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Arts and Sciences Council rethinks representation

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Flavor of Love, presented by Duke University Union Innovations, allowed students to show off knowledge of significant others or friends in a competition based on popular game shows.

Sunder endeavors to foster student involvement with campus affairs by Patricia Spears

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Sophomore Lavanya Sunder plans to en-courage student involvement on-campus by promoting student-driven projects.

As the current Duke Student Government vice president for services, Sunder is running for DSG president with the goal of increasing student engagement with campus life. Sun-der has been involved in a number of extra-curricular experiences including Common Ground, Awaaz, Duke Debate, Women’s Cen-ter Programming and the Think Before You Talk campaign. Her experience and success in the DSG senate separate her from other can-

didates, she said.“There are a lot of great student ideas,

but there’s a lack of great communication be-tween students and administration,” Sunder said.

Sunder emphasized her work with Fix My Campus, noting that as the program’s direc-tor, she has a good handle on student opin-ions. The Facebook page—monitored and addressed by DSG members—allows students to post problems on a variety of issues and has become one of Sunder’s biggest initiatives.

Sunder noted that she has made student-sponsored projects a priority in her time here.

“I’ve only really pursued projects that came

from students,” Sunder said.She is especially proud of her work restart-

ing the bike-sharing program, an initiative be-gun after she received several Facebook mes-sages from concerned students.

“Students were passionate about it, so I be-came passionate about it,” Sunder said.

Working on this program meant interact-ing with many different committees as well as important faculty members, such as Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Vice President of Administration Kyle Ca-vanaugh.

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Sunder hopes to increase student involvement if elected DSG president.

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The Arts and Sciences Council plans to re-consider how each department is represented proportionally.

The bylaws currently allow for one repre-sentative and one alternate member for every program in the arts and sciences that has at least one regular-rank faculty member with their primary appointment in that program. This has raised concerns from some faculty due to the unequal number of faculty in each academic unit. For instance, the Department of Biology and the International Comparative Studies program each have one representa-tive—but the former has dozens of regular-rank faculty members, and the latter has only one regular-rank professor with a primary ap-pointment in ICS. This will likely be a topic of further discussion at the council’s March meeting.

“For some faculty, that can be some kind of issue,” said council chair Thomas Rob-isheaux, Fred W. Schaffer professor of history. “It could be a problem if voting and repre-sentation work in a way that don’t accurately reflect the majority sentiment of the faculty.... And we want to fully represent the faculty and units that house majors but [are] not defined in traditional ways.”

The definition of what constitutes an aca-demic unit needs to be decided, said Makeba Wilbourn, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience and council representative. She noted that neuroscience as a major does not have separate representation because it is not its own department.

“What is problematic is that certain majors and institutes on campus that are impacted by council decisions don’t have representation, such as the neuroscience major,” Wilbourn

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Flavor of Love Independents look to enhance community

by Kali ShulklapperTHE CHRONICLE

Independent houses are attempting to en-hance their own sense of community under the new Duke housing model.

Dean of Residential Life Joe Gonzalez noted that indepedent houses have had dif-fering levels of success in terms of fostering community. Housing, Dining and Residen-tial Life and Duke Student Government are considering a number of ways to improve the situation, such as new programming and dis-cussing block sizes.

“It is a young model,” Gonzalez said. “We have independent houses that are thriving and others that don’t have a lot going on just yet. But our hope is that the number of strong houses grows each year.”

Gonzalez said the current model is more equitable than the previous one, adding that one of its core tenets is giving independent houses the same opportunities as selective liv-ing groups.

In 2012, the University instituted a new housing model on West and Central Cam-pus that formalized independent sections and retained selective living groups. The new housing model increased the number of residential houses and gave all nine sororities housing on Central. Additionally, five fraterni-ties were moved to Central as part of the new housing model.

Gonzalez noted one particular adjustment that enforces this concept—the extension of the “right of return” policy to all students living on campus. This policy allows students who joined a house the previous year to stay in that house following their semester studying abroad. Under the previous model, the policy was granted to SLGs but excluded indepen-dents.

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The Board of Trustees will convene in Palo Alto for its February meeting.

Stanford University will host the trustees for a retreat where Board members and se-nior administrators can talk about the ways in which each institution approaches differ-ent aspects of higher education. Topics will include undergraduate education, research, graduate education, professional education, athletics, alumni affairs, facilities and finances. The Board will also approve the tuition for the next academic year.

“It will be an opportunity for our trustees and leadership to interact with counterparts at Stanford,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “We have a lot in common.”

He noted that the two universities are simi-lar in scale, the type of students each attracts and the strong school spirit around athletics.

The Duke trustees will also meet with alumni in the area, visit Google to talk about innovation and entrepreneurship and have a conversation with Apple, Inc. CEO Tim Cook, Fuqua ’88.

The Board has a retreat every February that tends to address broader, strategic topics such as the future of higher education, though it has not typically involved travel to another university, Schoenfeld said. Board Chair David Rubenstein, Trinity ’70, is personally paying for the retreat.

Stanford and Duke share similar histories, said Philip Taubman, Stanford’s associate vice president for student affairs and board sec-retary. He noted their recent establishments in 1891 and 1838, respectively, compared to

older institutions such as Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities.

“They are both very young institutions, but they’ve both thrived, even though they came later in the game,” he said. “They ascended in the ranks of top global universities. They’ve both been pretty agile in responding to the changing needs of our society and some to the global needs.”

He added that common ground for the universities include significant fundraising ef-forts such as Duke Forward, Division I athletics and proximity to entrepreneurship centers in Research Triangle Park and Silicon Valley.

The Council for Aid to Education found Stanford to be the university that raised the most money in 2013 with $931.57 million. Duke ranked 10th with $423.66 million raised. As of August 2013, Stanford had a $18.7 bil-lion endowment, while Duke’s endowment sits at $6 billion as of June 2013.

Taubman attributed Stanford’s success to effective planning, grassroots involvement and compelling educational ideas among faculty that serve as the base for fundraising campaigns.

“There’s a reason to give money to Stan-ford because [donors] get excited about the academic programs here,” Taubman said. “Obviously it helps to be adjacent to Silicon Valley and the wealth in Silicon Valley. Stan-ford has benfefited from some of the compa-nies that have grown into powerhouses that were started by faculty, students and graduate students.”

