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October 18, 2010 issue of the Duke ChronicleTRANSCRIPT
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2010 ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, ISSUE 36www.dukechronicle.com
Lazarus talks foreign policy in the Mideast,
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Locals treasure tradition of State Fair, Page 3
onTherecord“Coming Out Day used to be more like ‘Coming In Day’....
But now we’re covering the entire plaza.” —Coming Out Day Coordinator Megan Weinand. See story page 3
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Miles Plumlee dazzled the crowd during the slam dunk contest Friday. He finished in second place, making Andre Dawkins the repeat champion. Blue Devil fans got their first opportunity to celebrate the 2010-2011 basketball season Friday during Countdown to Craziness. SEE SPORTSWRAP PAGE 7
Crazie HopsFinance VP to take Wake Forest post
LaSalle patrols increase after recent crimes
by Zachary TracerTHE CHRONICLE
Duke’s top finance man is trading Dev-ils for Demons.
Hof Milam, vice president for finance and treasurer, will step down in December to become senior vice president for finance and administration and chief financial of-
ficer at Wake Forest Uni-versity.
“Wake Forest offered the very best match for me,” he said. “I felt like I was ready to operate at a little higher level within an organization.”
Milam will have broad-er responsibilities at Wake Forest than he currently
has at Duke. In addition to dealing with Wake Forest’s finances, Milam will oversee human resources, dining and facilities and will report directly to Wake Forest’s presi-dent.
“Hof Milam brings to Wake Forest ex-ceptional skills and experience, as well as a deep understanding of and appreciation for higher education and for this univer-sity,” Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch said in a news release. “He has demon-strated great success in working through complex financial and operational issues and will bring terrific leadership to our entire finance and administrative services divisions.”
Milam said the opportunity to take on greater responsibilities and report directly to the president was the reason he decided to leave Duke.
“It came down to just wanting to grow in my own career by having the opportunity to apply a little bit of my own judgement... and to be able to advise the leader of the organization,” he said.
Milam earned both his undergraduate degree and MBA at Wake Forest and previ-ously worked as an assistant dean at Wake Forest’s School of Medicine. But he said working at his alma mater was not a major factor in his decision to leave Duke.
Milam said Duke administrators were aware of his desire for a bigger role. But a position like the one Milam will take on at Wake Forest—similar to Tallman Trask’s executive vice president post at Duke—was unlikely to become available at the Univer-sity any time soon.
“My interest in such a position was well known by Tallman, but I expect Tallman to
by Joanna LichterTHE CHRONICLE
In response to recent robberies of stu-dents on LaSalle Street, Duke and Durham police departments are taking collaborative measures to improve off-campus safety.
To address safety concerns, Chief John Dailey of the Duke University Police De-partment hosted a meeting Friday with the Durham Police Department and University officials. DPD is immediately increasing pa-trols of LaSalle Street and assessing the ar-ea’s lighting to potentially increase visibili-ty. The University is also extending evening operating hours of the LaSalle Street bus by two hours. Under the new plan, the bus will run until 11 p.m. Monday to Friday.
Meeting attendees included DPD Chief Jose Lopez, the DPD commanding officer of LaSalle Street and senior University of-ficials.
“The fact that [Chief Lopez] came to campus to meet with us really speaks high-ly of his commitment and the city of Dur-ham’s commitment... in trying to help with these matters,” Dailey said. “Patrols will be [on LaSalle Street] more frequently, do more license checks in the area... and that was done this weekend.”
Uni breaks ground on Learning Center
Hof Milam
by Alejandro BolívarTHE CHRONICLE
University officials gathered Friday afternoon for the ground-breaking ceremony of the Learning Center, the School of Medi-cine’s newest building.
The event included speeches by top administrators and a per-formance by Major Groove, an a cappella group composed of medical students. The building is expected to be completed by Winter 2012.
The six-story, 83,000 square-feet structure will contain every-thing from a 400-seat auditorium to a fitness room, conference rooms and a roof-top terrace. It will be the School of Medicine’s first teaching facility since construction of the Davison Building, which connects the medical campus with the University’s main academic quad.
“From the very beginning, Duke has been known for in-novation in medical education, and this building will allow us to take innovation to a whole new level,” said Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and CEO of the Duke University Health System.
Located near the center of the medical campus, the building will link the clinical and research portions of the
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Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and CEO of Duke’s health system, spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Learning Center Friday afternoon.
