Abdul Rauf tackles debate over Park51

South Asian Studies cert. approved

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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who spearheaded a proposal to build a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan, discusses the controversy surrounding the project at Duke Chapel Thursday.

Williams embodies loyalty to Duke Students leadvigil recognizing crisis in Japan

by Anna KoelschTHE CHRONICLE

Duke Endowment Chairman Neil Williams isn’t kid-ding when he calls himself an involved alum.

The head of the Charlotte-based foundation that just gave Duke its largest philanthropic gift in its his-tory, who graduated Trinity ’58 and Law ’61, served on the Board of Trustees from 1980 to 1993 and was the Board’s chair from 1983 to 1988. And prior to January when he became the Duke Endowment’s chairman—a philanthropic foundation started by James B. Duke but separate from the University—he had served on the organization’s board since 1997.

Still, Williams had trouble filling out his NCAA tournament bracket. Family matters complicated things.

“My daughter is a vice provost at Ohio State Uni-versity, so I have... basketball issues,” Williams said with a laugh. “My Final Four does include Duke... but you’ll have to wait and see [who I selected as the champion].”

But the Duke community does not have to look

by Caroline FairchildTHE CHRONICLE

Despite the 7,000 miles that separate Durham and Ja-pan, the powerful tremors from last Friday’s devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami are still felt on Duke’s campus.

In an effort to address the emotional damage of the recent crisis, alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority will host a candlelight vigil on the Duke Chapel steps tonight at 8 p.m. The vigil is just one of a series of events organized by student groups aimed to relieve economic and environ-mental damage caused by the natural disaster.

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New Duke Endowment Chairman Neil Williams has shown a history of loyalty to the University through his many roles as an alumnus.

by Melissa DalisTHE CHRONICLE

The Arts and Sciences Council unani-mously approved the new South Asian Studies certificate program and discussed the results of the faculty Budget Solutions Poll at its meeting Thursday.

Sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies, the certificate program will explore important issues in emerging counties in the region, including India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It will focus on decision-making strategies relating to topics such as social and economic devel-opment, global health and religion.

“From a global perspective, this is a very important region, and a lot of scholarship is coming out of this region,” said Suma-thi Ramaswamy, director of the Center for South Asian Studies and the new South Asian Studies Certificate.

Students need to complete six cours-es to fulfill the proposed requirements for the certificate. The required courses currently include an introduction to South Asian studies, a language class, a research methods course, a senior re-search capstone and two electives.

by Amanda YoungTHE CHRONICLE

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said he has had a dream of building a Muslim community center, an equivalent of a YMCA, for the past 20 years.

But as benign as this sounds, his pro-posal has caused a political and religious controversy among many Americans. Rauf said political, cultural and religious dis-crepancies between Islam and America are some of the reasons for the debate over the project, called Park51.

“We Muslims have been imprisoned by many myths of much of the Muslim world that need to be removed,” he said. “There is a need for us to engage in renewing the fundamentals of our faith, which are in sync with American values.”

Rauf said the center, which would house a recreation facility, athletics buildings, an auditorium and prayer spaces for people of all religions, would be built near the site where the World Trade Center once stood. This proposal had sparked strong responses from world leaders, leading him to embark on a speaking tour earlier this year that brought him in front of several hundred members of the Duke community Thursday at Duke Chapel.

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it was unclear what impact the de-posed president’s return would have on Sunday’s vote, seen as a critical step to-ward jump-starting the country’s rebuild-ing process after the January 2010 earth-quake that killed 200,000 people. But u.S. officials have been so worried about aris-tide’s disruptive potential that president obama expressed his concerns this week to South african president Jacob zuma, according to the white house.

aristide boarded a plane in Johannes-burg with his wife, mildred, the associ-ated press reported, and the american actor and political activist danny glover.

waShingTon - after a contentious de-bate and over procedural objections from democrats, the house voted Thursday to prevent federal funds from going to na-tional public radio, the latest move by the republican majority to target the broad-caster.

The proposal, sponsored by rep. doug lamborn, r-colo., passed the house 228 to192, with one republican, freshman rep. Justin amash, mich., voting present. all republicans except for amash and seven who voted no supported the measure. all democrats present voted against it.

The decision on the bill, which is un-likely to be taken up by the democratic-controlled Senate, largely amounts to a messaging vote for house republicans ahead of a week-long recess. The white house issued a statement Thursday “strongly opposing” the bill but stopping short of a veto threat.

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Fishermen lay out the sharks they caught on a beach. Around 150 shark fishermen fish for sharks off of Playa Bagdad, Mexico. Most of their fishing is done illegally in U.s. waters, as the best fishing is north of the border. U.s. Coast Guards chase them southwards, but beause the laws are tailored to drug traffickers and human smugglers, shark fishermen get off with little punishment.

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Student reps meet Russian officials on trip

by Sanette TanakaTHE CHRONICLE

University politics were not limited to campus last week.

Duke Student government President Mike Lefevre, a senior, joined 14 university student body presidents from March 8 to 15 on a trip to Russia designed to intro-duce student leaders to the rapidly de-veloping country. The seminar intro-duced campus leaders to prominent business and education leaders as well as government officials—including a Duke graduate, Arkady Dvorkovich, the Russian president’s top economic advisor and graduate ’98.

Mikhail Mamonov, head of the international rela-tions department of the Federal Agency on Youth Af-fairs of the Russian Federation, invited the students through the Open World Leadership Center, a congres-sional agency located at the Library of Congress. The Russian government paid for all but the incidental ex-penses of the student leaders.

“Because they met with the leadership in Russia in an informal setting, [the students] got to understand the questions that advisors and presidents have to con-sider on a regular basis,” said Open World Executive Director John O’Keefe.

Lefevre was nominated for the trip by Rep. David Price, D-N.C., after the center—which seeks to foster relations between the United States and the countries of Eurasia and the Baltic States—asked members of

Admins detail housing reshufflingCAMPUs COUNCIl

by Nicole KyleTHE CHRONICLE

Approximately 25 percent of sophomores will live on Central Campus once the house model is implemented, administrators said Thursday evening.

This policy—which will allow the creation of houses comprised of 50 percent sophomores and 50 percent ju-niors and seniors—was among the new developments de-tailed in a presentation about the house model at Campus Council. The overview was an updated version of a pre-sentation made to the Board of Trustees in February and detailed a preliminary version of how houses will be de-termined as well as details regarding the first year of the transition to the model.

Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate educa-

tion, confirmed that residential living groups will not re-main in their current spaces and will be given new loca-tions under the house model. She emphasized “fit” as the most important factor in assigning space to groups.

“Year one of the house model is a start over for every-body,” she said. “SLgs will not ‘squat’ and instead be put into spaces depending where they fit.”

Lisker noted that Residence Life and Housing Services will keep in mind the need to balance the number of affili-ated and unaffiliated houses within a single quadrangle.

Residence group Assessment Committee scores will not be used to determine groups new spaces, said Joe gonzalez, associate dean for residence life. He added that

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Campus Council members heard a presentation at their meeting Thursday detailing updated policies that will be implemented under the house model.

