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ONTHERECORD“As we head into the season of endless holidays and celebra-tions, we should give some thought to our spiritual beliefs....”

—Addie Navaro in ‘Some deeper stuff.’ See column page 4

Admins OK 5 new gender neutral houses

by Jeffrey CicurelTHE CHRONICLE

The University has formally approved five gender-neutral, unaffiliated houses for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Duke Housing, Dining and Residence Life will implement gender-neutral housing in three unaffiliated West Campus houses: two houses in Kilgo Quadrangle and one house in Few Quadrangle. HDRL also plans to have two independent gender-neutral houses on Central Campus. After the Uni-versity agreed to implement gender-neutral housing on West Campus in April, HDRL began a review of the current housing mod-el in order to assess the necessary changes. In a recent survey, the majority of students either support or were indifferent toward gender-neutral housing.

“The discomfort came in when people were asked ‘Would you be comfortable shar-ing a bathroom with a student of the op-posite gender?’” said Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez. “That’s when the answers started changing.”

As a result of this survey, HDRL wanted to keep at least two single-gender bath-rooms available in houses that became gen-der-neutral, Gonzalez said. In their summer assessment, there were different levels of difficulty of transforming current houses to gender-neutral. Current houses with three

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by Andrew BeatonTHE CHRONICLE

After a whirlwind of changes to the ACC, there is no end in sight for realignment. But Duke has its own reasons for remaining committed to the conference in an otherwise uncertain environment.

“Duke is totally committed to the ACC,” President Richard Brodhead said. “It’s a rich occasion for fantasy. You’ve heard of fantasy football. Now we have fantasy conferences.”

The ACC has been at the forefront of conference realignment in the last decade, most recently adding Louisville Wednesday with a unanimous vote from the conference’s Council of Presidents following last week’s announcement that Maryland would be departing the ACC for the Big Ten. The moves came after Septem-ber’s addition of Notre Dame and last year’s additions of Syracuse and Pittsburgh, which came while Brodhead was chair of the council. But Brodhead said Duke will stick with the ACC because of its strong commitment to both athletic and academic excellence.

But Brodhead knows the game—when he went to parties as a kid, he never liked musical chairs, but it taught him a valuable lesson. Now, in a rapidly shuffling college athletics landscape that many acknowledge has the potential to end up with four “super” conferences, Brodhead’s goal is to make sure that the Blue Devils stay in the game.

“I never intend for it to happen that Duke doesn’t have a chair,” Brodhead said. “At the same time, I think

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Gov’t awards two profs for climate research

by Georgia ParkeTHE CHRONICLE

The Pentagon recently honored an environmental project, conducted in part by two Duke scientists from the Nicholas School of the Environment.

Patrick Halpin, associate professor of marine geospatial ecology, and Norman Christensen, research professor and found-ing dean of the Nicholas School, are two of 13 contributors to the Defense Coastal/Estuarine Research Program over the past five years. The Strategic Environmental Research Development Program, a subdivi-sion of the Department of Defense, named the program Project of the Year for resource conservation and climate change.

DCERP intends to continue developing and enhancing training facilities at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune while sustain-ing costal and estuarine ecosystems and

natural resources at its coastal North Caro-lina location.

“This is an ongoing, long-term project trying to develop ecosystem-based research approach at Camp Lejeune,” Halpin, one of the co-leaders of the DCERP Data Man-agement Module, said. “We are working on a combination of research and practical application to try help the Department of Defense do a better job of sustainably man-aging their land.”

This is Halpin’s second award from the SERDP. He noted the distinctive charac-teristics of the land on which the Marine Corps base is established, such as the pres-ence of sea turtles, coastal dunes and marsh areas, which DCERP seeks to understand and protect.

“DCERP is designed to conduct mission-

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Duke says it’s in the ACC for the long haul

Uni launches initiative with Indian billionaire

by Margot TuchlerTHE CHRONICLE

The University has committed itself to yet another global collaboration, this time in India.

Provost Peter Lange and Nikhil Sinha, vice chancellor of Shiv Nadar University in Greater Noida, India, signed a memo-randum of understanding indicating the two institutions’ intent to pursue col-laborations as SNU—which opened in 2011—continues to develop. Addition-ally, Sinha and Martha Putallaz, executive director of Duke’s Talent Identification Program, signed a memorandum signify-ing the forthcoming collaboration of TIP and SNU to develop strategies for educat-ing gifted youth. TIP has enrolled 4,200 Indian students since 2008, Putallaz said. CAROLINE RODRIGUEZ/THE CHRONICLE

Duke announced a new partnership with Shiv Nadar University in India Thursday.

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Duke is planning on sticking with the ACC despite widespread realignment across the conference in recent years.

Administrators affi rm their commitment to the conference

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TO RENT or TO BUY?

where Duke finds housing

by Caroline MichelmanTHE CHRONICLE

Duke students have proven to be leaders in the nationwide movement to discourage American electronics companies from in-cluding conflict minerals from the Demo-cratic Republic of the Congo in their supply chains, said human rights activist and best-selling author John Prendergast in a presen-tation Thursday.

After successfully pressuring the Board of Trustees to adopt an investment guide-line that requires the University to scrutinize the supply chains of electronics companies in which they invest, Duke students must now encourage other university students to continue the effort, he said. In turn, this will cut off funding to rebel groups that are perpetuating a gruesome civil war in the

Congo—the deadliest war in the world since World War II.

Organized by the Nicholas School of Environment, Prendergast, who has been working on human rights issues in Africa for almost 30 years, gave a talk entitled “Ending the Deadliest War in the World: Conflict-Free Phones and Congo,” Thursday eve-ning. His lecture focused on the hundreds of thousands of cases of sexual violence in-flicted upon Congolese women and girls by the numerous rebel groups funded by min-ing conflict minerals—tin, tungsten, tanta-lum and gold—that go into the electronics Americans use everyday, such as phones and computers.

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Students can fight conflict minerals, author says

Meeting will spotlight athletics, Nursing Schoolby Julian Spector

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The Board of Trustees will convene this weekend for what is slated to be a routine set of updates with few major approvals.

The Trustees will hear presentations on the state of the faculty, the School of Nursing, ath-letics and other campus initiatives. The meet-ing will also include a tribute to Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, James B. Duke professor of medi-cine and professor of biochemistry and immu-nology, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry earlier this Fall.

“We have a number of important issues on the agenda, but they’re generally briefing and updating the board,” said Board Chair Rich-ard Wagoner, Trinity ’75. “There’s not as many

action items as other meetings. In that sense, it will be a bit more routine.”

The Board will hear a strategic review of athletics delivered by Kevin White, director of athletics. This will be a comprehensive over-view of athletics, including finances, academic performance of athletes and the evolution of the conference structure in the ACC, Wagoner said. The segment will also include discussion of physical education and intramural sports.

Each Board meeting includes a presenta-tion from a dean of one of Duke’s schools, and this meeting will feature Catherine Gilliss, dean of the School of Nursing and Helene Fuld Health Trust professor of nursing. The nursing school has risen to national promi-nence in recent years, breaking the top 10

schools for research funding from the Nation-al Institutes of Health this year and jumping in the U.S. News and World Reports rankings from 32nd in 1998 to seventh this year.

The Board will be interested to hear not just what the members of the school have ac-complished, but how they have done it and what they plan to do next, Wagoner said.

“Its been a fairly short time and a big run,” Wagoner said. “It’s a good example of Duke responding to a real need in society—a tre-mendous under-supply of nurses in the coun-try.”

