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Some of Duke’s top administrators and famed professors are using social media to reach students, though students still prefer to communicate through email. See story page 3.

Blue Devil Tweets Duke files motion for lax records

Durham School of the Arts ranks nationally

by Tiffany LieuTHE CHRONICLE

The Durham School of the Arts recently joined the ranks of the top high schools in the na-tion, according to Newsweek.

With a focus on melding the arts with traditional academia, DSA was ranked 381 in the news magazine’s latest list of the top 500 high schools in the nation. The Newsweek rankings, which have been conducted for more than a decade, gauge how well high schools prepare their stu-dents for college. DSA’s position in the top one percentile of the nation’s high schools reaffirms the institution’s unique and valu-able approach to education, said

DSA Principal David Hawks.“Our success is due to a combi-

nation of our teachers and staff, students that work very hard and set goals for themselves, very sup-portive parents and a supportive school system that allows us to have a special school like this,” Hawks said.

DSA is a magnet school with a student population of 1,370 that receives applications from stu-dents throughout the city of Dur-ham. Running from grades six through 12, the school’s mission is to provide a rigorous educa-tional program that emphasizes the visual and performing arts.

by Jack MercolaTHE CHRONICLE

The University is using legal measures in an attempt to acquire communication records used in a book about the 2006 la-crosse rape case.

To collect evidence as defense in a civil lawsuit, lawyers for Duke recently filed a motion in federal court to compel KC Johnson, co-author of a book criticiz-ing Duke and Durham’s handling of the case, to surrender records of communi-cation between Johnson, members of the lacrosse team and other parties involved, said Patrick Strawbridge, Johnson’s attor-ney.

Johnson has not handed over the re-cords because the University’s demand is an encroachment on freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amend-ment of the U.S. Constitution, Straw-bridge added.

“We believe that KC Johnson would not be a proper witness in any case for the information they are seeking,” he

‘Life goes on’ for Egypt students

After fire, students aid ABP worker

by Caroline MichelmanTHE CHRONICLE

Recent news of civil unrest and violence exaggerate the situation on the ground in Egypt, students living in Cairo said.

With the June election of Mohamed Morsi, the first Pres-ident elected in the post-Muba-rak era, Egypt is experiencing a challenging transition into a democratic state. Juniors Zac Pearlstein and Lek Badivuku are observing this political transition as the only Duke students studying in Egypt this Fall. They are taking classes at the American University in Cairo, a non-Duke program.

Reports of riots and political

by Alyssa CoughenourTHE CHRONICLE

Students have rallied behind Au Bon Pain employee Crystal Langston, who lost her household in a fire.

As part of a fundraiser hosted by Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, half of the pro-ceeds from Devine’s Sports Bar and Grill entrance fees Thursday went to Langston, whose home caught fire on Sept. 14. The fundraiser raised $650 to help Langston and her three-year-old son recover from the destruction of their house.

“The fire took a big emotional toll on me because I worked so hard for all my belongings and it was all gone in the snap your fingers,” Langston said.

Langston said she did not know what resources were available to help her after the fire.

At that point, ABP manager Laura Delahunt contacted sophomore Sam Wa-ters and junior Nandini Srinivasan, two students she met earlier in the year, who both said they were eager to gather sup-port and come up with a plan to help Langston.

Srinivasan and Waters met with Langs-ton early last week to find out what would

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Juniors Zac Pearlstein and Lek Badivuku, who decided to study abroad in Egypt because of the political atmosphere, have witnessed the recent upheavals while studying at the American University in Cairo.

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On autism: Q&A with Ralph SavareseRalph Savarese is spending the academic year

at Duke as a fellow in the Humanities Writ Large program. An associate professor of English from Grinnell College, he is working with the Insti-tute for Brain Sciences and the Neurohumanities Research Group on a project, “A Dispute with Nouns: Autism, Poetry and the Sensing Body,” that investigates the relationship classically autis-tic individuals have with poetry. The Chroni-cle’s Emma Baccillieri spoke with him about his research.

The Chronicle: Could you give an over-view to the research you’re currently do-ing?

Ralph Savarese: Well, there’s quite a bit of background context you have to know in order to understand the research. My in-volvement with autism really started 15 years ago, when my wife and I adopted our son, who’s autistic. And once we adopted him, our house kind of became, in some ways, like a home lab—we were watching him acquire language and helping him with his tremendous sensory issues and just learn-ing about him as someone with a brain that works very differently. Eventually he started to show this understanding of words and lit-erary language. And there’s this consensus that autistic individuals can’t process literary language—this idea that they’re baffled by metaphor, baffled by simile, baffled by all these sorts of figures of speech. But I real-ized that my son didn’t fit that paradigm. And what’s more, I realized, is that not only are we not talking about the subtype of au-tistic individuals who understand literary language, we’re not talking about the fact that plenty of neurotypical people don’t un-derstand literary language, either. Failing to understand literary language is not some-thing exclusive to autistics. There are so

many college freshmen that are baffled by literary language—I know because I teach them every semester! They come in unable to really process poetry, and by the end of the semester, they’ve had enough exposure to really increase their understanding. But what happens to so many kids who are di-agnosed with autism is that they don’t get a chance to experience a similar type of expo-sure—there’s so many examples of autistic individuals who are just fabulous at math and science, but not many similar examples with literature, and so often when kids re-ceive a diagnosis of autism, they’re tracked out of language classes. But what I’ve discov-ered is that there are autistic individuals—my son included—who, given exposure to poetry and literary language, show that they not only understand it, but excel at it. It’s tied more to the senses, it’s rhythmic, it’s this hold-over from oral culture, and it often makes so much sense to them.

TC: Are there any special techniques you use to get autistic children to engage with poetry, or is simple exposure enough?

RS: I honestly don’t really have a defini-tive answer to that. Something important is that the autistic kids we work with are all lit-erate to begin with, they’re all kids who have already learned how to read, and we’re just exposing them to more poetry and literary language. But what we’ve found is that often times the language these kids emerge into themselves is already somewhat poetic. An example I can give from my son took place a few years ago, when I had a hip replace-ment and we had to have a hospital bed in the house, which really agitated my son. We took him to see his therapist, and the way my son described it was, “Mom and Dad have invited injury into the home.” See, that’s

not language that you or I would necessar-ily use—we wouldn’t immediately reach for something figurative such as that. His lan-guage use is distinctive, this spontaneous poetry. And it’s something I’ve now seen in other autistic individuals, where after they receive some exposure to literary language, you can see a proclivity for poetic communi-cation. What you see is this enormous capac-ity for poetic expression, and it begins with this instinctive understanding.

TC: Other than the personal connection you had to autism because of your son, was there anything that led you to become inter-ested in this research?

