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ONTHERECORD“Nearly every day since my sophomore year of high school, I have carried a U.S. Constitution in my left-hand pocket...”

—Daniel Strunk in “The Constitution in my pocket.” See column page 8

CHRONICLE GRAPHIC BY ELIZA STRONG

Researches from the ENCODE project—some of whom are Duke faculty—have found that some DNA strands previously thought to be “junk DNA” actually contain a significant amount of information.

by John BarkerTHE CHRONICLE

After nearly a decade of research, a group of geneticists at Duke and around the world have reported that a significant amount of in-formation exists in swaths of the human ge-nome that were previously referred to as junk DNA.

Researchers from the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project—known as ENCODE—pub-lished numerous papers last week that col-lectively assign some functionality to approxi-mately 80 percent of the human genome. Previously, the only portions of the genome that were recognized and understood were those catalogued by the Human Genome Proj-ect, which released a list of more than 20,000 genes that code for the creation of various pro-teins. Those sections of the genome make up less than 2 percent of the genome’s roughly three billion nucleotides—the purpose of the rest was unknown.

Now, however, ENCODE researchers have ascribed functions to a much greater portion of the genetic code.

“The ENCODE project really teaches us to embrace our own ignorance,” said Huntington Willard, director of the Duke Institute for Ge-nome Sciences and Policy. “The original EN-CODE project was designed to say that this stuff

The ethics of cheating

by Greg McKeonTHE CHRONICLE

Allegations of unprecedented cheating on a recent final exam has put Harvard Univer-sity, and other schools, in a difficult position.

Harvard conducted an investigation into nearly 125 students accused of collaborating on a final exam last semester, making it the lat-est school to fall victim to a rising trend of aca-demic dishonesty in U.S. higher education. The trend raises ethical questions about how universities, including Duke, can maintain academic integrity in an increasingly collab-orative environment where students are pres-sured to succeed.

The students, who were enrolled in Har-vard’s “Introduction to Congress” course, al-legedly collaborated on the class’s take-home final exam. Yet some undergraduates said the professor was unclear about the course expec-tations, saying they entered the course expect-ing an easy A.

“[The professor] said ‘I gave out 120 A’s last year, and I’ll give out 120 more,’” an ac-cused student told the New York Times.

But by the time finals came around, the exam on which the alleged cheating oc-curred was significantly more difficult than

Main St. rebuild to cause delaysby Danli LiuTHE CHRONICLE

Students may experience travel delays as Main Street clos-es next summer.

The North Carolina Depart-ment of Transportation plans to demolish and rebuild the bridge over Campus Drive adjacent to East Campus, a project called the Main Street Bridge Replace-ment Project. The construc-tion, which will begin May 2013, comes in response to concerns regarding the structure of the bridge. Construction cannot be-gin until Durham completes its current waterline replacement project.

“This construction is a city project that must happen,” said sophomore Derek Rhodes, Duke

Fighting Irish are ACC’s 15th member

by Andrew BeatonTHE CHRONICLE

The ACC just got a little bit more fight.

The conference’s council of presidents unanimously accept-ed Notre Dame into the ACC Wednesday. The Fighting Irish are currently scheduled to join the conference in the 2015-2016 season.

“It is my distinct pleasure to an-nounce Notre Dame as the 15th member of the Atlantic Coast Conference,” ACC Commissioner John Swofford said in a press con-ference Wednesday afternoon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Fighting Irish will join as a full member in all sports except

football. Notre Dame will instead play five football games against ACC schools annually but remain independent. Notre Dame will, however, be a part of the ACC bowl lineup excluding the Bowl Cham-pionship Series games, Swofford said.

In the past, the ACC has insist-ed that schools have full member-ship in all sports, Swofford said. It is “significant” that they made this exception for Notre Dame.

“What was best 20 years ago isn’t necessarily best in today’s world,” he said. “Now is the time, and this partnership is a win-win.”

The Fighting Irish will not be a part of any of the ACC’s football

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Construction along Main Street next year might cause travel delays for students and University employees—particularly those who use the Bull City Connector. The bus route will have to change temporarily due to the construction.

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Study ties fistula to mental disorders

by Pi PraveenTHE CHRONICLE

Duke Student Government ap-proved a proposal to amend the University’s existing Knock and Talks procedure at the Senate meeting Wednesday.

Proposed by Derek Rhodes, DSG vice president for Durham and regional affairs, the Knock & Talks amendment looked to make University interaction with students and student groups liv-ing off-campus a more comfort-able affair. In the past, members of the Office of Student Conduct and the Duke University Police Department visited 12 to 15 off-campus houses at the start of the Fall to assess the dynamic of Duke students living in the greater Dur-ham community.

Rhodes called this practice in-trusive and said that it sends a nega-tive message about Duke students.

“We, as students, do care about the neighborhood,” said Rhodes, a sophomore.

DSG approved Rhodes’ propos-al—which called for off-campus students to reaffirm their com-mitment to the Duke Community Standard and for a collaboration with Duke Partnership for Service as part of a restructuring of the off-campus mediation program—by unanimous consent.

The Senate also approved three amendments to the Resi-dential House Assessment Com-mittee bylaws, proposed by Vice President for Residential Life Jacob Zionce, a sophomore. The amendments changed RGAC’s scoring system and added an ap-peals process and a house presen-tation process.

