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When the Arts and Sciences Council vot-ed against for-credit online courses Thurs-day afternoon, it broke an existing contract between Duke and 2U, an internet educa-tion company.

In the Fall, Provost Peter Lange signed a contract with 2U, which entered the Uni-versity as a partner in the company’s Semes-ter Online consortium of schools. Had the motion to approve for-credit online courses passed, Duke would have offered courses for credit through Semester Online for at least a three-year pilot program. Several professors voiced concern, however, that the adminis-tration was not transparent with the faculty about its dealings with 2U. Neither the deci-sion to pursue online courses for credit nor the decision to sign with 2U specifically was voted on by any faculty governing body or committee.

“The decision taken on Thursday was an expression of desired caution with regard to a specific recommendation and not a gener-al turning away from what has been accom-plished,” Lange wrote in an email Saturday. “We will continue to...provide our students [with] the richest learning experiences.”

Although arguments against for-credit online courses focused on the merits of online learning, faculty members also ex-pressed issues with the format of Semester Online and the timeline of the faculty’s in-volvement with the proposal. A number of faculty members expressed support for on-line learning but dissatisfaction with 2U and the way administrators discussed entering into a partnership.

“We are not, as I think we’ve been char-acterized, ideologically opposed to online education,” said Rebecca Stein, director of un-dergraduate studies in cultural anthropology,

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ADPhi joins IFC

CAPS gives tips for reducing stress

Arts and Sciences Council vote breaks contract with 2U

by Imani MoiseTHE CHRONICLE

Alpha Delta Phi will join the Interfraternity Council in the Fall after being denied admit-tance in March.

The off-campus fraternity has been recog-nized by the national Alpha Delta Phi organi-zation since 2006, however it has never been officially affiliated with the University. Mem-bership in a greek council is a pre-requisite to University recognition of a fraternity and eligi-bility for a housing section. ADPhi was denied admittance into the council, and therefore on-campus housing, earlier this semester in a pri-vate hearing with IFC. After signing a one-year probationary agreement, however, ADPhi was granted admittance into the IFC in the Fall.

“Alpha Delta Phi has a strong national his-tory of excellence, and I am confident that this culture of striving for excellence will continue on the local level as their men become a valu-able resource for the entire Duke community,” junior Jack Riker, president of the IFC, wrote in an email Sunday.

Junior Jay Vitha, executive vice president of the Interfraternity Council, said the IFC ulti-mately chose to admit ADPhi into the council because “everyone saw the benefit of having a united greek council.”

To gain admittance into the IFC, the frater-nity had to sign a probationary agreement that lists a number of requirements the fraternity

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The Arts and Sciences council decides against offering online courses for credit. SEE 2U ON PAGE 6

Tension between faculty and administrators

Students during finals are prone to reach a high level of stress as they balance completing exams and papers in their classes. To help students prepare for their finals, The Chronicle’s Anthony Hagouel spoke with Gary Glass, assistant director for outreach and developmental programming at Counseling and Psycho-logical Services, on how to alleviate stress. Glass got input from other CAPS staff members before compiling some tips.

It’s important to recognize the advantages and disadvantages of stress. The advantage of stress is that it actually increases your capacity to meet challenges by sharpening your thinking and putting your body in “fight” mode, giving you a sense of greater energy. The disadvantage is this also activates your fear response and, if you remain in a stressed mode for too long, you begin to wear down. To de-activate the stress response and limit the amount of consistent time in that mode, keep the following tips in mind.SEE ADPHI ON PAGE 7

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by Raisa ChowdhuryTHE CHRONICLE

This year’s Last Day of Classes festivities tried not to kill anyone’s vibe.

The LDOC committee maintained changes made last year to the alcohol policy, as well as added safety fea-tures, to offer students a diverse, enjoyable and safe cele-bration to conclude the year. The number of emergency medical calls increased, but there were fewer transports to the hospital, a reversal of 2012 statistics.

“Everything went kind of exactly according to plan,” senior Bo Triplett, chair of the LDOC committee, said.

In collaboration with administrators, the committee focused on creating an event with an atmosphere that aimed to encourage community bonding.

“We worked really hard in terms of allowing everyone to enjoy the day instead of just getting really drunk, and I think we really set a precedent,” Triplett said. “By provid-ing activities that students really wanted to participate in and having bands that people cared about—it gets people excited for the event rather than just excited to party.”

Many of the changes this year involved fine-tuning adjustments made last year, but these small changes helped make a big difference, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said.

Safety measures included water stations, continuing policies restricting the amounts and types of alcohol stu-dents could have on the main quad as well as circulating public safety messages.

“[Because] we had already had a year with the rules about six packs, glass bottles, no hard liquor, students were accustomed to those particular expectations and I think those of us who were there to help make LDOC fun and safe, were also much more comfortable and fa-miliar,” Wasiolek said.

Planning prior to the event involved individuals from the Office of Student Affairs, Duke Student Wellness Center, Duke University Police Department and Hous-ing, Dining and Residence Life along with students on the LDOC Committee.

“LDOC has been seeing a general trend of becom-

ing a much safer event,” junior Jay Srinivasan, director of Duke Emergency Medical Services, said.

EMS received 22 calls this year, compared to last year’s 13, but involved less severe cases, he said.

There were only two calls regarding trauma, but Srinivisan said he could not discuss the specific injuries or reasons, he added. Eighteen of the calls were alcohol-related.

A few damages occurred to campus facilities but all were minor, Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for HDRL, said.

“There has been much greater emphasis on a safer event less characterized by alcohol,” Srinivasan said. “The LDOC Committee put a lot of great work into in-culcating that sort of dynamic there.”

Junior Alex Lewis said that after three years, she has come to greatly appreciate the daytime programming.

“I realize with all of the concerts on campus, there’s a lot of access to music and for me it’s more about hang-ing out with everyone before the summer,” Lewis said.

Although she did not care greatly for the perfor-mances, senior Ruthie Griffith said she enjoyed her last LDOC in Krzyzewskiville, basking in the sun.

The programs throughout the day had good turnout and received positive feedback, Triplett noted.

The six bands in the evening concert lineup ranged from “jam bands” to rappers, which helped please a wide variety of people, Triplett said.

“This year has been by far the best concert based on my four years, I’d say even in the history of LDOC,” Trip-lett said.

For some, the daytime events were the highlight of the day. Griffith left the quad with her friends once the music started because it was too loud. Some individuals she spoke to afterward, however, enjoyed the event.

Wasiolek said she was grateful that students had ex-ecuted a well-planned event, but had one change she’d like to see in the future.

“As someone who is not college-age and has not been college-age for many years, I would like to change up the music a bit,” she said.

Continued LDOC policies create safer event

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Humanities faculty cite lack of admin support

by Danielle MuoioTHE CHRONICLE

Faculty members gathered Thursday eve-ning to voice concerns about the state of the humanities at Duke.

While the Arts and Sciences Council was voting on whether or not to approve for-credit online courses—a movement that concerned many professors teaching humanities cours-es—faculty members gathered to discuss the role the humanities have at Duke. In particu-lar, professors raised concern about Duke’s “top-down model,” noting a tendency for ad-ministrators to make decisions that affect hu-manities departments without any humanities faculty input.

“Over the past four years, I have become progressively sad,” said Nancy Armstrong, Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Profes-sor of English, who helped lead the meeting. “I belong to a cohort who feels the diminu-tion of its ability to work. My entire group of people… feels as if their power to act has been somewhat diminished here.”

Such communication barriers have pushed the humanities to the sideline of Duke’s cur-riculum, said Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor and professor of neurobiology. He added that there is a need to reiterate the value of a humanities education so that ad-ministrators begin taking faculty input more thoughtfully.

“When I came here I wasn’t sure what to think. Sometimes Duke seemed like a corpo-ration where the arts was just a cog in the ma-chine,” he said. “We are not being encouraged to do the work that is typically encouraged by humanists.”

‘A complete afterthought’Faculty members noted there were many

areas were administrators could improve com-munication with humanities departments.

Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Lit-erature and Romance Studies, said profes-sors need to discuss with administrators more regularly about how current initiatives relate to the humanities. She noted that the exis-tence of “high tension” regarding new forms of technology is indicative of the lack of com-munication.

Although the meeting was set-up prior to the Arts and Sciences Council vote on wheth-er to approve for-credit online courses, which was ultimately voted down, faculty members noted their discontent with how administra-tors discussed the matter with humanities faculty. When Political Science Professor Da-vid Paletz announced that the council voted against for-credit online courses, the room erupted with applause.

