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Duke gets $5M gift for athleticsBoard to discuss tuition, Duke Forward, value of higher ed

Admins weigh SLG impact

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Mason Plumlee recorded his 15th double-double of the season as Duke earned its biggest win in ACC play this season. See story page 5.

SLAM DUNK: Duke routs Virginia Tech 88-56

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McClendon cleared of wrongdoing

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by Julian SpectorTHE CHRONICLE

The University announced a major gift to athletics on the eve of the latest Board of Trustees meeting.

Roy and Merilee Bostock, who graduated from Duke in 1962, committed to a $5 mil-lion gift to fund facilities upgrades for Duke Athletics. The announcement comes as the Trustees are convening to discuss a tuition increase and the promotion of two areas of study: international comparative studies and neurology. The Trustees will also spend time in an interactive seminar “retreat” on the topic of the value of higher education.

Bostock came to Duke on a football scholarship and earned varsity letters in both football and baseball. He also graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English.

“I chose Duke because I thought it had the right balance between academics and athletics... I wanted to play Division I foot-ball and still have a very strong academic experience,” he said. “I look on Duke Ath-letics and particularly Duke football as giv-ing me a huge opportunity to succeed going forward.”

The gift will go into a $100 million fund for improvements to athletic facilities, particularly Wallace Wade Stadium and Cameron Indoor Stadium. President Rich-ard Brodhead asked Bostock to lead this initiative as part of the $3.25 billion Duke Forward capital campaign, Bostock noted, adding that the athletics fund has gathered commitments totalling nearly a third of that so far. Both Trustee David Rubenstein, Trin-ity ’70, and Dr. Steven Scott and his wife Rebecca have committed $10 million to the athletics facilities campaign.

The upgrades will focus on the two rev-enue sports, men’s basketball and football, with the goal of making Duke more compet-itive in attracting recruits and fans, Bostock said. By optimizing these facilities, Duke will be better able to “pay the bills” for other sports.

“Wallace Wade is essentially the same facil-ity I played in almost 50 years ago,” he said. “In order to compete in Division I athletics today, you have got to have great facilities.”

As a student, Bostock had to balance academics with practice for two sports. The experience as a scholar-athlete taught him a lot about personal discipline, he said.

“As a freshman, all I did was play foot-ball, played baseball and studied in Perkins

An independent investigation of Aubrey McClendon initiated by Chesa-peake Energy Corp. absolved the CEO of any “intentional” wrongdoing.

McClendon, Trinity ’81, was ac-cused of unethical business practices

last Spring. The alle-gations stemmed from Reuters reports noting that McClendon bor-rowed against his stake in the company’s oil and gas reserves. The news led to internal, state and federal inves-tigations. The inter-nal review, conducted by Locke Lord Bissell

and Liddell LLP law firm, spanned 10 months and concluded Wednesday. McClendon will step down as CEO April 1, citing “certain philosophical differences” with the company’s board of directors.

“The review of the financing ar-

rangements did not reveal any im-proper benefit to Mr. McClendon or increased cost to the company as a result of the overlap in the financial relationships,” the company said in a statement.

The aim of the review was to investi-gate McClendon’s use of minority stakes in Chesapeake-owned wells as collateral for his personal loans. Additionally, the investigation found that McClen-don did not violate antitrust laws when Chesapeake acquired rights to drilling a shale formation in Michigan.

According to Chesapeake’s state-ment, the review process included more than 50 interviews with executives from Chesapeake and other companies, but the company did not release a full re-port of its investigation.

Although the internal review is over, investigations by the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Securities and Ex-change Commission are ongoing to ex-amine McClendon’s financial transac-

tions and possible antitrust violations. Some analysts said Wednesday that

the outcome of the Chesapeake investi-gation does not necessarily reflect what federal and state probes will find.

“A finding of ‘no intentional mis-conduct’ still does not mean there was no misconduct,” Mark Hanson, an oil and gas analyst at Morningstar, Inc. told Reuters. “I think just the appearance of impropriety should be avoided, and I think that certainly wasn’t the case for either McClendon or the former board.”

To date, he and his wife, Katie, Trin-ity ’80, have donated approximately $16 million to Duke. Their contributions have funded the Bryan Center Plaza and McClendon Tower.

McClendon is also on the Duke For-ward Campaign Steering Committee, a group of 22 alumni charged with lead-ing Duke’s goal of obtaining $3.25 bil-lion in contributions by June 2017.

—from Staff Reports

by Callie Gable THE CHRONICLE

Selective organizations can present pos-itive and negative aspects of Duke social culture, depending on the role they play in students’ lives, administrators said.

At a panel discussion Thursday eve-ning, some 50 students gathered in the Gothic Reading Room for a discussion about the selective nature of the greek community, selective living groups and other University organizations. Moder-ated by Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate education, and Gary Glass, assistant director for outreach and developmental programming for Coun-seling and Psychological Services, the pair engaged with students—including members of selective living groups and greek life in addition to those unaffiliat-ed—in a conversation about the selective processes that impact students and the campus as a whole.

The intent of the discussion—named “The Science of Selection”— was to bring together abstract ideas and present them on a “peer-to-peer” level, said senior Emily McGinty, a member of Team Kenan, a stu-dent group that works to highlight ethical issues in everyday student life.

The pressure put upon new members to

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by Emma BaccellieriTHE CHRONICLE

A bi-annual variety show benefitting Tri-angle area charities is the brainchild of a Duke grad who has applied his entrepre-neurial talents to nonprofit work.

Jay Miller, Trinity ’80, established the Shared Visions Foundation in 2002, after selling his chain of local music stores to focus on his passion for helping others. Shared Visions serves as a resource for local nonprofits by providing monetary grants and hosting events—including the Murphey School Radio Show, an old-time variety show-style performance, which Shared Visions will host for the fifth time this Saturday.

“The twist on the show is the fact that we actually use the entertainment to raise funds for the local community,” Miller said.

The show, which will take place at the Shared Visions Retreat Center, will benefit two local organizations—SEEDS, an educa-tional community garden, and Book Har-vest, which gives books to underprivileged children. The performance will feature lo-cal actors and musicians.

In 2007, Miller purchased Durham’s historic Murphey School, which was built in 1923 but had since fallen into disre-pair. Miller saw a chance to help the com-munity and restore a piece of history to

its former glory. After two years of reno-vations, the school became the Shared Visions Retreat Center. The center now serves as a home for several nonprofit or-ganizations as well as a venue for chari-table events.

The auditorium, which was added to school in 1935, inspired the show, Miller said.

“When you’re in that space, you start thinking about what people did for enter-tainment in 1935,” Miller said. “And it was radio.”

Although much of the show centers on the entertainment, the focus will remain on the charities, Miller said.

