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Find a way to ‘make it matter’, says Dempsey

by Georgia ParkeThe ChroniCle

At Sunday’s Commencement ceremony, graduates of the Class of 2014 were urged to remember their humanity after they toss off their mortarboards.

Graduates from all of Duke’s schools convened in Wallace Wade Stadium Sunday morning to hear commencement speaker Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Graduate School ‘84. Dempsey relied on humor, personal

anecdotes and advice from his mentors to illustrate the importance of being proactive and present when making use of a Duke education in the outside world—but not before leading the crowd in a chant of “let’s go Duke” and making a jab at the University of north Carolina at Chapel hill. repeatedly calling on the graduates to “make it matter,” Dempsey noted that students’ academic accomplishments are but one part of their personal development in their time at Duke.

“You leave Duke with the intellectual tools to accomplish whatever lies ahead of you,” he said. “i know your resume. But what’s in your heart?”

Graduates must use all of their experience to become a leader of consequence and make their education matter, Dempsey explained. he noted that his own education has surprised

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Townsend tapped as new dean of the Nicholas Schoolby Emma Baccellieri

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Alan Townsend, an ecosystem ecolo-gist and professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named dean of the nicholas School of the en-vironment.

Townsend will replace Bill Cha-

meides, who has served as dean for sev-en years and announced his intent to step down in August. Chosen from an international search that involved 270 candidates, Townsend will step into the role July 1.

“We felt great about everyone, but we were particularly ecstatic from the be-

ginning about Alan,” said Dean Urban, chair of the nicholas School’s Division of environmental Sciences and Policy and head of the search advisory commit-tee for the position. “he didn’t disap-point.”

Townsend was first considered for the position of nicholas School dean in

2007, when William Schlesinger left the role. Townsend was named one of five finalists, but Chameides was ultimately given the position, said Urban, who was also part of the 2007 search committee.

“The issue earlier was that he was just

by Emma BaccellieriThe ChroniCle

Marion Broome has been named dean of the School of nursing.

Broome will replace Catherine Gilliss, who has served in the position for 10 years and announced her intent to step down last September. Currently the dean of the indiana University School of nurs-ing, Broome will also serve as associate vice president of academic affairs for nursing at Duke University health Sys-tem—a new position created to form a closer partnership between the School of nursing and DUhS.

“Dr. Broome brings valuable experi-ence in managing a complex system and aligning nursing academics with care delivery, having served as the dean of a highly regarded nursing school as well as associate vice president for academic affairs at indiana University health Sys-tem,” said Dr. Victor Dzau, Ceo and president of DUhS and chancellor for health affairs, in a Duke Medicine news release. “her skills as a proven leader are exactly the qualities we sought in bring-ing her to Duke.”

Broome has published five books and is editor-in-chief of nursing outlook, the official journal of the American Acad-emy of nursing and the Council for the Advancement of nursing Science. her

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Those returning to Duke for Summer Session i encountered a number of chang-es to campus.

The days following Commencement weekend brought a new stage of library renovations and a roped-off quadrangle for the removal of a century-old tree. The two projects are but part of a slate of im-provements the University is undergoing—including the current renovations to West

Union and the upcoming restoration of Duke Chapel and Page Auditorium.

The entrance and lobby area of Perkins library are being renovated, requiring the closure of the main entrance beginning this week and lasting until summer 2015, The Chronicle previously reported. To ac-commodate the change, the side entrance facing Bostock library is now unlocked during the day and a help Desk has been placed near the doors. The rear entrance to von der heyden Pavilion will also be ac-

Renovations of Perkins and Bostock libraries underway

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The entrance and lobby area of Perkins Library are being renovated, thus requiring the closure of the main entrance of the library until summer 2015.

cessible during the renovations.The first floor of Bostock is undergoing

renovations to facilitate the establishment of the research Commons—an area that will combine technological services with collab-orative work spaces, similar to those of the link. The floor will be closed until oct. 31 while the $3.5 million project is completed.