“Instead of the administrators telling us about some new technology thing, maybe we could all get together and talk about what these technologies could do for more people in the humanities,” she said.

In addition to a lack of communication about new technology, such as Internet edu-cation company 2U’s Semester Online and MOOCs, administrators need to discuss how donation money should be used to aid the hu-manities, rather than making the humanities an afterthought, said Michael Moses, associate professor of English.

by Imani MoiseTHE CHRONICLE

A startup led by recent Duke alums is developing technology to help build trust between fracking companies and the communities they affect.

The company, BaseTrace, is design-ing a DNA tracer that could be added to fracking fluids to end speculation about the fluid’s effect on water sup-ply. They have been working closely with the Triangle Research Institute and have received support and funding from the Nicholas School of the Envi-ronment, Cherokee Challenge and the Duke Start-up Challenge.

Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, is a process that involves drill-ing into layers of rock in order to pump high pressure fluids underground to release natural gas and oil. Once this fuel is brought to the surface it can be collected and sold for energy use. Although North Carolina legislature approved fracking in the state, some residents remain skeptical of the proce-dure out of fear of the possible environ-mental damages such as contaminated drinking water.

“Hydraulic fracturing is, predictably, a large issue at the Nicholas School of the Environment,” BaseTrace CEO and founder Justine Chow, Master of Environmental Management ’12, said. “Regardless of what side communities stood on the fracking debate, there was a definite need for a tracer that could provide accountability on where con-

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ing fluid, the mixture would then be pumped into the ground through the normal fracking procedure, Chow said. Because the tracers would be unique to each well, the DNA will create a finger-print for each batch of fluid which will help determine whether fracking fluids have seeped into groundwater.

“It’s an extremely sensitive detection test,” she said. “If there’s any potential leakages, casing failure, or other issues that could cause hydraulic fracturing fluid to get into aquifers or surface wa-ter, a sample of that water could tell us exactly which well that contamination comes from.”

In addition to its sensitivity, DNA is also an environmentally-friendly mate-rial so it can be safely introduced into the ecosystem, Chow noted.

So far the company’s efforts have primarily been focused on prototype tests to perfect its product but the team is in talks with interested production firms, Chow added. BaseTrace plans to be commercialized by the end of 2013.

Although this technology may rem-edy reservations towards fracking of some North Carolina residents, others remain opposed.

University of North Carolina at Cha-pel Hill sophomore Jasmine Ruddy, a member of the environmental affairs committee of UNC student government,

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speaking against the proposal. “We simply seek due diligence on the part of the entire faculty.”

Ultimately, 16 council members voted against for-cred-it online courses and 14 voted in favor, with two absten-tions. Prior to the vote, there was an unsuccessful motion to table the decision until the Council’s September meet-ing, with 10 members voting in favor, 16 opposed and one abstention.

“It’s a disaster,” said physics professor Steffen Bass, a mem-ber of the Executive Committee of the Arts and Sciences Council, who spoke in favor of adopting the proposal. “It was not voted down because online education is a bad thing. It was voted down on the basis of very political arguments.”

Before the vote, faculty members, which included non-council members who had decided to attend the meeting, were invited to state their opinion. Two mi-crophones were placed at the front of the room, one for those who supported the motion and the other for those who were against it. Among the speakers were the two professors who had already developed classes to be taught through Semester Online, Emma Rasiel, associ-ate professor of the practice of economics, and Tom Metzloff, professor of law.

“While I was disappointed with the outcome of this particular vote, I have no doubt that Duke will contin-ue to pursue opportunities to explore the potential of online education,” Rasiel said in an email Saturday.

The proposal would have allowed Duke students to take a maximum of four online courses for credit throughout their undergraduate career with no more than one per semester. An “opt-in/opt-out” clause would have given each academic department the abil-ity to decide whether or not it wished to participate in the program. Each department would have determined for itself whether or not to teach online courses and whether or not to grant credit towards a major, minor or general education requirements for courses taught by other school’s in the online consortium.

Several professors noted the departmental flexibility as a benefit that might not exist in a future venture into online learning.

Bass noted that the proposal had given Duke an “unheard of level of autonomy” in terms of how departments could shape the future of online education at the University.

Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton noted that al-though 2U is a commercial enterprise, Semester Online is a non-profit entity and the participating schools would retain full control over their respective curricula at the meeting Thursday. She also spoke of 2U’s willingness to work with Duke to provide new, satisfying models of online education.

“2U will work with any faculty member on the creation of new class forms,” Patton said prior to the vote. “Whatever we want to do… 2U will support it.”

Faculty members, however, voiced a number of concerns about the partnership prior to the vote.

Jocelyn Olcott, director of undergraduate studies for history, was concerned that such a set-up would pit depart-ments against one another and diminish interdisciplinarity.

Cary Moscovitz, assistant professor of the practice in writ-ing, noted that allowing students to take online courses for credit could dilute the value of a Duke degree.

Political science professor David Paletz questioned the prestige of the consortium. The consortium consists of seven partner schools—Boston University, Brandeis Uni-versity, Emory University, Northwestern University, the Uni-versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Notre Dame and Washington University in St. Louis—none of which are as highly ranked as Duke. The consortium is meant to eventually become 20 schools, all of which would have been classified as either “direct peers” or “aspirational peers” of Duke.

Though Semester Online had advertised Duke as a part-ner for several months, the University was removed from the website as of late Friday morning.

When the vote count was announced, several professors broke into cheers. Their excitement was not universal, how-ever.

Bill Seaman, professor of visual media studies, start-ed a motion on the floor for Duke faculty to continue a commitment to pursuing online education, but the motion did not pass.

Still, there was talk of moving forward with explor-ing online opportunities.

“I do not want this conversation to be about faculty versus administration,” Patton said in the closing re-marks of the meeting. “I want this conversation to be about us moving forward with creative possibilities for online education.”

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The student was not injured, the DukeALERT said, and remained unnamed in the message.

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He added that many donors come to the University with good intentions but only interact with administrators and de-velopers. The administration accepts the money without first consulting with the humanities departments about how it should be used, he said. As a result, faculty members are told to develop projects that received funding, which the humani-ties departments may not even support.

“We should talk to development about the kind of initia-tives we would like to see development seek outside funding for, instead of being in a situation where we are always at it last and are being asked to develop a program that is against our goals,” he said.

Moi noted that most programming coming from admin-istrators focuses on cross-department collaboration. The Uni-versity’s intense focus on interdisciplinary work, however, has in some ways been harmful because such projects are done without the humanities departments’ input.

“I’m looking for a really good Bass initiative theme that is built up from the humanities, rather than tagging us on as a complete afterthought,” she said. “I’m annoyed about this in-sistence from above on cross-school collaboration.”

Moi advocated for a more “organic” approach, where fac-ulty members take it upon themselves to propose collabora-tive projects rather than being forced by administrators to do so. She added that as a result of Duke’s interdisciplinary focus, those working to do intensive research in a single discipline are less likely to receive funding.

The humanities stigmaThe sentiment that humanities courses are not practical

and will not lead to fulfilling careers has also hurt the way the humanities are discussed at Duke, Flanagan said.

To relay this sentiment, Flanagan told a story in which a par-ent discussed his disappointment that his child chose to be a political science major “instead of something practical.”

“There is a need for us to rearticulate the value of what we do,” he said.

Professors also discussed a waning interest in certain hu-manities courses, such as English and history, accrediting the trend to a lack of concerted effort by the administrators to re-cruit interested students.

Michael Gillespie, Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Political Science, said students are the key to mak-ing administrators realize the value in a humanities education. In addition to recruiting students interested in the humanities, faculty members should also work on programs that will en-gage first-years in humanities courses. He recommended an extension of the Focus program as one possible method.

Sarah Beckwith, professor of English and professor of theater studies, also noted a need to make the humanities a greater part of the Duke education, and suggested a revision to Curriculum 2000, which outlines the requirements Trinity students must fulfill prior to graduation.

“Curriculum 2000 is wildly out of date and deeply preju-dicial, certainly to the performing arts departments and the humanities,” she said.

The meeting Thursday served as a preliminary discussion to those initiatives that should occur throughout the academic year. At the end of the meeting, faculty members proposed to facilitate more opportunities for discussion with administrators and to look at ways to garner greater student interest in the humanities, among other methods.

“There isn’t enough listening and talking at this university,” Flanagan said. “The better we can voice what we do... the better it will be.”