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UN approves military intervention in Libya

Japan nuclear crisis could unfold for weeks

By Rick Maese and Rob SteinTHE WASHINgTON POST

TOKYO—Japanese officials took a series of early steps Friday to bring the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant under control, but a week into the crisis, it was becoming apparent that they were confronting a problem that would not be resolved quickly.

A top U.S. nuclear official warned that the emergency could continue for weeks, while President Barack Obama tried to reassure the American public about the safety of nuclear power plants in the United States.

The moves reflected widening worries in Japan and the United States about the failure so far to contain radiation leaks from nuclear power plants damaged in last Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and the devastating tsunami that followed.

Tokyo Electric Power, which owns the facility, said a risky mission using heli-copters and water cannons Thursday to dump tons of water on the most troubled reactor had succeeded in reducing radia-tion levels.

But graham Andrew of the Interna-tional Atomic Energy Agency cautioned at a news conference: “It is still possible that it could get worse.”

Japanese officials said they were plan-ning to send additional helicopters and fire trucks back to the plant Friday and would continue trying to deliver water to storage pools. Without water, spent fuel rods stored in the pools would start to decay and release radioactive matter into the air.

There were also hopes that Japan’s success in reconnecting electric power to another reactor would allow engineers to restart pumps that play an essential role in delivering coolant.

Over the next few weeks, radiation will continue to spew from the stricken plant at levels high enough to make it difficult for people to work there.

What’s more, the facility itself has been ravaged by earthquakes, flooding and explosions that have torn much of the infrastructure—power lines, pumps and pipes—to shreds and scattered de-bris, making access even for robots chal-lenging.

As Japan continued its grim recovery effort, the official death toll from the earthquake and tsunami reached 5,692 people by Friday morning, with more than 9,5oo others listed as officially missing.

Nearly half a million are being housed in temporary shelters, and widespread power outages have left broad swaths of the country without adequate heat.

In Washington, Obama made an unan-nounced visit Thursday to the Japanese Embassy and signed a condolence book. Later, speaking from the Rose garden, he said the U.S. was “working aggressive-ly to support our Japanese ally.”

But on Friday morning, the Yomiuri Shimbun, a leading Japanese newspaper, reported that Japan’s government had turned down an early U.S. offer of help in cooling fuel rods at the damaged nu-clear reactors. The paper reported that the government and Tokyo Electric Pow-er believed that they would be capable of restoring the cooling system.

As the crisis worsened, the United States took measures to protect Ameri-cans in Japan, sending buses to pick up several hundred U.S. citizens who had been stranded north of Sendai, in the heart of the quake zone.

The Pentagon said Thursday that it had sent a nine-member team of radio-logical specialists to Japan from the Col-orado-based U.S. Northern Command to advise the Japanese military on respond-ing to nuclear hazards.

The U.S. government has instituted stricter guidelines for its citizens in Ja-pan, urging people to stay at least 50 miles away from the plant—four times the distance suggested by Japanese offi-cials. On Thursday, several other nations joined the United States in adopting the 50-mile recommended radius, including Canada, Britain and South Korea.

The diverging guidance fueled anxi-ety among some Japanese that they were not receiving reliable information about the emergency.

Speaking at the White House, a top energy official acknowledged that the situation is confusing. “The facts on the ground are genuinely complex,” Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman said.

greg Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said the crisis at the Japanese facility “will likely take some time to work through, possibly weeks.”

On Thursday, the Japanese govern-ment raced to treat the damaged Fuku-shima Dai-ichi plant by land and air, try-ing to cool two reactor units in particular

By Karen DeYoung and Colum Lynch

THE WASHINgTON POST

The United Nations on Thursday au-thorized the use of “all necessary mea-sures” to protect civilians in Libya, opening the door to air and naval attacks against the forces of leader Moammar gadhafi as he vowed to level the city of Benghazi, the last major rebel stronghold.

In a 10-0 vote, with five abstentions, the Security Council called for an immediate cease-fire in Libya and approved establish-ment of a no-fly zone over Libyan territory and the interdiction of ships carrying sup-plies to gadhafi’s government. In broad lan-guage, the council approved the use of any means short of “foreign occupation” to end attacks against “civilian populated areas un-der threat of attack... including Benghazi.”

The vote marked a dramatic turn in the world’s response to the Libyan crisis after weeks of debate and reluctance by many to intervene, and comes as rebel forces were said to be on the brink of defeat.

Celebrations erupted across Beng-hazi as word of the vote reached the reb-els. Clerics chanted “god is great” over mosque loudspeakers and the streets were filled with celebratory gunfire and people waving the pre-gadhafi Libyan flag adopted by the rebels.

France said it was prepared to launch attacks within hours, and Britain also indicated it was prepared to act quickly. Initial strikes are likely to target air de-fense systems and runways; it was unclear

whether plans were also in motion to strike at tank columns and other govern-ment ground forces headed east.

U.S. officials said it would probably take several days for a full operation to be un-dertaken and that President Barack Obama has not yet approved the use of U.S. military assets. Obama has preferred to let other nations publicly lead the response to the Libyan crisis, and White House officials said he would not appear on camera Thursday night to speak about the U.N. vote.

In a measured response to the vote that contrasted with threats earlier in the day by gadhafi to “show no mercy” to the rebels, Libya’s deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaim told reporters that Libya welcomed clauses in the resolution call-ing for protection of civilians.

But he cautioned the international community against arming the opposi-tion, saying it would be tantamount to “inviting Libyans to kill each other.” The intention of the Libyan armed forces, he said, was “to protect civilians and guaran-tee food and medical supplies.”

Adoption of the resolution was seen as the last major hurdle to implement plans drawn up by NATO in recent weeks that include unspecified U.S. participa-tion by warships stationed off the Liby-an coast or U.S. aircraft. Several senior members of Congress demanded the ad-ministration consult with them before authorizing any U.S. deployment, and Pentagon officials held a classified brief-ing on Capitol Hill late in the day.

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any further than the Duke Endowment’s most recent gift to see Williams’s loy-alty to the school. The endowment’s $80 million pledge announced March 7 will renovate Baldwin Auditorium, the West Union Building and Page Auditorium. Williams, who said perhaps Duke’s stron-gest quality is the University’s rich tradi-tion of setting the stage for students to build relationships with each other and faculty, hopes the funds will continue the University’s rich tradition.

“I hope the Duke Endowment grant will help encourage something that already happens but can get better—encourage

the interchange of ideas and thoughts between students,” Williams said. “Some of the best education we can get comes from relationships with peers.”

During his own undergraduate years, Wil-liams, who considers his roommates some of his most meaningful friends from college, was a student government officer and sang in the Duke Chapel Choir. He said one of his “cheeriest” memories as a Duke student was realizing the vastness of the University’s libraries when conducting independent re-search as a senior history major.

“From a personal standpoint, I have a long and close relationship with Duke. It has been quite literally the most important source of education in my life,” Williams said. “Having an opportunity to continue

to work with the University in a different way is something that I value very deeply.”

As chairman of the endowment, he said his biggest goal is to fulfill James B. Duke’s dream for the foundation when it was established in 1924 with a $40 mil-lion gift. Now more than eight decades since its creation, the Duke Endowment has given $1.2 billion to the University—making it the school’s largest benefactor.

“It is the translation of [Duke’s] dream into the realities of today that is the con-tinuing obligation of the endowment trust-ees,” Williams said.