Gilliss will touch on the recent growth, but she plans to focus on current operations and plans for the future, said Michael Evans, direc-tor of communications for the nursing school,

who has been working with Gilliss on her pre-sentation.

“We’re seeing it as a chance for Dean Gil-liss to engage the Board of Trustees to share a little bit about who we are, where we’ve been and where we want to go,” Evans said. “A lot is rooted in examples of research being done now.”

One idea Gilliss is pursuing is greater part-nership between the School of Nursing and other schools at Duke. This would allow nurs-ing faculty and students to team up with other Duke researchers with specialties in other sub-jects, like engineering or information man-agement, Evans said.

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Best-selling author John Prendergast spoke about the use of conflict minerals in electronics Thursday in a talk sponsored by the Nicholas School of the Environment.

Kunshan prepares for global student body

by Carleigh StiehmTHE CHRONICLE

Duke Kunshan University seeks to form a unique culture and collegiate identity as it strives to preserve the academic excellence for which Duke is known, Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Bullock said.

At Thursday’s Academic Council meet-ing, Bullock presented her vision for cultural synthesis between China and the United States. She also further detailed Duke’s plans to preserve academic freedom on the cam-pus, slated to open to students in the 2013-2014 academic year. The Chinese people and the city of Kunshan are working to make the campus environment supportive for an inter-national student population, she added.

“They want a world-class university. They want to experiment. They are taking political risks that we cannot even imagine,” Bullock said. “We need their support if we want DKU to grow deep roots in China’s culture.”

Although Bullock said students of DKU will have “complete freedom of academic inquiry”—meaning people will be able to pursue any topic of their choosing in an aca-demic setting—she is careful not to “soft ped-al” legitimate concerns about students fear-ing restrictions of speech and media access. Despite her confidence that there will be aca-demic freedom at DKU, Bullock added that there are backup plans in place in case the Chinese government restricts access to cer-tain websites or media outlets —the campus will be able to connect remotely to Duke’s internet using a virtual private network.

“We should make sure DKU is known for

its emphasis on academic integrity, academic responsibility and academic innovation,” Bullock said. “We anticipate that students on [the DKU] campus will have access to the same technology and internet as students [in Durham].”

The campus will feature faculty leader-ship familiar to Duke but new to China. Bullock said faculty governance there will mimic Duke’s structure—even though a similar system failed when DKU Chancellor Liu Jingnan tried to implement it as presi-dent of Wuhan University—Duke’s Chinese legal partner. But DKU will develop its own identity—separate from that of Duke and

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Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Bullock speaks about Duke Kunshan University Thursday.

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Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter spoke about issues of national security at the Sanford School of Public Policy Thursday.

Not Ashton Kutcher, not Aaron Carterbathrooms—known as Level One hous-es—are easiest to change because they would allow room for separate male, fe-male and co-ed bathrooms. Houses with just one bathroom would be much more difficult to become gender-neutral.

The new changes will allow for stu-dents living in gender-neutral housing to have the option to use a bathroom des-ignated for their gender only, but they might have to take a stairwell to a bath-room on another floor.

“If a few people have to change their daily routine a little bit, that is a price we should pay for the benefits to our Duke community,” said junior Jacob Tobia, co-president of Duke Students for Gender Neutrality. “It’s not going to hugely in-convenience anyone by any measure.”

Tobia noted that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has re-cently taken steps to implement gender-neutral housing.

“If a state school like UNC can do this where they are subject to North Carolina state legislature, then there is absolutely no reason Duke should not have done this five years ago,” he said. “It’s almost pathetic that UNC and Duke are reach-ing this conclusion at around the same time.”

Although he said there was notice-able resistance, Tobia is “ecstatic” about the changes. He said it is a huge step for-

ward for the University and that is a way to show how much Duke values not just the LGBT community, but gender equal-ity too.

Vice President for Student Affairs Lar-ry Moneta said he was not aware of any resistance to gender-neutral housing, .

“Fundamentally, we’ve always been quite supportive of introducing and ex-panding gender-neutral options,” he said. “We’re continuing to move and ex-pand options as the communities needs are identified.”

Tobia contends that the administra-tion is not nearly as supportive as he would like and showed resistance until DSGN threatened to hold a demonstra-tion.

“We have a cowardly administration that is unwilling to be leaders on any-thing,” he said. “We just wait for our colleagues in the Ivy League to do some-thing, and then we think about it.”

As for the future of gender neutral-housing at Duke, Tobia said he will con-tinue to advocate for the expansion of gender-neutral housing on West and Central Campuses, as well as an introduc-tion to East Campus.

Moneta added that as long as there is a continued need for gender-neutral hous-ing, the options will continue to grow.

“I don’t think there is an end game in mind,” he said. “We have been support-ive of gender-neutral housing from the get-go and will continue to work with the students.”

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Two people sample French wines at the Nasher Museum of Art Thursday for the Celebrate Matisse event. Currently, the Nasher is showing an exhibit called Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters.

Très chic

“We have expertise in certain areas, other schools have other expertise. What happens if we partner together and create new areas of learning?” Evans said.

Provost Peter Lange will address the state of the faculty and the challenges and oppor-tunities of the current educational era.

Lange said he will pay specific attention to demographic shifts in the faculty over the last decade, such as changes in the size of the faculty, age distribution, percentage of tenured versus non-tenured faculty, research productivity and teaching engagement.

“Basically, the faculty got substantially bigger across most of the schools across the last 10 or 12 years,” he said, deferring fur-ther comment until after the presentation.

The Trustees will also discuss the Univer-sity’s recent forays into online education, using the massively open online course plat-form Coursera and the smaller, for-credit 2U platform. One Duke course on Coursera has finished, another is well underway and

two more started this week, Lange said. One of the recently started courses has

the largest enrollment of any Coursera class. “Think Again: How to Reason and Argue” by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman professor of practical ethics, and Ram Neta, associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Cha-pel Hill—has the largest Coursera enroll-ment to date at 168,000, although the num-ber of active users may be lower than that, Lynne O’Brien, director of academic tech-nology and instructional services for Perkins Library, wrote in an email Thursday.

Wagoner said the administration has been prudent in entering into online educa-tion ventures in a timely but also thoughtful manner.

“We really see the value of getting in early without taking on massive risk to your basic mission and being among the leaders of fig-uring out how to learn and make it better,” Wagoner said. “It’s not time to bet the ranch on this technology, but I think it would be a mistake to lie back.”

relevant, basic and applied research in sup-port of an ecosystem-based management approach,” according to the program’s of-ficial fact sheet. “The program’s primary goal is to enhance and sustain the military mission by developing an understanding of coastal and estuarine ecosystem composi-tion, structure and function within the con-text of a military training environment.”

The projects aims to develop models to guide research, monitoring and feedback loops, according to its planning documents. Fulfilling these goals will help to identify ecosystem stressors at Camp Lejeune and their levels of impact and to develop man-agement guidelines for the camp to sustain the ecosystem.

DCERP, which is funded by the Depart-ment of Defense, was chosen from all other SERDP-funded projects that reached com-pletion this year, said John Hall, program manager for resource conservation and cli-mate change at the SERDP.

“We looked at the whole body in terms of what is contributed in terms of scientific

advancement,” said Hall. “It needs to ad-vance science and provide useful informa-tion for natural resources.”

The process to determine which proj-ects deserved awards involved a committee that reviewed all projects reaching comple-tion at the time of consideration. Hall, along with the special committee at SERDP, determined which projects contributed the most in terms of scientific advancement and information on natural resources.

