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by Jen ChenThe ChroniCle

A new social media app aims to bridge the gap between online and offline social interactions.

The Bevii mobile application uses lo-cational technologies to track the social life of its users and construct virtual social networks. it launched Monday and is now available exclusively for students at Duke, The University of north Carolina at Cha-pel hill and north Carolina State Univer-sity through ioS and Android platforms.

“The idea came from being a social media user and being frustrated with the current options out there,” said Bevii founder Taylor robinette, a sophomore at UnC.

networking sites such as Facebook cre-ate a secondary social sphere that sepa-rates social media from actual social life. Bevii connects the two worlds by including face-to-face and online social interaction. robinette said.

The Bevii app detects its users in close proximity and automatically adds them to each other’s base network. From there, Bevii organizes friendship into five lev-els—with one being close friends and five being the base level where people can only see each other’s names and profile pictures. These levels constantly adjust to correspond to the amount of interaction between individuals.

Users have the option of moving their contacts along the scale without affecting where they are placed on that contact’s re-lationship list, robinette said.

“There is a significant amount of ‘Facebook fatigue’ out there, particularly on-campus, and i believe the window has cracked open for a new and relevant so-cial media solution,” wrote Jim Kitchen, a lecturer in entrepreneurship at UnC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and an in-vestor in Bevii, in an email Sunday.

As of Sunday, Bevii had received $300,000 of funding from investors. robi-nette said the start-up aims to raise an-other 10 to 15 million dollars of venture capital by the first quarter of 2014.

“The idea behind the Bevii app makes sense to me, but more importantly, i am investing in it because i am confident that Taylor is going to be successful,” said Mer-rill Mason, an investor and lawyer for Be-vii. “it’s like what people say—you bet on the jockey and not the horse.”

by Anthony Hagouel The ChroniCle

The Duke University health System has experienced a dramatic increase in flu vac-cinations this year following a major policy change in April.

All DUhS employees must be vaccinated for the flu or have a legitimate medical or religious excuse by Dec. 6. This change may account for the 14,060 vaccines given out on Sept. 18th—a “blitz” vaccine day where thousands of employees tried to vaccinate as many healthcare employees as possible . last year’s blitz resulted in 12,487 vaccinations.

The Duke health System is comprised of the Duke University School of Medicine, the Duke University School of nursing, the Duke

Clinic and several hospitals, including the Duke regional hospital and Duke raleigh hospital.

“our main motive is to keep our patients safe—we don’t want a healthcare worker to be carrying the flu virus and accidentally in-fect a patient,” said Gail Shulby, chief of staff and clinical affairs for DUhS.

The influenza vaccine is free for all stu-dents and staff with the presentation of le-gitimate Duke card, said Shelby hill-McCray, a senior nurse for employee occupational health and Wellness.

Student health, which operates under DUhS policies, has immunized over 2,800

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New cancer therapy uses poliovirus

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by Melissa ZhangThe ChroniCle

A new cancer therapy is currently un-der clinical trials at Duke’s Preston rob-ert Tisch Brain Tumor Center.

This new approach involves injecting a brain tumor with modified poliovirus, which invades and kills cancerous brain cells while being harmless to normal brain cells. nine patients have been suc-cessfully treated so far in phase one of the trial, which aims to determine a safe and effective dosage at which to treat pa-tients, said Dr. Annick Desjardins, associ-ate professor of neurology and principal investigator of the study.

Dr. Matthias Gromeier, associate pro-fessor in the department of neurosur-gery, began preclinical development of the modified poliovirus in 2002.

More than 15 years of research went into the poliovirus therapy prior to start-ing clinical trials, which is not unusual, Gromeier said.

“The absolutely essential prerequisite on the research side was a large monkey neurovirulence study,” he said, which tested the treatment on monkeys to es-tablish the safety of the approach.

Additional research was also done to determine how the poliovirus interacted with cancer cells.

Another vital component before tri-als could begin was a modified poliovirus that infected cancer cells while having no effect on normal cells, which was devel-oped by the national institute of health, Gromeier said.

The first patient, Stephanie lipscomb, found out she had stage four gioblasto-ma, the most lethal and common form of brain cancer, as a nursing student at age 20. Although chemotherapy was unsuc-cessful in eradicating the tumor entirely, the experimental poliovirus therapy was able to reduce the tumor to the size of a pea, Desjardins said.

“She has a normal life as a nursing student,” Desjardins said of lipscomb. “looking at her, no one could imagine that she had been diagnosed with a ter-minal brain cancer. We cannot say that she is cured, but she is in remission for sure.”

Currently, side effects of the poliovi-rus therapy are minimal, Gromeier said.

“Thus far, the main side effects we have observed are due to the infusion of fluid into the brain of the patients

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“Generally it’s been pretty good. Occasionally, they’re busy people, so they don’t really have time to ask you what you truly want. There are some flaws, but I guess I’m pretty happy with it.”

—junior Jimmy Zhang

“I feel like some freshmen come in with an idea of what they want to do—pre-med, pre-business—but that doesn’t always work out…. [In the new system] if you suddenly decide to change your mind, your advisor isn’t as helpful.”

—sophomore Diana Lam

“It’d be better to have an advisor that has some sort of clue in the field of study that you’re interested in.”

—senior Jacqueline Jast

“My advisor was really helpful in broadening my perspective on which courses I could take over the next few years at Duke. Even though my advisor right now doesn’t focus on the same specialty that I want to major in, he pointed me in the right direction and gave me some new ideas on courses that I could take if I was interested in his specialty.”

—first-year Sai Nimmagadda

“I think that the pre-advisor program is helpful, because when I came here I didn’t know what classes to take to go towards the major I wanted to go to…. He still helped me determine who I should talk to about the major I wanted to take. He also helped me choose classes and gave me a lot of advice about what past students said about certain classes.”

—junior Kirstie James

“Academically we had no overlap but I still really liked [my advisor]. Academ-ics-wise she wasn’t super helpful…but she was really helpful in talking about Du-keEngage and summer programs, and she directed me towards who would help me.”

—sophomore Julia Bellantoni

“I met with her at the required times to get approved for enrollment…she was helpful, but I think helpful in just the general sense that she gave all of her advi-sees attention because she had a small number. In terms of more specific ques-tions, I’d go to the department.”

—junior Joseph Wu

“He actually saved my schedule. I had signed up for an econ class that I really didn’t need to take, so I’m really glad I have my academic advisor.”

—first-year Cameron Valadez

“I really like my advisor. He’s been good so far. I’ve never had to ask him any tough questions, I’ve always kind of known what classes I was going to take and what I wanted to do with my life.”

—sophomore Tom Vosburgh

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“There were times when unique interests came up, so I had to do some research to learn about new fields. But even these fall within the Duke academic framework, so the basic guidelines still apply.”

—Tim Bounds, senior director of student affairs strategic operations and technology

“I have about the same number of pre-health students [this year], but those who aren’t pre-health seem to be considering majors that more closely match my background and in-terests. I think all advisors end up with pre-health students among their advisees because there aren’t enough with backgrounds in the sciences and math to advise all the pre-health students.”

—Deb Johnson, assistant vice provost for undergraduate education and director of ad-ministrative and community support services

“Over the years I have been assigned pre-Med students with an interest in Biology. This is because my past educational experience includes a Masters in Biology. However this year, I was assigned students whose main interests were Math, Physics, and Computer Sci-ence. Since many of the pre-requisite courses for these interests are similar to pre-Med, the change was not that problematic. However it certainly was out of my comfort zone.”

—John Campbell, senior associate director of Student Information Services and Sys-tems

“As I am in the chemistry department it is not surprising that many of my advisees are interested in the sciences. This has traditionally been true, though I do have a selection of advisees who come in with, and maintain, other interests. I see that again this year it is also true…. I have been a pre-major advisor for a while now. I do it because I see it as an important service to the Duke community. I think that the pre-major advising center does an outstanding job of organizing and running the advising process and providing us with valuable help, support and critical information throughout the academic year.”

—Todd Woerner, senior lecturing fellow of chemistry

“When I was asked what kind of advisees I would like to have, I said I’d love to work with international students and also minority students and students from underprivileged families. So I got six [advisees] this year and three are from China (or Chinese background), one African-American student from North Carolina. So far, I definitely see the change this year, whereas in the previous years I had a combination of everybody. It has been really effective—students from China tend to overload in terms of their work and classes. In that sense I can really help them to calm down and provide more helpful advice. In that sense I’m quite satisfied with my students and my role as their advisor.”

—Hwansoo Kim, assistant professor of religion

“As a pre-major Trinity advisor, I’m very pleased with the great number of improve-ments I’ve witnessed in just a few years. Beth Fox, the director of the Academic Advising Center, has more than doubled the number of faculty and staff advisors for freshmen and sophomores. That translates to more personal attention for students. There’s a peer advi-sor network of exceptional and diverse undergrads that I can call on at any hour of the day or night to help me or my advisees answer questions or get advice from students who speak from experience.”

—Director of Undergraduate Communications Susan Kauffman

Prior to their first year, students are assigned an academic advisor who guides them through their first two years until they declare their major. The system of assigning academic advisors to students was updated this year to allow for better matches based on shared interests and advisor preferences. The Chronicle’s Ryan Zhang spoke with students about their experiences with the advising system under its previous and current formats.

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by Emma BaccellieriThe ChroniCle

Students are now being matched to academic advisors through a more accu-rate and efficient system.

After years of matching by hand, the Academic Advising Center implemented an algorithm this year that selected key-words from a database of information drawn from the academic profiles of students and advisors. The goal of the new matching system is to implement a “meaningful but technologically intact way to do it—not just turn people into a number, but actually do something that has meaning,” said elizabeth Fox, direc-tor of the Academic Advising Center.

“We went through multiple iterations of the match before we ultimately did it for the incoming class,” said edward Gomes, senior associate dean for Trinity Technology Services, which developed the database and algorithm. “That was part of the development process—did it work, what did it look like… now let’s move it into production and see how it works.”

When Fox took her position three years ago, the matching process was markedly different—each summer, she sat down with two excel spreadsheets containing information about students’ and advisors’ interests and matched them one by one.

“it was a very daunting task,” she said. “i didn’t think at the end of the day that i served students or advisors well.”

The spreadsheet system proved in-

efficient and time-consuming, Gomes noted.

“Spreadsheets aren’t designed to work that way,” he said. “it requires a lot of physical resources on the computer to make it work. Putting it in a database structure, which is optimized for these types of needs, seemed to be the best logical step forward.”

During her first year as director, Fox began the process of changing the matching system. As it was, the system made it difficult for high-quality advi-sors to perform their jobs well—not only were they often put with students who did not necessarily match their skill sets, there were too many students per advi-sor.

“We decided to more than double the number of academic advisors, so that each advisor could advise fewer students to create a real space in which advising could take place,” Fox said.

Previously, advisors took 12 students each year. With a new total of approxi-mately 250 advisors, each one can now choose to take three, six, nine or 12.

in recruiting new advisors, Fox and her staff targeted not only Trinity pro-fessors, but also faculty members from the School of law and Fuqua School of Business who could be able to address different student concerns.

even with the more advanced system, not every match will be perfect, Fox said. But she noted that dedicated, well-trained advisors will be able to bridge

New database efficiently matches students to advisors

See advising, page 12

Mayoral candidates present vision at forum

by Aubrey TempleThe ChroniCle

The Durham Primary election forum was held at City hall this Tuesday.

Mayoral candidates Sylvester Williams, a minister and financial advisor, and Bill Bell, who has served as mayor since 2001, discussed a variety of topics ranging from Durham crime to education. The four city council candidates for Ward 2 and Ward 3 also vocalized their visions for Durham at the forum.