Provost Peter Lange said Williams’ commitment to the original mission of the Duke Endowment makes him a “wonderful” leader, adding that he un-

derstands the important relationship between the two institutions. Lange also noted that Williams played a significant role in the establishment of DukeEngage as well as assisting former Duke Endow-ment Chairman Russell Robinson with the creation of the Financial Aid Initia-tive, which raised more than $300 mil-lion in an effort to make attending Duke more affordable.

President Richard Brodhead said Wil-liams’ role as the Duke Endowment’s chair-man is one of the “millions of roles” that he has played with the University.

“Neil Williams is a wise and generous-hearted man who has been a great friend to the University throughout the years,” Brodhead said.

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RLHS will look at groups’ historic ability to recruit members to their group, as filling the beds allocated to them is necessary if they are to have residential privileges.

gonzalez added that RLHS will begin conversations with the Interfraternity Coun-cil and Selective House Council in April.

RLHS will not reveal selective living groups’ new locations until after their respective recruitment processes so that groups cannot use location to recruit new members next Spring. The rationale of RLHS is that sophomores for the 2012-2013 academic year will choose a house based on the group’s identity and personality—not location, Lisker said.

“Everyone will be homeless at RoomPix next year,” she said. “In some ways, I think that’s the most radical thing we’re doing.”

Seniors wishing to remain on campus for the 2012-2013 academic year will be placed

into a house randomly if they are not al-ready residentially affiliated, she added.

Limiting the emphasis on location is a principle the administration and Cam-pus Council members wants to continue throughout the model, said Campus Coun-cil President Stephen Temple, a senior.

“We want to make location as minimally important as possible,” he said. “We want students to join a house based on camara-derie, friendship or potentially a theme or focus of the group.”

The “deeper” details of the house selec-tion process for unaffiliated students is yet to be determined, gonzalez said. He added that rising sophomores will most likely be able to list their house preferences and will still be able to block, though blocks will be between four and six students. Sopho-mores will likely not be required to room with other sophomores.

Once houses are established, Lisker said the goal is for the actual RoomPix process to be autonomous, with houses deciding how

to distribute individual rooms independent of RLHS.

The house model will feature 49 houses on West and up to 23 on Central. Fresh-men will still be placed into residence halls on East Campus. As sophomores, students will be placed into a house—unaffiliated or not, Lisker said. Once students are placed into a house, they have the “right of re-turn,” for the following two years. gonzalez noted, however, that RLHS will put some sort of “transfer process” into place for stu-dents who wish to switch houses, if their circumstances warrant it.

Lisker also said juniors returning from abroad might be accommodated differently, perhaps moving into junior-only housing—“Junior Village”—on Central Campus.

Houses on West will be oriented verti-cally “for the most part,” she said, noting that the recently renovated residence halls like Kilgo, Few and Keohane quadrangles are “proving more difficult” because they foster a horizontal orientation.

Houses will have an average size of 40 and 60 beds and each house will have com-mon rooms, Lisker said, adding that the multi-class structure of the houses is also very important to promoting the model’s goals of community and equity.

Residential living groups will also be ad-vised to encourage a “significant” number of seniors to stay on campus. He acknowl-edged that this request is particularly chal-lenging when it comes to greek residential organizations but added that RLHS will be discussing it with IFC.

“Compared to our current norm, this will be a challenge for our greek organiza-tions,” he said.

in other business:Old Duke will take place April 15 in Keohane Amphitheater. The event is free and Sugar Ray is the featured art-ist. Campus Council will distribute free T-shirts, said Programming Chair Betsy Klein, a junior.

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Congress to nominate future leaders in their districts.Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate educa-

tion, said Lefevre’s ability to manage unexpected issues while fulfilling long-term campaign promises made him an asset to the program.

“[Lefevre] has faced this year as much change and chal-lenge as any student leader we’ve seen, and I think he re-acted well to that,” Lisker said. “I think it’s great he had the opportunity to talk with other student body presidents and to broaden his idea of leadership in Russia.”

Lefevre was part of the second such exchange of U.S. students since the collapse of the Soviet Union, said Maura Shelden, public affairs officer at Open World. The first ex-change took place last November.

During last week’s seminar, students arrived in Moscow but also traveled to places such as Khanty-Mansiysk in Si-beria and Yaroslavl in order to give them a more compre-hensive understanding of the country, O’Keefe said. The student body presidents also met with notable figures, in-cluding Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, First Vice Premier Igor Shuvalov and Mikhail Prokhorov, a billionaire entre-preneur and owner of the New Jersey Nets.

“To be honest, I expected a dog and pony show, where they would show me a bunch of model Russian towns and say this is the new Russia,” he said. “I got something much deeper and got to see the actual problems that still face the country.”

He added that the Russian government hoped the stu-dent leaders would be able to bring back their new under-standing of Russia to campus.

“They were hoping we could build relations with our

university and... spread the gospel about Russia through word of mouth,” Lefevre said.

Students are particularly relevant to Russia’s changing landscape, O’Keefe said. He noted that the Russian lead-ers appreciated the fresh perspective the university presi-

dents brought.“As one of the student body presidents pointed out,

[the students] don’t carry the baggage of the Cold War,” he said. “This is a generation that doesn’t see [Russia in] the same way as their parents.”

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student body presidents from across the country convened in Russia March 8 to 15 to gain a greater understanding of the developing country.

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that have raised alarm about the prospect of a larger, imminent catastrophe.

In an emergency mission Thursday, two Japanese military helicopters dropped more than 30 tons of water on the plant. Then, soldiers used 11 high-pressure fire trucks, designed for putting out fires at plane crashes, to douse a damaged reactor building from a distance. The soldiers acted after Japanese police failed in their efforts to spray the building with water cannons nor-mally used for riot control.

Members of the Self-Defense Force, as the military is known, moved their trucks into position and began to spray water Thursday evening, taking aim at the same unit three reactor that was targeted by helicopters ear-lier in the day. They sprayed water for more than half an hour before leaving the plant.

A spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power said radia-tion levels showed a very small decrease after the heli-copter missions. Noting the minuscule drop, the World Nuclear Association said the water drops by helicopter "did not appear accurate enough to be effective,” add-ing that “the effect at present seems marginal at best.” The London-based organization, which promotes nu-clear energy, said one attempt was made to douse the unit four reactor building but that the pilots withdrew “after encountering high levels of radiation.”

Japan has made unit three a priority because gov-ernment officials say the storage pool contains less wa-ter than that of unit four. American officials, however, have said they believe unit four’s pool could be empty of water, and the International Atomic Energy Agency later said unit four remains a major safety concern.

An official with Japan’s nuclear safety agency also moved closer to the U.S. position on unit four. “Con-sidering the amount of radiation released in the area, the fuel rods are more likely to be exposed than to be covered,” the official, Yuichi Sato, said, according to the Associated Press.

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absaid sophomore Dawn Zhao, the sorority’s vice president of service. “We all thought it would be nice to have a really simple event that people could go to and take part in an emotional experience and pray for those affected by the tragedy in Japan.”

