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Despite Chapel vandalism,admins laud safe LDOC

Duke ready to move out of recession, Brodhead says

by Lauren CarrollTHE CHRONICLE

After two years of difficult financial deci-sions, Duke is on its way out of the economic downturn, President Richard Brodhead an-nounced Wednesday.

In his Primetime address, Brodhead ad-vised employees to remain prudent as the University rebounds from the financial reces-sion, noting the importance of future ven-tures and construction projects in Durham and abroad. About 50 people attended the event in Reynolds Theater and another 4,500 watched online.

“We shouldn’t fool ourselves, we are in better times partly because we helped put ourselves in better times,” Brodhead said. “I would hate to for us to loosen up this year and then find that next year we had another problem.”

Brodhead said the University made “cal-culated strategic solutions” meant to elimi-nate a budget deficit of approximately $100 million. He noted, however, that Duke con-tinued to be a good place to work through-out the recession.

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by Michael ShammasTHE CHRONICLE

Administrators and students said that LDOC 2011 was one of the best Duke has seen in recent memory—with one, unfortu-nate exception.

From breakfast on Main Quadrangle, to a late-night Ludacris concert, this year’s Last Day of Classes was one of the safest in Duke history, said junior Lindsay Tomson, co-chair of the LDOC committee.

“I went to bed with texts from friends say-ing best LDOC yet and woke up with emails from administrators saying safest LDOC yet,”

Tomson said. “I think the [new safety] poli-cies have continued to be successful in lower-ing the risks of the event.”

But while students were enjoying the fes-tivities, an act of vandalism was committed on the Duke Chapel.

According to a report from the Duke University Police Department, rocks were thrown through three stained glass windows of the south side of the Duke Chapel between 12:15pm Wednesday afternoon and 8:03a.m. Thursday morning. The vandalism caused

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BIN LADEN KILLED BY US FORCESObama confi rms terrorist leader’s death, sparking celebrations nationwide

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by Scott Wilson and Craig WhitlockTHE WASHINGTON POST

Osama bin Laden has been killed in an American operation in Pakistan, President Barack Obama announced from the White House Sunday, calling his death “the most significant achievement to date in our na-tion’s effort to defeat al Qaeda.”

In a statement delivered from the East Room, Obama said a small team of U.S. personnel attacked a compound Sunday in Pakistan’s Abbottabad Valley, where bin Laden had been hiding since late last sum-mer. After a firefight, Obama said, the U.S. team killed bin Laden and “took custody of his body.”

“We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies,” a som-ber Obama said in his nine-minute state-ment. “We will be true to the values that make us who we are. And on nights like this one, we can say to families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror: Justice has been done.”

The killing of bin Laden—which set off cheers outside the White House gates and lit off the Internet with celebration—will provide a clear moment of victory for Obama at a moment of deep political tur-moil overseas that is upending longstand-ing U.S. policy in much of the Muslim world, particularly the Arab Middle East.

The operation took place in Abbotta-bad, a city of about 100,000 in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, about 100 miles north of Islamabad. Named for a British military officer who founded it as a military cantonment and summer retreat, it is the headquarters of a brigade of the Pakistan army’s Second Division.

A senior U.S. official, who had been briefed on the operation for months, said it

Community reacts to bin Laden’s demiseby Ted Knudsen and Nicole Kyle

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A saga that began when many Duke stu-dents were still in middle school reached a sudden conclusion late last night.

Leader of al Qaeda and international face of terrorism Osama bin Laden was killed in an operation led by a small as-sault team of American forces.

Bin Laden, the man behind the Sept.

11 attacks and approximately 3,000 Amer-ican deaths, died in a raid led by a U.S. forces, President Barack Obama said in a speech late Sunday night.

“Justice has been done,” Obama an-nounced.

Duke students celebrated the news with fireworks along Towerview Drive and on Main Quad, though many students remained in the library due to upcoming exams.

“He’s dead?” sophomore Won Song said. “We were studying, so we didn’t know.”

Some students, however, took a break from studying to watch Obama’s announce-ment and subsequent news reports.

Other students were more vocal and enthusiastic about bin Laden’s death, taking the opportunity to reconnect

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The Duke Medicine Orchestra, comprised of medical school students, faculty and health care employ-ees, holds its spring concert of its inaugural year in Baldwin Auditorium.

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Beer Trucks is back—with some changes.

The event, which offered graduating seniors and their families the chance to drink beer and socialize before com-mencement, was canceled in April by the Duke Alumni Association due to its cost. Following student outcry, Duke Student Government has secured funding for the event and has scheduled it to take place May 14 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., DSG President Mike Lefevre, a senior, said.

“I have been to each event since the first one about 20 years ago,” Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said. “It is a fes-

tive family event where students mix, mingle and say goodbye. It has devel-oped a sense of nostalgia and we all would have been sad to see it go.”

Lefevre said that in response to the Facebook page in support of Beer Trucks as well as the flood of emails from stu-dents lobbying their DSG senators to reinstate the event, the group voted to plan and seek funding for the event.

The event is projected to cost $22,500 and without a contribution from the DAA, DSG leaders initially had difficul-ties finding funds for the event, Lefevre said.

The Duke Balance Forward Account provided an additional $19,500, which was drawn from surplus money that had not been allocated or spent on program-ming during the year, he added.

For the remainder of the funds, DSG requested support from the Duke Uni-versity Union. DUU has now pledged $3,000 in grants toward the event, the group’s president Rachel Sussman, a ju-nior, wrote in an email.

“DUU recognizes the importance of Beer Trucks in providing a last, memorable event for the graduating class,” she said. “Normally we do not provide funding for events that cater toward a subset of the student body. However, DUU understands the unique circumstance this year due to the last-minute announcement by the DAA of Beer Trucks’ cancellation.”CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO

After students protested the cancellation of Beer Trucks, DSG voted to reinstate the tradition. SEE BEER TRUCKS ON PAGE 6

RLHS holds lottery for off-campus housing

by Maggie SpiniTHE CHRONICLE

Fifty-seven of 140 rising juniors were released from their housing contracts Wednesday in Residence Life and Housing Services’ first pre-lottery for off-campus housing.

