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Nine-year-old Max Bonnstetter poses with men’s basketball players Andre Dawkins and Ryan Kelly. Bonnstetter collects donations for music therapy program the Monday Life.

by Carleigh StiehmTHE CHRONICLE

Nine-year-old Max Bonnstetter’s dream is to follow in the footsteps of his idols, men’s basketball players Ryan Kelly and Seth Cur-ry, though not necessarily on the basketball court.

After seeing pictures of the men’s basket-ball team volunteering with patients at the Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Cen-ter through the Monday Life, Bonnstetter decided to forgo gifts for his birthday March 8. Instead, he decided to collect donations for the Monday Life, a nonprofit that devel-ops programs that will help patients feel bet-ter, such as music therapy.

GA changes increase accessibility

by TJ CieslaTHE CHRONICLE

Gilbert-Addoms is about to get a makeover.

Renovations to Gilbert-Addoms Residence Hall will begin May 9. The project, which will improve the building’s accessibility, bathrooms, bedrooms, common space and the GA Down Under basement event space, will be finished in August for students’ arrival. The Board of Trust-ees approved the project at their February meeting. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said the project would cost $7 million.

“This residence hall is one of the larger ones on East [Campus], and we are focusing the majority of the summer renovation funds on GA,” wrote Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of student affairs for hous-ing, dining and residence life, in an email Sunday.

The construction comes at the end of several months of planning and collaboration by HDRL, Moneta added.

LB Bergene, East Campus assis-tant dean for residence life, noted that the plan will include new vinyl floors, ceiling and lights in the dor-mitory rooms and new furniture in the common room. The changes fol-low a model set by Southgate Resi-dence Hall, GA’s neighbor that was renovated last summer.

In its current state, common com-plaints among students include the state of the bathrooms and internal problems of the building.

“The heating system was broken during the summer, and it was hotter than outside at the beginning of the year,” said freshman Shannon Moyer, a GA resident.

One important aspect in con-structing the renovation designs has been making the building accessible for disabled individuals, Bergene said. The new bathroom designs will have several roll-in showers and sink fixtures. This continues a long-range

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What makes a leader? Mangum asks for a new lawyer

by Elizabeth DjinisTHE CHRONICLE

After choosing to represent herself in a murder trial, Crystal Mangum has now requested a court-appointed attorney.

Mangum, the Durham woman who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse play-

ers of rape in 2006, has been on trial since 2011 for the alleged murder of her then boyfriend, Reginald Daye. In a court hearing Thurs-day morning, Mangum said she wanted the court to appoint her at-torney Scott Holmes of lawfirm Brock, Payne

and Meece. Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway, who presided over the hear-ing, denied Mangum’s request to ap-point Holmes specifically, stating that she is allowed a court-appointed lawyer but cannot choose her own.

Mangum was previously assigned at-torney Woody Vann, a managing partner of The Law Offices of Edward J. Falcone and H. Wood Vann, but chose to dis-miss him last fall due to “trust issues.”

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A former Young Trustee is running for Attorney General of the Common-wealth of Virginia.

Former federal criminal prosecutor Justin Fairfax, Trinity ’00, is seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination in the June 11 primary. If he wins that race and the election in November, Fairfax would be the first black Attorney Gen-eral in Virginia’s history. Having grown up in a neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C. where gangs and vi-olence were prevalent, Fairfax said he made a pledge to use his education to make the world a safer place for people and give them an equal opportunity to succeed.

“Duke provided me with an unusual opportunity for leadership and it also provided me with an opportunity to get a world-class education,” Fairfax said.

Fairfax said he wants to focus on fur-ther regulating the mortgage market in Virginia and protecting homeowners from scammers. If elected, Fairfax said his office will also push for legal protec-tions for college students, including en-suring that they have access to what he refers to as “safe” student loans.

“A number of students have gone bankrupt in their 20s and 30s,” he said. “Loans with unfair terms from banks can rob students of an opportunity to gain an education.”

Med School admins put rankings in context

by Raisa ChowdhuryTHE CHRONICLE

Duke School of Medicine advanced in medical school rankings for research from ninth to eighth.

The school rose in the Best Medical School Rankings released by U.S. News and World Report earlier this month. Administrators noted, though, that small differences may not be truly in-dicative of distinctions in the quality of different institutions. The rankings are determined by factors including the amount of research funding from the National Institutes of Health, faculty-to-student ratio, and the MCAT scores and GPAs of the students.

Though the rankings are not neces-sarily a complete measure of quality, School of Medicine administrators pay attention to them because they are now popular among the public and poten-tial applicants, said Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and presi-dent and CEO of the Duke University Health System.

“Rankings these days are taken a lot more seriously by the public, so we do care but we don’t live or die by the ranking,” Dzau said. “We try to get as high as we can but it’s not like taking an exam and optimizing every point. Duke is one of the best schools in the coun-try. We always have been—when you say eight or nine or seven, it’s hard to be sure that’s really meaningful.”

The U.S. News rankings do not ad-dress all the questions that a prospec-tive medical student should ask, Dr. Nancy Andrews, dean of the School of Medicine, wrote in an email Friday. Such questions include how innovative the curriculum is, how important diver-

sity is at the institution and if gradu-ates do well in the residency match. It would also be important to consider the quality of advising, post-graduation happiness in careers, supportiveness of environment, teaching abilities of professors and student publication fre-quency, Andrews added.

“It’s fair to say that none of these questions are considered in the rank-ings,” Andrews said.