The event will mark the kickoff of AKD-Phi’s project dedicated to economic relief for Japan titled “Wish For Japan,” Zhao said. Based on the Japanese legend that folding 1,000 paper cranes will cause a wish to come true, the event will aim to collect 1,000 cranes from the Duke community by next Friday. AKDPhi is also reaching out to local businesses to donate funds to Direct Relief International, which sends medical equipment to respond to global crises.

Other groups, like the Asian Student As-sociation and Kappa Phi Lambda sorority, are also raising funds to contribute to Ja-pan’s economic damage, which is now esti-mated to be as much as $150 billion. Kappa Phi Lambda has taken action since Sunday by asking students to donate money to In-ternational Medical Corps in exchange for paper cranes.

Sophomore Derek Mong, a member of ASA, said the group will participate in the vigil and plans to organize a fundraiser for next week.

“ASA tries to be inclusive. There is not an existing Japanese student group on campus, but we do know a lot of people who have friends and relatives in Japan and there were Duke students in Japan who were there when the disaster happened,” Mong said.

Namika Sagara, a Duke post-doctoral as-sociate in marketing and psychology who studies how people respond to disasters, noted that the economic damages should not overshadow the disaster’s environmen-tal impact. With temperatures recently dropping down to well below freezing, vic-tims of the disaster are having a hard time

gaining access to water and electricity, she said. Overall, Sagara said she is impressed with the efforts by the undergraduate com-munity to support Japan despite the small undergraduate population of direct Japa-nese descendents.

“It is a very different part of the world, yet people are getting together to help and I think it is great to hear that people out-side of Japan really care and are willing to help,” Sagara said.

Organizations like Environmental Al-liance are working to educate the Duke community on the ramifications of the earthquake. Japanese officials estimated yesterday that 15,000 people are dead or missing, and more than 350,000 people are displaced in the country. Junior Mi-kael Owunna, an Environmental Alliance member, said the group will be gearing its annual event “DISPLACED,” scheduled for April 1, toward discussing ways that students can help refugees in Japan as well as the millions of environmental refugees worldwide.

“The event is about bringing awareness of environmental refugees around the en-tire world,” Owunna said. “People do not see that it is a growing trend and it is some-thing that with global warming is going to be a problem and we are interested in bringing awareness to this on campus.”

Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said she is not surprised by the expansive student effort because she has always seen Dukies effectively respond to global problems in her time on campus. She said that despite all the current causes that warrant relief ef-forts, Duke students are capable of picking the causes that mean something to them and working to make a difference.

“We all get touched in different ways by different causes and different tragedies and we respond to what touches us the most,” she said. “There is a lot going on and there are a lot of people here at Duke who are willing to help, and I am very proud of the community for doing that.”

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Funding for the program has been se-cured for faculty and course development, Ramaswamy said. Some of the program-ming money will be directed toward build-ing ties with Trinity College and Duke’s eight other schools, she added.

Additionally, the council approved a new policy that limits undergraduates to taking a maximum of six credits in graduate and professional schools. Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs of Trinity College, said he supports student interest in graduate and professional courses, as it expands the scope of their education and knowledge of campus culture. At the same time, students should still be taking the majority of their courses at the undergraduate level.

The council also presented the results of the Budget Solutions Poll, which re-flected consistent support for cost-saving measures in entertainment. The proposed cuts will limit the money spent on faculty recruitment dinners and business lunches, encourage more selective choices of col-loquia and reduce excessive phone line spending.

In terms of increasing revenue, the sur-vey showed that faculty members strongly opposed the introduction of online cours-es as a revenue-raising measure, however, especially if they are offered as a full re-placement to courses on campus.

“Duke is an exclusive, high quality, pri-vate institution and we have no intention to try to compete with web-based courses,” said Alvin Crumbliss, interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences. “We use tech-

nology in courses when it is a value-added component, not when it’s a replacement to student interaction with faculty.”

Professors also supported increasing the number and strength of master’s, joint degree and “four-plus-one” programs to raise rev-enue. Crumbliss said that increased faculty in master’s programs should not involve relocat-ing professors from undergraduate classes.

The survey also indicated that faculty support summer session and international programming initiatives as ways to produce revenue.

“The more [global education] pro-grams we have, the more opportunities we have for undergraduate students and the

more chance we have to increase revenue stream, but we need to keep in mind that revenue stream needs to be supported by significant infrastructure,” Crumbliss said.

The council also discussed global educa-tion in terms of the new Duke Center for Civic Engagement. Although several students are currently involved with service, community engagement should be more thoroughly inte-grated into the curriculum, said Leela Prasad, faculty director for the DCCE and associate professor of ethics and Indian religions.

“[The center] seeks to create, sustain and exemplify an ethos of civic engage-ment at Duke by connecting University education to public service,” she said.

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Members of the Arts and sciences Council approved a new south Asian studies certificate program, which will require six courses, with a unanimous vote at their meeting Thursday.

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by Tom GierynTHE CHRONICLE

Duke’s roster this season boasts five freshmen out of its eleven members, but if that sounds like a lot, just wait until UT-Martin comes to town.

Head coach Kevin McMillan leads a squad featuring a remarkable 10 freshmen

into Cameron In-door Stadium Sat-urday at 1:30 p.m., as his 15th-seeded Skyhawks (21-10) take on the second-seeded Blue Devils (29-3) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

UT-Martin clinched its first-ever NCAA Tournament bid by upsetting Tennessee Tech in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship

by Laura KeeleyTHE CHRONICLE

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After months of endless specu-lation, freshman Kyrie Irving will finally return to the court today against Hampton.

The point guard, who has been out since Dec. 4 with a toe injury, made his decision Wednesday night after talk-ing with his father and the coaching staff.

“I feel like I’m around 95 [percent],” Irving said to a me-dia horde in Duke’s locker room. “The other five percent will come when I actually play out there. Just raising my game to the occasion, the other five percent will come.”

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski has been conservative with Irving’s injury all season. That continued yesterday, when the coach said Irving will play “limited minutes and come off the bench,” without specifying anything else.

Irving will, though, defend on the ball when the Blue Devils are on defense. In a practice open to the media this afternoon, Irving participated fully, cutting and driving to the basket and guarding Nolan Smith in a few 5-on-5 drills.

Krzyzewski doesn’t anticipate any problems reintegrat-ing Irving into the team.

“I can only think of advantages,” the coach said. “We never thought that this could happen, and the fact that it is happen-ing, we need to take the advantage of it and go from there. He’s a really smart player. The game comes easier to great play-ers than other players, and this kid will be a great player.”

Irving, for his part, echoed Krzyzewski’s thoughts.“I’m a pretty good basketball player, and I’m not a self-

ish one at that either,” he said. “I like to get my teammates involved and share the wealth. I don’t think it will be hard

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Duke’s NCAA Tournament begins today at 3:10 p.m. in Charlotte, N.C. And despite the distracting news about a certain toe, the top-seeded Blue Devils will try to focus on their crafty opponent, Hampton.

Duke (30-4), the top seed in the West region, has nev-er played the pirates (24-8), who received an automatic bid by winning the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) championship. Darrion pellum and Kwame Morgan II, two guards that average 17.7 and 16.5 points, respectively, provide the bulk of Hampton’s offense.

“pellum is a kid who can be a really good player in our league,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “And those two youngsters [pellum and Morgan] really account for 60 per-cent of their offense.”