RS: For me to become interested, it was really just this confluence of many riv-ers. From my son, I’d realized that autistic individuals are different than us, not less than us—I like to use the term “neurodi-versity.” There are some areas in which they’re actually far more advanced than us: in memory, in pattern recognition. And then there are the areas in which we’re more advanced than they are. But because we—the neurotypicals—rule the world, we have it set up so that our own neurologi-cal shortcomings are often disguised, and theirs are often displayed. It really struck me just how wrong—how demeaning, how dehumanizing—scientific literature has been to autistic individuals, and I wanted my own research to be able to counteract this trend. I decided that I wanted to do this at time when MRIs were becoming much more advanced, allowing us to see much more about an individual’s brain, and at a time when we saw this big push towards interdisciplinary studies, with all these subfields emerging that show neu-roscience interacting with the humanities in different ways. Everything kind of came together in the right way for me to able to research this.

TC: As an English professor, have you had any challenges adapting to working in the Brain Institute?

RS: Certainly when I started, all of my English colleagues were asking what I was doing in a brain institute! But it truly hasn’t been so difficult to make the adjustment. I at-tended a two week neuroscience boot camp with graduate students before I began. And working with autism has been something I’ve been doing for quite some time now, so that isn’t too dramatic a transition.

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Students prefer communicating through email

Romney calls for revised foreign aid

by Elizabeth DjinisTHE CHRONICLE

Despite administration and faculty taking advan-tage of other forms of digital communication, stu-dents say that they still prefer email as their primary mode of communication with professors and author-ity figures.

by Philip Rucker & Scott WilsonTHE WASHINGTON POST

NEW YORK — President Obama and his rival, Mitt Romney, appeared within hours of each other Tuesday at the global charitable gathering hosted by President Bill Clinton, each choosing to focus on how the United States can better promote prosperity and human rights abroad and at home.

Romney, addressing the Clinton Global Initiative, called for an overhaul of the country’s foreign assistance programs that he said would stimulate economic growth across the developing world.

Hours after delivering his annual address to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama spoke before the group, outlining additional steps the United States would take to combat human trafficking, which he told the lunch-time audience “must be called by its true name: mod-ern slavery.”

The presidential nominees never crossed paths, and partisanship was largely out of view during the back-to-back appearances before thousands of the Clinton group’s members.

Romney largely muted his sharp criticism of Obama’s foreign policies, specifically of the president’s response to the violent anti-American protests sweeping the Middle East this month.

He got in one jab, saying, “I will never apologize for America.” Romney has frequently claimed that Obama has offered apologies to foreign governments, but indepen-dent fact-checkers have disputed that contention.

After Clinton delivered a warm introduction of the Republican, Romney announced his proposal for a “Pros-perity Pact,” which he said would link trade policy with development policy to promote investment and entrepre-neurship in developing nations.

“Nothing we can do as a nation will change lives and nations more effectively and permanently than sharing the insight that lies at the foundation of America’s own economy, and that is that free people pursuing happiness in their own ways build a strong and prosperous nation,” Romney said in his 17-minute speech.

Romney’s foreign aid plan, which he called “a new ap-proach for a new era,” echoes the domestic policy themes of his presidential campaign. Under his plan, the govern-ment’s foreign aid would be more closely linked to trade policies as well as private investment and corporate part-nerships. He said this could “empower individuals, encour-age innovators and reward entrepreneurs.”

For example, Romney would support new financing structures for small- and medium-size enterprises that are too large to benefit from microfinance programs but too small to acquire capital from banks.

He stopped short of criticizing U.S. foreign assistance programs or saying he would cut foreign aid budgets, as many Republican leaders have done. But Romney did contend that foreign aid programs focus too much on delivering social services instead of seeding longer-term reforms.

“A temporary aid package can give an economy a boost,” Romney said. “It can fund some projects. It can pay some bills. It can employ some people some of the time. But it can’t sustain an economy, not for the long term. It can’t pull the whole cart, if you will, because at some point the money runs out. But an assistance pro-gram that helps unleash free enterprise creates enduring prosperity.”

Later, Obama gave an impassioned speech against hu-man trafficking, noting that some girls sold off by poor families are no older than his two daughters.

“I’ve made it clear that the United States will be a leader in this global movement against trafficking,” Obama said, adding that his administration is helping other countries meet international goals designed to reduce trafficking and to call out those working hard enough on the issue.

“Nations must speak with one voice—that our people and our children are not for sale,” Obama said.

He added that the United States must stop the human trafficking within its boundaries, which mostly affects im-migrant communities who are sometimes more vulnerable because of their members’ undocumented status and pov-erty. The president said he has stepped up efforts to con-front the crime domestically.

“We cannot ask other nations to do what we are not do-ing ourselves,” he said, adding that the United States will take a number of steps to “go after traffickers,” including working more cooperatively with outside investigators and coordinating with transportation companies.

Obama said he signed an executive order to better en-sure that U.S. tax dollars never go to companies or groups that conduct human trafficking. He asked companies to be vigilant because trafficking is never “a business model.”

“Let’s recommit to the broader forces that push people into bondage in the first place,” the president said, ad-dressing other nations’ governments.

The gathering was nonpartisan, but Romney did make one reference to the state of the presidential campaign.

After Clinton walked offstage, Romney suggested that the former president was responsible for Obama’s poll-ing lead.

“If there’s one thing we’ve learned in this election sea-son, by the way, it’s that a few words from Bill Clinton can do a man a lot of good,” Romney said, drawing laughter from the audience. “All I’ve got to do now is wait a couple of days for that bounce.”

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Recently administrators have begun to use social media websites, such as Face-book and Twitter, to send out quick an-nouncements to the entire student body. These occurrences have caused some students to won-der whether communication with a professor will oc-cur via social media sites rather than email.

“I have never used anything else besides email,” freshman Jared Schwartz said. “I’ve always thought, if it’s official or authoritative, that communication

[through social media] was a little unpro-fessional.”

Freshman Andrew Toader noted that seeing faculty on social media makes stu-dents feel uncomfortable because it ap-pears less professional.

“There are some professors who try to be all hip and use Facebook and Twitter, but it just doesn’t feel right when they do because they’re adults,” Toader said. “There seems to be a gap—the weirdest thing is when you see someone’s parents comment on your friend’s photo.”

Administration and faculty, on the other hand, have mixed reviews on the effectiveness of email ver-sus social media.

Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergrad-uate education, said both modes of communication can be successful depending on the goal of the mes-sage. For information intended for a large group of people to read and digest at a fast pace, Twitter and Facebook are most successful since they facilitate quick response time and discussion among students, he said.

When communicating with a small body of undergraduates who are expecting a specific message, Nowicki said email is a preferable form of communication.

“An interesting question is what the best way to communicate with students is,” Nowicki said. “Let’s say it’s important that students should know about a particular event that’s not a crisis, I don’t know what the ideal way [to reach them] is.”

Deborah Hill, associate dean of communications for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, said that email, regardless of its negatives, is the most logical form of communication for ad-ministrators to use.

“The university has to have an electronic method for communicating official information to students, faculty and staff,” Hill said. “The days of mailing paper letters are long gone, and email makes the most sense as the official method, given that the outside world communicates in the same way.”

In the hopes that communication between profes-sors and students can improve and become even more successful, Hill suggested that students offer feedback on their experiences and that administrators should keep their audience in mind when contacting them.

The problem with using alternative modes of com-munication is that students and faculty have different expectations when using it.

