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Flowers and baked goods were available on the Bryan Center Plaza Monday afternoon, courtesy of Duke PAWS, to raise money for local animal shelters.

Puppy love Hays named new Divinity School dean

Students split on upcoming house model

by Ben RakestrawTHE CHRONICLE

Student feedback to a recent Duke Student Government survey reveals a lack of support for a proposed change to the house model set to begin Fall 2012.

The survey questioned students about a DSG proposal that would give unaffiliated students the option to continue living with students from their freshman residence halls for the next three years. About 60 percent of respondents said they were neutral, opposed or strongly opposed to the implementation of the “continued communities” proposal. The survey was administered to 3,000 undergradu-ates in December and received a 38 percent response rate, garnering 1,139 responses.

“After seeing the results of this survey, that about half of students oppose continuing communities, we’re investigating how to go through with it as a partial roll out,” said DSG President Pete Schork, a senior.

Moving forward, DSG will consult with the student body on how best to address the “con-tinued communities” proposal, as launching it in partial form poses logistical challenges, Schork said. He added that DSG has not yet made a decision to support or oppose con-tinuing communities, though it is leaning to-ward opposing the proposal.

Schork said the other results of the survey were not particularly surprising.

by Maggie SpiniTHE CHRONICLE

After a six-month national search, Richard Hays, George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament, was selected to serve as dean of the Duke Divinity School.

Hays was appointed to a full term as dean of the Di-vinity School after serving in that capacity for the past two years, the University an-nounced Monday. Hays ini-tially took on the role after former Dean Gregory Jones stepped down from the po-sition in August 2010. Al-

though Hays originally indicated that he did not want to be considered for the position, he said he recently changed his mind after dis-cussing the future of the Divinity School with President Richard Brodhead.

“We’re going to be engaged in the deep, sympathetic, critical and imaginative study of scripture and tradition,” Hays said. “My saying that is not an innovation—it’s a car-rying forward of something that has been characteristic of the school. This is a terrific school, and I hope to continue to provide strong leadership.”

Hays, who first came to the Divinity School as a professor in 1991, said he hopes the school will continue to thrive under his leadership

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Duke guitarist uses music as a therapy device

Conservative agenda may hurt Republicans at polls

by Tiffany LieuTHE CHRONICLE

Voters may voice their frustration with state Repub-licans’ conservative agenda at the ballot box this May and beyond.

Since shifting to a Republican majority in November 2010—the first in more than 110 years—the

General Assembly has passed legislation stipulating substantial budget cuts from the education sector, re-sulting in state tuition hikes and social reform, such as the same-sex marriage amendment. Such an atypi-cally conservative economic and social agenda may cause a backlash against state Republicans—and the presidential candidate—among younger voters in the upcoming elections.

“Voters are feeling alienated,” said Katina Gad, a senior at North Carolina State University. “It has be-come an issue of class warfare where people of lower

classes won’t be able to get the degrees they need to get ahead.”

Many students feel that they are caught in the mid-dle of a highly partisan battle between Republicans and Democrats and that the Republican Party is sac-rificing public education for politics, Gad said. In re-sponse, many students are mobilizing and campaign-ing to encourage other students to vote against the Republican Party in the state and presidential elec-tions. Although the Republican Party has received criticism from voters and Democratic legislators, the decisions passed by GOP are aimed toward one thing: balancing the state budget, said Jordan Shaw, commu-nications director for state Speaker of the House Rep. Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg.

“We made a pledge to balance the budget and that is exactly what we did,” Shaw said. “Folks have to remember

news analysis

by Julia NiTHE CHRONICLE

Wherever music therapist Tray Batson and his guitar go, the healing effects follow.

Batson has been playing for patients at the Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center for two and a half years, offering the mellow sounds of his guitar to soothe many a frightened child—without using medi-cations or producing side effects. Although no formal music therapy program currently exists at Duke, Batson has been hired on an ad hoc basis through grants and other types of philanthropic support, Dr. Joanne Kurtz-berg, professor of pediatrics and pathology, wrote in an email Feb. 9. The hospital also provides for musical

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Author McDougall touts benefits of distance running

by Kelly ScurryTHE CHRONICLE

Christopher McDougall argued that humans are naturally born to run at a speech Monday night.

McDougall, a journalist and author of the bestselling book “Born to Run: A Hid-den Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen,” spoke in Reynolds Theater in an event sponsored by Duke University Union. The former foreign correspondent spoke about his experience in Mexico that led to the pub-lication of his book.

While investigating the disappearance of a Mexican pop star, McDougall learned of the Tarahumara, a tribe of indigenous people who retreated to Mexico’s Copper Canyons in the 16th century and had been largely untouched by the rest of the world. The Tarahumara, whose men and women are able to run long distances in sandals and togas well into their fifties, serve as lo-cal folk heroes in the communities border-ing the canyon, McDougall said.

“What would [our culture] require for humans to be long-distance runners?” Mc-Dougall asked. “We would need to have a communal culture... and we would need to have an egalitarian culture,”

In addition to the running aspect of the Tarahumara’s culture, the peaceful nature of their communities has been of interest to social scientists and research-ers, McDougall said, adding that the Tara-humara have no known history of crime and domestic violence.

“If a people runs long distances and is

off the chart in societal factors, there must be a cause and effect relationship,” he said. “Maybe this was how humans were for most of their existence.”

Some scientists have conducted re-search that examines long-distance run-ning in humans, and the research suggests that humans are biologically adapted for running long distances, McDougall said.

Governor’s raceremains uncertain

by Vignesh KrishnaswamyTHE CHRONICLE

Following Gov. Bev Perdue’s decision not to run for re-election last month, Democrats now face the challenge of

finding a nominee to face Republican gu-bernatorial candidate Pat McCrory.