“In our world here, we want to make sure that we are addressing the problem,” Hall said. “As we looked at the last five or six years, [DCERP] has provided a lot of fundamental information for us to use at Camp Lejeune.”

Although the Project of the Year award was given to the recently completed find-ings of the DCERP, the project will extend into 2017. Halpin noted that the 10-year time period is unusual for an academic project, and the next phase will involve stra-tegic planning regarding water systems.

“The military base will have more op-tions and especially more informed man-agement in the future,” Halpin said.

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Thursday’s event, which took place at the Nasher Museum of Art, featured a presenta-tion by Indian industrialist and philanthro-pist Shiv Nadar, founder of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar highlighted the impor-tance of education for creating leaders—his foundation, which was founded in 1994, in-cludes a school system of multiple branches.

“Great leaders come from great educa-tion institutions,” Nadar said. “Great gover-nance takes place from three fundamental places—meritocracy, raising their aspirations and a world class platform.”

The agreement signed between Duke and SNU will serve as a framework for future col-laborations as SNU, which is still in its early stages, develops. SNU is meant to emulate modern American research universities such as Duke, Sinha said.

SNU, offering programs in eight ma-jor disciplines, will be home to about 8,000 graduate and undergraduate students and 800 faculty and researchers when it reaches its full maturity, Sinha said.

“We have had the opportunity at the [Shiv Nadar] Foundation to visit with and partner with and engage in discussions with a number of the great universities of the world,” Sinha said. “But for some reason... there is a great connection between what Duke University is today and what SNU is aspiring to be.”

Sinha signed the memorandum with Lange, who noted that members of the Uni-versity community take for granted the im-portance of education when they get caught up in their daily routines. He added that the partnership helps remind Duke of how cru-cial education is.

“The remarks we heard from Shiv Nadar... remind us that every day we are engaged in an activity which is fundamentally transforma-

tive for the people who are involved,” Lange said. “This partnership is not just practical partnership, but it’s a partnership rooted in sheer ambition and sheer inspiration.”

President Richard Brodhead introduced Nadar, noting the parallels between Nadar and James Buchanan Duke, both of whom have histories of entrepreneurship—Nadar played a key role in the development of mi-croprocessors and founded the technology company HCL—and went on to donate their wealth to the development of educational in-stitutions. He lauded Nadar to donating his money far earlier in his career than J.B. Duke did.

“You have the same idea as James B. Duke, which is that you can use your personal suc-cess to create the means of education for oth-ers on the same understanding that educa-tion is the thing and the only thing that holds the key to individual human potential, and in doing so, it also creates the means for social advancement,” Brodhead said.

Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton and Fuqua Dean Bill Boulding have been involved in preliminary discussions, even though specific manifestations of the col-laboration have not been established yet, said Michael Merson, interim vice president and vice provost for global strategy and pro-grams.

Patton noted India’s rich history of educa-tion—including the country’s early examples of critical thinking—which she said goes largely unnoticed in the United States.

“There are many more family resemblanc-es between the Indian education system and the American liberal arts system than we have previously understood,” Patton said. “The time for partnership is very important.... We’re closer to our origins than many uni-versities are in the United States, and there-fore, we can have a certain connection and partnership with Shiv Nadar as well.”

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A student gets her blood drawn at the Bryan Center Wednesday as part of the American Red Cross’ regular blood drive efforts on campus.

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California is a familiar foe to Chelsea Gray, whose best friend plays for the Golden Bears.

by Jay VithaTHE CHRONICLE

Sunday’s matchup between No. 4 Duke and No. 10 California has extra implica-tions for the Blue Devils and star point guard Chelsea Gray. Gray, a California na-tive, has strong ties to the Golden Bear pro-gram. Her cousin, Alexis Gray-Lawson, was a standout guard at California from 2006-2010. Chelsea grew up watching her play and attending games.

The Blue Devils (5-0) will host the Gold-en Bears (5-0) at 2 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday with Gray facing a team that she still has connections to.

Her best friend, and high school team-mate, Afure Jemergibe, is a leading guard on the team, averaging 10.2 points per game this season. Gray explained that she does not feel extra pressure, but this game is at least a little bit different.

“There may be a little bit more of excite-ment, I wouldn’t say pressure,” Gray said. “This is the first time me and Afure have ever played against each other.”

Gray has led the Blue Devils to a very impressive start thus far, scoring 16.4 points per game. She is also averaging 5.0 rebounds and a team-high 7.0 assists per game.

“I’ve just been more composed in pick-ing my spots a bit more carefully,” Gray said. “I’ve been playing off my teammates a lot more and been feeding off of each of

Moore in the middlefor Duke

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Duke unable to replicate 2011’s success

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Moving to the attack this year, redshirt junior Kim DeCesare recorded 16 goals.

by Daniel CarpTHE CHRONICLE

Every Saturday during his redshirt se-nior season, Brian Moore was entrusted with possibly the least glamorous responsi-bility on the gridiron—snapping the foot-ball.

Absorbing hit after hit from opposing defenders on every play, a center at the Division I level faces grueling challenges, but Moore never complains about the na-ture of his responsibilities on the football field. The Coral Gables, Fla. native is often described by his coaches and teammates as the consummate workhorse.

“Brian has always been a great worker,” head strength and conditioning coach Noel Durfey said. “He’s the kind of kid that you just point him the way to go, and he’s going to get it done. He’s just a good kid that likes to work.”

The lone senior on Duke’s starting of-fensive line this season, Moore played an integral role in the unit’s success, allowing quarterback Sean Renfree to be sacked just 19 times in 12 games for the third-highest

by Matt PunTHE CHRONICLE

After last year’s national cham-pionship game loss to Stanford, the Blue Devils looked to earn an-other shot at winning the national title at the start of this season, hav-ing lost no starters to graduation.

Behind one of the most pro-lific offensive attacks in program history, third-seeded Duke ad-vanced to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals for the second con-secutive year but ultimately fell two victories short of returning to the finals, losing 1-0 to top-seeded Penn State.

“I’m definitely happy about how it went up until the last game,” redshirt junior Kim DeCesare said. “Obviously the elite eight game was a disappointment…. It was a bit of a bummer, but it doesn’t de-fine our whole season.”

The 2011 season had left the Blue Devils with a lot to live up to. With 22 wins, 16 shutouts, and an ACC regular season champion-ship, Duke had staked its claim as one of the nation’s powerhouses.

Ranked second in this year’s preseason poll, the Blue Devil squad was certainly considered to be a national championship con-

tender again.“[This year] was a year that we

hadn’t been through in the sense that such high expectations were on us, and I thought the kids that handled that very well,” head coach Robbie Church said.

In addition to those high ex-pectations, the Blue Devils also had to face the challenge of be-ginning the season without two of their three top scorers from the 2011 campaign.

Winning the 2012 under-20 women’s world championship in Japan for the U.S., Duke forwards Mollie Pathman and Kelly Cobb both missed the first seven regular season games for the Blue Devils.

“It was a huge loss not hav-ing them at the beginning of the season,” DeCesare said. “[But] ultimately, it was very helpful for us because it created more depth for us on the field and on the bench.”

The 2012 Duke squad certainly picked up the slack on the offen-sive end. In fact, the team finished the season with the most points and tied for the most second-most goals scored in program history for a single season.

DeCesare, who had played

mostly midfield and scored seven career goals prior to this year, moved up to the front line in the absence of Pathman and Cobb, scoring 16 goals and fin-ishing 18th in goals per game nationally.