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paris — the French government sought to guarantee fuel supplies as the country’s oil refineries remained shut by strikers trying to force president nicolas sarkozy to drop plans to raise the retire-ment age.
paris’ airports are being supplied with jet fuel and less than 2 percent of France’s service stations have run dry, transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said on europe1 radio.
protestors gathered in about 230 cities across France saturday against the gov-ernment’s plans to raise the minimum retirement age to 62 from 60. police said about 825,000 people marched, lower than in previous demonstrations against the measures. unions claimed between 2.5 million and 3 million.
“there is no worry about roissy,” Bussereau said, referring to paris’ largest airport. “it is being perfectly well supplied.”
washington — as Democrats and republicans spar over whether foreign money is polluting the midterm elec-tions, a simple point is often overlooked: hundreds of foreign corporations already play an integral and perfectly legal role in american politics through their u.s. sub-sidiaries.
political action committees connected to foreign-based corporations have do-nated nearly $60 million to candidates and parties over the past decade, includ-ing $12 million since the start of 2009, federal contribution records show.
the donations must come from u.s. citizens or residents, and they make up a small fraction of overall political giving. nonetheless, the role of foreign companies and their u.s. subsidiaries has become particularly sensitive in this year’s midterm campaigns, which have featured widesread voter dismay.
Possible foreign money infiltrates vote campaigns
Obama updates agendaPope canonizes first Austrailian saint
Literature is the question minus the answer.— Roland Barthes
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Wildly costumed volunteers take part in the “Field of Screams” Halloween fundraiser in Olney, Md. Organized by the Olney Boys and Girls Community Sports Association, the event attracts countless thrill-seeking visitors each year. But a for-profit organization in Pennsylvania that runs an attraction by the same name has taken the Olney group to court, claiming authority of the name.
“Basketball season officially began at Duke on Friday with the team’s second annual Countdown to Craziness, and head coach Mike Krzyzewski spoke to the media last thursday about his thoughts on the coming season. on captains nolan smith and Kyle singler: ‘those guys are very old in college, and then the summer that they had being on the select team has really put them in a great place to lead this group.’”
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Students celebrate Coming Out Day At State Fair,locals ‘come for the tradition’
by Jessica KimTHE CHRONICLE
More than 20 campus organizations set up tables Friday in support of the LGBT community among the rainbow balloons and flags on the West Campus Plaza.
National Coming Out Day promotes the awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Normally celebrated Oct. 11, the Center for LGBT Life hosted a cel-ebration Friday because Duke students were on Fall Break Oct. 11. The Center for LGBT Life distributed more than 1,500 “Love = Love” t-shirts in three hours before conclud-ing the event with a performance by the Defining Move-ment dance troupe.
When Janie Long became the director of the Center for LGBT Life four years ago, National Coming Out Day at Duke consisted of a quiet dinner where people shared their personal coming out stories. Since that
time, there has been a transformation in the visibility and impact of National Coming Out Day on campus, said junior Megan Weinand, the student coordinator for the event as well as editor-in-chief of Womyn Maga-zine, a student-run publication for the gay female com-munity.
“Coming Out Day used to be more like ‘Coming In Day,’” said Weinand. “It was dinner inside the Center, and when [Long] said, ‘Hey let’s put it on the plaza,’ nobody believed we could do it. But now we’re covering the entire plaza.”
When Long suggested the more public venue, some students thought she was a little radical, Long wrote in an e-mail Friday. But the first year the event was hosted on the plaza, students were “thrilled” by the results, she said.
by Chinmayi SharmaTHE CHRONICLE
Children clinging to their mothers, girls wearing their dates’ coats and huddling groups of friends all endured cold winds while they waited—sometimes for more than an hour —to get into the North Carolina State Fair Saturday.
Between Oct. 14 and 24, people will come to the Raleigh fairgrounds to “Celebrate What’s Great,” as the fair’s slogan heralds. Although people are attract-ed to the amusement park rides and the fatty foods from around the state, many said they come for the tradition.
Eric Browning and Stephanie Wells, a young couple from the Raleigh area, said they have come to the fair every year since high school.
“We come with our friends. It is a lot of fun, and we sure love it, but we come for the tradition,” Browning said. “It is pretty much the same every year—busy, but for us, I guess it’s culture not tourism.”
Others spoke of the importance of maintaining the tradition in times good and bad.
“People come to forget the still-recovering econ-omy, the alarming crime rate and the prevalent pov-erty in North Carolina,” said Carlos Rodriguez, a father of three girls who were pulling him towards the livestock exhibit. “They come to be in the mo-ment and take part [in] an event that has been a proud part of our history for as long as anyone can remember.”
First held in 1853, the North Carolina State Fair has grown to accommodate well over 800,000 attendees
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The LGBT community took over the Bryan Center Plaza Friday to promote awareness of LGBT issues and give away Love=Love T-shirts.