“We’re thrilled to be participating,” said Ginger Young, Book Harvest execu-tive director. “We’re so proud of Murphey School. Everyone there is just dynamite.”

Miller had his sights set on law school after graduating Duke as a history major within three years. After taking what was intended to be a temporary job at the Mu-sic Loft, a local music store off of Ninth Street, Miller realized he would rather pursue music. Choosing to stay in Dur-ham, Miller bought the Music Loft and several other music shops. He sold his music store chain, but still draws upon his experience as a musical entrepreneur to

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This refurbished 1935 performance hall in Durham’s historic Murphey School will host a variety show this weekend that will benefit local charities.

by Ryan ZhangTHE CHRONICLE

Academic Council members added their input to an increasingly prominent debate over the role of online technology in educa-tion at their meeting Thursday.

The second part of a three-part series recognizing the council’s 50th anniversa-ry—Council Conversations—focused on the burgeoning influence of technology on shaping the future of education. Peter Burian, dean of the humanities and profes-sor of classical and comparative literature and theater studies, moderated a discussion that touched on the advent of massive open online courses—such as those held on 2u and Coursera, both of which Duke uses—among other topics involving technology in the classroom.

“Education for young people is more than what they get in the classroom,” said Dr. Brenda Armstrong, associate dean of medical education and director of admis-sions for the School of Medicine. “It’s edu-cation by example in many cases. It’s how you integrate into a community and how you communicate... the notion of leader-ship.”

Burian asked a panel of three faculty members, including Armstrong, whether or not Duke instructors should integrate new educational technology into their classes.

“It’s not so much a ‘should’ question, as simply an ‘are’ question,” said Ian Baucom, professor of English and director of the Franklin Humanities Institute. “It’s emerg-ing organically. I don’t know colleagues who are not in some ways rethinking their classes.”

Mohamed Noor, professor and associ-ate chair of biology, taught 30,000 students through his Coursera course, Genetics and Evolution, last semester. This semes-ter, Duke students enrolled in his classes are participating in a “flipped classroom” approach, which involves students watch-ing pre-recorded lectures before class in order to hold advanced discussions dur-

ing class. The novel approach has resulted in bet-

ter discussions and exceptionally high mid-term grades, Noor said.

“Now we’re spending a lot of time on ad-vanced problems with the assumption that they know the basic concepts. I can spend class time actually interacting with them in-stead of talking at them,” he noted.

The increased workload brought about by the video lectures is a concern, Noor said, adding that instructors should attempt to alleviate this burden where they can.

Another concern was that online course-work could erode the sense of community fostered by personal interactions between peers and faculty.

Baucom mentioned his freshman semi-nar last Fall—a class in which 15 students read novels, held discussions and wrote es-says—as an example of a course that would be considerably less effective if taught on-line.

Joshua Socolar, professor of physics, pointed out that younger students have grown up accustomed to the globalization brought about by rapidly advancing tech-nology.

“Reproducing the conditions that worked for us may not be the best thing for this generation,” he added.

In response, Armstrong acknowledged the generational differences, but noted that technology should be complementary to education, not a driving force.

“There are some aspects of human inter-actions that have not changed,” Armstrong said. “Those are not negotiable.”

In other businessProvost Peter Lange addressed faculty

concerns raised after the recent announce-ment of the delayed opening of Duke Kun-shan University, as well as increased fund-ing for construction oversight.

The delay will not cause any financial

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Members of the Duke community who commute on their bicycles eat breakfast at the Fuqua School of Business Thursday for Green Week.

Bike to breakfastIran sends mixed signals about nuclear weapons

by Joby WarrickTHE WASHINGTON POST

Days before the start of crucial talks with world powers, Iran appears to be simultane-ously hitting the gas and brake pedals on its nuclear program, speeding up production of enriched uranium while limiting its stockpile of the type of fuel that could be easily con-verted for use in atomic bombs, U.N. officials said in a new report.

International inspectors who visited Iran’s nuclear facilities last month confirmed that Tehran has begun installing hundreds of second-generation centrifuges that could dramatically increase its capacity to produce enriched uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report leaked to jour-nalists Thursday.

The new IR-2m machines are four times as productive as Iran’s existing centrifuges, which convert uranium gas into the enriched fuel that can be used in civilian power plants or nuclear weapons, intelligence officials and nuclear experts say.

Iran told the IAEA last month that it in-tended to install the more powerful machines, prompting warnings from Western govern-ments that Tehran is moving rapidly toward a nuclear-weapons capability. On Thursday, the Obama administration said Iran’s latest advance, while expected, was provocative.

“The fact remains that the installation of new advanced centrifuges would be a fur-ther escalation, and a continuing violation of Iran’s obligations,” State Department spokes-woman Victoria Nuland told reporters.

But IAEA inspectors also reported new evidence that Iran is deliberately capping

its uranium stockpile, perhaps to ease West-ern anxieties ahead of nuclear talks that are scheduled to begin next week in Kazakhstan. The nuclear watchdog noted that Iran had resumed converting some of its enriched uranium into metal fuel plates, rendering the material all but useless for weapons pur-poses.

Significantly, the type of uranium being converted to metal is enriched to 20 percent purity. It is considered particularly sensitive because it can be easily converted to weapons-grade fuel. Iran has, so far, kept its stockpile of this form of uranium below 550 pounds, the amount that would be needed, in theory, to make a single nuclear bomb.

In another possible sign of deliberate slowing, IAEA inspectors confirmed that Iran still has not begun operating hundreds of centrifuges installed recently at its newest uranium-enrichment plant, a facility built in-side a mountain near the city of Qom.

Some Western officials and diplomats in-terpreted Iran’s mixed signals as a negotiat-ing ploy ahead of next week’s nuclear talks. On Tuesday, Iranian officials are scheduled to begin negotiations in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with representatives of the United States and five other world powers on proposed limits to Iran’s nuclear program.

“We’ve seen this before, that in advance of diplomatic rounds there are new announce-ments of activity,” Nuland said. “It doesn’t make it any easier to get where we want to go.”

The six-party negotiating bloc, known as

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fit in can often replace an individual’s per-sonal convictions with those of the group, Glass noted.

“People lose their own unique perspec-tive of ‘I do it this way,’ ‘I like it that way,’” he said. “And group think takes over.”

January is a “tragic time” on East Cam-pus because the community becomes divid-ed when tenting season physically removes students from campus, and the conversa-tions become focused on the drama sur-rounding fraternities and sororities, Lisker said.

Both speakers acknowledged the value of having smaller communities for students to belong to, but Glass lamented that many students “forget who they are” in the pro-cess of forming such groups.

The struggles of students who join selec-tive organizations often go unaddressed, Lisker noted.

“[Students become] uncomfortable because they are being asked to behave in ways that are completely different from their personal values,” she said.