Former Charlotte Mayor McCrory, who narrowly lost to Perdue in the 2008 governor’s race, is the current frontrunner in the contest,

according to the latest data from Public Policy Polling. Former U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge is leading among poten-tial Democratic candi-dates, with 21 percent of N.C. Democrats pledging their sup-port for Etheridge. State Sen. Dan Blue trails closely behind, attracting 13 percent of Democratic voters. More than one-third of voters, however, said they are still undecid-ed. Despite McCrory’s lead in the polls, some Democrats believe it is too early to predict the

outcome.Two large issues that will likely be at

the forefront of the candidates’ politi-cal platforms are the economy and edu-

cation cuts.“The economy is a problem that

will receive attention nationally, but in North Carolina the main issue is edu-cation,” said Mac McCorkle, former po-litical consultant and visiting lecturer at the Sanford School of Public Policy. “People are nervous about lots of cuts that the Republicans are coming out.”

Perdue’s decision not to run may put the Democratic Party through a few hoops before securing a candidate, Mc-Corkle said.

“I worked with Bev for a long time, and I was surprised at her decision,” he said. “She became a partisan lightning rod…. It is a blow to the Democratic Party.

Following Perdue’s decision, Lt. Gov. Wal-ter Dalton and N.C. Rep. Bill Faison de-clared their intentions to run in the Demo-cratic primary, with Etheridge announcing his decision one week later. Blue and state Rep. Brad Miller said they will announce their intentions in the near future.

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In response, Brian Nick, spokesman for McCrory’s campaign, noted that McCrory has shown strong sup-port for education, citing McCrory’s opposition to Democrats’ proposed sales tax increase for education.

“The Democrats in charge have increased taxes and have made North Carolina a very unattractive place for businesses to invest,” Nicks said. “Pat will run on the agenda of reversing this trend.”

Although Perdue would have been the candidate most likely to win for the Democrats, Etheridge or Dalton has the potential to defeat McCrory, McCorkle noted.

McCrory has shifted further to the right in recent years, which may impact his support among moderates and independents, McCorkle said.

“McCrory has been around for a while, and some voters will get suspicious once someone loses, like Mc-Crory did in 2008,” McCorkle said. “It is easy to blame people, but now he has to actually lay out a platform and say what he will do as governor.”

Frontrunner McCrory is hoping for a different out-come than his failed 2008 campaign. Nick attributed McCrory’s defeat to a difficult political environment for Republicans across the nation. President Barack Obama’s strong base coupled with former President George W. Bush’s unpopularity in the state propelled Perdue to victory, Nick said, adding that he is optimis-tic about McCrory’s chances this year.

McCorkle similarly noted that the 2012 presidential election will also play a role in the governor’s race, as it did in 2008.

“If Obama wins North Carolina, then the Demo-cratic candidate for governor will probably win,” Mc-Corkle said. “It’s not necessarily coattails, but it acts as a one-two punch. If Obama is in real trouble in North Carolina, then it will be trouble for the Democratic candidates as well.”

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while forging new interdisciplinary relationships with the University’s other graduate and professional schools.

“One of the things that makes this school distinctive even among major university divinity schools is the way in which we have a commitment to a theological interpretation of the Bi-ble,” Hays said. “We’re not simply engaged in historical work, but we’re constantly engaged in a process of reflection.”

Andrew Barnhill, a second-year student who is pur-suing dual degrees with the divinity and law schools at Duke, said he sees a distinct opportunity for the Divinity School to break down disciplinary boundaries.

“The Divinity School is in a position to force theologi-cal reflection to life into its public role in this country,” Barnhill wrote in an email Monday. “I hope Dean Hays is ready for the challenge.”

Hays’ interest in approaching theology from a multifac-eted perspective stems in part from his own academic back-ground, which he said has trained him to think analogically and to consider how society engages today. Hays’ research has explored Christian hermeneutics—the way in which early Christian writers interpreted Israel’s Scripture.

This academic experience, in addition to his creden-tials serving as dean of the Divinity School for two years, has uniquely prepared him for a full appointment to the position, Hays said.

“It is very important that the dean of the school be someone who has been very much engaged in scholar-ship and research,” he added. “It’s not simply an admin-istrative job—[it] involves leadership in intellectual en-terprise. I spent the great bulk of my career as an active scholar and writer.”

In addition to increasing interdisciplinary relations, Hays expects to be faced with more practical responsi-bilities, such as maintaining funding for scholarships and endowed faculty.

In an email Monday, Sanetta Ponton and Scott Himel, co-presidents of the Duke Divinity Student Council, said Hays’ experience during the past two years will also ben-efit the Divinity School as it faces challenges, such as how to address key faculty retirements.

“[Hays’ appointment] provides a sense of stability and familiarity,” Ponton and Himel said, adding that his con-sistent presence will be reassuring to potential donors to the school’s capital campaign.

Ellen Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns distinguished profes-sor of Bible and practical theology and chair of the search committee responsible for selecting the new dean, also noted the unique combination of innovation and consis-tency that Hays offers.

“We came to the conclusion after much deliberation and prayer that the best choice for the Divinity School at this time is the person who has been serving as dean for the past two years,” she said.

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healing through the collaborative Health Arts Network at Duke program, which engages multidisciplinary ar-tistic talents on behalf of the patients.

“Music therapy is a great way to help children re-lax and to forget about the hospital and their illness,” Kurtzberg said. “It decreases anxiety for children going through uncomfortable, painful or boring procedures and lessens the need for sedation or pain medications.”

Batson works approximately 20 hours per week, bringing his acoustic children’s songs to both long-term and short-term patients, especially those who are receiving cell therapies or who are hospitalized in the pediatric blood and marrow transplant unit.

Many pediatric patients and their families have re-sponded with enthusiasm to Batson.