Meanwhile, the quadrangle anchored by the Social Psychology and old Chemistry buildings has been roped off to allow for the removal of an infected willow oak tree.

earlier in the week, a willow oak in front of the Allen Building that is similarly infected underwent the same procedure. Among the original plantings on West Campus, the trees recently developed fungal infections in their roots that the Facilities Department observed.

All parts of the trees will be recycled, not-ed an internal notification sent to the Facili-ties Department.

“Duke University has a wood policy that ensures we are good stewards of our trees by providing guidelines about how we use the wood harvested on campus,” the notifica-tion read.

Portions of the trees will be given to Dur-ham’s Museum of life and Science, so that tree trunks can be used for play areas in the museum’s hideaway Woods. The solid piec-es of the tree will be milled and available for campus projects including buildings, cabi-nets, theater sets and student work. Smaller pieces of wood will be given to Duke employ-ees who depend on wood heat during the winter and the smallest branches and leaves will be used for mulch around campus.

“i am thrilled that Duke is putting so much time and money into treecycling,” Katie rose levin, natural resource man-ager of Duke Facilities, wrote in an email Wednesday. She noted that trees will be re-planted in the area in an arrangement simi-lar to the original.

The start of the summer session also saw an additional section of the Bryan Center Plaza closed to pedestrians for continued work on the new West Union. The exit from the Flowers Building to the plaza—used by many members of the community as a shortcut since the origi-nal closure of part of the plaza last Fall—is now inaccessible.


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Tourists visiting the Duke lemur Center will have the opportunity to see newborn baby lemurs as a newly added attraction this summer.

The Duke lemur Center recently welcomed 10 le-mur babies born to mothers already living in the Cen-ter, with more on the way. These births are a rare event in the endangered lemur world. The Center has seen an increase in numbers of tours requested this summer, and the babies are the main reason behind this popu-larity.

“no one has ever told me to skip babies [during tours], and they groan when i say it’s time to leave,” said Christopher Smith, an education specialist and tour guide at the lemur Center.

robin Smith, science writer at the Duke lemur Cen-ter, added that the newborn babies stay behind the scenes and spend time bonding with their parents be-fore they are released for public display.

A number of babies were just released into the Duke forest, where lemurs roam freely for the first time this season.

“if you were to go the lemur Center, you can watch [the babies] as they ride on their mom’s bellies or on their backs,” robin Smith said. “You can also see them interacting with their dad and their siblings, who are also out in the forest in them.”

Two twin ring-tailed lemur babies—one of the most easily recognizable genuses to the general public—were among the newborns at the Center.

Jovian, the star of the kids’ show Zoboomafoo, is the father of Gertrude, one of the newborn baby lemurs.

“i think [Jovian]’s passed some of his hollywood personality off to Gertrude,” Christopher Smith said. “She’s playful, comfortable around people even at four months old and likes to show off her playful jumping and wrestling skills.”

Aemelia, another lemur infant, is about the same age as Gertrude.

“[Aemelia] is more shy and reserved, preferring to stay on mom’s back than jump and swing around so

much,” Christopher Smith said.Aemelia, Gertrude and eleanor are three newborn

babies belonging to the genus Sifaka of Madagascar, one of the most endangered primate species, robin Smith noted.

“Fewer than ten of these guys are born in north America this year,” robin Smith said, “so those three are pretty special.”

The newest baby is oscar, a mongoose lemur born four weeks ago. Chrisopher Smith noted that oscar spends much time clinging to his mom Carolina.

“i think he’ll grow up to be a little rowdy lemur,” Christopher Smith said. “Mongoose lemurs are also considered endangered, like many lemurs, so every new birth is invaluable to lemur conservation.”

The Duke lemur Center is also home to the only two breeding female blue-eyed black lemurs in north America, robin Smith said. one of the two females gave birth to a baby boy this March, who is named Kevin Ba-con, after the blue-eyed celebrity.