“We knew she could score goals

from scoring goals from the mid-field last year, but can I sit here and say that I knew she was going to score 16 goals?” Church said. “No. It’s just incredible…. Wher-ever you put Kimmy she’s going to excel in that area. She has such a great drive.”

With 16 goals of her own, ju-nior Laura Weinberg also led the Blue Devil attack, especially as De-Cesare and Cobb battled midsea-son injuries.

The forward, who now is tied for fourth on Duke’s all-time scor-ing list, took her goal-scoring ability to a more consistent level, Church said.

While veterans DeCesare and Weinberg increased their offen-sive production, the Blue Devils also added another dynamic to their attack in freshman Cassie Pecht.

The TopDrawerSoccer.com Rookie of the Year led the NCAA in assists, helping Duke notch a program-best 77 assists this season.

The Blue Devil front line also provided high-pressure de-fending in the first two thirds of the field.

“One of the most important things that the forwards did this year that goes overlooked and can’t be read by statistics is that they defended,” senior defender Erin Koballa said. “They were our first line of defense, game in

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The Blue Devils’ two meets on the mat this weekend will be night and day. They open their dual meet slate Saturday in Evanston, Ill., where they will wrestle against No. 13 North-western at 7:30 p.m. and Stevens Tech, an un-ranked Division II program, at 9 p.m.

“We’ve been testing ourselves all year long in the tournaments—some harder than others—and we want to continue test-ing ourselves,” Duke head coach Glen Lan-ham said. “Northwestern is going to be a nice test for us.”

Stevens Tech is taking the place of No. 6 Illinois, which opted out of participating in Saturday’s meet at the last minute.

“The big thing is to provide a world-class op-portunity to our wrestlers,” Stevens Tech head coach Mike Clayton said. “To wrestle a team like Northwestern that’s ranked in the top 15 in Division I and an institution like Duke that has a tremendous tradition really gives us an opportunity to test ourselves against the best wrestlers in the country.”

Nine of the 12 teams in the Big Ten are ranked in the top 25. Big Ten lineups are known for consistent excellence across all 10 weight classes.

“Big Ten—that’s the cream of the crop,” Lanham said. “You can’t get any better expe-rience than wrestling those guys, so we’re ex-cited about it.”

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MASON PLUMLEE 19.9 PPG, 11.0 RPGRYAN KELLY 12.3 PPG, 4.9 RPGRASHEED SULAIMON 10.1 ppg, 44.7 3FG%SETH CURRY 14.4 ppg, 2.1 apg, 1.1 spgTYLER THORNTON

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Jamelle Hagins is a beast on the boards, but the size of Ma-son Plumlee and Ryan Kelly should give Duke a chance to outrebound an opponent for the fi rst time since the Flordia Gulf Coast game. Devon Saddler may be the best pure scorer in the game. That said, Duke’s arsenal of guards—Quinn Cook, Seth Curry and Rasheed Sulai-mon—will be too much for him to handle.

Duke has barely used its bench thus far, but against a weaker opponent, look for Tyler Thornton, Josh Hairston, Amile Jefferson and Alex Murphy to all register impor-tant minutes.

The breakdownAt 2-5 on the season, the Blue Hens are actu-ally much better than their record indicates, with three losses by fi ve points or fewer. And Duke has the potential for a hangover after beating two consecutive top-fi ve squad in Louisville and Ohio State. The Blue Devils will pull this one out, but this will be closer than people expect. OUR CALL: Duke wins, 80-68

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Indoor season beginsTRACK AND FIELD

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The Blue Devils will head to Winston-Salem this Saturday for the JDL Fast Track Kick Off, their first meet of the indoor season.

This first experience is intended to be a low-key meet for the athletes, allowing those who have not had a chance to race on the track since last season to brush off the rust. The meet is also intended to pro-vide some of the older runners, as well as those who are less experienced, to try out new events and see how their fall training has paid off.

“For [many] track and field people, you know, they haven’t competed at all since maybe last May or June,” director of track and field Norm Ogilvie said. “They’re just kind of remembering what it’s like to com-pete again. So it’s also a dry run for when the regular season which begins a week af-ter Christmas.”

For the upcoming challenge, each event coach will only be taking those athletes who they want to observe. Associate head coach Shaun Wilbourne, who works with multi-event athletes and traveled to the Olym-pic Trials with senior Curtis Beach, will be taking sprinters, multi-event athletes and some pole vaulters.

Jumps and assistant coach Jan Ogilvie will be bringing some of her long jump-ers, though juniors Tanner Anderson, who also traveled to the Olympic Trials, and Michael Krone will not be attending

the meet. The contest will also feature Carl Heinz, a high school All-American, in the high jump.

Associate head coach Kevin Jermyn, who coaches cross country in the fall and then handles women’s distance for the track sea-sons, will be taking 10 runners to the meet, though senior Juliet Bottorff, who took the 10km title at the NCAA Championship in 2011, and some of her more experienced teammates such as Madeline Morgan will not be racing.

“I’m really looking forward to it, and many of the girls that have an opportuni-ty to race are really excited to get on the track and show off some of our speed and things we’ve been working on in the fall,” graduate student Cydney Ross said. “It’ll be a great opportunity for us to get out there and have some fun and race.”

For men’s distance, the meet will prove a chance for “up-and-coming” runners to race in the half-mile event and four un-derclassmen will also have their chance to compete in the 4x800m relay, Norm Ogil-vie said. Sophomore Brian Schoepfer will have the chance to race in the 3km for the first time and classmate Nate McClafferty will race the mile.

“[This meet is] great for coaches,” Ogil-vie said. “We get a lot of information from it and it gives us some idea of who we’re go-ing to take to the first meet in January.”

After their debut in Winston-Salem, the Blue Devils will participate in the Dick Tay-lor Invitational at Chapel Hill.

and game out. They forced probably more turnovers than we [did].”

Koballa, and fellow seniors Libby Jandl and Maddie Haller all returned to anchor the back line along with junior Natasha Anasi this season. Having played together since starting nearly every game as sopho-mores, the senior group had played a ma-jor part in taking Duke from a good to a great program, Church said.

“[We] have such a special connection. We joke around even when we’re walking around campus that we’re in our forma-tion,” Koballa said “It gets to the point where you can read each other’s thoughts and actions before they even happen.”

Last year, thanks to their veteran defend-ers and senior goalkeeper Tara Campbell, the Blue Devils had one of the nation’s stingiest defenses—allowing just .48 goals per game.

Despite its efforts this year, Duke’s de-fense—missing junior Alex Straton due to an ACL tear—showed a drop in perfor-mance from the previous season. The Blue Devils posted a goals-against average of 1.07 this season.

“Holding a team to about goal a game—a little more than a goal a game—in the conference that we play in is still an in-credible feat by them,” Church said. “But they’re the first to say that some more goals went in than they did in the past.”

The goals-against average still ranked as the ninth-best season total in program history, and the squad’s season-ending loss came against the nation’s top scoring of-fense on a penalty kick.

With the loss of Campbell and the se-nior defenders, rebuilding the defense will pose the biggest challenge for the fu-ture of the program.

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“We return a lot of firepower [next year]… but we’re going to lose the defen-sive personality of our team,” Church said. “So that’s going to be a real question mark about where we’re going to go next year.”

Next year though, without any national team commitments, Duke might return its entire offensive arsenal from the end of the season. If DeCesare and fellow redshirt Callie Simpkins opt to use their last year of eligibility, all 10 Blue Devils who scored this year will return.

“We’re obviously still chasing a national championship,” DeCesare said. “And I don’t think that’s going to change next year, and we’re going to have the same expectations.”