RLHS will run an additional off-campus lottery in November, Linda Moiseenko, manager for Duke com-munity housing, wrote in an email Sat-urday. She noted that RLHS is unsure how many students may receive exemp-tions in this subsequent lottery.

“One of the challenging things for RLHS is to try to determine antici-pated vacancies so far out in advance,” Moiseenko said, adding that the supply and demand for on-campus housing for the Spring semester determines the number of exemptions granted.

The rising juniors, who applied to live off campus earlier this Spring, were randomly selected from a pool of 140 students, Moiseenko said. These exemptions release students from the University’s three-year housing con-tract.

RLHS used an early estimate of the number of available beds on campus next Spring in order to grant the ex-emptions, she added. This number was an increase from previous years, as 150 beds will be added to campus with the opening of Keohane Quadrangle 4E in Spring 2012.

“The only real impact of K4 is that we would have more available beds

than usual,” said Joe Gonzalez, associ-ate dean for residence life. “That’s go-ing to impact the number of students who are ultimately [housed on cam-pus].”

University policy requires under-graduates to live on campus for their first three years, though historically, some juniors have been exempted from their housing contracts based on the availability of beds on campus. RLHS must fill all on-campus space be-fore granting exemptions.

Under the old off-campus lottery system, rising juniors would not receive notice of exemption until the Fall of their junior years.

Last year, 165 of 220 juniors who ap-plied for off-campus housing were re-leased from their housing contracts for Spring 2011. RLHS exempted students in two waves—releasing 66 students in October and an additional 99 students in November. This posed significant in-conveniences for some students trying to sort out their living situations from abroad.

The pre-lottery was a result of stu-dents’ frustration and a subsequent recommendation from Campus Coun-cil Nov. 4. RLHS confirmed it would honor this recommendation in early April.

Moiseenko said that because this is the first year RLHS has used a pre-lot-tery process, she could not comment as

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The Duke community was given a chilling reminder of what could happen if governments do not mobilize to stop global warming.

Environmental economist Lester Brown delivered this message as the key-note speaker for the 15th anniversary celebration of the Stanback Fellowship Program, which supports Duke students in environmental jobs across the country. Brown discussed the threat that global warming poses and the need for a new approach to economics that reflects the realities of limited resources.

“No civilization has ever survived the destruction of its natural support systems,

nor will ours,” Brown said.Brown, who founded the Earth Policy

Institute and has written or co-written more than 50 environmental policy books, differentiated between the scientific com-munity’s world view, which recognizes the need to change our treatment of the en-vironment, and the economists’ outlook, which projects continuous growth for years to come. He noted that in some pro-jections the economy will double within a few decades and criticized economists’ tendency to overlook natural limitations on growth.

“It’s certainly nice being an economist because they never ask the difficult

Brown connects global warming and the economy

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Speaking at the 15th anniversary of the Stanback Environmental Fellowship Program, environmental economist Lester Brown discusses the unsustainability of the world’s continued economic growth.

“You were fortunate to work at Duke dur-ing this period, there are a lot of [universities] where jobs are going away,” he said. “[The re-cession] did exact a sacrifice from all of us.”

Brodhead listed several cost-cutting initia-tives the University has implemented since 2009. The list included encouraging voluntary retirement, rationalizing spending and put-ting a freeze on pay raises—a measure which will soon end, Brodhead recently announced. But he also mentioned increased spending on the University’s upcoming projects such as the new campus in Kunshan, China, Dur-ham campus renovations and additions to the Duke University Medical Center.

Brodhead compared building a campus in China to the 1892 decision to move Duke from Randolph County, N.C., to Durham, saying a university must be located within a cutting-edge community. Duke Kunshan University, which is expected to cost Duke upwards of $37 million, will help the Uni-versity as a whole to expand its knowledge of the world and provide the Duke experi-ence to Chinese students.

“If you don’t understand remote inter-national dimensions, you can’t understand what’s in front of your eyes,” he said. “We’re not going there to spend money, we’re going there to do the teaching.”

The University recently received $80 mil-lion from the Duke Endowment to renovate the West Union building, Baldwin Auditori-um and Page Auditorium. If the costs exceed $80 million, Duke will have to raise additional funding, The Chronicle previously reported. Brodhead said he was pleased to have this op-portunity, calling the buildings, in their cur-rent state, a “chaotic wreck.”

Brodhead stressed the importance of addi-tions to the Medical Center such as the new cancer center and medical pavilion, noting

that they will play a critical role in boosting research funding.

“[We must] invest in things now that will create economic prospects in the fu-ture,” he said.

Attendee Morgan Hendrix, assistant direc-tor of admissions at the Divinity School, said she believes some individual departments within the University have trouble looking toward the future when there are many pres-ent challenges, adding that she was pleased to hear Brodhead speak frankly with faculty.

“Something that’s hard is finding practical things you can do now as opposed to future things,” Hendrix said.

Brodhead said Duke, since its beginning, has been a “massive construction project,” and the University is lucky that it did not have any major projects underway when the recession began. He hopes the University takes advan-tage of the facilities currently under construc-tion before embarking on new projects.

“Universities don’t exist to build buildings,” Brodhead said. “In fact, if you can, you usually avoid it. But sometimes you build a building to serve a purpose.”

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President Brodhead spoke about upcoming projects, such as the cancer center and the Kunshan campus.

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was a special operations team that went in on the ground to conduct the mission, based on CIA intelligence gathering.

“We’ve been staring at the compound for months try-ing to figure out for sure whether we had enough to go with,” the official said. Operatives have “been working this target for years, years, years. They finally found the guy who led to the guy who led to the guy who led to the guy and this is it.”

Bin Laden was one of a handful of Islamic radicals who founded al Qaeda—which means “the base” in Arabic—in 1988 to coordinate the efforts of various groups fighting the Soviet Army in Afghanistan. After the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, al Qaeda eventually shifted its effort to target another superpower—the United States.

There had been no definitive sightings reported of bin Laden since December 2001, when he outfoxed the U.S. military and its proxy Afghan forces at the battle of Tora Bora and slipped away, presumably over the border into Pakistan.