“I don’t even use Twitter and I’m a young person, so I’m expected to,” said freshman Michelle Menchaca. “I just feel like Twitter and Facebook is for young peo-ple. It’s weird when adults and old people use it.”

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Thursday, Sept. 27, 6:30-8:30 PMDuke Divinity School, Westbrook Building, Room 0014

The Moral Urgency of Worker JusticeA Talk by Kim Bobo, Founder & Director, Interfaith Worker Justice

In North Carolina alone, documented wage theft cost workers and their communities alone an estimated $4.7 million in fiscal year 2011. Bobo’s book Wage Theft in America helped get the issue on the national radar. Prior to founding Interfaith Worker Justice, Bobo was Director of Organizing for Bread for the World. She is co-author of Organizing

for Social Change, the best-selling organizing manual in the country.

Interfaith Worker Justice has been a leader in the fight for economic and worker justice since 1996 at the local, state, and national levels, organizing, educating, and mobilizing people of faith to change the practices and policies that leave so many people in need.

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Romney tries to turn camp. around in Ohio

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George Reed, executive director of the North Carolina Council of Churches, spoke Tuesday at Ethi-cally Formed, a symposium on religion, ethics and politics.

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VANDALIA, Ohio — Fresh from two policy speeches in New York, Republi-can Mitt Romney on Tuesday turned his attention to Ohio, a state pivotal to his presidential prospects and where polls show him running behind.

Romney joined with running mate Paul Ryan Tuesday afternoon to start a two-day bus tour in the battleground state after his speeches earlier on for-eign policy—in which he bashed Presi-dent Barack Obama on the Middle East—and education.

Obama, who spoke to the United Nations Tuesday and—like Romney—addressed a global conference spon-sored by formner President Bill Clin-ton in New York, also campaigns in Ohio Wednesday in a sign of the state’s importance in the Nov. 6 election.

Romney at his rally described the vote as a referendum on “the soul” of America.

“We cannot afford for more years of Barack Obama” he told more than 3,500 people gathered outside an air-port hangar in Vandalia. “We’re not going to have four more years of Ba-rack Obama.”

Romney is ramping up his schedule of public rallies this week as he tries to beat back complaints from some Republican leaders concerned he has been spending too much time rais-ing money and not enough talking to

voters. He has three campaign events scheduled Wednesday in Ohio.

His bus tour came as a Washington Post poll showed Obama leading him in the state, 52 percent to 44 percent. After Florida, Ohio is the second-larg-est state among the 10 or so that strat-egists from both parties say will decide the election.

No Republican has ever won the White House without carrying Ohio, which has 18 of the 270 Electoral Col-lege votes needed to win the White House.

Obama, Romney and their allies aired more than 29,000 ads on Ohio television stations in the 30-day period ended Sept. 17, the most in any state. The Post survey showed 36 percent of all Ohio voters say they’ve been contacted by the Obama campaign, though 29 percent said that of the Romney operation.

Romney, as part of an attack on Obama’s economic record at the Ohio rally, said the president has been too lenient dealing with China on trade is-sues.

“When people cheat, that kills jobs,” Romney said. “China has cheated. I will not allow that to continue.”

Romney’s campaign website site says that one of five executive orders he would issue on his first day in the White House would direct the Treasury

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Students are rallying to support Au Bon Pain employee Crystal Langston—also a mother—who lost her home to a fire several days ago.

Department to list China as a currency manipulator.

The Obama administration last week filed a challenge at the World Trade Or-ganization accusing China of illegally subsidizing exports of automobiles and auto parts. The complaint was filed the day Obama campaigned in Ohio.

Besides Ryan, speakers at the Rom-ney rally included Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, who was a contender for vice president on the Republican ticket, and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a Re-publican popular among the anti-tax tea party movement.

Ryan continued a Republican attack on Obama for a comment by the presi-dent last week that “you can’t change Washington from the inside” and that the pressure to transform the capital’s political environment needs to come from the outside.

“If he can’t change Washington, we need to change presidents,” Ryan said.

Rich Beeson, Romney’s political director, expressed confidence about his candidate’s prospects in Ohio. “We trust our internal polls,” he told re-porters on Romney’s campaign plane

on the trip to Ohio. “I don’t make any campaign decisions based on what I read in the Washington Post.”

Beeson declined to say what the cam-paign’s internal polling showed in the state. He also tried to dismiss questions about whether Romney has any victory path that doesn’t include Ohio.

“It’s like kids out there,” he said of campaign calculations. “You’re not ever going to say you’re going to lose one of my kids. So, it’s a nice wide-open path.”

Beeson said Obama’s campaign is dis-playing excess confidence, like a football player who celebrates before crossing into the end-zone for a score.

“They are sort of spiking the ball at the 30-yard line right now,” he said. “There are still 42 days to go. We are, by any stretch, inside the margin of error in Ohio.”

Earlier Tuesday, Romney urged more accountability for U.S. aid to other na-tions and greater reliance on free en-terprise to lift the world’s poor toward prosperity.

“The aim of a much larger share of our aid must be the promotion of work and the fostering of free enterprise,” he said in his speech at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.

provide the best support for her. “Hearing her explain her situation

was heartbreaking,” Srinivasan said. “She has come to the terms with the fact that all of her stuff is gone, but her son can’t comprehend it. He can’t fig-ure out where his toys went and Crystal doesn’t know what to tell him.”

After hearing her story, Waters said he immediately shared the story with his fraternity brothers who decided to act fast, knowing that Langston needed funds to recover as soon as possible.

“She didn’t have insurance or the resources to get assistance,” Waters said. “My immediate reaction was that my fraternity could help out.”

Waters and ATO Social Chair Wes Koorbusch, a sophomore, began plan-ning a fundraising event at Devine’s, which they promoted with flyers and through Facebook.

“[The management] went out of their way to make this event a huge success,” Koorbusch said.

Owner Gene Devine, Trinity ’75, do-nated a raffle prize for a 3-day, 2-night trip to Las Vegas including hotel and half-off air fare. This brought in $250 of the $650 made that evening.

Srinivasan noted that efforts to aid Langston and her son will continue at Duke. Srinivasan, a junior on the First-Year Advisory Counselor board and Duke Student Government’s di-rector of arts advancement said she is currently working with the Council for Collaborative Action, the FAC board and DuArts to plan future fundraising events to raise $2,500 or more.

The current plan includes creating a fundraising website as a consistent way to raise money, in addition to on-campus programming, Srinivasan said, adding that she expects more aware-ness of Langston’s story on campus in upcoming months.

“As a student at the university, we have the responsibility to assist those who help make this school what it is,” Srinivasan said. “We especially want to welcome a place like ABP and its em-ployees, which I think we can all agree we’re grateful for.”

Langston received her first check from Devine’s yesterday and plans to buy some new household and clothing items for her and her son, she said.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you,” Langston said. “Put it three times. I didn’t even know there were people out there that were so nice and the help was amazing.”

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His book is called, “ Until Proven Innocent: Po-litical Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.”

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Duke is trying to legally force KC Johnson to hand over notes from his well-known book about the 2006 lacrosse scandal to aid the University’s ongoing legal proceedings. He is claiming First Amendment rights to keep the notes.

turmoil run rampant in American media, particular-ly after the tumultuous protests in mid-September, but Pearlstein noted that this is not a well-rounded picture of the day-to-day conditions in Egypt.