“This is a resolution that will es-tablish how the committee works and the committee’s functional-ity,” Zionce said.

RGAC will score each house based on a written plan outlining the house’s compliance with the committee’s assessment criteria and its performance during the

course of the year. These scores will be released at the end of each semester, and groups will have 24 hours to appeal their score.

The meeting began with the swearing in of the freshmen senators. Associate Justice Daniel

by Nourhan ElsayedTHE CHRONICLE

Women with obstetric fistula are prone to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers found.

A study conducted over the course of two years by the Duke Global Health Institute in con-junction with the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center found the rates of mental disorder among women with obstetric fistula to be uncommonly high. The results led the research-ers to establish a workshop in Moshi, Tanzania that used the findings of the study to initiate discussion about how to better care for women with obstetric fistula.

Obstetric fistula is a hole in the birth canal, which can arise after a woman gives birth with-out proper medical care. A wom-an who has a fistula experiences uncontrollable leaking of urine or feces and emits a persistent bad odor, said Sarah Wilson, a DGHI doctoral scholar and a leading contributor in the study and a leader in the development of the workshop in Tanzania.

“There’s a synergy between the physical and psychological symptoms,” said Kathleen Sik-kema, professor of psychology and neuroscience, global health, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and a collaborator in the study and workshop.

In addition to the physical effects caused by the condition, women suffering from obstetric fistula are faced with social stig-ma due to the smell they emit, which leads to self-isolation. The psychological effects of the condition lead to PTSD and de-

pression, added Melissa Watt, DGHI assistant professor and another leading contributor to the study.

“[These women] no longer felt like a person,” Wilson said. “There’s a significant amount of shame and anxiety.”

Watt noted that obstetric fis-tula is prevalent in low-income countries, particularly countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South-east Asia.

Poor socioeconomic class also contributes to the prevalence of obstetric fistula, Wilson added.

Data for the study came from surveys conducted when suffer-ers from the condition were in the hospital for treatment.

“We think that women come to the hospital with a whole host of difficult stresses in their lives, which has led us to believe that the time they are in the hospital can be a real moment of op-portunity because it addresses their mental health needs in order to effectively serve these women and address their overall health,” Watts said.

Participants in the workshop were receptive to the ideas it presented, Wilson said. The workshop identified ways to help women cope with obstetric fistula.

“We see these patients, and we know that they are coming in with mental health concerns, and that there is really a need for special health providers,” Wilson said. “The kind of in-tervention would be something that would not require any spe-cial degree…. It can be someone who just works with patients and has basic skills of active listening and empathy.”

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Sophomore Derek Rhodes, DSG vice president of Durham and regional affairs, spoke Wednesday night about a program that invites Duke Police to visit off-campus student houses.

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anticipated. “Classes change,” said Michael Gustafson,

associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke. “Certainly, having the answer be ‘I’m taking this course that’s sup-posed to be an easy A and now it’s not so we’re going to create this mechanism by which we turn it back into an easy A,’ that’s a disaster.”

He noted that the widespread allegations are a timely reminder for Duke, which has dealt with similar cheating scandals in the past. In 2007, 34 Duke MBA candidates at the Fuqua School of Business were suspended, ex-pelled or flunked for collaborating on a take-home test, causing concern about integrity and commitment to the school’s honor code.

In light of the recent Harvard scandal, the Duke community should pay closer attention to the results of a study on issues of academic trust-worthiness published every five years by Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics, said Noah Pickus, di-rector of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and as-sociate research professor of public policy. The latest survey was conducted in 2011.

Although Duke continues to show sig-nificant improvement in both percentages of students committing outright plagiarism and falsifying data on their reports, the type of un-authorized collaboration seen in the Harvard case is on the rise. According to the Kenan report, the category “Receiving unpermitted help on an assignment” was self-reported by 27.43 percent of Duke undergraduates in 2011, up from 22 percent in the previous 2005 study. Students “Working on an assignment with others when the instructor asked for indi-vidual work” rose to 34 percent in 2011 from 29 in 2005.

For students, collaboration can be a gray area in the world of academic integrity, Pickus said. As Duke attempts to foster new ideas and learning by encouraging in-class group work

and out-of-class discussion of material, it is dif-ficult to distinguish where earnest learning ends and cheating begins.

“The rules we have for academic integrity were written for a time when work was sup-posed to be solely individual,” Pickus said. “This mismatch causes a great deal of confu-sion and it’s time to create new approaches that distinguish between appropriate collabo-ration and inappropriate collaboration.”

Furthermore, as students race to distin-guish themselves in the high-pressure job competition seen at today’s top schools, they may be more inclined toward academic dis-honesty, especially unauthorized collabora-tion that they view as more benign.

“It raises the question of how far the uni-versity wants to go about placing boundaries around a competitive ethos,” Pickus said. “Be-ing competitive is what we’re good at, but at the same time we don’t think that competi-tive success is the only standard by which we should judge success.”

Explicit communication is vital in avoid-

ing incidents like the one at Harvard, said Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of the Student Conduct Office. As Duke pushes toward group based learning, expectations for individual assignments are becoming increasingly ambiguous.