Bail bondsman omar Beasley and for-mer educator eddie Davis are city council candidates for Ward 2. Pam Karriker, a for-mer county commissioner, and Don Mof-fitt, a business development consultant, are in the race to become the city councilman of Ward 3. The forum was conducted in a manner similar to a panel discussion where the moderator, Past interneighborhood Council President John Martin, asked a series of questions to the candidates giving them each one minute to respond.

near the end, the candidates where asked a set of questions that came from the audience followed by their closing state-ments. The event was sponsored by the league of Women Voters and The Durham interneighborhood Council, two nonparti-san local political organizations.

“We want to make sure that the people of Durham know who they are voting to represent them and to express what they believe in,” said Bessie Carrington, a mem-ber of the league of Women Voters who helped organize the event. “The local gov-ernment has a huge responsibility to the

citizens of Durham.”Bell and Williams were asked to discuss

their take on recent gentrification in Dur-ham.

Bell said he did not see gentrification as a problem, but rather as a chance to revital-ize some of Durham’s neighborhoods.

“Durham is moving in the right direc-tion. My focus is going to be on increasing affordable housing and making Durham more neighborhood friendly,” Bell said.

Williams, on the other hand, noted that gentrification in Durham is a problem because it raises the local property value, making it unaffordable to some residents and forcing them to move elsewhere.

Williams also discussed recent criticism that the Durham police department has participated in racial profiling. he called for sensitivity training for all police staff.

Beasley and Davis discussed lowering crime rates in Durham.

Beasley said Durham should focus on keeping adolescents out of gangs. he par-ticularly emphasized the lack of city-funded children activities and how instrumental the addition of such programs can be in decreasing the rate of children who drop out of high school early.

“We need to keep our kids busy,” Beas-ley said. “Through athletic [activities], aca-demics and activism…we need to identify kids early on who are going to drop out early.”

he also suggested putting vocational and trade programs in school in order to give students marketable skills if they

See mayoral forum, page 12


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DukeMobile applicationintegrates contestants’ codes

by Rebecca ChenThe ChroniCle

Submissions from the Duke innovation Co-lab’s DukeMobile Challenge will be in-tegrated into the official DukeMobile appli-cation this Spring.

The three winning apps of the compe-tition—which asked students to code new aspects for the main application—were an-nounced Friday.

in the ioS native category, sophomore Davis Gossage took first with Tranzip—an app that displays bus schedules and loca-tions. Juniors Jason oettinger and robert Ansel won in the Best hTMl5/mobile-friendly category with Food App, which displays all of the open dining venues on campus. And the Best Android-native app went to sophomore Mack Yi for Duke Di-rections—which determines directions and travel times to travel between places on cam-pus.

Although three apps were selected as winners, the innovation Co-lab plans to in-tegrate all eight submissions into the Duke-Mobile App.

“Students gain unique hands-on experi-ence in the development field and have the opportunity to work closely with each other and experienced professionals to polish and perfect their ideas,” wrote evan levine, as-sistant director of academic services at the office of information Technology, in an email oct. 9.

Submissions were reviewed by a group of oiT and other University staff. They looked for apps of value to the Duke community with clear and elegant user interfaces and

that display Duke data or information in a useful or new way, Michael Faber, iT inno-vation manager at the Co-lab, wrote in an email oct. 9.

oettinger said he and Ansel discussed what they wanted to fix and how they want-ed their new app to look, and added that the whole process consisted of many correc-tions, fixings and code rewritings.

“every time you work on a team it’s really a great experience because you get to learn ways that other programmers work,” oet-tinger said. “And it really helps you in your work, [learning] these styles of doing things through ways you may not have thought about before.”

The ability to integrate student applica-tions was a primary factor in oiT’s decision to build the next generation of DukeMobile themselves rather than purchasing an exist-ing product from a vendor as they had in the past, levine said.

“Duke students are doing fascinating things, and the upcoming mobile.duke.edu dashboard and DukeMobile application provide great ways to share top-notch stu-dent creations with the Duke community,” levine wrote.

Faber said the Challenge provides a great opportunity for students to put classroom learning to use in real-world projects.

“Many students come to the Co-lab with a drive to learn more but without all of the knowledge required to build something from start to finish,” Faber wrote. “having a project to work on forces them to confront those problems as they come and leaves them better equipped for the next project.”

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Div. school graduate talks about interfaith marriage

by Katie BeckerThe ChroniCle

An alumni of the Divinity School pre-sented her memoir on marrying a former hindu Monk on Tuesday.

J. Dana Trent, Divinity ‘06 ordained in the Southern Baptist Tradition, read from her memoir “Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of how a Christian Minister Married a hindu Monk,” which details the struggles and joys of her relationship and marriage with Fred eaker, a devout hindu. From meeting on eharmony.com to spending weeks in india together, Trent discussed how her relationship with eaker shaped her understanding of God.

“it’s an east-meets-West, boy-meets-girl love story with a theological twist,” Trent said.

The event was held at The regulator Bookshop on ninth Street. There were 11 people in attendance, many of whom stayed after the event to purchase a copy of the book and discuss the author’s ideas with her.

Trent met eaker in 2008 on the online dating site, eharmony.com, where her pro-file listed her as willing to date someone from a non-Abrahamic tradition.

“The possibility that i’d get matched with anyone who wasn’t a Christian is min-ute, anyway, right? right, God giggled,” Trent read.

She went on to describe the couple’s first date at the Blue Corn Café on ninth Street. The regulator Bookshop, the venue for the presentation, was special to Trent, since she and eaker spent many subse-quent dates there.

Deciding how the two would worship was a question the couple had to deal with. While eaker insisted that they worship to-gether, both wanted to ensure that they maintained each of their own traditions.

“We’re talking about solving a complex puzzle that has, according to most religious circles, diametrically opposing theological tenants,” Trent read. “There was no meet-ing in the middle with Moses, or Abraham, or the Trinity.”

Both Trent and eaker, who was also present at the event, expressed their happi-ness that their families and faith communi-ties were accepting of their union.

“We are very fortunate to belong to two faith communities that are extremely pro-gressive,” Trent said. “My church has wel-

comed Fred—he teaches Sunday School, we had our book opening there. The hindu community has welcomed me, and we’ve had the support of our faith commu-nities and families, surprisingly.”

The couple also described the spiritual growth they have experienced as a result of learning about the other’s faith.

“Prayer in the two traditions are very different: extemporaneous vs. chanting,” Trent said. “i’ve adopted chanting and found that it’s very helpful for me.”

eaker described how having a Christian wife has changed his relationship with God.

“The philosophy in hinduism is that one’s nature is to serve God, and that ask-ing God for things to maintain our mun-dane existence is not ideal,” eaker said. “in my relationship with Dana and her extem-poraneous prayer, i’ve become much more softened to asking God for help.”

The couple also detailed some of the challenges they faced in building their in-terfaith relationship and home. Trent, who was raised in an evangelical tradition, talk-ed about her difficulties resisting the urge to proselytize her husband.

“i did sort of brainstorm ways early on in our courtship for how to get him baptized,” Trent exclaimed. “This is the first misstep in interfaith communication—us trying to convert one another instead of trying to understand one another.”

Audience questions for Trent and eak-er ranged from basic—“Do hindus read the Bible?”—to personal—“how have your families reacted to your union?”—to theological—“What do you each see as the most valuable parts of the other’s faith tra-dition?”

Kimberly Caulfeild, another audience member, spoke highly of Trent and eaker.

“i found it remarkable that she was will-ing to say things that could be embarrass-ing to some people, but she was open and honest about it,” Caulfeild said.

According to an op-ed in the new York Times,“interfaith Unions: A Mixed Bless-ing” by naiome Schaefer riley, interfaith marriages are becoming more common, but result in divorce more often than those between members of the same religion. Be-fore the 1960’s, only 20 percent of marriag-es were interfaith, but since 2000, approxi-mately 45 percent of marriages in America

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WAShinGTon — in a long-awaited breakthrough, Senate leaders closed in on a deal Monday to raise the federal debt ceiling and end a two-week-old government shut-down as Washington scrambled to avoid the nation’s first default on its debt.

With leaders of both parties optimistic that they will soon come together to end the political crisis that has paralyzed Washing-ton, details of the possible agreement began to emerge. it would raise the debt limit until Feb. 15 and fund federal agencies until Jan. 15, with the two sides holding budget talks before a new round of sequestration budget cuts take effect in January, according to peo-ple in the Senate familiar with the talks.

The deal would also make minor tweaks to the new health-care law, though nothing along the lines of what some conservative republicans have been demanding. it would require additional safeguards to ensure that people who receive federal subsidies to pur-chase health insurance under the law are eli-gible to receive them, the people said.

in exchange for meeting that republican condition, Democrats are seeking a delay of the law’s so-called “belly button tax” — a tax on existing policies that is set to add roughly $63 per covered person — including spous-es and dependents — to the cost of health insurance next year. Under the emerging agreement, the tax would be delayed until 2015, sparing organized labor as well as ma-jor employers, the people said.

negotiators, meanwhile, rejected a re-publican proposal to delay a controversial 2.3 percent tax on medical devices that is also part of the Affordable Care Act.

With the talks continuing, Senate Major-

ity leader harry reid, D-nev., recessed the Senate for the day, and said that he and Sen-ate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, r-Ky., had made “tremendous progress ... but we are not there yet.’’

McConnell echoed reid’s remarks. “We’ve had a good day,’’ he said. “... i think it’s safe to say we’ve made substantial prog-ress and we look forward to making more progress in the near future.”

earlier, the Senate talks had been far enough along that the White house post-poned a 3 p.m. meeting with Democratic and republican leaders of the house and Senate to allow the negotiations to proceed. no new time or date for the meeting was immediately announced.

As the Senate convened for the day, reid had said on the floor that he was “very op-timistic” about what he called the “construc-tive, good-faith negotiations” aimed at avoid-ing the nation’s first debt default. McConnell said he expected that “we’re going to get a result that will be acceptable to both sides.”

it was not immediately clear if any agree-ment would be able to win support in the re-publican-led house, though a bipartisan deal would put immediate pressure on house Speaker John Boehner, r-ohio. Asked if the emerging reid-McConnell framework was something Boehner could accept, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., told reporters: “one thing at a time.’’

Boehner huddled with McConnell in Mc-Connell’s office Monday afternoon. Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, declined to weigh in on specifics, saying only that the Speaker “went to get an update on the discus-sions.”

As talks intensified, the president warned that if the standoff is not resolved by Thurs-day’s deadline to raise the debt ceiling, “we

stand a good chance of defaulting.”A bipartisan group of senators organized

by Sen. Susan Collins, r-Maine, also met for two hours Monday morning. After briefing McConnell, Collins said the group was mak-ing progress but that the higher-level talks be-tween reid and McConnell were more signif-icant in finding a way to resolve the standoff.

U.S. financial markets fell slightly in morn-ing trading but then seemed to stabilize. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index and the Dow Jones industrial average each dropped about 0.5 percent in the first 90 minutes of trading, then regained about half that amount. in a more telling sign of market sentiment, the ViX, a measure of expected future volatility in stock markets, soared 12.4 percent, but the increase then declined to eight percent.

Bond markets were closed for the Colum-bus Day holiday. But in recent days investors have sold off short-term Treasury bills matur-ing later in october, fearful that there could be disruptions that prevent the government from making good on its obligations.

The entrenched dispute over government spending began with a battle over whether to link funding for the basic operations to changes in President Barack obama’s sig-nature Affordable Care Act. it morphed last week into a fight over extending the debt ceiling, which is the government’s ability to borrow money to pay for bills it has incurred.