“It’s a complicated issue, and domestic media doesn’t cover everything. The country isn’t burning to the ground,” Pearlstein said in an email Monday. “Life goes on, and we are back to our Tuesday cof-fees in Tahrir Square.”

Protests emerged throughout the Middle East earlier this month following the release of an American-made video denouncing Islamic beliefs and portraying the Prophet Muhammad in a criti-cal light. Demonstrators scaled the fortified walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo Sept. 11, and crowds filled the embassy throughout four days of rioting.

Coverage ought to keep in mind the scale of the protests, Badivuku wrote in an email Monday.

“While the protests did escalate by some indi-viduals scaling the wall, in a city of twenty-three million people, a protest of 1,000 to 2,000 is quite small and localized,” Badivuku said. “Zac and I have not noticed any change in our day-to-day schedule due to the protests, nor have we encountered a situ-ation where us being American has been a prob-lem.’”

Many Egyptians, Badivuku added, have ap-proached him and Pearlstein to apologize for the protests, which they said were not indicative of Egypt’s general opinion.

Both Pearlstein and Badivuku noted one of their main reasons for studying in Cairo was that they wanted to experience Egypt’s political transition through a personal perspective.

“As I read the news daily and watched from the sidelines the political fervor and civic engagement [in Egypt], I became fascinated with the country and its future,” Badivuku said.

Pearlstein added that he is gaining a more holis-tic view of the world because of his time in Egypt.

“Besides all the Arabic and traveling around the region, the biggest lessons have been from the little differences between our cultures,” Pearlstein said. “Experiencing the modesty in dress, new customs, food, the Egyptian society that lives here has defi-nitely changed the way I look at the world.”

Students who are interested in studying in Mid-dle Eastern countries often come to meetings with varying safety concerns, Margaret Riley, director of the Global Education Office for Undergraduates, wrote in an email Monday.

In the past, Duke has evacuated students from South America because of political unrest, and dur-ing the 2012 program of Duke in the Arab world, students were required to stay on campus in the days leading up to the presidential election in Egypt, she said.

“The support Duke provides to students on Duke administered programs always places paramount importance on the safety and security of our stu-dents, regardless of the region,” Riley said. “None of [the students studying in the Middle East] in-dicated any concern about their safety during the program.”

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said. “We especially don’t believe he’s proper, given First Amendment protections that apply to unpublished communications of a journalist.”

In September 2007, five months after charges were dropped against three Duke lacrosse players, Johnson, a professor of history at Brooklyn College, co-authored “Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.” The players were falsely accused of forcible rape and of kidnapping stripper Crystal Magnum. Johnson also founded the blog “Durham-in-Wonderland,” which he continues to update with information on the ongoing legal ramifications of the case.

In subsequent years, a civil lawsuit filed by unindicted lacrosse players and their parents accused the Univer-sity of punishing team members who were not charged with any crimes and giving players poor legal counsel. A federal judge in North Carolina rejected some claims in 2011, but allowed others to proceed against several University administrators, including President Richard Brodhead.

On Sept. 17, Duke’s attorneys filed a subpoena in the U.S. District Court of Portland, Maine seeking docu-ments related to Johnson’s communication with indi-viduals involved in the case.

He has thus far declined to testify or provide the re-cords, which has put a roadblock in the case between the former players and the University.

Duke is seeking Johnson’s records because its attorneys contend that, during the 2006 trial, the accused players or their attorneys shared information with Johnson that

would invalidate the protection given by attorney-client privilege. This includes information such as how players decided to access DukeCard swipe history data that helped create time-dependent alibis, according to filings by the at-torneys. Duke also intends to show that University lawyers did not provide poor counsel by presenting the legal ad-vice the accused received from their private attorneys.

Peter DeTroy, an attorney from Portland who is rep-resenting Duke locally, deferred comment to Duke’s lead outside counsel, the Raleigh-based law firm Ellis and Winters.

Ellis and Winters declined to comment, as the mat-ter is related to pending litigation in the U.S. District Courts for the Middle District of North Carolina and for the District of Maine, Tom Segars, an attorney from the firm, wrote in an email Tuesday.

Although the University’s counsel itself is not directly involved in the legal proceedings concerning Johnson’s records, Pamela Bernard, vice president and general counsel for Duke, could not be reached for comment on matters pertaining to this topic.

In the Sept. 17 filing, DeTroy responded to Straw-bridge’s argument by noting that the University is seek-ing information from sources named openly in John-son’s book, not anonymous sources.

Strawbridge said this rebuttal is irrelevant to the out-come of the case.

“Our view is that the information that the University is seeking... was always meant to be kept confidential,” Strawbridge said. “But it doesn’t matter—confidential or non-confidential—the federal rules and the First Amendment prohibit Duke from accessing notes in these circumstances.”

Duke might not be a prototypical football school. A Satur-day at Wallace Wade Stadium may be lacking in terms of at-mosphere. But there is one thing the Blue Devils knows better than anyone else—a rivalry.

The anatomy of a rivalry has no recipe. You can’t add one part heart and two parts aggression to cre-ate the unmistakable tension that two rivals share when they take to the field. Sometimes a rivalry is a result of geographic proximity. Other times one misstep, botched call or al-tercation can completely change the way that two teams approach one another. Sometimes

all it takes is for two teams to play enough close contests against one another that emotions boil over.

The Blue Devils make up one half of the greatest rivalry in college sports, but although Tobacco Road is the epicenter of the college basketball world, there has been very little rivalry in football over the past two decades. Duke football has beaten North Carolina just once in the teams’ past 22 meetings and hopes to win the Victory Bell for the first time since 2003 when the Blue Devils and Tar Heels square off on Oct. 20.

But as most Duke fans shift their gaze toward Chapel Hill in search of the Blue Devils’ fiercest foes, they fail to see that another rivalry—this time on the gridiron—has developed

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Duke football head coach David Cutcliffe held his weekly press conference Wednesday, ad-dressing Duke’s 38-14 victory over Memphis and their next matchup against Wake Forest Saturday. Some highlights:>>“As we move forward, the biggest and most important part of this season is dead ahead.” The Blue Devils will travel to Winston-Salem this weekend for the team’s fi rst ACC contest of the 2012 season, and will play a stretch of six consecutive conference games before an open date on Nov. 10. Duke is in unfamiliar territory heading into this weekend’s matchup, off to its fi rst 3-1 start since 2008 and halfway to its fi rst bowl berth since 1994 as conference play gets underway. With what should be close contests against Wake Forest and Virginia in the next two weeks, Cutcliffe stressed the importance of performing in highly-contested ACC matchups, especially in a road environment.>>Blue Devils look to break infamous drought against Demon Deacons this weekend. Duke foot-ball has not defeated Wake Forest since 1999, with the Demon Deacons taking each of the last 12 contests. Not only have the Blue Devils been haunted by the Demon Deacons over the years, they’ve developed a knack for losing these games in excruciating fashion. Five of the past six matchups between Duke and Wake Forest have come down to the wire and were decided by fewer than six points. The Blue Devils hope for a reversal of fortune in this weekend’s contest, but will face a disciplined Demon Deacons squad on their home turf.

