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Hays officially undertakes two-year term as dean of the Divinity School

Sec. Gates to speak in Reynolds

by Matthew ChaseTHE CHRONICLE

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will speak at Reynolds Theater Sept. 29.

Gates, the only secretary of defense to be asked to remain in office by an incoming president, will deliver the Ambassa-dor S. Davis Phillips Fam-ily International Lecture.

“We are delighted to welcome Secretary Gates to Duke,” President Richard Brodhead said in a Tuesday Duke news release. “His leadership

in government and higher education is a model of service to society.”

The speech will be hosted by the Ameri-can Grand Strategy Program, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, the Office of Global Strategy and Programs and Duke’s “A World Together” initiative.

Last year, Fareed Zakaria, CNN host and a contributing editor for Time, spoke at the speech.

Peter Feaver, director of the AGS Pro-gram and former advisor on the National Security Council, said in an interview

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Robert Hays was formally installed as interim Dean of the Divinity School at a ceremony in the Duke Chapel Tuesday. Hays urged students to practice determination and sacrifice in his speech.

by Carter SuryadevaraTHE CHRONICLE

After welcoming freshmen to Duke at last week’s convocation ceremony, Presi-dent Richard Brodhead ushered in some-one with a little more Duke experience Tuesday.

Richard Hays—who has been at Duke since leaving the faculty of Yale University in 1991—will serve as the interim dean of the Divinity School, and was welcomed to his position Tuesday.

“We’re extremely lucky to have Rich-ard Hays—he’s a famous scholar and a powerful preacher,” Brodhead said. “He’s a person of great judgment and generos-ity and I think he’ll be a fantastic leader for the Divinity School.”

Hays, who is the George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament at the Di-vinity School, officially began his duties as dean July 1 and will serve a two-year term as the school continues to search for a permanent replacement for former dean Gregory Jones. Jones is now serving as vice president and vice provost for global strat-egy and programs.

After formally accepting the post, Hays delivered a well-received speech to a crowded congregation. With sev-eral first-year Divinity School students on hand, Hays encouraged determina-tion and preparation as students begin their studies. Several faculty members

and students were on hand to witness the ceremony, which took place in the Duke Chapel.

During an address in the ceremony, Hays delivered a message of sacrifice. He told those in attendance that wheth-er they are going to follow Jesus on the

road to Jerusalem or embark on serious Christian study, they must be prepared to pay a price.

Dean Hays is an internationally re-spected theologian, well known for his

Strong start for Connector ridershipby Samantha Brooks

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Duke students, employees and faculty members have joined Durham residents in taking advantage of the new, brightly-colored buses that connect the University to the Bull City.

On Aug. 16, the Bull City Connector hit the road and began its route from Duke’s West Campus to downtown Durham. Phail Wynn, vice president for Durham and re-gional affairs, said the bus has been popular with local Durham residents and employees thus far, though the daily number of riders has not yet reached the targeted goal for the year. Students do not yet represent a signifi-cant portion of the ridership.

“So far everything has been positive. There are about 1,200 riders per day, and I’m not even sure that all the students are aware of it yet,” he said. “We were hoping to have a daily ridership of 2,000 by the end of the year, and right now we’re about 60 percent there.”

Wynn said he will meet with Durham City Manager Tom Bonfield after the bus has run for 90 days to discuss potential changes to its schedule and stop locations. De-pending on ridership patterns and passenger feedback, courTney douglas/The chronicle

Though the Bull City Connector is becoming popular with Duke employees and city residents, students have been slower to utilize it.

Student Health determines rates for STI testing

by Carrie WasterlainTHE CHRONICLE

Several months after announcing it will no longer cover the cost of sexually transmitted infection testing for students, Student Health has reached a consensus on test prices.

Students can expect to start paying approximately $10 to $30 dollars out of pocket for each STI test, re-gardless of their insurance plans, said Executive Direc-tor of Student Health Dr. Bill Purdy. Student Health will also charge an unspecified amount for blood chemistry and $17 for pap smears, he said. Student Health was able to keep costs fairly low due to the high volume of tests anticipated and the fact that no insurance has to be filed, Purdy noted.

Negotiations between Student Health and LabCorp, an organization that provides medical laboratory tests and

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Mexico’s push to draw tourists, among the country’s biggest source of dollar in-flows, is getting harder as violence con-nected to drug trafficking persists. cancun and acapulco hotels saw a smaller-than-normal influx of college-age revelers in March, tour operators there said.

Violence is intensifying as the gov-ernment steps up its battle against drug traffickers and organized crime in the united states.

neW yorK — While most new york voters agree Muslims have the right to build a mosque near the World Trade center site, a similar majority opposes it out of concern for families victimized by the sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a statewide Quinnipiac university poll said.

Voters agreed 54 to 40 percent that the constitution protects Muslims’ right to build a mosque. They also said they oppose its construction 53 to 39 per-cent “because of the sensitivities of 9/11 relatives.” also, 71 percent want backers to “voluntarily build the mosque some-where else,” the survey said.

