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Duke has an office for taking University inventions and turning them into marketable products, but some faculty have questioned how effective it is.

When faculty and students in-vent things on campus, they turn to the Office of Licensing and Ventures to handle technology transfer—the process that brings inventions to the market. In recent years, faculty have argued that the OLV does not sufficiently facilitate innovation on campus. But al-though there is room for improve-ment, the notion that the OLV is endangering entrepreneurship may be extreme, said Eric Toone, professor of chemistry and leader

of the Innovation and Entrepre-neurship Initiative.

“To the extent that there are perceived shortcomings with the OLV, they have more to do with some misapprehension with OLV’s role in the tech transfer process,” Toone said. “It’s just there to pro-tect intellectual property for the University.”

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Bull City Summer will document the 2013 baseball season.

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“I believe in the Church of Baseball.” So begins Bull Durham, the 1988 film that captured the fer-vor and frustrations of minor league baseball in what many players con-sider to be the most accurate depic-tion of the sport. Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the movie, Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark and Beyond will chronicle the 2013 season of the Durham Bulls through blog entries, literary writ-ing and photography. Additionally, beginning next February, Bull City Summer will display a culminat-ing photography exhibition at the

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Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series evaluating DukeEngage since its inception in 2007. Today’s article focuses on the DukeEngage experience for students. Friday, The Chronicle will analyze the relationship between DukeEngage and the Duke brand. Monday, The Chronicle will illustrate critiques of the program and discuss DukeEngage’s responsive strategic plan.

As DukeEngage enters its sixth summer, the Universi-ty’s signature civic engagement program is still encounter-ing challenges as it attempts to bring its ambitious mission to fruition.

Since its creation, the heralded program has sent al-most 2,000 students around the world and gives a sum-mer experience to roughly 5 percent of the Duke student

body every year. One of the foremost challenges for the program, which has an annual budget of more than $4 million, is striking a balance between service to the com-munity and ensuring that students have a meaningful and positive experience.

The program’s official mission is listed in the recently released DukeEngage 2017 Strategic Plan: “DukeEn-gage empowers students to address critical human needs through immersive service, in the process transforming students, advancing the University’s educational mission, and providing meaningful assistance to communities in the U.S. and abroad.”

DukeEngage first assesses community need when con-sidering a proposal for a program, Director Eric Mlyn said.

“You can’t disentangle responding to a need in the com-munity from student experience,” he said.

Senior Emily McGinty, who interned at a literacy proj-ect in Hot Springs, N.C. during summer 2010, believes the program’s goal is more student-oriented. While McGinty was an intern, the project was under review to become a DukeEngage program. DukeEngage administrators, in-cluding Mlyn, visited Hot Springs and spoke with McGinty and the other interns about their experience.

McGinty said she was surprised when the majority of questions she was asked revolved around her personal experience instead of the work or the relationship with the community. DukeEngage administrators asked McGinty and the other interns questions such as, “Do

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After much deliberation, Duke Student Government finalized the Student Organi-zation Finance Committee’s annual budget for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Final approval for the SOFC annual budget, which the Senate chose to table at last week’s meeting, was finalized at $446,736 Wednesday. The SOFC annual budget funds capital expenditures that any recognized or chartered group needs to function, said SOFC Chair Kat Krieger, a junior. The budget also funds major expen-ditures for events outside the realm of the programming fund for chartered groups.

The Duke Undergraduate Publication Board received $76,216.40. The Duke Part-nership for Service received $56,056.06. DSG received $52,337.89. Club Sports re-ceived $90,000—the largest sum from the budget.

The Senate debated the funding for The

Chanticleer—Duke’s student yearbook—for about 90 minutes.

In order to lower funding costs, sopho-more Nikolai Doytchinov, vice president for academic affairs, originally proposed an opt-in policy for seniors in which those who wanted a yearbook would pay a $15 fee to retain a copy.

Junior Patrick Oathout, executive vice president, was not in favor of the proposal because $15 would not make enough of a difference to lower funding costs.

President Alex Swain, a senior, noted that it was a “privileged point of view” to think college students have disposable income.

“I am personally offended that anybody could call me privileged,” Oathout said.

He noted that the Senate has delayed cre-ating a long-term plan for The Chanticleer budget every year, adding that they should focus on finding a sustainable solution rather

by Caroline MichelmanTHE CHRONICLE

The planned replacement of the bridge near East Campus this summer will require

vehicles to find alternate routes.Starting May 13, the portion of West

Main Street along East Campus will close for five months to accommodate the Main Street bridge replacement project. The North Carolina Department of Transporta-tion has been planning for three years in collaboration with the University to replace the bridge. Although construction began last summer, NCDOT delayed further work until May 13, the Monday after commence-ment weekend, to minimize impediments to the high traffic on and around campus.

The bridge joins Main Street over Cam-pus Drive. Built in 1950 to allow passage between East and West campuses, it is now due for replacement.

“That doesn’t mean the bridge is un-safe,” said Robert Atkins, assistant resident engineer with NCDOT. “We’re just putting in a more modern, standard bridge with a more modern design.”

Since the University owns Campus Drive, Duke had to create an easement to allow NCDOT to work on campus. The easement will permit NCDOT to use the road for con-struction on the bridge, which is owned by the state.

The University created the timeline for the project and recommended that NCDOT postpone finishing the bridge re-placement until the day after graduation weekend. This allows for minimal conflict with Duke traffic and transportation and for NCDOT to ready their contracts and materials and “hit the ground running” once construction starts, said Floyd Wil-liams, project manager of the facilities man-agement department.