Glass noted that although selection is common among universities, there is a unique element of fear associated with the process at Duke. Fear of not finding a group leads students to join even if they don’t have a “strong identification” with that particular organization, he added.

The timing of the rush process at the be-ginning of the Spring semester has been a subject of scrutiny, Lisker added.

“[By having rush in January], first-year students can form a community before they make those decisions,” Lisker said.

She noted that there has been consider-ation of moving rush to sophomore year to prolong the “East Campus experience” and allow students more time before commit-

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Team Kenan member Gayle Powell, a freshman, introduces a panel of administrators at a discussion about social groups’ selection processes Thursday.

ting to an organization for three years.When asked what the University would

look like without the rush process, selec-tive living groups and greek organizations, Glass simply replied that Duke would re-semble the East Campus atmosphere—a random mix of students rather than sepa-ration by group.

Nonetheless, selective grouping has many positive aspects. Citing the recent protests to Kappa Sigma fraternity’s In-ternational Relations party, Glass said he

believes grouping has resulted in students becoming more vocal about their views.

Lisker added that groups provide stu-dents a sense of comfort and belonging that is integral to their development as a student and individual.

But as important as the groups seem to students during their time at the Univer-sity, their significance tends to fade after graduation, Lisker noted.

“You just become about Duke,” she added.

Freshman Abhi Sanka, a member of Duke Student Government’s residential life committee, noted that the event was candid and informative, adding that he attended the event in hope of exploring ways to increase identity for independent houses on campus.

“The question is not ‘is it good to have selection or not,’ but how to use the intel-ligence that gained you entrance at a uni-versity like this to be wise about your selec-tion,” Glass said.

SHOOTIN’ PAST THE HOKIES

Blue Devils take on two ranked ACC foesWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

by Jackie KlaubergTHE CHRONICLE

Last time the No. 5 Blue Devils took the floor, things were different—Chelsea Gray was in the starting lineup. But the junior will be sidelined for the rest of the season after dislocating her right knee-cap in the team’s 81-70 win against Wake Forest last weekend.

Duke will need to adjust quickly this weekend, taking on on No. 19 Florida State (20-5, 10-4) Friday night at home and then playing No. 8 Maryland (21-4, 12-2) Sun-day.

Florida State features a well-balanced at-tack that currently leads the conference in scoring offense, averaging 79.7 points per game. Duke ranks second at 76.4 points per game. Duke, however, ranks first in the conference in scoring defense, hold-ing its opponents to 50.3 points per game. The Seminoles yield 65.5 points per game, fourth-worst in the ACC.

The Seminoles come to Durham after tak-ing down No. 14 North Carolina in Tallahas-see, Fla. last weekend. The victory marked the first time Florida State has beaten a top 15 team in the country since 2010.

After Friday night’s game, the Blue Dev-ils will travel to No. 8 Maryland to take on the revenge-seeking Terrapins, who Duke defeated 71-56 last Monday. Maryland will look to junior Alyssa Thomas to come up big against the Blue Devils. Thomas is aver-aging a double-double with 17.4 points and

10.4 rebounds per game. Maryland head coach Brenda Frese praised the All-Ameri-can’s poise and leadership on the floor for the Terrapins.

“She is the most competitive player I have ever coached, which says a lot in terms of all the talented players I have coached…This season, what specifically stands apart is her leadership,” Frese said. “She has a tremen-dous hold on the game and can do whatever we need her to fit in, she brings her double doubles about every game.”

Last time the teams faced off, Thomas re-corded a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds. In that game, Gray came up

big for Duke, amassing 28 points along with four steals in her 34 minutes on the court.

When asked about the impact of Gray’s absence this time the teams meet, Frese offered her sincerest condolences on the injury.

“When I heard it and watched it, our hearts go out to her and the Duke team.” Frese said. “Chelsea is an outstanding play-er….We had [the same injury] happen to one of our players, Tierney [Pfirman].”

Although Duke’s standout point guard will not be on the floor Sunday, Frese knows that Duke will still present a formidable chal-lenge because of its depth that is capable of

replacing Gray.“It’s tough when that happens, we have

also faced injuries.... [Duke] will find a way to adjust. They have a roster full of All-Amer-icans that will step up and play for her…They will develop their team further…other people will have to really step up and fill Chelsea’s void.”

Last time the Blue Devils tipped off against the Terrapins, an extremely pas-sionate Frese was ejected from the game after growing increasingly frustrated with the referees during the game. Frese was thrown out of the game after being as-sessed a double technical foul late in the second half. The double-technical marked the coach’s first ejection of her 14-year career.

“There was a lot of adversity in that game,” Frese said. “I am disappointed at the outcome there. Any time I see a play that was an illegal play that could have injured our players, I am going to fight for us…[Me being ejected definitely] turned the game, but that’s out of our control.”

And for a Duke team that is now fighting adversity of its own, players such as Chloe Wells, Alexis Jones and Richa Jackson will have to step up in place of Gray.

“It hurt us a little bit but we have to bounce back, we have no choice but to bounce back,” Jackson said. “We have some-thing to play for…. Us coming together and playing for her, I think that’ll make her hap-py and us as well.”

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Tricia Liston has thrived for Duke and now may have to carry more of the weight in Gray’s absence.

Curry makes his dad’s home his own

Outside shooting sets up Duke for victory

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Seth Curry hit 5-of-6 3-pointers, leading Duke to a 12-for-17 performance from beyond the arc.

by Brady BuckTHE CHRONICLE

BLACKSBURG, Va.—Senior shooting guard Seth Curry was in a familiar arena Thursday night—Cassell Coliseum, where his father Dell played for four years. And after Seth drilled his first shot, everyone in attendance could sense the sharpshooter’s extra sense of comfort as Duke’s lead be-came comfortable early and stayed that way the entire night.

“It’s always good to come back here where my dad played and get a win,” Cur-ry said. “Whenever I make my first shot it gives me a lot of confidence. I was getting good shots.”

Thursday night at Virginia Tech, No. 6 Duke (23-3, 10-3 in the ACC) easily disposed of the ACC-bottom dwelling Hokies (11-15, 2-11) 88-56—thanks in a large part to the red-hot Curry.

“I thought [Curry] let the game come to him,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “That first half display was sensational—one of the better ones. We needed that.”

Coming out of the gates on fire, Curry made himself at home with his family in at-tendance for his last game in Blacksburg. He scored 19 of his team-high 22 points in the first half, going 5-of-6 on three-pointers.

Quick whistles throughout the contest

by Karl KingmaTHE CHRONICLE

BLAKCSBURG, Va.—A common critique of the Blue Devils is their vulnerability to, as the old saying goes, die by the three. But No. 6 Duke was able to live by the three against Virginia Tech, hitting 12-of-17 from beyond the arc en route to an 88-56 victory at Cassell Coliseum.