If faculty—especially in courses that rely largely on group work and take-home assign-ments—fail to make clear the demands of their class, students are more likely to bend their own moral codes to fit what they think is reasonable, Pickus said.

And when these two expectations do not meet, the student can face anything from teacher-student discipline to suspension for two semesters, Bryan added.

“A good rule of thumb I have been preach-ing lately: Students are likely to interpret the acceptable parameters for collaboration far more liberally than their instructor intended,” he said. “If both instructors and students keep this in mind, it will help prompt questions and discussions between faculty and students to re-duce any confusion.”

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A cheating scandal at Harvard University has caused the higher education community to reassess methods for preventing cheating on certain projects—particularly collaborative ones such as take-home exams.

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Strunk, a junior, led the appointees as they took their oaths.

Executive Vice President Patrick Oathout, a junior, suggested that the freshman senators should find mentors within Duke’s community.

While addressing the role that the new senators will play on Duke’s cam-pus, senior George Carotenuto, vice president for facilities and the environ-ment, told them that if the freshmen had a particular interest on campus, they could find a project related to it.

Three justices were elected to the judiciary, which reviews senate proceed-ings, after an application process involv-ing written applications, interviews, a short speech and a Q&A session with members of DSG. Freshmen Joseph Denton and Max Schreiber and senior Kory Painter were entrusted with up-holding DSG’s constitution and with re-specting its history.

In other business:Strunk called for a DSG soapbox to

serve as a weekly public forum, either at the West Campus bus stop or at the Bryan Center Plaza. The Soapbox would enable students to assert their First Amendment rights, Strunk said.

All members of DSG will take part in bystander intervention training against gender violence organized by the Wom-en’s Center during the months of Octo-ber and November.

The surplus trustees of the Student Organization Finance Committee were restructured to officially include four representatives from the DSG Senate. This is in addition to the membership of five officeholders from the DSG execu-tive board.

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The bridge, which was built in 1950, is considered “functionally obsolete,” said City Transportation Director Mark Ahrendsen in a Durham City Council meeting in March, adding that the nar-rowness of the Campus Drive underpass and its low clearance pose safety con-cerns. Construction on the bridge could take up to 12 months.

But the project cannot begin until the city finishes replacing the water line under Main Street.

“The new pipeline must be done first to maintain both water quality and availability of water in the distribution system,” according to a handout from city’s Water Management Department. “The old lines, which are underneath the bridge, can’t be taken out of service until the new line is complete.”

The construction on the water line is part of the water management de-partment’s project to make long-term improvements to Durham’s water infra-structure. The city plans to replace more than one mile of water pipes built in the early 20th century along West Main Street, Ninth Street, Iredell Street, South Buchanan Boulevard and Perry Street, with a larger waterline to better support the surrounding area’s water system.

“While most of the water line work on West Main Street is nearly complete, the section along Ninth Street, some of Perry and Hillsborough Rd. still remains to be done,” said Jim Harding, civil en-gineer with the city’s water management department.

He added that construction on Ninth and Perry streets and Hillsborough Road

will likely be completed by the end of the month.

Construction of the Main Street Bridge will begin as soon as the waterline work is finished, Harding said, adding that West Main Street—between Broad Street and Buchanan Boulevard—will be closed during the construction.

NCDOT also has plans to resurface Main Street from Ninth Street to Pea-body Street, and a segment of Swift Av-enue from Main Street to NC 147.

Representatives of the city, NCDOT and the University met in March to dis-cuss opportunities to consider ways to compress the bridge construction sched-ule and minimize the closure of Main Street.

“Normally a bridge this size takes about six to 12 months to replace,” said NCDOT Division Engineer Wally Bowman. “After various meetings [with Duke], the time has been shortened to 150 days for the bridge replacement.... NCDOT has pledged that there will be no work on Campus Drive during Duke’s freshman move-in August.”

Bowman added that in the discussions, NCDOT agreed to work during the night until 6 a.m., and the contractor would not begin deconstructing the bridge un-til after graduation on May 13.

But neither Duke Parking Transpor-tation nor DSG have been notified about the specific details of the project, said Joseph Honeycutt, acting assistant direc-tor for transit and fleet oprations.

“Surely if it becomes a problem or a major inconvenience for students, we will look into it,” Rhodes said. “I have faith that the city will do its best, as it has done in the past, to work with Duke and make the project go as smoothly and quickly as possible.”

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Q&A with Semi Ojeleye, recruit for 2013 classby Brady Buck

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Duke picked up its second pledge of the recruiting class of 2013 Sunday night when five-star small forward Semi Ojeleye committed to the Blue Devils following his in-home visit with head coach Mike Krzyzewski and assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski. The Ottawa, Kans. product is considered one of the top wings in the class due to his imposing strength, solid athleticism and versatile offensive skill set to go along with his ideal size at 6-foot-6 and 220 pounds. The Chronicle’s Brady Buck spoke with Ojeleye to discuss his commitment to Duke.

The Chronicle: Can you walk us through your in-home visit with Krzyzewski on Sunday night and how your commitment unfolded?

