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University investigates Senate report

by Nicole KyleTHE CHRONICLE

Duke medical researcher Dr. Victor Tapson has become the focus of a U.S. Senate Finance Committee report issued Wednesday, which is now under investigation by the University.

Tapson, a thrombosis expert and faculty member in the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine division of Duke Medicine, was named in the com-mittee report as receiving $260,604 for consultant ser-vices from the drug compa-ny Sanofi-Aventis. Tapson recommended that the

Federal Drug Administration delay approval of the generic version of Sanofi’s fast-acting blood thinner Lovenox. The report suggests that Tapson did not specify the nature of his financial connection to the drug company to the FDA at the time of his recommendation.

“An investigation of the... report related to Dr. Tapson has been initiated by the Duke Uni-versity School of Medicine Conflict of Interest committee,” wrote Dr. Ross McKinney, com-mittee chair and director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, in a statement to The Chronicle Wednesday. “At the conclusion of this process, we will be providing a report of our findings to

New fund to funnel athletics revenue to Duke LibrariesNew fund to funnel athletics revenue to Duke Libraries

‘A Long and Happy Life’‘A Long and Happy Life’

by Julia LoveTHE CHRONICLE

The voice of Reynolds Price reverberated in the Chapel once more last week.

Nearly 400 friends, family, colleagues and stu-dents traveled from as far as London and San Francisco to celebrate the life of the late profes-sor last Thursday in an event coined “A Long and Happy Life,” echoing the title of his first novel. In addition to tributes from friends, the celebration showcased Price’s art across genres with snippets of drama, poetry and song.

In a set of instructions he wrote more than two decades ago, Price, Trinity ’55, insisted that the ceremony last no more than 45 minutes—he refused to bore an audience. The celebration opened with an audio recording of Price reading a Ben Jonson poem, which ends, “In small propor-tions we just beauties see. And in short measures life may perfect be.”

Price, who passed away in January at 77, was a preeminent Southern author whose books sold millions of copies. He arrived at Duke as a teenag-er and stayed a lifetime, save for “a brief truancy” at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Presi-dent Richard Brodhead remarked in his address.

“We’re not ready to send you onward to the great beyond, Reynolds, and yet we know we must,” said former Duke president Nannerl Keohane. “We do so confident that your love and friendship, wit and humor, passion and intelligence will always

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Family, friends gather to celebrate Reynolds PriceFamily, friends gather to celebrate Reynolds Price

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THE FINAL FRONTIERTHE FINAL FRONTIERMen’s lacrosse team powers past Notre Dame, Men’s lacrosse team powers past Notre Dame,

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by Chris CusackTHE CHRONICLE

Blue Devil fans will support more than just the athletes starting this Fall.

When Deborah Jakubs, University librarian and vice provost for library affairs, sat down next to Vice President and Director of Athletics Kevin White at a dean’s meeting in February, she suggested the idea of a partnership between athletics and the libraries. Their conversation was cut short, though, Jakubs said, and during the next few weeks, she forgot the discussion had taken place.

White, however, did not. Less than a month after their initial exchange, athletic officials called Jakubs

and proposed creating a fund for Duke University Li-braries based on proceeds from ticket sales.

According to a Duke news release May 11, Duke Athletics will donate $1 to the libraries from every regular season home ticket sold, establishing the Duke Athletics Library Fund this Fall. Non-students are currently charged admission for eight Blue Devil sports—baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basket-ball, football, men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, men’s soccer and women’s soccer. Each ticket stub will now indicate that $1 has been added to the ticket price and will be invested in the fund. Proceeds from the

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CAIRO — Egypt will permanently open its border crossing with the Gaza Strip this weekend, the government an-nounced Wednesday, suggesting that military leaders are being swayed by growing sentiment here in favor of dis-tancing the country from Israel.

Opening the Rafah crossing, the only of-ficial entry point outside Israel into the Pal-estinian territory, would ease the blockade imposed after the militant group Hamas took control of the strip in 2007. A report by Egypt’s state-run Middle East News Agency said the move was being adopted to “end the status of the Palestinian division and achieve national reconciliation.”

The report said the border would re-open Saturday but provided no other details. Israel warned that fully reopen-ing the crossing could allow Hamas to build up its arsenal and create a dan-gerous situation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration unveiled a competi-tion Wednesday to spur reform among early childhood programs and fuel spending at a time when many states are cutting funding for their youngest students.

The next phase of the Obama’s sig-nature Race to the Top program will distribute $500 million among states that plan to expand access to early learning programs for children from low-income families and establish clear academic goals and strong evaluation systems.

“Investing in early learning is one of the smartest things we can do,” Educa-tion Secretary Arne Duncan said in a telephone news conference. The compe-tition is meant to inspire “bold reforms” that address problems of “uneven qual-ity and uneven access,” Duncan said.

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The American Dance Festival threw its third annual pre-season block party May 22 in downtown Durham. Local artists collaborated to re-paint the ADF school bus, turning it into a moving mural.

“It all started with a text message. Three weeks after Duke’s season ended, Dave Bradley, Duke’s recruiting and communications coordinator, was on a golf course when he received a message from a number he hadn’t heard from in a while. ‘Dave, do you think we can get buckets from the top of the Chapel?’ It was Kyle Singler, who wanted to make another video showing his trick shot artistry. ”

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A $15 million gift in the name of Christine Pearson, Nursing ‘84, will allow for program stability and expansion.

$15M gift to allow for Nursing School expansionby Anna Koelsch and Julian Spector

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Some might say the Duke School of Nursing is often one of the most forgotten aspects of the University, but an alumnus’ recent donation is bringing the School’s “unbelievable trajectory” the attention it deserves.

J. Michael Pearson, chairman and CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. and Pratt ‘81, donated a $15 million gift to the School of Nursing in the name of his wife Christine Pearson, Nursing ’84. The donation will name the School’s build-ing after Christine Pearson, though the family did not request the name change, as well as allow the rapidly growing School—which has jumped in seven years from num-

ber 29 to number seven in the U.S. News and World Report’s ranking of top nursing schools—to physically expand.

“I am really proud of where the School had come and I was really proud of what they’d done,” Christine Pearson said. “I’m really hoping that our gift is going to make a difference in the School but hopefully [also] perpetuating the path it’s already on.”