Senior Charmaine Mutucumarana is in the process of deciding which medi-cal school to attend based on her accep-tances. She is considering Duke, which she said has a “good name,” but she is also thinking about how she will fit in at different schools. Some of her main reasons for considering the School of Medicine are the strong global health and research opportunities.

“Rankings definitely play a role—that’s not the only thing I’m thinking about,” Mutucumarana said.

It is important, though, that the medical school does not handicap itself by ignoring rankings altogether, Dzau noted.

“These days, when everything is so measurement-oriented, people depend on metrics and measures,” Dzau said. “Rankings have some validity and the more funding you have, the more suc-cessful you are with research, but it also depends on the size of the school.”

He noted that for large institutions like Harvard Medical School, currently ranked number one, size elevates NIH ranking. Harvard has 8,000 faculty in comparison to Duke’s 2,000.

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Former Young Trustee Justin Fairfax, Trinity ’00, is a candidate for the Attorney General of the Common-wealth of Virginia.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court decided Monday to take a second case con-cerning affirmative action in university ad-missions, agreeing to review a lower court’s decision that said Michigan’s ban on the use of race in college acceptance decisions was unconstitutional.

A bitterly divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit struck down the ban in 2012, six years after it was approved by 58 percent of the state’s voters. It is similar to state constitutional amendments in sev-eral other states, including California and Florida.

The high court accepted Michigan’s appeal of the 6th Circuit opinion and will hear the case in the term that begins in Oc-tober. The case will be heard by just eight justices; the court noted that Justice Elena Kagan recused herself.

The court earlier this term considered a challenge to the admissions process at the University of Texas, which considers race as one factor in choosing part of its freshman class. The justices heard oral arguments in that case in October and has not issued a decision.

Some had thought the court might hold the Michigan case until it rendered the Texas ruling, but the cases present differ-ent issues for the court. Michigan’s is a con-stitutional amendment forbidding the use of race. Texas contends its use of race in limited circumstances is sanctioned by the Supreme Court’s recognition that universi-

ties have an interest in building diverse stu-dent populations.

A bare majority of the Michigan appeals court ruled that the ban on race-conscious admission decisions “reorders the political process in Michigan to place special bur-dens on minority interests” and thus vio-lates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection for all races.

Circuit Judge Guy Cole, writing for the majority, said Michigan’s Proposal 2 “elimi-nated the consideration of ‘race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin’ in individual-ized admissions decisions, modifying poli-cies in place for nearly a half-century.”

He added: “No other admissions crite-rion — for example, grades, athletic ability, geographic diversity, or family alumni con-nections — suffered the same fate.”

The majority based its decision on two Supreme Court precedents — one from the 1960s, another from the 1980s — that said political processes could not be changed in a way that made them more burdensome on minorities.

Those decisions, Cole wrote, “emphasize that equal protection of the laws is more than a guarantee of equal treatment under existing law. It is also a guarantee that mi-nority groups may meaningfully participate in the process of creating these laws and the majority may not manipulate the channels of change so as to place unique burdens on issues of importance to them.”

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“I look up to all of the Duke players,” said Bonnstetter, a self-described diehard Blue Devils fan. “They are great students, great players and great people that like to help others.”

At his birthday party, Bonnstetter col-lected $440 by requesting that friends do-nate to the Monday Life’s website rather than bring him presents. Although he said he was happy with the turnout, he wants to continue collecting until he reaches his goal—initially, he was striving to raise $500, but witnessing the difference that his dollars can make has made him more ambitious. Bonnstetter is now aiming to collect $1,000.

For every $25 raised, the Monday Life provides a child with 30 minutes of music therapy.

“I just really feel like there are so many sick kids that will benefit from music ther-apy,” Bonnstetter said. “Everybody likes music.”

A performer himself, currently prepar-ing for a school production of “A Salute to the Tonys,” Bonnstetter said he is aware of the uplifting powers of music. Music therapy can reduce pain and anxiety in patients by as much as 50 percent, accord-ing to the Monday Life.

Bonnstetter’s mother, Katherine John-son, Trinity ’93 said her son has first-hand knowledge of the trials of illness. Bonnstetter said his friend from school was diagnosed with brain cancer and that the treatment has been very hard on his spirit.

Johnson noted that she sought treat-ment for thyroid cancer at the Duke Hos-pital when she was a freshman at Duke.

“We were just talking about what he wanted to do for his birthday, and he was just so excited about being able to contrib-ute back to the hospital,” Johnson said.

She added that seeing pictures of bas-ketball players like Mason Plumlee volun-teering at the hospital serves as a positive role model for learning the importance of giving back to the community.


Nine-year-old Max Bonnstetter poses with men’s basketball players Mason Plumlee and and Todd Zaf-irovski. Bonnstetter collects donations for music therapy program the Monday Life.

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Bonnstetter has a Duke legacy on sev-eral counts and hopes to be a Blue Devil himself one day. His mother, three of her siblings and his grandfather, David John-son, Trinity ’70, all graduated from the

University.Bonnstetter said he will keep work-

ing on his grades and hopes his six years of basketball experience will earn him a place at Duke.

Harvard can add all its 16 teaching hos-pitals and its medical school into one single unit,” Dzau said. “To me this is not only a reflection of quality which Harvard does have, but also of size.”

He noted that Duke’s medical school defines itself as a small school and delib-

erately chooses not to grow considerably larger.

In the past year, the Duke health sys-tem has faced challenges including bud-get cuts and declining patient numbers.

“The recent onset of government se-questration, if it lasts more than a few weeks, will be devastating to medical schools across the country and to bio-medical research,” Andrews said.

Andrews declined to comment exten-sively on how plans for the future will ad-dress these issues.