Seth Curry, playing under the commemo-rative banner of his father Dell, led the Blue Devils 3-point barrage, going 5-for-6 from beyond the arc. Rasheed Sulaimon and Tyler Thornton were also deadly from long-range, going a combined 5-for-7.

Facing a hailstorm of long-range jumpers, Virginia Tech head coach James Johnson’s de-fense was forced to extend out from the bas-ket, leaving the Hokies vulnerable to Duke’s inside play.

“Whenever we make shots, that makes their defense come out and double-team pick-and-rolls and things like that,” Curry said. “Our big men did a good job of finishing today.”

Deep shooting wasn’t Duke’s only source of life as Mason Plumlee and Josh Hairston took advantage of Virginia Tech’s spaced defense. Plumlee secured his 15th double-double of the season with 13 points and 12 rebounds, while Hairston racked up his second-consec-utive 11-point performance.

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by Lopa RahmanTHE CHRONICLE

For the fourth year in a row, Penn will open its season against Duke.

The No. 13 Blue Devils (2-2), who defeated the Quakers (0-0) in two of the teams’ last three meetings, will make their first road trip of the year to Philadelphia Friday.

“We’ve had this game circled on our calendars since last season ended,” Penn senior captain Tim Schwalje said. “For us, there’s no better way to start our season than against a team like Duke that always makes a run in May.”

The Blue Devils’ season has been underway for two weeks, and their con-secutive two-game weekends included two matchups against highly-ranked

opponents. The Quakers, on the other hand, have yet to com-pete in a game this year. This discrepancy has both positive and negative implications, Penn head coach Mike Murphy noted.

“It’s a double-edged sword on both sides,” he said. “Duke has the advantage of having played four games and ironing out its early-season wrinkles. We have the advantage of having seen them play and scouting them a little bit, whereas they don’t have much of an idea of who we are.”

Last weekend, the Blue Devils were handed a 13-5 loss by No. 3 Notre Dame Saturday before rebounding in a 15-3 blow-out win against Mercer Sunday. A slow start against the Fight-ing Irish doomed Duke, which lost to No. 11 Denver the week before, giving the team a 0-2 record against ranked opponents this season.

“How much better we’ve been from when we played Den-ver to now… I’d like to think we’re much better,” Blue Devil junior Brendan Fowler said.

Fowler’s standout play was on display in Duke’s first two weekends of action. The midfielder boasts a 65.6 faceoff per-centage and has scooped up 40 ground balls. Blue Devil head coach John Danowski has cautioned the team against relying too heavily on Fowler, noting the importance of helping him on the wing. Fowler credited sophomores Brian Dailey and Will Haus, junior Luke Duprey and senior Greg DeLuca for their strong wing play.

When Duke and Penn met last year, the Blue Devils took down the Quakers 12-8. Extra-man goals accounted for five of Penn’s tallies against Duke, which racked up a season-high 10 penalties in a messy game. The Quakers’ leading scorers from last season, John Conneely and Dan Savage, combined for six goals, but the duo graduated last year.

Penn will look to Schwalje and fellow senior Ryan Parietti, who scored 18 and 16 goals last season, respectively, to spear-head the offense. After relatively quiet freshmen and sopho-more campaigns, the attackmen had breakout junior seasons.

The Quakers are hopeful that sophomores and juniors with unimpressive stat lines last year will exhibit an elevated level of play when they kick off their season Friday. Defensively, the Quakers know their first test—against the Blue Devils’ experi-enced starting attack line of juniors Jordan Wolf, Josh Dionne and Christian Walsh—will be a tough one.

“Duke has a great attack that has played together for a few years, but our defense has been watching film, working hard and getting ready to play,” Schwalje said. “Hopefully [the at-tack] is one of the strong points of [the Blue Devils] that we can stop.”

Wolf, who leads Duke in scoring with 13 goals, has three four-goal games this season. The attackman notched a hat trick against the Quakers in last season’s matchup.

“We hope he doesn’t score four goals against us,” Murphy said. “We will do our best to minimize his clean looks at the goal and his ability to create offense.”

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Brendan Fowler has won 65.6 percent of his faceoffs this season for Duke and has led the Blue Devils on the wing.

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After dropping two of three games to No. 17 Florida, Duke will look to rebound against Bucknell for the Blue Devils’ first home series of 2013.

The Blue Devils (1-2) take Jack Coombs Field this weekend having faced a baseball powerhouse in the Gators to open their season. Although Florida outscored Duke 23-13, head coach

Chris Pollard believes that, despite the lopsided score, his team’s road trip was a success.

“We don’t want to do a whole lot dramatically different [against Buck-nell],” Pollard said. “There are a lot of positives to take from the series, and I think we’ve had a good week of prac-tice. I think you benefit from seeing the quality of players we saw down there in Florida.”

A highlight of the weekend was the offensive prowess of Mike Rosenfeld. The junior catcher was named captain at the start of the season, and he hit .455 against the Gators and com-piled an .818 slugging percentage.

“It didn’t come as a huge surprise to me to see Mike go out there and have that type of weekend, seeing as he’s swung the bat well ever since I got here,” Pollard said. “He’s been having those kind of at-bats consistently. That’s why he’s in the three-hole, and that’s why he’ll stay there.”

Rosenfeld is followed in Duke’s lineup by redshirt sopho-more Chris Marcocini and junior Jordan Betts, and the three went a combined 10-for-31 in the middle of the lineup against the Gators. Marcocini’s addition to the lineup is especially im-portant to the Blue Devils, as he continues to return to form after taking last season off due to injury. As the designated hit-ter, Marcocini went 0-for-3 on Friday before belting a two-run home run Saturday and notching two more RBIs Sunday.

“Chris has really only been fully cleared for a matter of weeks, so every day he comes out he’s been further along… and gets better every time,” Pollard said. “You could see even throughout the weekend in Florida he got more and more comfortable each game.”

Bucknell (0-3) comes to Durham led by a duo of senior

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infielders, second baseman Travis Clark and shortstop Robb Scott. Clark led the team with a .364 batting average during their first series against Richmond, while Scott knocked the first home run of his career.

“[Scott] is a very good player,” Pollard said. “He’s gotten better each year, he’s a three-hole guy in their lineup, and he’s a key to their offense.”

Pollard also compared the Bison to his squad—both have freshman making an instant impact. Those include Bucknell relievers Max Kra and Austin Zimmerman, who pitched 4.2 scoreless innings during the second game of the series.

“They’ve got some young guys that are athletic and that can run, so they try to put some pressure on you with their bunt game and run game,” Pollard said. “They’re just like us in that they’re trying to integrate some new faces into the equation, and they’re a work in progress.”