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said she is against fracking but that BaseTrace’s new technology sounds promising. Ruddy is a resident of Morehead City, one of the areas that would be directly influenced by fracking in the state,

“While this [technology] will make a lot of people feel safer, I think the bigger issue is that we shouldn’t have fracking in North Carolina in the first place,” Ruddy said. “My concern is that there is not really an ‘if’ question there. There is enough data to support that it will get into the water supply. The question is when and where.”

Adrian Down, a third-year Ph. D. candidate in ecol-ogy who has done research about hydraulic fracturing noted that BaseTrace will have to overcome a number of engineering and logistical hurdles in order to be successful.

The uncertainty of how a DNA tracer will react to compounds deep in the earth and the tracers abil-

ity to withstand the high pressure, temperature and saline environment of the gas wells could pose en-gineering difficulties, Down said. He added that an even larger obstacle is the politics of fracking.

“A bigger challenge is convincing drilling compa-nies to use a tracer like this voluntarily or convincing lawmakers to require that such a tracer be used,” he said. “Unless there’s an economic or legal reason to use a technology like this, I doubt drilling companies will do so voluntarily.”

Despite doubts, Jake Rudolph, chief technology of-ficer at BaseTrace, said the company will benefit all parties by providing more information for resource creation and environmental stewardship.

“BaseTrace will change how industry and local communities interact for the better,” Rudolph said. “We’re a hybrid technology, employing life sciences in the energy sector, and that gives us a lot of oppor-tunity to build meaningful partnerships with differ-ent folks.”

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must meet to “ensure a smooth transition” into the council, Riker said, though he did not disclose what the requirements were.

“I am confident that they will pass with flying colors,” Riker said of meeting the requirements.

ADPhi has undergone many name changes since it was originally chartered on Duke’s campus as Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon. SAE was expelled from the national fraternity in 2002 for violating rules regarding risk management, such as hazing and illegal alcohol use. As a consequence, the chapter was immedi-ately disaffiliated from Duke.

After moving off campus, the fraternity assumed the name Delta Phi Alpha. Four years later, the fraternity was adopted by ADPhi as part of the national organization’s effort to expand to more elite institutions.

Alpha Delta Phi President Stephen Potter, a junior, said he is excited that the fraternity will officially join the Duke com-munity in the Fall.

“We’re delighted to be joining the IFC and are very pleased to make our standing in Duke’s greek community officially,” he wrote in an email Sunday.

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Renfree breaks Duke’s NFL Draft drought

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Coming off a surgery that prevent-ed him from participating in pre-draft workouts, Sean Renfree wasn’t expect-ing to get drafted. As the NFL Draft’s seventh and final round rolled around, he was already fielding calls from teams that were looking to sign him as an un-drafted free agent.

But with just six picks to go came one final call from Atlanta Falcons gen-eral manager Thomas Dimitroff, who in-formed the quarterback he was the 249th overall selection in the draft. Renfree had become Duke’s first NFL Draft selection in nine years.

“I was ecstatic. When I heard that the Atlanta Falcons had made me their final selection, it was really a surreal moment,” Renfree said. “I’ve always had a dream of playing in the NFL. I know being drafted and playing are two different things, but it’s a step towards that goal.”

Renfree will now not only have the op-portunity to learn from starting quarter-back Matt Ryan, but also to compete with Dominique Davis for the backup quarter-back job from day one. Davis has yet to throw an NFL pass in one season of expe-rience. The East Carolina alum was signed as an undrafted free agent following the 2012 NFL Draft.

“Obviously, Matt is considered one of the elite quarterbacks in the league. He’s had great success, and he’s a proven winner. So to be behind a guy like that and learn from him will be very valuable for me,” Renfree said. “I just want to be healthy at this point so I can compete for

that job. It will be a great opportunity and a challenge for me.”

Before Renfree sets his eyes on mak-ing the Falcons, he must complete his rehab and get back on the football field. Renfree had surgery to repair his torn pectoral muscle the day after Duke’s

Belk Bowl loss to Cincinnati. Until re-cently, he had not thrown a football in nearly four months.

Unable to work out for scouts or partic-ipate in the NFL Scouting Combine, Ren-free’s draft stock was kept afloat from the ringing endorsements he received from head coach David Cutcliffe and Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning.

“I’ve said it before—I think Sean Ren-free is the most accurate passer in this year’s draft class,” Cutcliffe said in a press release. “A career completion percentage of nearly 65 percent for a major college quarterback is exceptional, and in Sean’s case, that happened for a reason because of his skill level, mental toughness and preparation.”

Renfree continues to throw every other day and hopes he will be able to partici-pate in some capacity during the Falcons’ annual rookie camp, which will take place in two weeks.

Cutcliffe has never had any shortage of praise when it comes to his quarterback of five years, who was one of the first players he ever recruited to Duke.

“The Atlanta Falcons are getting a young man who will have a positive im-pact on the field, in the film room, in the

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“Do you play for the money or for the love of the game?” grilled a third grader who had cornered Derek Jeter in a parking garage.

Jeter had just signed a 10-year contract worth $189 million, and as a Mets-obssessed sports snob whose par-ents parked in the same garage

as Jeter, I felt the need to interrogate my perceived archrival.

“For the love of the game, of course,” Jeter replied with a chuck-le, probably wondering why this kid didn’t just ask for an autograph.

But I’ve never been one for auto-graphs, and I’ve always enjoyed ask-ing questions. My last question of The Chronicle’s 108th Volume: How did it go so quickly?

Before or after, I couldn’t imagine a better job than Chronicle Sports Editor. How many people have gotten to ask Coach K before the Olympics if he would wear chic, thick-rimmed glasses to try and fit in with LeBron James and Kevin Durant? What about asking Eli and Peyton Manning if

Ambling and askingthey helped cook David Cutcliffe break-fast when they were his houseguests?

But like many other sports editors, I often asked myself why I committed a year of my college experience to 50-hour weeks and 24-hour Twitter obsessing.

I kept wondering that over and over ago about a month ago as I sat in Ambler Tennis Stadium, burning to a crisp on the aluminum bleachers—illustrating how overripe and jaded I felt as sports editor. I had two essays to write but also two writers to train, and so that and a breakfast of leftover Chipotle became my Saturday morning.

Following my post-match interviews—which included a question from the coach about whether I had heard of sun-screen—I strolled back to my dorm only to notice a sign outside reads, “The ten-nis stadium is dedicated to the memories of all the Amblers who loved Duke.” Be-yond the generous Ambler family, which donated $1.6 million for the stadium’s construction, the sign pays homage to everybody at Duke who ambles and takes the time to walk slowly enough to appre-ciate what exactly is going on.

Sometimes it’s easy to quantify an ex-perience: I’ve written 181 articles and 386 blog posts. Then there are tweets, pageviews and Facebook recommends.

But the times I’ll remember most are those in which I ambled, dawdled, loi-tered, meandered, moseyed, sauntered and strolled near Duke sports.

Those moments sometimes ended up in stories, sometimes in blog posts and sometimes in tweets, but more often they became memories I’ll hold onto forever.

Like when I got to the Duke-Miami game at Cameron Indoor Stadium three hours early, hoping to amble in and catch a glimpse of Ryan Kelly warming up. I didn’t see him, though I sat court-side as he came in cold and scored 36 points in the most impressive individual performance I may ever see.

What I actually saw a couple hours be-fore the game: a magical hug between Seth Curry and ESPN reporter Doris Burke, who was at Madison Square Garden a few days earlier when Seth’s brother Stephen scored a whopping 54 points against the Knicks. “Currys play well when I’m there,” Burke said. I couldn’t wait for Seth to go off for 55 points and write my story about the cutest hug ever. He scored seven. It didn’t make it into my story.

Sure the most exciting moments were when Kelly hit his seven threes and chips of Pantone 287 blue paint covered my green corduroy blazer, but the most re-warding stories and questions have been

those that other people miss. A lot of people get to cover Duke basketball—not many become the de facto beat reporter for Brian Zoubek’s Dream Puffz.

Breaking news is a thrill, sitting in 301 Flowers as the Associated Press, ESPN and other major news outlets chase a story you broke. But just as im-portant are the unheralded moments: the Cameron Crazies chanting “one more kid” to Perky and Leslie Plum-lee when their eldest son Miles gave his senior night speech, following a big loss to UNC last year. Maybe that moved me so much because I have two older brothers who have somehow put up with me while I asked questions and ambled, sometimes aimlessly, for 21 years.