Dzau noted that he is happy with how his team has dealt with challenges in the past year.

“I’m very proud of my team, the deans,” Dzau said. “They do a great job and they try to do better, especially these days, when the budget is very tight.”

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InkedGriffin, called the decision “the antithesis of the Equal Pro-tection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The post-Civ-il War amendment that guarantees equal protection to per-sons of all races has now been construed as barring a state from prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race.”

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, R, asked the high court to review the decision, which he said in an in-terview turns the equal protection guarantee “upside-down and inside-out.”

In his petition to the court, Schuette wrote:“Until now, no court has ever held that, apart from rem-

edying specific past discrimination, a government must en-gage in affirmative action.”

California’s similar amendment banning racial prefer-ences in university admissions was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

The NAACP Legal Education and Defense Fund said the constitutional amendment has hindered minority en-rollment at the state’s most selective public universities. At the University of Michigan, the number of African-Amer-ican undergraduates fell from 6.7 percent in 2006 to 4.5 percent in 2010.

Mark Fancher, an attorney with the ACLU of Michigan Racial Justice Project, said in a statement that “Prop 2 al-lows alumni to simply drop in on admissions committee members to lobby for a legacy policy. Yet it forces propo-nents of admissions policies that include students from broadly diverse backgrounds — including all racial and ethnic groups — to hit the streets with petitions to amend the Michigan Constitution before they can have the same chance.”

The University of Texas case involves a white student, Abigail Fisher, who contends the university’s use of race in a small percentage of admissions decisions allowed admis-sion to less qualified minority students and cost her a spot in the freshman class.

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Fairfax was active in the Duke community as an un-dergraduate. He was a Reginaldo Howard Memorial scholar, served as co-president of the Reginaldo How-ard Memorial Scholarship Fund and lobbied for the expansion of the scholarship, which led to a full tu-ition coverage by the University under the scholarship. He was active in the greek community as a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and served as president of the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

His connection to Duke extended beyond his four years at the University—he now sits on the Board of Visitors for the Sanford School of Public Policy. Fair-fax also served as a member of the Board of Trustees, including a term as the Undergraduate Young Trustee from 2000-2003.

“He possesses an understanding of policy that would allow him to make a difference on the issues he believes in,” said Bruce Jentleson, professor of public policy and political science and past director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

Jentleson worked closely with Fairfax through the Public Policy Majors Union and in planning the 2000 graduation ceremony for public policy majors, where Farifax served as the undergraduate student speaker.

Paul Brathwaite, Law ’96, met Fairfax while they were both working in D.C. and said he is not surprised Fairfax is running for political office.

“[Fairfax] has always been interested in public ser-vice and had been working in different areas of public service for a long time,” Brathwaite said. “It was a natu-ral progression for him to seek an office that would allow him to help people.”

Fairfax encouraged students to serve their commu-nity for the benefit of others, advice he was given by former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder.

“Enter public service for the right reasons: not to make a lot of money but to make a difference” he said.

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plan to update buildings on all three campuses to the standards of the Amer-ican with Disabilities Act, she said.

HDRL also plans to repurpose GA’s basement space, making it more acces-sible to residents, Johnson said. The Down Under’s back room—currently filled with dining booths—will become an open game and television room and will include a DukeCard swipe at the entrance. Currently, the space can only be accessed from a door separate from the main entrance to the dormitory.

Some students are optimistic about the changes to the space, citing the lack of accessibility as a reason why the

space is not used by many students. “Every time we go, there is no one

[in GA Down Under] and the only peo-ple who come are asking how to get up to GA,” freshman Sharon Kim said.

As HDRL continues renovations on East Campus, increased focus has been set on energy conservation and sustainability.

Each of the resident rooms in the renovated dormitory will have two elec-tric circuits per room, Johnson said, noting that the two circuits will be able to support many electrical appliances without tripping a circuit breaker.

“Southgate is one of the most ener-gy-efficient dorms,” said freshman Em-ily Yang. “I only hope that GA will be made more efficient, too.”

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Students work in common space in Gilbert-Addoms Residence Hall. The dorm is about to undergo renovations to improve common space and accessibility.

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Mangum chose in October 2012 to represent herself instead, a decision met with surprise from the legal community.

Sam Buell, a professor at the School of Law, said that when people choose to represent themselves in court, “it usually goes badly.” He added that the law does not guarantee a right to choose a particular court-appointed lawyer.

“The [U.S.] Constitution guarantees you represen-tation in that if you can’t afford a lawyer, the govern-ment will pay for one,” said Buell, who is not involved in the case. “But because you’re getting an appointed lawyer, you don’t get to say, ‘I’d prefer to have this one rather than that one.’”

Mangum—who faces charges of first degree mur-der, assault with a deadly weapon and larceny—asserts that she attacked Daye in self-defense. He died at Duke Hospital 10 days after the stabbing.

Holmes and Ridgeway could not be reached for comment.

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by Jay SullivanTHE CHRONICLE

The path only gets harder from here for Duke.

Following a victory in the first round of the NCAA tournament against Hamp-ton Sunday, the second-seeded Blue Dev-ils (31-2) will continue their title quest at Cameron Indoor Stadium 7 p.m. Tuesday

in the second round against seventh-seeded Oklahoma State (22-10).

The atmosphere in the arena will likely be much different than during the vic-tory against Hampton in which the Lady Pi-

rates had more raucous fan support. Duke un-derstands that the experience of such a close contest with Hampton, which was fueled by its crowd, will help them prepare to play tougher competition in the tournament.