Two weeks into the federal government shutdown, with the possibility of an U.S. default looming, the disagreement has ex-panded to include the issue of broader cuts in existing programs and changes to the mandatory curbs in spending known as the sequester.

“i’m ashamed, and i want to apologize to the American people,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told Cnn’s “new Day,” describ-

ing Congress’s seeming inability to forge an agreement. “This is not what i signed up for.”

The plan being cobbled together by Col-lins’s group focused on ending the shutdown and raising the $16.7 trillion debt limit. But Senate Democrats, emboldened by deep di-visions among house republicans and poll data showing the GoP bearing the brunt of the blame for the impasse, rejected the initial proposal because it would allow a new round of sequester cuts to take effect in January.

reid instead is seeking a quicker dead-line on a temporary measure to fund federal agencies and reopen the government, and a longer deadline for raising the debt limit. “The plan would be, open up the govern-ment immediately for a period of time before the sequester hits [on Jan. 15] and then have serious discussions where we might be able to undo the sequester,” Sen. Charles Schumer, n.Y., the no. 3 Democrat in the Senate, said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the nation.”

Schumer noted that house republicans had already offered to roll back the seques-ter cuts in a proposal that the White house rejected Friday. That plan would have im-mediately suspended enforcement of the debt limit and reopened the government in exchange for a plan to replace sequester savings in 2014 (and perhaps longer) with reductions to Social Security and Medicare proposed in obama’s budget.

“That was one place where the house re-publicans and the president were not, you know, at total loggerheads,” Schumer said, suggesting that a deal could be cut if republi-cans would consider new revenue along with cuts to entitlement programs.

The sequester cuts are part of $2.1 trillion in agency spending cuts over 10 years includ-

Senate leaders within striking distance of shutdown deal

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when we administer the poliovirus,” he said. “Because of that, they have increased brain swelling, which can trigger short-lived spells of brain dysfunction, like seizures, weakness, speech difficulties.”

Gromeier noted that the side effects, in-cluding brain swelling, normally resolve very rapidly with the utilization of steroids.

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students since Aug. 1, Director of Student health John Vaughn said.

“Student health goes way above and be-yond to try to vaccinate all students on cam-pus,” Shulby said. “it’s so important that students get vaccinated—the living situation alone makes them so prone to disease.”

recipients of the flu shot have expressed differing opinions, ranging from begrudging acceptance to support.

“i really didn’t want it,” said Arianne les-lie, who only received a flu shot as a require-ment for the DUhS nursing training pro-gram she is in. “i don’t think it’s healthy to get one, i think it’s better for your body to fight it on its own.”

other staff members, including irish Tur-rentine, a human resources associate at the library of human resources, view the vac-cines as an effective way of staying protected from the flu,

“it’s a preventative measure for me—it

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makes me feel safe when i get my flu shot,” she said.

Shulby attributed this year’s higher vac-cination turnout to thousands of dedicated healthcare professionals.

“The blitz takes a village of an effort,” Shulby said. “There’s a huge team of people who work different roles to pull it off.”

in his first year of high school, robinette started a site called lifeClickz that obtained 250,000 members before it was eventually shut down.

Although Bevii plans to expand nationally, robinette said the headquarters will remain local.

“Being able to do this outside of Silicon Valley is an important message here,” said Tim huntley, entrepreneur in residence at Triangle StartUp Factory and an investor in Bevii. “There seems to be this perception that there is no money here in the Triangle and i just don’t think that’s how it should be.”

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were between members of different faiths, Schaefer reported from her research on religion.

“our prayer has been from the begin-ning that Saffron Cross will be a manual not just for interfaith marriages or interfaith couples, but for interfaith friends,” Trent said. “everyone’s theological perspective

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has meaning and validity because we are all human.”

gaps and help students nonetheless.“i don’t think that everyone has to be

an expert in the discipline—what they need to know is what they’re really good at and how to contribute,” Fox said. “What we ask advisors to do is to think about the areas where you know you’re good at, think the areas where you’re not good and try to figure out how you’re go-ing to fill in those gaps.”

Advisors have expressed satisfaction with the new system, Although the Cen-ter has not yet received official feedback on the system, Fox said she believes

“Ultimately, it’s a big win for the stu-dents,” Gomes said. “And that’s the most important thing.”

ADVISING from page 3

ed in the Budget Control Act, the measure that raised the debt limit in 2011. initially, re-publicans, too, wanted to replace the seques-ter, particularly the portion that falls on the Pentagon. But since obama won tax hikes on the wealthy as part of a year-end fight over the “fiscal cliff,” McConnell has taken to cast-ing the sequester as a significant GoP victory from which the party cannot retreat.

Treasury Secretary Jack lew has said that if Congress fails to lift the debt limit, he will exhaust his borrowing authority Thursday. At that point, he will have to rely on a cash bal-ance of about $30 billion and incoming rev-enue to pay the nation’s bills.

independent analysts say lew will not be-gin missing payments immediately but will begin to run short of funds no later than

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nov. 1, when nearly $60 billion is due to So-cial Security recipients, Medicare providers, active-duty military service members and civil-service retirees.

investors are next due to collect interest on Treasury bonds — perhaps the most im-portant payments from the perspective of global markets — on oct. 31.

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Karriker said the police department should use more resources to enhance traf-fic laws and encourage safer streets in Dur-ham. She noted that there is a major lack of sidewalks in Durham for pedestrian use, as well as a need to ensure people do not ride their bikes without reflectors.

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Moffitt commented on Durham’s crimi-nal activity.

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Quarterback’s return leads Duke to 35-7 victory against Navy


boone is back

by Nick MartinThe ChroniCle

For a player that didn’t know he was going to start with 10 minutes until kick-

off, quarterback Anthony Boone re-turned with a bang for Duke in Satur-

day’s 35-7 victory against navy.After Boone fractured his collarbone

in week two against Memphis, redshirt junior Brandon Connette adopted the starting role and led Duke to a 2-2 re-cord. Connette was slated to start the game as late as 10 minutes before kick-off—the decision to go with Boone even surprised several of his teammates.

“[i found out Boone was starting] right before the game,” wide receiver Jamison Crowder said. “We had a little part in the pregame warmup that we go against the defense, and i saw Boone was starting. So i was surprised but i think when Boone came in, a lot of the guys kind of had a little chip on their shoul-der, a little edge and we were able to go out there and play well.”

Connette, it turns out, rolled his an-kle while jogging to practice early in the week. After practicing Friday, Connette tested it out again during pregame war-mups but deemed himself unfit to play,

head coach David Cutcliffe said. But even with the late notice, Boone was ready to go.

“The trainers and our [physical ther-apy] staff have done a real good job taking care of me,” Boone said. “The [offensive line] did a great job of pro-tecting me and the scheme got me a chance to get the ball out quick and got my confidence building.”

Boone’s poise throughout the game was the most impressive facet of his re-turn, as he was able to evade defenders and follow through on his passes with confidence. But Boone made sure when he scrambled—unlike the Boone of old who would take on defenders shoulder first—to get out of bounds or slide to limit his hits.

“i’ve got to play a little bit smarter for a while,” Boone said. “Make sure i’m not taking on too many unnecessary hits.”

This poise allowed Boone to be ef-ficient, which would be the best way to describe his impressive comeback per-formance. he threw for 295 yards and three scores while managing to com-plete 82 percent of his passes in a 31-of-38 performance. Boone’s yardage and completion numbers were both career highs, but Cutcliffe was quick to praise the quarterback who stepped in during his four-week absence from the lineup.

“i’m proud of Brandon Connette being honest with me,” Cutcliffe said. “And then Anthony just slipped in like

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men’s basketball

Jason Williams enshrinedby Daniel Carp

The ChroniCle

For three years, Jason Williams was used to center court at Cameron indoor Stadium being his stage. But as the national champi-on and two-time national Player of the Year stood on a literal stage at the center of col-lege basketball’s most hallowed ground to be inducted into the Duke Athletics hall of Fame, he said that the chills never seem to stay away.

Standing under his no. 22 hanging in the rafters, it was only fitting that one of the sev-en newest Duke hall of Famers opened his speech by recounting how he made his deci-sion to be a Blue Devil.

“The first time i set foot in here i was 16 years old, and unfortunately there was some-body who happened to win national Player of the Year who had worn my favorite num-ber in high school. My favorite number was 32,” said Williams, referring to Christian laettner’s no. 32 that hangs beside his. “My father and i were in the gym, and my father asked me a question, and this is by no means a disrespect to the other school. he asked me, ‘Would you rather be a king among the poor, or would you rather be a king among kings?’ And he looked up at the rafters, and he saw that 11, 33 and 44 were all retired, and he said ‘You know what son? The missing link is no. 22.’ And every time i come into this room and i see that number hanging from

the rafters it lets me know that i did some-thing great.”

For Williams, enshrinement in his school’s hall of Fame was less of a corona-tion, and more of an affirmation that the 32-year-old continues to be deeply woven


Jason Williams was inducted into the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame last weekend.

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Penn State: A look back and a step forward“It’s a great win for Penn State,”

head coach Bill O’Brien said just minutes after his team’s four-overtime victory against rival Michigan.

The Nittany Lions battled back from a 10-point fourth quarter defi cit, tying the game on true freshman quar-terback Christian Hackenberg’s

1-yard run with just 27 seconds left to

play. Michigan’s Brendan Gibbons, a fi fth-year senior, missed a 52-yard fi eld goal with two seconds left to play in regulation, sending the game to its fi rst overtime and foreshadowing his team’s eventual downfall.

The Wolverines should have won the game. Penn State kicker Sam Ficken pushed a 40-yard fi eld goal wide right in the fi rst overtime period, essentially ensuring Michigan’s victory. But on the ensuing drive, the Nittany Lions blocked Gibbons’ attempt, send-ing the game to a second overtime.

Both teams traded fi eld goals before once again, the Wolverines seemed on their way to victory after Penn State lost a fumble on its fi rst play of the third overtime period. But Gibbons, who holds the Michigan record with 16 consecutive made fi eld goals from 2012 to early 2013, missed a 33-yarder wide left.

Gibbons would nail a 40-yarder to start the fourth overtime period, but it would not be enough for the Wol-verines. It took the Nittany Lions eight plays to move the ball 25 yards for the game-winning touchdown, a 2-yard run by Bill Belton.

Game over. Cue the eruption of 107,884 Penn State fans all participat-

ing in one of Happy Valley’s famed white-outs. The entire Nittany Lion football team sprints towards Belton in the end zone, and Penn State moves to 4-2 on the year and garners it fi rst victory against a ranked opponent in the O’Brien era.

But Saturday’s victory was much more than that for O’Brien, the Penn State football program and the univer-sity as a whole.

One of the most historic football programs in the nation, the Nittany Lions also fell harder than any other program in football history in 2011. The Jerry Sandusky scandal shocked the nation, tarnished the program and forced the winningest coach in college football history out of his job.

That’s Joe Paterno. Before the NCAA forced him to vacate 111 of his career wins as head coach, Paterno had racked up 409 victories, all at the helm of the Nittany Lions. JoePa died just months after his dismissal, after 62 years on the Penn State coaching staff.

Sandusky’s arrest and Paterno’s death left the program in turmoil. Thanks to the NCAA’s decree that Penn State transfers would not have to sit out a year if they left Happy Valley, which as you can imagine, wasn’t so happy anymore. Fifteen players bolted from the crumbling program. A slew of recruits also decommited. After all, no one wants to spend four years playing for a team banned from postseason play. If not for O’Brien and the strong

internal leadership of the coaching staff, the exodus of talent away from Penn State could have been even worse.