“The heated, sometimes angry, debate over the proposal to build a mosque two blocks from ground zero has new york state voters twisted in knots, with some of them taking contradictory positions,” said Maurice carroll, director of the Quinnipiac university Polling institute in hamden, conn.

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Coach Charlie Lacono supervises young Chinese baseball players at the Major League Baseball facility in Wuxi, China. The players are hand-picked by officials, who are seeking to tap into a market tradi-tionally dominated by basketball.

“‘someone was talking to me today saying i’m sure it makes you nervous to play that kind of opponent to start,’ cutcliffe said in reference to elon. ‘and i said i’m nervous about all of them. i think it’s great for us to play a quality team that knows how to win because we need to measure ourselves....every time we play is a golden opportunity to grow our program.’”

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reported that the Nicholas School of the Environment hosted the 2010 Winter Forum “Making the Green Economy Work.” This was not the case—the forum was hosted by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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Triangle unemployment remains relatively low

by Ciaran O’ConnorTHE CHRONICLE

Although North Carolina’s economy continues to struggle, workers in the Tri-angle are experiencing unemployment rates significantly below the statewide average.

According to figures released by the Employment Security Commis-sion of North Carolina, 9.8 percent of the state’s workforce was unemployed in July. Conversely, in the Triangle—which is anchored by Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh—only 7.5 percent of those actively looking for work cannot find it.

Other regions of the state have not been as fortunate. Several counties are saddled with unemployment rates great-er than 13 percent, and in some rural areas, 15 out of every 100 workers are without a job.

“We have had some job growth since the beginning of the year,” said Larry Parker, a spokesman for the ESC. “It’s just not at the pace we need.”

Parker said that although some sectors of the job market have experi-enced growth, others have declined—especially in the textile and furniture industries. Counties dependent upon only one industry have been particu-larly hard-hit.

“[Smaller counties] rely usually on one big plant of some sort and that’s where most of the county works,” he said. “If something like that goes away, it’s very

devastating to the county and difficult to rebound from.”

But areas like the Triangle, which at-tract a wide range of industries, have consistently had lower unemployment numbers.

“I think it’s a function of what drives our economy,” said Durham Mayor Bill Bell. “We benefit from strong govern-ment, education and health care indus-tries—it’s the diversity of jobs and the types of jobs that offer stability.”

Parker added that the Triangle also benefits from medical technology and software businesses that attract “support industries,” which create additional job opportunities.

Although the number of North Car-olinians out of work remains elevated, a number of politicians have credited President Barack Obama’s $787 bil-lion stimulus with keeping a lid on un-employment, which some economists speculated in 2009 could spiral out of control.

“[It has] been helpful,” Bell said of the more than $100 million in stimu-lus money that Durham County has received.

Still, some economists question a stim-ulus in which dollars are conditionally al-located. Michelle Connolly, associate pro-fessor of the practice of economics, said she was wary of such constrained federal spending.

“When it’s specifically targeted, I think it’s kind of wasteful.”

Inactive summers harmful to education, study finds

by Alex ZempolichTHE CHRONICLE

With classes back in session, many stu-dents may be wistfully reflecting on their long summer breaks.

The summer is often a time of reflec-tion and renewal. However, for youth who cannot afford the luxuries of a stimulating, structured summer break, the time away from the classroom can be detrimental to educational development.

The summer inactivity is not only boring, but research conducted by Harris Cooper, professor of psychology and neuroscience, concluded that the extremely long, dull days are highly inefficient for learning.

Cooper’s research shows that after three months of lost learning, past material must be retaught at the start of each new year to make up for the hiatus. More alarmingly, this reteaching can compound to years of schooling lost by the time the children reach high school.

Cooper’s education analysis gained attention last year when President Ba-rack Obama and U.S. Education Secre-tary Arne Duncan suggested reorganiz-ing the vacation schedule to make the United States more efficient and glob-ally competitive.

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Harris Cooper, professor of psychology and neuroscience, has conducted research that shows that long summers spent away from academic stimulation can stunt educational development.

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ePrint update proceeds smoothly for students

by Rohan TanejaTHE CHRONICLE

Students trying to access their ePrint accounts this Fall may find they are un-able to print using last year’s software, due to the installation of a new University-wide printing system this summer.

In late July, the Office of Information Technology upgraded the entire ePrint system to make it more compatible with various student computers. The new ePrint software is now compatible with Windows Vista and 7 system users, as well as newer 64-bit computers.

Other new features include automatic software updates, improved printer sta-tus communication to system users, faster printing, integration of different printing stations at Duke and improved support for different paper sizes, color matching and two-siding printing, according to OIT’s website.

OIT’s Senior Communications Strat-egist Steve O’Donnell said OIT made sure to inform students about the ePrint upgrade.