Sophomore Jacqueline Anderson, a work-study at the lemur Center, works shifts to check on the newborn babies.

“i will go and sit for about an hour to make sure that the babies are being nursed by their mom,” Anderson said. “The newborn babies spend a while only with their moms after they are born, and are slowly introduced to the rest of the family later.”

Christopher Smith said baby lemurs are the best way of displaying the Center’s efforts towards lemur preser-vation.

“Baby lemurs give visitors hope for the future for le-murs and emphasize that what we’re doing at the lemur Center is good for lemurs here and in Madagascar. ev-eryone gets to leave with a warm, fuzzy feeling,” he said.

Summer is also the busiest season of the year for the lemur Center. Christopher Smith anticipated that this summer will even be the busiest in the history.

“‘iMAX island of lemurs’ is in theaters, lemur con-servationists are in the news winning awards, we’re reaching totally new audiences that didn’t know we ex-isted,” he said.

The Duke lemur Center is hosing its semi-annual lemurpalooza June 6. All the new lemurs available for symbolic adoption through the center’s Adopt-a-lemur program are open for visits.

“last year, more than 250 people visited and we raised a lot of support for the lemurs,” Christopher Smith said.

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President richard Brodhead, who presided over Sunday’s ceremony, noted that Dempsey has defined his position as the top military officer in the country by placing a renewed focus on military ethics.

“There were moments… when i wasn’t sure i would make it through Duke,” Dempsey said. “i knew i had to keep trying and i had to keep learning… perhaps in support of the opposite of a well-crafted plan— a sense that in my chosen profession, history might actually find me and that i better be ready. history did find me about 20 years after i left [Duke].”

Dempsey underlined the importance of Duke graduates remaining grounded and retaining humanistic qualities amidst their drive and certainty. he recalled the advice of a mentor who told him to ask himself frequently about the last time he requested that someone change his mind about something, and Dempsey asked that the audience of students remember to do the same.

“The more responsibility you get, the more important that question becomes,” Dempsey said. “You will need to find, fix and remain true to your moral compass.”

Dempsey has served as Chief of Staff of the Army and Commanding General to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command prior to serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. he holds two Defense Distinguished Service Medals, four Army Distinguished Service Medals, three legions of Merit, two Bronze Stars with Valor and one Defense Superior Service Medal. he attended the United States Military Academy at West Point before serving in the army for eight years

and earning a master’s degree in english from Duke.

Although the University typically awards honorary degrees to commencement speakers, Brodhead noted that Dempsey has declined to accept awards while in his current position.

“in your case, Marty, we will have to trust that one Duke degree is enough,” Brodhead said.

Jennifer Sherman, Trinity ‘14,

delivered the student commencement address prior to Dempsey’s speech, focusing on appreciating the humanity of ordinary moments as a complement to the extraordinary opportunities offered by Duke.

“There is this whole education that has been running parallel to the one we recognize today and it doesn’t come with a degree or high honors or a job offer, but it deserves to be celebrated,” Sherman

said. “We have also been learning to tell the truth, to take responsibility for our mistakes, to be pregnant with grief and to forgive.”

Sherman told stories of her Duke experience to illustrate her point, stretching back to her freshman year—when she saw her peers cry tears of joy at the first snowfall— and moving across the years to include spending time in Grace’s Café, failing and falling in love.

“our greatest gifts are not the things that make us extraordinary. our greatest gifts are the things that make us human,” she concluded. “Congratulations, Duke Class of 2014. With every passing ordinary day, you made Duke extraordinary.”

Students in the audience noted the relatability of Sherman’s speech as fellow undergraduates who have shared many of the same experiences she listed.

“The experiences she talked about over

the four years were all things that we’ve been through, so for me i could really relate to her in that sense and those are all experiences that any one of us [had],” said Akshita iyer, Trinity ‘14.