Christine Pearson started at Duke Nurs-ing School in the Fall of 1980. At that time, Nursing was an undergraduate school—prospective Duke students applied to the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, the Pratt School of Engineering or the School of Nursing. During her first semester,

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Government reductions force cuts to language programs

by Lauren CarrollTHE CHRONICLE

Several academic centers at Duke are ex-pected to lose nearly $4 million because of cuts to government spending on internation-al and foreign language education.

Last Fall, the University was awarded more than $12 million in competitive federal grants—from Title VI of the Higher Educa-tion Act—to be distributed over four years. Because of the government’s spending re-ductions for fiscal year 2010-2011, however, Duke’s seven Title VI-funded centers will re-ceive a lesser amount than promised. The ex-act size of the reductions to Duke’s programs will be confirmed in coming weeks.

The seven affected centers—including the Center for International Studies, the Middle East Studies Center and the Lan-guage Resource Center for Slavic and Eur-asian Languages—offer a variety of cultural studies programs and less commonly taught foreign languages. These topics are critical to national security and business interests, said Gilbert Merkx, vice provost for international affairs and director of international and area studies.

“[The United States] won’t have any ca-pabilities in these languages unless the fed-eral money supports the teaching of those languages,” Merkx said. “Virtually every-one who works in these languages in these strange places has been trained in Title VI [centers].”

Merkx added that military officers are of-ten trained at Title VI centers in universities across the country—including Duke.

Carl Herrin, senior partner at the consult-

ing firm Global Education Solutions, said the government’s total cuts to Title VI funding nationally are expected to reach 40 percent, or approximately $50 million. Herrin added that these cuts were unexpected.

“Given the rhetoric of [the federal] ad-ministration, it was very unlikely that there would be significant reductions,” Herrin said. “That they would be on the order of 40 percent was beyond the pale.”

Although expected cuts have yet to be confirmed, some of Duke’s centers have be-gun to discuss strategies for combatting their anticipated budgetary reductions. Edna Andrews, director of the Title VI Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European studies, said her program will have to reduce its ex-tracurricular spending—used to host guest speakers or hold conferences—in order to focus on graduate studies.

“We’ll have to put most of our efforts into what we believe in most—graduate fellow-ships and courses,” Andrews said.

Merkx said the Center for International Studies is spending as little as possible this summer in order to save for the Fall because it may have to cut “virtually all” programming in order to maintain core staff members.

He also noted that the centers may have to cut some programs that are required in order to receive Title VI funding—an obsta-cle that could prevent them from effectively competing in the next grant competition in three years.

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Researchers find methane in water near hydrofracking sitesby Julia Ni

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Some types of water can now sustain fires, instead of putting them out.

A team of Duke researchers has found high levels of leaked methane in well water collected near hydrofracking and shale-gas drilling sites, according to a study funded by the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Center for Global Change. The 60 samples were gathered from private groundwater wells from five counties in Pennsylvania and New York.

“Eighty five percent of samples con-tained detectable levels of methane,” said Stephen Osborn, an earth and ocean sciences research associate at the Nicholas School. “We noticed that, on average, natural gas concentrations in homeowners’ wells where there is nat-ural gas extraction is 17 times higher [than areas where there is not natural

gas extraction].” Although nine of the 26 water wells lo-

cated within one kilometer of a gas well had hazardous methane concentrations, none of the 34 wells located more than a kilometer away did, Robert Jackson, Nicholas professor of global environmen-tal change and director of the Center on Global Change, wrote in a email Monday.

Hydrofracking, a method that extracts natural gas from shale rock formations, involves injecting over seven million gal-lons of highly-pressurized, chemically-treated water into the Appalachian ba-sin, Osborn said.

“The whole object is to increase fluid flow between geologic formations and the gas wells,” he said.

By extending underground natural fractures, hydrofracking creates condi-tions that facilitate gas flow back into the gas wells, where it is subsequently harvested.

Last July, the researchers began collecting groundwater samples and analyzing them for dissolved gas con-centrations and major inorganic com-ponents. Although the analyses showed no evidence of contamination from the chemically-treated water, many samples contained methane levels as high as 64 milligrams per liter—enough to pose a flammability hazard.

Prior to the study, some homeowners in Pennsylvania had contacted the Nicho-las School because they were concerned about the quality of their water after nat-ural gas wells were drilled and fracked.

“In some cases, [the homeowners] noticed that they’ve been able to light their water on fire,” Osborn said.

Methane accumulates naturally in wa-ter systems in concentrations less than 1 milligrams per liter. Concentrations greater than 28 milligrams per liter are sufficient to generate cause for concern,

as they may pose an explosion hazard. The gas can act as an asphyxiant in en-

closed spaces, but the effects of consum-ing methane are currently unknown.

Approximately 44 million Americans rely on a private water supply for house-hold and agricultural use, Jackson said, adding that his team has called for a medi-cal review of chronic, low-level exposure to methane through ingestion or breathing.

Nathaniel Warner, a doctoral student at the Nicholas School, said though the study is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between proximity to a gas well and the likelihood of having contami-nated water, it is uncertain whether the relationship between methane levels and proximity to a gas well extends elsewhere.

“It would be difficult to produce us-able gas without hydraulic fracturing [so] I think [the results] just point to more research needing to be done [on this type of technology],” he said.

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The pair of presidents spoke to the professor’s dual genius for language and friendship. For more than half a century, Price was Duke’s “embodiment of a man of letters,” Brodhead said.

Yet as Price’s renown grew, his warmth never dampened. After his paralysis in 1984, he reached out of his wheelchair to give hugs, Keohane recalled.

Countless readers felt a bond with Price, even if they had never met him. Early in his first term, Bill Clinton invited Price to the White House. The former president greeted the author by reciting the first page of “A Long and Happy Life” from memory, English professor Victor Strandberg said in an interview.

Novelist Josephine Humphreys, Trin-ity ’67, went on to become close friends with Price, but they conversed just a few times while she was an undergraduate. Yet even then, she felt like a member of his inner circle.

“He was the one I followed, the one I wrote for,” she said. “He had that gift, the ability to lasso the hearts of strangers. A real star or outlaw does that…. Each of us thinks, ‘He’s singing to me.’”