Sophomore Andre Dawkins said the game plan will fo-cus on shutting down those two guards.

“For us to be successful, we have to be able to take them out of their game and make them do things they don’t want to do,” Dawkins said. “It’s the same with every team, you try to take their best players out.”

Hampton already has a spot in NCAA history for pull-ing off a huge upset. In 2001, the 15-seed pirates knocked off second seeded Iowa State 58-57. Hampton is one of only four 15-seeds to ever win against a No. 2 seed, and was the most recent to do so.

Hampton coach Edward Joyner, Jr. said he will show his team a tape of that game before they take the court against the Blue Devils. Joyner, a Winston-Salem, N.C. native, started

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by Jacob LevittTHE CHRONICLE

CHApEL HILL, N.C. — A young Blue Devil squad could have been intimidated coming into a hostile environment to face its bitter rivals.

Instead, eight players—including four who had never before played in Chapel

Hill—scored Thurs-day night and Duke jumped out to an 8-3 halftime lead en route to a 14-9

victory, never allowing the No. 6 Tar Heels (5-2, 0-1 in the ACC) to cut the lead under three. In a game that attacker Jordan Wolf called the most intense of his young career, the freshman scored four goals to pace No. 8 Duke’s deceptively balanced effort.

“In a game like this there’s a lot of peo-ple to be recognized for small plays,” head coach John Danowski said. “There are so many

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Though shy of Butler’s scoring mark at 17.8 points per game, Newsome also pulls down 4.4 rebounds per game and dishes out 4.1 assists.

With two obvious scoring threats in Newsome and Butler, McCallie emphasized the need to defend go-to scorers.

“We let [North Carolina forward Jessica] Breland get away with 28 points in [the ACC] championship game, and I don’t like that,” McCallie said. “We need to do a better job in our overall team defense of recognizing a hot hand and shutting it down. And of course both [Butler and Newsome] qualify for that.”

Six-foot-tall Jaclissa Haislip is listed as a guard on the team’s roster, but she rebounds like a forward, chipping in 8.2 boards per game in addition to being the team’s third-leading scorer at 9.2 points per game.

But when an opponent’s leading rebounder is six feet tall, there are likely to be opportunities for Duke’s two 6-foot-5 cen-ters Krystal Thomas and Allison Vernerey.

If the Blue Devils can capitalize on their size advantage in the paint and contest UT-Martin’s barrage of 3-pointers, the up-and-coming Skyhawks will be hard-pressed to pull off an upset. The Blue Devils can’t just count on their Tournament familiarity to win the game for them, though, since 3-pointers from freshmen count the same as those made by seniors. It’ll up to the Blue Devils to prove that experience does matter.

by Maureen DolanTHE CHRONICLE

It’s that time of year again: flowers are blooming —and Duke is winning.

The Blue Devils are certainly ben-efiting from the favorable climate, winning their first

five outdoor meetings including Thurs-day’s sweep of No. 17 Notre Dame, 7-0.

“I was happy with the way we com-peted today against a very scrappy Notre Dame team,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We’ve had three tough matches in a row and it’s great to come out victori-ous in all three.”

Duke played its last home meet Mar. 2 against Wake Forest and defeated N.C. State, Arizona State and No. 7 California on the road before taking on the Fighting Irish (8-7). After this victory over Notre Dame, the No. 4 Blue Devils (13-2) will not face another non-conference opponent for the remainder of the regular season.

“We talked about being at our best men-tally, physically, emotionally,” Ashworth said. “We’ve played a lot in a short period

and we’ve learned that we need to be resil-ient and take advantage of opportunities.”

part of Duke’s success is due to its consis-tency in winning the doubles point, a huge advantage going into singles play. Thursday’s victory was made even sweeter when the team won its fifth consecutive doubles point.

Mary Clayton and Monica gorny downed Notre Dame’s Nancy Joyce and Jo-Hanna Manningham 8-2, while Ellah Nze and Rachel Kahan defeated Chrissie Mc-gaffigan and Kristen Rafael 8-1 from the No. 1 spot to clinch the point.

Securing the early lead, the Blue Dev-ils allowed no chance for the Fighting Irish to rally back. The team swept all six singles matches for the first time since Feb. 4 against Indiana.

“You look at where we are now from a month ago, we’re competing better, taking care of what we need to, and that’s allowing us to win,” Ashworth said.

Sophomore Mary Clayton was first off the court in singles play with a straight set victory over Joyce, 6-0, 6-0. It was a big day for Clayton—her doubles win with Monica gorny was also their fifth straight win.

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lineups for singles,” Ashworth said. “It was great that our one and two won. But the bottom of our lineup has been un-believably solid all year. It’s tough to win matches against us because of that.”

The team has a week-long break before diving into ACC play Mar. 25 against Bos-ton College followed by Maryland Mar. 27. The Duke squad will make it back to Am-bler Stadium April 2 after a month on the road to take on Virginia Tech.

Ashworth thinks the Blue Devils can maintain their consistency winning the dou-bles point and continue to succeed through-out the lineup in singles competition.

“Our conference is the toughest in the country and every match we play is go-ing to be a battle,” Ashworth said. “But Duke traditionally is good in conference matches. We have to honor that tradition by competing hard and doing what makes our program what it is.”

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senior tom montelli (left) and a physical Duke defense manhandled the tar Heels, forcing billy bitter (right) and his teammates to take difficult shots.

game March 5. The postseason berth is just another step in the school’s ascent in the women’s basketball world: The school has risen from the NAIA to Division I, joining the OVC in 1992. Its coach is also new to the college scene, as he is just two years removed from winning a Tennessee state title as a high school coach.

McMillan’s early recruiting efforts have been prolific to say the least. Of the 15 players listed on the Skyhawks’ roster, there are just two upperclassmen: senior guard Alecia Weatherly and junior guard Taylor Hall. Weatherly and Hall are two of seven players to have scored over 100 points for UT-Martin; the other five are freshmen.

Once he had his parade of recruits in the door, McMillan didn’t go easy on them. He opened the season with a brutal month-long, 10-game road trip that saw the Skyhawks accumu-late five of their ten losses on the season while visiting teams like Colorado, Missouri and Vanderbilt. The team didn’t play a home game until Dec. 19, at which point Duke had already played in Cameron five times.

For the Skyhawks, two more losses would come before the New Year, again on the road, to Louisville and then-No. 11 Kentucky. Once the calendar turned over to 2011, though, UT-Martin won 14 of 17, with one of those losses being a three-point overtime defeat at Eastern Illinois. The Skyhawks haven’t lost by double digits in more than two months, and their early-season exploits against teams from power conferences ensure that despite their youth, they won’t be fazed by the prospect of facing Duke.

UT-Martin’s scoring efforts are, not surprisingly, led by two freshmen who both average over 17 points per game. guard Heather Butler, who played for McMillan for two years in high school, is the nation’s top-scoring freshman at 19.1 points per contest.

Her willingness to shoot from the outside is noteworthy. She attempted a remarkable 229 3-pointers on the season; by com-parison, Jasmine Thomas led Duke with 142 attempts from long range. Butler made 83 of her attempts, but she wasn’t the only one shooting treys, as UT-Martin finished second in the nation in made threes per game, with 8.9. Though the Blue Devils as a team took about 100 more shots than the Skyhawks overall, But-ler and her teammates shot nearly 300 more 3-pointers.