When construction begins May 13, NCDOT will put up a hard closure at the intersection of Buchanan and Main Street through which no cars will be allowed, as

well as a soft closure at Main Street and Swift Avenue to allow for access to South-gate Dormitory, Atkins said. Drivers will have limited access through the soft closure and should expect delays.

“Even in the summer, it will make a huge difference because East Campus has a lot of summer camps. There’s not going to be too much relief,” Williams said.

Duke has studied NCDOT’s rerouting and traffic patterns and is trying to reduce the amount of local traffic going through East Campus, Williams noted.

Duke’s bus routes will also be affected by the construction. Bridge demolition is scheduled to occur for two to three weeks in late May and early June, and the bridge underpass will be closed during this time. Once demolition is completed, the traffic will be opened up on Campus Drive with two lanes of traffic.

During construction of the new bridge, however, there will be times when Cam-pus Drive must be closed. Duke’s contract with NCDOT stipulates that Campus Drive closures will only occur at night. At these times, as well as bridge demolition, buses will be rerouted to Main Street and then to Buchanan and Maxwell Avenue behind Smith Warehouse to access West Campus, Williams said.

NCDOT will notify Duke 48 hours in advance of Campus Drive closures, and up-dates on the construction and route chang-es will be available on the Bull City Connec-tor website, DukeToday and TransLoc.

The TransLoc bus tracking system has the capability of providing real-time an-nouncements, and signs at affected bus stops will direct passengers to alternate stops, Sam Veraldi, director of Parking and Transportation, wrote in an email Thurs-day.

“It’s going to be a little painful,” Wil-liams said, “but we’re trying to mitigate that as best we can.”

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you feel entertained here?” and “Do you feel that there are things to do and places to go?”

“I was surprised that they cared that we had so little access to nightlife,” McGinty said. “We all laughed, and said, ‘What do you mean?’ They said, ‘We’re worried because there’s not enough nightlife in this area.’”

Mlyn acknowledged issues of student safety and assessing risk when developing a pro-gram.

“If I could do one thing for DukeEngage, I would ban alcohol,” Mlyn said. “Our incidents are almost always students who lose judgment and let down their guard a little bit.”

Still, McGinty said she was skeptical of the idea that DukeEngage prioritizes a com-munity’s needs over a student’s experience. DukeEngage administrators do survey com-munity partners to assess the value of student volunteers in the region. In 2011, 78 percent of community partners said they found their DukeEngage students had a “great impact” on the community.

Based on DukeEngage’s evaluation tech-niques, it appears that the program is success-ful in delivering a positive student experience. More than 75 percent of students found their DukeEngage experience to have a “great im-pact” on them, according to data compiled from student surveys in 2011. Administrators noted that survey questions are not consistent on a year-to-year basis, making it difficult to discern the definition of “great impact.”

Imbalanced interestDukeEngage provides a summer experi-

ence to a group of students that is not entirely representative of Duke’s student body. After five summers, the program still struggles with attracting an equal share of men and women. Duke’s student body is usually equally split be-

tween male and female students—the Class of 2012 was composed of exactly 50 percent men and 50 percent women. In summer 2012, however, 62.4 percent of students admitted to DukeEngage were women and 37.6 percent were women, according to data from Jacki Purtell, DukeEngage evaluation and assess-ment coordinator. The DukeEngage office declined to provide gender breakdowns of ap-plicant pools in the last five years.

This gender imbalance is widespread in civic engagement, Mlyn said, adding that Du-keEngage has reached out to male students through many channels, including focused outreach to fraternities.

“Some fraction of men at institutions like Duke don’t see DukeEngage experiences as being instrumental toward their career goals,” Mlyn wrote in an email April 5.

DukeEngage declined to provide other data, including the number of applicants to each program, the number of applicants in each class, and the race breakdown of who participates in and applies to DukeEngage.

Baishakhi Taylor, program director for DukeEngage India-Kolkata and an academic dean in the Trinity College of Arts and Sci-ences, echoed that sentiment, suggesting that it is possible that women are more attracted to programs like hers that require students to take on a teaching and caregiving role. The Kolkata program in particular attracts a predominantly female applicant pool—the number of female applicants to the Kolkata program generally outnumbers the male ap-plicants about 6 to 1, she said.

“Why are we getting more women in the University’s largest civic engagement pro-gram? There’s not any difference in outreach or marketing,” Taylor said.

Although Mlyn declined to provide num-bers on greek and independent students participating in DukeEngage, in remarks at the 2011 Greek Convocation he noted that greek men are particularly underrepresented

among DukeEngage participants.

The challenge of coming homeAmong DukeEngage participants, differ-

ences in the type of experience present an-other challenge for the program. There are 39 international and domestic projects on the 2013 DukeEngage roster, and there are 430 students participating this year. The scope of the program is a strength in terms of its im-pact on Duke’s culture but also a challenge in ensuring that each experience is “substantive and meaningful,” Mlyn said.

DukeEngage prepares its students through the DukeEngage Academy—a two day work-shop that primes program participants with certain skills, such as blogging, cultural com-petency and general safety. The majority of ses-sions treat all program participants as equals with little preparation catered to a student’s specific program, which, for some students, provokes issues with expectations.

“I was prepared for a glorified educative va-cation, I wasn’t prepared for an intense emo-tional experience,” said junior Flora Muglia, a 2012 DukeEngage Jordan participant.