Like many young writers on campus, Daniel Voll, Trinity ’83, was told to find Price if he was serious about the craft. Their conversation began a decades-long friendship. Voll, now a writer and pro-ducer, was the first of Price’s 30 live-in as-sistants after his paralysis.

Voll quoted a chat he had about Price with Harper Lee, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” that morning: “She said,

‘He was the best of us. Homegrown. A kind of angel.’ And then she paused for a long time, and she said, ‘We were kin, you know what I mean?’”

Strandberg said for those who were close to Price, it is impossible to set the memory of him aside. His mind turns to Price at least once a day, often before he leaves home. Each morning, he lifts weights in his base-ment with a portrait of the author in view.

Keohane shared the treasured memo-ry of an evening she spent with Price at a University party. Sitting at the edge of the dance floor, Price tapped his finger to the handle of his wheelchair as the mu-sic throbbed. Eventually, Keohane asked him if he would ask her to dance.

“We swung around the room holding hands encircling one another, at first sedately and then with more abandon,” she said.

The event was planned by a committee led by one of Price’s thousands of students, Rachel Davies, assistant director for the University’s Lifelong Learning and Travel organization, who knew him all her life.

Emotions were so raw following Price’s death that Davies, Women’s College ’72, decided to wait to hold the event. After several months, Humphreys said it was easier to hear his voice, though the re-cording still brought tears to her eyes.

“His death shocked people—the sud-den realization that he’s not here, you can’t call him up, you’re never going to hear that voice again,” she said in an interview. “[The recording] was one of the high points of the service. Suddenly, there he was. I get a little shaky just thinking about it—the voice.”

The service closed with a recording of “Copperline,” a song by Price and James Taylor. As those in attendance prepared to exit the Chapel, the voice that rang out belonged to Taylor, but Price had the last words.

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April, Duke has been lobbying to try and maintain its share of the total Title VI funding, said Chris Simmons, associate vice president for federal relations. Presi-dent Richard Brodhead also sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Dun-can asking the secretary to consider the importance of international studies pro-grams while assessing potential cuts. Sim-mons noted, however, Duke’s options for appeal are limited.

Herrin said that though the federal govern-ment may support Title VI programs, the cuts

originate from pressure to reduce discretion-ary spending in order to maintain substantial funding for programs such as Pell grants—need-based grants for higher education.

“The longer that the money [for Title VI programs] isn’t there, the harder it is to get it back,” he said. “It’s not a ques-tion of whether Title VI is important for education, it’s ‘Is that more important than a Pell grant?’”

Still, Simmons said Duke is hopeful that lobbying efforts and government budget res-toration will allow for renewed Title VI fund-ing as soon as fiscal year 2011-2012.

“We’re hoping that this is just a bad gash,” he said.

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the dean [of the School of Medicine].”According to the committee report, Tap-

son wrote a letter in May 2008 to the FDA ask-ing its members to consider the findings of a scientific roundtable, which was sponsored by Sanofi regarding the potential threats of the generic drug. In May 2010 Tapson spear-headed another letter on Duke Medical Cen-ter letterhead similarly arguing for the generic drug’s delay.

The report also named two medical societ-ies—the North American Thrombosis Forum and the Society of Hospital Medicine—as re-ceiving a combined $4.9 million from Sanofi between 2007 and 2010.

Tapson, however, refutes many of the re-port’s claims, though he stands by his opinion that the FDA should have considered further clinical data before making its decision.

In a statement to The Chronicle Wednes-day, Tapson wrote he was invited by the FDA in March 2010 to discuss his thoughts on the generic version of Lovenox.

“During that visit... I disclosed my relation-

ship with Sanofi and indicated that I had done research funded by them, served on interna-tional steering committees for clinical trials funded by Sanofi and that I had received con-sulting fees and honoraria from Sanofi,” Tap-son said, adding that his visit to the FDA was neither prompted nor funded by Sanofi.

Tapson said his primary concern was al-ways patient safety, adding that the amount of money he was paid by Sanofi was incorrectly reported by the committee.

“The figure in the report... does not match my 1099 forms, which I carefully reviewed and which totaled less than half of that amount,” he said. “I am continuing to research the source of the disparity, which perhaps includes funds allotted for research.”

Tapson did confirm that his financial con-nection to Sanofi was not disclosed in his May 2010 letter to the FDA.

The Senate Finance Committee began its investigation into Sanofi after The Wall Street Journal reported in June 2010 that the NATF, SHM and Tapson had financial ties to Sanofi. The investigation was led by Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. Both senators could not be reached for comment.

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by Patricia LeeTHE CHRONICLE

Going into the NCAA Tournament, Duke knew that any deep run in the NCAA Tournament would mean match-ups against familiar foes.

After the fifth-seeded Blue Devils beat ninth-seeded, and recent postsea-son nemesis, Penn in the first round, they were tempted to look past fourth-

seeded Florida in anticipation of a potential semifinal match-up with ACC

champion, and No. 1 seed, Maryland. Duke, though, did not fall into the trap on Saturday, sliding past the Gators 13-9 in the quarterfinals.

Now, Duke is eager for its second chance against the Terrapins.

“A rematch against Maryland is some-thing we feel really excited about,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “I think we are a much more seasoned group now and in a much better position to defend Mary-land than we were in February.”

Along with the three months of prep-aration, the Blue Devils are riding high after closing out Saturday’s contest with a 5-0 run, defeating Florida despite see-ing their three-goal lead diminish early in the second half behind the Gators’ impressive transition attack.

“Florida is a really good team and does a lot of scoring in transition, and part of our goal is to limit transition goals. They really came at us but I think we stayed very calm as a team,” Kimel said. “We had a couple big pivotal plays that put us up 10-9... around the 6-minute mark. We felt we needed to stall the ball, so I think that Florida was kind of able to capture momentum, but we were able to quickly capture it back.”

With this past weekend’s successes against the Gators—whose program is just two years old—the Blue Devils feel confi-dent despite playing a rival and perennial powerhouse in the Terrapins. In fact, the win over Florida bodes well for the semifi-nals, as the Gators’ transition offense close-ly mirrors Maryland’s.

“One good thing is that the way we prepared for Florida is the way we have to prepare for Maryland, so it’s not that different,” Kimel said. “Both transition and score in bunches, and I think we’ll need to be able to stop them in transi-tion and slow the ball down.”