Semi Ojeleye: [The Duke coaches] came over. It was me, my whole family, with my AAU coach there along with Coach K and Coach Wojo. We ate dinner and started talking about what plans they had for me and how they see me fitting into the program. We were able to ask questions and if anyone had any concerns about anything, they answered those. We talked for a little bit and then they showed us some video of some past play-ers and former [Duke] players as well as the USA [National] team and how they won the Gold Medal. And I just decided that [Duke] was the school for me.

TC: What was Krzyzewski’s reaction to your commitment?SO: He was very, very excited. I don’t think I’ve seen him

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Small forward Semi Ojeleye, a Kansas native, committed to Duke Sunday as the second member of the 2013 recruiting class.

Duke finds similar foe in N.C. Central

Blue Devils enter ACC play, facing their toughest opponent

by Lopa RahmanTHE CHRONICLE

Flirting with perfection, Florida State holds a 6-0 record and the No. 1 ranking in the nation.

In a battle of powerhouses, the No. 2 Blue Devils (6-1) will look to dethrone the Seminoles from their position atop the standings. The road matchup between Duke and Florida State marks the beginning of conference play for both teams.

“Obviously Florida State is a great team,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “Their whole set plays are very dangerous, and we’re going to have to do a good job there.”

In particular, the Blue Devils have been focusing on their throw-ins, a notable strength of the Seminoles.

“Their throw-in is so dangerous,” Church said. “You just don’t see any-body in college soccer with a throw-in like that.”

Although their teammates have been working on set plays, sophomore Kelly Cobb and junior Mollie Pathman have returned to the United States and

may appear in their first game of the season Thursday. The standout pair spent the non-conference portion of the sea-son playing for the U.S. championship team in the FIFA U-20 World Cup. In 2011, Cobb led the Blue Devils with 11 goals and nine assists. Pathman, the third-leading scorer, registered six goals and 11 assists.

Although Cobb will not play because of a lingering in-jury, Pathman’s status for the game remains questionable, Church said.

While Cobb and Pathman represented the United States, juniors Laura Weinberg, Kim DeCesare and Gilda Doria have carried the Duke squad with 18, 15 and 14 points, respec-tively. Weinberg and Doria led the Blue Devils to victory over San Diego and then-No. 8 Marquette this past weekend.

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Kim DeCesare was injured during the game against San Diego.

DeCesare went down with an injury in the sixth minute of the game against the Toreros. Whether or not she will play Thursday is a game-time decisiown, Church said.

Florida State senior Tiffany McCarty and sophomore Dagny Brynjarsdottir pace the Seminole attack with respective point totals of eight and seven. Both players earned All-America, Soc-cer America and All-ACC accolades last season.

“McCarty plays at a very high level,” Florida State head coach Mark Krikorian said. “Her athletic quality coupled with her abilities in and around the penalty box are hard for a lot of teams to deal with. [Brynjarsdottir] has played very well in the

by Daniel CarpTHE CHRONICLE

Though few may know, N.C. Central’s trajectory this season is nearly identical to Duke’s. Entering the season, second-year head coach Henry Frazier was poised to lead the Eagles, who have improved from their 2-9 record in 2011. N.C. Central blew by Fayetteville State 54-31 in its season-opener. But in the Eagles’ second contest, the team relapsed with a 34-14 road loss to Elon, leaving them with a number of questions.

As N.C. Central faces the Blue Devils in this weekend’s Bull City Classic, the Eagles hope that their resounding defeat in week two was a fluke.

Quarterback Matt Goggans, a junior, took the reins for N.C. Central in his first year of eligibility since transferring from Ful-lerton College. In N.C. Central’s season-opening victory, Gog-gans completed 56.7 percent of his passes, but struggled in the Eagles’ loss to Elon. Goggans was removed from the game in favor of backup quarterback Jordan Reid after completing just 1-of-12 passes for 10 yards and being intercepted twice. Despite this disastrous performance, Frazier has made no indication that Goggans will not start this weekend.

“Our passing game was not on point at all,” Frazier said. “We had four turnovers and our passing game did not do a very good job at all in terms of our reads and in terms of our progressions.”

Regardless of who the Eagles’ quarterback is, Frazier will look for wide receiver Geovanie Irvine to make big plays down the field. Irvine, a Durham local from Hillside High School, is N.C. Central’s leading receiver and has caught eight passes this year for 132 yards and two touchdowns. The senior will see

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TC: What was it about Duke that made it the perfect fit for you and prompted you to commit?

SO: Their high academic standards, their basketball history and playing for Coach K. I think those three things along with the fact that it felt right in my heart made it the school that I wanted to go to.

TC: How does it feel to officially be a Blue Devil?SO: I can’t describe it. It’s a big blessing.

TC: Is it a big relief for you to have the recruitment process over and out of the way, so you can invest all of your time and effort into basketball the rest of your senior year?

SO: Yeah, that’s really nice. The phone calls are kind of getting a little bit hectic. [The media attention] was a bless-ing throughout the whole [recruiting] process, but I’m glad to finally get it over with.

TC: How exactly does the Duke coaching staff see you fit-ting into the program?

SO: Being able to play multiple positions—the 2-4 depend-ing on what the matchups, the lineups and the game situations are. And [the coaches see me] being able to do whatever they need me to do on the court, whether that is defending, re-bounding [or] being versatile to help the team out.