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Duke’s defense will look a lot different next year without Tara Campbell in goal.

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Club Cameron is back open for business Saturday afternoon.

Fresh off a 73-68 win against Ohio State Wednesday, the No. 2 Blue Devils (7-0) will host Delaware Saturday at 2 p.m.

The Blue Hens (2-5) are reeling after winning two of their first three games, los-ing their last four. Three of those losses—to Lafayette, Temple and Kansas State—were by less than five points.

Junior guard Devon Saddler has pro-vided much of the offense for Delaware in the early going, averaging 21.4 points per game, including a season-high 32 points against Kansas State. The 6-foot-2 guard is hitting 1.9 3-pointers per game, adding 4.4 rebounds and 3.0 assists.

After limiting the Ohio State back-court of Aaron Craft and Lenzelle Smith Jr. to a combined 7-for-27 from the field, Duke guards Quinn Cook, Seth Curry and Rasheed Sulaimon will face another tough task in Saddler.

Forced to bear much of the offensive burden, however, Saddler is averaging 3.7 turnovers per game. His backcourt partner, Jarvis Threatt, has missed the last two games with serious cramps, and the Blue Hens have missed his 10.4 points and 1.8 steals per game.

The team’s most dangerous frontcourt weapon is 6-foot-9 senior Jamelle Hagins, who averaged a double-double as a junior and is repeating that effort in this cam-paign. Tallying 13.0 points and 13.4 re-bounds per game, he has been a workhorse for head coach Monte Ross. Playing all 40 minutes in the team’s last game against Lafayette, Hagins recorded 18 points, 23 rebounds and five blocks. And his scoring

effort is efficient, making 63.8 percent of his shots from the field.

His presence on the block could pose

a difficult matchup for the Blue Devils, who have been outrebounded in their last four games.

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A ‘changing landscape’Despite the recent reshuffling, Duke’s

brass does not see more ACC changes on the immediate horizon. Director of Athlet-ics Kevin White said he does not envision the conference adding or losing members in the near future.

“I don’t see it,” White said. “I just don’t see that as a high probability, or even as a reasonable probability. I think everybody is locked in. What we have here is pretty special.”

But stability is far from certain, as evi-denced by Maryland’s surprise departure. And friends can quickly become adversaries, with the ACC filing suit against the Terrapins Monday regarding the $52 million exit fee re-quired to leave the conference.

“They’re dead to me,” Brodhead joked. “They made that decision for their own rea-sons, and that’s their own business.”

When asked if other conferences had approached Duke about leaving, Brodhead simply reaffirmed the University’s commit-ment to the ACC. He also acknowledged that the conference’s future is difficult to predict, even though more changes may not be imminent.

“Would I bet you $20 that I know where things will be five years from now?” Brod-

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The Wildcats are no exception. Half of Northwestern’s lineup is ranked in the top 20: No. 15 Levi Mele at 133 pounds, No. 2 Jason Welch at 157 pounds, No. 11 Pierce Harger at 165 pounds, No. 10 Lee Munster at 174 pounds and No. 9 Mike McMullan at heavyweight.

“They’ve got a beast of a lineup there, and it’s going to be a hard task for us, but our guys realize that and are ready to step up to the challenge,” Lanham said.

The Wildcats’ talented roster led them to a first place finish at the Keystone Classic in Philadelphia, where Duke finished in seventh place. Northwestern head coach Drew Pariano noted, however, that some of the bouts that his wrestlers won against Blue Devils at the tourna-ment were too close for comfort.

Blue Devil redshirt freshman Marcus Cain lost to Northwestern sophomore Dylan Mar-riott 7-5 in the 149-pound weight class, and Duke redshirt freshman Dylan Ryan fell 5-4 to Wildcat senior Marcus Shrewsbury in the 184-pound division.

“We had some head-to-head matches, and some of them were very close matches, so we’re focused on winning those matches or turning a decision around and trying to get a win,” Pariano said. “We have a lot of respect for Coach Lanham and what they’re doing at Duke.”

After the Blue Devils wrestle against North-western, they will retake the mat to face Ste-vens Tech. Although the Ducks have not made their way into the Division II rankings, Lan-ham is careful not to overlook them.

“Stevens Tech is pretty decent,” he said. “There are some tough Division II and NAIA kids, so we have to be on the lookout for them.”

The start of Duke’s dual meet season marks changes in the dynamic of the Blue Devils’ wrestling-filled weekends. At the early-season

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Monetary motivesMaryland officials openly said their de-

cision to join the Big Ten was a financial one, with their athletic department forced to cut teams in recent years due to financial constraints.

Although Duke does not face the same dif-ficulties, Brodhead said the University would not be tempted by financial factors to leave for pastures perceived to be greener.

“That’s not the kind of school Duke is. Money is part of athletics, but our motives are not monetary for anything we do in athletics,” he said.

And the ACC is looking at its own options to improve the bottom line. ACC Comis-sioner John Swofford said Wednesday in a teleconference that the league is exploring the creation of its own television network, potentially with the conference’s current partner ESPN.

“We are pursuing it and taking a good hard look at it. I don’t know how it will play out, but we’re in the early stages of that,” White said. “I’d love to see us do a really deep dive and explore that possibility.”

White said they are also exploring the po-tential of a broader media rights deal, such as the one the Big 12 announced earlier this year with ESPN worth $2.6 billion over 13 years.

Balancing athletics and academicsFor Duke, academics remain a strong ele-

ment of their commitment to the ACC. When Notre Dame was added to the conference, Swofford and Thorp highlighted its cohesion with the league’s academic profile.

The addition of Louisville, however, was largely trumpeted as a primarily athletic one to keep the conference competitive.

“What the ACC needed most was the most exciting sports program we could

[get],” Thorp said. “That is the way to en-sure that the success of the ACC in sports was successful enough to allow us to keep our group together.”

Broadhead and White expressed no qualms with Louisville’s academic programs, noting the school’s improvement and entre-preneurial spirit.

“We’re in a conference that has the aca-demic advantages for us,” Brodhead said.

‘A special relationship’One of the strongest elements in the ACC

is the close proximity and athletic rivalry shared by Duke and North Carolina. Rumors have speculated that the Big Ten could next target North Carolina for future membership, though Brodhead carefully warned against hearsay. He noted that much of the public discourse about conference realignment is misleading.

“I don’t think anybody [at North Carolina] has spent one second thinking of any other scenario than sticking with the ACC and mak-ing it the strongest conference it could be,” Brodhead said. “Duke and UNC have a very special relationship. We have a famous rivalry. It’s a great thing for a university to have a fa-mous rivalry.”

North Carolina Chancellor Holden Thorp is currently the chair of the ACC’s Council of Presidents and has publicly reaffirmed his desire to remain in the ACC in the last two weeks.

At the same time, Maryland’s abrupt exit is a warning to all those involved that seem-ingly anything can happen. Richard Wagoner, chair of the Duke Board of Trustees, believes in North Carolina’s strong commitment but is aware of the changing landscape.

“I’m conscious of the fact that I may have said the same thing about Maryland four weeks ago,” Wagoner, Trinity ’75, said. “I would have been wrong. I don’t know what’s going on in UNC’s head.”

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scoring offense in program history.Starting every game as a redshirt fresh-

man and sophomore at right guard, Moore made the switch to center before his third season of eligibility for the Blue Devils. As usual, Moore did not gripe about chang-ing positions midway through his college career, but rather faced the challenge head on.