Over the past decade, he regularly mocked the inabil-ity of the United States and its allies to find him, issuing dozens of audio and video tapes broadcast on the Internet and on television networks such as Al Jazeera. Despite the frequency of his statements, U.S. intelligence officials were unable to follow the trail back to the al Qaeda leader.

Beginning last September, the CIA began to work with Obama on a set of intelligence assessments, which led him to believe that it was possible bin Laden might be located in the compound in Pakistan.

By the middle of February, Obama determined there was a sound intelligence basis for pursuing this and devel-oping courses of action in case it proved correct.

A month later, Obama began chairing a series of Na-tional Security Council meetings, which had totaled five by the end of March. On April 29, Obama gave the final order to pursue the operation.

Whether bin Laden’s death will have a tangible impact on al Qaeda’s operational capability is unclear, given that, hunkered down in Pakistan’s lawless border region for years, he has served more as the group’s spiritual leader than military commander.

Senior U.S. intelligence officials said bin Laden had re-mained in control of al Qaeda’s central command and that its leadership council still reported to him, even as his where-abouts were carefully concealed. But they said bin Laden weighed in on major management decisions less frequently than he did prior to 2001 due to security precautions that left him inaccessible for long periods of time.

“There is no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pur-sue attacks against us,” Obama said. “We must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad. As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not at war with Islam.”

With the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks ap-proaching later this year, bin Laden’s assassination could benefit Obama domestically even more than the capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein helped propel former President George W. Bush to re-election in 2004.

Although former Bush officials were quick to declare bin Laden’s killing a military victory that transcended par-ty lines, it represented the culmination of Bush’s promise, never fulfilled during his time in office, to capture the al Qaeda leader “dead or alive.”

Obama announced bin Laden’s death eight years after Bush declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq, a war spawned in large part by the Sept. 11 attacks, in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner on the deck of an air craft carrier. One senior U.S. official, who spoke on condi-tion of anonymity, said the Obama administration is con-sidering burying bin Laden’s body at sea, to prevent the creation of a place of homage to the al Qaeda leader.

“We don’t want a bunch of people going to the shrine forever,” the official said.

That bin Laden was killed—rather than captured—was a victory itself for U.S. officials, who had dreaded the pros-pect of a long and complicated legal battle if the al Qaeda leader was taken into U.S. custody alive.

With the military brig at Guantanamo Bay no longer being used to house new detainees, and with the country paralyzed by the politics of where and how to try other alleged perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks, the logistics of trying bin Laden could have turned the capture into a spectacle. Now, while bin Laden may become a martyr to his supporters, it will be as an invisible hero.

“Every day he was alive was a symbolic victory,” said Dan Byman, director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East policy at Brookings institution and professional staff member on the Sept. 11 commission. “This is a man we have hunted with different degrees of intensity for more than 10 years.... His successful defiance was damaging to the United States.”

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with family and friends over Sept. 11—an event that defined a generation.

“As soon as I heard, I ran to the nearest TV and called my parents and military friends,” senior Bryan Gomez said.

Students from the New York and Washington, D.C. ar-eas also felt a particular connection to the events. Soph-omore Cynthia Moffitt, a New York resident, said bin Laden’s death had a way of putting things in perspective, especially during an otherwise stressful finals week.

This unexpected turn of events sparked a resurgence of patriotism for many on campus, including for sopho-more Jane Riddle.

“It’s a great day to be an American,” Riddle said.Duke employees reacted similarly to Obama’s an-

nouncement, as McDonald’s employee Julia Cazares said she was happy, especially for all of the families af-fected by the Sept. 11 attacks.

Across campus, approximately 20 members of the

Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity toasted to the success of the American-led operation in Pakistan.

“To America!” the brothers chanted, raising Yuengling beers in unison.

Sophomore Benton Wise, a member of the fraternity, noted that although the news was cause for celebration, students would be remiss not to acknowledge the sacri-fices made, including the many lives lost, in order to take down the head of al Qaeda.

Even among the celebrations, students were not en-tirely free from the somber tone which was also apparent in Obama’s address.

“I feel out of place celebrating the death of a person, regardless of who it is,” freshman Ashley McCormick said.

Although the impromptu presidential announcement interrupted some students’ studying, most said they will not soon forget this historical milestone.

“I’ve been waiting for this since I was 11,” junior John Pennington said. “I’ve been waiting for this night for a long time. We’re all just out here on the bench reflecting on the night.”

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Initially, the event was slated to be held on either the Bryan Center plaza or in the Duke Gardens, but both locations were booked. Of the remaining poten-tial locations on campus, Duke University Police De-partment felt comfortable with the Blue Zone parking lot, Lefevre said.

Holding the event there would require lighting and portable toilets, adding to the projected cost, Sussman said.

To compensate for the smaller budget—in previous

years, the event has cost as much as $75,000—there will be significant changes to the structure of the event, said Christopher Roby, director of the office of student life.

The biggest difference will be the lack of a tent, which was the largest single cost of the event in previ-ous years.

“A big risk is rain but other than that, it will be the goodbye event people remember it to be,” Roby said. “There will be food, tables, chairs, a DJ, lighting and we expect anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 people. As for the rest, the mood is what you make of it.”

The DAA will likely return to coordinating Beer Trucks in the future based on student support and en-thusiastic help from the university.

“It will most likely not happen in its traditional form,” Lefevre said. “It was simply too expensive. But, I think there will always be a Saturday night event for se-niors and there should be.”

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to whether or not it has been a success.Students, however, were generally happy to have

more information about their housing options be-fore leaving Duke to study abroad.

“I was extremely relieved to hear that there would be a pre-lottery this year,” sophomore Michelle Bard, who received an exemption, wrote in an email Sunday.

Bard also noted that it is easier to finalize living plans for the Spring semester while she is still in Durham.

“Last year, I know that many of my friends who were abroad during the lottery had to scramble to figure out their living situations,” she said. “In con-trast, I can sign my apartment lease right now and rest assured that I’ll have a place to live off campus when I return next year.”

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questions like, how much water will it take to double the world economy and where will that water come from?” Brown said. “Or, how much food will be needed to satisfy demand in a world where the economy is twice as big as it is today?”