As in any rematch, Duke will try to evalu-ate what went wrong in February as it pre-pares for Friday’s semifinal.

“Our first half against Maryland earli-er this year from an offensive standpoint was great, so we want to look back... and kind of construct our offensive game plan on those things and on where Mary-land is now,” Kimel said. “They’re not only a great offensive team but also good at closing offensive teams as well.”

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — After the first quarter of Sunday’s game, Duke found itself down 3-1 and had been outshot by the Fight-ing Irish 13 to six. They picked up just three groundballs, compared to Notre Dame’s

nine, and won just one-of-five faceoffs. If things continued this way, the Blue Devils were going to be in trouble.

While Duke mar-ginally improved in those statistical cat-egories, those trends largely continued throughout the remainder of the game. But when the final horn sounded, head coach John Danowski and his staff were the ones celebrating a 7-5 victory thanks to their defense, specifically sophomore goaltender Dan Wigrizer.

“This was our best performance de-fensively and that’s part of just gaining experience together and playing to-gether,” Danowski said. “Defensively, af-ter giving up 14 goals last week, I think our guys took it personally. I know our coaches took it personally, so that was a tremendous focus.”

Wigrizer, who suffered a concussion last week and missed the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, made six of his 14 stops in the first quarter alone as Notre Dame repeatedly attacked the Blue Devil goal.

“They were going to start taking shots right away, which they did,” Wigrizer said. “The first possession they had, they just kept shooting and shooting. Unlike last year, when they had 10 total shots on goal in the championship game, they got a lot of shots on goal today.”

Last season, assistant coach Pat DeBolt worked with Wigrizer on staying com-posed in goal and not thinking too much. When all was said and done, Wigrizer became just the sixth freshman goalie in NCAA history to lead his team to a nation-al championship

“When I first came in here, I used to al-ways tell him, ‘Just take a big breath. Take a big breath.’” DeBolt said in the middle of last season. “If you ever watch us dur-ing warm-ups I’ll say, ‘Wiggy just take two big breaths for me and just relax. Find the ball,’ That was probably the biggest thing that he had to overcome as far as just his breathing and just calming himself down so he’s not really tense.”

The results were on display on Sunday as Wigrizer demonstrated great poise in goal despite not having DeBolt on the sidelines, who joined Ohio State’s coach-ing staff this past offseason.

“I was just ready and prepared to be seeing shots the entire day. I just wanted to stay calm and relaxed and just let the shots come from them,” Wigrizer said. “It’s like riding a bike, playing goalie, so I just didn’t let that get to my head that I hadn’t seen too many shots. Today I just decided to stay calm and relaxed and that helped me out.”

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Head coach John Danowski and his coaching staff didn’t decide on their starting goalie until nearly midnight before Duke’s quarterfinal matchup

against Notre Dame. Just hours later, their decision paid off.

After sustaining a concussion in practice

last week and missing the first round of the NCAA Tournament, goaltender Dan Wigrizer showed no rust Sunday in leading fifth-seeded Duke to a 7-5 victory over the fourth-seeded Fighting Irish at Gillette Stadium.

Wigrizer made 14 saves in the game, in-cluding six key first quarter stops that prevent-ed Notre Dame from opening up a big lead.

“Having Dan back in the goal was terrif-ic,” Danowski said. “Mike Rock did a great job, but Danny has been our starter all year so it was great to have [him] back.”

The Fighting Irish broke out to an early 2-0 lead behind scores from Eric Keppler and Westy Hopkins, but Wigrizer quickly rebound-ed with a string of saves.

The Blue Devils finally got on the board with 2:26 left in the opening period when freshman Christian Walsh fired a low shot past Fighting Irish goaltender John Kemp. However, Hopkins answered with his sec-ond goal of the game with just 11 seconds left to put Notre Dame back up by a pair.

With the Fighting Irish held at bay in the second period by the Duke defense, the Blue Devil offense took advantage with goals from midfielders Justin Turri and Da-vid Lawson to send the teams into the locker room tied at halftime.

“Our defense did do a great job, and Dan-ny especially, of keeping us in the game and going into halftime 3-3,” Turri said. “We knew that looks were going to fall, we knew we were going to open some stuff up in the second half

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and our defense allowed us to do that.”After the break, Duke’s stellar defense

continued to thwart the Notre Dame at-tack, but the Fighting Irish also offered few chances for the frustrated Duke offense.

“I remember it was 3-3 for quite a while,” Wigrizer said. “It’s just [about] staying with the flow, not dwelling on the three goals and not thinking about a save I had. There are times when I can get really excitable and for me, I just wanted to stay relaxed.”

Duke took the lead with 4:21 left in the third period when Turri beat Kemp for his second goal of the game.

The lead lasted only a few minutes though, until an undisciplined penalty by senior Tom Montelli gave the Fighting Irish a man-up op-portunity. Junior Max Pfeifer fired a shot past Wigrizer to tie the game, breaking a 28-min-ute scoreless drought for the Fighting Irish.

The teams entered the final 15 minutes tied at four goals apiece and Wigrizer made sure to stay calm in the net.

“You can’t let anything get into your mind because the second you start thinking is the second you’ll start letting in goals,” Wigrizer said. “You’re thinking on a shot and just like that, you’re a second too late.”

Freshman Jordan Wolf put Duke back on top early in the fourth quarter and Tucker Virtue doubled the lead at the 10:57 mark on a bounced shot that snuck past Kemp.

“Once the goals start racking up, it kind of takes a little bit off of you,” Wigrizer said. “You want to stay poised because three goals... is nothing.”

With 3:41 left in the game, Robert Rotanz sealed the win on a de-facto man-up opportu-nity created when Notre Dame’s Keppler went down with an injury but play was not stopped.

Notre Dame’s Hopkins completed his hat trick with 16 seconds remaining in the contest, but it was too little too late for the Fighting Irish as Duke advanced to the Fi-nal Four for the fifth consecutive season.

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Just two days after beating Georgia Tech in a roller-coaster tilt in the third round of the NCAA Tournament, Duke fell victim to UCLA in yet another thriller.

On Sunday. the sixth-seeded Bruins snuck by the third-seeded Blue Devils in the quarterfinals 4-2.

Duke’s day started off poorly after the Bruins secured the dou-bles point after victories at the No. 2 and No. 3 spots. According to Duke head coach Jamie Ash-

worth, aggressive play by UCLA may have been key to the Bruins’ early lead.