Despite the program’s epic fall from the legendary Paterno era to the shameful Sandusky scandal and the brutal NCAA sanctions, O’Brien managed to lead his team to an 8-4 campaign in 2012. Capping the season with a 24-21 overtime victory at home against Wisconsin, the Nittany Lions fi nished the year on a high note, de-spite the postseason ban.

This season brings renewed hope to Penn State, and the NCAA has even reduced its scholarship sanctions. The Nittany Lions will be allowed fi ve ad-ditional scholarship players each year, until they reach the normal allotment of 85 by the 2016 season.

Despite this small concession, the program still remains in the shadow of perhaps the NCAA’s most infamous scandal. But O’Brien’s team is slowly making its way back into a positive light, and Saturday’s victory was one of their biggest steps thus far.

I am not really a Penn State fan. Nor do I dislike Michigan. But I was rooting for the Nittany Lions on Saturday. And who wouldn’t be?

Yes, what Sandusky did at Penn State was atrocious—unforgivable even. That Paterno probably knew something was wrong and did nothing to stop it is also terrible. And yes, the Nittany Lions probably did deserve sanctions from the NCAA, although no punishment could truly compensate for what San-dusky did to his victims over the years.

O’Brien, who also served as Duke’s offensive coordinator in 2005 and 2006, left the New England Patriots to

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The Penn State faithful at Beaver Stadium had a lot to cheer about in a four-overtime victory against Michigan.

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VOLLEYBALL

Blue Devils’ 10-match winning streak snapped

by Ryan HoergerTHE CHRONICLE

For much of the season Duke has been unable to turn a multitude of good looks into

goals. But Sunday, with scoring opportu-nities at a premium,

the Blue Devils were able to capitalize.Freshman Toni Payne gave the Blue Devils

a 1-0 lead in the 34th minute, and junior Kel-ly Cobb tacked on a second goal in the 55th minute, as Duke came away with a 2-1 victory against Maryland (7-7, 3-5 in the ACC) at Lud-wig Field in College Park, Md.

The victory snapped a six-match winless skid for Duke (5-6-3, 2-4-2), which hadn’t won since defeating Miami 3-0 in its ACC opener Sept. 12.

“This was almost a do-or-die game for us,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “You have to be .500 to be in the NCAA tourna-ment. Our RPI is really high, which is good,


Reynolds Coliseum has not been a friend-ly place to play for Duke during the past few years. The Blue Devils traveled to Raleigh Sun-

day eyeing their 11th straight win and their first victory at N.C. State since 2010, but

the Wolfpack had other ideas.Duke won the first set 25-22, but the Wolf-

pack responded by winning the next three, 25-15, 25-21 and 25-21 to hand the Blue Devils their first conference defeat of the season.

“We weren’t on top of our game all day,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “I don’t think we looked past them. We know they’re an aggressive team and a scrappy team.”

Although Duke (14-3, 5-1 in the ACC) won a hard-fought first set, Nagel said the team was unable to find a rhythm, and as a result could not generate any momentum heading into the second set.

That second set proved to be Duke’s un-doing as errors helped N.C. State (14-4, 5-1) build a commanding lead to even the match at one set apiece. The Blue Devils had 10 at-tack errors in the set, compared to just nine kills, on 31 attempts.

“We made way too many errors in the sec-ond set,” Nagel said. “[In addition], we were not stopping their attack. We didn’t block as well as we did Friday night [in a three-set vic-tory at previously unbeaten North Carolina] and our defense wasn’t as good as it needed to be.”

The miscue-filled second set gave N.C. State momentum heading into the third frame, and although Duke minimized its mis-takes—three attack errors and 12 kills— the Wolfpack attack was just as potent. N.C. State recorded 18 kills in the third set.

Junior Dariyan Hopper found lots of open space in the Duke defense, putting down a match-high 18 kills to lead the Wolfpack, but got plenty of help from her teammates. Senior Meredith Richardson and junior Nikki Glass each recorded 11 kills, and senior Brie Merri-wether added 10.

“Usually defense is a strength of ours, but we were a little off today,” Nagel said. “You’re going to have nights like this, but you’ve still got to figure out a way to win.”

Duke battled back in the fourth set, but the Wolfpack attack proved too much to over-come. Sophomore Emily Sklar led the way again for the Blue Devils, notching 17 kills to extend her streak of matches with double-dig-

it kills to nine. Junior Jeme Obeime added 13 kills, and sophomore Elizabeth Campbell followed up a nine-kill, 10-dig performance against North Carolina with 10 kills and 10 digs against the Wolfpack.

Nagel said that the team will use Duke’s fall break to rest and recover, but will also look to video from Sunday’s loss to tweak some things.

The Blue Devils will look to start a fresh win-ning streak with another road trip next week-end, as they travel to Georgia Tech Friday night before facing off with Clemson Sunday afternoon.

“We’re going to learn a lot from this, and we’ll be better because of it,” Nagel said. “But it’s no fun having to experience it.”

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Sophomore Emily Sklar notched 17 kills as the Blue Devils fell 3-1 to N.C. State, snapping the team’s 10-game winning streak.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Duke downs Maryland to end month-long skidbut this [win] got us closer to that .500 mark. It was a must-win—the kids knew it, and they responded.”

Duke was able to generate just nine shots, well below its season average of 16.8 shots per match entering Sunday’s contest. Church said the team switched to a defensive-oriented scheme, attacking on offense with four players and defending with six to give a young Blue Devil back line some help. But the Blue Devils made the most of their offensive opportunities.

The first goal came on an individual stroke of brilliance of from Payne, who attacked down the right side and buried a shot past Maryland goalie Rachelle Beanlands.

“Nobody on our bench even knew that the ball went in, she struck from such a difficult angle,” Church said. “That was a huge spark for us.”

Duke added to its lead when it earned a corner kick and Cobb came up with posses-sion after a flurry of action, depositing the

ball into the net to give the Blue Devils a 2-0 advantage.

“You could see the second goal coming,” Church said. “We were attacking well in their territory, we were pressuring them, we got a corner kick, so we had some good things go-ing for us.”

The breakthrough came when senior Mol-lie Pathman served a cross into the box, where it was headed by senior defender Natasha Anasi. The ball careened to Cobb, who snuck it through the Terrapin defense into the back of the net for her fourth goal of the season.

Redshirt junior goalie Meghan Thomas recorded nine saves for the Blue Devils in her return to the starting lineup. Thomas had not started a game since Aug. 30 against Ken-nesaw State.

“Meghan worked hard to get back from her injury like she has her entire career,” Church said. “We felt it was time for her to get an opportunity, and she played very well. She

was confident that she could play, and she did a great job.”

Terrapin midfielder Cory Ryan slipped a shot past Thomas in the 69th minute to cut the Duke lead in half, but the Blue Devil de-fense clamped down in the final 20 minutes to preserve the lead.

Church said Duke reaped the benefits of not having a mid-week game in the ACC. Coming off a 4-1 defeat at Boston College, he gave his team Monday and Tuesday off to rest and recover.

“Everybody was pretty down after that game, because it was a lot closer than the score showed,” Church said. “It was good to have [Monday and Tuesday] off before four days of practice, especially with midterms and every-thing academically.”

The Blue Devils have five games remain-ing, with three of them coming away from

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Penn State: A look back and a step forward“It’s a great win for Penn State,”

head coach Bill O’Brien said just minutes after his team’s four-overtime victory against rival Michigan.

The Nittany Lions battled back from a 10-point fourth quarter defi cit, tying the game on true freshman quar-terback Christian Hackenberg’s

1-yard run with just 27 seconds left to

play. Michigan’s Brendan Gibbons, a fi fth-year senior, missed a 52-yard fi eld goal with two seconds left to play in regulation, sending the game to its fi rst overtime and foreshadowing his team’s eventual downfall.

The Wolverines should have won the game. Penn State kicker Sam Ficken pushed a 40-yard fi eld goal wide right in the fi rst overtime period, essentially ensuring Michigan’s victory. But on the ensuing drive, the Nittany Lions blocked Gibbons’ attempt, send-ing the game to a second overtime.

Both teams traded fi eld goals before once again, the Wolverines seemed on their way to victory after Penn State lost a fumble on its fi rst play of the third overtime period. But Gibbons, who holds the Michigan record with 16 consecutive made fi eld goals from 2012 to early 2013, missed a 33-yarder wide left.

Gibbons would nail a 40-yarder to start the fourth overtime period, but it would not be enough for the Wol-verines. It took the Nittany Lions eight plays to move the ball 25 yards for the game-winning touchdown, a 2-yard run by Bill Belton.

Game over. Cue the eruption of 107,884 Penn State fans all participat-

ing in one of Happy Valley’s famed white-outs. The entire Nittany Lion football team sprints towards Belton in the end zone, and Penn State moves to 4-2 on the year and garners it fi rst victory against a ranked opponent in the O’Brien era.

But Saturday’s victory was much more than that for O’Brien, the Penn State football program and the univer-sity as a whole.

One of the most historic football programs in the nation, the Nittany Lions also fell harder than any other program in football history in 2011. The Jerry Sandusky scandal shocked the nation, tarnished the program and forced the winningest coach in college football history out of his job.

That’s Joe Paterno. Before the NCAA forced him to vacate 111 of his career wins as head coach, Paterno had racked up 409 victories, all at the helm of the Nittany Lions. JoePa died just months after his dismissal, after 62 years on the Penn State coaching staff.

Sandusky’s arrest and Paterno’s death left the program in turmoil. Thanks to the NCAA’s decree that Penn State transfers would not have to sit out a year if they left Happy Valley, which as you can imagine, wasn’t so happy anymore. Fifteen players bolted from the crumbling program. A slew of recruits also decommited. After all, no one wants to spend four years playing for a team banned from postseason play. If not for O’Brien and the strong

internal leadership of the coaching staff, the exodus of talent away from Penn State could have been even worse.

Despite the program’s epic fall from the legendary Paterno era to the shameful Sandusky scandal and the brutal NCAA sanctions, O’Brien managed to lead his team to an 8-4 campaign in 2012. Capping the season with a 24-21 overtime victory at home against Wisconsin, the Nittany Lions fi nished the year on a high note, de-spite the postseason ban.

This season brings renewed hope to Penn State, and the NCAA has even reduced its scholarship sanctions. The Nittany Lions will be allowed fi ve ad-ditional scholarship players each year, until they reach the normal allotment of 85 by the 2016 season.

Despite this small concession, the program still remains in the shadow of perhaps the NCAA’s most infamous scandal. But O’Brien’s team is slowly making its way back into a positive light, and Saturday’s victory was one of their biggest steps thus far.

I am not really a Penn State fan. Nor do I dislike Michigan. But I was rooting for the Nittany Lions on Saturday. And who wouldn’t be?

Yes, what Sandusky did at Penn State was atrocious—unforgivable even. That Paterno probably knew something was wrong and did nothing to stop it is also terrible. And yes, the Nittany Lions probably did deserve sanctions from the NCAA, although no punishment could truly compensate for what San-dusky did to his victims over the years.

O’Brien, who also served as Duke’s offensive coordinator in 2005 and 2006, left the New England Patriots to

SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

The Penn State faithful at Beaver Stadium had a lot to cheer about in a four-overtime victory against Michigan.