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Neil Lazarus
Case brings up adoption law debate
Lazarus urges awareness of Middle East
by Jie WangTHE CHRONICLE
An ongoing case in the North Carolina Supreme Court is considering issues of “sec-ond parent” adoptions and the rights of bio-logical parents when relationships dissolve.
The custody case is reviewing whether or not Melissa Jarrell has grounds to revoke the parental privileges of her former domestic partner, said state Senator Julia Boseman. A District Court judge approved Boseman’s request to adopt Jarell’s biological son in 2005, but the couple split in 2008 and were awarded joint custody of 8-year-old Jacob.
Jarrell argues, however, that the adop-tion was not valid in the first place. Bose-man, who holds the ninth district Senate seat but is not seeking reelection this year, is arguing that because Jarrell had previously consented to the adoption, she should not be able to annul the original decision.
“Statutory limitations can only void adop-tions within 30 days of the adoption,” said Jim Lea, Boseman’s lawyer. “Jarrell agreed to the adoption and is now trying to use the same courts to overturn the adoption. Courts can’t submit different rulings.”
In legal terms, seeking the annulment of a conclusion a party previously found satis-factory is referred to as “estoppel equitable,” said Kathy Bradley, professor of the practice in the School of Law. Previous court rulings
by Chinny SharmaTHE CHRONICLE
At a time of global strife, Neil Lazarus emphasized the importance of international
political awareness, espe-cially regarding the con-flict in the Middle East, in his speech Friday.
Lazarus, whose orga-nization Awesome Semi-nars trains diplomats, was invited by Duke Friends of Israel to speak on the conflict between Israel and Palestine. About 20
students came to tthe event in a classroom in the Social Sciences building.
In his presentation, Lazarus stressed the significance of the current political climate in the Middle East.
“What is happening today is something important. Today we witness a situation where America cannot afford to have the foreign policy it has had,” Lazarus said. “If [Islamic nations] gets nuclear weapons it will throw off the balance of the Middle East and threaten the West and the world at large.”
Lazarus cited an increase in the number of troops in Afghanistan, weekly bombings in Pakistan that go unnoticed by most Americans, and a stronger Iran due to a weaker Iraq as evidence that the Western world has entered a
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Students gathered on the Engineering Quad Friday to celebrate e-Oktoberfest with live music, games and free food and beer. The event was cohosted by Engineering Student Government.
Ok-Teer-berfest
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**NEW** AMES 49S First Year Seminar Topic: Interethnic Intimacies Cultural politics of “interethnic intimacy” or “intercourse” as represented in Literature and visual culture from and about Asia. The course examines varying configurations of the encounters of different racial or ethnic identities, from missionaries and picture brides to movements of transnational capital and labor, from techno-Orientalism and “Asian exotica” to international adoptions, from virtual realties to military prostitution to interracial romance. Crosslisted with CULANTH 49S.01; SXL 49S.01; WOMENST 49S.01M 4:25-6:55PM Professor Nayoung Aimee Kwon
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AMES 139 Poetic Cinema An inquiry into sources of “resonance” in international cinema with emphasis on films from Asia and the Middle East. Aspects of film construction which conduce to intense experience for viewers. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Darezhan Omirbaev, Nacer Khemir, Tsai Ming Liang and others. Crosslisted with VISUALST 139.01; AMI 111P.01 MW 1:15-2:30PM Professor Satti Khanna
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**NEW** AMES 189S Iraqi Culture in the 20th Century Focus on Iraqi cultural production from independence in 1932 until today. Poetry, fiction, and visual arts will be studied and include Iraqi poets who were among the pioneers of Arab fem-inism and of revolution in Literary form, the writings of Fuad Tekerli, Dhunoon Ayyub and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Jewish au-thors who migrated to Israel in the 1950s, and short fictions, films and blogs reflecting on the impact of state violence under Saddam Hussein and of international wars on life in Iraq. MW 2:50-4:05 Professors miriam cooke and Abdul Sattar Jawad
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be around Duke for a good while yet,” he said.When Milam departs, Tim Walsh, assistant vice presi-
dent and controller, will take over as interim vice presi-dent for finance. Walsh is currently responsible for Duke’s external financial reporting, payroll and account-ing records.
“I’m excited about the opportunity,” Walsh said. “It’s an honor to serve Duke in any capacity, but the broader your impact, the greater the honor is.”
Walsh said Milam has left him and the rest of the Financial Services staff well prepared for Milam’s de-parture.
“He’s built tremendous relationships across all of Duke and has a great deal of respect across all of Duke,” Walsh said. “He leaves Duke with a great deal of confi-dence because of the great team he’s leaving behind.”