Being in Jordan was challenging for Mug-lia—her homestay dad frequently picked on her, and she experienced lapses in feeling safe due to her gender. Reintegration back into Duke culture can also be problematic as some students do not feel prepared for the return home.

“I came home feeling very overwhelmed and critical of the way people treated natural resources,” Muglia said, noting that she sought counseling upon her return to Duke. “People didn’t understand me. I felt like an alien in my homeland.”

A common trajectory for junior DukeEn-gage participants, like Muglia, is to go straight from their engagement project to a semester abroad. Reintegration infrastructure for these students does not yet exist.

“Coming back is very challenging in terms

of integrating back into your own culture and saying goodbye to the intensity of your experi-ence,” Mlyn said, noting that the ways his of-fice tries to reintegrate students are through its student handbook, DukeEngage Academy and post-summer reunions.

Inequities across experiencesNot all students encounter the difficulties

that Muglia faced and, in fact, many students have a transformative experience through DukeEngage. This raises, however, another fundamental challenge of the program—how to better equalize the experiences of students across so many different programs, whether international or domestic.

Senior Molly Superfine, a member of the DukeEngage student advisory board, acknowl-edged that every student may not have the same level of experience. As a participant in DukeEngage Colombia 2010, Superfine had a near-ideal DukeEngage experience.

“We were friends with students at the local university, engaged in their school and social life,” Superfine said. “Seeing street art in Me-dellin turned me on to my thesis topic.”

DukeEngage administrators want students to get this kind of synthesis and application to their education out of their experience, though it does not always happen. Institution-al and curricular changes are being developed to better address this problem and help bring some equity across DukeEngage experiences.

“From talking to students, we need to help students connect their DukeEngage experi-ence with the overall arc of educational trajec-tory,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education. “For some, this works very well, for others the connections are harder to make. I think a thoughtful analysis of how the curriculum can and can’t connect with DukeEngage is what we need to do.”

The reporter participated in DukeEngage South Africa-Durban 2012.

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than a short-term fix.Sophomore Derek Rhodes, vice presi-

dent for Durham and regional affairs,

expressed his frustration with the Senate delaying a final decision about The Chan-ticleer’s budget, and chose to leave the meeting altogether.

“We discuss this every year, and that is embarrassing and makes DSG look bad,” Oathout said. “The only way that year-books benefit students are the yearbooks that linger around offices on campus, but most yearbooks leave campus and don’t help students at all.”

The Senate approved $74,150 for The Chanticleer, but stipulated that the money be “frozen” until Chanticleer lead-ers create an opt-in policy for seniors to declare that they want a yearbook. In the past, The Chanticleer has been printed and mailed to every member of the senior class following graduation, Krieger said.

The new policy will also allow under-classmen to pre-order copies. Last year, there were 900 printed and delivered to underclassmen.

Junior Dan Pellegrino was the only sena-tor to vote against passing the final budget.

The budget from the previous year was $479,535.97.

“I am happy to see that the Senate really took the time to layout the best plan for the student body,” said sophomore Tre’ Scott, vice president for services.

In Other Business:Young Trustee-elect Chris Brown, a se-

nior, has created an email account to bet-ter connect with undergraduate students.

Brown collaborated with existing YT members to create YoungTrustee@Duke.edu, an email address that will send mes-sages to an account that is checked by all of the undergraduate Young Trustees. Brown announced that the account is now accepting messages.

“Something that I campaigned on was being a Young Trustee that stays in touch with the student body more so than Young Trustees in the past have,” Brown said.

He added that the experience of being an undergraduate can not be conveyed through outside sources, such as The Chronicle. The only way to fully represent the needs of the student body is to be in direct contact with undergraduates.

The graduate Young Trustees are work-ing on creating a separate email account to receive feedback from graduate stu-dents.

Freshman Abhi Sanka, sophomore James Kennedy, freshman Hannah Mc-Cracken and sophomore Cameron Tripp were elected as board of election’s selec-tion committee. They were elected using a “heads up, seven up” voting method, in which the Senate put their heads on the table and raised their thumbs to vote.

President-elect Stefani Jones, a junior, proposed allocating $1,500 to buy pizza for students for the Last Day of Classes concert. The Senate approved.

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“We discuss this every year,

and that is embarrassing

and makes DSG look bad.”

— Patrick Oathout,executive vice president

How I learned to ask good questionsI came to my first Chronicle sports

meeting hoping for an outlet to publish my musings as an ardent Blue Devil fan.

I wanted to contribute to The Chron-icle’s sports blog, and I wanted to write about the basketball team’s jerseys.

Specifically, I wanted to write about the fact that four of the men’s basketball team’s five losses in the 2010 season came when they wore the black jerseys,

while only one came while the team was wearing blue jerseys. The story, as I envisioned it, would address the question, “are the black jerseys somehow unlucky?”

Gabe Starosta, the editor of the section at the time, told me I could not make that my first byline, even if it were only a blog post. “If that’s the first thing you write about,” he said, “then no one will ever take you seriously again. You need to establish credibility first.” I grudg-ingly agreed to take on other stories first, pledging to eventually write a column calling for the team to eliminate the alternate jerseys.

Thankfully, while I was ‘building cred-ibility’ by writing other stories, I came to realize that the premise behind my initial article was what we now refer to as a “clown question.” Obviously, Gabe knew that would happen, and I’m glad he did.

It might seem like the preceding

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anecdote was a 200-word excuse to make a joke about clown questions, but I assure you there’s more to it than that. Asking questions is the most important—and most difficult—part of being a journalist by far.