But this job has made me laugh and think and cry, so there’s no question it’s been something special.

Retiring is never easy, as Coach K said to me over the summer after he had 30 fomer players in town for the K Academy. I joked that I knew the feel-ing: I retired from playing basketball in eighth grade.

“Did you get a lot of autographs?” he joked.

Questions, not autographs.

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locker room and in the community—he’s just that type of special person,” Cutcliffe said. “Today, Sean realizes a dream that so many boys have at an early age, and no one is more deserving.”

Renfree’s long-time friend and team-mate, wide receiver Conner Vernon, was anticipated to be selected sometime on the day three of the draft. The ACC’s all-time leader in receptions and receiving yards was expected to be taken as high as the fifth round, but when the dust settled Saturday evening, Vernon’s name had not been called.

But it did not take long for Vernon to find a home in the NFL. The Miami native signed a contract with the Oakland Raid-ers as an undrafted free agent less than two hours after the Draft had ended.

“I was surprised. I think we all were. Ev-erybody expected Conner to get selected,” Renfree said. “He’s going to be complete-ly fine, just because of the caliber of play-er that he is. Lots of guys—Matt Daniels, Thaddeus Lewis and Vinny Rey—played at Duke and weren’t drafted but they’re still on teams now because they’re good play-ers. Everybody knows Conner is a compet-itor and a great player.”

The Raiders boast a thin and inexperi-enced receiving corps, and Vernon should have an opportunity to make the team in training camp. Oakland also spent its sev-enth round selection, 203rd overall, on San Diego State wide receiver Brice Butler.

“Over the past four years, I’ve had the privilege to watch Conner grow as both a young man and football player,” Cutcliffe said in a press release. “Conner has an opportunity to be an asset to the Oakland Raiders because of his desire to compete and be the best football player he can possibly be.”

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Duke wins ACC title on final 9 holesby Daniel Carp

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Playing from four shots down to start the final round, No. 9 Duke stormed back to take its seventh ACC title in program his-tory.

With a four-under-par performance Sunday afternoon, the Blue Devils fought through subpar weather conditions and passed No. 14 Florida State—which had led after the tournament’s first and second rounds—to take the 2013 ACC Champion-ship at Old North State Club in New Lon-don, N.C.

“In the last hour, when the weather was almost unplayable, these guys were able to make really big putts, make pars, and that’s what we needed,” Duke head coach Jamie Green said. “I’m really proud of how these guys kept it together.”

Duke posted a 25-under 839 on the weekend, setting a school record for lowest 54-hole score.

The Blue Devils finished three strokes ahead of the Seminoles, who finished tied for second with Virginia Tech at 22-under.

Senior Adam Sumrall and junior Aus-tin Cody led the charge in the final round for Duke, with each posting scores of two-under-par. Cody was particularly clutch on the back nine, recording birdies on the 13th and 14th holes before sinking a 40-foot putt on the 16th hole to lead the Blue Devils’ late surge.

“[Austin wanted to aim it outside a ball mark [on the green] and it was starting to rain pretty heavy,” assistant coach T.D. Luten said. “From my vantage point, once it rolled over the line he wanted, I said, ‘Oh baby’ and it disappeared.”

As the Blue Devils played their final three holes, the weather went from bad to worse. Duke’s final three holes were amidst a heavy downpour, forcing the team to hold onto its lead for dear life.

“At the end of the day, it was just a test of survival,” Green said.

Sumrall finished fifth overall with an eight-under 208, the second-lowest round by a Duke player in ACC Championship his-tory. He has never shot worse than even-par in his career at the Old North State Club.

Green said Sumrall has continued to im-prove over the years, playing his way into the lineup last season and becoming one of the team’s leaders during his senior campaign.

“He wasn’t in the lineup his freshman and sophomore year in this tournament, so I think it speaks to how he’s worked,” Green

said. “I couldn’t be more proud of how he played this week.”

Brinson Paolini and Julian Suri finished tied for seventh at five-under-par, shooting 211 for the tournament.

The Blue Devils found themselves in contention Sunday thanks to a 15-under-par performance as a team Saturday, tying a school record. Suri led the way, shooting a six-under 66. Paolini and Sumrall posted rounds of 68 and 69 respectively.

Duke now awaits its assignment for the NCAA Regional Championships, which will take place May 16-18.

“We don’t have any idea where we’re go-ing to be sent for regionals, but it doesn’t really matter,” Green said. “These guys have been building throughout the year. We’re just looking forward to the next opportunity.”

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A late surge on the back nine Sunday gave Duke its seventh ACC Championship in program history.

MEN’S GOLF

Everyone tells you to try something new in college. On move-in day freshman year, there were hundreds of cars, seemingly thousands

of caffeinated upperclassmen in bright shirts and even more excited freshmen. And me? Instead of new opportunities, all I could think about was sleeping. The day before coming to Duke, I found out I had mono and instead of hookups and DFMOs at Shooters, my bed and I started a special relationship.

During O-week, my roommate dragged me out of bed to a Chronicle information session, refusing to listen to my pleas that I had no newspaper, yearbook or magazine experience to speak of. I listened to a group of sophomores speak about the photography department and was slightly intrigued. Then they mentioned a free barbecue that night. Anyone who has had a conversation with me for longer than fi ve minutes knows my famous stomach, so naturally I was drawn in. The party that weekend only sealed the deal. I would join the elite, the proud, the illustrious and become a Chronicle photog. This kicked off four years of intentional unintentionality, both in and out of the classroom.

My fi rst assignment was a challenging and tricky one: taking pictures of Whole Foods. And man, did I take a lot of insipid and boring photos of that building. Five minutes later, I was standing in the Whole Foods manager’s offi ce as they deleted all of my photos. Apparently, all photographs had to be approved in advance.

After my bright start as a professional building photographer, I actually learned how to take a photo and began picking up as many assignments as possible. I took on random assignments on a whim and learned more things about this University than actually necessary.

Outside of The Chronicle, I joined club after club. I never turned down something that seemed novel or slightly interesting, whether or not they offered free food. I tried to absorb something from every new occurrence and used each one to propel me to learn more about myself.

Sophomore year I discovered EOS travel courses and commenced my free travel spree. Junior year I left the Bull City and wandered around Ecuador, trying to convince the entire country that I could actually form a coherent sentence in Spanish.

Throughout my four years and among my numerous commitments, the Chronicle offi ce started to become a second home. Whenever given the chance to try something new, I went

for it. Going across the country on red-eye fl ights for sporting events, editing photos with LoYo in one hand and a beer in the other, and

spending absurdly late nights in the offi ce talking and watching unhealthy amounts of television defi ne the rest of my Chronicle experience.

On one of the last days of my summer internship before senior year, I was standing inside a freezer (I promise this is more normal than it sounds) when I got a phone call offering me a last-minute position on the photo masthead. In my normal fashion,

I considered the prospect for a full two seconds and made an impulsive decision, taking on what would be the most time-consuming venture of my Duke career. Untrained and clueless about everything involved with putting a paper in the stands every morning, I struggled to fulfi ll the role of being an editor. Instead of the fi re sale senior year I had crafted with my friends, I spent more hours in the Chronicle offi ce than my own dorm room. But in those countless hours, I met several remarkable underclassmen who became some of my closest friends, and I learned more in one year than the other three years combined.

While at Duke, we often get wrapped up in the daily grind. Papers, tests, problem sets, grades mixed in with extracurriculars and internships consume our lives with the goal of getting the perfect job. But what is more memorable about your Duke experience? Staying up until 5 a.m. writing a paper? Or the equally late night discussing the feasibility of eating fi fty chicken nuggets (very doable) and who can draw the best duck (ask Beaton for a one-of-a-kind sketch)? The endless opportunities are what make Duke special and are only signifi cant if we take advantage of them. More importantly, the things that may seem random or unintentional can turn out to be the most meaningful.

The only way to end a senior column is with a stereotypical quote: “Never be afraid to try something new because life gets boring when you stay within the limits of what you already know.” So take a deep breath, take the plunge and try something unintentionally new. By which I really mean, march into LoYo, take a chance and try the sorbet.

Caroline Rodriguez is a Trinity senior and the news photography editor for The Chronicle. You can fi nd her anywhere on the interweb as @spyagnes or around anything associated with Local Yogurt.

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Although discussions about the purpose of higher educa-tion continue, the debate over for-credit online courses has, for the time being, ended. Last week 75 professors penned a letter to The Chronicle in which they criti-cized Duke’s partnership with Internet Education Company 2U. Last Thursday the Arts and Sciences Council voted down the proposal to offer for-credit online courses.