It is not uncommon for universities to host trustees from other institutions and share

Board of Trustees journeys to Stanford for retreat

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An anonymous Chinese citizen do-nated $2 million to fund scholarships for Duke Kunshan University and establish Duke’s Talent Identification Program in China.

The donation—gifted by an alumnus of the Fuqua School of Business who is a permanent U.S. resident—will fund a scholarship for Chinese and interna-tional undergraduate students attending the Global Learning Semester at DKU, according to a Duke News press release.

“This is an extraordinary gift from a Duke graduate who fully understands the value of the global education and global living experiences that Duke pro-vides,” said Provost Peter Lange in the release. “Through TIP and the DKU se-mester program, this gift will make glob-al educational experiences possible for many young people.”

The Undergraduate Global Learning

Semester is a one-semester, liberal arts learning experience in China for un-dergraduate students that are enrolled at other universities in China or around the world. The program provides stu-dents with Duke course credit for their work.

“The DKU Global Learning Semester is a transformative educational experi-ence for undergraduate students from around the world,” said Mary Brown Bullock, DKU’s executive vice chancel-lor, in the release. “We are incredibly grateful for both the gift and the donor’s vision, and the role both will play in bringing outstanding students to DKU.”

Using the donation, Duke TIP—a program that identifies academically gifted students—will expand its reach and educational services to include high school students in China.

The gift is part of the Duke Forward fundraising campaign—which has a goal of raising $3.25 billion.

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Chinese and international students at DKU will have new funding options as a result of a donation.

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North Carolina has been recognized as one of the foremost states in the on-going movement toward more sustain-able building design.

The United States Green Building Council placed North Carolina seventh on its ranking of the Top 10 States for Leadership in Energy and Environ-mental Design. North Carolina certi-fied 133 building projects representing 17,183,099 square feet of real estate, or 1.8 square feet per person last year. The rankings were compiled using using 2013 data on the per-capita square foot-age of LEED certified space in each state and the latest census data.

“The chapter worked very hard last year to organize advocacy volunteers and corporate partners with a message to the state that LEED is beneficial to business-es, owners, occupants, the community, the environment and the wallet,” said Emily Scofield, executive director of the USGBC’s North Carolina Chapter.

LEED standards measure factors such as energy efficiency, natural resource management and indoor environmental quality in both industrial and residential building sites. In doing so, the standards contribute to a healthier environment for families, workers and the larger com-munity.

The Durham County Justice Build-ing received LEED Gold Certification in June 2013, the second highest certi-fication level awarded. Tim Hillhouse, project architect at O’Brian/Atkins As-

sociates, said Durham residents were extremely receptive to the sustainable aspects of the building’s construction.

“From the beginning, the county was determined to provide a LEED certified building,” Hillhouse wrote in an email Monday.

Since Durham County adopted a high-performance building policy in 2008, buildings and renovations of a certain scale have been required to achieve LEED certification. In order to meet this guideline, designers of the Jus-tice Building project utilized recyclable materials and locally sourced building components. All waste discarded from construction was sorted and recycled, decreasing the amount sent to landfills by 85 percent.

The completed project features a gar-den of local indigenous plants, an irriga-tion system fueled by rainwater, lighting occupancy sensors and multiple green roofs. Hillhouse noted that sustainable features such as these should continue to play an integral role in the design world.

“The future of architecture has to consider sustainability and energy ef-ficiency,” Hillhouse wrote. “With build-ings consuming over 40 percent of our primary energy costs we need to try our best to reduce buildings’ drain on our resources both environmentally and po-litically.”

Like Durham, Duke has also opted to set a LEED target on all of its new buildings

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Freshman Dana Raphael was selected as the newest member of DSG’s judiciary.

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The Duke Student Government senate elected sophomore Max Schreiber new chief justice.

Because the judiciary’s former chief jus-tice—senior Daniel Strunk—resigned Feb. 12, DSG considered several new candidates to fill the empty seat on the judiciary. Freshman Dana Raphael and sophomore Craig Vincent were selected by the judiciary committee as finalists, and the senate then voted to choose the new justice. Both candidates spoke to the senate about their motivations for running and qualifications. Raphael and sophomore Max Schreiber—a current member of the

judiciary who has been holding the position of interim chief justice since Strunk’s resigna-tion—then competed for the chief justice po-sition. Raphael withdrew her bid for chief jus-tice and Schreiber was unanimously elected.

In his position as chief justice, Schreiber said he will attempt to get rid of clerks in the judiciary, which he considers purposeless. He also hopes to require a 24-hour period after a decision is taken before it can be written.

In response to a question about his role as treasurer of the Interfraternity Council, Schreiber noted that his priorities will lie with whichever organization he is intended

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Duke Student Gov’t elects new justice and judiciary chief

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and renovations.“We have one of the largest portfolios of LEED certi-

fied buildings in the country,” Duke Facilities Manager John Noonan said. “Having LEED as a goal on projects is just one aspect of sustainability that makes Duke a leader in the field.”

Duke’s campus currently has 26 LEED Certified buildings, including Smith Warehouse, Bell Tower Dor-mitory and French Family Science Center. The West Campus Steam plant and Baldwin Auditorium are a few of the nine projects registered to undergo LEED certi-fication in the future.

Scofield said she thinks that higher education insti-tutions often contribute to their respective state’s over-all LEED rank.

“Colleges and universities are building LEED certi-fied buildings as teaching, recruitment and retention tools,” Scofield said.

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“This experience has prepared me for future interactions with high-level administration,” Sunder said.

She hopes to expand some of the programs she worked on with Duke Dining. She has collaborated with Director of Din-ing Services Robert Coffey to create a survey for students to rate Merchants-on-Points vendors and food trucks. In the fu-ture, this may lead to a system that allows students to taste food on-campus and rate it immediately.

Sunder also plans to improve communication about cam-pus construction by creating a centralized online interface to update students on construction and allow them to provide feedback on plans.

Sunder is the only presidential candidate who has served on the senate. Although she noted the benefits of people voic-ing opposing views on DSG policies, she said her knowledge of the organization’s inner workings would be helpful as DSG president.

“It’s fine to have a negative view of DSG…. We can be an internal-facing organization sometimes,” Sunder said. “[But] I

don’t think you can say I’m going to reform DSG senate with-out having been on DSG senate.”