TC: What aspects of your game will you specifically be

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working on during your high school season as you prepare for the next level?

SO: Everything. Every part of my game is important to me, especially being consistent mentally and being aggressive. Shooting, ball handling, it all comes into play.

TC: As I’m sure you are well aware of, Duke is in the mix for Jabari Parker and Julius Randle, who are two of the top players in the class. Landing one of the two could make Duke a favorite to win the 2013-14 national championship. What is your relationship like with Parker and Randle?

SO: I don’t really have a personal relationship with them. You see them play. You see them at camps. You kind of see them from a distance, but you don’t really know them up close. From what I hear about those guys, they are good guys. And they’d be great teammates from what I hear.

TC: And will you take it upon yourself now to help recruit other players, like Randle and Parker, to Duke?

SO: [The Duke coaches] said since I committed that now they can tell other players that I will be there, so depending on [other recruits’] feelings about me that can be a plus or a mi-nus. But I can’t really help them recruit directly. Everyone has their own wants and needs, so they are going to go wherever they want to go.

TC: Do have any plans lined up to take an official visit to Duke in the near future?

SO: Yeah, I will definitely take an official visit. We are just working on the details, the schedule and things like that right now.

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midfield. She has done a very good job of controlling much of the game for us. She’s a presence in the air, and she’s also been very dangerous in and around the box.”

The awareness of McCarty and Brynjarsdottir’s movement on the field will be the key to limiting their goal-scoring oppor-tunities, Church said.

“When balls are played to them, we’re going to have to get tight,” he said. “Tiff and Dagny like to play off of each other, and we have to be aware of their combination play in passing and moving. We’re just going to have to be very aware of where they are at all times throughout the course of the game.”

Regardless of whether Cobb, Pathman and DeCesare com-pete, the Blue Devils have no shortage of offensive firepower to counter McCarty and Brynjarsdottir’s sharp play.

If the Blue Devils tap into their full potential, they just might knock down the top-ranked team in the country.

“Duke is a really hard-working team and has a collection of players that are willing to put up one heck of a fight,” Krikorian said. “They have a lot of different attacking weapons.”

The Fighting Irish will not be a part of any of the ACC’s foot-ball television contracts. But 20 percent of the conference’s TV revenue goes to basketball, so as an ACC member, Notre Dame will receive 1/15 of that revenue. In order to accommodate the new teams, the 15-team ACC basketball tournament will likely involve giving the top four teams a bye.

With the addition of Notre Dame this year—on top of Syr-acuse and Pittsburgh joining last year—the ACC now has 15 members. Swofford noted that there is no intention to add a 16th school to the conference.

Due to their current contract with the Big East, the Fighting Irish are scheduled to join the conference beginning in the 2015-2016 season, but that is something that they will try to ac-celerate, Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbick said.

Last year, Pittsburgh and Syracuse each paid a $7.5 million buyout to join the conference early for the 2013-2014 season.

Additionally, the conference’s exit fee has been raised to three times the annual operating budget, a figure north of $50 million, making it costly for any school wishing to depart. The strength of the conference and the high exit fee should be de-terrents for schools thinking about leaving, Swofford said.

At the press conference, Swofford and Swarbick were joined by by Notre Dame President the Rev. John Jenkins, North Caro-lina Chancellor Holden Thorp, Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch and Clemson President James Barker.

Duke President Richard Brodhead and Athletic Director Kevin White were not in attendance, although they released a statement through the school. Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski was not available for comment.

“Notre Dame’s excellence in academics, strong traditions in athletics and international recognition make them a wonder-ful new conference colleague,” Brodhead said in his statement. “We look forward to the competition on the playing fields and courts, and further collaboration on the campus.”

Notre Dame’s geographic, athletic and academic fits into the league were all cited among the representatives at the press conference, with Swofford noting that 11 of the 15 ACC schools are among the top 58 in the U.S. News & World Report rankings released Wednesday.

“This is the best athletic conference in the country, and we will only make it better in that regard,” Swarbick said.

some familiar faces, as Duke has three Hillside products on its roster, including senior wide receiver Desmond Scott. At just 5-foot-7, Irvine’s biggest weapon is his speed.

“He’s definitely our go-to guy,” Frazier said. “He has the type of skills where if you get the ball up to him, he’ll make a play for you.”

On the defense, the Eagles have improved at stopping the run this season after allowing more than 180 yards per game on the ground in 2011. N.C. Central’s defensive front has received a strong effort from senior Stephen Young, who recorded 10 tackles and 1.5 sacks in the Eagles’ first two contests.

Entering this weekend’s game as underdogs, Frazier un-derstands that an FCS team defeating an FBS opponent is not beyond reach—it has happened three times since 2006 with Duke’s three home losses to Richmond.

“If you execute plays, move the chains and stop other teams you give your team a chance to win. That approach doesn’t change regardless of the opponent,” Frazier said. “If we go out and execute and make a play here and there, you never know what can happen.”

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Nearly every day since my sophomore year of high school, I have carried a U.S. Constitution in my left-hand

pocket whenever I go out. People often ask me why. They’re usually fairly incredulous when they ask. It strikes many as odd, and I under-stand their reasoning. It strikes a few as honorable. Despite my brother’s warnings not to do so (I think the phrase he used was “social strike-out”), I’m going to tell you just one of the many rea-sons why I do this.