“The parents love him because their kids have a much easier time undergoing treatments,” Kurtzberg said. “The kids have varying reactions—[though] most are sorry when he has to leave—and the babies are ac-tually distracted from pain by his singing.”

Although patients may appreciate Batson’s work, a grant set to run out this month may cause Batson’s hours to be cut down to 10 hours per week if new sources of funding are not secured, according to an ABC 11 report last month.

Kurtzberg noted that the initial concept was quite simple—bring in a music therapist for the youngest pa-tients undergoing treatments. The pediatrics depart-ment then began raising money through various forms of philanthropic support to bring in Batson and his guitar. Kurtzberg noted, however, that the program op-erates on a month-to-month basis—the music therapist is not officially a University employee and only works as many hours as the raised funds can afford.

“It’s been hard to raise funds lately because the economy hasn’t been very good,” she said.

Despite reports indicating funding insecurity for the program, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics Dr. Joseph St. Geme wrote in an email Feb. 7 that there is no anticipated decrease in funding for the program.

Music therapy may still be in its fledgling stages at the moment, but Kurtzberg already has long-term plans for the program.

“There are many other children who are patients in Duke Hospital who could benefit from music thera-py,” she said. “We hope to see a [formal] program de-veloped over the next year, but additional funding is needed to enable this to occur.”

At Duke Hospital, though, music does not just per-meate the pediatric wards.

Sophomores Wenjia Xu and Diana Christensen, both music majors, volunteer every other Saturday at the hos-pital, together filling rooms with Vivaldi duets and solo Bach. Through HAND, other Duke undergraduates, staff members and outside artists can help integrate per-formance, visual and literary art forms in the hospital setting in order to assist the healing process.

“Music has the ability to both capture and trigger emotions,” Xu said. “It inspires, soothes, comforts and impacts everyone.”

Although some patients and their families welcome the music, Xu said, other patients can be more sensi-tive to sound, and many simply prefer silence. Still, he characterizes his experiences as positive, even from a personal perspective.

“When I play violin, I do not only play from the movements of my hands, but [also] from my heart,” he said. “That’s a bit cliché, but every bit of it is true.”

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“What may actually be surprising is that we found that students are more knowledgeable about the house mod-el than we thought they were,” he said.

The survey indicates that nearly half of students have a good understanding of the house model that will begin Fall 2012, and 51.5 percent noted that they understood well how the transition would affect them personally.

Although a significant percentage of students said they are well informed about the housing transition, DSG would like to see that number improve, Schork said. He added that students have also become better acquainted with the model since the survey was administered in De-cember.

“We’re continuing to get inconsistent feedback about student knowledge of the house model,” Schork said. “We are working with the administration to continue to augment understanding of the model, and we’ve been heartened by the ability of administrators to be available for comment.”

Some students who oppose the house model believe that the transition poses some changes—including the decision to cap block sizes at six rather then 12—that will end up disturbing relationships, especially for returning upperclassmen, sophomore Jeremy Hsiang said.

“I understand the system working for freshmen, when you don’t know people, but it is unfair to split up groups of established friends,” Hsiang said.

Although upperclassmen who have been through the previous Room Picks system may have concerns about fairness, rising sophomores’ primary concerns seem to be about uncertainty, freshman Altamash Has-san said.

“It put a lot of people on edge about what their liv-ing arrangements may be for next year,” Hassan said. “It may have pushed more people to rush selective living groups.”

Despite the house model transition’s uncertainties and possible shortcomings, students also see problems with the current housing situation.

Junior Niloy Ghosh said students realize the potential upsides of the house model.

“There is a good chance that it will help foster greater interactions among the classes, something that inde-pendents especially may not be currently doing much,” Ghosh said.

Similarly, Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life, said students generally support the overall goals of the house model.

“There is wide agreement on the goals of the transi-tion but disagreement on how we should get there,” Gon-zalez said.

In an effort to improve student knowledge of the house model and address problems illuminated by the survey, administrators will continue to offer information and assistance to students, Gonzalez said.

“Much of our current efforts have been on helping students get through the Duke Houses process to sign up for housing,” he said.

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A study performed by the University of Utah stated that most people start running long distances at age 19 and reach their peak at age 27, after which they progres-sively slow down until they are running at the same pace they ran at age 19. The study said it takes 45 years for a person to get back to the same speed at which he or she ran at age 19.

“What other sport has geriatrics kicking ass with teenag-ers?” McDougall said, eliciting laughter from the audience.

He also stated that long-distance running is a sport in which men and women compete at equal strengths.

“Women couldn’t run long distance in the Olympics before the 1980s,” McDougall said. “In a matter of 20 years, Paula Radcliffe is the second fastest person in the world, only about 10 seconds behind a man.”

In a 100-mile race, it is a “coin-toss” between men and women regarding who would win the race, he said, add-ing that western society, however, has a tendency not to value sports in which women excel.

“We fetishize things that men are good at,” he said.

“When women and old people are good at it, people aren’t interested.”

The Tarahumara look at long-distance running as a way of play, McDougall said. A common practice among their children during recess at school is to a play a sport similar to kickball, in which participants run approxi-mately 10 kilometers in less than one hour. This sport, he said, utilizes the abilities of all the people playing, from the fastest to the slowest runners—a component of their culture that is foreign to many Americans.

Sophomore Christian Britto, who runs for the men’s track and field team, said reading McDougall’s book caused him to change his running technique.

“I run on the front of my feet now, but I don’t use the shoes [McDougall uses in the book],” he said.

Senior Emma Anspach, who is a member of DUU’s Speakers and Stage committee, which sponsored the event, said the book inspired her to keep running.

“It’s a different way to look at what people do every-day,” she said. “It takes away the timing aspect.”

Observing the Tarahumara taught McDougall that he must appreciate the world around him, he noted.