The concerns expressed by faculty members, both in the Arts and Sciences Council and in a recent meeting convened by faculty in the humanities, touch upon a number of issues that the editorial board has discussed this year. In particu-lar, many faculty feel that the University, as it continues to

pursue online education and interdisciplinary learning, has failed to recognize the value of the humanities in a liberal arts education.

In our view, these con-cerns illustrate the need to in-clude faculty in

all steps of approving, design-ing and implementing new University initiatives. We com-mend the faculty for continu-ing to insist that the adminis-tration consult with them as they develop new programs and encourage administra-tors to take more interest in faculty concerns.

The concerns outlined by the 75 faculty members who published last week’s letter point to crucial issues that the administration needs to ad-dress as it considers the future

of online education at Duke. The faculty raised questions about the pedagogical con-sequences of online courses impugning their ability to ef-fectively replicate in-classroom interaction and face-to-face feedback. Moreover, they rightly identifi ed the need to protect Duke’s liberal arts cur-riculum from “political and commercial pressures that might otherwise hold sway” in the context of today’s in-creasingly commercialized ap-proach toward higher educa-tion. Prioritizing departments and programs that promise to rake in lots of money threatens the future of many disciplines within the humanities, which, while not always as fi nancially rewarding as other fi elds, re-mains integral to a liberal arts curriculum.

Two weeks ago, we dis-cussed a number of these problems. We suggested that, given the seeming inevitabil-ity of for-credit online courses at some point in the future, faculty and administrators should not debate whether or not such a move is desirable, but should instead look at ways to improve platforms for online education so that they are more compatible with the humanities. Although online courses are, for the moment, off the table, the issues will cer-tainly resurface, and any effort to fi nd ways in which online courses can be made worthy of credit must involve faculty input and feedback.

It is in the University’s best interest to incorporate all stakeholders, especially faculty, into discussions

about Duke’s move to online education. As the recent veto of for-credit online courses illustrates, when the admin-istration pursues initiatives without gaining approval from faculty it causes dis-satisfaction and narrows the space for compromise over divisive issues.

Faculty are uniquely posi-tioned to contribute to Duke’s long-term academic projects. They are responsible for and deeply committed to the high quality liberal arts education that Duke prides itself on. The humanities, in particular, form the philosophical core of a liberal arts education. All elite universities, as they navi-gate the uncertain future of higher education, must con-tinue to value and sustain a strong humanities tradition.

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The First Snapshot: I remember my first night at

Duke before O-Week. Devil’s Piz-zeria. Ninth St. My mom, dad and sister. I ordered a spinach and cheese slice of pizza. No real appetite, though.

In conversation, my sis-ter said, “Spanish 1 was ter-rible. You can only speak Spanish.” That was it. I broke out in hives, face and chest on fi re. As a guy from rural North Car-olina, I can’t even speak English well. I speak slowly, naturally. I knew Spanish would be an extreme challenge.

The importance of that first night at Duke was the feeling that I was about to start something unlike anything I had ever faced before. In that mo-ment, I knew that Duke would be in-credible and challenging. I was scared and excited.

Four years later: As I started my senior year, my dad

imparted some advice to me. He said, “As a senior, you will experience a lot of lasts: last chance to experience your favorite events and activities.” As he told me this, I thought about some of these things—my last game as a Cam-eron Crazie and my last class (not to mention my last LDOC). All of these experiences have come to pass and can never be repeated, for they are unique to our time at this University.

While this seems to be a pessimistic way to look at my final year at Duke, my dad’s advice was not intended to make me feel constant depression in my senior year. Although 40 years re-moved, my dad also graduated from Duke, and he understood what I would face as a senior who is still absolutely in love with our Gothic Wonderland. He knows that it is going to be incredibly hard for me to leave this campus as an alumnus and not a student on May 12. But my dad didn’t want to dishearten me—he wanted me to cherish and feel every happy moment completely.

Cliché? Perhaps. But at this mo-ment—with classes over and gradua-tion two weeks away—this is what is true to me: The past four years have been the best of my life; and of these four years, senior year has been unrivaled; and of senior year, I expect these last few weeks to be unparalleled. You see, as I get closer to the end, everything is made more exciting by the fact that I will never do these things again. I will never gather around a burning bench to celebrate a victory over Carolina or a championship win.

Rarity makes experiences more enjoyable and more exciting, and my dad wanted me to understand that last

times make this feeling even stronger. These are special moments that will never be the same.

As we face these lasts, it’s also very important to realize that we are going to experience many firsts. This is exciting. When I wrote my high school graduation speech, I tried to include my favor-ite Jack Kerouac quote, “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people, and they

recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy ven-ture beneath the skies.” Right now, the line is so valuable to me because it is hard to imagine leaving the people that I have grown to love. Duke has been our home, and we became more than just friends, we became family—we live together, we rely on one another and we experience the beautiful ups and downs of college. For me, this bond formed my first year in Giles. Most of my best friends today were my neigh-bors and my roommate. We were so na-ïve, but like kids, we grew up, learned and changed together.

Leaving our Duke families is going to be extremely sad and diffi cult, but I fi nd comfort in the words of Kerouac; it is goodbye, but it is also the start of our next crazy adventure. We are experienc-ing a lot of lasts, but also a lot of fi rsts.

Duke has provided me with great experiences: photographing President Barack Obama, working in Kolkata, In-dia and being mentored by a Pulitzer Prize winner. But Duke has also pre-pared me for a lifetime of amazing ex-periences still to come. So, I am happy and sad, and scared and excited to call myself a Duke alumnus.

A Final Snapshot: I am sitting in Chapel Quad. The

sun is shining with a slight breeze—picture-perfect North Carolina spring weather. Small children are running around, playing with each other and puppies. There are graduates tenting for Duke weddings. I see The Chroni-cle, 301 Flowers and the Chapel: bold, beautiful—everlasting. Even with the end so close and inevitable, there is resistance in this beautiful moment; I cannot be sad that it is ending, only happy that it happened.

Addison Corriher is a Trinity senior. He is the photography editor for Towerview Magazine and a photographer for The Chronicle. He would like to thank every member of The Chronicle for four amazing years of late nights, which were always fun and never productive.

The next crazy venture beneath the skies

When I made the decision to travel 10,000 miles around the world for college, I did what

any right-minded study-abroad kid would do: I started a blog.

Reading it now, I smile at accounts of the first time I visited a Tar-get (they sell cornflakes and carpets in the same store!), drove a friend’s car with left-hand drive, witnessed a girl actually talk like Gretchen Wie-ners—things that were initially novel, but that I don’t bat an eyelid at now.

As I extend my time abroad, I recall other firsts with a heavy heart, like the first realization that scheduled Skype sessions would replace simply picking up the phone and calling my mom. Those will persist and have been hard-er to get used to.

Entering my last weeks at Duke, I thought it appropriate to include a few excerpts from my inner monologue during my first weeks here.

August 19, 2009. “Homesick. Today I met two girls

that live on my hall. They’re nice and we get along fine, but still, making friends from scratch is tiring.”

I didn’t know this then, but those girls and many other friends would become my family and my home away from home. We shared our successes, secrets and suffering—everything from rocky job hunts to personal tragedy to hilariously awkward encounters with the opposite sex. While at Duke, I have met so many intelligent, genuine and lovable people who have brought me immense comfort and joy on days when home seemed so far away.

I forged other friendships with men-tors—professors, advisors and editors that I am fortunate to have learned from. Something I discovered my soph-omore year: Your teachers stay brilliant when class is over, and learning about a professor’s research can transform your academic path. And Courtney, Margie, James, Ian, Chase, Lawson, Maya, Naclerio: Each of you has made me a better editor and photographer.

August 23, 2009.“Tonight I helped edit photos for

tomorrow’s issue of The Chronicle.”Our class has experienced a lot to-

gether, but I saw it all through The Chronicle’s lens. I was in the offi ce when Katie Couric’s staff called and asked for Gossip Bro. When Austin Rivers hit his celebrated buzzer-beater against UNC, I was sitting under Duke’s basket.

The Chronicle has been a source of valuable learning and priceless friendships, but it has also brought me frustration and grief. Trust me, for every comment you’ve seen about how The Chronicle is a hopeless rag, I’ve thought the same three times (aka thrice).