Although there’s a lot to be said for being a good writer, the skill is highly over-rated if unaccompanied by the ability to ask good questions. There are already com-puter programs that can pump out a game recap if given quotes and statistics, and there are a whole lot of folks who can piece together a few active sentences.

The process of asking questions is multi-faceted. A good reporter must ask the right questions, phrase their ques-tions well and have the courage to actu-ally ask them.

As with many things in life, preparation is crucial to the first element of asking a good question. Particularly when writing previews, I learned that I should always get a sense of the team Duke would be playing before I began. In the real world, I’ll take that mindset with me.

In some ways, though, the way a ques-tion is phrased is more important than its content. Asking questions that imply an answer, while convenient at times, often prevents the interviewee from giving a fuller, more interesting story. Instead, I saw that the best reporters asked broader questions and actively listened to the answers, following up on interesting angles. In any walk of life, I expect that

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Halting a three-game losing streak, No. 9 Duke finished its regular-season road schedule with a 14-6 win against Davidson at Richardson Stadium in Davidson, N.C.

Seven different Blue Devils found the back of the net in the win as Duke (10-4)

has now reached double-digit wins for 16 consecutive seasons.

Although the Wildcats took an early 2-0 lead, the Blue Devils quickly tied it up and took the lead with a 6-0 run, giving them a lead they would not relinquish.

Sophomore Taylor Trimble led Duke’s goal scoring with a hat trick while Kerrin Maurer, Makenzie Hommel, Maddy Mor-rissey, Molly Quirke and Kelci Smesko all added two goals apiece. Maurer led the way in points with five, also tallying three assists.

Duke goaltender Kelsey Duryea im-proved to 6-3 as a starter with five saves while adding two ground balls.

The Blue Devils finish their regular-season schedule Saturday at Koskinen Sta-dium against Ohio State at 1 p.m.

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The No. 11 Blue Devils took on one of their toughest opponents of the season Wednesday in crosstown rival, No. 1 North Carolina.

With only five players able to compete, Duke (14-7, 5-4 in the ACC) came up short, falling 4-0 to the Tar Heels (22-2, 8-1) at Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center in Chapel Hill.

With injured sophomore Ester Goldfeld unable to compete due to an injury, the Blue Devils got off to a shaky start, forfeiting the No. 3 doubles match and getting down early on the two remaining courts. Junior Marianne Jodoin and sophomore Annie Mulholland faced the No. 52 doubles team Caroline Price and Whitney Kay of North Carolina. The Blue Devils fell behind 5-0 early on, and could not manage to make a comeback, dropping the set 8-1.

“We just got off to a bad start in doubles and that hurt us,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We just can’t afford to lose doubles matches that quick.”

On court one, the No. 14 pair of Mary Clay-ton and junior Hanna Mar took on the Tar Heels’ No. 31 Lauren McHale and Ashely Dai, but play was stopped at 5-5 with the doubles point already decided.

In addition to the doubles match, the Blue Devils had to forfeit the No. 6 singles position, giving North Carolina a significant advantage.

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With Ester Goldfeld out due to an injury, the Blue Devils continued to play short-handed against UNC.

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the most successful people ask questions that allow the respondent to provide insight, probing for more interesting information. It’s easy to get caught up in “coach-speak” but essential not to.

For me, though, mustering the courage to ask tough questions was always the most difficult part of being a journalist. I found this difficult for several reasons. First and foremost, I was often in awe of the athlete or coach I was speaking to, particularly on the occasions I got to speak with those in the revenue sports.

In my first experiences covering basketball and football, I was in awe of the players I spoke with—it’s weird to wear someone’s jersey one day and ask him questions the next. But I eventually realized that while the individual I was speaking with might have graced ESPN’s front page, he was also a classmate and a regu-lar person. That even goes for Coach K, who has no qualms with playfully teasing reporters.

That’s something I’ll always carry with me as I enter the business world. After talking to the greatest basket-ball coach of all time—even as one of many reporters in a press conference—there is no reason to be intimi-dated by anyone else.

There are a lot of wonderful things I can take from my experience at The Chronicle—amazing memories of events I’ve been privileged to cover, and friendships I look forward to maintaining the rest of my life—but I think that the ability to ask solid questions may be the greatest life skill I take from my time at the paper.

Jacob Levitt is a Trinity senior. He has been an associ-ate editor for the sports section for three years and a football beat writer.

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Already behind 2-0 going into singles play, Duke’s primary focus was looking forward.

“You just have to forget the doubles,” Ash-worth said. “Even when we win, we have to forget it.”

In the early going, Duke did just that. Af-ter falling behind 4-1 in the first set, No. 25 Mar battled her way back to a 7-5 first-set vic-tory against North Carolina’s Gina Suarez-Malaguti, ranked No. 9 in the nation.

On court three, sophomore Annie Mulhol-land stayed neck-and-neck with Kay and pulled ahead to secure the first set 6-4. She went on to drop the second set 6-0 and was behind in the third when play was stopped following losses for Mary Clayton and Nicole Lipp that secured the win for North Carolina. Mar led 2-1 in the second set when play was stopped.

Ashworth said that the team did not take advantage of opportunities on big points.

Overall, the team showed signs of improve-ment from its February loss against the Tar Heels, competing much more aggressively against the top-ranked North Carolina squad. The Blue Devils were counting on a much lon-ger match, which would have allowed the girls to put more pressure on the Tar Heels. But with a 2-0 deficit going into singles, the team was unable to take a lead.

“We were just in a hole,” Ashworth said. “But the matches were a lot closer this time than they were the last time we played them.”