“[Life] is all about recess,” he said with a laugh.

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that we inherited a multibillion dollar deficit.” Pope McCorkle, visiting lecturer at the Sanford

School of Public Policy, said he is more critical of Re-publicans’ plan to propel the state’s economy. The ab-sence of positive economic gain from deep cuts in ar-eas such as public education—North Carolina has one of the oldest and most lauded public university systems in the nation—undermines the achievements of the balanced budget.

“It is not whether it is balanced, but how you bal-ance it,” he said.

Tuition hikesCuts to education under the Republican-controlled

assembly will increase the tuition of University of North Carolina students by $750 and the tuition of state community college students by $200 in the 2012-2013 school year. Walton Robinson, communications director for the North Carolina Democratic Party, said he is concerned by the new budget’s steep cuts to edu-cation. The $124 million state budget cut that targets college tuition, college scholarships and public schools has caused the state’s budget to drop to 49th in the nation in terms of how much is invested per child for education.

Although the decision to cut education funding was tough, it was necessary given the $2.4 billion budget deficit that past leadership had accumulated due to increasing state spending and lowering taxes at unsus-tainable rates, Shaw said.

“State legislatures have to tighten the belt, just like families all across the state have had to,” Shaw said. “Tough choices have to be made during tough eco-nomic times.”

Verra Parra, a senior at University of North Caro-lina at Chapel Hill, is concerned that tuition hikes will decrease the socioeconomic and academic diversity on campus.

“The freedom that you have in your education is hugely affected by the debt you’re incurring along the way,” Parra said. “Students will be less likely to study humanities if they know that they will be graduating

with tens of thousands of dollars in debt.” Parra noted that these concerns are causing more

of her peers to lean toward voting for a Democratic presidential candidate and voting Republicans out of the General Assembly.

The UNC Board of Governors finalized tuition in-creases in a meeting Friday in order to compensate for the total $414 million in cuts from the UNC education system made by lawmakers this year.

Shaw noted more positive changes the party has pro-moted for state education, such as providing liability insurance for every teacher in the state and providing community colleges with flexibility in spending.

Rep. Phillip Frye, R-Avery, Caldwell, Mitchell, Yanc-ey; Rep. Mike Hager, R-Clevand, Rutherford; and Rep. Bryan Holloway, R-Rockingham, Stokes, among other Republican representatives, declined to comment on the recent cuts to education.

A social agendaThe same-sex marriage amendment referendum in

May positions recent fiscally conservative decisions next to socially conservative decisions as well. The amend-ment would codify same-sex marriage, which is already banned in the state, in the constitution by defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Despite allegations made by organizations such as Equality North Carolina that the same-sex marriage amendment is an extreme measure, Shaw said that the amendment has been considered for many years by both parties.

The bill received bipartisan support with a final vote of 75-42, with 65 Republicans and 10 Democrats voting in favor of the legislation. But Robinson said that the amendment was one of the few instances of bipartisan support that state Republicans cling to when criticized for being uncollaborative. Robinson cited a midnight session of the General Assembly called by Republicans to discuss Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of the Racial Justice repeal as one of the party’s attempts to undermine Democrats.

Actions such as cuts to education that cause tuition hikes for students and the same-sex marriage amend-ment, which many criticize as being anti-gay, may alien-ate younger voters against the Republican Party and

raise questions about the party’s gauge on issues im-portant to college students, McCorkle added.

‘Faced with a choice’Although the economy may not be where state lead-

ers and North Carolinians would like, Robinson said it is important to remember the national and state con-text of the current economic crisis.

Before President Barack Obama took office, the coun-try was losing more than 700,000 jobs a month. Now, the private sector has continued to grow for 23 straight months. Come May elections, voters will ultimately rec-ognize the economic progress that has been achieved under democratic leadership, Robinson added.

“We may not be exactly where we want to be but you have to remember the context,” he said. “Once people concentrate on the issues and focus on the elections, they will see it that way.”

Shaw said he is confident that North Carolinians are ready for a more conservative approach to saving the economy.

“At the end of the day, North Carolinians are go-ing to be faced with the choice between do you trust government, or do you trust citizens; do you trust the public sector, or do you trust the private sector?” Shaw said.

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March more unpredictable than ever

Believe it or not, only six games remain on Duke’s regular season schedule. Six more games for the Blue Devils to solidify the team identity that has finally begun to take shape during the past week. Three weeks from now the regular season will be history. A month from now, the madness begins!

Although three teams have separated themselves from the pack, there remains no clear-cut favorite to take this year’s title in New Orleans. Some argue for Ken-

tucky, while others favor Syracuse or Missouri. While it’s clear that these three have posted the stron-gest marks to date, each brings a set of question marks to the brack-et. One thing is certain—the field this year is as wide open as ever.

The team that seems to best pass the ‘eye test’ thus far, Ken-

tucky, has only one loss—at Indiana, on a buzzer-beat-ing 3-pointer, in December—and boasts the nation’s top freshman in Anthony Davis. Well-known nationwide for his unibrow, Davis has already broken Shaquille O’Neal’s record for blocks in a season by a freshman and averages nearly five per game. John Calipari’s cus-tomarily young squad possesses six players averaging 9.7 or more points in a balanced scoring attack.

The Orange is the other one-loss team in line for a top seed and has quietly plodded through its Big East sched-ule without a major hiccup. Despite a quality overtime

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Despite defeating three top-25 teams over the weekend, the Blue Devils fell short of capturing the program’s second ITA National Indoor Champion-ship title.

No. 3 Duke (8-1) lost 4-0 to No. 4 UCLA (9-0) in Charlottesville, Va. in Monday’s championship match.

The Blue Devils started out the weekend by barely sliding past No. 23 Mississippi (4-4) in a 4-3 matchup.