Pollard will look to keep adjusting his team’s offense against Bucknell, while tightening up their defense and pitching. His message, however, is the same as it has been all season: To live in the moment and treat every pitch as its own game.

“It’s simple: You compete one pitch at a time, and that’s what we’re trying to do against Bucknell,” Pollard said. “It was a fun road trip [last weekend], but it was a tiring trip and a hard trip. Our guys have had a week to get fresh and get rested, and I think they’re looking forward to playing in front of our home Duke crowd.”

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Two of the top teams in the nation will collide in Col-lege Park as No. 7 Duke will look to remain undefeated against an also undefeated No. 4 Maryland team Sunday at 1 p.m. at Maryland’s Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex.

The Blue Devils (4-0, 1-0 in the ACC) have been led by senior at-tacker Makenzie Hommel this sea-son. Hommel has been Duke’s main offensive force, leading the Blue Devils in goals for three of their first four games. She has already scored 13 goals, more than half of what she totaled last season.

“It’s never a mindset. It’s just kind of the way the game unfolds and how

we’re working together on any given day,” Hommel said. “Every game, we’ve had multiple scorers, and every one of those scorers have scored multiple goals.”

It has not been all offense, though. The Blue Devil defense has kept opponents at bay, most notably notching a shutout against Presbyterian in their second game of the season. This suffocating defense has led to Duke forcing 53 turnovers, which has kept their opponents to attempting a mere 12.8 shots per game, opposed to the Blue Devils’ 38.5.

“Most of the game is mental,” Hommel said. “You just need to stay focused.”

Duke’s first four games have been blowout victories, out-scoring their opponents 73-27. This trend will not be likely to continue, as the Terrapins are a much higher quality team than those the Blue Devils have faced thus far.

Duke has already beaten Virginia Tech in the ACC this year, but this will be the team’s first road game.

“It’s a new time for our freshman to be on the road for the first time and get acclimated for themselves,” Hommel said.

“It’s just a learning experience, just as everything else is.”Conversely, Maryland (2-0) will have its first home game

of the season and will do so on a hot streak after its two impressive victories. Last Sunday, senior midfielder Katie Schwarzmann led the Terrapins to a dominant 19-11 victory against No. 2 Syracuse. Schwarzmann scored a career-high seven goals in the contest, with five of them coming in the

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decisive second half against the Orange.Duke, by contrast, has yet to play a top

foe. So far this season, the Blue Devils’ first four opponents have a combined re-cord of 2-11.

Although Maryland has only played two games, the contest against Syracuse helped to prove early on that they have not fallen off since last season when they reached the NCAA semifinals.

“Our coach always tells us to go in—nameless, faceless opponent. I know it sounds cliche but you just need to do that. You don’t need to worry about the name on someone’s jersey,” Hommel said. “You just have to go in there and know what you’re

capable of doing and what your teammates are capable of doing.”

Sunday’s matchup will be one of the ear-ly premier matchups of conference play—the only other ACC team in the top 10 is North Carolina at No. 5.

But the success of the two schools will no longer make for intriguing regular season matchups after next season, with Maryland leaving the ACC for the Big Ten.

The players are aware that this could be one of the team’s final trips to Col-lege Park.

“I think it’s just always exciting to play an ACC team, in-conference game. Espe-cially now because [Maryland is leaving the ACC],” Hommel said. “It’s just exciting to be able to play them and play such great competition.”

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resulted in Blue Devil point guard Quinn Cook sitting on the bench for most the first half with three fouls. With Cook riding the pine, Curry helped pick up the slack with his ex-ceptional offensive output that allowed Duke to go into the locker room at halftime with a 20-point advantage—a lead that would never be challenged. Steady play from reserve guard Tyler Thornton—who finished with six points and zero turnovers—helped ensure that Duke’s cushion would never be in danger.

Curry was not alone on his field day from downtown. The entire Duke backcourt got it going from distance Thursday night. The unit shot 12-of-17 from beyond the arc—includ-ing 8-of-9 in the first half.

Due to a smothering Duke defense, the Hokies, on the other hand, could not buy a bucket from 3-point range and finished the night a paltry 1-of-16.

“We just wanted to get after them defensively,” freshman guard Rasheed Sulaimon said. “We wanted to make it dif-ficult for them and wear them down.”

Like most opponents this year, Duke struggled to contain Hokie guard Erick Green, but limited him enough to keep the score lopsided all night. Virginia Tech’s only source of reliable offense came from the veteran Green—the leading scorer in the conference—who netted 22 points on 8-of-14 shooting, de-spite being the focal point of the Blue Devil defense.

“He’s a terrific player,” said Sulaimon, who guarded Green much of the night along with Curry and Thornton. “He had me gassed. It was a team effort. He’s a great player, and it took all of us to slow him down.”

Benefitting from a tightly called ball game, and to com-plement its prolific 3-point shooting, the Blue Devils hit 16-of-21 free throws.

Rebounding from his worst performance of the season in a loss at Maryland on Saturday, senior center Mason Plumlee got back on track. Virginia Tech had no answer for the 6-foot-10 ACC Player of the Year hopeful, who did not get as many touches as usual due to the perimeter’s prolific performance. Plumlee was efficient and active throughout the contest, finishing with 13 points and 12 rebounds.

Sulaimon has been tremendous following Duke’s first two losses—averaging 20 points coming into Thursday night. The youngster from Texas continued that strong bounce-back play with 17 points against the Hokies.

Similar to Curry, junior forward Josh Hairston looked comfortable. Playing in his home state and getting the start-

The Blue Devils outside shooting frustrated the Hokie de-fense, but it was the inside-outside combination that put Vir-ginia Tech away.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski noted how the team’s outside shooting opened up new opportunities for Duke’s big men to flourish, especially in the second half.

“We just gave a different avenue for the ball to go in, rath-er than keeping it all out on the perimeter,” Krzyzewski said. “[Plumlee] was playing so well, he needed to touch the ball. They kind of really went all after Seth in the second half, which opened up some drives for us.”

Those drives, in turn, opened up more outside shots for the Blue Devil backcourt. When Virginia Tech tried to clamp down inside, the Duke big men took what the defense gave them and found shooters.

Plumlee finished with five assists, four of which were on 3-pointers.

“I thought we kicked the ball really well,” Krzyzewski said. “Rasheed had a very quiet 17…a few of those were off of kicks that guys made.”

Balanced, inside-out play might not even have been the best facet of the Blue Devils’ play Thursday. The team’s defense yielded just 56 points, Duke’s best defensive performance since giving up 40 points to Clemson Jan. 8.

Erick Green, the ACC’s leading scorer, scored 22 points, below his average of 25.3 per game entering play. Krzyzewski acknowledged that defense had been a point of emphasis in this week’s practices.