Following World War II, my paternal grandmother was forced into labor in East Germany, where she worked as a housekeeper and nanny for families. She was paid only in food—just enough to survive. But after a while she decid-ed she’d had enough and resolved to escape. She lived near a river that divided East and West Germany, and, advised by the local car mechanic about its shallowest section, she set out in the middle of the night to cross it with a friend. The Eastern zone was well-manned. Armed soldiers patrolled it. If my grandmoth-er had been caught she likely would have been shot. To make matters worse, she had no idea how to swim. I cannot imagine the courage it must have taken on her part, but she pressed onward, wading in water that sometimes went up to her neck.

Upon reaching the other side wet and cold, her friend approached a house and asked the family inside if they could stay and sleep on the floor. Turned away, the friend came back crying. My grandmother decided to give it a try, hoping she could—as she puts it— “warm the hearts” of the family inside. Fortunately for both her and her friend, they got a floor to sleep on and some food that night. The next day they worked their way to Berlin, and from there my grandmother was able to gain passage to America, sponsored by her brother who was already a U.S. citizen. Fast forward several decades, and my grandmother is now 90 years old and surrounded by a family that has grown and prospered.

But though my grandmother’s story is unique in its details and brings pride to my family, it is not so unique when compared to the family histories of other Americans. Many have come to this country after escaping hard-ship with little else but dreams. It seems that we often hear the following sentence at the start of an American family history: My [insert

ancestor] came here with nothing but [insert small dollar amount] and now s/he is the [in-sert successful accomplishment]! Indeed, we hear this sort of story so much, spoken from

the lips of so many people and so many politicians, that it has almost become an American cliché. But is that not the most beautiful thing imaginable, that such a great story might be cli-ché?

So instead of an answer, I’ve given you a long story. I’ve told you about my grandmother’s story, a story of my family. But the answer is much shorter than that. It’s not so much about this

one story. It’s about what that story represents and what this country makes possible. It’s about something that resonates with me deep-ly—and resonates with all Americans at the beating heart of this country. It’s about the American Dream, the greatest gift our coun-try has to offer its citizens. From my grandma crossing that river to her grandson attending Duke University, this is the dream living on through the ages.

I do not propose to say that the U.S. Con-stitution was written with the purpose or in-tention of fostering the American Dream. This is not a column about constitutional interpretation or the intention behind the sacred document. I do not mean to say that all Americans have access to this dream—but, rather, that it is something we must continue to work toward. What I do propose to say is that the country founded by this Constitu-tion has given my family and so many others such happiness, opportunity and liberty. It’s the type of dream, the type of vision, that my grandmother longed for as she crossed that river so long ago.

So, yes, I carry a pocket Constitution with me wherever I go. And, yes, in the eyes of most people it is not the coolest thing a man could do. But I ask just one thing of you. Imagine for just a second that there existed an object that represented ideals you believed in so strongly, so deeply, that you would give everything to preserve them. Now also imagine, for just a second, that the object in question could fit in your pocket. Quite simply, wouldn’t you carry it around with you, too?

Daniel Strunk is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday. You can follow Daniel on Twitter @danielfstrunk

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Amassing credentials has become an almost obligatory part of the undergraduate ex-perience. Whether seeking our fi rst job or the next degree, many of us experience consid-erable pressure to rack up activi-ties and honors as we march through college, even if it means sacrifi cing gen-uine learning. Credentialism springs largely from external pressures, and those of us who accumulate credentials most zealously rarely do so out of contempt for intellectualism.

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pursue do not always indicate profi ciency and genuine inter-est in a subject nor a willing-ness to confront challenging material.

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I watched the primary debates for the Republican nomination for president last fall and found myself enthralled by a well-groomed, middle-aged, Mormon

man from Utah. And it’s not the strong-jawed, prominently cheek-

boned, tanned candidate you think it is. Jon Huntsman entranced me, and my fantasies were fulfi lled when the Sanford School and the American Grand Strategy Program brought him to cam-pus this past Monday to deliver the Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture on “Amer-ica 2012: Challenges and Opportunities Abroad.”

The anticipation leading up to the event and the reactions in response were fascinating. Intriguingly, he’s speaking at Duke twice this semester, returning in late October to discuss domestic issues.

To be a bit of a gossip-monger, there has been (highly speculative) chatter that we’re seducing him with the double speak-ing engagement because he has been offered a top post either with the Sanford School (which, rumor has it, is in the market for a dean) or at Kunshan. This may be me making up higher-education gossip for my own entertain-ment, but regardless, there is an important Duke connec-tion to be made in his history as a governor, diplomat and politician.

Huntsman’s cult-of-personality provokes varied re-sponses from interested parties across the political spec-trum at Duke.

“I think he’s a surprisingly wonderful politician. … He appeals to the younger generation more as the future of the conservative movement,” said Chloe Rockow, deputy vice chair of Duke College Republicans. “I think he will grow in popularity as we, young conservatives, grow older and more infl uential in the party.”