“It was a different experience for us and the energy in the building was really high. For the most part we handled it well, but I think it was just a good learning experience. I think we’re just focused on us tomorrow,” forward Haley Peters said. “I don’t think we’ll be so worried about what’s happen-ing around us in the stands because after watching the game yesterday and looking ahead to tomorrow, we have a lot of things that need to be keyed in on for the rest of the way.”

The Blue Devils will have a tall task against the Cowgirls, who have seen suc-cess in the Big 12, though not against No. 1 overall seed Baylor. Oklahoma State is led by Toni Young, a senior forward who averages 16.2 points and 10.2 rebounds per game.

“She’s really athletic. For all of us, we need to focus on communicating and be-ing strong help-side, focusing on those things and getting her up in the air,” center Elizabeth Williams said.

Despite the task at hand, Duke continues to have the mentality of improving for the long haul rather than just simply preparing for the next opponent. The Blue Devils specif-ically mentioned looking to improve on hustle plays, including rebounding and defense.

“We need to be more poised and more consistent with our defensive mentality throughout the entire game and not let those few minutes come by us and kind of stay up the whole game and keep that energy,” junior guard Tricia Liston said. “Whenever we can make stops in a row and come down and execute, things are work-ing well for us.”

The Blue Devils faced the Cowgirls in December 2010 in Stillwater, Okla., a game that Duke dominated with a 28-point victo-ry. Head coach Joanne P. McCallie and the Blue Devils understand that every team has

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by Daniel CarpTHE CHRONICLE

In the middle of the program’s spring practice schedule, Duke football play-ers, coaches and alumni assembled at the team’s indoor practice facility to support a select group pursuing their professional football dreams.

Pascal Field House was abuzz Monday af-ternoon as scouts and coaches from 21 NFL teams were on hand for Duke’s annual Pro Day. Seven former Blue Devils—Jackson Anderson, Jordon Byas, Tony Foster, Des-mond Scott, Donovan Varner, Conner Ver-non and Johnny Williams—participated in drills to display their strength, speed and abilities at their respective positions.

Leading the charge for Duke was Ver-non, a wide receiver and the ACC’s all-time leader in receptions and receiving yards. He is widely projected to be the Blue Dev-ils’ first NFL Draft selection since 2004.

“Watching him today, I went over to Kurt Roper and I said, ‘That reminds me of why you want him on your team,’” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “The way he accelerates to the ball, whether it’s a post or a dig, and everything he got his hands on, he caught it. You just don’t do what he did in a career without being a great football player.”

Vernon only participated in the field work after working out at the NFL Scout-ing Combine in Indianapolis last month.

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Nicole Lipp came to Duke to play soc-cer. What she wasn’t expecting was an of-fer from the Duke women’s tennis team as well.

Having started 85 of 90 games in her ca-reer, Lipp has seen her fair share of the soc-cer field. As a senior, she made her mark on the Duke soccer program, holding the school’s all-time assist record in NCAA tournament play.

But with a growing injury report for the tennis team, Lipp was presented with an op-portunity to showcase her talent on the court.

“My first thought was that this could be kind of fun, not really thinking that it was reality,” Lipp said. “I was thrilled to have the opportunity to compete again.”

The Lake Forest, Ill. native first started playing soccer at the age of four, and has loved it ever since.

“I kind of took off from an early age,” Lipp said. “I had a coach who was real-ly passionate and instilled a love of the game in me.”

Aside from the numerous soccer acco-lades, before coming to Duke, Lipp also boasted an extremely impressive tennis career. She felt she could have attended college for either sport, but ultimately chose soccer.

“I first started playing tennis when I was little, around five or six,” Lipp said. “People

ask me why I chose soccer all the time, but I really can’t pinpoint exactly why.”

She loves both sports. Although she decided to focus on soccer, Lipp admit-ted to missing tennis during her four years at Duke.

So when she received an email from the

head coach of the women’s tennis team, Jamie Ashworth, about joining the team, it was an opportunity that she simply could not pass up.

“It’s kind of a funny story,” Lipp said.

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the ability to upset Duke on its home court in a such a high-stakes tournament.

The adjustment period following the in-jury to Co-ACC Player of the Year Chelsea Gray appears to have progressed well for the Blue Devils and has forced each player to rise to the challenge.

“Everyone’s picked up something. Ev-eryone’s roles have changed a little bit. I

think overall it’s exciting to play with each other,” Williams said. “I think it’s been a great opportunity for us to learn and grow with each other.”

Regardless of the injuries, the team’s focus remains on the present instead of the past.

“We’ll never know what would have been,” McCallie said. “We were developing beautifully. We took a huge hit. These kids, all of them, of course [Alexis Jones] too, have risen to the occasion and been incred-ible. We’re making the most of it.”

W. BASKETBALL from page 7

The wide receiver’s route-running ability was on display throughout the afternoon as he made cuts to the football with ease. Ver-non did not drop a pass on the day, though his lone mistake came when he slipped on the turf and lost his balance during an out route, throwing off his timing.

The Miami native made up for it on the next set of routes when he made the play of the day. Running a deep corner route, Ver-non fully extended to reel in a pass that was well out in front of him and held onto the ball after he hit the turf, drawing a number of cheers from onlookers.

“The quarterback put it out there, I just had to go get it and made sure that I caught it,” Vernon said. “I’ve made a lot of catches throughout my career, but to catch one like that was great.”

Vernon was not the only one running routes at Duke’s Pro Day—wide receiver Desmond Scott put on a show with his strength and footwork. Scott stands at just 5-foot-9 but impressed in the weight room, bench pressing 21 reps at 225 pounds, which would have ranked third among wide receivers at the 2013 NFL Combine.