The team came out the follow-ing day appearing completely new, however, defeating No. 10 Michigan (5-3) 4-0.

“The match against Michi-gan was a big match for us because we were struggling in our first match,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We needed to comeback with a good showing and we really gave Michigan no confidence at all.”

The momentum carried over into their following match, in

which Duke outplayed No. 7 California (6-1), 4-1, in a match that featured 11 nationally ranked singles players.

Duke took on the Bruins in the final, hoping that the energy that had carried them through the week-end would continue. UCLA advanced to the champion-ship with wins over No. 16 Southern California, No. 12 Northwestern and No. 13 Georgia Tech by a combined score of 12-2.

All went well for the Blue Devils early on, as fresh-man Beatrice Capra and sophomore Rachel Kahan upset Robin Anderson and Skylar Morton, the No. 12

doubles team in the nation. The Duke pair is now 9-0 on the 2012 season.

UCLA would rally for the doubles point, however, as 23rd-ranked Bruins Courtney Dolehide and Pamela Montez beat junior Mary Clayton and freshman Ester Goldfeld, 8-4, in the No. 1 doubles spot. In the rub-ber match, sophomore Hanna Mar and freshman Annie Mulholland lost in a narrow 9-7 match to UCLA’s Mc-Call Jones and Carling Seguso. The loss marked the first time that the Blue Devils had dropped the doubles point thus far in the season.

“That doubles point, when you are playing a team like UCLA or any team that is top five in the country, is so big momentum-wise because it is so hard to win four singles matches against anybody,” Ashworth said.

In singles play, Duke found itself in trouble early on, losing four out of six of its first sets. Freshman Monica Turewicz, who had earlier clinched the victory against Michigan with a singles win, fell 7-5, 6-4 to Kaitlin Ray, putting the Bruins up 2-0.

Clayton won her first set, 6-4, but was unable to hold onto the lead, falling to Chanelle Van Nguyen. Soon af-ter, seventh-ranked Capra and eighth-ranked Anderson finished a rematch of their November meeting, which Capra won in a third-set tiebreaker. This time, however, Anderson emerged victorious, 6-1, 3-6, 6-2, giving UCLA the 4-0 victory.

Despite the lopsided score, the match was one of the Blue Devils’ closest all year, as all but one match was car-ried into the third set. Additionally, Mar and Goldfeld had taken the lead in their third sets and Kahan was tied up when play was stopped.

“It was a tough loss, losing 4-0, but it was the closest 4-0 that I have ever been a part of,” Ashworth said. “That was a tough one to lose, but I thought we did a good job of fight-ing back and trying to recover it.”

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win last week over Georgetown, Syracuse’s schedule to this point leaves something to be desired. A solid road win last night over Louisville helps solidify the case for the Or-ange, but Syracuse will have something to prove when the postseason arrives.

Out of the Big 12, head coach Frank Haith and Missouri are cruising toward a number one seed as well. Only two tough road losses, at Kansas State and Oklaho-ma State, mar the Tigers’ record, while they’ve beaten Baylor twice and held off Kansas at home. Missouri shoots the ball well, but the games get noticeably closer when the Tigers leave the friendly con-fines of Mizzou Arena.

So that leaves a lone one seed still up for grabs. Assuming no major meltdowns hap-pen in the next four weeks, Kansas seems to have the inside track for that final spot. Despite having five losses on their record, the Jayhawks have a 4-3 record against the current top 10—including two losses at the very beginning of the season to Kentucky and Duke. A win over the Tigers at Allen Fieldhouse Feb. 25 could seal the deal for head coach Bill Self and Player of the Year candidate Thomas Robinson.

Should the Blue Devils—or, heaven for-bid, North Carolina—run the table in the ACC, the conference champion could eas-ily slide into that final top slot.

But once the tournament starts, the seeds might not matter anymore. The three teams in prime contention for the final number-one seed have all suffered what I deem an ‘Unforgivable Loss’ this season. Duke fans might remember losing to Miami at home in overtime—unforgivable! The Tar Heels lost on the road to Florida State, by 33 points—unforgivable! Then there’s Kan-sas. Remember celebrating Mike Krzyzews-ki’s record for Division I men’s basketball coaching victories after the Davidson game,

when the Blue Devils got off to a slow start before going on a big second-half run to win by 13? Well, the Jayhawks didn’t go on a run against the Wildcats in Kansas City, and lost by six—unforgivable!

No single team exemplifies the up-and-down nature of this season more than the Seminoles, though. Leonard Hamilton’s squad has put together a mystifying mix of signature wins and Unforgivable Losses that has opponents wondering which Seminole squad they’re going to face. Florida State started the season 5-0, then had a three game losing streak featuring the likes of Harvard, Connecticut and Michigan State. Later, the Seminoles received an early lump of coal in the form of an 18-point loss to ri-val Florida. They lost to Princeton in triple overtime, and dropped a 20-point decision at Clemson to start the ACC season.

But then the tides changed in a big way. Florida State throttled North Carolina, then Snaer-ed Duke in Durham and registered double-digit wins over Wake Forest and Geor-gia Tech. But then the Seminoles lost to Bos-ton College on the road—unforgivable!

Suffice it to say, all of the top teams this year are vulnerable in some form or anoth-er. On any given day, any of the teams pres-ently in the top 10 could lose to anyone in a 68-team field. Already this season, seven of the top 10 teams have lost to another team in that group. Heck, even Illinois—who ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has penciled in as a 12-seed and trending down—has a 2-1 record against the current top 10. The Il-lini are only 5-7 in the Big Ten, but have beaten Michigan State and Ohio State at home, and only fell to Missouri by four on a neutral court.