On a recent evening while hashing out #chronproblems with a former sports photography editor and close friend, I realized that in a way I’m for-tunate to have dug deep into some-thing at Duke that sits so close to my heart. Sure, many mornings have seen me hunched over the paper, rubbing my temples and asking “Why?!” (or “REALLY?!”)

But that’s only because I spent two

years caring more about this newspa-per than my grades, health or social life. There’s value in investing your-

self in something that doesn’t always make you feel successful or proud, but always makes you feel like you’re an irre-vocable part of it—some-thing a lot of us would say about Duke.

September 14, 2009.“I’m going to work re-

ally hard this week and relax next week … is

what I told myself last week.”I spent my first three years here

thinking that being more meant work-ing more. This year, I took time to not work.

Don’t get me wrong: Senior year has had its share of mild panic attacks. Like reading and coding 1,400 news stories for my thesis or writing a 20-pager dur-ing the Ohio State game or sending out resumes till mid-April.

But between these things, I worked in advertising and uncovered a new passion. I went to concerts with a best friend, where we immersed ourselves in songs we’d grown up to on different continents and others we had just then grown to love. I walked through Dur-ham, camera in hand, forever remem-bering the light that hits a crumbly green wall and squat newspaper stands in brazen primary colors. I took time to sit in parts of my Duke experience that had hurt or angered me.

You might not have time to do those things now, and that’s fine. I didn’t either in the years I spent shuttling between classes, extracurriculars and the impression that time spent outside these places was wasted. I don’t regret keeping busy, but my Duke experience would have been incomplete had I nev-er looked up from the textbook, the viewfinder or the computer screen.

When my parents dropped me off at Duke, my father looked around in wonder and said, “Wow—this is a real institute of education.” My time here has not only been four years of educa-tion, but four years of learning as well. I find myself mind-stretched, with ho-rizons-broadened and still very much a half-written book. I have made and changed decisions, fulfilled and bro-ken stereotypes and promises.

I have been taken care of in the best ways possible and have tried to do the same. I have become less rash but more impulsive, more thoughtful but less caring about the deep and infinite meaning of all things.

Yesterday, on my last LDOC, I sat on the quad and contemplated how strange it was to be leaving Duke for a full-time job in a city. Things are going to be so weird. And a friend said, “Well, coming here was weird.”

It was weird—and so will be the up-coming year. But with good friends, work I love and a little bit of time for myself, maybe that’s okay.

Melissa Yeo is a Trinity senior. She is cre-ative director of Towerview Magazine and the former photography editor of The Chron-icle. She would like to thank her parents, Apartment I, the Girls and Muppets, Albert and the original BBM group for keeping her sane despite the tribulations of 301 and von der Hazard.

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On my last LDOC—my LLDOC—I made the de-cision to not glance down at my watch at any point during the day. Instead of planning, I only

wanted to enjoy my friends’ company and to bask in being a Duke student for one of the last times. Our LDOC did not live up to the day’s hype: We missed all of the per-formers and didn’t go to Shooters. But we did end up staying up until 3 a.m., order-ing pizza and talking. It was the best LDOC I’ve ever had.

I’ve worn a watch practically ever since I can remember, though the brands and styles have changed. Something tells me that the Pocahontas watch that I loved so dearly when I was six years old wouldn’t be the best thing to wear to a job interview—or ever again. Before coming to Duke, wearing a watch was appealing to me for aes-thetic reasons. But more than that, I liked the security of always knowing what time it was. As an overachiever and micromanager, I wanted to be able to ensure that I was never late to anything.

In my usual fashion, I started out my Duke career as an early bird. As one of the 547 early admits to the class of 2013, I was overeager to make my way across the coun-try, from rural Northern California to North Carolina. I came to Duke with lofty goals, and I detailed in my mind how things would play out. I would excel academically, have a six-fi gure job waiting for me upon graduation and make friends who would be with me forever.

But somehow in the turbulence of my four years here, Duke has changed me from someone who planned every detail and was always on time into quite the opposite. I

still put my watch on every morning, but somehow I am no longer timely. Instead, I procrastinate like crazy. It started with putting off writing a paper or delaying when I would start studying for an exam. But this year, I’ve procrastinated on think-ing about and accepting how different my life will be once I graduate from Duke. Now, I’m almost 22, and I can no longer put off accepting the fact that college—and all the hand-holding that comes with it—is spiraling to a close.

After four years here, many of my original goals for how this place will change me have been fulfi lled. I have two of the best friends I could possibly ask for. We met freshman year, and through our time at Duke they have been the people who have played the most signifi cant role in molding me into the person I am and the per-son I want to be. I have been so profoundly lucky in that sense. But if I could turn back the dial on my watch to give my freshman self some advice, I would. What I would say would be centered on time—and timing.

There’s something to be said for allowing yourself to not care so much about what the clock says—something I learned at Duke, through procrastinating. I would have thought that by this time senior year, I would have a clear idea of what I would be doing next year. The fact

that I’m so late in this regard is terrifying. But I also feel as though all the time I’ve spent being uncertain has allowed me to mull things over thoroughly, and to delin-eate the kind of person I do and do not want to be.

So take your time to wander, but don’t be afraid to leap when you know in your heart that it’s time. I think I fi rst started procrastinating simply because I got tired of always being so busy, and I wanted to allow myself reprieve. Having three papers and an exam on the ho-rizon is a great excuse for putting off telling someone how much you love them. It’s a great way to not question whether your classes, extracurriculars and even social life are putting you on a path that will lead to happiness, and not just to a padded wallet and prestige.

The other day, one of the most important people in my life asked me if I have any regrets about my four years at Duke. Of course, there are things I would do differently. But truth be told, I can’t classify any of the billion mistakes I’ve made here as regrets. The fact is, I can’t turn back the clock, and I don’t really want to.

I’ll continue to put on my watch every morning and manage my day in blocks that are easily organized on Google Calendar. But Duke has also taught me that not everything can be planned. It’s important to follow what you feel, to allow yourself to stray from the beaten path. And for that lesson, I will be forever grateful.

Maggie Spini is a Trinity senior. She is a senior editor and would like to thank everyone on The Chronicle’s staff for mak-ing 301 Flowers such a comfortable second home.

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In deciding the topic of my senior column, I have come to the painful conclusion that the number of cell phones I have lost is probably the most accu-

rate representation of my past four years at this school. The exact number is eight (with two close calls). To those that don’t know me, that might sound like an exag-geration. Unfortunately, it’s not. To those who do know me, you probably thought it was more.

Looking back on my past phones, the ways in which they were lost and (some-times) returned to me are reflective of the stages in my life during which they happened. I won’t walk you through all of them, but like most mistakes, there are lessons to be learned from each of my phone-transgres-sions. Given that this is my last opportunity to share any wisdom I’ve gained at Duke, I think phone-loss is perfect, as I am an expert on the subject.

The first phone casualty I experienced happened on the first floor of Aycock, when my pink BlackBerry came within fatal proximity of some unfortunately-placed Aristocrat. My friends and I were young and impressionable and still sneaking vodka into our dorm rooms, and I was shocked. Like many things in college, this phone damage was a first for me, and I had no idea how to handle it. The solution came when one of us suggested going to Cosmic Cantina to get some dried rice, which we had been told would cure it. Unfortu-nately, the rice didn’t help. Instead, my friends and I had more than a few good laughs trekking to Ninth St. and abandoning our plans for the night in an attempt to fix my phone.

Sophomore year, my phone fell victim to the North Carolina State Fair. My friends and I still didn’t know that there was vibrant life beyond Duke’s campus, and the fair seemed like an exotic thing to do. That phone was never recovered, and the process of get-ting another one was much less enjoyable than the first time. Though I had insurance, losing this phone meant that contacts were lost, my editor was upset at

my slow response time and reporting needed to hap-pen on the phones in the office. As a sophomore, Duke had seemed to lose its newness and the challenges of

the ever-referenced “work hard, play hard” environment became impossible to ignore. Relationships with friends had become more complicated because our relationships with ourselves had become less concrete. For me it meant countless hours balancing The Chronicle and my personal life, which at times were very difficult to separate.

Fast forward to junior year, when I lost my phone outside a house party near campus. As a somewhat more responsible student, I set it down to help a friend

get into a cab, and it had been lost in the shuffle. I had maxed out my phone insurance policy (that’s pos-sible), but I had a nicely timed upgrade that solidified my transition to the iPhone. A few weeks later, howev-er, my editor received a voice mail on The Chronicle’s machine from a nice lady saying she had found it and wanted to return it. Touched by the gesture, I visited her and ended up meeting a wonderful person. Junior year had a habit of surprising me that way; I had cho-sen not to go abroad and subsequently fell in love with life-long friends, came to know different grades better and finally explored the city I had been living in for more than two years.