Five honorary degrees were awarded Sunday. Businessman erskine Bowles—former president of the University of north Carolina system and former White house Chief of Staff—was awarded a Doctor of laws. Molecular biologist Carolyn Bertozzi, of the University of California at Berkeley, and W. Delano Meriwether, the first African-American student at the School of Medicine and a physician, philanthropist and track and field champion, were each awarded a Doctor of Science. neuroscientist and former Massachusetts institute of Technology President Susan hockfield and Aspen institute president and former Cnn president Walter isaacson were each awarded a Doctor of humane letters.

Sherman’s remarks about the universality of the human experience were manifested in smaller aspects of the ceremony. Many students wore pins reading “rAD 2014,” commemorating senior rebecca Denardis, who was killed in a car crash earlier this semester and would have graduated summa cum laude on Sunday.

The ceremony also took place on Mother’s Day, a fact recognized by Dempsey as he thanked and requested applause for all the mothers in the audience.

Barbara Talavan, mother of Trinity graduate lucas Talavan-Becker, noted that the coincidental timing did not detract from either occasion—rather, it added to them both.

“it was a very nice tribute,” she said. “You get to double celebrate. You get to be with your kid on your Mother’s Day.”

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Jennifer Sherman, Trinity ‘14, delivered the student commencement address and focused on appreciating the humanity of ordinary moments as a complement to the education offered at Duke.


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Looking to assure itself of an above-.500 finish in ACC play for the first time since 1994, the road does not get any easier for Duke.

The Blue Devils will conclude their conference slate against No. 4 Florida

State at Dick Hows-er Stadium in Talla-hassee, Fla., open-ing a three-game set against the Sem-inoles Thursday eve-ning at 6 p.m. Duke has not won at Flori-da State in 20 years.

The stakes for Duke, however, are much higher than putting the cap on a historic season. Currently sitting in fourth place in the ACC, the Blue Dev-ils need to create some breathing room between themselves and the rest of the conference. A lost series this weekend could bump Duke down into the play-in

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The Blue Devil pitching staff will look to slow down a hot Seminole offense that leads the ACC in batting average and runs scored.

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Duke senior Hanna Mar and the Blue Devils will look to continue their stellar season with a win against Clemson Thursday.

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by Nick MartinTHE CHRONICLE

Thursday’s matchup between Duke and Clemson will be the first between the two in the NCAA tournament since 1993, but they are by no means strang-ers.

The fifth-ranked Blue Devils will face No. 14 Clemson Thursday at 7 p.m. at

the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga., in the NCAA Team Cham-pionship round of 16. It will mark the third matchup be-tween the two this season, with the

teams splitting the first two meetings.The first match resulted in a 4-3

win by the Tigers on their home court,

Blue Devils look to tame Tigers in Round of 16

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breaking the Blue Devils’ 13-match win streak and sending them into a short-lived losing streak. But Duke had its re-venge in the ACC tournament, routing Clemson 4-0 in the quarterfinals.

“[The two other Clemson matches] were definitely different,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “Clemson is a very tough place to play for anybody, and I think that we competed really well, and they just got the better of us there, hon-estly. We had some opportunities to win the match; we had some team match points. When we played them at the ACC tournament I thought the intensity we played our doubles with was really good and that kind of carried us all the way through to singles.”

With the vast difference in outcomes and atmospheres, Thursday’s match will be a departure from the previous con-tests. Neither team will have any sort of homecourt advantage—the ACC tour-nament was played in Cary, N.C., only 19 miles from Duke—as playing on No. 1 seed Georgia’s courts will put both

teams on a level playing field.After spending a week practicing on

campus following exams and then host-ing the opening two rounds of the NCAA Team Championship, getting away from Durham will actually be a positive thing for the Blue Devils (26-4), according to Ashworth.