“We posted an eFlyer, sent messages to all faculty and staff registered as ePrint users, and notified staff in the libraries, Student Affairs, Undergraduate Educa-tion, the Bursar’s Office, the Financial Aid Office, etc.,” O’Donnell wrote in an e-mail Monday. “[We] posted a mes-sage where ePrint software would be downloaded from the OIT site, posted a message on the main ePrint page, post-

ed (and tweeted) a service update, and posted (and tweeted) a planned mainte-nance period.”

O’Donnell added that he did not see any immediate problems caused by the new system, including outages.

“Regarding ePrint itself, I don’t see any evidence in the IT Alerts history to indi-cate that there was an outage,” he wrote. “I’ve received reports of typical issues with individual machines only. Right now, I’m seeing some machines that need supplies, but that’s also to be expected; our print demand in the first days of school are always high as students print out course materials.”

Sophomore Kendall Murphy used the OIT desk in the Link Tuesday to help her install the new software.

“They were extremely helpful,” she said. “I was afraid the process would be complicated, but it ended up being sim-ple and straightforward.”

Other students on campus opted to download the new software themselves from OIT’s website.

“OIT’s directions were great and easy to follow, and I didn’t have any major disruptions,” said sophomore Ann Mallick.

Freshman Anish Raman said the pro-cess was simple, even though he never had to install ePrint before.

“I didn’t experience any problems at all and the installation process went smoothly for me,” he said.

published work of a book covering bib-lical ethics, “The Moral Vision of the New Testament.”

Chris Brady, director of the Office of Student Life and Formation, said after the ceremony that he was thrilled to wel-come Hays as the new dean.

“We’re very excited about the new dean,” Brady said. “We expect that he is going to set a grand vision for the school moving forward. He is an es-teemed scholar nationally and inter-nationally and I think as all things, we lament from the ending of a previous dean whom we esteemed and admired and loved, but we welcome in Dean Hays, who is one of ours and we know that he has some big things in store for the school,” Brady said.

First-year Divinity student Jeff Nel-son embraced Hays’ humor and was im-pressed by his words.

“This is my first year, and based on the orientation, I’m looking very for-ward to Hays’ term, as I’m sure he will define what it truly means to be a Divin-ity School,” Nelson said.

The convocation and installation of the new dean concluded with a concert and reception at the Divinity School later in the day.

that Gates is “the perfect speaker for a grand strategy program.” Feaver added that he does not yet know the topic of Gates’ speech, but “he doesn’t lack im-portant issues.”

“He is one of, not just the most cel-ebrated defense strategists of all time, but probably one of the most celebrated cabi-net secretaries and advisers to a president, respected across the aisle and praised for serving in a very difficult position in a criti-cal time,” Feaver said.

The event is free and open to the public. Tickets for students, faculty and staff will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis starting Sept. 3. The general public can purchase tickets starting Sept. 8.

the bus may depart from Foulton St. in-stead of Trent Dr. Wynn said such a change would make the route more convenient for employees.

Director of Community Engagement Sam Miglarese said he was excited by the potential influence the Connector could have on students and their relationship with Durham.

“[This] is another great example of moving the needle to build better Duke-Durham relations, one rider at a time,” Miglarese wrote in an e-mail. “Seeing the BCC go up and down Main Street is such a visible example of bringing Duke to Dur-ham and Durham to Duke.”

Miglarese added that he hopes the bus will allow student groups, such as Greek or-ganizations, to make better use of the com-munity service opportunities in the area.

“[The bus] is especially positive for students who want to work in service,” he said. “You have to know that one of the biggest challenges that Duke faces is fulfilling the desire for students to serve. If Duke is going to build a culture of ser-vice, it has to provide the infrastructure to do that.”

For the residents of Old West Durham neighborhoods, the bus is the result of a project they have been encouraging for years. According to John Schelp, president of the Old West Durham neighborhoods, the residents were among the first to en-dorse the idea of the Connector.

“Old West Durham was one of the first neighborhoods to promote and come up with a connector based on the old East/West streetcar line,” he said. “We spoke at Preservation Durham luncheons and talk-ed to reporters about the importance of an East/West connector between the largest employer in Durham and downtown and beyond.”

Aaron Lubeck, an instructor at the Nicholas School of the Environment, said the bus is particularly convenient because of the location of the bus stops in relation to his house.

“I was a total skeptic at first, but I’m pretty happy with [the Connector],” he said. “Depending on the weather, I would probably have had to bike, but this seems to be the best option—of course, it helps living two blocks away from the bus stop!”

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“We can no longer afford an academic calendar designed when America was a na-tion of farmers who needed their children at home plowing the land at the end of each day,” Obama said in March.

Cooper’s meta-study, a statistical com-pilation of preceding studies on the issue, found that “year-round” schooling, in which children had three weeks of vacation for every nine weeks of schooling, had a “small positive effect” for all students, but a “larger effect for students of poorer backgrounds.”

“What kids forget most is those sub-jects in which repetition plays an im-

portant role, like language classes and mathematics,” Cooper said. He added that students do not lose basic concepts, “but when a child doesn’t speak English at home, it’s hard for them to keep up on reading during the long summer vacation.... These losses are even worse for students of low income backgrounds who usually aren’t as stimulated as stu-dents who can enjoy museum trips and summer camps.”