Sophomore Keizra Mecklai, DSG senator for equity and outreach, noted Sunder’s experience and authority with the senate.

“Lava would be a great president because she’s the only can-didate that ever served on the senate…so she’s the best candi-date to reform DSG if that’s what the student body wants. Even more than that, she’s demonstrated leadership,” Mecklai said. “She will be able to put these to work because of her demon-strated leadership in her position.”

Magda Silva, a lecturer of Portuguese in the Romance Stud-ies department, spoke of Sunder’s academic abilities, noting that Sunder became interested in Portuguese language after a trip to Brazil.

She’s a great student, and she’s very responsible,” Silva said. “She learns really fast, and she’s always very interested in class.”

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to represent should a situation involving both arise.“Objectivity is a false premise, it doesn’t exist,” Schreiber

said. “What’s important is that you can understand both sides.”Raphael noted that she sees the role of the judiciary as a

body that protects students’ rights and the DSG constitution. As a justice, she aims to “develop as the student body develops” and avoid making decisions based solely on past decisions.

“Growing up, as nerdy as this sounds, I spent all of my din-ner conversations with my parents, who were both lawyers, making up cases and having to solve them,” Raphael said.

In high school, Raphael drafted legislation to repeal Virgin-ia’s “Labor Day Law,” which was introduced by Delegate Bob Tata, and testified before the state’s House and Senate educa-tion committees. At Duke, she is a member of her house coun-cil, the Alexander Hamilton Society and Club Field Hockey.

“I was incredibly impressed with how poised she was, es-pecially being a freshman,” said sophomore Lavanya Sunder, DSG vice president for services and a candidate for DSG Presi-dent. “That shows a great deal of maturity.”

In other news:The senate approved a resolution to support the creation

of Project Arts, a pre-orientation program that will focus on the art community of Durham.

Representatives from LAUNCH—a group that aims to help student organizations achieve their full potential—announced their new spring retreat called The Amazing Launch, which will be fully funded and held at the US Na-tional White Water Center April 12. Fifty undergraduate stu-dents will be selected, and all leaders or prospective leaders are encouraged to apply.

The senate approved updates to the Student Organiza-tion Funding Committee bylaw that added DuArts as a buck-et group—with a representative on SOFC—and allowed groups within a bucket to have the bucket organization pres-ent their budget.

SOFC granted status changes to three organizations—recognized status to the Physics Major Union, chartered sta-tus with the exception of selectivity to the Ballet Club and chartered status to the Human Powered Vehicle Challenge.

The senate granted $3,335.49 through SOFC to Blue Devils United for the annual Lavender Ball, which will be held April 4. The senate also granted $2,445.85 to the East Asia Nexus for Tibet in Film, which will take place in Griffith Auditorium April 1, and $1,775.00 to the Muslim Student Association for Islam Awareness Month which will run from March 19 to April 2.

The senate allocated $340 from the Legislative Discre-tionary account to Staff Appreciation Day, which will take place March 25 on the Bryan Center plaza. The event will include writing cards to staff, award ceremonies and signing banners that will be hung in front of Marketplace and the Penn Pavilion.

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strategies and thought processes, Schoenfeld said. Although universities compete for students and faculty, he said collabora-tion is common on topics such as how to deal with new Title IX regulations, facilities or financial aid policies on a general level.

“A building that is built at Duke is not competing with a building that is being built somewhere else,” Schoenfeld said. “Whenever we undertake something major, we look at other universities.”

Duke hosted Yale’s board of trustees in 2005. Stan-ford hosted Williams College earlier this academic year, and the Stanford board has traveled to Yale in the past.

The Duke attendees left Wednesday for the three-day retreat.


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BASEBALL WRESTLING

Duke slugs its way to victoryby Brian Pollack

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On a chilly afternoon, it was the Blue Dev-ils’ hot bats that carried them to victory.

Duke rolled past Norfolk State 11-1 Wednesday afternoon at Jack Coombs Field

thanks to an impres-sive offensive perfor-mance. Duke led 2-1 midway through the

game, but pulled away with two runs in the fifth, two in the sixth and five more in the sev-enth to seal the victory.

“We did a better job of being opportunistic at the plate,” head coach Chris Pollard said. “I think there were some times in the first sev-en ballgames where we had a chance to put a crooked number on the board and we didn’t. Today we did, and that’s good.”

The Blue Devils (5-3) first broke through against Spartan starter Devin Hemmerich in the third inning thanks to a two-out rally. Leadoff hitter Mike Rosenfeld drew a walk, and Grant McCabe lined a base hit to left field, bringing up Ryan Deitrich with two on and two out. Deitrich blasted a double into the left field corner, plating both Ros-enfeld and McCabe to put Norfolk State (1-6) in a 2-0 hole.

The two-run cushion was all that Duke starter Drew van Orden would need. He dom-inated the Spartan lineup in the early stages of the game, holding them hitless through the first four innings. Van Orden attacked Norfolk State hitters in the strike zone early in the count, which allowed him to keep his pitch-count low and work through six innings in just 75 pitches. He yielded one earned run on three hits, striking out five to pick up his first win of the season.

“It’s good to see him bounce back after he

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Catcher Mike Rosenfeld went 1-for-3 with a two-run triple in Duke’s 11-1 drubbing of Norfolk State Wednesday afternoon.

Time off pays off for Kerr-Brown

didn’t have a good start against UNC-Greens-boro,” Pollard said. “To bounce back and have that kind of quality start just shows the ability to be resilient, and that’s something you have to be good at in this game.”

Van Orden got into a bit of trouble in the fifth, when back-to-back singles from Ross Cardwell and Tyon Ore to lead off the frame prompted a mound visit from the coaching staff. The next batter—catcher Omar Ho-tusing—lined out softly to shortstop Kenny Kopolove, who alertly noticed that Ore had

strayed too far off the bag and fired to first to complete the double play. But van Orden could not escape the jam unscathed, as third baseman Justin Burrell grounded a base hit up the middle with two outs to push across the Spartans’ first run of the game.

“[I was] trying to minimize the damage,” van Orden said. “Just trying to get a ground ball and roll a double play—try to find a way out of that inning without letting them

by Delaney KingTHE CHRONICLE

In a season marked by injuries and dis-appointing losses, Duke has sought solace in the consistent success of one wrestler.