Inevitably, senior year has come and gone. After a “phamily” dinner with my littles (I’m the old one now), we were leaving Sushi Love and it was raining; my phone fell out of my bag while I was putting away my umbrella and I didn’t notice its absence until I got home. At that point, I had a back-up flip-phone I could use, and it was funny to realize which phone numbers I had memorized (I’m pretty guilty of being contacts-de-pendent) or already had stored. Despite my phone haz-ards, the people I knew and loved most always seemed to be able to find a way to communicate with me.

Today, I’m glad to say I’ve rejoined the world of smart phones and have most of my contacts restored.

Losing one phone (let alone eight) is not an experi-ence I would wish on any person, but I’m sure most people can relate to some extent. Reflecting on each lost device, though, has opened my eyes to what can be taken away from it all.

As a senior preparing to enter the real world, it is inevitable that time will eventually distance me from some of the people that pop up on my phone screen countless times a day. I will no longer be calling strang-ers for bylines (true story: I once talked to President Barack Obama on the phone from my co-worker’s dorm room) or class projects. With any luck, though, the magic that is modern technology will be able to give me little glimpses of the life I’m leaving when I get nostalgic and feel like checking up on old friends. My best advice is this: Keep your batteries charged, and don’t take any time for granted with the people who are by your side to help when you lose your phone.

Samantha Brooks is a Trinity senior. She is a senior edi-tor of The Chronicle and former multimedia editor and local and national editor. She encourages people to make at least as many mistakes as she has while they’re here, but to try not to lose as many phones.

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I wrote this column last year.I wrote what was supposed to be my “final” column

last spring, days after my stint as sports editor ended, about what being a part of this organization has done to reconstruct my post-concus-sive mind.

I wrote about my career as a journalist: Accidentally zoning out during my first Mike Krzyzewski press conference, learning to ask probing ques-tions and interpret side-stepping answers on the fly, and how not to bury the lede.

I wrote about how little I cared about journalism: My coworkers made my time as sports editor worth it every day, even after I figured out the job I was doing wasn’t my pas-sion—or something I even liked doing all that much.

And now, I get 750-850 more words to append some-thing to that message.

Uh, help?Sports have been an integral part of my entire life; be-

tween playing, coaching and reporting I’ve been around them (at least briefly) from nearly all angles.

At the end of this column, though, all that changes. For the first time in my coherent existence, sports will be shoved into the background. I have the dubious honor of being the first sports editor in nearly a decade to eschew journalism as a profession, and despite my very polite let-ter of declaration, the NBA won’t make me draft-eligible this June.

In some ways, my routine won’t change. I’ll wake up, read the Sports Illustrated headlines, check Twitter, text some friends from home and get on with my day.

But I won’t get to pretend like it’s my job anymore.It hasn’t been my job in over a year, if I’m being totally

honest. I filed columns sporadically (an overstatement) throughout the last several months if only to maintain the pretense that my borderline obsessive behavior about sports had some larger benefit. And it does, I think, just perhaps not the one I originally thought it would have.

The Chronicle serves as a refuge for many of us, a place where people of vastly different backgrounds can form bonds through a single common thread. The sports section is a support group for the athletics-obsessed, a safe place to talk about the sort of thing that makes us socially awkward in real life around real people.

But now, that’s all over. Now, I’ll have to work a real job (writing about sports, even after I realized it wasn’t the fu-ture profession I wanted, is not—and has never been—a real job) where debating second-round NBA Draft picks is not only irrelevant to my work, but not a discussion anyone else wants to have or even be around.

I guess this change will probably be good for me in the long run. I’ll learn some vital social skills, namely how to carry on a conversation that isn’t centered around sports and how to do an honest day’s work (if I ever find a job, that is). It’s a daunting idea, frankly, and a challenge that I’d prefer not to have to face.

I always wondered why so many former contributors to the sports section stayed on the listserv long after they graduated, but I’m beginning to get it now, as my daily de-parture from the office becomes more real in my mind.

It’ll be easy to ignore for awhile. The summer makes for an easy transition period; news trickles in through June, then slows to an ooze in July. The withdrawal will be slight—but then football season will start in August.

I’m the rare person who came to Duke with a greater love of football than basketball, and following the first Blue Devil bowl team in nearly 20 years is one of the major high-lights of my entire college career.

The band-aid will be torn off completely on the last day of August, when Duke opens against N.C. Central in Wal-lace Wade. I’ll need to find another support group by then, a new safe place in a new city where I can talk about a game that won’t even be considered for inclusion on College GameDay. I hope I’m not “that guy,” the one who contin-ues to email bad jokes to the listserv from halfway across the country, still hanging on to an organization that has continued moving forward, even if he hasn’t.

At the least, though, that desire to stick around will be a constant reminder of what this paper has meant to me and my development over the last four years—and of how socially awkward I still am.

Chris Cusack is a Trinity senior and former sport editor of The Chronicle, and he is offi cially retired from journalism. If you, or someone you know, is hiring early retirees, please let him know.

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Some memories have stuck with me more than others. Dew-laden beer cans spread out in the grass on some blue midnight in March. A spurt of red running from a gash on

my forehead. The whispery friction of leaves on branches along Campus Drive in the fall. Satisfaction. Pain. Unrest.

Those things, among others, stand out to me. But none of them have anything to do with what I came to Duke to accomplish, or with the things I counted for and against my success here.

Not coincidentally, they are also the kinds of memories that graduation season tends to ush-er from the stage, preferring to shine the spotlight on the ada-mantium chain of clubs, intern-ships and awards that connect our past lives—high school—to the next life—a place at an ivy-wrapped graduate school, a re-assuringly humanitarian work fellowship or a plum position at some firm, preferably located in a major metropolitan area and bedecked with those comfy Aeron swivel chairs. Relationships—or at least our rosiest recol-lections of them—get quite a bit of screen time as well. Stories too inconvenient to fit into the chain either fall into the dark recesses of the mind or are pushed there.

I understand the impulse behind selective memory. The end of the year foists a certain anxious reflection upon us: the kind that obliges us to tell ourselves a story about how we got to where we are. Questions that we usually bear with ease take on a new weight. One in particular, becomes heavy: What happened to me?

According to some schools of thought, the only accurate answer to that question is that something happened. Any at-tempt to describe a series of events beyond that, the argument goes, is motivated thinking that reveals at least as much about the historian as the history he claims to uncover. I’ve noticed that Duke students tend to give certain histories of themselves. I could be wrong. But if I’m right, these spun tales affect us in tremendous ways.

The classic Duke success story, the kind you’re liable to find filling up Duke news at this time of year, is of restless curiosity gradually disciplined and brought to bear on important ques-tions that, it turns out, are exactly the sort of questions worth pur-suing in prestigious graduate schools and interesting vocations. Accidents are downplayed. Everything fits together. The journey from high school to intellectual and professional fulfillment pro-ceeds along the royal road of inevitability, at least in retrospect.

I know how my own story would go. I arrived at Duke curious, majored in philosophy, developed an interest in ethics, wrote editorials for the school newspaper and enrolled in law school to continue pursuing the same interests on a bigger stage. But this story is blind to so many tragic details, irrelevant but also es-sential. Important friendships I blew off. A’s I didn’t deserve. My unexplored ambition to write one of those salacious, intrigue-ridden, period screenplays about the scientific revolution.

Writing the Whig history of our college careers has an upshot. This kind of story downplays our losses and gilds our victories to make our minds strong for what’s ahead. And it lends our college narratives finality, wrapping all of our failures and successes into one presentable result—a job or whatever—that validates the whole package, letting everyone know we got our tuition’s worth and are well on our way to a life appropriately richer than our parents’. Remembering in this way is cathartic because it helps us to forget that things could have been otherwise. It’s healthier to focus on the turns we have taken and not the ones we ignored, never to retrace.

But I, for one, am too young to be that healthy. From the day I set foot on campus, I set myself to telling a story that would result, in four short years, in a publicly presentable ending. But four years is too short to be a self-contained narrative; it is the mere beginning of a beginning.

I worry that, when we wrestle our drives onto any path in so short a time, we lose the best parts of ourselves: the parts not readily presentable to firms and schools, but full of the energy required to imagine new kinds of lives worth living. Graduation has reminded me that there’s time enough left to cease plying crooked timbers into shape and start following their grains. The costs of changing course—unrest, pain and satisfaction—are cherished markers of youth. Are any history buffs in the audience game to consult on the steamy side of the scientific revolution?