See ON FOOTBALL, page 16

VOLLEYBALL

Blue Devils’ 10-match winning streak snapped


For much of the season Duke has been unable to turn a multitude of good looks into

goals. But Sunday, with scoring opportu-nities at a premium,

the Blue Devils were able to capitalize.Freshman Toni Payne gave the Blue Devils

a 1-0 lead in the 34th minute, and junior Kel-ly Cobb tacked on a second goal in the 55th minute, as Duke came away with a 2-1 victory against Maryland (7-7, 3-5 in the ACC) at Lud-wig Field in College Park, Md.

The victory snapped a six-match winless skid for Duke (5-6-3, 2-4-2), which hadn’t won since defeating Miami 3-0 in its ACC opener Sept. 12.

“This was almost a do-or-die game for us,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “You have to be .500 to be in the NCAA tourna-ment. Our RPI is really high, which is good,


Reynolds Coliseum has not been a friend-ly place to play for Duke during the past few years. The Blue Devils traveled to Raleigh Sun-

day eyeing their 11th straight win and their first victory at N.C. State since 2010, but

the Wolfpack had other ideas.Duke won the first set 25-22, but the Wolf-

pack responded by winning the next three, 25-15, 25-21 and 25-21 to hand the Blue Devils their first conference defeat of the season.

“We weren’t on top of our game all day,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “I don’t think we looked past them. We know they’re an aggressive team and a scrappy team.”

Although Duke (14-3, 5-1 in the ACC) won a hard-fought first set, Nagel said the team was unable to find a rhythm, and as a result could not generate any momentum heading into the second set.

That second set proved to be Duke’s un-doing as errors helped N.C. State (14-4, 5-1) build a commanding lead to even the match at one set apiece. The Blue Devils had 10 at-tack errors in the set, compared to just nine kills, on 31 attempts.

“We made way too many errors in the sec-ond set,” Nagel said. “[In addition], we were not stopping their attack. We didn’t block as well as we did Friday night [in a three-set vic-tory at previously unbeaten North Carolina] and our defense wasn’t as good as it needed to be.”

The miscue-filled second set gave N.C. State momentum heading into the third frame, and although Duke minimized its mis-takes—three attack errors and 12 kills— the Wolfpack attack was just as potent. N.C. State recorded 18 kills in the third set.

Junior Dariyan Hopper found lots of open space in the Duke defense, putting down a match-high 18 kills to lead the Wolfpack, but got plenty of help from her teammates. Senior Meredith Richardson and junior Nikki Glass each recorded 11 kills, and senior Brie Merri-wether added 10.

“Usually defense is a strength of ours, but we were a little off today,” Nagel said. “You’re going to have nights like this, but you’ve still got to figure out a way to win.”

Duke battled back in the fourth set, but the Wolfpack attack proved too much to over-come. Sophomore Emily Sklar led the way again for the Blue Devils, notching 17 kills to extend her streak of matches with double-dig-

it kills to nine. Junior Jeme Obeime added 13 kills, and sophomore Elizabeth Campbell followed up a nine-kill, 10-dig performance against North Carolina with 10 kills and 10 digs against the Wolfpack.

Nagel said that the team will use Duke’s fall break to rest and recover, but will also look to video from Sunday’s loss to tweak some things.

The Blue Devils will look to start a fresh win-ning streak with another road trip next week-end, as they travel to Georgia Tech Friday night before facing off with Clemson Sunday afternoon.

“We’re going to learn a lot from this, and we’ll be better because of it,” Nagel said. “But it’s no fun having to experience it.”

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Sophomore Emily Sklar notched 17 kills as the Blue Devils fell 3-1 to N.C. State, snapping the team’s 10-game winning streak.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Duke downs Maryland to end month-long skidbut this [win] got us closer to that .500 mark. It was a must-win—the kids knew it, and they responded.”

Duke was able to generate just nine shots, well below its season average of 16.8 shots per match entering Sunday’s contest. Church said the team switched to a defensive-oriented scheme, attacking on offense with four players and defending with six to give a young Blue Devil back line some help. But the Blue Devils made the most of their offensive opportunities.

The first goal came on an individual stroke of brilliance of from Payne, who attacked down the right side and buried a shot past Maryland goalie Rachelle Beanlands.

“Nobody on our bench even knew that the ball went in, she struck from such a difficult angle,” Church said. “That was a huge spark for us.”

Duke added to its lead when it earned a corner kick and Cobb came up with posses-sion after a flurry of action, depositing the

ball into the net to give the Blue Devils a 2-0 advantage.

“You could see the second goal coming,” Church said. “We were attacking well in their territory, we were pressuring them, we got a corner kick, so we had some good things go-ing for us.”

The breakthrough came when senior Mol-lie Pathman served a cross into the box, where it was headed by senior defender Natasha Anasi. The ball careened to Cobb, who snuck it through the Terrapin defense into the back of the net for her fourth goal of the season.

Redshirt junior goalie Meghan Thomas recorded nine saves for the Blue Devils in her return to the starting lineup. Thomas had not started a game since Aug. 30 against Ken-nesaw State.

“Meghan worked hard to get back from her injury like she has her entire career,” Church said. “We felt it was time for her to get an opportunity, and she played very well. She

was confident that she could play, and she did a great job.”

Terrapin midfielder Cory Ryan slipped a shot past Thomas in the 69th minute to cut the Duke lead in half, but the Blue Devil de-fense clamped down in the final 20 minutes to preserve the lead.

Church said Duke reaped the benefits of not having a mid-week game in the ACC. Coming off a 4-1 defeat at Boston College, he gave his team Monday and Tuesday off to rest and recover.

“Everybody was pretty down after that game, because it was a lot closer than the score showed,” Church said. “It was good to have [Monday and Tuesday] off before four days of practice, especially with midterms and every-thing academically.”

The Blue Devils have five games remain-ing, with three of them coming away from

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he hadn’t missed a beat….I mean 31-of-38, that’s just ridiculous.”

Even in the scoreless first quarter, Boone was ef-ficient. He completed 8-of-10 passing attempts. The only negative was the fact that Boone was sacked twice in the first quarter. This was something that would not happen for the rest of the contest, as the offen-sive line’s play improved along with Boone’s pocket presence.

“After the first quarter I felt very comfortable,” Boone said. “The first couple downs, the first couple series were kind of like flying bullets and I was kind of getting used to it, things flying around and the speed of the game.”

One of the most telling numbers from the game was how Boone led the team in the red zone. While Navy struggled, going 1-for-3, Duke managed to con-

vert on 4-of-6 trips inside the Midshipmen’s 20-yard line. Boone threw for two of those scores, with one coming to Isaac Blakeney and the other to Max Mc-Cafferey.

Boone and the offense were also effective in third down situations. Punter Will Monday was held to a sea-son-low two punts throughout the contest, as the offen-sive unit converted 10-of-16 third-down opportunities.

With 10 connections for 88 yards, the signal-caller’s timing with Crowder could make for a lethal combina-tion. Following the junior’s third game this season with double-digit receptions, the Blue Devils will move deeper into ACC play.

“I think it’s good that he’s back,” Crowder said. “Because I really didn’t know where he stood with the shoulder injury. To see him come back in, get his con-fidence back and make throws like that, I think it’s good. It’s going to help us build our confidence as we get ready to go into ACC play.”

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In Anthony Boone’s return, sophomore wide receiver Max McCaffrey caught a touchdown pass for the third consecutive game.

into the fabric of one of college basketball’s most storied programs.

Williams received a similar honor 11 years ago when he had his number retired just be-fore his final game at Cameron Indoor Stadi-um, capping off a career in which the Plain-field, N.J., native averaged 19.3 points per game in three seasons, twice being named a first team All-American.

Just months later, Williams graduated with a sociology degree from Duke after three years of school. Six weeks after graduation, he was selected with the second overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. And one year after his NBA career began, it came to an abrupt and untimely end.

A motorcycle accident June 19, 2003 nearly cost Williams the use of his left leg and required nearly a year of extensive rehabili-tation. As Williams lay in a hospital bed, he considered—and later attempted—suicide. More than a decade later, the Duke Hall of Famer said it was the support from his par-ents that ultimately led him through his dark-est days.

“Getting hurt said a lot about some of the people I had around me when it happened,” Williams said. “Look, we all go through dark moments, right? My dark moment came when I was a 21-year old kid and I got hurt, spent months in a hospital, spent almost a year in bed in North Carolina. I thought about... suicide, and those were the two con-stants in my life who were always there to tell me to keep fighting.”

More than a decade later, Williams can reflect on the success of his Blue Devil team-mates in the NBA. Most of Williams’ fellow

starters on Duke’s 2001 national champion-ship team have since become reliable NBA veterans, leaving the public to wonder what role the Blue Devils’ star could have thrived in at the next level.

“Now seeing all of my teammates, Dun-leavy, Boozer play for Chicago, seeing Shane accomplish what he’s been able to accomplish down in Miami—we had a really special team, and there is no way I am in this position with-out those guys,” Williams said. “They continue to prove that more and more each day.”

Since recovering from his injury, Williams has found a new role off the hardwood—working as a college basketball analyst for ESPN alongside many of the pundits who once touted him as the nation’s top player. Among Williams’ new colleagues is former Blue Devil Jay Bilas, who served as master of ceremonies for the Hall of Fame Induction and Williams refers to as one of his closest friends and mentors.

Williams said there is not a day that goes by where he does not think about his time with Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who instilled in him the confidence to succeeded in a career off the basketball court.

“Each and every day of my life that I am removed away from this program, it contin-ues to show me how impressive of a coach he is,” Williams said. “A lot of the values that we learned on the court are life lessons that we continue to use every single day. And it con-tinues to reflect and show you not only why he’s successful on the court, but if you’re able to take these values and actually install them in your everyday life you can be successful off the court.”

As Williams recounted the ups and downs of his career and his favorite Duke memories

on the stage, it gave his friends and team-mates a glimpse of the 21-year-old kid who stood in a similar spot 11 years ago—stand-ing at center stage smiling, laughing and back on top of the world.

“A lot of people come up to me and they say ‘I’m sorry you’re not playing anymore.’” Williams said. “And I say, ‘There’s nothing to be sorry about. Basketball wasn’t my default plan. What I did here—that’s my main plan.’”

williams from page 13


Jason Williams had his jersey retired at Duke 11 years before being inducted into the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame.

resurrect a program that had sunk as far as a col-lege football program can go. I am a Bill O’Brien fan. And the man was voted ESPN Coach of the Year in 2012, so apparently I am not alone.

Hackenberg, the true freshman who led the Nittany Lions on their improbable fourth quarter comeback drive, signed knowing that he would not have the chance to play in the postseason until his senior year. One of the top quarterback prospects in the nation, he could have accepted scholarship offers from Alabama, Florida or Miami, to name a few. But instead, Hackenberg chose O’Brien and the project that is Penn State football. I am a Chris-tian Hackenberg fan.

The Nittany Lions’ victory against No. 18 Michi-gan means more to the program than just another tally in the win column. It shows signs of overcom-ing the worst of circumstances. It is another step in the rebuilding process that will take years. But Bill O’Brien and Christian Hackenberg certainly have Penn State on the right track.

Moving forward, the Nittany Lions still have a long way to go to overcome the atrocities of San-dusky’s deplorable transgressions and Paterno’s fall from grace. But they are headed in the right direc-tion, and beating Michigan was a sign of promise for a program trying to find its way back into the light.

Long after the game’s end, Happy Valley rang out with Penn State’s trademark cheer. Some peo-ple, like me, might have even joined in from home.

We are, Penn State.

ON FOOTBall from page 14

speCial To The ChroniCle

Columnist Zac Elder attributes Penn State’s resurgence to head coach Bill O’Brien.

Koskinen Stadium. Duke will need to finish the season strong if it wants to get back to the NCAA tournament for the 11th straight year. Sunday’s victory was an important first step.