Whether it’s trouble away from home, a low strength of schedule, or a team relying strongly on a group of freshmen, any of the nation’s top teams could lose at any mo-ment. When March begins, don’t get too comfortable—you’ll be on the edge of your seat in no time.

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Even a week after the “Duke Memes” page went viral on Facebook, I’m still hooked. A “meme,” as formally defi ned by the Mer-

riam-Webster Dictionary, is “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture.” In its common usage, however, a meme describes a webpage of repeated images cov-ered with witty, facetious or critical phrases in the style of quickmeme.com. Last Monday, from roughly 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., Duke’s Internet waves overfl owed with students cre-ating, sharing and commenting on Duke-related memes.

Most of the Duke memes satirized our campus intelligently and with good taste. Especially since last week’s win against UNC, the memes highlight Duke-isms that we can all laugh about, from the Duke-UNC rivalry to the eco-friendly superbuses to the classic features of freshman year. By creat-ing a collective parody of experiences that Duke students can uniquely understand, we forged—at least momentarily—some kind of campus unity.

That being said, I think we should recognize that, at a certain point, the humor may cross a line. When the jokes invoke harmful stereotypes, or include the faces of actual Duke students with-out their permission, “unity” takes the form of an “in group” and an “out group.” We are no longer laughing at common experiences; we are isolat-ing groups and individuals, deciding who gets to laugh and who gets laughed at. An effort that is supposed to create a “we” generates, on its own, an “us” and a “them.”

It may be part of the nature of satire to joke about topics that, in reality, make us uncomfort-able; to make fun of ourselves and of our idio-syncrasies; to take a break from taking the world around us too seriously. So why should we fi nd a problem in what is simply meant to be funny? Why shouldn’t we just “take a joke?” Why so serious?

The reason we need to pay attention to this hu-mor is because of its infl uence in the long run. As we inject more and more validation of stereotypes into the air we breathe, they become increasingly normalized as acceptable ways of looking at other people. Though it may seem harmless to joke that every Asian father would change the name of the “C-1” to the “A-1,” the fact that we endorse that joke makes it okay, further down the line, for stu-dents to assume that every Asian they see on cam-

pus is only here to achieve all As.For an example of the boundary between taste-

ful and inappropriate forms of humor, consider two of the “Y U No ... ” posts on the Duke Memes page. When the meme speaks to a “professor with midterm tomorrow” and asks “y u no under-stand UNC rivalry?” we can all ap-preciate the joke without linking it to broader judgments about people and their identity markers. But when a meme singles out Koreans to ask them “y u no speak Engrish?” it gives approval to a further-reaching stereotype. Consequently, it helps

that stereotype become increasingly equated with reality. Suddenly, the joke’s not on Duke, but on this particular group being derided.

I realize that anyone can fi nd offense in one joke or another, and that, if we tiptoed around anything and everything potentially offensive, the world would be a humorless place. But I also re-alize it isn’t my right, or my privilege, to decide whether someone else is allowed to be hurt by my jokes, my Facebook “likes” or my comments—and that, in turn, I need to think twice before I post.

As I’ve said earlier and as I hope to reempha-size, I really do believe most of the posts thus far have intelligently and inoffensively captured Duke-isms that we can all relate to. In light of the other posts, however, I hope we can recognize the dangers of what our humor can lead to and, corre-spondingly, be thoughtful and intentional about drawing the line between satire and slander.

The point I’m trying to make, or the caution I’m hoping to communicate, really doesn’t just ap-ply to Duke memes. As we live our lives and pub-lish our commentaries on the Internet, it’s all too easy to view the words we post and the comments we make as detached from ourselves and from real human beings. The jokes we circulate, the hu-mor we produce and the statements we make on-line include things we might never say aloud, and things we might be ashamed of if we connected them to a human face.

Let us use Duke memes to continue to laugh together as a community. Let’s take pride in the unity we can build through humor without resort-ing to in-group/out-group dichotomies.

Amanda Garfi nkel is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Follow Amanda on Twitter at @AmandaGarfi nkel

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The number of reported incidents of hazing at Duke has more than doubled from the previous year, and this is no coincidence: The admin-istration increased its hazing prevention ef-forts this aca-demic year.

Changes started early this year, when Duke’s hazing poli-cy was revised to include North Carolina state laws on hazing. The directors of the Offi ce of Student Conduct and the Of-fi ce of Fraternity and Sorority Life sent an email Jan. 24 to students reminding them to be on the watch for signs of hazing. And the week of Feb. 20 to 24, a group of adminis-trative organizations will spon-sor a hazing prevention week.

Although these are noble gestures, they are little else. It

is no secret that hazing takes place at Duke across a wide range of student groups and with varying degrees of sever-ity. Raising awareness with ramped-up rhetoric means

nothing when everyone knows about the prob-

lem. The administration must take concrete action if it is se-rious about hazing and the In-terfraternity Council—whose constituent organizations are the target of the majority of complaints—and it needs to demand greater accountabil-ity of itself.

The most important step for IFC is to openly acknowl-edge that the problem exists. IFC President Zachary Prager was quoted in The Chronicle saying, “We [IFC] don’t con-done hazing in any way, haz-

ing is not okay and that’s not what pledging is about. Pledg-ing is fundamentally... about teaching your new members about your fraternity [and] what it stands for.” Unfortu-nately, this ideology is not refl ective of practice among some IFC groups; even if this is in fact the dominant posi-tion, meaningful self-regula-tion cannot occur until we ad-mit that some groups deviate dangerously from it.

On the administrative side, the fi rst and perhaps most important step is to clearly de-fi ne what behaviors constitute true hazing. The Offi ce of Fra-ternity and Sorority Life cur-rently uses a three-tiered list to categorize hazing. But this list is too inclusive and should be further limited to the kinds of behavior that are truly worth

preventing. Things like “road trips” and “signature books” should not be grouped with “branding” and “forced con-sumption of alcohol”—and doing so only trivializes the truly dangerous behaviors.