The college experience is full of loose strands, side interests and unsatisfied impulses. We lose when we cram them all into the Procrustean bed of unity. We win when we become comfort-able with the uneasy contradiction that holds them all together. Those contradictions are still part of who we are.

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It’s a telling irony that my Duke career began with acceptance and yet was so defined by the pursuit of it.

I came to Duke an eager and excited freshman who had never expected to leave New England’s cold and rigid bounds

for college. And when I first took an interest in The Chronicle, I ad-mit it was with some reluctance. I tried to balance other floating ex-tracurriculars, four tough classes and the opportunist social life of a first-year female—a preview of the balancing act to be amplified in the next three years.

For some time, writing a Chronicle story was a cycle of ago-ny and satisfaction, but I started to

learn what it meant to put myself out there in the Duke commu-nity. Even after being overlooked and rejected for promotions, I stayed on the Chronicle staff. (Was it an addiction?) I was growing to love the strange, old office with the strange, young people.

Fast forward to my sophomore year when I traded a healthy and carefree Fall for what would be a tireless and (spoiler!) heart-breaking Spring: I ran for editor of The Chronicle.

I couldn’t put myself out much farther than that. It was election day, and I stood at a podium in front of my

peers. It was the hypotheticals portion of the election, when can-didates address hypothetical situations to test their knowledge of journalism ethics and management. To have it told back to me, I made it through Hypothetical No. 1 all right.

As I recall, Hypothetical No. 2 went something like this.Current editor: “You as editor have just discovered that Nate

James has been beating basketball players during practice. Coach Krzyzewski and the Athletics Office threaten to pull all Chronicle access if you run the story. What do you do?”

Me: “Excuse me, but who is Nate James?”I didn’t notice the pregnant pause of the room. In that mo-

ment, I learned that Nate James is an assistant coach for the men’s basketball team. I nodded and delivered my answer: “I’d first con-sult our sports editor and then …”

I lost the election. That night, on the bathroom floor of our room in the Washington Duke Inn (my parents, bless their hearts, also made a trip in that weekend), I cried more tears than I ever had at Duke. This record would eventually be broken, but more on that later.

In the following days, I learned the degree of my gaffe. From one close but honest friend: “The sports department was just like ‘no way’ after that.”

Nate James and his identity didn’t lose me the election com-pletely, but they certainly helped. The silver-lining? It was pret-ty funny, and at least I had a shot at earning my own Chron-urban legend.

After the loss, I was at a crossroads. I didn’t quit The Chronicle and never would.

On my more cynical days, I joke that it wouldn’t be The Chronicle if I wasn’t facing some kind of momentary crisis. Was I delusional to keep going back for more, for taking the next beat-ing that could arguably have been my undoing?

But this risk and ones like it—countless job rejections, a failed bid for Young Trustee, Chronicle award applications—presented me with the opportunities that have defined my time at Duke. In my time as news editor, I learned more than I thought possible: how to be a leader and how much I enjoy making an impact.

The professors who have so patiently had me in class (thank you) are familiar with the idea that, in some ways, these risks have made me my own worst enemy. The times that my friends past, present and future simply asked “Why?” of my Chronicle in-volvement are countless. Still, I know that my investment in The Chronicle—setback-tested and rebound-filled—has been invalu-able. Without it, I wouldn’t even be aware of the questions or ar-guments I pose now.

For me, the senior column is a strange exercise. In these 800 words—a short space to sum up four years and tack on a message, too—I step out from behind the byline and offer my insights, however useful, as today’s news. I am putting myself ‘out there’ in the most physical sense, onto these pages and screens, with the acceptance and strength to know that the reward is in the risk.

Rejections aren’t special, but trying again (and again) after enduring them might be. So to all the risk-averse Duke students out there, I recommend not letting fear, a gaffe or even a 6’ 6’’ forward keep you from taking a shot.

Nicole Kyle is a Trinity senior and the special projects editor and former news editor of The Chronicle. She knows that Nate James had 27 blocks in his career at Duke. Thank you to mentors Noko, Lindz, R(A)B, BWS; sav-iors jamesly, yy and mtru; v. 105-108. A special thanks to Aggie, Swain and the AAA crew for never failing to restore sanity.

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“Mountains never meet, but human beings do meet.”Sitting in the bright, stuffy office at the rural Kenyan

hospital with a clay duck in my lap (it was a goodbye gift) and my impending departure weighing heavily on my mind, these were the words that were intended to deal with the giant el-ephant in the room. The saying is a Kenyan proverb, and if you know me at all you likely aren’t surprised that I chose to begin my se-nior column with a reference to my summer working in Africa.

Though the phrase speaks to a certain truth—that human connections can accom-plish what our habitat can’t—on this day it served a more important purpose of over-looking the fact that my relationships with the many indi-viduals I met had come to an end.

It’s in times like these—moments of conclusion and commencement, when washed-up seniors are charged with providing coherent narratives of their four years here—when platitudes like this one are most abound. Faced with a largely uncertain future, we resolve to fall back on anes-thetizing ourselves with the hope that these experiences are not fleeting, that our relationship with Duke doesn’t end with the conferral of our degrees.

Duke’s Gothic architecture and statues of tobacco mo-guls are deceiving in that they make us feel as though we’re part of a centuries-old tradition like our Ivy League cousins. We forget that Duke is merely a new kid on the block, that its over-arching priorities are constantly in flux and that its institutional memory is short.

In an attempt to craft this column, I sought refuge in my personal Chronicle archive, though I found that most of my articles—all 125 of them—were about events whose

importance was quickly lost, about goings-on that no lon-ger mattered. Duke forces us to constantly adapt to immi-nent change, shifting friend groups, academic interests and

physical campuses every semester. We build benches merely to watch them burn.

As graduates, we will soon be tasked with whittling down these four years of blurry movement—riding the C1, swaying in Camer-on, bouncing around Europe with little more than a passport and a $10 phone—into a co-herent response when we’re stopped on the street and asked: “So, how’d you like Duke?” These disparate experiences—nights spent sipping Tusker in a Kenyan dance hall, drink-ing sangria in a Spanish bar, chugging cheap

beer out of a Solo cup—largely echo the same set of feelings, though they aren’t easily digested into a coherent sentiment.

Our semesters may be punctuated with term papers and poster presentations, but college is mostly about the process of getting to and from those benchmarks. What matters more than the words inscribed in that 70-page paper is the act of getting to that last page; what was most important about our internships wasn’t what we accomplished in whatever dimly-lit office or lab, but how that experience influenced what we chose to pursue next. It’s why we spend this time majoring in subjects that won’t hold firm grasps on our futures, read-ing Russian novels and Spanish plays whose significance is so minute that they don’t even have Wikipedia pages.

The beauty of these benchmarks is that they provide us with a constant metric with which to bridge experience and expectation. We spend four years chasing varying versions of ourselves only to find that those visions were misplaced and misguided—that we’re back at square one and that any attempt to evade the inevitable restart is futile. What’s more

noble than the hurdles we’ve crossed—the degrees complet-ed, countries traversed, wins tallied, mountains climbed—is how we codify them into a concise narrative, how we make them motivate our next steps.

As many a senior column will attest, one of the perks of working at The Chronicle is witnessing the peace that descends upon campus in the early hours of the morning from the vantage point of the office. Night after night, the quad strikes a supernatural balance, with traces of fog ee-rily surrounding the footsteps of the Duke Chapel’s formi-dable presence.

These late nights often signify times of tension, excite-ment or depression—perhaps a DSG meeting ran too long, a team clinched another national championship or a student had been tragically killed. These are the nights when a lone reporter or editor realizes just how impossibly jarring college is, not because of the lectures or the social life or the tests or the internships or the job applications or the firsts or the lasts but because of the fact that these all take place within one community, defined by one degree and one name.

It is in making sense of these highs and lows—the nights spent gazing at the starry Kenyan sky, emerging from a nightclub into the grungy streets of Madrid, leaving the Chronicle office after putting an issue to bed—that we at-tempt to make these proverbial mountains of our college experience meet.

Should the task be too challenging, at least we’ll have the second half of that proverb to fall back on. After all, we’re only human.

Matthew Chase is the co-editor of Towerview Magazine and a former University editor of The Chronicle. His biggest accomplish-ment at The Chronicle was having the audacity to sit through al-most every DSG meeting freshman year.

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