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fromstaffreportsBlue Devils fall in thriller“We were on our heels from the start and we never re-

covered,” said Ashworth. “They did a really good job of being aggressive and being on top of the net and really intimidating us. It’s weird to think, but they were more ag-gressive than us.”

Despite the early hole, it wasn’t the first time the Blue Devils would have to overcome the doubles point, having done so just two days earlier against the Yellow Jackets. Ashworth remained confident in his team’s ability to do damage in singles.

“The character we have is to fight,” said Anderson. “We had a chance to win six first sets and put ourselves in a position to win.”

Freshman Rachel Kahan tied the score up quickly, winning her match 6-4, 6-4 to bring her overall singles record to 28-0 for the year. UCLA then responded with singles victories of its own, though. After winning her first set 6-2, Nadine Fahoum dropped the last two sets to McCall Jones, giving the Bruins a 2-1 lead. This was swift-ly followed by a straight-set victory from Pamela Montez at No. 4 to extend the advantage.

Mary Clayton put forth an excellent effort on court six, winning her match in three sets 6-0, 6-7 (4), 6-3 to cut the deficit to two. With Reka Zsilinszka fighting hard at the No. 3 spot, leading 4-1 in the final set, it looked like the Blue Devils could pull off yet another tight match. But, Ellah Nze lost a three-set match to Noelle Hickey, securing the victory for UCLA.

“They realized they had nothing to lose,” Ashworth said. “If you’re going to get beat, you better leave everything you have on the court. It’s hard to win 4 singles matches against this kind of team.”

Duke finishes the season with an overall record of 25-5 after making its third consecutive appearance in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament. Fahoum, Zsilinszka, and Nze are staying in Palo Alto for the sin-gles and doubles championships. And while the team season is coming to a close, Anderson already considers this squad “special.”

“They have a lot of heart and a lot of character,” Ander-son said. “The tenacity and character we showed is what we build our program on. If we get the same fight and belief in doubles that we do in singles in the future, we’ll be a tough team to beat.”

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Senior Nadine Fahoum fell to UCLA’s McCall Jones in the No. 1 singles match 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 in Sunday’s NCAA quarterfinal matchup.

A successful week for Lindy Duncan

For Lindy Duncan, it started with a tie for eighth place at the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship last weekend, shooting an even-par 288 over four rounds.

Two days later, the sophomore was honored as an NGCA First Team All-American for the second straight year. Mean-while, Duncan was busy qualifying for the 2011 U.S. Wom-en’s Open. Her two-round total of 142 gave her one of the seven automatic berths into next month’s Open.

The week was a fitting way for Duncan to cap one of the 10 best seasons in school history by stroke average, a statistic that also led the ACC. She had five top-five fin-ishes during the season and nine top-10s, highlighted by a victory at the LSU Golf Classic.

She has now been named both the ACC Player of the Year and an NGCA First Team All-American in both of her collegiate seasons, becoming just the sixth Blue Devil to be a First Team All-American in each of her first two seasons.

Bulldogs take down Duke 4-1 in NCAA Champion-ship Round of 16

The Blue Devils faced two opponents on the tennis court last Thursday: sixth-seeded Georgia and food poisoning.

While the team overcame the latter just to make it to the venue, they were no match for the Bulldogs in their weakened state.

Eleventh-seeded Duke started out energized, though, producing a tightly-contested battle for the doubles point. The two teams split the first two doubles matches, leaving the point to be decided by two top-10 pairs. When the Blue Devils’ No. 7-ranked duo of Reid Carleton and Henrique Cunha narrowly fell to Georgia’s No. 6-ranked tandem of Javier Garrapiz and Hernus Pieters 9-7, con-ceding the doubles point, the match was all but over.

Chris Mengel was the only Duke player to win a singles match, taking down Sadio Doumbia 6-2, 6-4. The Blue Devils were not without their chances, though, as they won the first set in three of the four singles matches they lost.

Carleton and Cunha will now compete in the NCAA singles and doubles championships, which started yes-terday.

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A federal budgetary de-cision for fiscal year 2011-2012 may result in sig-nificant funding cuts for foreign language and inter-national programs at Duke. The funding, allocated in the form of competitive grants under Title VI of the Higher Edu-cation Act, was awarded to seven different Duke cen-ters, including the Center for International Studies and the Asian/Pacific Stud-ies Institute. The funding is administered through the Department of Edu-cation in four-year cycles with yearly installments of $3 million. The federal bill has allowed the DOE to ex-ercise discretion regarding the specific cuts to foreign

language and international studies centers, which may total up to $4 million in cuts at Duke academic cen-ters over the remainder of the current cycle.

At this point, it is diffi cult to

determine the precise con-sequences of a potential lack of funding. Since 2010, when the grant money was fi rst awarded, Duke’s cen-ters have diverted the funds to multiple sources includ-ing programming activities, such as conferences and vis-iting faculty lectures, as well as support for doctoral and graduate fellowships.

It remains to be seen whether the University will compensate for funding lost should the cuts pass in full.

As its official response to the impending cuts, the University has submitted a letter sent from President Richard Brodhead to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The letter calls for a serious reconsid-eration of the federal deci-sion. Brodhead emphasizes that it is strategically advan-tageous for the nation to help train its top students in foreign languages. Al-though it is commendable that Brodhead has already sought to curtail the pro-posed cuts, it is impera-tive that the University—particularly the Office of Federal Relations, which serves as Duke’s lobbying arm—to take more decisive action with respect to lob-bying the federal govern-

ment to reduce the effects of its cuts. In doing so, the University must be sure to further highlight the strate-gic value achieved by teach-ing lesser known languages such as Pashto.

Should lobbying efforts be unsuccessful, the Uni-versity ought to allocate enough funds to the affect-ed centers, so the centers can maintain their current level of activity. Some cen-ters with small operating budgets, such as the Cen-ter for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, use grant funding in part to support both graduate and undergraduate students. If their funding was suddenly cut, much of the interdis-ciplinary coursework and unique research opportuni-

ties, which likely attracted students to the department in the first place, could no longer be offered. Students should not be confronted with this possibility, as some of them may have chosen to attend Duke primar-ily on the strength of these language and international studies centers. One can-not expect these students to adjust their academic plans midway through their academic careers.