“This was a much, much-needed win,” Church said. “It was great to see smiles on the kids’ faces again.”

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“The Big Easy”13 “That’s ___”14 Make a point,

perhaps15 Word before

dog or dance16 Endothermic18 Mike and ___

(candy)19 Former Brit.

Airways vehicle20 Humorist

Frazier frequently found in The New Yorker

21 Number of drummers drumming, in song

23 Birth place28 “___ Place”30 Free ticket31 First-stringers32 Rack-it game?

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he hadn’t missed a beat….I mean 31-of-38, that’s just ridiculous.”

Even in the scoreless first quarter, Boone was ef-ficient. He completed 8-of-10 passing attempts. The only negative was the fact that Boone was sacked twice in the first quarter. This was something that would not happen for the rest of the contest, as the offen-sive line’s play improved along with Boone’s pocket presence.

“After the first quarter I felt very comfortable,” Boone said. “The first couple downs, the first couple series were kind of like flying bullets and I was kind of getting used to it, things flying around and the speed of the game.”

One of the most telling numbers from the game was how Boone led the team in the red zone. While Navy struggled, going 1-for-3, Duke managed to con-

vert on 4-of-6 trips inside the Midshipmen’s 20-yard line. Boone threw for two of those scores, with one coming to Isaac Blakeney and the other to Max Mc-Cafferey.

Boone and the offense were also effective in third down situations. Punter Will Monday was held to a sea-son-low two punts throughout the contest, as the offen-sive unit converted 10-of-16 third-down opportunities.

With 10 connections for 88 yards, the signal-caller’s timing with Crowder could make for a lethal combina-tion. Following the junior’s third game this season with double-digit receptions, the Blue Devils will move deeper into ACC play.

“I think it’s good that he’s back,” Crowder said. “Because I really didn’t know where he stood with the shoulder injury. To see him come back in, get his con-fidence back and make throws like that, I think it’s good. It’s going to help us build our confidence as we get ready to go into ACC play.”

BOONE from page 13


In Anthony Boone’s return, sophomore wide receiver Max McCaffrey caught a touchdown pass for the third consecutive game.

into the fabric of one of college basketball’s most storied programs.

Williams received a similar honor 11 years ago when he had his number retired just be-fore his final game at Cameron Indoor Stadi-um, capping off a career in which the Plain-field, N.J., native averaged 19.3 points per game in three seasons, twice being named a first team All-American.

Just months later, Williams graduated with a sociology degree from Duke after three years of school. Six weeks after graduation, he was selected with the second overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. And one year after his NBA career began, it came to an abrupt and untimely end.

A motorcycle accident June 19, 2003 nearly cost Williams the use of his left leg and required nearly a year of extensive rehabili-tation. As Williams lay in a hospital bed, he considered—and later attempted—suicide. More than a decade later, the Duke Hall of Famer said it was the support from his par-ents that ultimately led him through his dark-est days.

“Getting hurt said a lot about some of the people I had around me when it happened,” Williams said. “Look, we all go through dark moments, right? My dark moment came when I was a 21-year old kid and I got hurt, spent months in a hospital, spent almost a year in bed in North Carolina. I thought about... suicide, and those were the two con-stants in my life who were always there to tell me to keep fighting.”

More than a decade later, Williams can reflect on the success of his Blue Devil team-mates in the NBA. Most of Williams’ fellow

starters on Duke’s 2001 national champion-ship team have since become reliable NBA veterans, leaving the public to wonder what role the Blue Devils’ star could have thrived in at the next level.

“Now seeing all of my teammates, Dun-leavy, Boozer play for Chicago, seeing Shane accomplish what he’s been able to accomplish down in Miami—we had a really special team, and there is no way I am in this position with-out those guys,” Williams said. “They continue to prove that more and more each day.”

Since recovering from his injury, Williams has found a new role off the hardwood—working as a college basketball analyst for ESPN alongside many of the pundits who once touted him as the nation’s top player. Among Williams’ new colleagues is former Blue Devil Jay Bilas, who served as master of ceremonies for the Hall of Fame Induction and Williams refers to as one of his closest friends and mentors.

Williams said there is not a day that goes by where he does not think about his time with Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who instilled in him the confidence to succeeded in a career off the basketball court.

“Each and every day of my life that I am removed away from this program, it contin-ues to show me how impressive of a coach he is,” Williams said. “A lot of the values that we learned on the court are life lessons that we continue to use every single day. And it con-tinues to reflect and show you not only why he’s successful on the court, but if you’re able to take these values and actually install them in your everyday life you can be successful off the court.”

As Williams recounted the ups and downs of his career and his favorite Duke memories

on the stage, it gave his friends and team-mates a glimpse of the 21-year-old kid who stood in a similar spot 11 years ago—stand-ing at center stage smiling, laughing and back on top of the world.

“A lot of people come up to me and they say ‘I’m sorry you’re not playing anymore.’” Williams said. “And I say, ‘There’s nothing to be sorry about. Basketball wasn’t my default plan. What I did here—that’s my main plan.’”

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Jason Williams had his jersey retired at Duke 11 years before being inducted into the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame.

resurrect a program that had sunk as far as a col-lege football program can go. I am a Bill O’Brien fan. And the man was voted ESPN Coach of the Year in 2012, so apparently I am not alone.

Hackenberg, the true freshman who led the Nittany Lions on their improbable fourth quarter comeback drive, signed knowing that he would not have the chance to play in the postseason until his senior year. One of the top quarterback prospects in the nation, he could have accepted scholarship offers from Alabama, Florida or Miami, to name a few. But instead, Hackenberg chose O’Brien and the project that is Penn State football. I am a Chris-tian Hackenberg fan.

The Nittany Lions’ victory against No. 18 Michi-gan means more to the program than just another tally in the win column. It shows signs of overcom-ing the worst of circumstances. It is another step in the rebuilding process that will take years. But Bill O’Brien and Christian Hackenberg certainly have Penn State on the right track.

Moving forward, the Nittany Lions still have a long way to go to overcome the atrocities of San-dusky’s deplorable transgressions and Paterno’s fall from grace. But they are headed in the right direc-tion, and beating Michigan was a sign of promise for a program trying to find its way back into the light.

Long after the game’s end, Happy Valley rang out with Penn State’s trademark cheer. Some peo-ple, like me, might have even joined in from home.

We are, Penn State.

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Koskinen Stadium. Duke will need to finish the season strong if it wants to get back to the NCAA tournament for the 11th straight year. Sunday’s victory was an important first step.

“This was a much, much-needed win,” Church said. “It was great to see smiles on the kids’ faces again.”

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Last Spring, I was assaulted while walking from Erwin Terrace. It was early in the evening, and I was on Circuit Drive. Four

men approached me from behind. One punched me in the head as the others shouted, “Get that n*gger.” I’ve never run faster in my life as I yelled for help.

Six months later, and I’m still a little shaken by what could have happened that night. Luckily, I was able to outrun the group and take refuge behind the walls of the French Family Science Center without serious bodily harm. As a 6’2” male, it’s rare that I feel unsafe in any given environment. In fact, at times I’ve possessed a naïve assumption about my safety. Growing up in suburbia gives one certain illusions about the intelligence of walking outside at any given hour. I’ve never been afraid for my safety because it’s always been something I’ve taken for granted. That thinking was shattered last April. I’m now hyperaware of my surroundings, even on campus.

The senseless violence of it is something I still think about today. Four men, who I had never seen before in my life, tried to hurt me for no discernible reason. This was no mugging, and there was no apparent motivation. They didn’t ask me for anything before one of them decided to punch me in the head. The racial slur ironically hurled my way made little sense as I am quite obviously white, though I guess this could have played some role in the decision to target me. A mugging I could have understood and rationalized, but the randomness of the attack still bothers me.

The recent spate of on-campus burglaries and robberies has reminded me of what I went through last April. I’d like to say that I feel safe on campus again but that wouldn’t be true. The Clery Act is a federal law that requires universities participating in federal financial aid programs to record and alert students about crimes committed on and near campus. It’s the reason we get texts about certain incidents involving Duke students. My attack was classified by the Duke Police Department as simple assault. Simple Assault is an offense that does not need to be reported under the federally mandated Clery Act, which focuses on graver offenses such as robbery and homicide. This makes me question the number and frequency of other incidents such as mine that occur on campus. I don’t believe that other Duke students are routinely being attacked in such a manner or that the police department is routinely misrepresenting statistics by not including simple assault in its alerts, but I am astonished that no warning was sent via text following my attack.

Crime is a thorny issue for the university. It brings up the inherent wealth disparity and

privilege that characterize Duke’s place in Durham. While Duke produces innumerable economic and social opportunities for the city,

it also provokes anger and loathing from some segments of the population. I don’t have the answers to the problems facing student safety on campus but I think considering them is a good place to start. That begins with understanding that there is a problem and that, unless Durham or Duke moves, that’s going to continue to be the case. A dialogue with students, the city and the police about safety and environmental awareness should be a continuing part of campus life and not a onetime event during orientation week. Students need to be reminded that while Duke is very safe, it does not exist in a bubble. Safety to a large degree is an individual responsibility that requires an understanding of one’s environment and the risks that accompany it. Furthermore, the Duke Police Department should also hold itself to a higher standard than the Clery Act mandates. There were other students walking on Circuit Drive that night, and they should have been alerted. The semantic distinction between simple and aggravated assault doesn’t constitute a significant enough difference in student safety to exclude it from the alerts. Statistics on simple assault should be kept by the University, and students should be notified when incidents occur near or on campus.

Crime happens. It’s an unfortunate reality of life, and I don’t blame Duke for what happened last Spring. While I should be able to walk on campus without fear in the early evening, the University can’t realistically be expected to prevent all random acts of violence from occurring. What Duke can do, however, is alert us when these abnormal events occur and encourage students to consider more frequently how they relate to their environment. Personal safety is for the most part an individual responsibility, but part of the university’s role in safeguarding its students must include a discussion of crime. It’s not possible to think about preventing events one is unaware of. This continuing series of discussions, not the closure of Towerview Drive, is what will truly make students safer on campus.

Colin Scott is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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Clear and open communication about Duke Kunshan University will become increasingly important as the campus in Kunshan inches closer to completion. Last week, Nora Bynum—vice provost for DKU and China initiatives—updated the Arts and Sciences Council on DKU’s progress, confronting concerns about academic freedom and assuring faculty of DKU’s commitment to academic integrity.

We thank Bynum for addressing faculty members’ concerns. Her comments reflect the administration’s willingness to include community members in conversations about DKU, and we hope this marks the first in a series of open discussions about our Chinese venture.

Although we appreciate more candid dialogue, the administration’s assurances have neither completely assuaged our concerns nor addressed questions from all of DKU’s stakeholders. In response to inquiries about academic freedom, Bynum noted that a collection of Chinese and American universities, including Duke, have signed a document stating that the priorities of a research university include, among other things, the “responsible exercise of academic freedom” and the “tolerance … of competing views.” Statements do not always translate into practice, however, and we would like to know, in as much detail

as possible, how Duke plans to protect academic freedom at DKU.

Bynum also noted that Mary Bullock—executive vice chancellor for DKU—plans to issue regular reports on academic freedom to the Provost, who will report to the Academic Council. In order to

ensure that this oversight mechanism actually holds DKU accountable for its academic programs, the administration should articulate specific standards for academic freedom at DKU and outline the actions it will take if DKU fails to meet those standards. Given the Chinese government’s involvement in the project, the University may have difficulty setting enforceable standards for intellectual freedom. Attempting to do so would be valuable nonetheless. Moreover, if DKU finds itself unable to meet Duke’s standards of academic freedom, the University should commit to releasing detailed public statements explaining why DKU has failed to meet those standards.