As the team was in final preparations for the 2011 season, everything changed when Moore broke his arm on Aug. 12, just three weeks before Duke’s season opener. He missed the first six games of the year due to the injury, appearing in just three contests before reinjuring his arm and losing the re-mainder of his junior season.

With just one year of college football remaining, Moore was never discouraged by missing nearly an entire season in the prime of his career. Durfey said that during workouts in the summer of 2011 prior to breaking his arm, Moore could bench press 330 pounds and squat over 500 pounds for the first time in his career. Facing consider-able challenges in rehabbing from the in-jury made Moore’s ascent back into Duke’s lineup that much more rewarding.

“He had prepared so hard at that point,” Durfey said. “He was almost 295 pounds and in great shape. Physically, he was ready to have a really good year. But again to Brian’s credit, he never wavered. He never showed that he was really frustrated by it. He went about what he had to do, took it one step at a time and just went after it.”

After months of painstaking work, Moore returned to the field at full strength for Duke in his senior year, starting every game for the Blue Devils in 2012. Durfey proudly added that Moore was able to return to full form in the weight room as well.

Following a 6-6 season in which he

my teammates.”The Blue Devils are beating opponents

by an average of 35.2 points per game through their first five games. Gray was quick to attribute the hot start to teamwork and chemistry.

“Our camaraderie out there on the court really shows,” Gray said. “We are feed-ing off of each other to make nice plays de-fensively and offensively.”

The Blue Devils have yet to face a ranked opponent, however, with their toughest test coming in Wednesdays’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge matchup against Michigan Wednesday, in which they beat the Wolver-ines 71-54.

California has gotten off to an impres-sive start as well and comes into Cameron Indoor Stadium unbeaten. The Golden Bears have also made easy work of their early opponents, averaging 84.0 points per game.

The Blue Devils are planning on sticking to their usual practice routine and game-plan, but are making some adjustments.

“We have to play certain teams differ-ently depending on their strengths and weaknesses,” Gray said. “But we prepare for each team the same, it doesn’t matter who we’re playing.”

played a crucial role, Moore is set to be-come a part of the lasting legacy that Duke football’s Class of 2013 will leave on cam-pus—the first senior class to play in a bowl game in 18 years.

“Thankfully for me, [Senior Day] isn’t go-ing to be the last game I ever play,” Moore said. “I can save that and put it off for a month for the bowl game. I think we’re all kind of excited that thankfully this isn’t over.”

As a member of David Cutcliffe’s first re-cruiting class at Duke, Moore has witnessed significant changes since he first stepped onto campus as a freshman in 2008. In ad-dition to the improvements that the Blue Devils have made on the field, Moore not-ed that the biggest difference he has no-ticed at Duke has been the atmosphere in Wallace Wade Stadium.

“We’ve always had a great opening game. The fans always come out and support the

opener,” Moore said. “But this year I think is the first year that we’ve seen that kind of consistent fan base throughout all of our games here at home. It’s been a lot of fun to play in front of.”

Although Moore’s future job prospects are outside of football, the skills in work eth-ic and leadership that he learned as a part of his Duke football experience will translate to his future challenges. After graduating from Duke last May, Moore has pursued a masters degree in economics, hoping to take his talents to the world of business.

“He’s a diligent guy and a great com-municator,” Durfey said. “Whatever Brian Moore decides to do he’s going to be very successful in doing it. He won’t let himself not be.”

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cidentally step on a squirrel and bring the whole rabid horde down on my head. What’s that sir? Oh no! They’re not really rabid! (Laughs harder than is probably necessary.) They’re just, uh, extremely confi dent around peo-ple. And fast. Really, really fast.

Anyway, behind us you can see the Duke Chapel. It’s pretty much the most recognizable landmark on campus, mostly because it’s really tall and pointy, but also because it’s incredibly historic. Like seriously, if you look closely at the bricks you can see “POSTERITY” written all over them. Also, you might be able to read “CHECK OUT THE STAINED GLASS BUT FOR GOD’S SAKE DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING.” At night, they shine spotlights on the Chapel, which is pretty cool when you fi rst see it, but gets old relatively fast. I’ve always wanted to convert them to Bat Signals but my schedule doesn’t really allow for shenanigans like that at present. If any of you kids get in here, make that your fi rst priority, along with fi nding Cosmic. Actually, fi nd Cosmic fi rst, that place is going to be pretty important during your fi rst year here, at least the fuzzier parts of it.

Moving on, you can see Perkins on your left. It’s a pretty nice place; we do most of our social events here and have lots of fun at pretty much a constant rate.

Alright that’s a complete lie, this is the library. In it, there are many places where you’ll despair at how much stuff you have to do, but never fi nd the mo-tivation to get it done. At least not during normal, human hours. Also, the library has tons of printers! Seriously, there are at least eight spread out over the six fl oors. That might seem like a bad ratio when you fi rst think about it, but going between fl oors to print stuff is actually good for you! Because let’s face it, you’re sure as hell not burning calories when you’re “studying,” so you might as well get off your ass. The printers do break a lot though, which can be kind of a pain considering the tuition you pay to use them. Then again, the school drops more than 50 grand on this one party in the library each year, so it pretty much evens out no matter how you slice it, as long as you’re conveniently forgetting how to slice it in several really obvious ways.

In any case, that’s enough about academics, I know you’re really wondering about the dorm situation once you get on West Campus. They’re

all pretty decent, with the excep-tion of this one place called Edens. I’m actually not allowed to take you all there, partly because someone’s grandma broke her hip navigating the area one time, but mainly be-cause they look like they were de-signed by someone on an acid trip. You really can’t go wrong with any of the other dorms though, as long as you don’t mind the occasional fi re alarm. And if you lock your door, get

back in bed and cover your head with your pillow, then it’s kind of like there isn’t even a fi re alarm going on at all (roguish wink).

Let’s fi nish the tour over near Cameron. Watch your step right there, it’s been really icy the past cou-ple days, so icy that you would think the administra-tion would consider cancelling class. But you’d be WRONG! Haha, silly tour people.

Athletics at Duke are pretty important, mainly because we’re pretty damn good at them, and also because they get too much money to be ignored by the student body. Can you ask that question again, ma’am? Why does that lawn resemble an upscale refugee camp? Because that’s what Duke basketball is all about! Passion and success and sleeping in tents with people you can hopefully tolerate! Basketball games, especially the one against UNC, are as good as it gets at Duke. You know, as long as we win. Cause camping out fi ve weeks to watch your team lose is memorable, but probably not in the best way.

Anyway, that’s about it for the tour. What you have here is a very unique, very exciting place to spend four years. The time I’ve spent at Duke has been the best of my life, not because of the squirrels and the printers and the fi re alarms and the ice, but because of everything besides that. Having a great life isn’t the same as having a perfect life. It’s about being able to look past the imperfections to see the goodness within.

I don’t know who actually said that, my friend just told me to say it at the end of the tour. He asked me to cover for him today, got bit by a squirrel.

Jordan Siedell is a Trinity senior. This is his fi nal col-umn of the semester.

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Renovations to the Bryan Center have begun and are expected to pick up over Winter Break in the hopes of fi nishing the makeover in time for the 2013 academic year. Unreno-vated since 1982, it is high time for the BC to be reno-vated. We are excited about the changes to come, as they will bring improvements in the building’s aesthetics, functionality and accessibil-ity. We outline what students can expect from these reno-vations and how they will im-pact student life.