Scott’s agility was on display during his position drills, and his route-running abil-ity was impressive for a player who moved to wide receiver from running back less than a year ago.

“The stuff we did today was just the stuff I used to do in my backyard growing up,” Scott said. “So today was no pressure, it was just going out in the backyard and having fun.”

On the other side of the football, cornerback Tony Foster showed he has made significant strides since the end of his senior season. In addition to his 40.5-inch vertical leap, Foster showed off his quickness and natural hands during his position drills.

Foster lined up at wide receiver during the afternoon’s drills as well, showing off his versatility and athleticism that could translate to the next level.

Another bright spot of Pro Day came

from Blue Devil long snapper Jackson An-derson, who took center stage when he showed off his ability to place snaps for punts and field goals with pinpoint accu-racy. Anderson hopes to emulate the ca-reer of Duke alum Patrick Mannelly, a long snapper who was a sixth-round selection in the 1998 NFL Draft and will enter his 16th season with the Chicago Bears this fall.

“Jackson has had an incredible career. Four years and not a single bad snap—that’s about as good a test of time as you can have,” Cutcliffe said. “I was over there talking with a few friends and I said, ‘I don’t know who needs one, but that kid is a first-year starter.’”

After working out for scouts for the final time before April’s NFL Draft, Vernon not-ed that the number of scouts on hand was indicative of the Blue Devils’ growth as a program during his four-year career. Duke quarterback Sean Renfree was not among those working out for scouts, though Cut-cliffe noted he is pain free and on his way toward a recovery.

Cutcliffe added that the best may be yet to come for Duke football’s NFL hopes.

“I couldn’t help but to look around the exterior, and we had a lot of our returning squad on hand. I’m looking at how many guys I think are draft choices and combine guys, and that number was in double dig-its,” Cutcliffe said. “We haven’t been able to say that since we’ve been here.”

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Haley Peters and the Blue Devils take on seventh-seeded Oklahoma State Tuesday.

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Desmond Scott bench pressed 225 pounds 21 times for scouts at Duke’s Pro Day.

“I was in the K Center studying, when I received two text messages—one from [women’s soccer Sports Information Direc-tor] Lindy [Brown] and one from a trainer asking me if I play tennis. I went to my aca-demic advisor’s office, and she filled me in on the situation.”

With three players out for the season and only five girls healthy enough to compete, the tennis team found themselves short-handed midway through the spring season.

It’s difficult to play three doubles match-es with five people, and that was precisely the situation that the Duke women’s tennis team was facing,

With sophomore Monica Turewicz re-cently out with an achilles injury, the pro-gram was at a standstill.

“There was mainly shock at first,” se-nior captain Mary Clayton said. “We were wondering how we were going to adjust to this and put ourselves in the best posi-tion to keep being successful even without Monica.”

Fueled by support from her soccer coach-es and teammates, Lipp was eager to step right in and fill the gap left by Turewicz.

“She has worked really hard the past two weeks to get herself back into tennis shape,” Ashworth said. “She hasn’t played competitively in a few years but she’s a com-petitive person by nature, and she wants to be successful.”

Now one of two seniors on the team, Clayton is eager to have someone she can relate to and bond with during their time at Duke.

“Nicole was a blessing,” Clayton said. “Having her on the team has been a very seamless transition.”

After falling short in her debut against ACC rival N.C. State Saturday, Lipp main-tained confidence alongside doubles partner junior Marianne Jodoin as they faced the De-mon Deacons of Wake Forest Sunday.

The pair topped Brigita Bercyte and An-drea Retolaza with consistent serving and aggressive net play, to clinch the doubles point for the Blue Devils in an 8-4 win.

Players and coaches alike are confident that Lipp will continue to improve and hone her skills during the rest of the sea-son and are extremely grateful for the role she has taken on.

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Now a tennis player, Nicole Lipp holds Duke women’s soccer’s record for assists in NCAA tournament play.


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It is a cool, midsummer’s night, and a middle-aged woman sits at a DATA bus stop clutching an empty pill bottle. She surreptitiously pockets

it as the ambulance turns the corner, and begins to clutch at her chest with the fake pain of the prescription drug addict seek-ing her next hit.

Cut now to the parking lot of Dur-ham Police headquarters: Paramedics approach the back door of a squad car, whose sole inhabitant is feign-ing unconsciousness, ignominiously sprawled across the back seat. Metal cuffs bind the hands that, just hours earlier, took the lives of a young cou-ple in a brutal home invasion.

One last cut, this time to the tri-age desk at UNC’s emergency room: The triage nurse, not looking up from the computer, asks the paramedic, “What’cha got?” The medic, betray-ing his bored impatience, says, “Fuzzy Wuzzy.” The nurse looks up at the mention of the alias, his eyes coming to rest on a portly, bearded alcoholic, one of the hospital’s well-known “frequent fl iers.” With sarcastic pleasantry, he exclaims, “Fuzzy Wuzzy! I haven’t seen you since … [hurried keystrokes] … this morning. Room seven.”

Let’s talk about compassion, a word that gets thrown around a lot on personal essays and med school applications. I didn’t feel a single modicum of it for any of the patients in the above stories. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not going to spend the rest of this column arguing that compassion is overrated, or that it does not occupy an important place in the practice of modern medicine. My problem is that people are wont to blindly extol the supposed wonders of com-passion, as if you can draw up and administer 30 mg of it as an instant cure for what ails ye. With the widely-held view that compassion should be a given in medicine, the public is quick to lash out at providers who are perceived as being less empathetic in their interactions, regardless of the provider’s overall com-petence or professionalism. The phenomenon un-derlying this defi cit of empathy is called “compassion fatigue”—many are more familiar, however, with the near-synonym “burnout.”