Duke should also seek to include more students in discussions about DKU. The University can do this in a number of ways, but perhaps the most effective

approach would be to host a series of forums in which students have opportunities to ask direct questions about the project. An open forum would replace unilateral communication with a two-way exchange of ideas and force administrators to trade meticulously crafted public relations statements for more thoughtful and organic responses to student concerns.

Although we welcome more information about DKU, we continue to have questions about the long-term sustainability of the project, the mechanisms in place to ensure that students are receiving an education worthy of a Duke degree, the campus culture and the possibility of complete academic freedom. It also remains unclear to what extent DKU will function as an independent entity. DKU is a partnership between Duke, Kunshan University and Wuhan, and Duke has “shared responsibility” for DKU’s operating costs for the first six years. But how much of DKU’s operating budget and discretionary funds come from Duke? To what degree is Duke responsible for what happens at DKU?

Although questions about the project remain, we are hopeful that the administration will continue working to communicate more substantively with community members.

speaking of china

Editorial Hola mis amigos! I’m writing to y’all from

Santiago, Chile, and I’m ashamed to admit that that is basically the extent of

my Spanish. I’m in Chile as part of Duke Immerse, otherwise known as my third trip abroad that’s been heavily subsidized by good ol’ Daddy Duke. While my past two Indian summers and current South American adventure don’t exactly make up for

the absurd tuition (or my frighteningly expensive eating habits during my Parisian semester), Duke-sponsored travel has certainly been enlightening. In reflecting upon my newly-declared identity as an engaged, immersed, global citizen, I’ve compiled a list of the most valuable travel tips I’ve picked up along the way.

1. How to dress.Black is your best friend. My theory is that the

French wear tons of black because it makes you look cool and you can spill pretty much anything on it without anyone noticing. For me, international travel cultivates an intense urge to eat sloppy foods (hello, Nutella crepes and suspicious meats on a stick) and drink staining beverages (ahem, red wine). After an unfortunate incident involving my favorite white dress and some heavenly coq au vin, I vowed to never again pack anything I couldn’t wear two days in a row without looking like a Tide commercial.

2. How to eat.“I’ll have the cheeseburger, only without the

meat and the cheese and the taste. And could you do a side of organic quinoa instead of the bun?” Be this person only if you want to stick out as the sucky nerd with a death wish! The best way to eat delicious food that won’t kill you (because the waiter hasn’t spit in it) is to eat what the locals eat. I once got food poisoning from pepperoni pizza in Paris but was somehow unaffected by three months of gorging myself on Indian street food. Lesson learned.

3. How to go out.What’s the easiest way to spot a Dukie abroad?

Look for a pack of six or more obnoxious 20 year olds roaming any touristy nightlife district. You’ll likely hear comments such as: “OK guys, so which bar should we go to?” “Wait there are only 200 bars on this street and, like, none of them look good.” “No, we’re not going in there that looks sketchy!” and “Ew, I hate karaoke, no.” I understand that adjusting to nightlife in the absence of Shooter’s, Devine’s and the Alpha Theta Eta Pi Manor Compound can be

difficult, but seriously guys, just pick a bar. You can leave if it’s bad! You didn’t go abroad to spend your nights b*tching and wandering in the cold because you finally realized you look like a doofus in those Ugg boots and foreign bouncers are intimidating. Just chug some cheap wine beforehand because it tastes better than you think and them fancy drinks are pricey.

4. How to be sassy.Being confident and assertive while traveling is

crucial, especially when it comes to confronting the creepers. When the drunk dude peeing on someone’s car whistles at you, you can either maturely ignore it or cruelly humiliate him. If you choose the latter, I suggest you be cautious and then, in the appropriate language, do what I’ve found most affective: Insult his mother. There are several reasons why insulting someone’s mother works: It’s about as personal as you can get, and it makes a good comeback more difficult. As in, screaming “f*ck you” can elicit responses like, “OK, why don’t you!” I suggest phrases like “niques ta mere,” “hijo de puta” and “f*ck your mother” to more effectively insult the perpetrator.

5. How to have a cultural experience.Uh this is why you travel! If you’re abroad to

learn a language, you should, like, actually speak it. You didn’t go to Madrid or Rio or Shanghai or wherever to spend all of your time gossiping with Dukies in English. This can be terrifying, so I suggest baby steps. Order your coffee (it better not be from Starbucks), chat up the taxi driver and bitch out that crazy lady who cut you in line at the train station. There are few things more gratifying then having a successful conversation with a local in their language. This one time in Paris, I gave directions to a French person and spent the rest of my life high-fiving myself.

Second in terms of sense of accomplishment is mastering public transportation. Yes, you will be the least stylish person on any European metro, but if you expect to take taxis everywhere, you will be broke in two weeks. The rickshaws in certain Asian countries may seem horrifying, but they’re super fun and cheap and really make you feel alive. I’ve almost died only like 12 times riding these in India, so statistically speaking that’s not so bad, right?

So there you have it, Dukies. I hope y’all get to have some sweet (and free) travel experiences while you’re here. Just remember, the best way to embrace any culture is to do as you wouldn’t do in Durham. You left for a reason, right?

Chelsea Sawicki is a Trinity senior. Her column is part of the weekly Socialites feature and runs every other Wednesday. Send Chelsea a message on Twitter @ChelsTweetzz.

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Chelsea SawickiNamaste y’all

In the Muslim household I grew up in, Eid meant getting up at 6:00 a.m. to put on your very best clothing for the morn-ing prayers two hours later. While my siblings always seemed

way too eager for the celebration of the holiday, I was always the last child to slug out of bed. It was only out of fear of admonish-ment that I’d get up and put on whatever way-too-girly outfit I was told to wear.

On Tuesday, Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Adha. Eid al-Adha, roughly translated as the “celebration of sacrifice,” is one of two major Muslim holidays each year. It is the larger of the two, and it’s a time of year during which

Muslims all around the world come together to celebrate Prophet Abraham’s willingness to submit to God’s will. It also celebrates the end of Hajj, a pilgrimage Muslims make at least once in their life to Mecca as an opportunity to rid themselves of any past sins.

Each Eid, my family would get in the car and make the 25-minute drive to the local recreation center where Muslims from around my county would come together to pray. For much of my childhood, Eid seemed categorically pointless. I was not knowledgeable enough to understand the meaning of the celebration, and the formalities and festivities seemed like a debauched excuse to miss a day of school. I knew that once we’d get to the prayers, I’d be pressured into talking with the other girls in my age group from the community. I dreaded the fact that I’d have to act interested as they conversed about the outfits they were wearing and the amount of makeup they were allowed to wear for the occasion.

As I got older, I began to educate myself more on the history of Eid as well as the rituals and traditions that seemed pointless to me as a child. By the time I was 14 or 15 years old, I glued myself to the TV when images of the pilgrims popped up on Al-Arabiya television. I was looking forward to the days preceding Eid, because I knew those days to be a time during which God would answer my many prayers.

Two days before Eid, during my sophomore year of high school, my father fell ill, and a trip to the physicians turned into the realization that his kidneys were failing. He had to make the quick decision to start dialysis and was going to be admitted to the hospital.

On the morning of Eid, I woke my siblings. We all got dressed and my older brother scooted us out the door to the prayers. I’d decided that, since we’d only attended the Eid prayers to maintain a sense of normalcy for my younger siblings, I wasn’t going to dress up. When we arrived at the prayers, we were late enough that we had missed much of the pre-prayer chitchat. My younger sisters and I sat together and listened as the khatib—the lecturer for that particular prayer—told the story of Prophet Abraham. The khatib’s broken English echoed of an Egyptian background, and his accent made it necessary to listen very closely so as to understand the points he was conveying. He was lecturing what seemed to be the same Eid sermon we’d heard every year. As I listened closer, however, I became interested in what he had to say. He emphasized that Prophet Abraham’s trust in God was the model we should learn from, and he emphasized that God knew all along that he wasn’t going to make Prophet Abraham sacrifice his son, Ishmael. As I paid attention to the word of the khatib, I stopped thinking about the state of my father. When the khatib started the call for prayer, I’d forgotten that my dad wasn’t there.

When we arrived back home, my younger sister’s distress about the state of my dad meant that my older brother and I would plan an impromptu cookie-decorating contest. After six hours of cookie decorating, talking about Prophet Abraham and squirting whipped cream in my her mouth to keep her from crying, my sister fell asleep, and my older brother and I were left to clean up the disaster we’d made in the kitchen.

My brother and I laughed at my then 6-year-old sister’s drawings on the cookies. We laughed even harder at how burnt I’d let the cookie dough get while it was baking. Each year since then, the arrival of Eid has brought overwhelming feelings of thankfulness and hope.

This year’s Eid will be the second that I don’t get to spend at home with my siblings. Like last year, I’ll spend Eid reminiscing about cookie decorating and whipped cream and about how my brother and I argued why Prophet Abraham was so accepting of God’s will. This Eid, I will once again thank God for giving me a memory that will always embody the spirit of Eid.

Nourhan Elsayed is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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Last Spring, I was assaulted while walking from Erwin Terrace. It was early in the evening, and I was on Circuit Drive. Four

men approached me from behind. One punched me in the head as the others shouted, “Get that n*gger.” I’ve never run faster in my life as I yelled for help.

Six months later, and I’m still a little shaken by what could have happened that night. Luckily, I was able to outrun the group and take refuge behind the walls of the French Family Science Center without serious bodily harm. As a 6’2” male, it’s rare that I feel unsafe in any given environment. In fact, at times I’ve possessed a naïve assumption about my safety. Growing up in suburbia gives one certain illusions about the intelligence of walking outside at any given hour. I’ve never been afraid for my safety because it’s always been something I’ve taken for granted. That thinking was shattered last April. I’m now hyperaware of my surroundings, even on campus.

The senseless violence of it is something I still think about today. Four men, who I had never seen before in my life, tried to hurt me for no discernible reason. This was no mugging, and there was no apparent motivation. They didn’t ask me for anything before one of them decided to punch me in the head. The racial slur ironically hurled my way made little sense as I am quite obviously white, though I guess this could have played some role in the decision to target me. A mugging I could have understood and rationalized, but the randomness of the attack still bothers me.

The recent spate of on-campus burglaries and robberies has reminded me of what I went through last April. I’d like to say that I feel safe on campus again but that wouldn’t be true. The Clery Act is a federal law that requires universities participating in federal financial aid programs to record and alert students about crimes committed on and near campus. It’s the reason we get texts about certain incidents involving Duke students. My attack was classified by the Duke Police Department as simple assault. Simple Assault is an offense that does not need to be reported under the federally mandated Clery Act, which focuses on graver offenses such as robbery and homicide. This makes me question the number and frequency of other incidents such as mine that occur on campus. I don’t believe that other Duke students are routinely being attacked in such a manner or that the police department is routinely misrepresenting statistics by not including simple assault in its alerts, but I am astonished that no warning was sent via text following my attack.

Crime is a thorny issue for the university. It brings up the inherent wealth disparity and

privilege that characterize Duke’s place in Durham. While Duke produces innumerable economic and social opportunities for the city,

it also provokes anger and loathing from some segments of the population. I don’t have the answers to the problems facing student safety on campus but I think considering them is a good place to start. That begins with understanding that there is a problem and that, unless Durham or Duke moves, that’s going to continue to be the case. A dialogue with students, the city and the police about safety and environmental awareness should be a continuing part of campus life and not a onetime event during orientation week. Students need to be reminded that while Duke is very safe, it does not exist in a bubble. Safety to a large degree is an individual responsibility that requires an understanding of one’s environment and the risks that accompany it. Furthermore, the Duke Police Department should also hold itself to a higher standard than the Clery Act mandates. There were other students walking on Circuit Drive that night, and they should have been alerted. The semantic distinction between simple and aggravated assault doesn’t constitute a significant enough difference in student safety to exclude it from the alerts. Statistics on simple assault should be kept by the University, and students should be notified when incidents occur near or on campus.