Duke must be prepared to assist the seven language centers as the endure the current budgetary storm. Especially when bearing in mind that it is possible Con-gress may choose to reverse its decision as early as the next fi scal year, this is not an unreasonable expectation.

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There’s no question that there’s been some sig-nifi cant upheaval in the world lately. From uprisings in Africa and the Middle East in late January, to the killing of Osama bin Laden by SEAL Team Six ear-lier this month, to the lack of the rapture May 21, not a day passes when there isn’t some sort of signifi cant news of sorts from around the world. And there’s no question that Twitter has factored prominently in the broadcasting of all of these events—reporting the events in real time, concisely and at times with humor.

Take the revolutions in Egypt. Twitter users live-tweeted the political turmoil in Egypt, provid-ing a much needed news source. #Egypt became a cry to discuss and react to the issue, trending on Twitter to such a degree that the Egyptian govern-ment attempted to ban the site.

Or, consider the raid that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. The news was essentially broken on Twitter, as those in Abbottabad, Pakistan, realized what was going on, and tweeted the events to their followers, ultimately alerting the media. Twitter user @ReallyVirtual, an IT consultant located in Abbot-tabad at the time of the raid, received such a fl urry of queries about the event that he, much to his cha-grin, unintentionally live tweeted the entire thing. Responding to everyone from average civilians to the national media, he tweeted, “The gunfi ght lasted per-haps 4-5 minutes, I heard. That was around 10 hours ago. There are no other gunfi ghts that I know of.” Later, he posted a picture of his street outside, just be-fore the raid. Indeed, @ReallyVirtual received such a bombardment of attention that fi nally, frustrated, he tweeted, “Bin Laden is dead. I didn’t kill him. Please let me sleep now.”

Or, take the rapture, which was slated to occur at 6 p.m. Saturday. Although few believed the event would actually happen, the event exploded into the Twitter-verse with a fl urry of humorous tweets. #Myrapture-playlist and #endoftheworldconfessions trended on Twitter Friday, as people tweeted their preparations for the apocalypse. One user tweeted, “#myrapture-playlist: 1. The Final Countdown 2. The Final Count-down 3: Birthday Sex?” Another user tweeted, “#end-oftheworldconfessions: I ‘let the dogs out.’ It was me.” As the proposed moment of the rapture arrived in sev-eral countries, people tweeted various happenings as the world allegedly commenced ending. In Australia, Jon Gall tweeted, “Rapture time here in Melbourne. A rather quiet sort of rapture if you ask me.” As the weekend progressed, with no earthquakes, volcanoes or people beamed to heaven, users tweeted their hu-morous insights, recognizing, “#thatawkwardmoment

when you walk into work on Monday after you quit your job and cursed everyone out #rapture.” And, true to the fl uidity of Twitter, less than 24 hours later, Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake were already trend-ing above God and Harold Camping.

The fact is that Twitter has revolutionized news reporting. The conventional concept of news fixes itself to specific arenas: televisions,

newspapers, magazines, websites. With Twitter, the arenas com-bine. News expands into a real time space for open dialogue, melding multiple forms of media —pictures, videos, websites—

and multiple perspectives into neatly packed, 140-characters-or-less messages, all convenient-ly located in your Twitter feed the moment you log in. Twitter users can read, react, reinter-pret and re-share news as soon as they view it. The degree of simplicity, speed and accuracy of news reported on Twitter is one that other news outlets can only dream of achieving.

In 2009, a Pear Analytics study found that 40 percent of tweets could be described as “pointless babble.” This was probably true then, and is prob-ably true now. The point of Twitter, however, is not the nonsense itself, but the fl ow of that nonsense. That is, to say, the signifi cance of every tweet is de-termined not purely by its content but by the way it establishes its presence throughout the Twitter-verse, through conversations and connections with other tweets, through hashtags, retweets, replies or @mentions. Take the nonsensical “sitting on the toilet” tweet: Lying unnoticed by 35 followers, it’s relatively insignifi cant. But if someone searched for “toilet,” found that tweet, and retweeted it to his fol-lowers, who, in turn, retweeted it to their followers, that toilet tweet’s signifi cance rises exponentially. And if that toilet tweet were in Abbottabad, Paki-stan, at the time of the SEAL Six raid, it becomes pretty important.

In short, Twitter combines the best of the In-ternet into one singular mission: alerting its users about the world—and each other. Twitter users are numerous. Newspapers, celebrities, athletes, companies, regular human beings and even some pets all have Twitter accounts. And it’s certainly not too late to get one. I, for one, got mine less than two months ago, and it was the best decision I ever made, even if the “babbling nonsense” por-tion of my tweets probably approaches a steep 80 percent. Still, in today’s fast-paced world, joining Twitter is the only way to guarantee staying com-pletely informed about world news. Get a twitter and #getonourlevel.

Indu Ramesh is a Trinity junior.

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Durham calling to the Gothic Wonderland:Summer session has begun, reading lists and

pre-labs already in hand.Durham calling to Duke’s academic halls:Come from your partitioned caves on Central, Bel-

mont and wherever your feet fall.Durham calling: Duke cowers and recedes.

Hold! Abandon your tomes, frat music and bad beer.

For Durham is com-ing, brilliant in the sum-mer sun.

Your fake friend mosaic shattered, Durham’s breeze blows through—yes, it has won.

A social or situational miscalculation? No, I have no fear.

For Durham’s thriving, expanding to our domain, and I, thankfully, lie in its grasp.

Of Durham’s secondhand bookstores—all of which I insist you visit before ordering on Amazon—Books Do Furnish A Room remains unapologetically unique. Lo-cated off of East Campus on West Markham, the store and its owners—Gordon Matthews and Richard Lee—are seemingly modeled after Anthony Powell’s 1971 novel of the same name, the 10th in his wondrous and prolifi c series, A Dance to the Music of Time.

In this novel, a generation returns from world war amid the type of austerity measures the world has only begun to suffer in Tory Britain and Tea Party America. These “representative” (albeit oligarchical, usually plu-tocratic) governments scream that to save the economy we must pummel the poor in the name of rescuing the rich. In their futile attempt to ignore the constant pile of metaphorical corpses following these wars—social programs, morality and intellectualism—the wounded embrace nostalgia for the time before violation.