“We worked a lot on our defense, and I thought it paid off today,” Krzyzewski said. “We played outstanding defense.”

Virginia Tech came out early pushing the ball in search of easy buckets, but Duke used fullcourt, man-to-man pressure to control the pace, keeping the ball away from Green and tiring out the Hokie shooters.

“Their pressure on the defensive end took us out of our game early and took us out of our execution early”, Johnson said. “We didn’t respond well to that, and we dug ourselves into a hole and weren’t able to get out of that.”

Coming off a discouraging two-point loss to Maryland, Duke controlled every facet of the game.

Whether the Blue Devils will be able to replicate such a per-formance against tougher competition remains to be seen, but the team will likely draw momentum from a 32-point rout.

“We stayed steady the whole time,” Krzyzewski said. “I’m proud of my guys.”

ing nod, Hairston tallied 11 points for the second consecu-tive game.

“Josh has been terrific,” Krzyzewski said. “He played like a true veteran tonight.”

Following the game, Krzyzewski indicated that senior for-ward Ryan Kelly, who has been out for several weeks with a foot injury, is making progress toward a late-season return.

“Yesterday [Kelly] ran for 15 minutes in the pool, and he’s off completely of crutches,” Krzyewski said. “He’s do-ing a lot of physical stuff with his hips, leg and core with medicine balls and things like that. He’s sore, but his foot is not sore. So, we’re more optimistic. Again, no timetable, but it’s moving. It’s moving in the right direction. Now we believe we are going to get him back. And it’s just a matter of when.”

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Last summer, I studied abroad at Oxford. Feel-ing the urge to be obnoxiously stereotypical, I decided to take a Shakespeare class.

My craving for a quintessentially British experience was satisfi ed, and then some.

The classroom was the professor’s offi ce, and its walls were lined with fl oor-to-ceiling bookcases that broke only for the fi replace. They were fi lled to the brim, and extra books were stacked in random piles on the ground. The man who occupied that offi ce was a caricature of a bumbling professor. He had a quirky sense of humor and a love of minutia. He often took us on extended verbal journeys during which he inevitably forgot his intended destination.

One such rant began when, in a response to a question about how we were doing, a classmate of mine answered, “Good.”

That was a bad idea. For 20 minutes: “Good … good. What an interesting word!

“Good” used to have such an important meaning—is it not an idea that provides the basis for all moral action? And now we use it innocuously without thinking! And isn’t it sad, really, that words can lose their potency like that, or even morph into some-thing else entirely? Take the word “anon.” In Shake-speare’s day, of course, it used to mean “Right now, this very second,” and now it means something like, “In a while, please!” Ridiculous!

That rant (one of many) did not seem particularly signifi cant to me at the time. As comments made by crazy but ingenious bumbling professors tend to do, however, it came back to me months later, after I had left the cozy world of British academia to return to a United States consumed by the 2012 election brawls.

And I observed: The word “freedom” is thrown around these days with a nonchalance reminiscent my friend’s “good,” and in the process its meaning has been similarly skewed.

“Freedom” is the favorite buzzword of conserva-tives. While liberals often use language that appeals to equality (“for all people,” “the 1 percent,”), con-servatives often appeal to the concept of freedom to promote a lack of government intervention.

And that’s what freedom has come to mean: a lack of government intervention in our lives. We are free, we are told, except where the law con-strains us. Thus, conservatives have become the freedom-lovers, while liberals simply hold other ideals in higher esteem.

But that modern understanding cheapens the idea of freedom. Freedom does not mean being free from the constraints of government. Freedom

means being free of all constraints, so that we are at liberty to do as we choose.

Thus, enslavement can take on many different guises, and the whip forcing us to comply may not be fear of the pow-ers of government.

Is the person free who works 12-hour days at a miserable job she can-not quit because she would lose the healthcare benefi ts that cover the treatment of a daughter with leuke-mia? Is the person free who is forced into inhospitable working conditions yet is prohibited by threat of fi ring to join with others to collectively bar-

gain for better treatment? Is the person free who has no choice of product because monopolies have been allowed to develop? Is the person free who needs money for food, and thus succumbs to a loan shark with ever-increasing, ever-more impossible de-mands? Is your mother free, working overtime dur-ing the holidays to pay for your student loan?

I do not mean to say that laws cannot be the shackles that bind our hands. I do not even mean to say that measures taken by the government to pro-hibit scenarios like the above from occurring never inhibit freedom. I only mean to take the defi nition of the word “freedom” back to where it started and reclaim it as an ideal that can be championed by both political parties.

The freest people I’ve ever met live in Sweden. Though their tax rates would make a conserva-tive balk, the average citizen never acts out of fear of hunger or illness or the inability to send their children to school. They have long vacations and breaks, and many average citizens have money for a second home, usually a modest summer cottage in the archipelago.

Are we freer than the Swedish? That is a worthy debate. After all, they do have less choice. They don’t get to choose how to spend a larger portion of their money, and they have less choice in things like universities, none of which are as impressive as the universities in the United States. But framing the debate in terms of freedom on both sides means that we are once again speaking the same language, once again arguing from united ideals.

Conservatives and liberals often seem these days to be fundamentally different beings, philosophi-cally irreconcilable. I don’t agree. Once we truly examine ourselves, we realize that we all—liberals and conservatives, Ayn Rand and Karl Marx—just want to be free.

Let’s start with that.

Ellie Schaack is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Friday.

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Keep life randomIn just a few months, the

school year will be over, and students across campus will leave Duke for the summer. For many students, sum-mer is a time spent taking jobs or intern-ships, travel-ing across the country or abroad or taking classes. But for Duke’s new-est incoming class, summer is a time spent preparing for the fi rst semester of col-lege. Between the pressures of choosing their fi rst col-lege classes, preparing to live away from family and celebrating the end of high school, rising freshmen have a lot to do. But one of the most anxiety-inducing aspects of preparing for life at Duke is waiting to receive the freshman year room-

mate assignment.Relationships between

roommates are extremely important for students, es-pecially in the fi rst year of college. At a time where so

many things are new and s o m e t i m e s

overwhelming, having con-trol over who you live with can be comforting.

Helping freshmen stu-dents feel comfortable in their new surroundings is one of the reasons behind Duke’s current roommate selection model. In it, stu-dents have two options—re-quest to live with a specifi c person, or choose to be ran-domly assigned a roommate based on answers to a short housing survey. Giving stu-dents the ability to voice

their preferences can make for a more enjoyable hous-ing experience: At a school that is academically and socially demanding, it feels good to have a place where we are not as stressed.

But there is real value in exposure to different types of perspectives, and the abil-ity to select a specifi c room-mate can undermine this. Having a roommate that they already feel comfortable with robs freshmen students of a prime opportunity to have signifi cant interactions with people who are very dif-ferent from them.