In his seven years at Duke, Milam worked to keep the University community informed about Duke’s fi-
nancial situation and improved the handling of re-search funds. He also guided Duke’s transition to an electronic payroll system and dealt with the effects of the recession.
“He’s done many good things to make our financial affairs more solid,” Trask wrote in an e-mail. “He’s been especially good in research compliance and in helping us work through recent endowment issues.”
Trask said a search for a new vice president for finance will begin around the end of the calendar year. Duke will consider both internal and external candidates, and Walsh said he is interested in taking on Milam’s role per-manently.
Walsh already has the backing of his former boss.“Personally, I’ll be very disappointed if he’s not my
successor,” Milam said. “He certainly has my full support and confidence.”
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Dailey said license checks involve stopping cars more frequently to check the validity of driver’s licenses and registrations.
DPD officials were not available for comment Sunday.Although the increased number of patrols comes in
response to two separate robberies on LaSalle Street re-ported last week, Dailey called the incidents “crimes of op-portunity” and believes that students were not specifically targeted in either case.
At about 9:25 a.m. Oct. 13. a female student was ap-proached by a woman on LaSalle Street who asked to use her cell phone. After the student gave the woman her phone, the woman pushed the student to the ground and stole her backpack. The suspect was described as a black female wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with a pink vertical stripe.
The following day, a male graduate student was robbed at about 10 p.m. “very close” to the location of last Wednesday’s robbery, Dailey said in an interview Thurs-day. The student was not seriously injured and only his cell phone was stolen. The perpetrator was described as a black, 5-foot-8-inch male in his 20s with medium skin tone. At the time of the crime, he was wearing a red and white hooded sweatshirt, Dailey added.
Another student was robbed Oct. 9 on East Campus near Jarvis Dormitory shortly after 2 a.m. A stocky His-panic male approached the female student, said he had a gun and demanded her purse. The student was able to escape the scene unharmed, and none of her property was taken.
As of Sunday night, police had not identified any sus-pects associated with the crimes. Dailey said it is unlikely that any of the robberies are connected, given the varied descriptions of the suspects.
A DukeAlert was sent to the Duke community in re-sponse to the Oct. 9 incident but not for either LaSalle Street robberies because the crimes occurred off campus. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta notified students of both LaSalle Street robberies in separate e-mails following the individual incidents. The e-mails ad-vised students to be aware of their surroundings and take safety precautions. The e-mails also directed students to DUPD’s website for safety tips.
“It’s relatively common that at the start of the year we have a couple of circumstances like this,” Moneta said. “There’s a tendency for some criminals who think young students are easy targets to do just this kind of thing.... It tends not to last very long.”
Moneta added that the Duke and Durham police de-partments meet regularly to ensure safety in the Duke area regardless of an increased number of incidents.
“It’s not simply these two incidents that have brought these two [departments] together,” he said. “Students should feel good about the fact that Duke and Durham police work really well together and continue to do so.”
Senior Angela Cai, who lives in the Belmont Apart-ments located near LaSalle Street, said the robberies have increased her awareness of personal safety, but she added that the events will not have serious implications for her habits.
“I think that the only thing I can really do is be more aware of my surroundings,” Cai said. “I don’t feel in-credibly unsafe in the area.... It’s just using good judge-ment and trying to be aware of my surroundings and avoid walking in the dark, which I would do almost anywhere.”
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After two students were robbed last week on LaSalle Street, Duke and Durham police have instituted additional safety measures in the area.
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Members of the Duke community perused a wide range of vinyl records, CDs and memorabilia from across the region at WXDU’s 5th annual Record Fair, held Saturday at the Nasher Museum of Art.
Girl, put your records oneach year. The goal promotes intrastate fra-ternity and altruism, with specific days ca-tering to senior citizens, commemorating men in the military and gathering food for donation to the needy. Even last year, when many fairgoers were feeling the effects of the recession, attendees still managed to donate 222,956 pounds of food as part of the Food Lion Hunger Relief Day.
The fair also aims to promote small fam-ily-owned businesses from within the state. People of all backgrounds and ethnicities come from all over the state to sell foods and goods.
The choices were culturally varied and ranged from “John the Greek’s” and “Tater Hut” to “Tacos and Burritos,” alongside ec-
centricities like deep-fried Snickers, Oreos and Reese’s.
The fair is also full of quirky games and activities. John Thompson mans a booth in which he attempts to guess a volunteer’s age within two years and his or her weight within three pounds. If he is wrong, he gives the participant a prize.