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Sophomore Annie Mulholland won her first set of singles but never finished the match.

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It was fi ve o’clock on a brisk October morning, and I was sitting on the steps to a teammate’s apart-ment complex. I’d already called him three or

four times and called his roommate once—neither had answered. I was supposed to be giving him a ride to the airport; we were heading to New Haven for a tournament and had to catch a seven o’clock fl ight. I called one of our other teammates, and she responded, “He’s probably just passed out drunk somewhere. If I were you, I’d go to the airport without him.” And without a second thought, I took her advice and left for the airport alone.

While this was happening, Drew was unconscious, with two collapsed lungs, in a stairwell behind the Marketplace. He wouldn’t be found until later that afternoon, and he died the next day.

There are lots of benign reasons why a student wouldn’t be where he was supposed to be at fi ve in the morning. He might have set his alarm for 4:30 p.m. instead of a.m., or he may not have realized his phone was set on silent. The best guess for where a Duke stu-dent might be if he’s failed to show up somewhere at fi ve in the morning is safe, asleep, in bed.

I wouldn’t feel ashamed if my teammate had told me: “He probably just forgot to set an alarm. If I were you, I’d go to the airport without him,” and then I left for the airport. But I left thinking the most likely explanation was that he was passed out drunk, and I didn’t even think that was weird. There is nothing I could have done to prevent what happened to a great guy I didn’t know all that well, but I feel guilt about treating as normal something that I shouldn’t have treated as normal.

To routinely get really, really drunk isn’t uncom-mon for students at Duke, and it’s no secret that in some communities at Duke, routinely getting really, really drunk is the norm. Most Duke students who routinely get really, really drunk will graduate without suffering any signifi cant consequences, signifi cantly taper off their drinking when they enter the “real world,” and let that be that. But because routinely get-ting really, really drunk is so common at Duke, we’re left unable to clearly differentiate between those among our friends for whom drinking has become a serious problem in their lives, or those who are drinking as a result of other serious problems in their lives. Before Drew died, if you’d told me that anyone I knew over the age of 22 was “probably just passed out drunk somewhere,” I would have been seriously concerned for her well-being and would’ve thought

she needed help. Why had Duke so quickly changed my standards for what was normal?

If I could offer other Duke students one single piece of advice—both for how to get the most out of the seemingly un-bounded opportunities here and for how to maximize one’s chances of making it out of this school without lasting physical or emotional scars—it’s to step back every once and awhile ask: “How would I have reacted to this event before I was a Duke student?”

It is amazing how quickly we come to take for granted how special Duke can be. In my years at Duke, I have rid-

den a hot air balloon on the East Campus quad, met two cabinet secretaries, been the student of one of my favorite authors and gotten feedback on my writ-ing from some of my favorite journalists. Things that would have been the highlight of my month or year as a high school student happen at least once a week at Duke—and the main reason why these things don’t happen every single day is because I have to pass my classes and at least occasionally clean my bathroom.

Your values might evolve as a Dukie. You might become more liberal or more conservative or more of a radical. More or less religious. You might change majors or hobbies. If you don’t change at all, you probably haven’t really had an education. But students also change in more specifi c, and some-times insidious, ways. They change their ideas about money and class, about sex, relationships and fam-ily. They change their sleep schedules and their very defi nitions of what it means to be successful and what it means to live a good life. Maybe “change” is too strong of a word because we aren’t directly com-paring two alternative worldviews and actively select-ing the better one; we morph into people our high school selves might not have recognized, without even realizing that it’s happening.

If you’re a 2017er, I’d sit down this summer and ask yourself as many specifi c questions as possible about friendships, money, careers, learning and com-munity obligations, so that you’ll be able to compare your “befores” and “afters” while you’re at Duke. So you can identify how you’re changing—and reverse changes in yourself you’re not happy with. If you’re a current student, take time to acknowledge all the ways in which Duke is not normal.

Elena Botella is a Trinity senior. This is her fi nal col-umn of the semester. You can follow Elena on Twitter @elenabotella.

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sors, Duke’s overly restrictive intellectual property policies are hampering the University’s ability to achieve its full entre-preneurial potential. A portion of Duke’s Policy on Inventions, Patents and Technology Transfer allows the University to collect 50 to 75 percent of the net profi t made off of faculty or student inven-tions that are made with insti-tutional resources. Although questions surrounding Duke’s intellectual property policies are complex, a liberalized pol-icy that demands less in royal-ties is both fairer to innovators and in the best interest of the University.

An upcoming review of Duke’s policies, which was com-missioned by President Rich-

ard Brodhead to be carried out by Gregory Wray, chair of the University Committee on Pat-ent Policy, should endeavor to tackle two questions.

From a philosophical per-spective, the University must critically as-

sess the legitimate scope of its claims to the profi t made by faculty and student inventions. In the past, these claims have been predicated on pedagogi-cal grounds: Since University instruction and facilities en-ables students to create new, pragmatic inventions, Duke should be entitled to a portion of the profi t made from inven-tions that rely on such mentor-ing and resources. This claim, however, has little merit. Stu-dents accrue benefi ts from the University throughout their

time here and use that knowl-edge in a variety of ways after graduation. That’s simply the function of the University.

The resource claim is more diffi cult to assess. Undeniably, the University makes innova-tion possible by bearing the costs of resource-intensive re-search and development, per-mitting students and faculty the fi nancial security and intel-lectual support to engage in innovative projects. Although the University should be com-pensated to some extent, the current policy represents an undue penalty on projects in technology-intensive fi elds. Be-cause the inputs and outputs of engineering and medical projects are immediately mon-etarily quantifi able—in the form of laboratory space, sup-plies and raw materials as well

as patents—it is easier to practi-cally assess the extent of Duke’s involvement. Yet practicality alone should not constitute a justifi cation.