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While their classmates were completing problem sets and writing papers in Durham, six Blue Devils were playing top-flight international competition in field hockey.

At the Junior Pan-American Games in Guadalajara, Mexi-co, freshmen Hannah Barreca and Aileen Johnson and soph-omores Lauren Blazing and Abby Beltrani suited up for the United States, while freshman Kendra Perrin and sophomore Jessica Buttinger represented Canada.

Finishing second and third, respectively, Canada and the United States both qualified for the Junior World Cup, along-side champion Argentina. The two teams faced challenges on the field en route to their top-three finishes. Canada tackled early setbacks in pool play, tying Uruguay 2-2 Sept. 11 and los-ing to Argentina 6-0 Sept. 14. To advance to the next round of the tournament, Canada not only had to win its next game against Mexico, but also had the added condition of scoring at least five goals.

“That was a different challenge than just winning a game, but we managed to pull it together,” Perrin said. “That felt good.”

After falling to Chile 2-1 Sept. 15 in pool play, the United States went head-to-head with them again on Sept. 22 in the final game of the tournament, seeking the final qualifying slot

for the Junior World Cup. With a 2-1 win over Chile, the Unit-ed States made the cut.

“We qualified and did what we went there to do,” Blazing said. “We went in obviously hoping for a top three finish. Beat-ing Chile in the final after we lost to them in pool play was one of the bigger stories of the tournament.”

The players also faced challenges off the field. The food in Guadalajara did not sit well in their stomachs, giving sever-al of the players food poisoning. Additionally, the altitude of 5,200 feet—higher than the players are used to—was difficult to adjust to.

“It was out of our control,” Perrin said. “We just had to focus in and realize what we could control.”

In 13 days, the United States and Canada played seven and six games, respectively. Beltrani and Johnson scored goals in the United State’s 8-1 rout against Trinidad and Tobago Sept. 14. Three days later, Beltrani added a goal against Jamaica, who the United States shut out 8-0. Blazing was the starting goalkeeper in several of the games and was credited with the victory over Chile in the championship. For Canada, Butting-er tallied two goals, including the game-winning goal against Chile in the semifinal round of the tournament.

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The saga of Duke’s road struggles reached a new lev-el Tuesday night as the Blue Devils fell to UNC Wilm-ington 2-1.

Despite leading for most of the second half, Duke (3-4-1, 1-1-1 in ACC) surrendered two goals in the final ten minutes to watch its first road victory of the season slip away. Yet the result was not without its fair share of controversy. A suspect handball call in the 81st minute led to a red card and a penalty shot for the Seahawks (3-5-1), shifting the momentum from the Blue Devils in the waning moments of the game.

“We played quite well tonight and dominated most of the game,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “It’s re-ally an unfortunate situation.”

The first half consisted of fairly even play between the Blue Devils and Seahawks. The lone goal opportu-nity for either side in the half came on Duke’s first pos-session of the game. Freshman Ryan Thompson took a corner kick and fed a pass into the box, only to see sophomore Nat Eggleston narrowly miss a header over the crossbar.

The pace of play picked up significantly in the sec-ond half as the Blue Devils came out of the locker room with a renewed vigor. Controlling tempo early, Duke was able to strike first with a goal in the 56th minute off of another set piece. For the second time in the game, Thompson launched a pass into the box off of a corner. This time, however, junior Sebastien Ibeagha took the header and put it into the back of the net for his fourth goal of the year.

“[Ibeagha is] a real handful on any set pieces we have,” Kerr said. “He’s shown up every single minute of every single game… and we know that every chance we get at

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stage elevated the participating Blue Devils’ games, mak-ing the players realize that they need to practice at a faster pace all the time. This realization led to many of the girls leaving the trip with a desire to train even harder in prepa-ration for the Junior World Cup.

“That experience really came out in the Argentina and Chile games when we saw the pace and the skill that the play-ers are playing with,” Blazing said.

When the players weren’t busy with practices, games and team meetings, they explored the city, stayed on top of their schoolwork and hung out with their competitors and the men’s teams.

“It was awesome,” Blazing said. “We got to see a little bit of Guadalajara and meet people from all around the world.”

The No. 19 Duke field hockey team had to play five games without a full roster, going 2-3 in these contests. At the end of a grueling stretch of games, the Blue Devils defeated No. 15 Michigan State in their first win against a higher-ranked op-ponent this season. Although Duke proved that it can adjust to playing with a smaller roster, there is no question that the return of the six players who competed internationally will give the team a boost.

“They’re really excited to be back in the States and back with their Duke field hockey family,” Blue Devil head coach Pam Bustin said. “They’re really proud of what the team did in their absence, and now there’s an added sense of strength and an added sense of energy having everyone back together as we go into the second part of the season.”

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Freshman Hannah Barreca represented the United States in the Junior Pan-American Games alongside classmate Aileen Johnson and sophomores Lauren Blazing and Abby Beltrani. Freshman Kendra Perrin and sophomore Jessica Buttinger played for Canada.

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right under their noses. Another chapter of this rivalry will un-fold this weekend when Duke travels to take on Wake Forest at BB&T Field.

On paper, the relationship between the Blue Devils and De-mon Deacons appears just as one-sided on the gridiron as that of Duke and North Carolina. Wake Forest has won 12 consecu-tive games against the Blue Devils, and it last lost to Duke on Nov. 13, 1999. Yes, that means Wake Forest has not lost a game to Duke in the 21st century.

The last time the Blue Devils knocked off the Demon Dea-cons, Bill Clinton was the President of the United States, the average price of gas was $1.25 per gallon and spots in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 charts were occupied by the likes of Santana’s “Smooth,” “Mambo No. 5” by Lou Bega and of course, “Crazy” by Britney Spears. Freshman running back Jela Duncan had just turned six-years old.

So if Duke hasn’t defeated Wake Forest since before Y2K al-most happened, how has this one-sided relationship become a rivalry? Because nearly every meeting between the Blue Devils and Demon Deacons since Duke’s last victory has been a game to remember. Five of the last six contests have been decided by fewer than seven points. Two seasons ago, the run-and-gun Demon Deacons squeaked out a 54-48 victory over Duke in Winston-Salem. Last year, Wake Forest came to Wallace Wade Stadium and seemed to be in firm control of the contest, tak-ing a 17-3 lead into halftime. The Blue Devils stormed back in the second half and scored 20 unanswered points. With flaw-less defensive play, Duke appeared poised to break the streak before a missed tackle on a screen pass turned into a 65-yard game-winning touchdown for the Demon Deacons.

As the Blue Devils prepared to travel across the country to face a ranked Stanford team three weeks ago, head coach Da-vid Cutcliffe had no problem reminding his team that Duke had not beaten a ranked opponent on the road in 41 years. With another daunting streak on the line, Cutcliffe wants his team to be aware of the history as a means of motivation.

“The streak has definitely been mentioned. We all know the streak and we plan on breaking it,” redshirt senior safety Jordon Byas said. “We’ve just been trying to focus on our game plan and focus on what we can do.”