“It’s fun to meet a lot of people,” Thompson said. “I goof off at work all day, and that’s OK because this job is about hav-ing fun and making people happy.”
Thompson doled out a stuffed animal to a young boy after intentionally guessing his age wrong so that the child could take home a souvenir.
“There’s too much in life to take seri-ously. Sometimes we need to find an excuse to smile and celebrate. It’s the small stuff,” he added with a smile and a wink.
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North Carolina residents flocked to opening weekend of the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh to enjoy rides, fried food and the festive atmosphere. Many locals said they visit the fair out of tradition.
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Although part of the original premise of the nation-al event was for people to publicly identify themselves as gay, at Duke the event is more of a celebration, said junior Patrick Peixoto, a volunteer for the event.
“Suddenly you see a mass of people on the plaza—there are rainbow flags everywhere, there’s music blast-ing,” said Aliza Lopes-Baker, vice president for Blue Dev-ils United. “It’s a very festive celebration of LGBT life at Duke, and it’s one of the few days we get to celebrate so openly with allies.”
Weinand said the event highlighted the growing support for the community at Duke. Since her fresh-man year, she said she has noticed more rainbow flags on campus. The progress is encouraging for closeted people, she added, because for many Duke students coming out is not a one-time event but a continual process.
“Are there closeted people on campus? Yes, because I know them. Are there out people on campus? Yes, be-cause I know them. People are always progressing on this journey of coming out,” Weinand said.
Still, students and administrators noted room for improvement. Challenges include a high level of het-eronormativity and gender conformity, a lack of openly LGBT faculty, a residential system with limited housing and bathroom options for transgender students and few outlets for social activity on campus for same-sex part-ners, Long said.
Damon Seils, a senior research analyst for the Duke Clinical Research Institute who also serves as co-chair for Duke’s LGBT Task Force, noted the long-term nature of changes in attitude.
“It’s really great that there’s noticeable improve-ment on student engagement on these issues. But I don’t know if that’s yet translated in changes in at-titude because things like that don’t change over-night,” he said.
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can only be annulled if there are legal grounds for its rever-sal, and in this case there may not be, she said.
“One of the arguments is whether this should be a court case at all,” Bradley said. “Why should we allow her to come back and try to undo something she tried to do?”
Bradley said in her opinion Boseman should win the case. The court is using the conflict as an opportunity to look at the scope of the state’s adoption statues, she added, which do not specifically permit or exclude “second par-ent” adoptions for gay couples.
John Martin, a lawyer who is working on the case with Jarrell’s lawyer, Leslie Fritscher, said the two primary issues in the case are the constitutionally protected status of the natural parent under the due process clause and the sepa-ration of powers under the Constitution.
The pivotal case could decide whether same-sex adop-tions can take place if one of the partners is the biological parent of the child. Lea said if the case is overturned, it would set a precedent for other “second parent” adoption cases for gay couples.
Martin said although the media has portrayed this as a case about gay rights, it applies more broadly to adoption law.
Throughout the legal proceedings, though, Bradley noted that the human elements of this case are essential to keep in mind.
“Second parent adoptions are perfectly fine and great for the kids. The courts should concentrate on what it means to be a family and what it means to be a parent [as well],” she said.
It can be easy to forget the humanity of the case and concentrate too much on the legality of it, said senior Mi-chelle Sohn, Duke Student Government liason for gender studies and a member of The Chronicle’s editorial board.
“It’s a pretty heart-wrenching case for both sides about a kid and a family.”
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period he called “the rise of the green flag of Islam.”Throughout his speech, Lazarus encouraged all stu-
dents to educate themselves about the details of the Mid-dle Eastern conflict and explained that understanding is the first step toward ending the conflict.
Nuclear terrorism is an imminent threat, Lazarus said. To help prevent it, one must be adept in numerous areas of knowledge, including geography, politics, history, reli-gion, economics and diplomacy, he said.
One student questioned America’s role in resolving the Middle Eastern conflict after Lazarus showed a clip of President Barack Obama’s speech at Cairo University. In the speech, Obama spoke about the administration’s de-sire to forge a healthy relationship between Americans and Muslims worldwide.
“Obama I think is important for one simple reason—you can’t understand what is going on in the Middle East without understanding American foreign policy,” Lazarus responded. “America fights Iran like they’ve always fought them: If you can’t beat them, surround them. What is that? Cold War containment.”
However, Lazarus added, one must also understand Is-raeli geography and economics to realize that if the coun-try were to attack Iran, as some propose it should, Iran could simply block the major strait that facilitates some of Israel’s trade. Lazarus claimed this course of action could trigger a regional war.