“It’s good for us to get out and get away from Duke,” Ashworth said. “Duke’s been a great place for us all year—and we went undefeated at home—but there’s only one home team, Georgia’s hosting it, so everyone’s kind of in the same situ-ation. We’ve played well here in the past and had some really good matches here in the past and so the experience and the setting is nothing new to a lot of our players.”

The physical setting will not be the only difference when the two take to the court. Thursday’s contest is slated to start at 7 p.m., the latest start time the Blue Devils have had all year. But

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round of next week’s ACC tournament in Greensboro.

“To a certain extent yes, but I think the most important thing is to get ready for Thursday’s game and live in the mo-ment,” head coach Chris Pollard said when asked if avoiding the play-in game would affect his decision-making this weekend. “Our kids are looking forward to this opportunity, playing one of the best teams in the country and playing at one of the top venues, top environments in the country.”

After being swept by No. 15 Miami at home last weekend, the Blue Devils (31-21, 15-12 in the ACC) face an even stiffer opponent in the Seminoles (39-13, 19-8). Florida State leads the conference in team batting average, slugging percent-age, on-base percentage, runs scored and doubles.

“We’ve got to get ahead 0-1. They take a lot of pitches,” Pollard said. “If you fall behind they can really grind out at-bats and run up pitch counts. They take their walks, hit by pitches, any way they can they get on base and generate offense.”

Pollard will juggle the Blue Devil starting rotation this weekend to put his team on an optimal for next week-end’s ACC tournament. Junior Andrew Istler will take the ball in Thursday’s se-ries opener, and Drew Van Orden—the usual series-opener starter—will toe the rubber in Friday’s 6 p.m. contest. Istler will be opposed by Florida State’s Luke Weaver—a power arm and likely first-round draft pick this summer—and Van Orden will match up against sinkerball pitcher Mike Compton.

On the mound, the Seminoles boast a collective 3.01 ERA, tied with Duke for fourth in the ACC. Leading the way is closer Jameis Winston, whose 1.33 ERA is best on the team among pitchers with more than 15 innings of work. Winston, who earlier this year quarterbacked the Florida State football team to the nation-al championship and won the Heisman Trophy, has had off-the-field issues in re-cent weeks and served a three-game sus-pension from the baseball team, but has been reinstated and is eligible to pitch against Duke this weekend.

“He’s got a good arm, 92-93 miles per hour, got a good slider. His numbers are good,” Pollard said. “Obviously [he’s]

BASEBALL from page 7 a tremendous competitor, you can see that in what he accomplished on the football field.”

Starting pitchers for Saturday’s 1 p.m. series finale have not been announced, as both squads will evaluate the first two games of the series—and the other games played across the ACC landscape—be-fore making final decisions for the regu-lar season finale. Pollard said every mem-ber of the Blue Devil pitching staff was available to throw if called upon after the Blue Devils used five pitchers in Wednes-day’s 10-3 win against Richmond. The Seminoles will be jockeying with Virginia and Miami for positioning as the tourna-ment’s top three seeds.

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Duke will look to No. 27 Ester Goldfeld to bolster it in singles and doubles play, as she teams with Alyssa Smith to form the No. 36 pair in the nation.

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Drew Van Orden will take the mound Friday in hopes to continue Duke’s solid work from the mound when it takes on Florida State.

whether the light it plays under is artifi-cial or natural, Duke’s performance will be the only factor that matters Thursday.

“[Playing at night] changes our preparation as far as warming up and practicing and what we do during the day and meals and that kind of stuff, but once we’re on the court, it’s just tennis,” Ashworth said. “It’s going to be a really good match for both teams. We’ve had a good couple days of practice down here in Athens and at Duke in between the regionals and here, so we’re definitely looking forward to playing.”