The fabled losing streak to Wake Forest may come to an end this weekend, though the Demon Deacons could just as easily pull out a gut-wrenching win to extend their supremacy over Duke by another year. But when these two teams share the gridiron, it’s something that deserves to be appreciated in person. With the new additions of Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame, the map of the ACC continues to expand, but a trip to Winston-Salem, N.C. takes less than two hours by car. All rhetoric of why it’s important to support your school aside, if the past decade has been any indication, this game is going to be something you have to see to believe.

So take a trip to Winston-Salem this weekend, you might be surprised at what you find there. Not only will you get to witness one of the most underrated rivalries in ACC football firsthand, but if the Blue Devils make due on their promises and break the infamous streak against Wake Forest, it might be exactly the victory this program needs to topple another daunt-ing streak later this season.

having a set piece in the game, we can be dangerous.”Yet the match would take a dramatic turn during the

81st minute of play in favor of UNC Wilmington. With the Seahawks in the box and the center referee a mere five yards from the action, the side referee signaled a handball call against Duke. On the ensuing penalty kick, UNC Wilmington scored to tie the game at one apiece. It was the first goal allowed by senior goalkeep-er James Belshaw in more than three matches.

Disaster would strike again just three minutes later for the Blue Devils. As Duke pushed its team forward on offense in an attempt to take the lead, the Seahawks gained possession and launched a quick counter-at-tack. With fewer defenders to beat, UNC Wilmington’s Jamie Dell slipped past the defense and scored the go-ahead goal with just minutes remaining. The score would hold at 2-1 in favor of the Seahawks.

“It’s a tough pill to swallow when you’re totally in control of the game and the penalty decision shifts all the momentum in their favor,” Kerr said. “We had the game until that penalty call.”

Looking forward, Duke will need to bounce back quickly as No. 6 North Carolina comes to Koskinen Stadium Friday night. Though the Blue Devils have been great on the defensive end led by Belshaw, the offense will need to continue to make improvements on the attack if they are to beat the defending national champions.

“[The Tar Heels] have some really talented players and we know it’s going to be a difficult task for us,” Kerr said. “But we’re playing rather well at the moment. This is our first set back with having three straight games without having a goal scored against us…. Good things are around the corner.”

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“The world needs more Chris Stevenses,” said Sec-retary of State Hillary Clinton as she paid tribute to the U.S. ambassador to Libya moments after

he and three colleagues were assassinated in Beng-hazi. As usual, the secretary was spot on. But she could have also said, “America needs more politicians like Chris Stevens.”

An Arabic speaker and diligent international relations nerd since his time in the Peace Corps, the ambas-sador was well respected in the State Department for his courage, intel-ligence and astute understanding of foreign policy. In an Arab world fi lled with uncertainty, Mr. Stevens managed to turn even the greatest risks into oppor-tunities. This was true when he was fi rst smuggled into Benghazi aboard a creaky cargo ship at the start of the revolution in Libya, and it was true when he helped topple Gadhafi from power.

Set against the intellectual acuity of a man like Mr. Stevens, this election cycle’s foreign policy de-bate is nothing short of appalling. As protests rock the Middle East and North Africa and tensions fl are in Southeast Asia, Republicans and Democrats are doing Americans a grave disservice by ignoring im-portant foreign policy issues. When they do open their mouths, they sound sophomoric.

This juvenile atmosphere grew most apparent af-ter the Romney campaign accused President Obama of a “disgraceful” answer to Mr. Stevens’ assassination. Romney’s words came after the American embassy in Egypt slammed the low-budget anti-Muslim fi lm that sparked protests in the Middle East. Not least because American diplomats to Egypt rather than the presi-dent initially criticized the fi lm, the Obama campaign declared themselves “shocked” and puzzled by Rom-ney’s attacks—made so soon after Mr. Steven’s death to boot. Nonetheless, Romney refused to back down.

President Obama is also guilty. On Sept. 17, the administration announced that it is launching a complaint with the World Trade Organization against China because the Chinese are allegedly pro-viding illegal subsidies on automotive exports. Since this announcement came at an outdoor rally in the battleground, automobile-producing state of Ohio and only hours after Romney released an ad promis-ing to “crack down on cheaters like China,” it is hard to escape the conclusion that the complaint was at least partially motivated by the election.

The foreign policy debate, like other debates that get fi ltered through electoral rhetoric, is problem-atic because the product is invariably inferior. As diplomats like Chris Stevens know, foreign policy is nuanced stuff. Some of the largest issues facing us—the Israel-Palestine confl ict, a fracturing European

Union, the slow and volatile transition of Arab autoc-racies into democracies, worsening Sino-Japanese re-lations and so on—cannot be suffi ciently explained in a campaign sound bite.

In addition to watering down the issues, this election is motivating jingo-istic policies that might seem good in the short-run but could backfi re in the long run. The economic complaints launched against China are only one example of this. Indeed, the ease with which both Obama and Romney are bashing China in order to raise their poll numbers is troublesome because of how key our future relations with that country are. As the Chinese re-

lationship with neighboring countries such as Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan worsens, it could serve the U.S. well to play the rational actor, to appear as a middle-man. Instead, some politicians are siding with smaller Asian countries even when the facts sup-port the Chinese position (as they might in the heat-ed dispute over the Diaoyu islands that have recently rocked Sino-Japanese relations).

Although elections have a natural tendency to simplify foreign policy and to charge it with a jin-goistic undertone, it is irresponsible for either cam-paign to do this. The issues facing us are too large, too important and too complex. They affect not only Americans, but also billions of people living outside our country. The long-term consequences of the debate could involve shifting alliances or even mili-tary action. Thus, to trivialize foreign policy because we are in the middle of an election cycle does a dis-service to Americans and non-Americans alike. We must debate foreign policy with all the nuance and complexity it deserves.

Through his efforts to understand the other side, to fully comprehend the nuances of every issue and to empathize before condemning, Chris Stevens treated foreign policy with all the complexity it deserves. That is why, until his death, he found success in Libya while American efforts elsewhere failed. He was beloved by Libyans, as apparent from the sympathy expressed around the country in the wake of his murder.

Mr. Stevens’ death is a true tragedy, but it could lead to even greater tragedies if, instead of learning from his example, we continue a foreign policy de-bate that has so far been narrow, simple and short-sighted.

The geopolitical stakes are too high for irrespon-sible electioneering to infl uence our foreign policy, and, as the year drags on, the stakes are only looking to increase.

Mike Shammas is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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Trinity College of Arts and Sciences supports the liberal arts in name, but does the University support them in practice? Undergraduate Trinity requirements, also known as T-Reqs, indicate that the Duke has at least conceptualized a liberal arts education. But considering the lack of an auditing system for either of the two course designations—Modes of Inquiry and Areas of Knowledge—Trinity seems to have botched the execu-tion of the curriculum.