In an attempt to relate the speech to Coming Out Day, which was also Friday, Lazarus said he believed anyone who is liberal should support Israel during the crisis, be-cause it is the most progressive nation in the Middle East. He noted that Israel has five gay pride parades a year and openly gay soldiers in the army.
Lazarus concluded his speech by reminding his audi-ence of his main purpose for being there—to speak the truth and discuss facts.
“People don’t like to talk, they like to heckle,” he add-ed. “In my profession we have had to get pretty good at ducking shoes and that is sad.”
Also in attendance was Shelley Castaldi, director of Academic and Cultural Affairs at the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta. The consulate works to facilitate communication between America and Israel in the fields of medicine, aca-demics, law and culture.
“It is important to listen to renowned speakers such as Mr. Lazarus,” she said. “However, I want to try and show that Israel is so much more than the conflict.”
Sophomore Samantha Tropper, DFI vice president for membership, said one of the organization’s goals behind Lazarus’s presentation was to separate Israeli culture from Judaism. She said people do not need to be Jewish in order to support Israel.
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The lead gift for the construction of the Learning Center was a $35 million contri-bution from the Charlotte-based Duke En-dowment. Administrators said they hope the Learning Center will strengthen Duke’s position as a leader in medical education, which has seen a shift from classroom-based learning toward health care that is patient-focused and team-based.
President Richard Brodhead noted that the groundbreaking coincides the 100th anniversary of the Carnegie Foun-dation-commisioned Flexner Report,
which proposed a new model of medi-cal education that includes high stan-dards for admission, scientific training and placing medical schools within the
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“We know the way to train people in medi-cal careers is not to take them apart but to train them to work as a team,” Brodhead said.
Dzau said the Learn-ing Center will be built with flexibility that will
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“The type of student attracted to Duke is different,” said Duke Endowment trustee Dr. K.D. Weeks, Medicine ’74. “We need to educate that student to not just embrace reform but also lead it.”
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What up fam? Long time no see. I can only hope everyone’s recovering nicely from a heady Fall Break and a top-notch Tail-
gate (a combination of day drinking and plenty of Bromega-3 fratty acids should do the trick) and ready to re-commence the yearlong frat party.
Speaking of all things fraternal, there’s a lot of contention these days surrounding the questions of the “best frat” and which frats are “trending” up or down. Well, last week I decided to give the issue some thought, just for some sem-blance of personal closure, when something happened that made the proverbial wicket much more sticky.
Allow me to set the scene: It’s Friday afternoon, and I’m stumbling through the Bryan Center in a seemingly futile attempt to escape the Nonprofit and Government Career Fair (aka the Five-Figure Career Fair) before I get bedazzled with Obama pins and PETA stickers. I finally make my way out the door of that drunkenly architected excuse for a “handicap accessible” campus center and onto a plaza that’s spraying mist while it’s raining (again, I’m supposed to believe there’s a water crisis and an economic recession?), only to behold a sight even more bizarre than nonprofits trying to re-cruit intelligent students.
The plaza was thronged with people, “Work It” by the great Mrs. Elliot was blaring over loud-speakers that only a Tailgate could love and ev-erywhere I looked there were rainbow flags, bal-loons and other flamboyant fallaleries festooning the once austere-looking walkway. As I hesitantly moved closer to the carousal, the only question that I needed to have answered was the same ques-tion that pops into my head whenever I see large groups of decent-looking men in a spectrum of pastels flirting with freshman boys.
“What frat is this?”I must have asked it aloud, because one of the
brothers approached me and answered cheerfully, “It’s Coming Out Day!” Still confused, I checked out his frat-gear, all of which was emblazoned with the letters LGBT. While I had never heard of the Lambda Gamma Beta Tau fraternity before (I think he mentioned something about it being the Gamma Alpha Upsilon chapter), I looked around and suddenly it hit me. The free drinks I was given, the phone numbers I received, the party invites... My God! Here I am on my high horse, calling my-
self a Gossip Bro, and meanwhile the loudest and proudest dirty rush event that frat-kind has ever witnessed is going on right under my nose! And
I’ve never even heard of them! I tried to keep my cool, and I
was eventually able to escape with-out too much ado (except for one bro who kept insisting that I come to “Legends” that night, which I just assumed was some Nickelode-on-themed party they were having at their off-campus house). All in all the brothers were really nice, and just generally excited to have so many freshmen “coming out” to
join their frat.When I got home, I did some more research on
the Lambda Gamma Beta Taus to sate my piqued interest and in general they seem like chill bros who like to get effed up. The pledging seems a little weird, from what some Internet searches yielded, but to me it seems like the only thing holding them back from escaping mid-tier frat-dom is their branding. Their colors, their music, their costumes? It all seemed so strange to me, so I had to get to the bottom of it.