Since the Blue Devils dropped the doubles point in their first contest against Clemson (22-6), they have put an add-ed emphasis on jumping out to an early lead in doubles play. The No. 5 pair of Be-atrice Capra and Hanna Mar—boasting an 11-match win streak—along with the 36th-ranked duo of Ester Goldfeld and Alyssa Smith will bolster the Duke lineup in its attempt to grab the opening point.

“The first time we played them we actu-ally lost the doubles point,” Ashworth said. “That kind of set the tone, and the doubles point is something that we’re definitely looking to win again on Thursday.”

The Tigers’ doubles play is led by the

17th-ranked duo of Beatrice Gumulya and Yana Korole. The two have put together an impressive 12-4 record this season, includ-ing a 5-2 mark against ranked opponents.

In singles play, the Blue Devils are led by No. 7 Capra, No. 27 Goldfeld and No. 36 Mar, who have dominated in the first two rounds of the tournament. None of the three has dropped a set yet and will look to keep the streak going against a Clemson team that boasts No. 33 Romy Köelzer and No. 34 Koroleva in singles play.

The Tigers faced UNC-Wilmington in their opening round matchup and swept the Seahawks 4-0. Clemson did the same to No. 29 Auburn in the second round, beating the Tigers 5-0 and regaining the momentum it lost after being disman-tled by Duke in the ACC tournament.

Likewise, the Blue Devils have been on a roll thus far in the NCAA tourna-ment, beating East Tennessee State 4-0 in the first round and following the per-formance with a rout of No. 30 South Carolina in the second round.

Duke and Clemson are two of six sur-viving ACC teams in the tournament, an impressive feat considering only 16 teams remain.

The winner of Thursday’s contest will face either fifth-seeded UCLA or 12th-seeded Miami Saturday at 4 p.m.

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4 Hardly 100%

7 Where Whole Foods is headquartered

13 *Kind of affair

15 Fast-food chain founded by Italian immigrants

16 Distress

17 Alma mater for Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston

18 Swamp

19 *1971 song with the lyric “Helter skelter in a summer swelter”

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23 One way to stand

24 ___ meeting

25 *Creator of Sheriff Deadeye and Cauliflower McPugg

30 Bench warmer?

31 Sabin’s study

32 Not the most sophisticated humor

33 *Sketchy history

37 No-luck connector

38 Cosmetic problem

39 It might come with a bill

40 *January events

45 Exclamation often followed by multiple exclamation points

46 First song on “More of the Monkees”

47 Table poker?

48 *Some illegal transmissions

54 Training ___

55 Buddy

56 Feature of some stationery

58 Emergency room agent

59 Popular day trip destination … or a hint to the starts of the answers to the starred clues

60 Vehement venting

61 Switch halves62 Sweet ending?

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shoe, e.g.12 Honey-do list

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éléphant”14 Rio maker20 2004 Google

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(oil giant)27 Alberta’s ___

Island National Park

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subjects30 Find hilarious32 They face

liabilities in their work, in brief

33 CBS spinoff that was filmed mostly in California

34 More ambitious

35 Defib administrator

36 Mark in the 60s

39 Tot, affectionately

40 Word often redundantly preceded by “from”

41 2013 Best Picture nominee

42 Some September babies

43 Cause to boil

44 Fashion lines?

46 Restrained

49 Film dog

50 Playground rejoinder

51 Whack

52 “Suicide Blonde” band

53 Cartoon sound effect

57 Day-___

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As part of the $2.2 billion operating budget for 2014-15 approved Saturday, the Duke Board of Trustees signed off on massive renovations to Wallace Wade Sta-dium.

The track surrounding the field will be removed and the playing surface will be lowered as part of the renovations sched-uled to begin after the 2014 season.

The most notable aspect of the proj-ect—which will commence after the up-coming football season—is the removal of the track that currently surrounds the field. The makeover is one of the high-lights of the annual budget and will fol-low the construction of practice fields and renovations to Koskinen Stadium that oc-curred during the 2013-14 school year.