They told us in EMT class that burnout is not so much a possibility as an eventuality: All provid-ers will ultimately be rendered emotionally numb by the constant, unyielding stresses of the job. The warnings completely failed to resonate with me. I couldn’t help but dismiss the notion that my patients would wear me down—after all, I had considered my patients to be my primary motivation as a medical provider. As such, my thought process went, I had an obligation to be compassionate, and if I were to

become unable to deliver on that obligation, well, that would be the day I quit.

But despite the various indignant protestations to the contrary, you can’t always consciously control your

empathy. It’s hard to feel compassion for the drug seeker or the frequent fl ier. It’s even harder to feel compas-sion for the drug-seeker or the fre-quent fl ier when you see them a mere hour after watching a 19-year-old die in front of you after being pulled out of a house fi re. It’s harder still to mus-ter any shred of compassion when the man before you just painted a kitchen wall with his sister-in-law’s brains. The constant juxtaposition of the odious with the mundane, the affable with the abrasive, begins to take its toll; how can you pronounce the time of death for a 13-year-old girl shot dead in a drive-by, and then respond to a 911 call for a toe infection while

maintaining the same empathetic emotional state? I’ve witnessed all the frightening signs of burnout in partners: diminished interest, lack of compassion, fragmenting personal lives. What’s scarier is when you look in the mirror and start to see that small seeds of compassion fatigue have been sown and are growing insidiously within you.

With that said, I certainly don’t believe I’ve burnt out, though I have come to some sobering realiza-tions about the practice of medicine. Medicine is not a shiny, happy fi eld. You will not leave work ev-ery day feeling as if you have made a difference. Most of the time, you won’t really be feeling anything but drained. Your obligations to your patients are com-petence and professionalism—this despite the fact that you will routinely have patients who frustrate you, curse at you or even try to attack you. Much of the time, you won’t even be thanked. You’ll deal with stressful circumstances and be expected to sequester that baggage from your personal life. And yet, I know now more than ever that medicine is what I want to do with the rest of my life. I’ve come to terms with the fact that the medical profession is a job that, every once in a while, is worth it. It’s that one infrequent time when everything goes right. Or that one rare in-stance where you do make a difference. Or even that one uncommon display of sincere gratitude from a patient. Somehow, those moments are enough to make it all worthwhile.

Jay Srinivasan, Trinity ’14, is a Duke pre-med. This col-umn is the 10th installment in a semester-long series of weekly columns written on the pre-med experience at Duke, as well as the diverse ways students can pursue and engage with the fi eld of medicine.

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Reaching those who can’t pay their wayYesterday’s editorial ex-

plored the constraints im-posed on disabled students by the physical structures of the University. Today’s piece examines a different kind of structural con-straint—limited access to top universities for low-income students.

A recent report found that high-achieving students from families making less than $41,472 per year apply to top universities at signifi -cantly lower rates than their wealthier peers. In 2012, only 8 percent of bright, low-in-come students applied to the advised range of colleges, and admissions offi ces at top col-leges fi nd it particularly chal-lenging to reach potential ap-plicants in rural areas.

Often low-income students do not apply to top universi-ties because of the perceived cost, a trend that refl ects the limited information about col-lege admissions and fi nancial

aid available to students in low-income com-

munities. The information defi cit is both symptomatic and constitutive of a larger disparity in the quality and availability of institutional support for high school stu-dents. To attend a top univer-sity, a smart student from a well-funded school often has only to follow the advice of-fered to her by parents, teach-ers, counselors or coaches. A similarly intelligent but low-income student, however, has to overcome the inadequate counseling and advising sys-

tems that plague schools in poor and rural areas; parents and friends who—because they did not attend college—do not know how the admis-sions and fi nancial aid pro-cesses work; complicated and exacting FAFSA forms; and a pervasive sense that people from her class or region do not, and therefore cannot, at-tend elite universities.

These constraints are deep-seated and deeply troubling. In the ideal world of college admissions, students would at-tend the school for which they are best suited, regardless of their class or proximity to an urban area. Given the con-nection between education and socioeconomic status—the further we drift from this ideal, the more we neglect our responsibility to ensure that

social advancement is a func-tion of skill and effort, not of class or pedigree.

However, universities like Duke have limited resources and cannot provide every qualifi ed applicant with the information they need to ap-ply to their school. Moreover, universities do not always have an incentive to ensure that all qualifi ed high school students have an opportunity to attend their college. Talented appli-cants consistently fl ood top universities with applications, and, if those universities want to recruit a class of highly qual-ifi ed students from a range of different backgrounds, they can almost certainly do so without traversing the country convincing low-income stu-dents to apply.

Top universities may per-

ceive the costs of more focused recruitment to outweigh the benefi ts of expanded edu-cational access. However, a nation that values—at least in theory—equity and social mobility has an obligation to ensure that talented and mo-tivated students receive a high-quality education. Although universities do not bear sole responsibility for systemic educational inequities, we feel that Duke should bolster its re-cruitment efforts in rural and low-income communities and, in order to reduce costs and diffuse risk, expand recruit-ment partnerships with other colleges. A robust recruitment effort in low-income commu-nities will not solve the prob-lem, but it may help better match skilled students with the top universities.