There is currently no com-prehensive, centralized system to determine which academic courses should be designated as MOI or AOK. The two des-ignations are assigned fairly arbitrarily, largely up to the

discretion of individual pro-fessors and department heads. Examples of incorrect or miss-ing MOI or AOK designations abound. For example, Quan-titative Studies—an AOK—

has garnered a particularly bad reputa-

tion. For years, CompSci 92 masqueraded as a rigorously quantitative course, boasting an undeserved QS but noto-riously quantitative Econ 101 lacks QS recognition.

Using course evaluations to collect student and faculty opinion on the appropriate-ness of MOI or AOK designa-tions would fi x this problem. We propose that the follow-ing question be included in every course evaluation: “Do you believe this course ad-equately achieves the goals

of the following academic requirements?” The question would be followed by a list of all fi ve MOIs and six AOKs. The course evaluation should also include a short section defi ning each MOI and AOK in clear terms. The defi nitions should be detailed enough for students to be able to consider them in the con-text of their class work. But they should also be fl exible enough to accommodate the evolving character of MOIs and AOKs as the landscape of academia inevitably shifts.

By using course evalua-tions to collect data, the ad-ministration will suddenly have access to broad student opinion about which courses deserve specifi c MOI and AOK designation. The ad-ministration should also sur-

vey professors—who know the content of their courses best—about which MOI and AOK designations are appro-priate. Examining quantifi ed student as well as faculty in-put, the administration will easily identify the problem courses. This will function as a fl agging system of sorts. Af-terward, administrators can do nuanced auditing for a handful of courses—perhaps by reviewing syllabi or sitting in on lectures—to determine which MOIs and AOKs should be added or removed.

One possible criticism of this auditing system is that both students and professors are incentivized to overstate the number of MOIs and AOKs a course fulfi lls. Cur-rent students would lie so that future students could easily

fulfi ll their T-Reqs; professors would lie to boost enrollment. However, we believe that this is unlikely—especially on the student end. We trust that stu-dents approach course evalu-ations generally with honesty, especially because T-Req au-diting would not affect them after fi nishing the course.

This auditing system would be comprehensive and easy to implement. Most importantly, it would be a true check on MOI and AOK designations, a step toward seriously imple-menting T-Reqs and fi lling the goals of the curriculum. Currently, no mechanism exists to ensure that MOIs and AOKs do what they are supposed to do. Trinity must invent such a mechanism to fulfi ll its promise of a liberal arts education.

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It has long been a tenet of convention-al political wisdom that the provision of basic education—like the provision

of roads, armies, health care and fi nancial markets—cannot be left up to the whims and wishes of individuals. The voluntary arrangements that would spontaneously result from such an approach to these goods would be wholly insuffi cient, the argument goes, and thus an imposition of rigid order from the top down is most desirable. This idea has been especially on display in the area of edu-cation over the past several years, as several state gover-nors have clashed strongly with teachers’ unions and, most recently, some teach-ers have even gone on strike. For the most part, however, the opposing par-ties in these debates have agreed as to the basic premise of state-run education, and have quibbled mostly over the specifi cs of its implementation.

There is evidence emerging, though, to suggest that perhaps this assump-tion itself is well worth examining, and even overturning. Overshadowed by the news of the union strikes in Chicago this month, a paper entitled “Why the Denial? Low-Cost Private Schools in Developing Countries and Their Contributions to Education” by Pauline Dixon was quietly published in Econ Journal Watch. The pa-per reads as a summary of several studies of low-cost private education conducted by various researchers across India, Africa and Pakistan over the course of the past decade and provides a strong case for re-evaluating our own national commitment to public education.

For one thing, the related studies have all but overturned the widely held assump-tion that private education is a luxury re-served only for middle- and upper-class families. In Lahore, Pakistan, for example, it was found that about half of the children from families living on less than $1 a day were attending low-cost private schools despite access to cost-free government-run schools. In certain Indian slums, 65 percent of school-going children attend private schools. In the slums of Lagos, Ni-geria, that number is even higher, at 75 percent. This, of course, is partially due to the fact that these schools have found ways to be relatively cost-effective. Many of them operate on the basis of monthly fees, with such fees representing between 4.2 per-cent and 13.5 percent of the monthly wage for a minimum-wage earner across these regions. They also offer differing degrees of scholarship and reduced fee options for students who are particularly in need.

As if this was not enough, the data go on to dispel the next myth surrounding low-cost private education, which is that poor students attending relatively inexpensive private schools would get nothing more than some mediocre, bargain-bin educa-tion. As it turns out, however, it is just the opposite: Even when controlling for family background, innate ability and school and teacher characteristics, students at these low-cost private schools tend to perform to a higher degree than their peers in gov-ernment-run schools. In rural India, the gap between a low-cost private school stu-dent and a state-run public school student at the same nominal level of education is close to an extra year. In Pakistan, the dif-ference is even greater, with public school students between 1.5 and 2.5 years behind their low-cost private school counterparts.

The low-cost private schools were found to be superior to the cost-free pub-lic schools according to a number of other

criteria as well. The most essential of these, perhaps, has to do both with the cost and quality of teaching at these schools. Sum-marized studies noted that teachers in the low-cost private schools, despite work-ing for only a fraction of the cost of their unionized public school counterparts, were more committed to their jobs and spent a larger percentage of their time actually teaching. In addition, though,

there was also evidence to suggest that low-cost private schools have been successful in overcoming gender gaps in education, and were able to provide students with better access to nicer facilities, running water and electricity than their cost-free state-run competitors.

Unfortunately, as Dixon notes at length, these impressive fi ndings were not met with the sort of relieved ex-citement that would be expected of those interested in erasing socioeconomic barri-ers to quality education. As a matter of fact, the United Nations Educational, Scientifi c and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has largely responded by doubling down on its commitment to placing students in state-run schools of lesser quality, overlooking the obvious alternative of allowing these children to pursue low-cost private educa-tion instead. The problem seems, however, to be fundamentally one of paradigm: UNESCO views student and family prefer-ence for these private schools “as a nega-tive response to perceived—and usually real—failures of the public system,” rather than as a defi nitive expression of prefer-ence for the low-cost private schools. This, in fact, is no less ridiculous than saying that in-state students chose Duke not because they were attracted to it by any of its posi-tive qualities, but simply because they were so appalled by the unfailingly abysmal ath-letic and educational programs of the Uni-versity of North Carolina.

It is a strange adherence to our cho-sen politics indeed that allows us to de-nounce the attainment of goals we have spent so long seeking, simply because they were not attained by the method we fi rst thought was best. I know few people who want anything other than better ac-cess to high-quality education for the less privileged, and yet I know many who will be unwilling to accept the results of these studies. In our contemporary political dis-course, positions on issues such as public education or universal health care have started to become synecdoches for our life views in general, making it less and less fulfi lling to follow the results, and more and more important to follow the program. To doubt public education—or Medicare, or Social Security—has be-come tantamount to doubting the Demo-cratic Party, the progressive movement and, generally, one’s self as well. It seems that it is no longer enough, on either side of the aisle, for a job to simply be well-done. Instead, it must be well-done, but only according to the exact methods and guidelines laid out and advocated for it beforehand.

Meanwhile, of course, real solutions pass by unimplemented and real people go on without the basic improvements they would have brought. Let’s certainly hope, without holding our breaths, that this won’t be the case here.