Immanuel Kerr-Brown had his colle-giate wrestling career planned since before setting foot on campus, but even the most careful planning cannot stop the unexpect-ed from intervening in a collegiate wres-tling career.

Kerr-Brown’s 22 wins this season lead the team, as do his five wins in conference duals. And although the redshirt junior personifies the consummate student-ath-lete, it was taking a semester off from class-es to focus on nothing but wrestling that allowed him to become one of the elite wrestlers in the ACC.

“Honestly, the reason I probably got a lot better, had a lot more success last year versus the year before, was because of that semester off,” Kerr-Brown said. “All I was doing was focusing on wrestling and work-ing out, making sure my body was healthy and strong.”

In 2011, the Rome, Ga., native put on a Duke singlet for the first time after a year of unattached tournament competition. A redshirt year isn’t uncommon for wres-tlers—more than half of the current Blue Devil roster sat out a year to compete indi-vidually in tournaments.

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Junior guard Ka’lia Johnson will step into a larger role as the Blue Devil backcourt contin-ues to be decimated by injuries.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Jones-less Blue Devils host Wake Forest

by Madeline CarringtonTHE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils limp into their home finale Thursday after losing their fifth guard this year.

Duke will celebrate Senior Night as it takes on Wake Forest at Cameron Indoor Sta-dium Thursday at 6:30 p.m. The No. 7 Blue Devils will once again have to reconfigure their lineup after soph-omore point guard Alexis Jones tore her

ACL in Sunday’s loss to Notre Dame.“[We’ve lost] four guards, and if you

count [freshman Rebecca Greenwell],

who’s been sitting out, it’s five guards total. This is unique,” McCallie said. “This is not something to look at lightly. This is some-thing to look at as fascinating how anything like that could happen. I’ve never seen any-thing like it, there’s no precedent for it, on the men’s side [or] on the women’s side. You’d have to do some serious homework to find what team in the country has lost five guards.”

Jones is Duke’s latest guard to end her season with the Blue Devils early. Freshman Kianna Holland transferred to Ohio State midway through the year, Greenwell redshirted after a offseason surgery, and seniors Chelsea Gray and

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14 “Mit,” across the Rhine

16 Mixture of cement

17 “Deliver Us From ___” (2003 film)

18 Actress Rogers19 Less loose20 Member of a

boy band with nine top 10 hits

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Wooley29 Move like goo

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“Star Wars” films

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“Avatar”59 Daisy’s love60 “The Time

Machine” people61 Decline62 Zenith63 Blacken64 Thrilla in Manila

participant65 Settings for

some escape scenes

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67 Do-over

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55 Sufficient, for Shakespeare

56 Obstruction

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back into the game, which I was fortunate enough to do.”

With its lead cut to 2-1, Duke responded right away in the bottom of the fifth. Batting out of the ninth slot in the order, center field-er Andre’ Moore roped a line drive into the left-center field gap that he legged out for a triple. The first offering to the next batter was a wild pitch that skipped past the catcher and went to the backstop, allowing Moore to scam-per home and extend the Blue Devils’ lead to 3-1. Sloppy defense by Norfolk State allowed Duke to push across another run in the in-ning—a pop-up fell between three Spartan defenders as Deitrich crossed the plate.

“At that point, it’s a 2-1 ballgame,” Pollard said. “It was important for our team to respond

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Redshirt junior Immanuel Kerr-Brown (right) took a semester off from school to train last year and translated that into a team-high 22 wins in 2013-14.

Similar to football, the gap between high school and collegiate competition in wrestling is largely predicated upon phys-ical strength. Wrestling unattached for a year allows collegiate wrestlers to bridge that gap.

“It was definitely smart to take that redshirt freshman year,” Kerr-Brown said. “[You] get used to the school, and college level competition and everything.”

After notching only two wins in dual competition during his redshirt freshman season, Kerr-Brown took an unconvention-al step in his training: he transformed from a student-athlete to full-time athlete, taking a semester off from school to train.

The easy-going wrestler known to his teammates and coaches simply as “IKB” explained that he knew upon arriving at Duke that he would take an additional semester off before graduating. What he couldn’t have known was the effect it would have on his performance.

Wrestling at 149 and 157 pounds as a redshirt freshman, Kerr-Brown lost 11 matches, seven of them by pin. After wrestling unattached during the Fall se-mester in 2012, Kerr-Brown put his Duke singlet back on in the spring and posted a 9-6 dual record with three conference wins—earning the title of Duke’s Most Improved Wrestler.

Kerr-Brown’s return set him up per-fectly for a promising redshirt junior season. Finally back into the routine of a student-athlete, Kerr-Brown had a full off-season to train and build on his progress. But a torn meniscus that summer gave

Kerr-Brown’s collegiate story another un-expected twist.

“I actually probably got set back a lit-tle bit, compared to where I could have been,” Kerr-Brown said. “[But in] the time I did get to have in the offseason, we wres-tled smart, practiced smart, did the right things… and just had a good time enjoying wrestling.”

After careful rehabilitation, Kerr-Brown returned to the place he expected to be be-fore his injury. The 149-pounder claimed three wins against ranked opponents, in-cluding one against then-No. 13 Blaise But-ler of Virginia en route to his second of five conference wins on the season.

After recovering from his own injury, in-juries to his teammates forced the redshirt junior into the role of veteran leader on the mat after classmate Brandon Gambucci and lone senior Brian Self were knocked out of dual competition.

“I definitely know I’m a leader on the team, but I don’t feel the pressure of it,” Kerr-Brown said. “I’ve never been a very vocal leader or anything like that…. As long as I know I’m doing what I think is right and getting all the workouts in, then I think I’m doing a good job as a leader.”

Lanham has recognized the upperclass-man’s leadership, giving him the title of team captain for the 2013-14 campaign.

“He’s a leader on and off the mat. He does what he’s supposed to do, he’s a hard worker,” head coach Glen Lanham said. “I take being a team captain very seriously, and he obviously fits the bill.”

The wrestler takes his leadership skills out-side the gym as well, serving as on the First-

Year Advisory executive board for incoming students. Kerr-Brown devotes any leftover time to his studies as a mechanical engineer.

“[Being an athlete] is pretty similar to a regular student’s experience, just the fact that I have a little less time to get everything done,” Kerr-Brown said. “I’ve loved my ex-perience at Duke. I definitely wouldn’t have chosen to go anywhere else—I’d defi-nitely do it all over again.”