Like the characters in the novel, this Durham book-store, beyond Luddite fears, teems with a rejection of the technological rat race of a never questioned worth despite the always apparent sacrifi ces. Within this blue building at the end of a long gravel driveway, a time warp lies behind a shabby white door near a sign adver-tising that the store is “Open 364 Days a Year.”

The three men who you will immediately encounter within the building—the two owners and staff mem-ber Yancee Perrish—are, admittedly, niche nostalgists. When Richard Lee fi rst approached Gordon Matthews with a business proposal, he had already discovered his knack for identifying valuable comic books at a Cha-pel Hill secondhand bookstore. Matthews, a quirky,

unabashed audiophile, loves classical music and vinyl records. Despite these two specifi c interests, the men share a passion for the aged and the old pages of sec-ondhand books. Combining vinyl records, collectable comic books and secondhand books of all genres, Lee and Matthews have created a seamless and beautiful “menage a trios” of nostalgia.

Our generation, like that which fought in the mech-anized schizophrenia that was the Great War can never really know of the time before our never-ending War on Terror and the resultant programmed paranoia. In more subtle violence enabled by the emergence of the Internet, texting and e-readers, we have abandoned that which humanity once held so dear. We are the ADD generation, “multitasking” but never doing any-thing extremely well. When speaking with Matthews one afternoon, he turned to me with a deep sadness and, like an extended sigh, told me that which he has come to accept:

“I’ve had moments of great anxiety running this place. We are living in a shifting world. It used to be that people listened to music for quality—now they just want it for free. People are growing up not knowing what a physical copy of music is—that’s already happened, and I think it’s too late to save them. I always thought the most boring part of an album was the hit songs. It’s ev-erything else that makes it an album. Now people only have the hit songs. I don’t even know if they know about the rest of the songs. The same is true for books. I think we have a less literate population than we did 30, 40, even 50 years ago. What I mean is that people read less. When people do read books, they read them on some electronic device. They don’t read a real book and ap-preciate what it is. People like me, places like this—we’re a dying breed. Like you saw at the Book Exchange, the next generation doesn’t want a place like this. I hope I’m wrong, but that’s just what I think.”

Students and faculty, I pray we can prove Matthews wrong. Go to Books Do Furnish A Room and browse. Yes, look for the books on your school list—the store’s “hits”—but also walk around and fi nd the title that at-tracts you personally. Bring life back into an aged book or vinyl and take a moment to learn from those now long gone voices chronicled within. A paradox and its solution are written within Books Do Furnish A Room: The roots of “to furnish” suggest advancement and progress, but even in this forward march, we can never forget our history lest we live with nostalgia the word derived from the Greek “nostos” and “algos,” which lit-erally describes a painful yearning for homecoming.

Josh Brewer is a Trinity senior.

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Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo., you should not wonder—Is this somehow re-lated to the tornado outbreak three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala., or the enormous outbreak a couple of weeks before that (which, together, comprised the most active April for tornadoes in U.S. history)? No, that doesn’t mean a thing.

It is far better to think of these as isolated, unpredictable, discrete events. It is not advisable to try to connect them in your mind with, say, the fi res burning across Texas—fi res that have burned more of America at this point this year than any wild-fi res have in previous years. Texas, and adjoining parts of Okla-homa and New Mexico, are drier than they’ve ever been—the drought is worse than that of the Dust Bowl. But do not wonder if they’re somehow connected.

If you did wonder, you see, you would also have to wonder about whether this year’s record snowfalls and rainfalls across the Midwest—resulting in record fl ooding along the Mississip-pi—could somehow be related. And then you might fi nd your thoughts wandering to, oh, global warming, and to the fact that climatologists have been predicting for years that as we fl ood the atmosphere with carbon, we will also start both drying and fl ooding the planet, since warm air holds more water vapor than cold air.

It’s far smarter to repeat to yourself the comforting mantra that no single weather event can ever be directly tied to climate change. There have been tornadoes before, and fl oods—that’s the important thing. Just be careful to make sure you don’t let yourself wonder why all these record-breaking events are hap-pening in such proximity—that is, why there have been un-precedented megafl oods in Australia, New Zealand and Paki-stan in the past year. Why it’s just now that the Arctic has melted for the fi rst time in thousands of years. No, better to focus on the immediate casualties, watch the videotape from the store cameras as the shelves are blown over. Look at the news an-chorman standing in his waders in the rising river as the water approaches his chest.

Because if you asked yourself what it meant that the Amazon has just come through its second hundred-year drought in the past fi ve years, or that the pine forests across the western part of this continent have been obliterated by a beetle in the past decade—well, you might have to ask other questions. Such as: Should President Obama really just have opened a huge swath of Wyoming to new coal mining? Should Secretary of State Hil-lary Clinton sign a permit this summer allowing a huge new pipeline to carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta? You might also have to ask yourself: Do we have a bigger problem than $4-a-gallon gasoline?

Better to join with the U.S. House of Representatives, which voted 240 to 184 this Spring to defeat a resolution saying sim-ply that “climate change is occurring, is caused largely by hu-man activities, and poses signifi cant risks for public health and welfare.” Propose your own physics; ignore physics altogether. Just don’t start asking yourself whether there might be some relation among last year’s failed grain harvest from the Rus-sian heat wave, and Queensland’s failed grain harvest from its record fl ood, and France’s and Germany’s current drought-related crop failures, and the death of the winter wheat crop in Texas and the inability of Midwestern farmers to get corn planted in their sodden fi elds. Surely the record food prices are just freak outliers, not signs of anything systemic.

It’s very important to stay calm. If you got upset about any of this, you might forget how important it is not to disrupt the re-cord profi ts of our fossil fuel companies. If worst ever did come to worst, it’s reassuring to remember what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the Environmental Protection Agency in a re-cent fi ling—that there’s no need to worry because “populations can acclimatize to warmer climates via a range of behavioral, physiological and technological adaptations.” I’m pretty sure that’s what residents are telling themselves in Joplin today.