Some international students at Duke are not accustomed to the long American summers. Freshman Ernesto Traulsen said he had a European sum-mer vacation of eight weeks in his native Switzerland.

“I would forget subjects like Math, but once I did it again it came back very quick-ly,” Traulsen said.

The history of the American three-month-long vacation is a story of geograph-ical dissimilarities.

“One hundred years ago, students in cities wouldn’t have been surprised to be in school for 10-11 months,” Cooper said, “but with the Great Migration of the 1930s, the school calendar had to be standard-ized, thus bringing a compromise between rural and urban America.”

But with only 2 percent of Americans in-volved in agriculture and ranching today, an agrarian school calendar makes little sense, es-pecially in today’s high-tech, tertiary markets.

Cooper, who supports the nine weeks on-three weeks off schedule, said a large-scale move to the system will come slowly.

“The main roadblocks to change are tradition—people don’t want to change—and economics. America’s sum-mer camps and other seasonal businesses don’t want to give up their hold on the three months they do business in,” Coo-per said. “Even if they had camps during the year, most locations are only suited to hosting kids and vacation goers during the summer.... The economy will play a big role in deciding when we change the school schedule, but the change is going to come from the bottom-up, starting at the local levels.”

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services, have been taking place for several months. Lab-Corp will replace the Duke University Medical Center lab that previously interpreted test results at a deep dis-count but changed its contract in June, citing the finan-cial crisis as its reason for raising fees.

“The arrangement that we had with the hospital re-lated to various lab tests was reevaluated, and we are no longer in the position to cover [STI] tests,” said Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek. She stressed, however, that Stu-dent Health still covers a number of tests for students.

Student Health performs about 3,500 STI tests per year, Wasiolek wrote in an e-mail. She noted that the re-sults are “less than one percent positive.”

The cost of an STI test can be charged to a stu-dent’s bursar account like any other Student Health charge. For students concerned with confidential-ity, Purdy emphasized that the bill will not indicate that any test was administered, only noting that the charge was from Student Health.

“Some kids really want this to be strictly confidential [and] now there’s a way that can be done,” he said.

Purdy added that he does not think the new cost of testing will influence a student’s decision to get tested, noting that STI testing is not something most students get done frequently.

Others, like senior Jessica Macfarlane, co-director of the Know Your Status campaign, disagree. Macfarlane predicts that the new STI testing policy will keep some students from getting tested, describing the new testing policy as “an unfortunate change.” She said she hopes that Student Health will continue to refer students who come in for HIV testing to Know Your Status, which of-fers free weekly HIV testing in the Bryan Center.

As for other STI tests, students who are willing to ven-ture off campus have the option of visiting the Durham County Health Department, which has agreed to con-tinue providing free STI testing.

Despite student concerns, Wasiolek said she is confi-dent that the pricing changes are not severe enough to negatively influence students’ willingness to get tested.

“[T]here is a feeling that the costs of these tests will not impose a financial burden on students such that they’ll choose not to get the tests,” she said. “Our hope is that students will see how important those tests are and get what they need.”

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by Scott RichTHe CHRonICLe

The main purpose of the nCaa is to make money. It exists to make its schools as much revenue as possible. This explains everything from its reluctance to develop a college football playoff system—even though such a change is so desirable that

no less than two branches of govern-ment have weighed in on it—to the or-ganization’s silence while conferences threatened to realign and destroy some of college sports’ most

storied rivalries.our most storied rival currently finds

itself butting heads with the nCaa over the same issue: money. only, in this case, the issue isn’t the amount of money, but where it’s going.

and as surprising as it is, I empathize with the Tar Heels.

While I don’t condone the alleged ac-tions of agent-tampering in the north Carolina football program, the system the nCaa has constructed is the true impe-tus behind these actions. Because for all the money college football generates— which includes astronomical figures like the $125 million per year it receives from eSpn for BCS broadcasting rights—not nearly enough goes back to the players themselves.

In an attempt to maintain the ama-teur status of its sports, the nCaa goes to extreme lengths to make sure stu-dent-athletes don’t get a penny more

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lindy Duncan, Duke’s top performer last year with four top-five finishes, will lead the blue Devils this fall.

by Danny VinikTHe CHRonICLe

Duke looks to improve upon a suc-cessful, but not entirely fulfilling, 2010 season that saw it win two tournaments, finish third in the aCC championship and climb as high as no. 3 in the national rankings.

But a subpar final weekend left the Blue Devils short of their fourth na-tional championship. an eighth place finish left head coach Dan Brooks dis-appointed, although at this point in the season, he’s not focused on the team’s results just yet.

“It’s very process-involved,” Brooks said. “We have a lot of talent. We’re a team that expects to win, but my ex-pectations have to do with process, not outcomes.”

This year’s team is even younger than in past years with three sophomores and two freshmen. Brooks, however, empha-sized that age is not an issue.