Head coach Joanne p. McCallie mentioned some of the things that her team has been working on in order to defend UT-Mar-tin’s perimeter attack.

“Obviously getting over screens and being aggressive on the contest,” she said. “And then the interesting thing is the long rebounds that pop off. We’re really trying to take advantage of a long rebound to get down the floor and score.”

Jasmine Newsome is McMillan’s other star freshman.

guys who contribute to when you win. Every-body will look at Jordan and see he scored four goals, but it’s always more than that.”

The Blue Devils’ hustle was evident in their 36-23 advantage in ground balls col-lected. The number was especially impressive given Duke’s struggles at the faceoff circle, where the Tar Heels won 18-of-27 faceoffs, in-cluding 12-of-14 in the second half. The abil-ity to corral loose balls demonstrated that, especially early in the game, Duke (5-2, 2-0) simply seemed to want the win more.

“Our team is a big ground-ball team. We only had three days to prepare for this game, but in those three days of preparation the focus was ground balls,” senior defense-man Tom Montelli said. “We know if we win the ground-ball battle for 60 minutes, we’ll be in a good position to win the game.”

The defense’s pressure and physicality prevented North Carolina’s offense from get-ting into a rhythm and protected sophomore goalie Dan Wigrizer—who was outstand-ing in his own right—from having to face too many shots on goal. Although the Tar Heels notched 40 shots, many of those were blocked or altered by Blue Devil defenders and only 20 ended up on target. In a stark contrast, Duke’s offense operated under con-trol and methodically worked the ball into open space for good shots on goal. North Carolina goalie Chris Madalon never really had a chance against many of the Blue Dev-ils’ shots, which came from just outside the crease. As a result, he had a save percentage of only .364 on 22 shots on goal. Only nine of the Duke’s shot attempts were off target.

Danowski was particularly pleased with the extra-man offense, which converted 3-of-6 opportunities but had been a con-cern going into the game.

“We’re getting a little bit better [on ex-tra-man offense],” Danowski said. “We’re gaining confidence. We’ve got two fresh-men on extra man; we have a sophomore, so that’s three [young players].... It’s about chemistry and understanding roles and what people are good at. We’ve worked hard on that the past week.”

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off his press conference by talking about how the pirates are “happy to be here” and added he is “not ashamed to [say] I’m relishing in the moment.”

“This is a dream come true,” he said. “I told the team to enjoy it.”

Joyner had nothing but praise for the Blue Devils.

“Duke [has] no weaknesses when it comes to the kids and the talent of kids that we have,” Joyner said before it was announced that Kyrie Irving will play. “We are going to have to be who we are.... There’s nothing we can change now.”

to integrate me with the team.”News of Irving’s return spread quickly.

North Carolina head coach Roy Williams, whose Tar Heels are also playing in Char-lotte this weekend, was asked how Irving’s return could impact the Blue Devils.

“Kryie is one of those guys that I just think is phenomenal,” he said. “He’s the closest thing to Isiah Thomas from Indiana as a freshman that I’ve ever seen.”

Irving did say that it’s unfair to expect him to be at the same level he was in Decem-ber. He said his conditioning “isn’t where it should be,” but he expects that to improve as Duke moves through the Tournament. He also said that his basketball IQ has increased by watching his teammates on a daily basis, and he expects that will help make up for any shortcomings in fitness.

Still, though, even if Irving is not on top of his game like he was when he scored 31 points against Michigan State Dec. 1, the freshman doesn’t expect a huge drop-off.

“I can basically do everything I did before I got hurt,” he said. “I’m feeling really good.”

Irving confirmed that his injury was a result of torn ligaments in his big toe. The ligaments had grown back to the point where he could begin running about a month ago. Duke’s ath-letic department released a video of him going through rehab on Feb. 28, sparking optimism among the Blue Devil faithful.

But even Irving had doubts he would return to the floor this season after his initial diagnosis. He and his family seri-ously considered having surgery, which

would have surely ended his season.“It was a close decision,” Irving said about

possibly having surgery. “The most important thing for me was getting healthy. If it came to me missing the whole season, then it was going to happen. We just didn’t want to have any hin-drance on my fu-ture or anything.”

Now, despite the long initial odds, he’s back—and his teammates couldn’t be more thrilled.

“He’s only going to help our team,”

sophomore Ryan Kelly said. “Nolan has been great for us, he’s a score-first point guard that has obviously done wonders for us. Kyrie is more of a pass-first point guard. Those two players, if you put them on the floor... not many teams can say they have that.”

Nolan Smith added that Irving’s return is a “huge boost” for the Blue Devils and will make the backcourt that much deep-er. And regardless of how he plays, Irving merely making an appearance on the court will affect Duke’s opponents.

“His presence means a lot.” Smith said. “The main thing is people know who Kyrie Irving is. You see him all over the Internet, all over everything. people are going to get a little afraid, he’s that good.”

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The devastation in Japan, a result of last week’s im-mense earthquake and tsu-nami, has sparked a humani-tarian crisis for the world’s third-largest economy.

The 9.0 m a g n i t u d e earthquake has left the island nation in chaos, with more than 13,000 people dead or missing, according to CNN. In addition to the quake, which shifted parts of the country’s coast eight feet, Japan is also facing the poten-tial meltdown of nuclear reac-tors that were damaged.

The disaster in Japan has already begun to influence the international communi-ty. Fears of nuclear radiation persist, causing stocks to fall. Several countries are provid-ing support to Japan in the

form of supplies, monetary aid and manpower. As Japan begins the long road to re-covery, we as a community must commit ourselves to supporting a nation that has

strong links to the University.

Safety con-cerns in the aftermath of the earthquake prompted Duke’s International Travel Oversight Committee to halt all travel to Japan Tuesday. Duke students currently in Japan are being moved out of the country.

While it is easier to see the effect the earthquake will have on students studying abroad, the impact on stu-dents in Durham should be noted. Counseling and Psy-chological Services as well as the International House have

extended support to students who are from Japan or have relatives there, and campus organizations are planning philanthropic projects to provide relief.

In an e-mail sent to the stu-dent body Tuesday evening, Vice President for Student Af-fairs Larry Moneta announced the creation of japanrelief.duke.edu—a clearinghouse page that will inform the student body about current events. This webpage will provide “information about relief organizations active in the region, campus resources for students in need, as well as fundraising and other relief-related events.” This website is a positive step toward student involvement in this crisis.

As the home of more than 120 million people, Japan is

a thriving industrial nation. Due to its location the coun-try frequently experiences earthquakes and has taken precautions to minimize dam-age. Economic stability, along with preparedness, has limited overall damage to the country. This diligent preparation sep-arates the earthquake in Japan from the recent quake in Haiti and the flooding in Pakistan, where a lack of preparation, poor government structure, and widespread poverty com-bined to create devastating conditions, the effects of which are still seen today.

These factors should not mitigate our commitment to aid—the situation in Japan is dire and must not be un-derstated. According to the public broadcaster NHK, at least 300,000 people are liv-

ing in shelters following the destruction of their homes. Death is a daily occurrence and thousands of people are still missing.