As the Blue Devils get set to compete in the ACC Championships March 8, Lanham said that Kerr-Brown could accomplish something none of his wrestlers has before.

“I feel like he can be on top of the po-dium. I don’t say that about many people, but I feel like he’s just got to put some solid matches together,” Lanham said. “I’m ex-cited—I feel like he can be my first ACC champ.”

But win or lose in postseason competi-tion, Duke’s premiere wrestler still has an-other year to be a part of the sport—and the school—that he loves.

“I wouldn’t trade any other sport for it,” Kerr-Brown said. “I love it, and it’s definite-ly a way of life. If you can succeed in wres-tling, you definitely can succeed in life.”

kerr-brown from page 5 in the bottom of the fifth. We took advantage of the ball that dropped in left, and sometimes you have to be opportunistic.”

The Blue Devil offense was just getting started, continuing to pile on runs and extend their lead. In the sixth, Rosenfeld drove in two runs with a triple off reliever Jonathan Mauri-cio to stretch the lead to 6-1. The Blue Devils added five more runs in the seventh on RBI singles from Koplove, Cristian Perez, and Mc-Cabe to reach the final margin of 11-1. The Blue Devils scored multiple runs in four dif-ferent innings, and seven starters had at least one hit in their most impressive offensive per-formance of the season.

“I think all our hitters had really good ap-proaches today,” van Orden said. “We’re see-ing the ball well, and I was really lucky to have that behind me.”

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Chloe Wells will also finish the season on the bench due to injury.

Both Jones and Gray were key ele-ments of Duke’s offense, averaging 13.1 and 10.8 points per game, respectively. Their absence, along with their other teammates, leaves the Blue Devils (24-4, 11-3 in the ACC) with a nearly empty backcourt. After jumping out to a 21-1 start, Duke is 3-3 in its last six games. Junior Ka’lia Johnson and seniors Tri-cia Liston and Richa Jackson will have to step up to fill in as the team’s floor general.

“Tricia, Ka’lia and Richa will all at various times run the point guard spot,” McCallie said. “It’s like anything else, I’m excited about what we can become, but it’s a new season, it’s a new team. We’re going to really focus on the great talent that we have and go from there.”

Despite their recent troubles, the Blue Devils enter Thursday’s game rid-ing a 39-game winning streak against the Demon Deacons (14-13, 5-9). For the streak to continue Duke will have to lim-it junior workhorse Dearica Hamby, who leads the ACC with 21.7 points and 10.9 rebounds per game.

The team’s adjustments come at a critical time with the impending ACC and NCAA tournaments. The final two games will determine whether Duke or N.C. State secures the second seed in the ACC tournament. With a perfect 14-0 conference record, Notre Dame has already secured the top spot.

“The only goal we have is to win the regular season, pursue national champi-

onships and win the ACC tournament,” McCallie said. “I don’t think [seeding is] very relevant. We haven’t been able to secure the regular season. I’m not a big fan of seeds. I don’t really care after the top seed.”

With the thinning of their backcourt, the Blue Devils will continue to have to play through the post in their upcoming outings, with redshirt freshman Amber Henson and freshman Oderah Chidom expected to play larger roles in the offense.

“We definitely are going to play from the inside-out even more so,” McCallie said. “We’ll have a bigger lineup, and we certainly hope our offensive rebounding will really grow and improve. [I’m] hop-ing our free-throw attempts will improve by us being aggressive on the boards, by us using a bigger lineup and really get-ting after it.”

Although Thursday marks the last home game of the regular season and will feature Senior Night honors, in re-ality the Blue Devils are guaranteed at least one more game in Cameron Indoor when they play host during the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament. That knowledge takes some of the pressure off of the night.

“We absolutely love our seniors. At the same time, we’re very fortunate that we’re hosting [the NCAA tournament]. I think it’s different in terms of that will not be our last game in Cameron,” Mc-Callie said. “For us, we want to honor our seniors, we love our seniors, but es-pecially given this new team developing, we’re really excited for the game. Just excited to play, excited to find out what we can do.”

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Students often grumble about being stuck in the “Duke bubble”—an educational sphere governed by its own rules, where underage drinking is tolerated and FLEX serves as legitimate tender. Extracurricular activities often have a gloss of superficiality because—as the thinking goes—most of what we do is just rehearsal for the “real world.” Duke Student Government clearly suffers from this bubble syndrome (“we’re relevant, we promise,” the DSG Chronicle column tagline reads, half-jokingly). But the 40 Percent Plan promises to restore life to the moribund state of campus politics.

The 40 Percent Plan will be put to a vote as a ballot measure on March 4, during DSG elections. If passed, the measure would amend DSG bylaws to allow students to decide how to allocate 40 percent of student programming funds. In the days leading up to the election, the architects of the 40 Percent Plan have begun reaching out to candidates running for DSG office, offering campaign support in return for candidates’ endorsement of the ballot measure. Allegations that this kind of political maneuvering resembles Super PAC tactics are overblown, but the comparison raises the question—are the campaigning tactics surrounding

the 40 Percent Plan any different from the usual politicking that accompanies student elections?

In most ways, seeking endorsements from DSG candidates is no different from soliciting support from campus organizations. Student groups regularly endorse candidates whose

platforms align most with their views. Soliciting endorsements from DSG candidates is a valid extension of this practice—as long as no retaliatory action is taken against candidates who choose not to support the plan.

The drafters of the 40 Percent Plan are, however, the first group in recent memory to offer political support in exchange for an endorsement of a single issue. This endorsement strategy represents a curious inversion of the typical issue-based campaign model—the proposal’s supporters are not encouraging students to vote for the candidate who supports their position on the issue but are, instead, hoping students will vote for the proposal if their preferred candidate supports it.

Regardless of whether or not the 40 Percent

Plan passes, discussions surrounding the ballot measure have increased student involvement in campus governance. From encouraging open debates to prompting thoughtful columns, the initiative has sparked interest in, and scrutiny of, student politics. Importantly, the ballot initiative is the first to emerge out of a student petition and not from DSG. The involvement of student voices outside of DSG is a positive development and one that encourages a rich and productive discussion.