Some incoming students have become so wary of being roomed with an un-familiar person that they have taken to using Face-book surveys and matching

sites to find a roommate. This is a dangerous way to approach the first year of school, as it makes college seem like a customizable experience based on per-sonal preferences. Students can miss out on the diversi-ty of their classmates when they isolate themselves, es-pecially when their choices are based on often superfi-cial survey results.

Colleges and universities have developed different ways to deal with roommate selection. At Stanford Uni-versity, students are not in-formed of their roommate assignment until move-in day. Wake Forest University and Hamilton College do not allow students to live with friends. Other schools match roommates based on

housing surveys.We would like to propose

a compromise: Randomly assign freshmen students based on their housing sur-veys, and, in special cases, allow students to live with specifi c people. We accept that there are special situ-ations where a student’s lifestyle would make it hard for new people to adjust, or where their quality of life would be greatly affected by living with an unfamiliar person. In these instances, it is OK to grant exceptions if the reason for a non-ran-dom assignment is deemed signifi cant by the Universi-ty. But students have much to gain from living with new and unfamiliar people, and making this change would be benefi cial.

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“She had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, and so did she. They searched for blue, their whole life through, Then passed right by—and never knew.”

—Shel SilversteinWe don’t like to talk

about struggle. It’s easy to say that we should embrace vulnerability; living it proves much harder. Many of us are afraid to speak up when we’re having a hard time. We live in a world that often la-bels struggle and vulnerability as signs of weakness, rath-er than as natural and acceptable parts of human experi-ence. Strength, in turn, becomes defi ned as never having or showing weakness, rather than moving through the moments that challenge us.

Let’s borrow Silverstein’s metaphor, and think of our experiences with struggle as our “blue skin.” We hide our blue skin behind the mask of “I’m fi ne,” fearing that if we reveal our challenges, others will think less of us; we fear our struggles will isolate us. Although it can seem we’re alone in that fear, we’re not. Ultimately, however, that fear often leaves us all looking out from behind our masks of “I’m just tired” and “I’m okay,” searching for blue and the confi rmation that we are not alone in our experience of struggle. We pass by blue every single day—we just never know, because it’s hidden, like ours.

Feeling like the only one with blue skin in a sea of people who don’t appear to be struggling can be a de-moralizing and isolating experience, even if we reason that it’s impossible that we’re the only ones having a hard time. Everyone struggles. We know that. So why don’t we talk about it?

By relegating our struggles to the realm of silence, we are not only invalidating our own experiences, but we also risk eliminating the spaces in our community and in our relationships where we can discuss them with open-ness, honesty and vulnerability.

If we don’t talk about these battles, people will fi ght them in silence, alone. And sometimes, they will lose. We won’t know our friends and loved ones were experienc-ing excruciating pain and struggle until it’s too late.

In February of my freshman year of high school, one of my friends took his own life. In the days following his passing, one statement ceaselessly echoed through the subdued conversations held around campus: “I had no idea he was struggling so much.” None of us had any idea he was hurting so badly that he felt suicide was the only solution. We never had the opportunity to meet him in his pain, to walk with him through it, to talk about the struggle now and the promise of brighter days to come. We lost our friend to the silence and stigma surrounding struggle before we got that chance.

Silence and stigma are powerful things. Even after witnessing their dangers and consequences, I waited far too long before asking for help with my own struggles with depression and anxiety. I was scared of the stigma and the ways it might affect me, my family and my rela-tionships. I was so scared, in fact, that I didn’t tell anyone outside of my family for three years. Three! Eventually I mustered up enough courage to stutter out a confession to my best friend. It took me a while, but I am so glad that I fi nally said something. Her continued love and support following that (surely unexpected) news opened my eyes to the power of letting people meet us in our vulnerable places. I began to understand the healing and hope that can be found in community.

Sometimes I can’t help but wonder how many people I pass in a day that feel as though they’re struggling alone, and searching for proof that others feel the same. Even when you know you’re not alone, it’s hard not to feel that way sometimes. However, the story does not have to end with secrets and silence and loss. The story can end with honesty, community and recovery. There are better endings, and we have the power to write them.

It won’t be easy. Letting people see our more broken parts never is. We’ll have to learn to love and to listen when—most importantly when—it’s challenging, or uncomfortable, or uncool. I invite you to take off your mask. Don’t be afraid to show that blue skin. By allowing ourselves to be vulnerable, we are creating a space in our community for open and honest conversation about dif-fi cult things. Reach out to a friend, whether it’s to seek help for yourself or to see how they’re doing.

We all have a voice, and we all have the power to raise it. Let’s use ours to break the silence, and let people know: You are not alone.

Kaitlin Gladney, Trinity ’14, is the president of To Write Love On Her Arms at Duke.

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“You’re not a sorority girl. You belong in a frat.” Long ago, my mother sat me down and told me a

story. Years before I was born, my aunt and uncle had aborted their baby daughter because they and my grandparents had not wanted an-other girl in the family. I don’t remember what made her tell me that. All I remem-ber is that my innocent love for that family vanished as soon as she told me. More im-portantly, my innocent identity vanished; every manifestation of my being from then on was very, very calculated.

That family was going to regret the day that they, dissatisfi ed with the female, only child that I was, asked my parents to have another child. I would always love my parents for refusing. And I would be better than any of the males in that family. I would take back the agency they took from my cousin when they killed her. My life, from that point on, was going to be one big middle fi nger pointed in their direction.

I’d become a boy. I’d do nothing that tradition or so-ciety expected of a girl. I hated being a girl. The world saw limitation that came of being a girl, but to me, there would be none.

“Wear a dress,” they said. No. Dresses took away my free-dom. They took away the possibility of carrying everything in pockets, and the possibility of sitting wherever I wanted, in whatever position I wanted. There’s a rule about how wide your legs can be spread, you know. For many years, my wardrobe contained no dresses whatsoever.

“Eat a little less,” they said. No. There may be research-based disputes about the physical strength, power and ability of each gender, but hell, there would be no dis-putes about how much I’d take into my body whether it went to my muscles or not. Forget the gendered science of metabolism. I’m fi ve-feet-two-inches tall, and I usually matched, if not beat, the amount of food my male peers consumed even if I had to force myself.

“Hang out with the girls more,” they said. No. Girls came home too early at night. They had to remember they were targets for rape late at night. They were bur-dened with fear, with risk. But I would not be afraid just

because I had an extra hole in my body. I’d stay out with the guys all night, the only girl, hanging out, drink-ing and doing whatever I wanted, really. The mothers

thought I was a slut. Once, in the girls’ bathroom, I nar-

rated a tale of conquest loudly, abrasively peppering it with unspeakable expletives. Shocked, my friends said, “Pi, calm down. You sound like a guy in a locker room.” In my high school, the guys were given the top leadership positions and the freedom to run wild. I responded by speaking, act-ing and walking around like I owned the school, so much so that most of the guys began to view me as an equal. They began

to call me “bro.” Although this is who I am today and even possibly for

the rest of my life, I regret it sometimes. I regret that I felt that the person I was wasn’t good enough, that I let the whims of others dictate the person I should be. Yes, I chal-lenged what was thought to be the status quo, but I did not do it for myself. By god, did I break my in-born shackles.