Chris Bassil, Trinity ’12, is currently work-ing for Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Bos-ton, Mass. His column runs every Wednesday. You can follow Chris on Twitter @Hamsterd-amEcon.

Learn by example

Dear students:I hope you enjoyed the swim-

ming good time that was Home-coming weekend, and that you’ve decid-ed that as alumni, you will donate even more money to Duke than you paid to actually attend. This is the Great and Powerful Duke Administration writing to you, so don’t ignore this like you do every other email (we see you, freshmen).

We, your overlords, fi gured it’s about time that we give you an overview of the goals and policies for this year. We rec-ommend you take this to heart, as you do every other piece of information distributed by the administration. Like AlcoholEdu.

We advanced our number one goal of ensuring that students have no fun what-soever by banning any and all o-week parties. This successfully continued our elimination of all things that make Duke unique. First to go: Tailgate, Pauly Dogs and the completely illogical class num-bering. Now: o-week. Next: the adorableness that is President Brodhead? We haven’t decided.

Now we’ve heard the backlash from naysayers. “The parties will go off-campus,” you say. “It’s better if they’re on-cam-pus so the administration can ensure that they’re safe.” Well, Captain Know-It-All, we haven’t been invited to any off-campus parties. I mean… if they were happening, we’d be invited. And if we weren’t, I’m sure it’s because they spelled our name wrong on the listserv or something. We, like, defi nitely know enough people to be on the listserv.

Furthering the house model will also be key this year. Now we’ve heard it all: “In trying to give independents more power, you’re doing the oppo-site. They don’t want to be in selective groups—that’s why they’re didn’t join one.” No, silly! They’re not in one be-cause they love selective groups so much that they couldn’t choose just one, and they needed us to pick for them! Inde-pendents, you are WELCOME! Well, actually, you’re not welcome on campus anymore. But we accept your thanks! We take Visa.

We’re also continuing to fi ght against hazing. As usual, we will target groups that have never even heard of hazing. Citing sororities for providing free food was child’s play. This year, we’re looking into Duke’s squirrels. They’ve gotten a little too bold lately. Au Bon Pain seems suspicious, too. There’s no way that many people eat salads willingly. And those people on the plaza trying to reg-ister voters are the worst offenders. The monotony of their spiel is reminiscent of a song playing on repeat for six hours in a damp fraternity house basement—not that anyone has EVER endured THAT. Now, we know what you’re thinking. “Citing people for hazing for absolutely everything minimizes the REAL hazing

incidents that somehow go unnoticed,” you say. “The publicized incidents don’t even scratch the surface of hazing at Duke,” you say. You know what? GET OUT OF OUR LETTER! Who invited you here?! You were probably a waitlist-ed student, anyway.

Our fi nal goal for the year—and this is really where we’re putting in effort—is to alienate Duke’s women. We gaze fondly back to the days before 1972, when women left us well enough alone. Our initial step was to quarantine Duke’s largest women’s organization to Duke’s worst campus. With the asbestos, mold and scary-movie murder-scene lighting, we doubt we’ll be seeing much of them anymore.

However, just in case, we decided we’d go beyond administrative tactics and branch into a whole new ball game: civil rights violations. Hey, how long do you have to report a rape in North Carolina? Oh, forever? Not at Duke, you

don’t! Better fi le that re-port within one year, be-cause after that… we’re like, busy. We just got the iPhone 5, and there are some really cool apps on this thing, so take the drama to your mama.

That’s about it for our goals for the year! Please consider joining us in our quest for complete domi-

nance over not only the U.S. News rank-ings, but also the Duke student body.

Love,The Administration Okay, readers, I’m not typically this

embittered in my articles. But as I got to my last point regarding Duke’s arbitrary and outrageous statute of limitations on sexual assault, I found myself infuri-ated. Over the years, minor frustrations caused by the administration have be-come idiocies, and now idiocies have devolved into downright injustices. I cannot stand it anymore.

But as easy as it would be, we can’t fully blame this on the administration. Duke was once an activist campus. Nowadays, we fervently complain about Tailgate, game attendance and a lack of section parties, but watch idly by as the LGBT center is stripped of suffi cient space. We quickly forgot when Duke told its black students that their GPA was not worth as much as that of their peers. We do nothing as Duke women routinely have their rights downgrad-ed—coming after what’s easiest for the administration.

I usually have no point to my articles other than making people laugh, and after this week I will click right back into that groove. But if, in my time here, I could impress one message onto you, it is this: Stand up and do something.

Lillie Reed is a Trinity junior. Her instal-lation of the weekly Socialites column runs on alternate Wednesdays. You can follow Lillie on Twitter @LillieReed.

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Schools were evaluated using a revamped gauging system, which assessed graduation rates, college matriculation rates, Advanced Placement tests taken per gradu-ate, among other criteria.

This year, 25 North Caro-lina high schools were ranked as the top 500 high school in the nation.

Despite its clear success in standardized testing, DSA re-gards such exams as the mini-mum requirement of under-standing, Hawks said, adding that teachers and faculty set their standards for students much higher.

“We do well on the subject tests because we teach our stu-dents the material and how to think critically,” he said.

Incorporating art and em-

phasizing the importance of ownership of one’s work is key in training DSA’s students to think critically, said Rodney Berry, assistant principal for sixth and seventh grade and a former art teacher at DSA.

“In education now, everyone is getting into inquiry-based learning,” Berry said. “Art is a great way of getting kids to flex those kinds of muscles.”

Whereas most high schools have six class periods a day, DSA is structured around seven, al-lowing students the opportu-nity to take art classes without sacrificing more traditional academic studies. Students are required to choose among the 10 offered arts concentrations, including band, theatre, dance and commercial and artistic technologies.

Berry added that the re-

quired art concentrations makes students more invested in their learning, resulting in them performing better over-all.

“I know my confidence has been boosted,” senior Jacob Jayala said in an interview with WRAL.

DSA is also unique in the diversity and sheer numbers of students that apply each year. This past year, the institution received 1,947 applications for grades six through 12, only 300 of which were accepted via a lottery system, Hawks said.

The competitiveness con-tributes to the passionate envi-ronment at DSA, he added, say-ing that all students who attend demonstrated their dedication to learning through the appli-cation process.

“It’s really, really unique and really, really great because ev-erybody is so talented and tal-ented in different ways,” senior Kellie LeVine said in an inter-view with WRAL. “DSA has such a different atmosphere than what you would see in a normal high school.”

Accepted students represent Durham’s socioeconomic and racial diversity, Hawks added, noting that the differences in backgrounds empower the stu-dents.

“In class, students speak up and advocate for their views no matter where they come from,” he said. “Everybody feel like they have a voice…. They have a vision for themselves.”

ANDREW HIGGINS/THE WASHINGTON POST

Duong Kear, a former resident of Boueng Kak Lake district in Phnom Penh,Cambodia, squats on Aug. 25, 2012, on an expanse of sand that now cov-ers his family home. The sand was pumped in by Chinese-backed developers.

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The Durham School of the Arts was recently ranked as one of the top 500 high schools in the nation, according to Newsweek. DSA is a magnet school that blends arts and academia.

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