The ballot initiative also increases DSG’s accountability. Should the ballot measure pass, candidates who ran on the measure, and won, would have an obligation to implement the proposal. We have doubts about whether or not the architects of the 40 Percent Plan can enforce any of their quid pro quo endorsements, since very few people monitor the status of candidates’ election promises. Given that many of the 40 Percent Plan’s architects are seniors, the prospect of enforcement seems unlikely. And yet, simply by reviving the spirit of political participation on Duke’s campus and offering alternative models of engagement outside of student government, the 40 Percent Plan has already made a valuable contribution to campus life.

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I am not a social media person. I don’t understand Twitter, I refuse to get a Snapchat, and I only check Instagram because I follow a user from Japan

who posts captivating and visually stunning pictures of cats. So when my friends tried to convince me to download Tinder this past weekend while we were at a conference in D.C., I immediately judged them, mostly because as far as I could tell this was an app

designed for creepy old men and sexually frustrated college students. Nevertheless, whether because of peer pressure or sheer boredom, I succumbed to their demands. And almost instantly, I became obsessed.

I don’t mean to sound dramatic, but Tinder may quite possibly be the greatest social media invention of all time. For those not up-to-date on what’s hip with the 18-24 age group, Tinder is an app that matches you with potential “love” interests in your area. It collects your information through Facebook, and all you have to do is choose a few photos and write a clever yet concise personal description. Once the app knows your preferred gender, age group and mile radius, it connects you to profiles of other Tinder users.

You get to scroll through these users’ photos and deconstruct their tagline while simultaneously judging everything about them. And when you reach a decision, you either swipe left for “nope” or right for “like.” If you swipe right and that person does too, Tinder responds with an enthusiastic “It’s a match!” and sets you up in a chat room based on the commonality that you both think the other person is attractive. From there, I presume you’re supposed to engage in an intellectual discussion about your hopes, fears and deepest insecurities, at which point you realize this person is most definitely your soul mate and you decide to meet in person.

It’s been four days since I downloaded Tinder, and I am absolutely addicted. There’s something exhilarating about being able to determine someone’s worth or lack of in only a matter of seconds, and with each swipe that intensity increases. Who swipes me has also transformed into a sort of twisted guessing game, so that every match I get is a rush of adrenaline. An accomplishment. A validation of my existence. I am both disgusted with myself and yet strangely invested in the process.

To be clear, I have no intention whatsoever of meeting anyone I find on Tinder. I’ve been watching Law and Order: SVU since I was 8 years old, so I naturally kind of assume everyone around me is a masochistic serial murderer anyway. This fear

increases 10-fold when it comes to random strangers online. Some people might say this mentality limits my social exploration and prevents me from possibly meeting the love of my life. I say that if I do happen to find true love on what is essentially a hook-up app, then I need to take a step back regardless and reexamine all of my life choices.

Now that I’m back at Duke, almost half of the

guys I find on Tinder are also fellow Duke students. This means significantly fewer profiles comprised of bathroom selfies, dead animals, heavy artillery and general weirdness, which is a shame because that’s a large part of why I loved the app in the first place. This also means it’s likely I might actually see some of these people in real life. In fact, I’ve already matched with several people I know, which honestly makes me feel incredibly awkward. Usually I’ll try to strike up a casual conversation to make things less weird, which only makes things more weird, which then just makes everyone feel uncomfortable.

So yes, although my addiction persists, by returning to Duke the fun of Tinder is beginning to die down. I think, though, that I finally understand the app’s inexplicable appeal: It is quite possibly the most superficial, shallow, contrived way to meet another human being. Quite frankly, Tinder sucks.

But that’s what makes it so great. I am never under the impression that guys on Tinder have any interest in my intellectual abilities or personal qualities. There are no false assumptions about their intentions or the implications of our interaction. Their judgment of me as a person is based solely on how closely I abide by societal standards of beauty—and I am fully aware of that. This may seem demeaning, but then again, I am judging them based on the same meaningless distinctions. So really, who is being degraded here? Tinder may epitomize my generation’s social decay, but at least it’s honest about what it is.

And because there are no hidden meanings or cleverly crafted facades, I am able to recognize Tinder for what it is—ridiculous—and laugh about it. Laugh at the absurdities I come across, laugh at the fact that I am on this stupid app to begin with. And with all the obligations, commitments and responsibilities of life I’m required to take seriously, sometimes it’s nice to have something that requires no seriousness at all.

It’s great, actually. You should try it sometime.

Michelle Menchaca is a Trinity sophomore and the editorial page online editor. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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One of the most intense and painful types of grief is caused by lost dreams. The bigger the dream is,

the more real and likely to be fulfilled in your perception, the closer for these dreams to become reality in one’s mind, and the more unbearable it becomes to lose them suddenly.

As you dream, in worst-case examples, life often sadistically lures you in with certain set of realities and makes you believe that it is no longer a dream, but a good news package

to arrive soon at your door. Everything you see and hear around you convinces you that you are getting a few steps closer to enjoying the fulfillment of your dreams, and things may be happening much more beautifully than you ever imagined.

These dreams are like a fake package delivery that you made and desperately wait for. You are given a tracking number, every day tracking this package, following its journey from one station to other, feeling increasingly excited as the package gets closer to its final destination.

You build hopes and expectations and make plans about what you will do once those dreams become reality when your package arrives. You share your plans about this upcoming good news with your loved ones and friends. You invite them to share your excitement about what will happen then. You are so focused on these dreams, so desiring of their realization, so much in need of this fulfillment that you either don’t see the warning signs or ignore them along the way. You selectively read the developments in the way that you want to interpret them.

This is until one day when you wake up and see those dreams fading away on your horizon. Everything and everyone that feeds your hope becomes nothing but a sophisticated hoax, a journey of deception, a cheat and a serious set of lies. There is no package arriving, or if there is, it is at best empty and at worst full of bad news.

The grief and mourning that is triggered by losing something that never really existed, but couldn’t be more real in your own mind, can hurt you more than losing something real. It sometimes cuts deeper than losing a loved one, losing money or property. You are filled with anger and frustration and don’t know who to blame—the ones who made you believe those dreams were true or bound to happen, or yourself for being so naïve to believe a too-good-to-be-true story.