Brown argued that humankind will be forced to come to terms with the unsustainability of continued economic growth sooner or later, although nobody knows exactly when. He said the key to the coming breakdown lies in global warming’s threat to food security. Increases in global population and general affluence create more demand for food, even as governments divert grain for ethanol production.

Meanwhile, several trends limit food supplies. Ris-ing temperatures reduce agricultural productivity, fall-ing water tables limit the amount of water available for consumption and farming and soil erosion eliminates available farmland. And, Brown said, farmers have caught up with scientists—technology no longer con-tinues to increase agricultural productivity. A global food crisis would threaten the stability of governments,

leading to more failed states.Brown recommended cutting carbon emissions 80 per-

cent by 2020, stabilizing the world population at eight bil-lion people, eradicating poverty and restoring the environ-mental systems that support our economies.

He also called for the economy to reflect the hidden costs of human actions. For example, the price tag of gasoline reflects its production costs but does not include the indirect costs of climate change, respiratory illnesses from polluted air and the American military establish-ment protecting access to oil in the Middle East. He lik-ened this situation to Enron, which projected an image of great profits by keeping costs off the books.

Brown argued for lowering the income tax and raising a carbon tax to reflect these costs. He said this would not increase overall taxes on each person, but would employ market forces to push down carbon emissions. He dis-cussed the need for technological increases in efficiency and cited the American industrial effort in World War II as a paradigm for a massive technological response to the threat of global warming.

After the speech, Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicho-las School of the Environment, presented Brown with a painted ceramic depiction of a caterpillar approaching

the end of a branch. Chameides likened the caterpillar’s predicament to humanity’s position in the face of global warming—it will either fall or metamorphose into a but-terfly and fly away.

“It’s not the most uplifting, optimistic talk,” Chameides said in an interview after the event. “It’s certainly sobering and gives us a lot of thought about how we need to move forward in the future.”

Chameides noted that although Brown’s background is not in environmental science, he draws information from the scientific community. He added that Brown’s goals for carbon emission reductions and limiting the population are challenging but conceivable.

“I don’t think eight billion’s impossible—I think it’s go-ing to be tough,” Chameides said. “I think it’s a little opti-mistic. I’m hoping for nine.”

Roberto Jimenez, a second-year graduate student at the Nicholas School, appreciated Brown’s food-centric ap-proach to global warming advocacy.

“There are a few people out there that are really putting these big global problems in the context of food security and that’s something that people can hold on to, understand, get alarmed about and take action about,” Jimenez said.

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$2,500 worth of damages.Administrators confirmed that Chapel staff discovered the

three holes—ranging from five to 10 inches each—Thursday morning and reported the damage to Duke Police.

Duke Police Chief John Dailey wrote in an email Sunday that the vandalism was committed during the nighttime hours of LDOC. He also noted that DUPD’s investigation into the vandalism is ongoing.

Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells said in a statement released Thursday that he believes the vandals planned the crime in ad-vance, noting that it is too early to speculate on a suspect.

“The rocks used were… heavy [and] must have been brought some distance, since no materials of the kind are avail-able nearby,” Wells said in the statement. “To make three holes at the same height, at equally-spaced windows [and] from a distance of perhaps 40 yards must have required significant strength and notable accuracy. It does not bear the signs of a spontaneous act of vandalism.”

Wells added that he does not know if the act was di-rected against Christian students in particular or the University as a whole.

Freshman Jacob Robinson, who will co-chair the LDOC committee next year, said he was disappointed about the van-dalism at the Chapel.

“This destructive behavior is… the type of behavior that can get LDOC canceled,” Robinson said.

Junior Ryan Lipes, crew chief and director of Duke emer-gency medical services, noted however, that student safety had noticeably improved in comparison to other years. EMS treat-ed 21 patients this year, an increase from last year’s 15, though Lipes attributed the increase in patients this year, not to exces-sive alcohol abuse but instead to other incidents. For example, many students had to be treated because a currently unidenti-fied person set off a canister of pepper spray.

Only two students were hospitalized, Lipes added, noting that this is the fewest number of medical transports in the last four years of LDOC.

The improved safety can be attributed to policy changes made by the LDOC committee last year such as requiring stu-dents to wear wristbands and limiting the amount of alcohol that can be carried, he said.

Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek also wrote in an email Fri-

day that she was pleased with the outcome of LDOC 2011. “LDOC went very well—perhaps the best one in recent

memory,” Wasiolek said. “The student co-chairs of the LDOC committee and the many students and staff who planned the day should be thanked and congratulated.”

Wasiolek said she had heard but could not confirm that Alcohol Law Enforcement—a squad of plain-clothed agents charged by the North Carolina Depart-ment of Crime Control and Public Safety to enforce alcohol policies—was present on LDOC. She added that ALE does not need permission from Duke to be on campus.

“We also heard that [ALE was on campus during LDOC], but were never able to confirm that,” Dailey said. “Once we heard that they were on campus, we called them to let them know that we had plenty of our own officers and security around.”

He noted that he could not confirm if ALE was giving out citations during LDOC.

Generally, the LDOC committee was pleased with students’ overall behavior. Robinson compared behavior in previous years to that seen at Tailgate.

“Due to the efforts of the administration and former LDOC committees, the LDOC culture has changed from the all-day Tailgate atmosphere,” he said.

Sophomore Amir Abdu said he enjoyed this year’s LDOC even more than LDOC 2010.

“Free food, great bands and Ludacris—what more could you ask for?” Abdu said.

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TOP: Rapper Ludacris was the final performer Wednesday. BOTTOM: Vandals threw heavy rocks through Duke Chapel windows .

They say that all good things come to an end, and sometimes the end isn’t exactly what you hoped for.

The No. 6 Blue Devils (13-4) lost to North Carolina in the ACC semifinals April 22, but

this Friday they hoped to keep their loss total at three when they took on

Penn in Philadelphia, and put themselves in a strong position to earn a top seed in the NCAA Tournament. But the No. 9 Quakers (10-3) proved too much for Duke, coming away with a 13-10 victory at Drexel University’s Vidas Field.

