Durham and regional affairs, gave a presentation on creat-ing new committees within DSG. She and others proposed both internal and external committees.

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