“You don’t play against bigger or faster people when you get to college,” Brooks said. “You’re still playing the golf course. You play the golf course as a junior and you play the golf course in college. In that respect, they all know how to do it. They’ve played in big ju-

nior tournaments.”While Duke is composed almost en-

tirely of underclassmen, it is not lacking in senior leadership. Brooks said Kim Donovan has shown growth as the head of the team.

“Kim has really grown since she’s been on this team,” Brooks said. “So far she’s done an excellent job of leading and I don’t expect that to change at all. It start-ed last year and it’s continued on into this year.”

along with Donovan, sophomore Lindy Duncan will play an important part for the Blue Devils. Duncan was Duke’s top player last year, finishing in the top five four times and the top 20 ten times.

While Brooks has faith in Donovan and Duncan, he must deal with the loss of key contributor alison Whitaker. Whitak-er was a top performer for Brooks’s squad last year, competing in all 12 tournaments and finishing the year with the second lowest scoring average on the team.

“alison was a verbal leader,” Brooks said. “She was a positive force [on the team].”

Despite the loss of his leader, Brooks is

by Patricia LeeTHe CHRonICLe

It was the Blue Devils’ first match of the year at Cameron Indoor Stadium Tuesday night, and everyone on the team got a chance to enjoy the victory.

Duke decisively beat Campbell, 3-0 (25-9, 25-14, 25-23), with consistent offensive and defensive play, as well as solid contribu-tions from previously seldom-used bench

players. The Blue Devils (2-1) were led by senior middle hit-ter Becci Burling, who notched four

aces against the Fighting Camels (0-4) along with 15 kills.

“I think it was a great match, and Camp-bell has a lot of great players on its team, and they’re obviously very scrappy. So they brought a lot of rallies to us, which was a lot of fun, especially for a home game,” Burl-ing said. “I think we did well considering it was our first match playing at home, and it really got out all of our preseason jitters, and I think what we can take from tonight is to better prepare for each and every set, no matter who we’re playing, no matter our lineup.”

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than tuition, room and board and a minimal stipend from their institution. It doesn’t matter that many col-lege athletes come from disadvantaged backgrounds and can’t afford to live on such a meager income, or that others have no desire to complete their educa-tion and view collegiate athletics as a springboard to an inevitable windfall at the professional level. no, the nCaa ensures that athletes who are responsible for contracts like the one recently struck between the nCaa and the World Wide Leader aren’t justifiably compensated.

Think of it this way: north Carolina’s football program pulled in $24,163,760 in revenue last year. out-of-state tu-ition is estimated at $22,880 a player. If the Tar Heels have 85 scholarship players on their roster (the maximum al-lowed by the nCaa), only around $2 million goes directly to the players in the form of tuition.

With these numbers taken into account, it starts to make more sense that underappreciated and undercompensated players might contemplate taking money from agents.

are these actions by both players and agents ille-gal and unethical? Yes. But the point is they could’ve

largely been avoided with a rather simple policy change that is more ethically palatable than these back alley dealings.

nearly every other country in the world organizes prep sports in a way antithetical to that of the nCaa. While americans force a college education down the throats of prospective athletes in order to get noticed by pro scouts, soccer (excuse me, futbol) players in europe instead make their way up a complex system of prep and semi-pro leagues, many starting when they are still teenagers. These players know their futures lie in athletics and make the choice to abandon their educations for their dreams—something we college students might question, but a reasonable de-cision nonetheless. What’s more, these players get paid a legitimate, living wage as they make their way up through the ranks, eliminating the necessity of any under-the-table nastiness.

There is the risk that these athletes might get injured and not have an education to fall back on. But as inad-visable as not getting an education is, it is an individual’s decision. He has the right to make it, without having an ineffective governing body forcing them to choose only one path.

Such an organization is more common on this side of the pond than you might think. our neighbors to the

north have a very similar system by which prospective hock-ey players develop (stars like Sidney Crosby never stepped foot on a college campus). even in the States, it is accept-able for baseball phenoms to go right from high school to the minor leagues.

So why do we refuse to adapt a similar situation for our most beloved sport, football? Money.

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award players a reasonable stipend—one that must be uniform across schools, or at least conferences, to mini-mize recruiting imbalance—and allow them to go pro whenever they desire, and the problem of agent tamper-ing would diminish overnight. players who feel they are ready for the pros (accurately or not) could bypass the col-lege system completely if they desire, while others who still need to develop their skills or want an education could mature in a collegiate setting while supporting themselves and their families.

plus, college athletics’ governing body would take the first step to eliminating its sullied image.

It could be an nCaa first: a logical, win-win decision.

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excited that this year’s team is full of diligent players who are willing to put in the time and effort in to improve their game.

“This core of people that I have on the team right now are workers,” Brooks said. “That’s the edge we have this year. We’ve got a lot of talent, but we’re [also] a really hard working group.”

Duke plays four tournaments in the fall, but the team it has now may be completely different from the one which competes in 2011’s national championship the following May. Brooks will count on his young squad to mature and develop into an elite team capable of competing for a na-tional title.