Duke went back-and-forth early on with their Ivy League opponents, alternating scores for the first 22 minutes before allow-ing Penn to go on a 7-2 run that lasted into the second half.

The Blue Devils attempted a comeback but a five-goal deficit proved too great. Coupled with the loss to North Carolina, this marks the first time since March 2008 that the team has lost back-to-back games.

Redshirt junior Emma Hamm led the Blue Devils with four goals and one assist, solidifying her position as the team’s lead-ing scorer with 45 goals.

Senior Christie Kaestner earned her way into the Duke record books in the contest, tallying three assists to become just the sec-ond player in Duke history to record 40 or more assists in a season.

The Penn offense tied its season high with 13 goals, which represented an uncharacter-istic lapse for a Duke defense that hadn’t al-lowed that many goals since its matchup with then-No. 1 Maryland Feb. 26.

Selection will be announced on Sunday for the 2011 NCAA Tournament, and perhaps there the Blue Devils can achieve a more fit-ting end to their achievements this season.

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After Duke fell to Maryland in the ACC championship game, it couldn’t hurt to get a confidence boost going into the NCAA Tournament.

A 10-6 victory over Jacksonville (5-9) Saturday saw six different Blue Devils

score as the team finished its sea-son on a high note. The victory

was Duke’s twelfth of the season, to secure the sixth consecutive season in which the Blue Devils have won 12 or more games.

In spite of the tough loss to the ACC rival Terrapins, No. 8 Duke (12-5) showed on Saturday why they are expected to make a deep run in the upcoming postseason. After trailing by one goal early in the first period, Duke proceeded to score seven unan-swered goals over a stretch of nearly 26 minutes, building a large lead that

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Duke’s performance at the Penn Re-lays this past weekend was nothing short of historic.

When the meet ended, the Blue Devils walked away with two champi-onships and six new school records. While this type of performance has become typical of the track and field program, this weekend was unique in many ways. Not only did the men’s 4x800 team of seniors Sean-Pat Os-wald, Cory Nanni, junior Stephen Clark, and sophomore Curtis Beach step up to win the program’s first-ev-er college division win in the event in 7:25.20, but as a whole, all Duke ath-letes competing in Championship of America events, which are limited to a select number of the nation’s best programs, finished in the top ten.

The men’s school record-breaking win for the program, had, earlier in the day, been matched perfectly on the women’s side, as seniors Kate Van Bus-kirk and Devotia Moore, alongside ju-niors Esther Vermeer and Cydney Ross, crossed the finish line in 8:25.95. As a result, associate head coach Kevin Jer-myn was able to take home his second Penn Relays Carnival Wheel, given to winners of Championship events.

And while the Duke athletes may not have taken home titles in any other events, according to director of track and field Norm Ogilvie, their performances are still something to be proud of.

“It’s a big honor even to be selected to compete [in Championship of Amer-ica events],” Ogilvie said. “We broke sev-eral school records and we did it with

some gutsy performances.”Many of these performances occurred

in the field, as Duke athletes tore down old school records to earn top-ten finishes. On the men’s side, sophomore Austin Gamble broke his senior teammate Mike Schallmo’s school record in the discus with his throw of 55.31 meters on Friday. In the men’s javelin, senior John Austin, earned a second-place finish with his throw of 71.31 meters.

Several other Blue Devil field athletes turned in top-ten finishes as well. Sopho-more Andrea Hopkins, like her counter-part on the men’s side, rose to second place in the javelin with her throw of 46.64 meters. In the high jump on Sat-urday, freshman Tanner Anderson tied University of Louisville’s Mike Edwards for

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Senior Sean-Pat Oswald, left, led Duke’s first-ever 4x800-winning team at the Penn Relays over the weekend.

would not be relinquished. Josh Offit keyed the Duke run with two goals, while five other players added a tally apiece.

The Blue Devils saw great individual efforts on both ends of the field, with se-nior Sam Spillane scoring a career high three goals and sophomore goaltender Dan Wigrizer recording 14 saves to pace the Duke onslaught. Duke’s defense came to play in support of Wigrizer, as the Dol-phins’ six goals are tied for the least al-lowed by the Blue Devils this season.

Duke held a distinct advantage in ball control throughout the contest, keyed by a 12-7 edge in faceoff wins and the upper hand in ground balls won 48-42. This was a marked change from the ACC champion-ship defeat, in which the Blue Devils won just six of 24 faceoffs.

All that’s left for the Blue Devils is the NCAA Tournament bracket, which is set to be released on May 8th on ESPNU.

— from staff reports

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Dan Wigrizer was stellar between the pipes on Saturday, racking up 14 saves in Duke’s victory.

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Even a return to the friendly confines of the Durham Bulls Athletic Park was not enough to push Duke past Virginia Tech over the weekend.

The Hokies (26-20, 9-15 in the ACC) won two of three games to push the Blue Devils deeper into the Coastal Division cel-

lar. Duke (21-26, 5-19) has now lost eight of its last nine conference games.

The lost series may prove dev-astating for the Blue Devils, who entered the week-end on the cusp of the eighth—and final—spot in the

ACC Tournament, which will take place at the DBAP.

On Friday, Duke squeaked by Virginia Tech 3-2 behind an inspired pitching per-formance by senior Dennis O’Grady. The senior held the Hokies to one earned run on six hits through seven innings of work, racking up seven strikeouts. The Blue Devils broke a 2-2 lead in the bottom of the eighth inning when freshman Jordan Betts scored on a passed ball.

Saturday’s game was even closer than the opener, as Virginia Tech tied the series with a 6-5 win in ten innings. The Hokies scored the winning run when Andrew Rash scored on a two-out passed ball in the top of the frame. Both starting pitchers were chased by the end of the fifth inning, but the Vir-ginia Tech pair of Manny Martir and Ronnie Shaban held the Blue Devils to just one un-

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earned run the rest of the afternoon.The rubber match was a 9-0 blowout or-

chestrated by the Hokies and starter Joe Parsons, who scattered six hits in a complete-game shutout. Duke’s battery of Chase Be-bout—starting his first game in almost two months after a wrist injury—Eric Pfisterer

tenth, while on the previous day, his class-mate Michael Krone succeeded in tying Anderson’s record of 2.12 meters with his second-place finish in the college division high jump. Michelle Anumba, along with freshman Erica Brand, had stellar perfor-mances in Championship events as well, placing ninth in the shot put and sixth in the discus, respectively.