Even though we agree on the principle that no invention is produced alone—and grant that the University is in some part responsible for the inven-tions that students and faculty introduce—there is a practical argument for liberalizing intel-lectual property policies.

If promoting entrepreneur-ship is an institutional goal, then Duke should do every-thing in its power to incentiv-ize risk-taking innovation. A culture conducive to entre-preneurship requires that all potential impediments are mit-igated, which will signal to cur-rent and future innovators that the University is fully behind

them. Whatever costs Duke will bear will likely be offset by the potential reputational benefi ts that the University will accrue as successful inventors become socially prominent. Further, Duke will be able to more con-cretely convey its role in grow-ing entrepreneurship to pro-spective students and faculty.

Again, liberalized intel-lectual property policies will not by themselves inculcate the type of innovative culture Duke seeks to promote. Still, it is important both practically and philosophically for the University to do everything in its power to facilitate innovative activities. Going forward, Duke should be primarily concerned with allowing entrepreneurship to fl ourish, instead of acting as a gatekeeper to inventions’ im-mediate monetary benefi ts.

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Before I begin, I’m not ignorant. I am cognizant of the differing viewpoints pertaining to this complicated issue.

Also, I’m not a bigot. I hold no contempt toward homosexu-als. I respect their natural rights inherent in their humanity, as well as their legal rights accord-ed by the laws of this land. Ac-cording to research noted by Nicholas Kristof, conservatives generally understand liberals whereas liberals fi nd conserva-tive reasoning incomprehen-sible. Most at Duke have never contended with a legitimate defense of legislation outlawing gay marriage. I will do so without sophistry or theology.

Most gay marriage advocates posit mar-riage as a right. There are two types of rights, natural and legal.

Natural rights are those self-evident, un-alienable rights derived from the “laws of na-ture,” according to the Declaration of Inde-pendence.

There are three main natural rights.First, individuals have the right to own

property. Humans own their own body and the labor of their body. Objects that are the product of this labor are thus owned by the individual. Read Locke’s labor theory of prop-erty for more.

Second, individuals have a right to life. This can be seen as a subset of the previous right. To deprive someone of life is to do ir-reversible harm to his body.

Third, individuals have a right to liberty. This right stems from the inalienable free will of each individual. Actions are manifestations of the will. Individuals have the right to sat-isfy their own desires free from interference given that it doesn’t cause substantial harm to others. By substantial, I mean that the harm passes a high enough threshold to justify re-striction. For example, playing Nickleback loudly from my car decreases the utility of oth-ers. However, it is not harmful enough to strip me of the liberty to play it. However, hitting someone with a baseball bat passes the thresh-old and is thus prohibited.

Homosexuals are certainly endowed with these natural rights. However, access to the institution of marriage cannot be considered natural. Matrimony is one of many contracts. The relationship between a lawyer and a de-fendant or a doctor and a patient are also con-tractual. No one would argue that all people have the natural right to be doctors or lawyers if they so please. Thus, to make the case that marriage is a natural right, you would have to argue that there is something fundamen-tally different about the contract of marriage. There is no valid reasoning leading to such a conclusion.

Now, let’s consider if access to marriage is a legal right.

Legal rights are mutually agreed upon between the people and the government through the social contract. The equal pro-tection clause of the 14th Amendment is of-ten pointed to. It has been historically used regarding racial minorities. However, homo-sexual access to marriage is not analogous. Homosexuals are not denied their basic rights as guaranteed by the Constitution such as the right to fair trial. Nor are homosexuals be-ing denied equal coverage by the law. Crimes committed against homosexuals are fully pros-ecuted. They are granted equal protection in any reasonable interpretation of the clause. The issuance of a marriage license is not such a guaranteed protection. The government has no obligation to grant a marriage license to anyone who wants one. For example, not everyone has access to a driver’s license. Does that mean that the rights of blind citizens are being violated? There is nothing unconstitu-tional about selectively issuing licenses. Gay marriage isn’t a legal right.

As shown, attaining a license of marriage is neither a natural nor legal right. This doesn’t mean homosexuals should not be married. It

merely means that the court doesn’t have the prerogative to invalidate the two laws cur-rently under consideration.

The government certainly has the ability to enforce legis-lation based solely on morality. Consider polygamy. No state issues marriage licenses for polygamous unions. Polygamy involves a harmless, consensu-al activity between adults. The state generally has no business

regulating such interactions. However, there is a signifi cant moral consideration. Most fi nd polygamy intuitively wrong. As such, society has outlawed polygamists from marriage. The same moral considerations hold true for laws against incest and the like. To argue that mo-rality should not infl uence law is to likewise accept these other activities. The people must decide whether or not marriage should in-clude homosexuals, not the judiciary.

Justice Antonin Scalia has echoed my rea-soning. Scalia is “unwilling to… announce … a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy.” Furthermore, “State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest … are likewise sustainable only in light of [Bowers v. Hardwick]’s validation of laws based on moral choices.”

Some believe that laws restricting the defi -nition of marriage are equivalent to racial laws oppressing minorities. Our nation’s common law is based only on actions. Race is a charac-teristic, not an action. Homosexuality neces-sarily is a behavior. Thus, it can be legislated against if deemed to be immoral. This onto-logical distinction between actions and char-acteristics is subtle but paramount.