Although many of the physical changes to the Bry-an Center are cosmetic, we should not underestimate the value of aesthetics. We look forward to the proposed

changes, as currently the BC is poorly lit, disjointed and outdated. The renovations will bring high-effi ciency lights, improved color pal-ettes and innumerable glass

doors and win-dows—includ-ing on its main

facade—giving the building a light and airy feeling. This will be a marked improve-ment from the BC’s currently dreary interior and exterior, which have earned it the nickname of “The Prison” from some administrators.

Offi ces and student centers will especially ben-efi t from glass partitions, equipped with more fl uid, creative meeting spaces. New furniture, fl oor materials, and signage will make the BC an altogether more pleasant

building. Taken together, the BC will have a more energiz-ing and connective aesthetic.

In terms of function, the BC has always been a patch-work space, with restaurants, offi ces and theaters thrown together. With the new West Union destined to be the multi-purpose student social hub, the new BC will be one step closer to its true pur-pose: a multi-purpose stu-dent services hub.

Currently, the BC is free-for-all space, and students share it—specifi cally the Von Canon rooms—with employ-ers looking to recruit, out-side charities holding events like blood drives and alumni social events. After the con-struction of the new Events Pavilion, which will fl ank the BC, any non-student-related

events will be moved there, making the BC specifi cally for students. Moreover, the newly relocated LGBT Cen-ter as well as other vastly im-proved organization spaces will give students the con-venience and collaborative energy of centralized of-fi ces. The relocation of the Offi ce of Student Affairs from the Flowers building to the BC, right near the main entrance, is another positive change. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Mon-eta will now work directly among the students he seeks to serve.

The other crucial im-provement to the BC is acces-sibility. Currently, navigating the BC poses a signifi cant in-convenience to the disabled, especially going up and down

the BC’s various labyrinth-like levels. The new blueprints sport greatly improved acces-sibility, including new sliding entry doors, ADA restrooms on the middle fl oor and lev-eling an awkward platform in the current Textbook Store. Although these may seem like tiny changes to most students, they will make the BC much more friendly to the disabled members of our community.

Duke is undergoing ma-jor physical changes, and the impending shuffl e and renovation of various student services over the next few months may prove cumber-some. But one thing is for sure: After the last shiny glass wall is installed, students can look forward to a vastly im-proved BC.

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As I was sitting at my desk preparing to write this col-umn, I was wearing fuzzy socks and sipping pepper-mint tea. I was also doing some pretty heavy thinking

about the cosmos.I was intentionally forgetting

about the two incomplete appli-cations I have yet to fill out, the 14 unanswered emails waiting in my inbox, and the very dire eye appointment I need to schedule ASAP because truth be told, I’m blind.

No, tonight I was thinking about the cosmos. And the stars. And whatever else is out there right this moment peering down on us with a large, oth-erworldly telescope. It’s unsettling how little we give these things any thought, how rarely they appear in our daily con-versations.

I am not a particularly religious gal. I don’t attend church regularly…or really ever, much to my mother’s horror and confusion. I don’t read the Bible or any other spiritual text. I don’t really know what I believe.

This isn’t necessarily from lack of thought on the subject of my spirituality, but rather just an enormous confusion about what is right and true. There are so many conflicting ideas concerning a deity and the afterlife and so many varia-tions within those beliefs that who’s to know what is real and what isn’t? Maybe nothing is real. Maybe everything is real.

This just took a sharp left turn to ScaryExistentialville. My apologies. What I’m trying to communicate to you read-ers who aren’t my parents or immediate family (and hope-fully there are at least a few of you in existence) is that our spiritual beliefs matter. They matter not just on Sundays or holy days or special holidays. And they don’t matter in the sense that everyone must believe in some formal religious structure or in the same religious structure. No, it just mat-ters that we at least THINK about what we believe and why.

Oftentimes, in a moment of panic or uncertainty, I’ve looked with envy at those people who maintain strong re-ligious or spiritual beliefs. There is an unshakable aura of peace and contentment that radiates from them just due to knowing what they believe and being sure in that knowl-edge. In my experience, it doesn’t seem to make a differ-ence what specific religious or spiritual belief these people hold. Anyone, from the most orthodox to the most atheis-tic, can find and radiate that inner peace that comes from trusting in their own beliefs.

We’re in college, obviously. We’re here to work hard and play hard. But where do we fit in time to contemplate? To think about the bigger picture and things like what in the world happens after death? How did we get here? Why? WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE? (When you ask these questions to yourself late at night, you must say them dra-matically and with bravado.)

Opinions on these topics vary greatly and are often inextricably tied to different cultures and backgrounds. Sometimes we will believe exactly what our parents believe and sometimes we will not. Normally we think of differenc-es in religious or spiritual beliefs as distinctions that divide us more often than they bring us together. Rather than fo-cusing on the individual religious distinctions themselves, we should celebrate the fact that people are able to have differing opinions on spirituality that enhance their hap-piness level while also giving them a sense of peace and fulfillment.

This kind of contentment is pure and true no matter what the source.

The slightly scary truth is that the earth keeps spinning while we’re compulsively checking our emails. If you step back and think for a moment, you have to admit, it’s a little bizarre that we (myself definitely included) spend more time thinking about what we’re going to wear on a given day than we do pondering over the mysteries of the universe.

I understand that we have to do some mundane things in order to be functioning humans and to keep life moving along, but it’d be very sad if we went through life, or even through college, without giving these mysteries, and our be-liefs on the matter, their due consideration.

As we head into the season of endless holidays and cel-ebration, we should give some thought to our spiritual be-liefs. Whether those opinions lean more heavily toward the divine or whether they are firmly rooted in the secular, we owe it to ourselves to at least figure out where we stand so that we may derive that deep sense of satisfaction that comes from trusting in our beliefs.

Addie Navarro is a Trinity sophomore. This is her final column of the semester.

Some deeper stuffRuthless addiction. Incomparable depen-

dence. You need it. You can’t function with-out it. You’re jittery and restless, twitching

uncontrollably until you’ve satiated these pangs of craving, until you’ve had your morning coffee.

Coffee has a remarkable and dis-tinctive ability to posses a multitude of personalities. It garners identities as unique and diverse as the people who drink it. It is bold and potent, strong. It is bitter. It is sweet and smooth. On a bad day, it’s as weak and ineffective as we are. Perhaps these identities are the reason we’ve personifi ed the drink and even given it a human name—Joe.

Synonymous for “cup of coffee” is a “cup of Joe.” Have we ever asked who Joe is? I spend an estimated $23.52 on coffee alone every seven days, and would undoubtedly enjoy a “cup of Enrique” or something more exotic than Joe just as much for the same whopping $1,300 a year. Whoever Joe was must be quite a special man, since everybody seems to want a little bit of him every morning.

We’re always doing it. We’re grabbing a cup in a blazer and pumps while we converse with poten-tial employers and recruiters. We’re venting to our best friend’s open ears and asking for honesty over a Starbucks’ venti-sized. We’re going on fi rst dates with coffee as an indispensable third wheel. This ar-bitrary beverage has declared itself a faultless side dish for conversation.

Coffee is an incredible witness. It is a silent on-looker, overseeing emotion and livelihood. A sweaty-palmed interviewee will cautiously sip their black coffee with a side of apprehension, staring across an oversized mahogany desk at a man in a leather chair with a gold-plated and title-boasting nametag. A young girl warms her hands with a size small, light and sweet, as her fi rst date simultaneously warms her heart. It doesn’t matter how you size it or how you sip it, coffee is a suitable and stable accomplice in nearly any scenario.

Upon brewing, coffee awakens its senses. It smells and it tastes, it touches and feels. But perhaps its most overlooked and undoubtedly underestimated sense and quality is hearing.