Other running events also saw the Blue Devils finish in top-ten spots. The women’s distance medley relay team secured a fourth-place finish with a time of 11:02.01, shatter-ing yet another school record. According to Ogilvie, this finish represents another “ma-jor accomplishment” for the program.

In fact, in the only event where the Duke athletes placed lower than expected, the men’s 4x1 mile relay, they still managed to tie their placement from the previous year, as seniors Josh Lund, Cory Nanni, and Ryan McDermott, as well as redshirt freshman Domenick DeMatteo, crossed the finish line in 16:39.49 to take seventh. The Duke men had headed into the event with a record-high seeding of third and had hoped to finally break the school record set in 1972. While Lund and his team did fall short of their goal, they still managed to hold on to their three-year streak of top-ten finishes.

“If anything, as a coach I probably un-derestimated the physical and emotional wear and tear of ACC’s.” Ogilvie said. “For example, Josh Lund ran the fastest race of his life at ACC’s and its hard to come back from a race like that.”

For the rest of the team, though, the aftereffects of the ACC Championships did not seem to be an issue as they came together to create history for the rapidly-improving track and field program.

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and Drew Van Orden combined to give up all nine runs in just 7.2 innings of work.

The Blue Devils now sit four games out of the final ACC Tournament slot with just six conference games remain-ing.

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Ben Grisz gave up just one hit in three innings of scoreless relief on Saturday in a losing effort.

When it comes to campus alcohol policy, the administra-tion rightly prioritizes student safety. When administrators discuss revisions to the Univer-sity’s health and safety inter-vention policy May 16, student safety should still be front and center.

The current alcohol “am-nesty clause” guarantees that students who seek medical at-tention for themselves or oth-ers will not receive disciplin-ary action against them for violating the alcohol policy unless other University rules are concurrently broken. The administration is consid-ering altering the policy so that conduct records refl ect when a student has used the “amnesty clause” in the past two calendar years.

The amnesty policy should seek to enhance student safety. The new policy should not seek to punish students. Instead, the new information should be used to address

the underlying issues of stu-dents with his-

tories of alcohol abuse.So far the amnesty policy

debate has focused on stu-dents’ rights. Reframing the issue in terms of safety, howev-er, will lead to more produc-tive refl ection and debate.

The new policy claims to enhance safety by disincen-tivizing heavy drinking and allowing the Undergraduate Conduct Board to refl ect upon students’ past alcohol abuse—behavior that is often a sign of deeper psychologi-cal problems.

But, as many have pointed out, there are diffi culties in this line of thought. With the new disincentive in play, students might spend time weighing the costs and benefi ts of calling Emergency Medical Services for a student in need of medi-cal attention. This becomes especially problematic when students cannot decide wheth-er or not medical attention is necessary. In these situations, students might allow fear of getting their friend in trouble to infl uence their decisions in a life-threatening situation.

Clearly, the proposed pol-icy might put student safety at risk. Given that, a high burden of evidence needs to be placed on advocates of the new policy to ensure that its bad consequences do not outweigh its benefi ts.

Modifying the proposed policy could mitigate the po-tential backlash and make it more palatable to students. It is important for the UCB to have information about alco-hol abuse. But the new infor-mation should not be used to punish students or to enhance punishments for other viola-tions. Instead, the UCB should turn a sympathetic eye toward students with a history of alco-hol abuse. If the UCB is aware of a student’s previous EMS calls for alcohol abuse, they will better understand the student’s past and future needs and can more appropriately make judg-ments on remediation.

Under the University’s cur-rent health and safety inter-vention policy, students who receive medical assistance for alcohol abuse are sometimes

required to seek help from Counseling and Psychological Services, and may get a phone call home to boot. This is a good policy. When students persistently endanger their safety, however, despite the in-volvement of their parents and CAPS, stronger, more targeted interventions may be needed. These are exactly the sort of interventions the UCB could recommend with information about past alcohol abuses.

An educational initiative should follow a modifi cation to the policy. Students need to know that student conduct records have no meaning in the world outside of Duke, and that the new information will be used sympathetically.

A new amnesty clause could enhance student safety—if it’s done right.

I recall hearing 1,345 times during orientation week that Durham was a great place to live.

Bill Bell, Durham’s mayor, even came to East Campus to try to convince us. It did not work. We frosh had a con-ception of Durham that parents, friends and new roommates had infused in us with their concerned looks and leading questions. Durham, we conclud-ed, must be a pretty disgusting place. Now where were those free T-shirts?

Nearly four years later, I know that line of think-ing is long extinct among people who actually live in Durham, not just “live.”

Many of my fellow seniors who have written for these pages have also taken time to live in Dur-ham. They have captured photos of its people and places; they have written about its shortcomings and successes; they have enjoyed its theater, sports and music. I have experienced this splendid me-tropolis through its culinary delights.

That I live so close to East Campus (and Papa John’s) is bittersweet. Yes, I hear you all stumble back from not-so-Devines as you herd your bud-dies back to your dorm. But I also get to fantasize about what it would be like to have my current brain as a freshman.

Oh, the food I would have eaten.It is not a secret. I obviously, brazenly and reli-

ably have a relationship with the food I eat. It has to do with the taste, sure. Please don’t serve me a pickled bagel with coffee-fl avored cream cheese. But eating in a restaurant has also become a way for me to connect with the community, to share intimate moments with friends, to experience the real world, to appreciate those who can cook and to try new or unexpected things.

Often, people ask me, or tell others to ask me, where to eat in Durham. I consider their trust a high compliment. It might take me a day to mull my endorsement over, but I’ll be damned if I don’t have the best recommendations in town. If you, too, want to get to know Durham as well as you know the menu at the Dillo, I present for your consideration this too-short list.