Opponents claim that homosexuals’ not re-ceiving tax benefi ts violates their equal rights. The green energy industry receives fi nancial support from the government, thus all indus-tries must receive the same subsidy, right? Of course not. Financial incentives for marriage are the same. The rights of unmarried citi-zens, gay or not, aren’t violated. According to research done at the University of Texas-Aus-tin, children with heterosexual parents fare better on certain quality of life indicators than those from homosexual households. If this is true, then the government has an interest in promoting heterosexual marriage: There’s a positive externality.

The last objection is that my argument pro-motes a kangaroo state. Tyranny of the major-ity only exists if the rights of the minority are inhibited. Homosexuals retain all natural and legal rights. A law disallowing homosexuals from owning houses is unconstitutional, but one precluding them from a marriage license isn’t. Homosexuals can engage in a homosex-ual relationship. It is up to the people wheth-er or not that relationship can be defi ned as a marriage.

Lost in this conversation is something far more dangerous. In 2011, President Obama unilaterally decided that DOMA was uncon-stitutional. He then ordered the Department of Justice not to defend DOMA. This strikes at the separation of powers essential to our Constitution. The executive does not have the authority to selectively enforce laws passed by the legislature. His duty is to enforce the law. The real injustice is Obama’s assault on the foundational structure of our government.

This column will certainly be ill received. Disagreement engenders constructive dia-logue. My hope is that supporters of gay mar-riage no longer strawman conservatives as ig-norant, homophobic, Bible thumpers.

Jonathan Zhao is a Trinity freshman. This is his fi nal column of the semester. Jonathan will join the Editorial Board next semester.

Gay marriage isn’t a rightAt times throughout my life, it

served me well to fi nd solace in a prolonged period of silence.

In moments when I thought that it could not possibly get any worse, I would search for the silence neces-sary to offset my deaf-ening thoughts. Such meditation allowed me to confront that which was avoided—to con-sider what I had not considered for preser-vation of my sanity. In fact, this is ex-actly what happened after I found out about the explosions at the Boston Marathon. Only this time, I was angry, and it didn’t seem that the silence of the night or the introspection that ac-companied it would make me feel any better. My thoughts had deafened me, and there was no way of confronting them introspectively without letting them out in the fi rst place.

In spite of our faults, we remain a good friend to the world that we live in. No other country has displayed its commitment to the common good like the United States. We have fought on behalf of other nations, sent our best physicians to heal adversarial leaders, funded efforts to reduce hunger and poverty, and provided the majority of volunteers who risk their lives for in-numerable causes.

There are those who say that we should not intervene in other nations and that we should care for our own na-tion’s wellbeing. But how can a nation founded upon life, liberty and the pur-suit of happiness not ensure that such rights are appreciated throughout the world today? Then again, perhaps we should care only for ourselves if prob-lems like this continue to occur.

Angry, foolish and confused, I con-tinued to release my thoughts into the silence of the night.

When others need help, we are there for them. However, when we are the ones who need help, we are here for ourselves. Why is that? Why is it that we care for the very world that turns its back on us in times of need? When will this world understand that our lives are valued, intertwined and symbiotic? When will this world under-stand that nothing is resolved through death, violence and terrorism? For some reason, I do not care who set up the explosions, because regardless of who they are or where they come from, the result is the same.

For too many, and for too long, to-morrow will not be another day. Beds will not be slept in; dreams will not be achieved; birthdays will not be celebrat-ed; vows will not be made; and thou-sands will mourn the losses of Boston. What’s more, tens of thousands will re-member the Oklahoma City bombing, September 11th, Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora and Newtown. The chil-dren, the mothers and the fathers who decided to do something special in their lives will forever remember the

horrendous events of the day, rather than the excitement and appreciation they should have experienced after

the race.Let them be damned

who end the lives of the innocent. Let them be damned who leave par-ents without children, husbands without wives and cities without citi-zens. Who am I to say that the world is a good place when I have not been affected, person-

ally, by the tragedies of Newtown and Boston, amidst many others? How am I to say that the world is a good place when tragedies, such as those men-tioned above, continue to occur on a regular basis?

At this point, the silence did not prevent my rage or preserve my sanity. It allowed my thoughts to overwhelm me once and for all and replaced my love, intelligence and rationality with hatred, foolishness and confusion. In-stead of strengthening me and com-pelling me to confront my weaknesses, I was rendered frail by the very silence that I sought out in a time of need.

Minutes later, the same silence would lead me to different conclusions.

I immediately remembered the fi rst responders, race participants and volunteers running to the scene in an effort to help. I immediately remem-bered the stories of race participants continuing to run until they arrived at Massachusetts General Hospital, where they willingly donated blood to victims of the explosions. Help was of-fered by many citizens despite numer-ous attempts to prevent them from doing so. People helped others they did not know, and likely never will, precisely because they knew that it was the right thing to do.

We’ve witnessed such occurrences despite the presence of inconceivable tragedies. While there is a propensity to denounce the world as horrible, it is important to remember that, in general, it is not. Every human has a bad side, but very few lend themselves over to it. In fact, our good side al-most always trumps the bad. If we aim for the good in our lives, the balance will remain tipped in our favor. In the end, love always wins. I know this be-cause I trust that God is love, and that such love is eventually impossible to repel. Evil wins only when we stop see-ing love, and in the case when hun-dreds ran to help their fellow Ameri-cans after the explosions, I refuse to stop seeing it.