As a campus, we can find ways to help. In the coming weeks, several fundraisers for Japanese relief will take place, providing ample opportuni-ties for students to assist. Do-nations to the American Red Cross and other charitable organizations are encour-aged. Students are also in-vited to attend a candlelight vigil tonight at 8 p.m. on the steps of the Chapel.

Japan will be able to re-cover from this disaster, but external support will speed its regrowth. With full cam-pus involvement, Duke can help provide the aid Japan so desperately needs.

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Since 1992, online retailers such as Amazon have only been obligated, in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling in Quill Corporation v. North Dakota, to collect state tax for those states in which they maintain a “physical presence or nexus.” Because Amazon only maintains a physi-cal presence in a mere handful of states—New York, North Dakota, Kansas, Kentucky and Wash-ington—it is able to avoid collecting state tax on sales in the 45 others. But some of those states, Texas among them, are trying to change that by broadening the definition of “physical presence” to include warehouses owned by subsidiaries.

For states without such warehouses, the sec-ond-best route to this easy and unearned cash is through Amazon’s affiliates. Affiliate sites earn their money from Amazon by both advertising its retail products to their own visitors and redirect-ing them there. Because many of these affiliates have physical establishments across the nation, legislators in six states—California, Minnesota, Hawaii, New Mexico, Illinois and Vermont—are claiming that Amazon’s relationship to those com-panies renders it again responsible for the collec-tion of state tax.

Amazon, for its part, is disputing these claims, as well it should. These taxes represent large sums—in the case of Texas, $269 million—and al-though they would not draw directly on the com-pany’s profits, such taxes represent a hindrance to the model that gives Amazon its competitive edge. A product of the online age, Amazon is separated from its clunkier retail competitors by its ability to adapt itself entirely to an increasingly Internet-based market. Part of its competitive advantage is its ability to offer goods to consumers at prices lower than those of older and less efficient institu-tions. By abridging one of the factors that allows Amazon to do this, the states in question are prob-

ably less likely to stimulate economic growth than they are to inhibit it. To implicate an unwilling private institution in the poorly managed affairs

of the state, and to do so merely for the sake of budgetary breathing room, seems to me to be antitheti-cal to the ideals upon which this nation supposedly was built and stands.

In light of the proposed mea-sures, Amazon is considering clos-ing its subsidiary warehouses and ending partnerships with its affili-ates. In the end, not only will the enforcement of state tax collection

discourage innovative competition, it will cost those states that enact it numerous jobs, as well as local business revenue. For some reason, though, proponents of the system remain optimistic. “It’s a time-honored custom not to pay taxes. A lot of people try not to, but it’s up to the state to make sure that there’s tax fairness,” Susan Combs, the Texas comptroller, told The New York Times. And with regards to the collection of state tax by online retailers, Betty Yee of California’s Board of Equal-ization remarked in the same March 13 New York Times article that, “There seems to be a ground-swell of activity by other states that suggest that the time is right.” Never mind that none of the states in question have any tax jurisdiction over Amazon, and I cringe to think that one state’s folly is reason enough to make another’s policy.

In the end, the most disappointing aspect of all this is not the potential for lost jobs, the ignorant undermining of local revenue or the failure of the states in question to promote private enterprise. It is not even the awful rationalizations listed above, which are as flimsy and ineffective as this Band-aid fix itself would prove to be. In the end, the most disappointing aspect of all this is that these states have sought to remedy their situations through disincentives, rather than the opposite. Instead of instituting measures that drive companies like Am-azon away from agreements with local businesses, why not make it more glamorous for online retail-ers to open up shop in your given state, perhaps through tax breaks and other incentives?

Unfortunately, we probably won’t see such measures until state governments stop seeking proverbial bailouts to save their budgets from their suffering economies and start searching for the systemic problems at the root of it all. That is a day that I hope comes soon, but I won’t be hold-ing my breath.

Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs ev-ery Friday.

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At the men’s Duke—North Carolina State University basketball game Feb. 5, the Blue Devil mascot en-tered the stands with the game’s slogan taped to his

forehead. It read, “culture vs. agriculture.” Others brought the same words from a printout from The Chronicle. I wasn’t at the game, but senior Nina Rodriguez told our “Politics of Food” class about it the fol-lowing Monday with dismay.

Toward the end of the game, Nina said, some stu-dents started chanting “culture” while pointing to the Duke student section, followed by “agriculture” while pointing to the small N.C. State section. Did they insin-uate that agriculture means uncouth, dumb and red-neck (them), while culture means smart, sophisticated and cool (us)? It was a joke, right? Something meant to get under the skin of the opposing team. But there it was smack on the forehead. It’s worth looking that devil right between the eyes.

First, my own story of agriculture: Having come from a family of farmers, I began striving to become one myself in 1984. I attempted to borrow money from the government’s lending program to start an organic farm. By then I had completed a master’s in agricul-tural education, logged countless hours on my grand-parents’ farm and even worked on a government dem-onstration farm for two years, but the so-called “lender of last resort” turned me down. He claimed that my farm plan was unconventional for the area (within 20 miles of Chapel Hill) and that I didn’t have enough experience to qualify for a “beginning farmer loan.” It seemed the ailing agricultural establishment had set it-self against alternatives, nearly sealing off agricultural finance from those who were willing to innovate. The paradoxes were dumbfounding.

I decided to fight the decision, using every ounce of knowledge of finance, technology, management and commerce I could muster. I set to work on find-ing witnesses, experts and advocates who could speak in my defense, indeed in defense of farming that didn’t persecute people, animals, rivers and soil in order to put food on plates. Our task was to justify a whole new philosophy of farming. Somehow we prevailed in the appeal. I got the loan and succeeded in repairing a worn-out tobacco farm. We didn’t make a fortune, but we made a living and paid off the loan.

After nine years of farming, I decided to return to school to explore agriculture, labor and immigration, subjects I had known already through experience. Sev-eral years after completing my Ph.D., I secured a job with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke.

While living at Duke, I decided to start a garden near East Campus. The community garden project became part of my Spring food politics class. A sophisticated

group of students enrolled. Together we are studying how our society valued freedom while impoverishing, even enslaving, our agricultural workers; that our abun-

dant waves of grain are poisoning our waters; and that while we protect some dogs and cats like family, we torture and imprison the animals we eat.

Amid this painful awareness, we con-struct the garden to establish one small

symbol of agricultural health. Already seeds are sprout-ing. And it’s only one of burgeoning Duke food and farm initiatives striving to connect the broken links between farms and our tables. A major academic work-ing group has taken up the mantle here. It seems that the agriculture I once had to fight for is gaining main-stream favor.

Back to that satanic verse: I believe it stems from an old myth that divides urban from rural, agriculture from the sophisticated folk—the cultured from the uncultured. That fable taught that old McDonald was down on the farm and we believed the old seed, as un-sophisticated as he was, had our backs. The myth said, relax and pursue wealth and “culture” and food will be waiting wrapped in plastic and ready to eat when we need it. It omitted this: By living in a separate “culture,” we gave the unscrupulous freedom to exploit. While we slumbered, McDonald would go on to become one of the largest corporations in the world, selling fats, carbs and salts developed in food factories.