I scoured Google and Wikipedia for a reason—any reason—why the LGBTs chose a color scheme that’s just so... busy. I came up with nothing. I mean rainbows? From my experience with self-conscious freshmen concerned about projecting masculinity, I just can’t imagine too many rushees will see a rainbow and say, “Oh sick bro, I wanna join that frat.” And then there are those costumes they wear at their national conventions. Like, it’s not about your personal preferences or what goes on at your frat’s late nights—no one cares about that. It’s just that the general population would probably get weirded out at anybody wearing fairy wings and assless chaps on a float in the middle of New York City, no matter what frat he pays his dues to.
So here’s some advice: Make me your Rush Chair, go for a more badass color scheme (some-thing like black and red, with some fratty medieval weapons crossed above an heraldic escutcheon), register for a spot at Tailgate and channel all the crazy costumes into dressing for said Tailgate. If that doesn’t increase the talent in the next LGBT pledge class, you can hit me up via Letter to the Editor and we’ll collab on a new game plan.
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Duke students are well aware of the crime that occurs on and around campus. Despite the illusion of the Duke bubble, stu-dents travel outside campus all the time, whether it’s to head
back to their off-campus apartments or just to grab a bite to eat at Chipotle. We know that we live in a city and that we are constantly surrounded by the associated dangers that come with the territory.
To that end, most of us have enough common sense to follow the basic rules of campus safety. We know to lock our doors and keep an eye on our laptops in the library. We generally stay away from walking alone on the fringes of campus after dark and try to use the Duke Vans service (formerly known as SafeRides) when possible.
As students around campus all the time, we also know exactly where there are gaps in security and, just as importantly, gaps in re-sponsibility for students’ safety. But, as students with busy schedules, we can’t always control when we have to travel around campus and off campus around the clock.
For example, Duke Vans run from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m., but would a student living on Central Campus who needs to ePrint their home-work at midnight call a Duke Van to drive a street over to the clos-est ePrint station? Probably not, but then who is responsible if that student runs into trouble on the way over?
What about the student who lives just off campus and must walk to Science Drive at odd hours to check on his lab work? Because Duke Vans only provides service from campus to certain off-campus loca-tions, not the other way around, that option isn’t even available.
And, as it turns out, you can get mugged in the daytime too. The female student who was robbed on LaSalle Street last week was out walking at 9:25 a.m. Is it the Duke or Durham Police Department that is responsible for improving patrols in that area?
You could argue that students living off campus should be aware of these dangers and arrange for other means of transportation. But, many students choose to live off campus because rent is significantly lower. More relevantly, with Duke’s housing limitations, we simply don’t have room for all students on campus.
Given the situation, the responsibility falls on Duke to ensure safety for students who live just off campus because such areas are essentially an extension of the Duke campus.
In the federally mandated annual Clery Security Report that Duke releases, crimes committed on “all public property, includ-ing thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks and parking facilities, that is within the campus, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus” are included in the statistics offered. This suggests that crimes committed in the LaSalle area are covered in the report.
When Duke Police patrols, campus “help phones” and Duke Vans fail students, what’s next? If the solution is to ask the Durham Police Department to step up patrols, it is neither responsible nor sufficient.
When I met last month with Dean and Vice Provost of Undergrad-uate Education Steve Nowicki to discuss the Campus Council house model proposal, we spoke briefly about improving safety on Central.
“If you look at the statistics,” he said, “Central Campus is not ac-tually an unsafe place.” He commented, however, that the adminis-tration had discussed adding security cameras to Central to make students feel safer.
From last week’s string of robberies and in looking at past crime data, it is true that crime is not isolated on Central and is probably not significantly more prevalent there either. If the idea of security cameras is being considered for Central, however, then why not con-sider them for the rest of campus?
In 2005, Johns Hopkins began using a “smart” closed-circuit TV system that alerts operators in their Communications Center when suspicious activity is taking place on their 140-acre Homewood cam-pus. Such cameras are programmed to look for strange activity such as slow-moving vehicles, odd patterns of movement, abandoned ob-jects, etc. Partly because of this system and despite its location within the city of Baltimore, Hopkins was ranked number one in 2008 by Reader’s Digest in its campus safety and security survey and 20th for low crime in a simultaneous study. Duke did not participate in the campus safety survey, but the University was placed 244th out of 285 schools in Reader’s Digest’s low crime ranking.