We constantly remind ourselves the importance of the simple things. The small and fl eeting mo-ments of clarity and of satisfaction, the indetermi-nate and evocative minutia of existence. We are constantly enlightened of the power of “the little things in life,” told of their remarkable infl uence as

a vehicle to open the gateway of happiness. And we constantly ignore everything we hear.

Drinking a cup of coffee is perhaps the most fundamental reminder of the simple things. So what if it’s an arbitrary thing—it gathers those who are de-tached together in the stir of a spoon and the blink of an eye. There’s a place in my hometown that tran-scends the test of time and great distance, serving up a long-awaited reunion for my closest friends and myself. Each of us has branched out, away from home and down our own respective paths. A tattered round

table near the front window of a small café is a fl aw-less host to four chairs that wobble from constant coming and going. Four of us sit in the same spots we always have—venti black with a double shot sits with her back to the window. Tall vanilla sits to her right, grande green tea to her left, short caramel latte across the rounded table. We are extraordi-narily unlike but make a perfect blend, the conver-sation as pungent as the smell exuding from beyond the barista.

Coffee brings people out, and brings words out just the same. Its power is intoxicating in releasing a stream of consciousness and thought, gushing and catching up with your closest associates. You talk about school and seduction, places and personas. You fi ddle with the jacket on your paper cup and fi dget as you’re fl ooded with caffeine. Opposites at-tract; a girl sips black coffee across from another whose cup is fi lled with cream and sugar. These are the little things—those moments thirsting for nostalgia, the moments when you realize you don’t want “Joe” to be the only man in your life anymore.

A simple, silent cup of coffee has observed and absorbed a great deal. It has heard boisterous laughter, and it has soothed intolerable pain. It has smelled fermenting controversy, and it has sensed insurmountable passion. It is fondly considered one of the little things. What’s inside a mug is compara-ble to what’s inside the body—sometimes it’s sweet, sometimes it’s bitter, depending on the day. Its pres-ence at the table is witness to a temperamental va-riety of people and places, and like the people who consume it, it can both soothe and scald. But when it’s just right, it’s pungent. It’s powerful. It’s a per-fect, perfect little thing.

Ashley Camano is a Trinity junior. This is her fi nal column of the semester.

Simple little addiction

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groups’ methodology to control the lucrative economic arrange-ment,” Pendergrast said. “All groups use rape as a means of so-cial control. They target women to humiliate and destroy the will of the community.”

The Congolese government has adopted a mob mentality with respect to the coveted min-erals in the resource-rich country, Prendergast explained. Instead of focusing on developing the econ-omy or social services in response to the looting, the Congolese gov-ernment has instead organized the state to benefit from the loot-ing and privatized the wealth base of the country so that the generals and top politicians profit.

“All the money that should be taxed and used to help develop the country is going into the pock-ets of individual people at the top of the food chain,” he said.

But Prendergast is hopeful for a peaceful future in the Congo because the burgeoning conflict-free movement is beginning to gain momentum in the United States.

“A movement is forming here in the United States to pressure companies and governments to change the way they do business, so they don’t underwrite and profit from this nightmare,” Prendergast said. “That is the answer—building alliances and solidarity with those on the ground and battling for change.”

The role of students is a crucial aspect of the conflict-free move-

ment, Prendergast noted. Elec-tronics companies are incentivized to listen to students and young people as they comprise the larg-est demographic of purchasers in the electronics market.

“If young people as a demo-graphic group demand an altera-tion in product—whether it’s what the color of the product is or how it works or what its features are or, in this case, what misery it’s creat-ing in its creation—then the com-panies are going to respond to that,” he added.

He praised Duke’s Coalition for a Conflict-Free Duke, an alli-ance of student groups dedicated to increasing awareness and ac-tion surrounding the conflict in the Congo, noting that it has been central to the movement.

“We started last year in order to pressure Duke to take a stance on the issue of conflict minerals and to use our leverage as a thought leader to affect real change,” said junior Stefani Jones, co-founder of CCFD. “We successfully lobbied the Board of Trustees last year to adopt an investment guideline for electronics companies who use these minerals in their products.”

Jones added that, after CCFD saw much success at Duke, the organization is now looking to partner with other schools in the region to proliferate its mission.

Prendergast called CCFD’s work a “tremendous success,” add-ing that the group should serve as a great example of the kind of action students and universities should be taking. In the summer of 2012, Duke became the second

school nationwide to pass such a shareholder resolution, following Stanford University in 2010.

“They’re quite a groundbreak-ing organization,” Prendergast said of CCFD. “They’re national leaders in the student movement that’s dealing with these issues of conflict minerals.”

To promote awareness and escalate the student movement, Prendergast launched the Raise Hope for Congo campaign as part of the Enough Project, which he founded to end genocide and hu-man rights issues.

“Raise Hope for Congo spon-sored our campus initiative where we have about 120 schools across the country that are now following in the footsteps of what Duke did in April,” Prendergast said. “It’s only a year old, so we’re trying to build a campus-led movement of young people.”

Prendergast said it is impera-tive that the movement continues to build, and students must not allow companies and politicians to perpetuate such “heinous hate crimes.”

“[Prendergast is] a thought leader of this movement, and it was great to have him come lay it out and [lay out] the logic behind advocating for minerals and re-sources regulated here at Duke,” said CCFD’s other co-founder San-jay Kishore, a senior. “This event exposes us to a community that has a much richer set of experi-ences to draw from that are still passionate about this issue, which could lead to better informed ad-vocacy in the future.”

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Wuhan—by hiring a permanent staff of professors from Duke and other top Chinese and interna-tional universities, she said.

A group of Duke professors plan to tour China’s top under-graduate universities early next year to form a plan to adapt prom-inent Chinese teaching styles into a new model for teaching at DKU. Bullock said she hopes the new styles that result from the collaboration will serve as a new and more effective approach for teaching liberal arts through-out the world. She added that a strong liberal arts curriculum and interdisciplinary courses that focus on China’s history and cultural differences could bridge the gap between east and west.

Bullock added that she hopes to introduce courses in American history and social sciences at DKU, which are currently not offered in China.

The campus will feature water canals that mimic the city’s natu-ral landscape. Kunshan, which is funding the campus’ construc-tion, is also constructing an area directly across from the campus that will feature start-up science and technology companies, apart-ments, restaurants and shopping for students to enjoy, Bullock said.

Such developments will pro-vide students with a taste of China’s culture, noted Daniel Gauthier, Robert C. Richardson professor of physics, adding that

it will be similar to the rich Durham culture surrounding Duke.

But some council members remain uncertain about the venture.

Mary Boatwright, professor of ancient history, expressed concern that the cultural and language barriers could prevent students from getting the most of their China experience.

“We are going to look care-fully at orientation programs for all students in terms of how they communicate with one another,” Bullock said.

She added that classes at DKU will be taught in English, but stu-dents will be expected to improve their Chinese language skills and understanding of the Chinese culture.

In other businessBoard of Trustees Chair Rich-

ard Wagoner, Trinity ’75, present-ed the Board’s changing role in light of the Duke Forward capital campaign and other challenges.

Every member of the Board recognizes the importance the entire Duke community will play as the University continues to grow, he said.

“The Board of Trustees fully understands and embraces the im-portance of Duke faculty and staff members,” he said.

Wagoner shared an optimistic outlook for the University’s future despite new challenges.

“This is exactly the kind of envi-ronment in which Duke can shine and thrive,” Wagoner said.

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