Other students noted that he represents a new hier-archy of priorities that appeals to our cohort. Huntsman supports civil unions and is thoroughly pragmatic on foreign policy issues. Anyone in Page Auditorium would agree that his knowledge of China is, as one of my profes-sors put it, “granular” in scope.

It must be mentioned that he is frighteningly anti-choice, supporting, among other things, a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade. Leaving that aside (which I usually don’t ignore, but for the sake of the col-umn let’s continue), I think he defi nitely provided a rare moderate voice during the primaries.

Am I fetishizing him unjustifi ably? Is he the sole excep-tion to dominant party ideology? Is it even possible, given the primary process, to be a moderate Republican?

Case in point: Maine’s Olympia Snowe is retiring from the Senate because of partisan gridlock. In her closing-

shop statement she wrote, “An atmosphere of polarization and ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies has become perva-sive in campaigns and in our governing institutions.”

Duke’s strategic plan calls “knowledge in the service of society” a signature of our institution. And yet Huntsman was derided by his primary opponents for doing exactly that in accepting the ambassadorship to China that Presi-

dent Obama offered. The Republican Par-ty, hostile to real bipartisanship, punished him for being a civil servant.

Isn’t it sad that Governor Huntsman is, at this point, leaving politics and fl irt-ing with academia (he’s taken a position at the Brookings Institution) because he appeared to be rational and accommodat-ing to members of both parties? Nods of approval from documentary fi lmmaker Michael Moore (“[he] has sanity operat-ing inside of him”) and Bill Clinton, along with a refusal to sign pledges and pander in debates, heralded the death knell.

Huntsman acknowledged that he faced this obstacle, writing in his stepping-down-from-the-campaign letter, “I will never stop fi ghting for America, and I will continue to put her welfare fi rst, ahead of any partisan or special interest.”

Perhaps by focusing on civic engagement and policy analysis at the Sanford School and in other departments, we’re instilling values in students that will eventually change the current, broken political discourse. If we are teaching students how to view issues such as health care, education, immigration and the environment through an academic lens, then maybe we are creating future civil servants who are valued for their expertise in these issues, rather than the party politics that prevent reform from happening.

Seriously, though, how many adept, experienced civil servants do we lose because they fear being tainted by past associations with the other party? Does Duke give us a (falsely) rosy outlook on society? Is it naïve to think that we can make a difference without adhering to our respec-tive party lines?

Perhaps it’s just me, but I don’t think it would be that hard for Huntsman to run as a Democrat, if he just tweaked some of his reproductive rights views (hey, it was easy enough for Romney going in the other direction). Regardless, it will be interesting to see whether he decides to return to politics in the near future, or if he, like myself, sees the political arena as simply a place to make a name for oneself before getting the heck out of there.

Samantha Lachman is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Thursday. You can follow her on twitter @SamLach-man.

As Duke students I think we’ve all become addicted to the rush of “getting something done.” We might not realize it, but there’s a little mental competition

going on in all of our heads. It’s that satisfaction you get when you tell someone that you were just at the library or just came back from the gym. Or, better yet, that you just churned out a fi ve-page pa-per in three hours. Yeah, it’s a good feeling getting things done. You feel productive. You feel effi cient. You feel good.

You know what I love about Paris, though? A lot of people just don’t care. Every morning when I’m walking to the metro or going to class, I’ll pass a café or two where a decent number of people are just chillin’. They’re drinking a coffee, talking with a friend, just chillin’. People in the U.S. drink coffee too, of course. But at Duke a lot of that coffee drinking takes place in Perkins at midnight before a midterm. It’s just not the same ambience.

It’s the body language of these coffee drinkers that makes them special. You look at them and can just tell that they’re really in no rush to be anywhere. They are thoroughly enjoying that cup of coffee, taking in that moment.

Paris is full of places just asking for you to go and take in the moment. The other night I went to the Eiffel Tower with some friends to hang out, picnic and take the token abroad pictures in front of the Eiffel Tower. The place was crowded with people, and everyone was doing the same thing—there were people lying on the grass, drinking some wine, talking and maybe even mak-ing out. On the hour, the tower would begin to sparkle, and you would feel as though your life could have been a movie. It was a night full of perfect moments.

Out of the blue, though, I found myself feeling guilty for being so stress free, guilty for partaking in so much uninterrupted fun. I actually had some friends from Duke staying with me for the weekend so I admit I had taken procrastination and leisure to the next level. But why did I care? I was so happy and so relaxed, so why feel guilty about it? What is life all about at the end of the day—being productive or being happy? Clearly this is a more complicated debate, one that you all can enjoy exploring in philosophy class back on campus. When that debate does happen, though, know that I’ve cast my vote for being happy. I’ll take a stress-free life of casual coffee sipping and Eiffel Tower lounging in place of the presidency and a life where anxiety is the norm.

I hope all is well in Durham and that you guys have had the chance to partake in some afternoons of care-free lounging on the plaza. We’re lucky enough that as a school with such rigorous academics, we still know how to kick back and have some fun. Some of my fond-est memories over the past two years include afternoons sitting in a chair on the plaza for a few hours with a friend, just talking and watching passers-by. As tempt-ing as it might be to overload this semester and fill up those schedules, we can’t forget to give ourselves some time to enjoy just taking in the moment. As grumpy as some Parisians might be, I would definitely say that a lot of them have mastered this ability.