Everyone told me a sorority was not for me. I be-longed in a frat, they said. But in the weeks that have passed since I joined a sorority here at Duke, I’ve found that it is just what I need. Not only do I need to learn to feel the great pride that should come from being a woman, but I also need a family that loves me for who I am—even if I resemble a “frat bro” more than I do a “sorority sister.” Bros have, inversely, always loved me for what I am not. That is, a girl.

This is the next step. I will always believe that my cous-in’s vengeance was in part fulfi lled by me transcending a woman’s limitations, the same limitations that were the cause of her abortion. But her vengeance will not be com-plete unless I also worship our very identity as women, an identity that is not solely characterized by its limitations. I will not hate and reject my gender like many others do. I will appreciate and love my sisters and myself.

Pi Praveen is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs every other Friday.

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Library,” Bostock said. “I studied every night of the week, even Saturday. It paid off.”

Bostock’s previous multimillion dollar do-nation went to the libraries in 2003, contrib-uting to the creation of Bostock Library.

“Our first major gift went to the libraries, and our second is going to athletics, and after this, we’ll take a breather,” he said.

Bostock was previously a member of the Board, although the announcement of the gift was not timed in connection with this weekend’s meeting, said Michael Schoe-nfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. The Board will, how-ever, hear updates on the Duke Forward campaign from administrators and cam-paign chairs.

Board Chair Richard Wagoner, Trinity ’75, noted that Bostock has a long history of supporting Duke.

“He’s a great example of a guy who has benefitted from his Duke experience and has been really giving back to Duke in the

hope that today’s students will benefit as he did,” Wagoner said.

The Board is expected to approve new tuition rates for the coming academic year. The members are also expected to upgrade the international comparative studies major into a program, which will enable ICS to hire its own faculty, rather than relying on faculty appointments in other departments. This upgrade was ap-proved by the Arts and Sciences Council in November.

A similar upgrade is expected to pass for the neurology division of the School of Medicine, which will become a full-fledged department if approved. This move would give the 50-member division greater capac-ity for recruiting new faculty and securing research funding, Wagoner said.

After dealing with this business, the Board will engage in its annual February re-treat, in which the Trustees participate in a seminar-style discussion on a topic relevant to the future of the University. The 2012 re-treat looked at the cost of higher education, and this year, it will examine the value of higher education, Wagoner noted.

“This is a chance to really sit back and think about the future,” he said. “I hope we come out with a clearer roadmap of the kinds of issues we’ll be addressing over the next year.”

The seminar will feature a presentation by Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera, the massively open online course platform. Several Duke professors have attracted thou-sands of students for their Coursera courses, and teachers have begun using the technol-ogy in classes on campus in a “flipped class-room” model.

The retreat will also include William Boulding, dean of the Fuqua School of Busi-ness, and David Levi, dean of the School of Law, who will discuss the changing nature of professional schools.

“Legal education and business educa-tion are probably going through as much of a revolution as undergraduate educa-tion,” Schoenfeld said. “The Board wants to be aware of what the issues are and how they affect the programs at Duke, and how programs at Duke are innovating to address the challenges they will face in the market-place.”

pressures on the University’s aca-demic programs, Lange said.

“We are providing the oversight we think we need in order to ensure the quality that we want,” Lange said. “We’re confident after these discus-sions... over the last few months, we will in fact get that quality.”

He noted that DKU would account for just $10 million, or 3 percent, of the $363 million budgeted by the Office of Global Strategy and Programs’ strategic

initiatives and programs fund over the next five years. Academic pro-grams receive the majority of the SIP funds.

The most recent estimate for Duke’s investment in DKU opera-tional costs is $41 million over the next eight years, Lange added. This is in comparison to $38.4 million over seven years, an estimate from Spring 2012.

Lange provided a similar update at the Arts and Sciences Council meeting last Thursday.

Council Chair Susan Lozier, Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson pro-

fessor of physical oceanography, announced that the administration is considering changes to employee retirement benefits due to Universi-ty finance constraints. But there are currently no proposals to reduce faculty compensation. The council plans to hold these discussions at the March meeting.

Socolar was named the next chair of the Academic Council and will occupy that position from 2013 to 2015.

The council voted in favor of the proposal of converting the School of Medicine’s Division of Neurology

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TRUSTEES from page 1

the P5-plus-1, is expected to pressure Iran to freeze production of 20 percent-enriched uranium in exchange for easing economic sanctions that have battered the Iranian economy. France, another of the P5-plus-1 powers, said Thursday that diplomats were preparing an updated offer to entice Iran to agree to cuts.

“We want a genuine exchange that will lead to concrete results,” a French Foreign Ministry spokesman told reporters in Paris.

The IAEA report hinted at future con-flicts over Iran’s nuclear program, even if a deal is reached in Almaty. The agency reported that Iran plans to begin using an existing medical research reactor to test fuel rods for a heavy water reactor that Iran has been building in Arak for years. West-ern officials say the reactor could become operational next year. When it does, Iran would have the ability to produce pluto-nium as well as enriched uranium, provid-ing it with a second pathway to a possible nuclear weapon.

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lead Shared Visions.“He has the talent and soul

of a musician, but also the knowledge that comes from being a successful business per-son,” said Peter Kramer, Trinity ’73 and a foundation volunteer. “He’s taken his talents and used them really well to help all these nonprofits.”

In order to gain better logis-tical knowledge of charitable work, Miller returned to Duke

in 2003 to earn a certificate in nonprofit management. Since Shared Visions started, it has been successful in helping char-ities throughout the Triangle area.

“I was only 42, not ready to quit working… but in a posi-tion where I really didn’t have to work anymore,” Miller said. “I knew I wanted to do charity work.”

Two performances of the Murphey School Radio Show will be held on Saturday, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

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Identity Slurs: Jokes at Whose Expense?

Are jokes at the expense of minority groups ever really funny?Are jokes at the expense of women ever really funny?What’s the difference between offensive representations of minorities and discrimination?What are the boundaries of “free speech”?Does organizing ourselves along identity lines reinforce our existence on the margins?

A conversation with Anne Allison, Interim Director of Women’s Studies and Professor of Women’s Studies and

Cultural Anthropology and Kathy Rudy, Professor of Women’s Studies.

Please RSVP to Lillian Spiller (Lillian.spiller@duke.edu)