For many Turks and friends of Turkey all around the world, this intense grief is real these days. The dream of Turkey becoming the first modern, homegrown, indigenous Muslim democracy has been lost. The dream of being a beacon of light to the rest of the Muslim world and beyond is increasingly becoming an undeniable reality. The recent political turmoil, corruption scandals, anti-democratic and autocratic moves of the government and one of the ugliest character assassination campaigns in the Turkish media are turning the dreams of these

people into terrifying nightmares. The more closely you followed Turkey’s

breathtaking episodic achievements—its economy, political stability, democracy, foreign policy, expansion of its civic space, progression with civil liberties, taming of the military and pushing them behind the barracks, removing the remaining elements of militarist dictatorship from the political system—the more air you pumped into those dream balloons.

Turkey was on its way to be the first Muslim majority nation, recovering from the trauma of a violently imposed Western, secular democracy for decades, freeing itself from the shackles of self-pity and victimhood. Turkey was done blaming others for its failures, breaking the shells of being an insular, closed society and was beginning to build confidence in creating a bottom-to-top secular democracy.

For almost a decade, everything you saw made you believe that a broad spectrum of political and non-political actors formed an inspiring coalition, working tirelessly to achieve these lofty but urgently needed goals in order to put Turkey on the map as a model Muslim-majority nation.

I was one of the many Turks who raised my expectations of the country quite high. Despite being hit by intense grief over my lost dreams, feeling backstabbed and shamefully deceived by so many different power centers in my birth country, despite being troubled by intense shame and embarrassment over the many people I respected and admired enormously for so long, I still have not lost hope for Turkey entirely.

At least not yet. Not because I am an incurable, utopian optimist and Turkish-American male version of Pollyanna. But because Turkish society collectively has yet to speak on the matter and decisively determine the direction of the country in light of these recent discouraging developments. Turkish delights will do so in two upcoming elections this year.

Although losing your dreams hurts, very few things give you as much joy, excitement and intense gratitude as those lost dreams. Even though it is painful, it ultimately turns into or produces many unexpected blessings. As the Holy Qur’an reminds us in many of her beautiful verses, life can delightfully surprise you by bringing many unexpected good things out of hardship and difficulty.

Let’s hope and pray that what has been going on in Turkey will ultimately be a helpful learning curve to this great nation and will empower its noble people to be in charge of their country’s direction. Let’s hope Turkey turns these recent calamites into blessings by emerging as a stronger secular Muslim democracy.

Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim chaplain and an adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies. His column runs every other Thursday. Send Abdullah a message on Twitter @aantepli.

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For most of my life, I’ve been under the impression that I’m decently at-tractive, funny, creative, athletic and

really, really smart. Ever since I was an id-iot preschooler eating rocks in the sand-box, my parents have been telling me how awesome I am. I used to habitually eavesdrop on their phone calls and would often overhear my mom bragging to her friends about how I made the best finger painting in kindergarten or was the tallest

girl in my class or should probably skip a grade but she didn’t want to take me away from my friends. My dad loved to tell his buddies about how I could catch and gut a fish by age 10 (this is actually true) and even enjoyed threading the poor earth-worm onto the hook (not true at all).

As Dukies, I know many of us have had similar experiences—we were raised thinking we were the smartest, coolest, most narcissistic kids around town. And often, we kind of were. My younger self had straight A’s, athletic quads and little exposure to rejection of any kind. Prior to Duke, I didn’t really know what it felt like to fail at something. Because perfect, awesome people don’t fail at anything, right?

With graduation rapidly approaching, however, I’ve made a startling realization: My parents are liars! I’m not all I’m cracked up to be. This became immediately obvious upon the most unpleasant undertaking of my Duke career: the job hunt.

So I began the infamous job hunt thinking that my cool internships and Duke degree would be sufficient to land me a high paying, impressive, really fun, cool job. My parents would definitely agree (I mean, they gave me the idea). But what is this job, you ask? Well I have no idea, which is why I spent much of September applying for consulting jobs.

I’m still not even sure what consulting is, but it did make me spend a lot of money on case interview prep books and an ugly black suit. I applied to at least 10 different firms nearly positive that I would dazzle them all with my (overly padded) resume, professional (read: funereal) attire and (truly shabby) cost-benefit analysis skills. So what happened? Out of 10 firms, only one opted to interview me. This firm then cut me a week later, causing me to drown my sorrows in wine and cake frosting while pondering my intelligence and the meaning of life.

When I broke the news to my dad, he gave me some advice: “It’s OK honey, I’m sure they just didn’t understand how amazing you are! You’re too cool for consulting and they could tell. Talk about a boring job, you would hate it. Chels, you just need to do what makes you happy! You’ll be just fine, don’t worry.”

While I love my dad dearly, this was probably the worst advice anyone has

ever given me. Thanks, I’m amazing, but if no one can see it then I’m pretty much out of luck. And I guess consulting sounds boring, but it pays well so that’s something. And if I did what makes me happy, you know what I would do? I’d somehow steal enough money to buy a beach house in Fiji, where I would spend my days lounging in the sun, eating cupcakes and painting pictures of dogs with some shirtless boy toy. And STOP

TELLING ME I’LL BE FINE! You don’t know that! What if I’m not fine? My Duke degree will be no more valuable than my third grade soccer participation trophy if I turn into a jobless, homeless crack addict. Will you be bragging about me then? Thanks dad, you’re the best, but nothing you just said helps me at all, unless you want to finance my future hedonism and/or drug addiction.

I guess it sucks getting rejected, but now it’s one more thing I’m comfortable with. In fact, I’ve applied to (and been rejected from) so many jobs that I can predict my application’s outcome from the subject of the prospective employer’s email. Bad news: “thank you for your application to McBain Group” or “the status of your application to McBain Group has changed.” Good news, although rare: “background check requested” or “news about your application.” My coping mechanism for not losing my mind while job hunting has been to keep my expectations low. I assume each prospective employer is going to cut me immediately. That way, when they do cut me it’s no big deal, and when they don’t, well, I’m pleasantly surprised without feeling entitled.

If I’ve learned anything from the dreaded job hunt, it’s that being a naïve narcissist is stupid and certainly won’t get me hired. It’s also important to know that all of the jobs recruiting from Duke are super competitive—the whole thing is such a crapshoot. Companies get so inundated with qualified applicants that they are always looking for any reason, legitimate or not, to cut you.