Let it be known that despite the evil evident in the world today, we, as a nation, will refuse to concede our sight of love in all circumstances, for love is what will keep us strong throughout it all.

Mousa Alshanteer is a Trinity fresh-man. This is his fi nal column of the semes-ter. You can follow Mousa on Twitter @mousaalshanteer.

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whether it is worth pursuing a patent for it.One concern that some faculty, such as Bill Brown, profes-

sor of the practice of law, have is that the OLV may not be prop-erly staffed to adequately handle all the invention disclosure forms that go through the office.

“The University has a problem identifying what’s worth-while and what’s not,” Brown said. “[The OLV] is in a really tough position to take on all these inventions.”

In fiscal year 2012, OLV received a total 214 IDFs, accord-ing to statistics provided by the office. A little more than half of the forms—117—were deemed to have potential in the mar-ket and were moved directly into active marketing mode. For these 117 technologies, Duke claimed intellectual property rights. Approximately 20 percent of the submitted IDFs were evaluated as unsuitable for the market environment and were offered back to the inventors with no claims on the property rights of the inventions. The remaining 25 percent of submit-ted innovations were placed in a strategic hold in which a po-tential product requires further development before patenting and licensing.

Brown suggested that some of the work could be out-sourced to experts in appropriate departments to evaluate the inventions more fairly. That way, good ideas are not lost in a sea of IDFs, he said.

Currently, the OLV has eight full-time employees and three part-time employees that handle the technology transfer pro-cess. Though a larger staff is always advantageous, resources are limited and the OLV is currently capable of handling the volume of IDFs received, said Rose Ritts, executive director of the OLV.

“What I’d like to see is the numbers of disclosures increase,” Ritts said. “That would drive the staff for the OLV to increase as well.”

Arti Rai, professor of law, also expressed some concern about the professional background of the OLV staff and their ability to act as liaisons between inventors and an industry.

“The technology transfer process is best viewed as an oppor-tunity for building relationships with industry,” Rai wrote in an email Tuesday. “Individual faculty members working in a par-ticular field often have the best contacts with a given industry.”

Although faculty members provide a high level of expertise,

quite a few of the OLV staff also hold advanced degrees in the natural sciences that give them technical expertise in their own right, Ritts said. The role of the OLV is to act as a conduit into the market environment.

“What we do is track what’s happening in the market space,” Ritts said. “We do have the technical skills, but the real thing that helps us is the connectivity to a continually changing market.”

She added that the OLV works very closely with the inven-tors themselves, who are usually the most qualified technical experts in most cases.

There may be another misconception about the OLV that has led to perceptions of inadequacy in OLV staff. IDFs are not judged based on how much money they can bring in or how valuable the proposed ideas are, Ritts said. The key is to find a partner willing to pay for this invention to make it to the market.

“The question becomes whether there’s a strategy that has enough of the pieces needed to get a successful licensing agreement,” Ritts said. “As long as we can find a partner, then we move forward, regardless of what the technology is.”

Not an incubatorBecause of the OLV’s strictly technical role in technology

transfer, faculty looking to the office for funds or a nurturing environment will likely be disappointed, Toone noted.

“[The OLV] is not a venture capital fund or an incubator for new inventions and ideas,” Toone said. “Right now, OLV is just a piece of the process.”

The University would benefit from a large central incuba-tor offering guidance on the process of turning inventions into products, Toone added. He pointed to the Duke Translational Research Institute and the Duke Translational Medicine In-stitute as two groups that provide valuable information about how mostly medical innovations fit into the broader market.

Ritts said her greatest frustration is not being able to pro-vide inventors with a nurturing environment.

“Before people even have a working invention, they have a lot of questions and they need mentoring and a community,” Ritts said. “I haven’t had the resources to provide them with that. There are pockets of those resources, but it’s just not enough.”

Experts who study patent policy have argued that Duke may come up short in terms of entrepreneurial atmosphere when

compared to places like Stanford University or the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology. Robert Cook-Deegan, director for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy said that perhaps the question to ask is not what the University is doing wrong, but rather what Stanford and MIT did to get it right.

Toone said, however, that it is not fair to compare Duke to these two schools because the environment surrounding each of the institutions differs too greatly.

“Stanford is in Palo Alto and you have MIT in Boston—half of all the venture money is invested in these two places,” Toone said. “We have Research Triangle Park, but nobody lives there. There are no restaurants, so it’s hard to attract the right people to come here.”

There is plenty of entrepreneurial spirit within the Duke community, but right now, Duke does not have the “critical mass” needed to attract private equity firms or CEOs to the area, Toone noted. Although RTP is gradually becoming more entrepreneurship-friendly, there is still a large gap in the sup-port available for technology transfer programs in the Triangle area relative to Stanford and MIT.

The project will take a hiatus to leave Campus Drive open for traffic during Freshman Move-in in August.

“We’ve been doing a lot of brainstorming, trying to think of every issue, every situation,” Williams said. “Communica-tion is key to get information to the Duke community, so stu-dents, faculty and staff will know how to get to and from East Campus with minimum disruptions.”

The construction wwill also prevent bridge painting by first-year advisory counselors as part of freshman orientation.

“While painting the bridge has definitely always been a valued tradition used to welcome first-years to campus and start fostering some dorm pride, we are excited to work with our FACs and FAC Board to develop a new tradition that can be carried on alongside bridge painting,” senior Derek Lind-sey, co-chair of the FAC Board, wrote in an email. “Luckily, the construction is temporary so the Class of 2017 will still be able to enjoy the use of the bridge while they’re here on campus.”

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