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For those who follow closely, exciting and encouraging de-velopments have been taking place recently in my native country of Turkey. Just last Thursday, the jailed Kurdish

separatist leader of PKK (the Kurdistan Workers Party), Abdullah Ocalan, declared a “formal and clear cease-fi re” with Turkey to end the bloody confl ict that has claimed more than 40,000 lives since it began in 1984. Ocalan’s call to end the armed resistance was im-mediately acknowledged and agreed upon by the acting lead-ers of PKK, most notably by Murat Karayilan, who has been leading the group as its fi eld commander from the remote mountains of northern Iraq.

Only one day later—as if this ceasefi re wasn’t already a suf-fi cient present to all who have been looking forward to the end of the painful, internal bleeding in Turkey—another piece of good news occupied the headlines. President Obama master-fully engineered a phone conversation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during his fi nal hours in Israel. This phone diplomacy, which has been negotiated for many years by diplomats and others on both sides, effectively ended the frozen and troubling status of the relationship between the two countries and served as a fi rst step to normalizing relations be-tween them. Both leaders vowed to restore the diplomatic and friendly relationship after years of counterproductive hostility.

I am under no delusion that these developments are the fi -nal say in this complex situation. The decades-long destruction cannot be repaired overnight with one ceasefi re declaration or a formal apology. The challenges and issues related to the Kurds in Turkey are far from being solved, and Turkish-Israeli relations still have a long way to go. However, I personally wel-come these events as signifi cantly important and encouraging steps in the right direction.

At this critical moment, the ball is entirely in Turkey’s court. Turkish society should step up, putting pressure on the country’s political, religious and civic leaders to respond to these developments wisely and not miss the opportunity to achieve peace, prosperity and happiness, both in Turkey and the region.

On the Kurdish issue, Turkey, now that they have no armed separatists to blame as an excuse, must seize the moment and move decisively to restore the honor and dignity of her Kurd-ish citizens. The country should learn how to bring herself, in all humility and honesty, to acknowledge the suffering that the Kurds have endured since the foundation of the republic. Without acknowledging the history of systemic human rights violations against Kurdish citizens of the country, no real peace should be expected. There is no room for silly chauvinism and useless defensiveness here. And I say this as a Turk who has not a single drop of Kurdish blood in me (at least not that I know of) with very strong conviction. As we want others to publicly acknowledge and apologize for the pain and suffering that they have infl icted on us, we should at least have the decency to do the same, especially to those who are our own rightful citizens. The country as a whole should strive to remove the deeply root-ed legal, political, economic and cultural discrimination and inequality against Kurds.

Turkey must act quickly to repair the burned bridges with Israel, work hard to build new economic, cultural and political ties and restore its unique position as a Muslim-majority country that has a friendly relationship with the West, Israelis, Arabs and Palestinians. No good will come for Turkey or Israel in ruining the exceptionally precious Turkish-Israeli relationship. To me, it seems idiotic and self-destructive for either Turkey or Israel to lose the other as an ally. These two countries can potentially do so much good for their citizens, as well as the Middle East.

With its military tamed and domesticated and given the eco-nomic growth the country has enjoyed in recent years, Turkey has all she needs to score a spectacular home run now. If Turkey misses this providential opportunity and does not respond back to these calls, the country has no one to blame but itself. The successes and/or failures on these critical issues will be telling indicators to all whether or not Turkey is the prime candidate for producing the fi rst modern, homegrown Muslim democ-racy. I hope and pray that the country’s leadership will learn from previous mistakes and not disappoint us again.

Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain and an adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Abdullah on Twitter @aantepli.

A ceasefi re and an apologyShould our top administrators be in the business of

protecting all-male secret societies?I emailed Duke’s chief administrative and fi nan-

cial offi cer, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, last Thursday at 7:22 p.m.:

“Hi Dr. Trask. I’m writing a column about various secret societies at Duke, and heard that you’re involved with the Trident Society. I was wonder-ing if we could chat about when and how that relationship arose, and also how, in your opinion, the organization affects the broader Duke community? I also have learned about how the society funds vari-ous Duke programs, and was wondering how this fi nancial support affects its rela-tionship with the University?”

He responded at 8:45 p.m., copying former Young Trustee Sunny Kantha, Trinity ’09, senior Chris Brown, Young Trustee-elect, and Paul Harraka, Trinity ’12, now a race car driver, to alert them to my inquiry.

“Don’t really know much about them. Sorry.”Follow-up response, 8:49 p.m. “The CCs on my previous message were meant to be

BCCs. Pls ignore.” Oops.How much can we trust the administration if its sec-

ond-highest-ranking member felt the need to lie to me?From what I’ve been able to determine, the Trident

Society has existed since at least the early 1930s and has a roster of alumni who are corporate lawyers, hedge-fund managers and business executives.

The Trident Society’s relationship to Duke is sym-biotic. Senior Sarah Rogers received a portion of her summer internship funding from the group, via a schol-arship from the Sanford School of Public Policy. That money was donated by some of the society’s alumni who were public policy majors. Does this society remain se-cret because it gives so much money that its activities don’t invite investigation?

If you search for articles about any of these societies in the online archives of this newspaper, you’ll fi nd, in-terestingly enough, that the only students to ever write about them are women. Perhaps this is a coincidence (there are only a handful of pieces that attempted to ex-plore their histories and composition), and yet the trend makes sense: Exclusion provokes curiosity, and in my case, muckraking.

The only other secret society I’d heard of, until re-cently, was the Old Trinity Club. They wave their arms around on the quad in black robes and sunglasses. I’d never felt that intrigued by their activities since they’ve desensitized me to their existence (which is rather clev-er, if you think about it).