Since Duke’s campus is much larger than Hopkins’ Homewood campus, security cameras would be significantly more expensive. But, if placed in strategic locations where students are likely to be walking alone, it could cut down on robberies near Campus Drive, Erwin Road, the area behind the Marketplace, etc.
If not security cameras, perhaps it’s time Duke considers other in-novative solutions for filling in the security gaps because it is unequiv-ocally responsible for all aspects of student safety, on or off campus.
For motivation, just take a look at our Reader’s Digest ranking and imagine that was our men’s basketball ranking for the season. Coach K would probably have a fit. Maybe the Duke Police Depart-ment should, too.
Doris Jwo is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.
I was watching NBC’s “The Apprentice” (where, not surprisingly a Duke grad managed to look egotistical and self-absorbed in a show about
people vying for jobs) when a com-mercial during a break informed me that a student in Peru couldn’t go to college there because she couldn’t afford the $700 tuition. It had the depressing music and all, and just begged you to give a little for the future of the world.
It’s great that our country has a thirst for helping less fortunate na-tions, but the fact remains that the yearly cost for attending a substan-tial number of U.S. universities is more than $50,000. We go to a school that reflects that. For 2010, the cost of attending Duke is about $53,390. The number is simply staggering for most people, and the words tuition costs are a red flag for many seniors.
So in order to try to persuade some of those students to reconsider, our financial aid office has created a plan: Let them know that there are great financial aid packages and that there are some people who, because of their circumstances, can actually attend this grand university for no cost.
In 2004, Provost Peter Lange talked with The Chronicle about updates to financial aid—includ-ing the idea that outside scholarships would cut into loans before grant money—and said, “[The changes] are designed to assure that the experi-ence of our aided students comes as close as pos-sible to the experience of unaided students.” The University started the Financial Aid Initiative, which has now put in place the idea that parents who earn less than $60,000 in yearly income are no longer expected to pay tuition. Furthermore, loans are no longer part of the financial aid package for families making less than $40,000 a year, instead they are replaced by grants; loans have been re-duced for families with incomes between $60,000 and $100,000 and are capped at $5,000 per year for families that earn more than $100,000.
In a Chronicle letter to the editor in Septem-ber 2008, co-chairs of the Financial Aid Initiative Student Advisory Committee said, “the adminis-tration is focused on affording students from all economic backgrounds the opportunity to attend Duke.”
Beautiful, isn’t it? This doesn’t even account for the $308 million that the Financial Aid Initia-tive netted in fundraising (assuming all donors do donate, which is actually something I must state because of recent events). Financial aid at Duke is amazing for those who attend the University. Honestly, it might even give students more than they need (please do not audit my financial docu-ments, Duke).
However, the financial aid program at Duke does nothing for students who want to feel at ease
when applying to the school. Sure, if you fit into certain categories or meet criteria, you will know how much you will pay, but there is quite a large
gray area of students who do not know the cost of their attendance (or at least an estimate) before they apply to the school.
And this causes a lot of people to think otherwise, especially as the early decision deadline approaches. From my understanding, early de-cision is intended for people who know that they want to go to Duke above all other schools rather than those who feel that they love Duke only under the condition that they
can afford to attend it at the price (give or take a few dollars) dictated by the acceptance letter.
The steps that the Financial Aid Office has taken have created more firm numbers for people to look at. But the gray area is so large that it con-sumes most of the students that attend. Instead of putting them at ease, the Financial Aid Office and Duke administrators have given them statistics and general information as a sort of comfort.
Those low-income individuals who are trying to make the jump to Duke early decision need more than comfort, though. The easiest of all solutions, and the only way Duke University can stand by its claim to “accept the best students, regardless of fi-nancial situation” or to be “need blind” is to give people firm numbers about what they are paying or will pay.
We all know that there is some method that the Financial Aid Office uses to tell students how much they will be paying each semester. We all know that there are some financial indicators (income, as-sets, cost of living, etc.) that become variables in a large equation that shoots out a magic number.
Why isn’t that number available, though? Why does that equation not become public knowledge, so that all students know what they will have to pay before they get to campus?
See, the equation would end all worrying about what students have to pay, and whether or not they can afford the costs of a Duke education. It would even prevent the whole “can I afford it?” question from interfering with someone’s decision to apply early decision. It becomes a (somewhat) simple question with a (kind of) simple answer.
Duke publishes the percentiles on SAT scores, ACT scores, GPA and even talks about how many valedictorians apply (and get rejected) and where people come from, both in geographic and racial sense. Now, Duke has the opportunity to take the lead in making the financial aid, application and acceptance process a little more transparent.
So why not publish financial aid equations?
Antonio Segalini is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Monday.
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