“I always have an eye on the end of the season,” Brooks said. “It’s not a lot of hoping and praying that we play great at the end. It’s a lot of honing skills and, if we’re doing our job, we’re going to be the best team we can be at the end of the season.”

attacking and blocking, as well as a veteran line-up that included five returning starters and freshman libero ali McCurdy, the team changed things up in the second set with more rotations that gave reserve players time on the court.

With the reserves, Duke bumbled its way to a closer game. after making 10 errors in the third set, Campbell gained momentum and forced long points between the two teams, tying the score nine times, even at 20-20, and pulling ahead a few times, as well.

The Blue Devils were able to come through, however, 24-21, before finally winning the concluding set 25-23.

“I had some of the players go out there and move po-sitions, so maybe changing things up didn’t give them a chance to get into the rhythm of things, but they did re-ally well with what we were trying to accomplish,” head coach Jolene nagel said. “I feel like our team had an op-portunity to grow tonight because we’re trying to get ex-

perience for a lot of players, so I thought it was awesome for our team to be in a match and have us all out there working together.”

McCurdy made a strong showing Tuesday, adding 12 digs to the 29 she made over the weekend in the Coors Rocky Mountain Challenge. She also held a .923 serving percentage in the game against Campbell.

“I was excited going into it because I didn’t know how it would feel heading into a game at home, but it felt great,” said McCurdy, who played in Cameron for the first time Tuesday. “I know that if we play hard, if we play our game, I’m confident that we’ll do well. I think everybody stepped up when we needed them to step up.”

Duke heads to Murfreesboro, Tenn. Friday for the Middle Tennessee State Tournament, where the team will face Middle Tennessee State, which was chosen to top the 2010 Sun Belt Conference in a preseason coaches’ poll; auburn—picked to finish second in SeC West by the league’s head coaches; and georgia Southern, which re-turns two preseason all-Southern Conference players.

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Among the official aims of Duke University “are to assert a faith in the eternal union of knowledge and religion set forth in the teachings and char-acter of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” This pas-sage is found in the first section of the bylaws that continue to govern the University today.

These prominent Meth-odist ties can still affect us today. In fact, they may be apt grounds for divesting the Duke University Police De-partment of its arrest power.

In yesterday’s editorial, we outlined a recent North Car-olina Court of Appeals ruling that effectively stripped Da-vidson College’s police force of its authority to make ar-rests. The case ruled that Da-vidson’s police force violated separation of church and

state due to the school’s ties to the Presbyterian Church. This ruling has serious impli-cations for security at Duke, not only in policing student behavior, but also in protect-

ing campus. As such, we called upon the Uni-

versity and its lawyers to be-gin planning for the possibil-ity of a similar suit. Today, we urge the Board of Trustees to broadly examine the matter of Duke’s longstanding con-nection to the United Meth-odist Church.

Because the school was originally founded by a group of Methodists and Quakers, it is no surprise that the Chris-tian religion plays a prominent role in the University’s history. Duke’s motto is “Eruditio et Religio”—“Knowledge and Religion”. And the historical

Methodist tradition at Duke is by no means a trivial one.

The Duke Endowment, the University’s largest indepen-dent donor, pledges a portion of its funds to support rural Methodist churches in North Carolina, the Divinity School is Methodist and the Christian tradition is present in nearly every aspect of the University.

It is important to respect this historical tradition, but the University has changed greatly from the time of its founding. Today, Duke is hardly a Meth-odist school in the convention-al sense. The Chapel offers a nondenominational worship space. Duke offers a diverse atmosphere and a wealth of different creeds are practiced on campus without impunity. We believe most students are unaffected by the Methodist influence. Yet, the recent Da-

vidson ruling reveals how reli-gious affiliation can still have a tangible impact.

Therefore, the Board of Trustees should review all of Duke’s formal ties to the Methodist Church and con-duct a fundamental re-exam-ination of Duke’s connection to Christianity in relation to its status as a leading research university in the 21st century.

One place for it to start is the current process for select-ing Trustees. The Board’s by-laws dictate that 12 members must be elected by the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, 12 by the Western North Caroli-na Conference of the United Methodist Church and 12 by the graduates of Duke Univer-sity. This process results in for-mally channeling 24 of the 36 elected Trustees through the

United Methodist Church—a clear majority.

The Board may want to con-sider amending the by-laws to diminish the formal influence of the Methodist Church on the Trustee selection process. Or, it may need to draft a revised version of Duke’s aims for the bylaws. In any case, the Board should re-evaluate its formal governing documents to align more closely with the Universi-ty’s present reality without fully repudiating religion’s historical significance at Duke.

There is no doubt that the Davidson case could have serious legal consequences for Duke’s security policy. In light of this, reviewing Duke’s formal ties to the Methodist should be a top priority for the Board of Trustees when it convenes during the first weekend in October.

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For 20 years, I had a ritual. Every year, the night before the first day of school, I couldn’t sleep.