Crime happens. It’s an unfortunate reality of life, and I don’t blame Duke for what happened last Spring. While I should be able to walk on campus without fear in the early evening, the University can’t realistically be expected to prevent all random acts of violence from occurring. What Duke can do, however, is alert us when these abnormal events occur and encourage students to consider more frequently how they relate to their environment. Personal safety is for the most part an individual responsibility, but part of the university’s role in safeguarding its students must include a discussion of crime. It’s not possible to think about preventing events one is unaware of. This continuing series of discussions, not the closure of Towerview Drive, is what will truly make students safer on campus.

Colin Scott is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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Clear and open communication about Duke Kunshan University will become increasingly important as the campus in Kunshan inches closer to completion. Last week, Nora Bynum—vice provost for DKU and China initiatives—updated the Arts and Sciences Council on DKU’s progress, confronting concerns about academic freedom and assuring faculty of DKU’s commitment to academic integrity.

We thank Bynum for addressing faculty members’ concerns. Her comments reflect the administration’s willingness to include community members in conversations about DKU, and we hope this marks the first in a series of open discussions about our Chinese venture.

Although we appreciate more candid dialogue, the administration’s assurances have neither completely assuaged our concerns nor addressed questions from all of DKU’s stakeholders. In response to inquiries about academic freedom, Bynum noted that a collection of Chinese and American universities, including Duke, have signed a document stating that the priorities of a research university include, among other things, the “responsible exercise of academic freedom” and the “tolerance … of competing views.” Statements do not always translate into practice, however, and we would like to know, in as much detail

as possible, how Duke plans to protect academic freedom at DKU.

Bynum also noted that Mary Bullock—executive vice chancellor for DKU—plans to issue regular reports on academic freedom to the Provost, who will report to the Academic Council. In order to

ensure that this oversight mechanism actually holds DKU accountable for its academic programs, the administration should articulate specific standards for academic freedom at DKU and outline the actions it will take if DKU fails to meet those standards. Given the Chinese government’s involvement in the project, the University may have difficulty setting enforceable standards for intellectual freedom. Attempting to do so would be valuable nonetheless. Moreover, if DKU finds itself unable to meet Duke’s standards of academic freedom, the University should commit to releasing detailed public statements explaining why DKU has failed to meet those standards.

Duke should also seek to include more students in discussions about DKU. The University can do this in a number of ways, but perhaps the most effective

approach would be to host a series of forums in which students have opportunities to ask direct questions about the project. An open forum would replace unilateral communication with a two-way exchange of ideas and force administrators to trade meticulously crafted public relations statements for more thoughtful and organic responses to student concerns.

Although we welcome more information about DKU, we continue to have questions about the long-term sustainability of the project, the mechanisms in place to ensure that students are receiving an education worthy of a Duke degree, the campus culture and the possibility of complete academic freedom. It also remains unclear to what extent DKU will function as an independent entity. DKU is a partnership between Duke, Kunshan University and Wuhan, and Duke has “shared responsibility” for DKU’s operating costs for the first six years. But how much of DKU’s operating budget and discretionary funds come from Duke? To what degree is Duke responsible for what happens at DKU?

Although questions about the project remain, we are hopeful that the administration will continue working to communicate more substantively with community members.

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Editorial Hola mis amigos! I’m writing to y’all from

Santiago, Chile, and I’m ashamed to admit that that is basically the extent of

my Spanish. I’m in Chile as part of Duke Immerse, otherwise known as my third trip abroad that’s been heavily subsidized by good ol’ Daddy Duke. While my past two Indian summers and current South American adventure don’t exactly make up for

the absurd tuition (or my frighteningly expensive eating habits during my Parisian semester), Duke-sponsored travel has certainly been enlightening. In reflecting upon my newly-declared identity as an engaged, immersed, global citizen, I’ve compiled a list of the most valuable travel tips I’ve picked up along the way.

1. How to dress.Black is your best friend. My theory is that the

French wear tons of black because it makes you look cool and you can spill pretty much anything on it without anyone noticing. For me, international travel cultivates an intense urge to eat sloppy foods (hello, Nutella crepes and suspicious meats on a stick) and drink staining beverages (ahem, red wine). After an unfortunate incident involving my favorite white dress and some heavenly coq au vin, I vowed to never again pack anything I couldn’t wear two days in a row without looking like a Tide commercial.

2. How to eat.“I’ll have the cheeseburger, only without the

meat and the cheese and the taste. And could you do a side of organic quinoa instead of the bun?” Be this person only if you want to stick out as the sucky nerd with a death wish! The best way to eat delicious food that won’t kill you (because the waiter hasn’t spit in it) is to eat what the locals eat. I once got food poisoning from pepperoni pizza in Paris but was somehow unaffected by three months of gorging myself on Indian street food. Lesson learned.

3. How to go out.What’s the easiest way to spot a Dukie abroad?

Look for a pack of six or more obnoxious 20 year olds roaming any touristy nightlife district. You’ll likely hear comments such as: “OK guys, so which bar should we go to?” “Wait there are only 200 bars on this street and, like, none of them look good.” “No, we’re not going in there that looks sketchy!” and “Ew, I hate karaoke, no.” I understand that adjusting to nightlife in the absence of Shooter’s, Devine’s and the Alpha Theta Eta Pi Manor Compound can be

difficult, but seriously guys, just pick a bar. You can leave if it’s bad! You didn’t go abroad to spend your nights b*tching and wandering in the cold because you finally realized you look like a doofus in those Ugg boots and foreign bouncers are intimidating. Just chug some cheap wine beforehand because it tastes better than you think and them fancy drinks are pricey.

4. How to be sassy.Being confident and assertive while traveling is

crucial, especially when it comes to confronting the creepers. When the drunk dude peeing on someone’s car whistles at you, you can either maturely ignore it or cruelly humiliate him. If you choose the latter, I suggest you be cautious and then, in the appropriate language, do what I’ve found most affective: Insult his mother. There are several reasons why insulting someone’s mother works: It’s about as personal as you can get, and it makes a good comeback more difficult. As in, screaming “f*ck you” can elicit responses like, “OK, why don’t you!” I suggest phrases like “niques ta mere,” “hijo de puta” and “f*ck your mother” to more effectively insult the perpetrator.

5. How to have a cultural experience.Uh this is why you travel! If you’re abroad to

learn a language, you should, like, actually speak it. You didn’t go to Madrid or Rio or Shanghai or wherever to spend all of your time gossiping with Dukies in English. This can be terrifying, so I suggest baby steps. Order your coffee (it better not be from Starbucks), chat up the taxi driver and bitch out that crazy lady who cut you in line at the train station. There are few things more gratifying then having a successful conversation with a local in their language. This one time in Paris, I gave directions to a French person and spent the rest of my life high-fiving myself.

Second in terms of sense of accomplishment is mastering public transportation. Yes, you will be the least stylish person on any European metro, but if you expect to take taxis everywhere, you will be broke in two weeks. The rickshaws in certain Asian countries may seem horrifying, but they’re super fun and cheap and really make you feel alive. I’ve almost died only like 12 times riding these in India, so statistically speaking that’s not so bad, right?

So there you have it, Dukies. I hope y’all get to have some sweet (and free) travel experiences while you’re here. Just remember, the best way to embrace any culture is to do as you wouldn’t do in Durham. You left for a reason, right?

Chelsea Sawicki is a Trinity senior. Her column is part of the weekly Socialites feature and runs every other Wednesday. Send Chelsea a message on Twitter @ChelsTweetzz.

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In the Muslim household I grew up in, Eid meant getting up at 6:00 a.m. to put on your very best clothing for the morn-ing prayers two hours later. While my siblings always seemed

way too eager for the celebration of the holiday, I was always the last child to slug out of bed. It was only out of fear of admonish-ment that I’d get up and put on whatever way-too-girly outfit I was told to wear.

On Tuesday, Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Adha. Eid al-Adha, roughly translated as the “celebration of sacrifice,” is one of two major Muslim holidays each year. It is the larger of the two, and it’s a time of year during which

Muslims all around the world come together to celebrate Prophet Abraham’s willingness to submit to God’s will. It also celebrates the end of Hajj, a pilgrimage Muslims make at least once in their life to Mecca as an opportunity to rid themselves of any past sins.

Each Eid, my family would get in the car and make the 25-minute drive to the local recreation center where Muslims from around my county would come together to pray. For much of my childhood, Eid seemed categorically pointless. I was not knowledgeable enough to understand the meaning of the celebration, and the formalities and festivities seemed like a debauched excuse to miss a day of school. I knew that once we’d get to the prayers, I’d be pressured into talking with the other girls in my age group from the community. I dreaded the fact that I’d have to act interested as they conversed about the outfits they were wearing and the amount of makeup they were allowed to wear for the occasion.

As I got older, I began to educate myself more on the history of Eid as well as the rituals and traditions that seemed pointless to me as a child. By the time I was 14 or 15 years old, I glued myself to the TV when images of the pilgrims popped up on Al-Arabiya television. I was looking forward to the days preceding Eid, because I knew those days to be a time during which God would answer my many prayers.

Two days before Eid, during my sophomore year of high school, my father fell ill, and a trip to the physicians turned into the realization that his kidneys were failing. He had to make the quick decision to start dialysis and was going to be admitted to the hospital.

On the morning of Eid, I woke my siblings. We all got dressed and my older brother scooted us out the door to the prayers. I’d decided that, since we’d only attended the Eid prayers to maintain a sense of normalcy for my younger siblings, I wasn’t going to dress up. When we arrived at the prayers, we were late enough that we had missed much of the pre-prayer chitchat. My younger sisters and I sat together and listened as the khatib—the lecturer for that particular prayer—told the story of Prophet Abraham. The khatib’s broken English echoed of an Egyptian background, and his accent made it necessary to listen very closely so as to understand the points he was conveying. He was lecturing what seemed to be the same Eid sermon we’d heard every year. As I listened closer, however, I became interested in what he had to say. He emphasized that Prophet Abraham’s trust in God was the model we should learn from, and he emphasized that God knew all along that he wasn’t going to make Prophet Abraham sacrifice his son, Ishmael. As I paid attention to the word of the khatib, I stopped thinking about the state of my father. When the khatib started the call for prayer, I’d forgotten that my dad wasn’t there.

When we arrived back home, my younger sister’s distress about the state of my dad meant that my older brother and I would plan an impromptu cookie-decorating contest. After six hours of cookie decorating, talking about Prophet Abraham and squirting whipped cream in my her mouth to keep her from crying, my sister fell asleep, and my older brother and I were left to clean up the disaster we’d made in the kitchen.

My brother and I laughed at my then 6-year-old sister’s drawings on the cookies. We laughed even harder at how burnt I’d let the cookie dough get while it was baking. Each year since then, the arrival of Eid has brought overwhelming feelings of thankfulness and hope.

This year’s Eid will be the second that I don’t get to spend at home with my siblings. Like last year, I’ll spend Eid reminiscing about cookie decorating and whipped cream and about how my brother and I argued why Prophet Abraham was so accepting of God’s will. This Eid, I will once again thank God for giving me a memory that will always embody the spirit of Eid.

Nourhan Elsayed is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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