The best part about relaxing is that it can really be done anywhere. Obviously kicking back at the Eiffel Tower has a different magnitude than you might find in other places, but you can find people kicking back anywhere at any time of the day. It’s really all about the mindset.

There’s no reason to worry about what you’ve got to do later today or that paper that’s due in a few days. Immerse yourself in the moment at hand—that cup of coffee, that chair you’re sitting in and everything going on around you. At the end of the day you don’t need the Eiffel Tower to not have a worry in the world; a seat on the plaza, in the gardens or, heck, even in your dorm room can do the job just fine.

Philip Doerr is a Trinity junior and is currently studying abroad in Paris, France. His column runs every other Thurs-day.

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lettertotheeditorPanhellenic recruitment and the house modelDuke’s Panhellenic Association agrees with the

Editorial Board’s stance that housing is an important topic of discussion during Panhellenic recruitment. We have just fi nished our annual editing of the re-cruitment rules for the upcoming year and have al-lowed for the possibility of discussing sorority spaces with potential new members.

The topic “buildings” was declared off limits dur-ing last year’s Panhellenic recruitment because of all the unknowns that the new housing model posed. Be-cause women had never lived in a “sorority section,” chapter members were not well equipped to speak to the differences. These unknowns are still a reality as all Duke students, Panhellenic women included, navigate the housing changes. In the coming re-cruitment, talking about housing with potential new members is encouraged. Members should be candid about the challenges that housing may pose, but it is already apparent after just two weeks of school that the independence and sense of community created by including sororities in the house model is an en-hancement to the Panhellenic experience.

It is important to note that the housing implica-tions of joining a sorority are no different than they were last year. As Duke refi nes the house model, ra-tios of sophomores, juniors and seniors are not yet in place. Panhellenic spaces on Central range in size,

with the difference between the largest and smallest houses at 18 beds.

With the entire campus moving toward the house model, the sophomore-year, residence-life experience is changing for all students. According to Duke’s of-fi ce of Housing, Dining and Residence Life (HDRL), “All sophomores, juniors and seniors living on cam-pus are members of a house—a home on campus they can identify with and where they can build networks of friends spanning different class years.” Blocking no longer operates in the same way, as block sizes have been decreased from 12 members to six, and the block will necessarily become a part of a house. Potential new members are encouraged to educate themselves on Duke’s housing process as a whole before choosing to participate in recruitment.

Panhellenic is thrilled to have housing as an op-tion. We look forward to the lasting friendships that will be strengthened as a result of the houses them-selves and the proximity of the Panhellenic spaces to one another on Central Campus. We are, above all, excited to share these new possibilities with the women who choose to participate in recruitment this spring.

Hannah Hayward, Trinity ’13Vice President of Recruitment and Membership,

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couldn’t just be there doing nothing.” Because the cost of researching unfamil-

iar portions of the genome is so expensive, it was more economical to sweep these less recognizable nucleotide sequences under the rug or dismiss them as “junk DNA,” Willard said.

The ENCODE researchers, however, re-mained curious about the massive genetic unknowns. The ENCODE project began in 2003 as an effort to fund research propos-als from biologists to analyze and assign meaning to these unknown sections. Over time, the program’s researchers, among them Duke’s Greg Crawford, assistant pro-fessor affiliated with the IGSP, refined their methods and began to uncover hidden relationships between separate sections of the genetic code.

Crawford could not be reached for com-ment in time for publication.

By 2007, the project’s pilot phase had proven so successful that the researchers began to apply their methods to the entire genome. Now, the team has gained un-derstanding of gene interactions and how different sections of nucleotides influence one another, said Robert Cook-Deegan, IGSP director for genome ethics, law and policy.

“This really was the kitchen sink project for genomics,” he said.

The 440 scientists of the ENCODE proj-ect have released data on at least 147 dif-ferent cell types across 1,648 experiments, many of which indicate unexpected links between small sections of DNA and disease. The studies have indicated correlations be-tween certain changes to the genetic code and an individual’s susceptibility to various

kinds of disease—a few nucleotides out of place can create an immune disorder or a disease.

The studies also found that sections of DNA that do not generate protein-coding RNA can still be transcribed into important regulatory compounds that affect signaling pathways within the cell.

“The ENCODE project begins to shine some light on where we might begin to look for the areas in which genome varia-tion or genome changes might underlie gene dysfunction and thus disease, beyond the mere two percent of the genome that everyone studied before,” Willard said.

The program has also identified over 70,000 promoter regions that activate sec-tions of DNA for transcription, as well as over 400,000 enhancer sections that affect the ex-pression of other portions of the genome.

Although Cook-Deegan noted that

many of these regions’ assigned functions are “best guesses,” based on the limited available data, he said that the ENCODE project’s findings should make further dis-coveries much easier.

“We can now get these tools into the hands of as many geneticists as possible to start figuring out how these things work together in terms of gene expression,” he said.

The ENCODE project has discovered many new roles played by the genome, but their findings have given rise to many more questions than answers. Cook-Deegan said that although the project has located a number of anecdotal links, we are very far from completely understanding how genes interact with one another.

“There’s a much richer story to be told here, but it will take a long time for us to learn how to understand it,” he said.

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