The Trident Society is different. They fl y under the radar by choice. And they tap men who are bestowed with the Robertson and A.B. Duke scholarships, preside over Duke Student Government, act with Duke Univer-

sity Improv, sing with the Pitchforks and play on the var-sity soccer team. While regular student groups must be accompanied up to the top of the Chapel, the Trident Society goes up unaccompanied, for initiation rites, ev-ery year. Hillary Martinez, a former Chapel attendant, wrote in an email that this is “unusual, but as they are familiar with safety protocol and have been for years, it

didn’t seem like a safety risk.” From what I can tell, the Trident So-

ciety also taps many of the men serving on The Chronicle’s editorial board—per-haps as a way of infl uencing the body’s endorsement decisions in key student government elections.

To be initiated, prospective members must solve puzzles like the one below:

“Under the Footpaths of Many / Lie the true Feet of Few.

The studs on the 55th door / Are a hint to what to do.

Their number tells you where to start / Use the Book on the right:

29, 7, 29, 51, 22, 88, 28, 24, 21.”In a fl urry of emails, one potential initiate, who re-

mains anonymous, was given a series of tasks. The puz-zles got successively trickier to the point that he wasn’t able to solve them and his “journey” came to an end. Though “opportunities in the future to join our ranks” could arise were he to further prove his “merit.” He wasn’t tapped again.

While the so-called “Big Three” societies at Yale—Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, and Wolf’s Head—have been coeducational since 1992, Duke’s still don’t include women. That’s their loss: Students like senior Alex Swain or juniors Katherine Zhang and Stefani Jones are going to do big things one day. They would be candidates for tapping if not for their sex.

The persistent existence of all-male secret societies demonstrates why men feel the need to perpetuate pa-triarchal structures. Being in a fraternity doesn’t ensure one’s victory in a Duke Student Government election anymore. But being in an all-male society ensures access to alumni on Wall Street and the ears of Duke’s top ad-ministrators and Trustees. It’s a group meant at its core to connect powerful and promising men, and to help them advance and succeed.

Secrecy engenders silencing, and silencing necessi-tates violence. We all should question why top members of Duke’s administration remain supportive of organi-zations that refl ect and reproduce patriarchal social structures.

Why did Trask respond to my email that way? What are they so afraid of us knowing? And is the answer, for demographics that aren’t tapped, to imitate these groups, or to demand answers to these questions?

Samantha Lachman is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Follow her on Twitter @SamLachman.

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March 26 – April 1Exhibitions Alphabetic Excursions. Prints by Merrill Shatzman, associate professor of the practice of visual arts. Thru March 31. East Duke Corridor Gallery. Free. Assemblages. Video installation. An audio-visual research project on Felix Guattari by Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato. Thru March 31. East Duke Corridor Gallery. Free. Light Sensitive. Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections. Thru May 12. Nasher Museum of Art. Street Exposure: The Photographs of Ronald Reis. Scenes of daily life in the city by American street photographer Ronald Reis. March 18-May 17. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free. One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia. Paul Kwilecki’s black-and-white images of his birthplace. March 18–July 27. Center for Documentary Studies. Free. Botanical Treasures from Duke’s Hidden Library. An exhibition on the history and work of the Duke University Herbarium. March 20-July 31. Perkins Library Gallery. Free. Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey. The artist’s first major solo museum exhibition was organized by the Nasher Museum. March 21-July 21. Nasher Museum of Art. MFAEDA Thesis Exhibition. Featuring work by the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Class of 2013. March 22-April 14. Various locations. Visit http://mfaeda2013.org for schedule and information. Free. Events March 26Immersed in Every Sense 2 Visiting Artist Series: Media artist James Benning. Artist Talk and Screening of “The War.” 6-8pm, Nasher Auditorium. Free. March 28Duke Players Lab. Love Song by John Kolvenbach. 8pm, Brody Theater, East Campus. Free. March 29Arts Festival and Mural Unveiling. See the new Arts Annex mural at the Spring Arts Festival, an art-filled afternoon of live jazz, food trucks (Parlez-Vous Crepe, Loyo and Baguettaboutit), Dtown Market vendors, arts and crafts with Happymess Studios. Presented by DUU VisArts. 3-6pm, Arts Annex. Free.

Choreolab 2013. Spring dance performance featuring works by Duke faculty and students. 8 pm, Reynolds Theater. $15 Gen.; $5 Students. Duke Players Lab. (See March 28) 8pm. March 30Choreolab 2013. (See March 29) Duke Players Lab. (See March 28) 8pm. March 31Duke Players Lab. (See March 28) 2pm. April 1Edible Book Festival. See books made of edible materials, edibles inspired by books, and vote for your favorite. Hosted by the Libraries’ Conservation and Preservation Depts. 2pm, Gothic Reading Room, Rubenstein Library. Free. Screen/Society All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (W) = Richard White Auditorium. (NCMNS) = WRAL 3D Theater, NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC. 3/27 HAPPY TOGETHER [35mm] Christopher Doyle Retrospective AMI Showcase 3/28 THIS IS NOT A FILM (W) Iranian Cinema Middle East Film Series 3/29 PINA: a film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders (7:30pm, NCMNS) Special free 3D screening of dance documentary. Limited seating, see website for info on Pre-Registration and free transportation. Thinking Cinematics 4/1 AMI Student Film Awards screening Showcasing the very best Duke student films from Fall 2012, as selected by our jury.

CHOREOLAB

Friday, March 29 Saturday, March 30

8:00 PMReynolds Theater, Bryan Center

Tickets $15, $5 StudentsTickets available at the Duke Box Office

919.684.4444 or tickets.duke.edu Also available at the door

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