As I lay in bed the night before the first day of my fourth year of medical school, watching the min-utes until I had to report to the hospital tick away, I thought about all of those first days.

I thought about the walk down the hall to my parents’ room, Foo-tie pajamas soft on the carpeted floor, to complain that I couldn’t fall asleep and to ask if I could just watch television with them (Note: This happened every year until I turned nine. After that I was too big for Footie pajamas.). I thought about sitting in my bedroom, looking out the window at the car full of things I had bought for my freshman year of college, reading the Duke admissions brochure, wondering what I had got-ten myself into. I thought about the night before the first day of medical school, pacing around my first apartment, wondering if studying to be a doc-tor was the right choice.

I thought about how, year after year, I had the same questions: Would I be smart enough? Would I make new friends? Is everything going to be dif-ferent for me?

Except this night before the first day of school was different, and I knew it. It was my last first day of school, unless I can somehow convince my par-ents and/or self and/or future educational insti-tution that one doctoral degree isn’t enough.

Every year, the first day of school was the first page of a new chapter. This year, it’s the first page of the last chapter of a long and fantastic volume called “School.”

I’m turning 25. My parents were my age when I was born. One of my buddies from college just got married. My girlfriend, who just graduated law

school, remarked of the last night before her first day at her new job, “Tomorrow is the first time in 20 years I’ll end the summer by putting on a suit

instead of a backpack.” Next year, that’ll be me. Except

to be totally accurate, I haven’t ac-tually had a summer vacation in three years, and next year I’ll be wearing the same thing to my first day of work that I wore to the first day of school this year—a white coat. Also, I’ll probably bring my backpack.

Still, it won’t be the same. It won’t be school. For 24 going on 25 years,

I’ve been responsible only to myself, and only for my continued growth and education. I laid awake at night wondering if, in the year ahead, I’d live up to my own expectations.

And, really, that’s a great place to be. Maybe I’m an idealist. Maybe I’m just a perpet-

ual student, and I like school more than is healthy. Maybe this is some sort of quarter-life crisis and I’m conveniently forgetting all of the things I dis-liked about school and romanticizing the things I liked because deep down I’m just scared of grow-ing up.

Whatever it is, I feel like giving advice. So sidle up to the old man’s rocking chair and listen up.

Whether you have one year, or four years, or eight years, or 12 years left to be a student, re-member the bastion of all knowledge, Wikipedia, says the word student comes from a Latin verb meaning “to direct one’s zeal at.” As a student, your only responsibility is to summon up enough zeal to direct it somewhere.

So be zealous. And wherever the year takes you, don’t forget how lucky you are to be a student.

Alex Fanaroff is a fourth-year medical student. His column runs every Wednesday.

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It’s high tide for service-learning.Those who were seemingly strapped for time under the

academic hold of their previous classes now have an oppor-tunity to diversify their lives a bit. Starting this Fall, eight new service-learning courses spread across a range of disci-plines are joining the already large market of potential cur-riculum options.

As claimed by Duke’s Pro-gram in Education, these courses will attempt to inte-grate meaningful commu-nity service with instruction and reflection “to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities.” And it seems everyone benefits; not only do these opportunities enliven the undergraduate curriculum, but the commu-nity also receives assistance and potentially significant aca-demic feedback.

This new progression fits well within our university’s mission statement “to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their in-tellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participa-tion as leaders in their communities.” Further on in the mission’s sea of semicolons, it mentions ideals of helping “those who suffer” and promoting a “sense of the obliga-tions and rewards of citizenship.” Far from solely publiciz-ing the scholastic endeavors of the institution, Duke seeks to further us as moral citizens, a civically minded lot ready to contribute profoundly to the world.

Yet, how much can Duke foster a civic mindset? And can this goal potentially distract from more academically rigorous pursuits?

According to Stanley Fish in his 2008 polemic “Save the World on Your Own Time,” such civic aspirations only devalue the quality of a student’s education. The introduction of his book provides a scathingly hilarious depiction of universities who in their attempts to provide students with an education become too politically and morally motivated. Supposedly, most universities purpose to “cure every ill the world has ever known” including poverty, war, racism, gender bias and even the “hegemo-ny of Wal-Mart.” Yale’s mission statement, although en-couraging in its initial phrase, only falls victim to its own pseudo intellectual virtues. Its statement starts with assur-ing to seek students of “all backgrounds” and “educate them through mental discipline,” but loses it promise on the further proposition of the development of students’ “moral, civic and creative abilities.” I’m sure he would have a fun time with our mission statement as well.