Then some of us began to peel back the label. We remembered that “culture” is actually part of the word “agriculture.” We relearned that urban needs a close relationship with rural and that rural needs consumer awareness and advocacy. And we realized we simply cannot trust chemical agriculture to make things right, or that technology alone would solve everything. We became engaged in our food system.

Many at Duke have begun to realize that students of the arts, humanities, social sciences, public policy stud-ies and other disciplines should never have divorced themselves from agricultural sustenance. “Wait a min-ute!” they said, “sitting down to a meal of local food or enjoying a menu perfected by a chef trained in the culture and origins of food and wine is one of the most sophisticated things we can do.” And, when it comes to the politics of food, there is no us vs. them. We all had better be in this together.

Charlie Thompson is curriculum and education director at the Center for Documentary Studies and lecturer in cultural anthropology. He heads the Triangle University Food Studies initiative and is an advisory board member of Student Action with Farmworkers and the Duke-UNC Farm. He is also the faculty member in residence at Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory.

letterstotheeditorThe Community Standard

The philosopher Alasdaire MacIntyre once said we have the concepts of the ancient morality—virtue, honor and goodness—but we no longer have a system to connect them. In many ways I think this might be true, but it is only so because there may no longer be this unspoken goal among humanity to uphold these values, but this does not have to be so. The new human-ism, I would like to think, will revel in a connectedness among all people through common goals forged in light of common values.

We at Duke stand in a position to realize, in a micro-cosm, what could be the reality for our world. The es-sence of the Duke Community Standard, to unite behind common values of peace and honor, is true and right. It speaks of respect and of a great sense of unity. Its very name attempts to encapsulate this. As Duke students, we choose whether or not to unite behind our community’s standard, but it belongs to us. We own the standard and we choose whether or not to live up to its tenets. No overhaul of the Honor Council, new housing model or imposition from the Allen Building will deliver us a com-munity united in mutual respect and care. The power to reform our community lies within ourselves. Only we can do this. It is our choice as Duke. The framework is in place; it is our responsibility to unite behind it. To real-ize this goal we must choose as a community to uphold some system of values. The Community Standard should stand above that system and shape it. As soon as all stu-dent groups have values that support rather than detract from our standard, we may very well realize our potential as one of the most warm and inclusive communities of young men and women who can stand together to help the world in the future, just as they did at Duke.

Very respectfully, Christopher Martin

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University’s response to drug distribution chargesServing on the panel of the Undergraduate Conduct

Board, I take great pride in being a member of the Duke undergraduate community and the Duke Community Standard in which, among other things, all undergradu-ates pledged that “I will conduct myself honorably in all my endeavours” [emphasis added].

That sense of pride, however, evaporated yesterday as I read that three juniors, Kyle Power, David Lai and Alejandro Pedroza, were arrested for the possession and intent to sell and deliver marijuana. The Chronicle’s March 15 article, “3 students arrested on drug charges,” detailed the shocking revelation of defendants Power and Pedroza’s back-to-back trips to jail: Merely two days after being arrested in the Bryan Center for marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges, the two were arrested, along with Lai, for felonious charges of the possession and intent to sell and deliver marijuana, and each was placed under a $125,000 bond. Before diving into their deeply disturbing behaviors, I would like to emphasize that all are presumed innocent until found otherwise.

These allegations deserve a serious and heightened response from the University. Per the guidelines of the Office of Student Conduct, students found guilty of drug manufacturing and distribution may be required to take a leave of absence. Since the University disciplinary system is different in nature from the criminal justice system, Duke is at liberty to pursue a concurrent proceeding. Regard-less of the University’s approach, the defendants, should they be found guilty by the court or held responsible by the University, need to be taught a serious lesson.

Imagine the trio decided to go abroad for Spring break and were subsequently caught possessing narcot-ics by foreign authorities, who tend to impose long sen-tences for narcotics possession as little as one gram. The University should leverage this teachable moment to hold the three defendants accountable for their actions by imposing appropriate sanctions, including expulsion, if necessary. Indeed, being permanently removed from the University is a small price to pay compared to the prospect of languishing in a foreign prison cell for sev-eral decades.

Jack WangMember of the Undergraduate Conduct Board

Trinity ’12

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the professor next door

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Rauf decided to give the speaking tour and promote his book, “What’s Right with Islam: A New Vision for Mus-lims and the West,” in order to educate people about his proposition.

“Many people told me that once they got to know me and understand my project, they supported me,” Rauf said, emphasizing that the media had unfairly painted his innocuous plans as actions of a Muslim extremist. “This tour is about getting to know one another.”

The Lower Manhattan Community Board voted 29 to one, with 10 abstentions, to approve the center, and on Aug. 3, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Com-mission unanimously voted that the building currently occupying 45-47 Park Place could be torn down in order to build Park51. Despite the lack of legal barriers, Rauf’s intentions continue to cause controversy because some people, such as former New York City firefighter Timothy Brown, believe that its proximity to ground zero would be

disrespectful to those who died in the 9/11 terrorist at-tacks. Brown argued in front of a trial court Tuesday that the city should prohibit construction.

“There is a small group of people in our country who are Islam-phobic and against anything we’ve tried to do,” Rauf said in an interview with The Chronicle. “They delib-erately misrepresent our intentions and are the reason why people are misinformed.”

Junior Erica Nagi, an Arabic major, agreed with Rauf that the opposition may be ignorant of Rauf’s intentions for the center. She attended the event after receiving an e-mail from the Duke Islamic Studies Center, adding that she believed events like these promote important discus-sions on national debates.

“I was very pleased that Rauf was really interested in the education of the Western world about Islam and more in-terestingly, the education of Muslims about the Western world and other Western culture,” Nagi said. “I liked how he tied Park51 with something like the YMCA because it shows that we’ve already built centers like Park51. A lot of Americans don’t realize this because Islam is not a tradi-tionally American thing.”

Rauf also spoke at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wednesday evening. He was met by 50 to 60 protesters from the Virginia-based Christian Action Net-work, a group strongly opposed to Rauf’s proposed center. The protesters dispersed after approximately 20 minutes and did not create much of a scene, according to The Dai-ly Tar Heel.

Although no protestors attended the lecture at Duke, Associate Dean for Religious Life Christy Lohr Sapp—who was part of the council that invited Rauf—received several angry phone calls about the event.

“I just tried to explain to the caller that he had a misrep-resentation about Rauf,” she said. “[But] there is not much you can say to someone who thinks he is right.”

Lohr Sapp added that the forum was intended to show that people of different faith traditions can have meaning-ful conversations.

“I think it’s important for figures who might be con-troversial in the media to be given an opportunity to have others engage with them,” she said.

Rauf echoed Lohr Sapp’s sentiments by highlighting the importance of speaking with college-age students on his tour.

“The youth is an important part of our future,” Rauf said. “College campuses are where people are educated and where you bequeath learnings of previous generations to future generations.”

The main emphasis of both this event and his tour is to clarify the distinction between moderate Muslims and extremist Muslims, a difference that many people fail to see, he said.

“The real battlefront is not between Islam and America or Christians and Muslims,” Rauf said. “The battle is be-tween moderates of all nationalities versus extremists. Ex-tremists fuel each other and sustain each other, and it’s a vicious cycle.”

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