PLOT TWIST: I actually did manage to snag a job for next year, and quite frankly, I have no idea how it happened. Maybe the interviewer liked my awkward jokes? Or my lack of funereal attire? I may never know. But my advice to you all, fellow Dukies, is to keep your chin up and stop thinking you’re the best person in the world. And I know I hated my dad for telling me this, but you will be fine. Trust me. If I, of all people, managed to get a job, then we will all be fine.

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

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The Aaron and Blanche Scharf Inaugural LectureThursday, February 27, 20144:30-6:00Room 130 Sociology Psychology Building

Christopher DeMuthThe Hudson Institute

Debt, Demography, and DemocracyThe national debt is very large and is the subject of never-ending brinksmanship between Congress and the President, and yet political rhetoric obscures essential truths about the causes and consequences of our debt predicament. In this talk, DeMuth will present a fresh analysis of the debt with surprising implications.

Christopher DeMuth is a Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. He was president of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research from 1986 to 2008, earlier served in the Reagan and Nixon administrations, practiced law with Sidley & Austin, was managing director of Lexecon, and taught at Harvard.

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said. “What needs to be decided is where should representation be in terms of how these decisions will impact these units.”

Similarly, the linguistics program does not have representation in the council be-cause the department makes no faculty ap-pointments. The faculty members within linguistics come from other language de-partments who are interested in the subject, Robisheaux said.

Representation based on academic units also gives rise to other problems because some faculty can be involved in different interdisciplinary programs, and thus have more influence and more voice than those faculty members not involved in those pro-grams, he added.

Despite having roughly equal numbers of faculty, the humanities have more repre-sentatives than other academic disciplines, such as the social sciences and the natural sciences. The abundance of interdisciplin-ary programs in the humanities compared to natural sciences explains this difference in representation, Robisheaux said.

This inequality in the number of repre-sentatives could be controversial if there is a very close vote in an issue where the split seems to be along disciplinaries’ lines. He noted that last year, the council voted down the proposal to join the 2U Semes-ter Online consortium 16 to 14, and some faculty thought that the humanities had larger block of votes than the natural sci-ences, who seemed to be more supportive of the proposal.

Robisheaux noted that the creation of University institutes—such as the Duke Global Health Institute, which is not part of Trinity College but offers a co-major within the college—has changed the scope of representation in the council.

The emergence of innovative programs

such as global health has raised questions about faculty representation, said council representatitve Gary Bennett, professor of psychology, neuroscience and global health, and DGHI director of undergradu-ate studies. The council recognized the importance of having the institute repre-sented at the table, he said.

With a separate governing body from Trinity College, the Pratt School of Engi-neering does not have a voting represen-tative on the Arts and Sciences Council—even though some decisions the council makes may impact the entire undergradu-ate population.

Linda Franzoni, associate dean for un-dergraduate education in Pratt, has been attending council meetings as an ex officio regularly for the last two years

“We do not have an official vote, but our opinion is taken into consideration by the council on matters affecting all un-dergraduates,” Franzoni said in an email Wednesday. “There have been times when I have been specifically called upon during a meeting to give the Pratt position on a topic and times when I have just voluntarily voiced the Pratt viewpoint.”

As interdisciplinary programs and ma-jors have developed, the academic struc-tures may not have yet fully caught up with these changes, which is also happening to a lot of research universities in the 21st cen-tury, Robisheaux said.

The changing nature of undergraduate education poses a challenge to the struc-ture of academic governance, Wilbourn noted

“Some of the bylaws were set up before the college grew so much and included so many programs,” she said. “There’s a blur-ring between what a department is and what an institute or program is, and the bylaws have to be adjusted to reflect the progression of the University.”

ARTS & SCIENCES from page 1 HOUSING from page 1

Gonzalez added that it is impossible, how-ever, for independents to produce the same level of community as SLGS because indepen-dents are not part of a collective organization that extends beyond the house. He hopes to foster the growth of houses with strong com-munities that may be very different from each other.

“It would be hard pressed as independents to have the same level of community as SLGs, “ Gonzalez said. “I do believe that gap can be narrowed, but independents have a different perch to operate from.”

In an effort to narrow this gap, the chal-lenge of block size has been an ongoing dis-cussion. Gonzalez said the possibility of larger block sizes and “superblocks” has its appeal, but is not feasible because they are difficult to manage and distribute. He added that many people felt larger blocks would not foster the desired community environment and that re-sorting to smaller block sizes would enable a greater likelihood for a stronger community.

Independent houses are currently taking other steps such as creating house names and signs in order to develop stronger identities. HDRL continues to develop programs that focus on giving house council presidents the opportunity to engage with each other but also further their own leadership skills.

“Houses with strong leadership create stronger experiences and we are always on the lookout for resources to facilitate those experiences,” Gonzalez said. “It is the com-munity itself, however, that decides whether or not a house becomes a special place.”

Junior Jacob Zionce, vice president for residential life, said strong leadership is vital for the creation of strong independent com-munities.

“We can give the houses the opportuni-ties for that leadership to flourish, but we can’t create their success ourselves,” Zionce

said.Unlike Gonzalez, Zionce said he advo-

cates for an increase in block size in order to foster a more vibrant independent com-munity. DSG is also looking toward other methods, however—such as the creation of an independent-student managed fund that would allow independent students to im-prove aspects of house living without pulling money from house activity funds.

DSG has also proposed the idea of an independent housing website in order to give the independent community a sense of identity and expand their branding. In addi-tion, they are reviewing the house selection process to make sure it is logical and simple.

“We are committed to making unique communities and making independent houses flourish, “ Zionce said. “But it was not going to happen within two years—it was unrealistic.”

Junior Cat Blebea, house council presi-dent of the independent house Griffin, lo-cated in Crowell, advocated for the creation of more shared experiences as the key to building community. She added that the FINvite program—a system in which Duke covers the costs of a group event if a living group invites a faculty member to attend—has enabled independent housing to over-come some aspects of limited funding.

Blebea proposed that simplifying the general process of funding events would im-prove the overall situation for independent houses. Although many SLGs have corpo-rate cards and bank accounts to access and monitor their funds, independent houses are restricted to a Duke P-card which can-not leave the UCAE office and severely limits certain purchases.

“Overall, I believe removing some of these limitations on funding could help independent houses easily plan events and increase their sense of community,” Blebia wrote in an email Tuesday.

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