1. Dame’s Chicken & Waffl es. This Main Street restaurant is owned in part by Damion “Dame” Moore. In addition to introducing his “almost-world-famous” deep fried chicken and fl uffy waf-fl e combo to the Bull City, he recently gave me a bumper magnet for my car and asked me to bring my parents by the shop. Dame’s is not even close to famous for serving a quick meal, so consider this your new Sunday brunch spot. The people around you will be black and Asian and white and Hispanic, a regrettably rare sight around Dur-ham’s dining scene. Dame’s is where you go to re-

mind yourself of the diversity of this place. 2. Klausie’s Pizza. We all got lucky with this

one. Mike Stenke, owner of the silver pizza truck, is from Raleigh. However, he’s in Durham so much that it just has to count. I think the Detroit-style slic-es he slings for a few bucks are best plain, but they’re also great with

pepperoni or diced veggies. (Detroit style: baked medium-well-done in a square pan, with slightly burned cheese cascading over the edge and a greasy, crunchy deep crust.) It is the best pizza in the disgracefully pizza-deprived Triangle. Stenke knows this, and will tell you, a lot. Public policy majors might receive a bonus discussion about how the City of Raleigh is stalling food truck legis-lation and harassing his truck with ethically shady tactics. Klausie’s is where you go to appreciate the fruits of Durham’s liberal tendencies.

3. Bull City Burger and Brewery. This Saturday, I ate at Seth Gross’ new burger joint twice. One of my burgers featured house-made pimento cheese and pickled okra. Barely a month old, this Parrish Street restaurant—which brews its own beer, grinds its own beef and bakes its own buns—is uniquely Durham in a city whose restaurants all tend to scream Durham. The number you receive when you order at the counter is a year with an accom-panying blurb about local history at that time. Its beers are all named after people and places in Dur-ham. BCBB is where you go to gain an appreciation for what is around you and what came before it.

So how could I convince anonymous readers or freshman-year me that Durham, N.C., is some-thing to be drunk straight, not sipped from a mile-long, blue-and-white straw? Maybe Mayor Bell had it in him all along.

On April 14, 2011, about two weeks after BCBB opened, Mayor Bell came by and chugged the brewery’s fi rst public offering. Pale ale, I believe.

“It’s good,” Bell said, smiling widely. Yes, Mayor Bell, it is good. Eat and drink this

city up, friends.

Alex Klein is a Trinity senior. He is a contributing writer for Towerview magazine, former online editor and former editor for new media. He also thinks these local spots are great: Allen & Son, Crook’s Corner, Dain’s Place, Dos Perros, Elaine’s, Farmhand Foods, Fishmon-ger’s, Fosters, Four Square, Fullsteam Brewery, King’s Sandwich Shop, Ninth Street Bakery, Nosh, Mami Nora’s, Old Havana Sandwich Shop, Panciuto, Parker and Otis, Pauly Dogs, Plate & Pitchfork, Refectory at Duke Law, Revolution, Rue Cler, Sam’s Quik Shop, Sandwhich, Scratch Bakeshop, Taqueria La Vaquita, The Federal, Toast, Tobacco Road Sports Cafe, Twisted Noodle, Vin Rouge and Wine Authorities.

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It begins with saying goodbye. Goodbye to your weird artsy high school and to your weird artsy high school friends. Goodbye to the lanky, sarcastic boy who was the

fi rst to ever pay attention to you, to the way that sunsets look sprawled out against the Rocky Mountains, to your parents’ joint custody and to your fat black dog. This is goodbye (although you don’t know this yet) to the days when words like “Shooters” and “boat shoes” meant nothing to you. Nothing at all.

And then, once you’re at the other end of the country, 2000 miles from everything that’s comfortable, greet every person you make eye contact with. Ask them all the same questions. What’s your name? Where are you from? What dorm are you living in? (Alspaugh? Yeah, cool, I love Als-paugh.) Realize quickly that small talk isn’t your forte, nor is feigning interest in people you’ve never met before. Tell no one about this embarrassing personality defect.

Start classes. Do not go to offi ce hours because you know you are not smart enough to talk to your professors alone. Cry after receiving a C+ on a paper. When your aunt dies the day before Easter your freshman year, you will have much bigger things to cry about, but at this moment a slop-pily arranged essay on Hobbes seems like the worst possible fate. Do not realize that this is an incredible gift.

Go to an informational meeting for the student news-paper. Admire the poised upperclassmen who run it, peo-ple who seem impossibly further along in their lives than you. When reporting your fi rst story, write out a script for what you will say when you call your sources. Hello, this is Ryan Brown. I’m calling from the Duke Chronicle. When they pick up the phone, recite it verbatim from the paper in front of you.

Throw up on the steps of a C-1 after your fi rst and only Tailgate, a humiliation so deep and unsettling that you will be afraid for years even to joke about it. Try to remember how lucky you are to be who you are. Oh, and never go to Tailgate again.

Take classes in creative writing, African history, French, Spanish, feminist theory, Dante and the biology of AIDS. Resolve never to take a math class (this will only work until senior year, when you will discover they’re called “gradu-ation requirements” and not “graduation recommenda-tions” for a reason). Discover that you can major in books, stories and nostalgia—around here they just call it history. At about the same time, decide professors aren’t as scary as you once thought they were, but every bit as intelligent and about 50 times as weird. With this in mind, talk to them as much as possible.

Watch as your friends stop eating, drop premed, come out, pledge, tent and black out. Watch them write novels, fall in love, win awards, land interesting jobs, make art and start eating again. Say you’ll never compromise anything for a man and believe it right up until the moment you wake up one morning with your arm hooked around the waist of a boy you’re in love with. Realize that principles are a lot easier to have than to live by.

Drink beer—in frat sections, in East Campus dorms, in rural Appalachia, in Johannesburg, in Dakar, in Budapest. But this is important: Do not drink enough to lose your bal-ance, just enough to see the world without its sharp edges, fl ushed and bright.

Write on a course evaluation, “this professor was incred-ibly smart … and incredibly attractive.” Lose your nerve. Cross it out. Wonder what it would be like to be the type of girl who does that. Wish you were her.

Over the next four years, make a list of the things col-lege has taught you that you are no good at: dating, politi-cal philosophy, avoiding the passive voice, drinking in the morning. It will likely be impossible to steer clear of these things in the future, but it is good to remember what you have learned from your roughly $250,000 education.