As long as Duke has greek and selective living groups on its campus, pledging will take place in some capacity. The important distinction to make, then, is what subset of those activities is physically or emo-tionally dangerous enough to warrant decisive administra-tive action. Once these clari-fying choices are made, more aggressive disciplinary action may be warranted. Politically correct rhetoric is for naught without the willingness—and the muscle—to back it up.

There are few obvious routes forward. Serious haz-

ing prevention might require more comprehensive Duke University Police Department or Durham Police Depart-ment involvement. Instead of merely internally investigat-ing incident reports, perhaps a stronger and properly tar-geted police presence could act as a deterrent. Of course, we do not want a witch hunt, either. The proper balance is diffi cult to discern.

What is clear, though, is that the last thing the Uni-versity needs is another hos-pitalization incident, like that of student Daniel Klufas in 2008. Take a hint from Tail-gate: Be open about the is-sues and address them sternly in a timely manner, so that drastic responses to tragic but avoidable outcomes can be avoided.

What else to write about other than Valentine’s Day for this Feb. 14 column? It is a providential surprise to remember and refl ect on the core and essence of all

creation: love. Yep, it is that time of the year when we remem-ber and celebrate love in a unique fashion. I hope and pray that my column will not be received as rain on a parade, a cheap shot at the concept and, most important-ly, it wont sour any one’s joy over Valentine’s Day. Rather, it should be received as a sincere, critical refl ection over what Valentine’s Day has become for so many of us around the world.

I am not against the concept of Valentine’s Day celebrations by any stretch of imagination. My family and I celebrate Valentine’s Day on Feb.14 in our own way. Here are this year’s Valentine’s Day plans for the Antepli family: my daughter Zainab, who is 10 years old chose our neighbor’s adorable dog Grayle, our cat Princess and me as her valentines. I picked my wife (this has never changed, nor has it been allowed to change, over the years), my son picked, despite so many of-fers from others including several female Duke students, both of his grandparents who are visiting us from Turkey. We will be writing cards, which we bought several months ago. We will express our intense love to each other; we will remember the stories of love in our lives in the last 12 months. We never buy presents or fl owers as we are very reluctant to buy into what Val-entine’s Day has become, both in theory and in practice.

My main problem with what Valentine’s Day has become is its meaning to many of us. As we, regretfully and with increasing speed, over-refi ne our food and the information that we receive … we turn our food and information into quick pills to swallow and quickly forget. I fear that we do the same to very complex and deep concepts such as love. Humanity seems to live with a dangerous delusion that we can measure, quantify, prove and frame everything—including love. We seem to deceive ourselves that whether physical or metaphysical, everything needs to be proved, given a singular defi nition and a monolithic packaging with clearly defi ned borders. How can there be only one defi ni-tion of love? How is it possible to have one way of celebrating and showing love? As John Lennon sings, how is it conceivable that the very fact of love is less important than, who you love, how you love and what you do about it?

Using the most popular defi nition, what the Antepli family does on every Feb. 14 is anything but a Valentine’s Day celebra-tion because we do not celebrate the kind of love elevated, con-fi ned and limited to Disney-style romance between unrealisti-cally good looking boys and girls. Is this is the only kind of love that we should remember and celebrate every year? Isn’t God love and didn’t God’s create everything out of love? Doesn’t a shallow understanding of love and its fake ceremonial manifes-tations contradict this essence of love?

Secondly, if we confi ne the concept of love to an idealized romance between a man and women and canonize it like that, do we realize how much we hurt people who, for various rea-sons, cannot convert and practice this artifi cial religion of love in the way society has defi ned it? I think the way we do it, fuels the fi re for people who struggle with self-image or, for various reasons, do not have a partner or spouse. The externally im-posed pressure and fear of spending Valentine’s Day alone is not negligible, especially among younger members of society. Most of these people, who go through these struggles, actually have parents, siblings, relatives, friends and pets in their lives. So they are not actually alone; but somehow the love that a per-son gives and receives in those relationships does not count. How unfortunate.

Of course the biggest Valentine’s Day elephant in the room is how much it commercializes love. A multi-billion dollar global industry continues to force people, in a very sophisticated way, (as a Turkish proverb says) to eat as many salty peanuts as they can at Valentine’s Day celebrations—so that the peanut vendors can sell water later and make more money. The industry that has grown up around Valentine’s Day tells us that love has a cer-tain day, a certain color, a certain way of expression to particular people in particular manners … etc. I could not disagree more. We should resist this greedy commercial propaganda in order to preserve the numerous and complex layers of love’s meaning and its diverse manifestations.

I don’t know your Valentine’s Day plans but I am looking for-ward to my family’s Valentine’s Day dinner where the outpour-ing of love will be shared. Happy Valentine’s Day everybody!

Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain and an adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies. His column runs every other Tuesday.

Building more than houses: a thank you letter

My fi rst experience with Habitat for Human-ity at Duke highlighted two very important characteristics about you, the population of

Duke students (these are generaliza-tions, so please do not take offense if you are one of the, say, fi ve people who do not fi t into these stereotypes).

First, you can write legislation, speak a zillion different languages, shoot a basketball, perform Shake-speare, help cure diseases, start NGOs and design skyscrapers, all while taking a full course load. But you cannot use a hammer. Second, for some unknown reason, you still try.

Every weekend you try. You head out, often in your own vehicles, car-pooling and routinely making multiple trips between home-sites and campus. Even though Habitat, a volunteer organization that depends on transportation, has no formal bus or shuttle service, you fi nd ways to get to Durham every weekend—fall, winter and spring—to build.