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For most Duke students, their stay in Durham has a four-year time limit. Senior year ends and the boys and girls in gowns blow Durham a big fat goodbye kiss before they hit the road. The Lucky Strike smokestack tower recedes in the rearview mirror, and they don’t look back. The migration begins in the weeks after the words of the com-mencement speaker stop echoing in the heads of the cap-wearers: the graduated class packs its futons into rented U-Hauls and leaves behind its Durham digs, moving on to jobs in trendy hubs of culture and commerce. The farther these fresh alums get from the Bull City, the more expansive the Duke Diaspora becomes.

But what about those who stay? The Raleigh-Durham area is the third most likely place for alumni to end up, behind only New York and Washington, D.C., according to an exit survey of the Class of 2009.

Chris O’Neill, Trinity ’95, who is the assistant direc-tor of regional programs for the Duke Alumni Asso-ciation and the coordinator of the Duke Club of the Triangle, noted that in the past 10 years he’s seen an

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“As Durham grows and develops it’s been a more attractive place to live,” he said. “The economy has played into that—it’s a reasonable place to live.”

With the economy still freezing students out of the job market, more people are enrolling in gradu-ate school to help their chances in landing the per-fect gig, O’Neill said. And if you’re going to pay for graduate school instead of actually making money, he added, you’ll need to live in a city that won’t bleed you of your money.

Other students have found positions as research as-sistants for Duke professors, jobs in the admissions of-fice or placement elsewhere within the Duke sphere, according to the Class of 2010 exit survey that was compiled by the Duke Alumni Association. Others who responded to the exit poll—which consists of informa-tion from 433 members of the class of 2010—are stick-ing around to study for the MCAT or other entrance exams, with the intent of leaving Durham after they take the test. In the survey, nearly 50 people said they intended to stay in Durham, Raleigh or Chapel Hill.

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however, administrators informed Pearson and her class-mates that they would be the last-ever class of undergradu-ate nurses. The University had decided to phase out the school, ostensibly for budget reasons, she said.

“We were so sad [because] they were closing the school and we felt it was wrong they didn’t tell us,” Pearson re-called. “There was a whole tradition that got lost.”

The well-loved traditions included a big-sister mentor-ing program and ceremonies for the presentation of the graduates’ uniforms and nursing school pins, she added.

“There was a sense of family almost,” she said. “There was a progression —each class was sort of special.”

The Nursing School transitioned from an undergradu-ate school to an accelerated nursing program, which now offers a degree in 16 months to students who already hold a Bachelors in Science. Pearson became reacquainted with the School two years ago when she decided to join the Nursing School Alumni Council.

After joining the Council, she said she was impressed by the School’s growth—and surprised by the general lack of awareness about the School itself throughout the University.

“The Nursing School is sort of like the stepchild of the University—nobody really knows about it,” Pearson said. “But it’s one of the biggest schools on campus and was re-cently ranked seventh in the country!”

Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and presi-dent and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System, said the Nursing School’s increase in rank-ing is particularly notable given how quickly it occurred.

“The last seven years have been a remarkable and al-most unbelievable trajectory for the School of Nursing,” Dr. Dzau said. “The Nursing School going from number 29 to number 27 would [have been] an improvement, but go-ing from number 29 [in 2004] to number seven [in 2011] in seven years is unbelievable all together.”

Dr. Dzau cited Dean of the School of Nursing Catherine Gilliss’ leadership, vision and execution as the catalyst for the School’s sudden rise in ranking. The School’s nursing

Ph.D. program began during her tenure as dean, and en-rollment now exceeds 700 students—the largest number of students in the school’s 80-year history.

Gilliss said the Pearson donation is an affirming response to the School’s changes throughout recent years and is a testament to the hard work of the School’s faculty and staff.

She also noted that the donation is the second largest gift ever given to a school of nursing, next to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s $100 million dollar donation to the University of California-Davis to create their nursing school, which admitted its first class Fall 2010. The largest previous gift to Duke’s School of Nursing was a $6,000,000 donation from the Helene Fuld Health Trust Fund.

J. Michael Pearson said he hopes the donation will at-tract awareness to the importance of the nursing profes-sion as well as inspire others to give to the School.

“I hope the gift brings some publicity to this School and will trigger other people willing to give anything of themselves,” he said. “Duke has the potential to be the best nursing school in the country and the world, just like they do in everything else.”

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2011-2012 football season will not be included because sales began in January.

“Unfortunately, libraries typically do not have an imme-diate fundraising constituency from which to secure badly needed philanthropic and otherwise support,” White wrote in an email Monday. “Hopefully, much more than the re-source generated, the real significant impact will be... height-ened awareness of more needed resources in this regard.”

Duke Athletics had been interested for some time in in-vesting in one of the University’s academic departments, White added.

“The library is the heart and soul of any university,” White said. “Athletics simply decided that all fans... should invest in truly our greatest asset.”

Jakubs called the fund “brilliant” and said she is pleased that it supports everyone on campus.

Duke is not the only school to foster a connection between athletics and libraries. The University of Notre Dame, where White served as director of athletics until 2008, donates to its libraries following every bowl game appearance, and Ohio State University’s athletic department recently aided the uni-versity library in paying for major renovations.

Jakubs said, however, she believes the ticket sales-based model is unique to Duke.

“Athletics at many places are perceived as a separate unit of the university,” she said. “[White] doesn’t see athletics that way.... It’s part of the work hard, play hard mentality [here].”

Library officials are also hopeful that the publicity gener-ated from the new partnership will be mutually beneficial, encouraging a greater subset of the Duke community to at-tend athletic events while raising awareness about the librar-ies’ need for outside funds.

“People assume Duke’s a great University with a big, distin-guished library,” Jakubs said. “But we don’t get all the money we need from the University.”

Jakubs referred to the recent completion of Bostock Li-brary, along with the increasing necessity of digitizing ar-chives, as major projects made possible by the support of outside donations.

Both athletics and the libraries declined to give an esti-mate of the potential value of the fund.

The inception of the Duke Athletics Library Fund repre-sents just one part of a multifaceted effort to bring athletics and the libraries closer together. In the near future, Jakubs said National Signing Day events may be headquartered at Perkins Library, and the library may also begin to extend its resources to the Krzyzewski Center. Jakubs added that she would like to see the libraries host future events for the Iron Dukes, who are donors to the athletics department.

“I’m already the envy of the [American Library Associa-tion],” she said. “I’m getting tons of emails from all over ask-ing me, ‘How do I get that here?’”

If White is representative of athletics directors nationwide, all you have to do is ask.

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