As you are doing and thinking all of these things, 100 days will pass, then 1,000. Suddenly you will be done with your T-Reqs, done with your classes, done (improbably) with your thesis. You’ll realize that you’re on the edge of saying goodbye all over again, that in the last four years it hasn’t gotten any easier and that it probably never will. But there are only instructions for life in retrospect. So for now there’s only one thing you can do: Let it go.

Ryan Brown is a Trinity senior. She is an associate editor for Towerview magazine, editorial columnist and former staff writer. She would like to thank the entire staff of The Chronicle for a great four years and for the many eccentricities they have put up with in that time, including allowing her to write her fi nal column in the second person.

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Greek Women’s Initiative and Duke’s changing cultureWe are writing in response to a call to action

written by the Editorial Board on April 15. The article, “Students must work for positive gender relations,” expressed the concern that students needed to take initiative in the effort for gender equity on campus. It lauded the Panhellenic As-sociation for its strides in activism and advocacy while stressing that other groups must use their voices to work for gender justice. It noted that greek women in particular must join the gender conversation if gender equity is to be achieved.

Greek Women’s Initiative is a student-led or-ganization that began last Fall with a small but dedicated group of men and women from many different chapters in each of the four greek councils. These students came together to pro-mote a change in gender culture on campus, to give voice to and to foster dialogue about gender issues within and beyond the greek community. Since its advent, GWI has grown to include all four councils and several chapters on campus. Its base includes men and women interested in discussions about and advocacy for the gender issues that Duke students face every day.

GWI’s facilitators have hosted conversations within their respective chapters, its executive board has organized campus-wide events about gender in the greek community, and its general body has participated in multiple events host-ed by both greek and non-greek organizations. Last Monday Duke University Student Leader-ship and Service Awards presented GWI with the award for Outstanding New Student Organi-zation, and last Friday President Richard Brod-head cited GWI specifically as an example of students taking responsibility for and activism toward campus culture.

GWI has had a phenomenally successful de-but onto Duke’s scene, and we are dedicated to maintaining and broadening that success and

potential into the coming years.

Kelsey Woodford, Trinity ’13President, Greek Women’s Initiative

Why no condemnation for shattered glass?Three stained glass windows of the Duke

Chapel were broken April 27. As I understand it, they were broken in such a way as to indi-cate a level of planning higher than a simple act of vandalism. The campus as a whole should have been informed about this incident, and the administration should have taken action to condemn this desecration of the center of our beloved campus. The administration has been quick to email the student body about other forms of distressing aggression against groups of people, such as the anti-Jewish slogans paint-ed on East Campus several years ago. Why have they not done so this time? While the Chapel is a Christian church, it also serves as the center of campus, reminding students to look beyond themselves as they pursue their dreams and education. Furthermore, it serves as a center for religious practice on campus, Christian and otherwise. To hear that it has suffered such des-ecration is heartbreaking and outrageous. Such violence against religion should not be toler-ated on a campus that promotes diversity. The perpetrators have insulted not only Christianity by their actions, but all people who believe in a higher power and seek to follow the path they believe that power has laid out for them. It is my hope that the University would use this as an op-portunity to engage its students in a discussion of the significance of religion in people’s lives, and the University would take actions to ensure that such a tragic event does not happen again.

Johanna CollinsLaw School ’13 and Trinity ’09

A recent push from the Office of Student Con-duct threatens to dismantle the medical “am-nesty” students receive when they seek Emer-

gency Medical Services for alcohol-related incidents. As every first-year student learns, if you call Duke EMS on a Thursday night for overconsumption, you won’t face dis-ciplinary action in the morning. This policy of “amnesty” exists so that stu-dents never hesitate to seek medical at-tention for themselves or their friends. But if a new judicial policy is pushed through, the notion of am-nesty will be a half-truth. You won’t be disciplined for the alcohol violation—unless you do it again.

Don’t worry, the proposal pitched to the Of-fice of Student Conduct Advisory Group won’t put a two-strike limit on medical amnesty. But it will document every amnesty given for EMS calls and al-low the Undergraduate Conduct Board to consider that record in determining the sanctions issued to convicted students. That means that if you receive amnesty for an EMS call in your first year, that in-cident could be used to prove a history of alcohol violations if you end up in trouble for an alcohol-related incident two years later. UCB members will consider your amnesty record when they decide whether you should see counseling, be suspended or even expelled.

The rationale behind the proposal is that it will help the UCB identify students with serious alcohol problems who have gone under the radar. To be sure, a frightening number of Duke students suffer from alcoholism, and Duke should be proactive in identifying at-risk members of the community. But there are measures in place right now to do this, and the disciplinary process is not the place to as-sess vulnerability. As things stand, when students get EMS treatment, they aren’t disciplined, but they

do participate in follow-up conversations with judi-cial advisors and can be flagged for more serious therapy.

It’s safe to assume that if a student is danger-ously intoxicated, his or her friends will call EMS regardless of the disci-plinary implications. But imagine a first-year student who sees a friend visibly intoxicated. The friend insists he’s okay, but the student knows that

there’s nothing to be lost by calling Duke EMS, so he plays it safe and his friend gets basic medical treatment.

Now imagine a world under the Office of Stu-dent Conduct’s proposed policy. The student sees his friend but knows that if he calls for even mi-nor intoxication, the incident will follow his friend throughout his Duke career. Sure, his future law school won’t hear about it—unless he gets cited for playing drinking games on campus two years later and the amnesty record puts the UCB’s deci-sion over the edge. Suddenly what might have been settled through admonition could potentially result in suspension. I have faith in the UCB’s good judg-ment when it comes to decisions like this, but the student at least knows that the potential is there. Would he still call EMS for his friend? Would you?

For amnesty to serve its purpose it must be held sacred. Students need to trust that there won’t be consequences for calling EMS—not in the moment, not in the morning and not in two years. We must help students help themselves by never giving them a reason to hesitate calling. When it comes to stu-dents seeking emergency medical treatment, am-nesty means amnesty.

Mike Lefevre is a Trinity senior and the President of Duke Student Government.

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