I don’t know why you do it, either. In the prepos-terously annoying North Carolina drizzle and the absurdly high humidity and AT 8:30 A.M. ON A SAT-URDAY, you come to build. Despite the fact that you could be sleeping or watching basketball or catching up on homework or a million other profi table enter-prises, you still come to volunteer your time and la-bor, and you build.

Do you understand the gravity of what you are do-ing? Let me begin with the obvious: You are building a shelter. Considered one of the four necessities of life (along with air, water and food), shelter protects us from the elements. But you are also building a home, a place of safety, respite and love. Studies show that chil-dren growing up in a home, as opposed to an unstable living arrangement, perform better in school, have fewer behavioral problems and have a lower chance of being impoverished and unemployed later in life.

You are building a catalyst that will lead to a stron-ger, more productive community. Homeowners are more likely to actively participate in their neigh-borhoods through civic and political volunteering. Not surprisingly, they are more likely to vote, more likely to know their representative offi cials and more likely to address community problems. Their local economies benefi t from increased tax revenues and consumer spending at local businesses. You may not realize it, but what you have started by waving that hammer is systemic improvement.

You are building relationships with your fellow Duke volunteers, and perhaps more importantly, with

our neighbors in Durham. You may also be building a few forearm and wrist fl exors, especially since you usually have to hammer every nail three times over to

get it right (at least at the start of the morning).

You may not know it, but you are building change, and this is especially important in Durham. The Research Triangle area has the highest per-capi-ta income in the state and the highest concentration of Ph.D.’s in the coun-try. It also encloses the state’s most ex-pensive rental market and the region’s lowest home-ownership rate. Many working families can only afford to live in substandard, unsafe or overcrowded rentals. It takes $50,000 to sponsor a Habitat House (sponsor, not pay for—

Habitat homes are sold, not given away). Thanks to a generous partnership with Duke’s Offi ce of Durham and Regional Affairs, which matches $25,000 raised by students, we have begun building one Duke house each year. This would not be possible without your support throughout the year.

For you don’t just build. You buy Habitat cookies and T-shirts, you play in our volleyball tournament, and you donate year-round. You volunteer and con-tribute to the Habitat Re-store on 15-501 and you tu-tor Habitat homeowner children in school. Because of your help, we are able to give back to our greater Durham community in a meaningful and impactful way. We have literally built a community. Well … let’s say we continue to build one.

On behalf of Duke Habitat, Durham Habitat and the Habitat homeowners to whom you have so gener-ously donated time, labor and maybe a few bruises, I would like to offer my sincere thanks and admira-tion. Please keep building.

If you are interested in becoming more involved, email dukehabitat@gmail.com or visit any of our upcoming events. The dedication of the completed Duke Habitat House will take place on Feb. 18 at 8:30 a.m. On Feb. 22 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Bryan Center, the Duke Mens Club Rowing Team and Duke Habitat will host the Row for Humanity fundraiser and bake sale. In April we will host the Habitat Ball at the Doris Duke Center at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens.

Emily Mendenhall is a Trinity junior and the outreach coordinator for Duke Habitat. This column is the fi fth in-stallment in a semester-long series of weekly columns written by dPS members addressing civic service and engagement at Duke. Follow dPS on Twitter @dukePS.

Remembering love

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An Encounter with Simone Weil

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Screening to be followed by a

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ExhibitionsI Recall the Experience Sweet and Sad: Memo-ries of the Civil War. Thru April 8. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy. Thru June 17. Nasher Museum.

The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Photographs by Frank Espada. Thru July 8. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

Events Feb 14 - Feb 20February 14Heroes, Villains, and the Dark Age of Comics. Part of the countdown lecture series to the Heroes and Villains Library Party. Gerry Canavan, Ph.D. candidate in literature, helps you bone up on your comic book history and superhero savvy. 4:30pm. Perkins Library, Room 217. Free

February 16To Free a Family. Duke Emeritus History Professor Sydney Nathans reads from his new book about one woman’s attempt to flee slavery in North Caro-lina in 1848. 4pm. Rubenstein Library, Rare Book Rm. Free.

Film Screening: An Encounter with Simone Weil. Presentation of the documentary is followed by a conversation/Q&A with dir. Julia Haslett and composer Daniel Thomas Davis. 7:30pm. Smith Warehouse Garage (Bay 4). Free.

Duke Jazz Ensemble. John Brown, dir., with guest artist Carmen Lundy, vocalist. 8pm. Reynolds In-dustries Theater. $10 general/$5 students & senior citizens.

Exhibition Opening and Artist Talk. Meet Lynne Warren, curator of contemporary art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and artist Nathan Carter, whose art is part of Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art. Reception and cash bar to fol-low. 7pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Graduate Student Symposium. Keynote Talk: Leonard Folgarait, Vanderbuilt University. 5:30pm. East Duke Bldg, 204B. Free. This event will also take place on February 17 at 1pm.

February 17“That State of Mind We Called Darmstadt: A Memoir and a Few Afterthoughts”. Peter Westergaard, Princeton University. 4:15pm. Per-son Recital Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill. Free.

February 19Katharina Uhde, violin & R. Larry Todd, piano. Works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms. 8pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

Screen SocietyAll events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium. (SW) =Smith Warehouse - Bay 4,C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium.

2/14 IVAN THE TERRIBLE (Parts I-II)Sergei Eisenstein Retrospective (rare 35mm screenings of classics by the master)

2/16 AN ENCOUNTER WITH SIMONE WEIL (7:30pm, SW)Q&A to follow w/ director Julia Haslett & composer Daniel Thomas Davis (Duke Music Dept).

2/19 PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS (Shohei Imamura, Japan, 1968) (8pm, W)Cine-East: East Asian Cinema series. Discussion to follow.

2/20 LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM (documen-tary about Palestinian & Israeli peace activists)Kenan Ethics Series. Discussion to follow