Grounded in his rather debilitating critique of the cur-rent state of universities, he narrowly defines the purpose of an educational institution. A teacher should “introduce students to bodies of knowledge and traditions of inqui-ry” and “equip them with the analytical skills that will en-able them to move within those traditions.” An academy’s integrity and dignity rests on this definable goal, going

beyond which would only sacrifice such.Fortunately for Duke and most universities, his opinion

is a minority view, and there are quite a number of objec-tions to his argument. Mark Gearan, president of Hobart and William Smith colleges, contends that Fish’s view con-tradicts the rich tradition of civic responsibility of Ameri-can higher education. He even cites an American Council on Education endorsed statement* (“President’s Declara-tion on the Civic Responsibility of Higher Education”*) supported by 900 executive officers of colleges and univer-sities that notes, “higher education has an unprecedented opportunity to influence the democratic knowledge, dis-position and habits of the hearts” of graduates.

However, the polarization of this argument makes for rather extreme positions. As much as Fish confines the purpose of the university, so can the university grandiosely purport. His depiction of teachers who have no larger ex-ternal value but to further their field of academia is too constrained. On the other hand, the institution can take on unrealistic expectations. Having a university proclaim to orient students towards a democratic way of life and

realize our duties as citizens is admirable, but most likely unattainable.

This is not to suggest that the university should not be a beacon for a civic society. Given the high level of insti-tutional resources, I appreciate the ambition of our uni-versity to expand students’ horizons beyond just academic know-how. But the university should not necessarily take too much upon itself to develop the civic abilities of its students.

Realizing our duties as citizens is to a greater extent a first-hand ideal; it is truly appreciated through our own personal initiative, our own solicitation. I am grateful to have a university that, per its mission statement, promotes “a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship”* or a service-learning course that brings students up-close and personal with societal issues and disparities, but it ul-timately comes down to the individual and how he or she navigates his or her role in society.

At the end of the day, service learning remains an organic pro-cess: Duke can let in the tide of service learning, but it is up to us to

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This week, summer ends. Duke students sit in their first classes of the se-

mester, print out their syllabi, have coffee at noon and begin the scholarly rou-tines they will follow into December. In Limpopo Province, South Africa, how-ever, winter—not summer—has come to an end.

I arrived here one week ago to start my semester abroad, and the switch to the southern hemisphere’s calendar is one of many up-heavals to my previous life routine. Until December, I will study the ecology of South African biomes while living in the wilderness.

Last Tuesday, my classmates and I were driven north from Johannesburg to Nylsvley Nature Reserve. A river that runs north floods this flat land and when the Dutch-descended Trekboers first came upon it in 1838 they called the stream the Nyl, for they thought it must flow upward to the very top of Africa. They believed they had reached the

southern mouth of the actual Nile River. At Nylsvley in winter, the grasses are yellow and the clay

ground is red. Gray thorns the length of my ring finger defend bushes that line the edges of trails. The reserve, like much of the continental United States, lacks large predators, but is home to many hoofed herbivores and birds whose “woo-woo” whirring and twitters wake me up too early if my jet lag does not.

I have come to admire one animal in particular. It is the impala: a butterscotch, antelope-like creature with curved black horns that rob from it all the timidity a Carolina doe possesses. It is hunted by Africa’s deftest predators: chee-tahs, leopards, Cape hunting dogs and, of course, the lion. When impala bolt it is in an arc. Their flight is not skit-tish—they leap in a dance, each kick making a splash in the grassy expanse. When we stopped to watch them one evening from a Land Rover, they turned their faces to look directly at us, the black and white coloring around the eyes of the male striking as warrior paint.

As I faced the impala, I believed for a moment that I had entered a world of raw and ancient emotion. That here I had returned myself to the natural cycle of which human beings had once been a part. That in Africa, the

wild existed. This fleeting epiphany was not original. I have grown up hearing romanticized tales of the wild in Africa, remnants of generations past and present. The belief that on a Savannah one can enter the world of an earlier age, an epoch of man and beast, of hunter and the hunted, life as it was at the dawn of man.

The reality, though, is that when I looked down from the airplane on its descent into Jo-burg I saw a city with few differences from any I had been to before. When we drove to Nylsvley, it was on a highway beside contemporary cars—the only differences the coloring of destination signs and the flipped positions of driver and passenger. And when we went far into the park on a nighttime game drive, I mistook the glimmering lights of civilization for the eyes of an animal in the bush.

No, that archaic wild does not exist at all, not even in Af-rica, the birthplace of man. But, this semester, I will learn a bit about preserving the wild areas of the world that still do remain.

Rachna Reddy is a Trinity junior. She is studying ecology in South Africa for the semester. Her column runs every other Wednes-day.

On our own

Into the wild

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*No purchase necessary. Purchasing will not improve your chances of winning. Winner must be present at time of drawing. One shopping spree entry per person. Open to legal U.S. residents, age 18 or older. See store for official rules.

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Final

opens tomorrow,

september 2 at 9:00 a.m.

Renaissance Center

6807 Fayetteville Road, Durham, NC

If your idea of a thrill is finding great fashion

at huge savings, you’ll want to be there.

Enter for a chance to win a $2,000

‘Race Through the Rack’ shopping spree.*

Arrive early to enter drawing. Winner will be announced at 8:45 a.m.,

before the store opens. One lucky person will have 90 seconds to run

through our store and select up to $2,000 worth of merchandise.

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