“We are excited to see this starting to come to fruition,” Deputy Director of Athletics Mike Cragg wrote in an email Monday. “The three fields built earlier this academic year have been a great addition to the intercollege sports and recreation, club sports and intramu-ral world. It is now time to transform Wallace Wade Stadium into a more fan-friendly and game-exciting facility for our football program and our fans.”

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plete transformation of the facility by removing the track, lowering the field, installing the lower level bleachers clos-est to the new natural grass field, new video scoreboard, and the new ADA-re-quired field access elevator – all ready for the 2015 season,” Cragg wrote. “In addition, [in] the offseason [after the 2014 season we] will begin the removal

of the Finch-Yeager Building and begin construction of the new suites, club lev-el and pressbox. That is scheduled to be ready in 2016—pending future Board approvals.”

The Blue Devils are slated to wel-come Northwestern, N.C. Central, Bos-ton College, Georgia Tech, Miami and Pittsburgh to Wallace Wade Stadium in 2015 after the first set of updates are completed.


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As Marion Broome prepares to assume the role of dean at the School of Nursing, it is appropriate to examine the legacy of her predecessor—Catherine Gilliss, who has spent 10 years in the position and taken the school to new heights.

Gilliss’ time as dean saw the creation of a nursing Ph.D, the doubling of the school’s enrollment and the construction of a new building, with the school’s national ranking rising all the while. Broome appears an admirable successor, but Gilliss is certainly a tough act to follow.

Gilliss arrived on campus in 2004, making the move from Yale University to Duke at the same time as President Richard Brodhead. At the time, the School of Nursing had 33 full-time faculty members and 440 students. Ten years, one new degree program and millions of dollars in grants later, these numbers have increased to 80 and 800, respectively. Enrollment has grown across each of the school’s seven degree and certificate programs, perhaps a sign that the school’s success has left no one behind.

The school has experienced growth in terms of not just manpower, but location. When Gilliss took the role of dean, the School of Nursing was spread through facilities across campus—ranging from Ninth Street to the basement of the Baker House in Duke South Campus. Gilliss oversaw the opening of the Christine Siegler Pearson Building in 2006, uniting the school under one roof and allowing members of the nursing community to collaborate in a way they had never done before. In the words of Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, it marked a “renaissance” for Duke Nursing. A recent addition to the building has pushed this spirit of collaboration and innovation even further.

Under Gilliss, the school also saw an increase in funding from the National Institute of Health, moving from 30th among the nation’s nursing schools in 2007 to 10th at present. The school’s overall rankings have skyrocketed as

well—going from 29th in the U.S. News and World Report’s nursing school rankings in 2004 to 7th currently. Although these rankings are not perfect, they certainly provide insight into the type of advancement that the school has achieved during Gilliss’ tenure.

When Broome assumes the role of dean this summer, she will also become the first

associate vice president of academic affairs for nursing at Duke University Health System—a new position created to strengthen the relationship between the School of Nursing

and DUHS. Hopefully this will allow Broome to build on Gilliss’ formidable success and take the school

In the words of Dr. James Tulskey, chair of the search committee for the dean position, “[Gilliss] leaves big shoes to fill.” We agree.

Editor’s Note: This editorial was written by members of staff rather than The Chronicle’s independent editorial board.

A lasting legacy in the Nursing schoolEditorial

Welcome to the Opinion section. If you’re anything like me, regardless of how long it may take you, you’ll find your way here.

My trajectory to the editorial pages has certainly not been direct. When I first opened The Chronicle, it was the opinion pages that attracted me most. I remember reading Linda Oliver Grape’s heartbreaking column about her

son, a former senior who had died as result of a drunk driving accident. The piece still makes me cry today. But in that same paper was Lillie Reed’s scathing, hilarious take on the flaws of the First-Year Advisory Counselor system. Both were important parts of Duke culture in very different ways, and both opened me up to the possibilities implicit in simply writing down one’s opinion.

Still, contrary to my own belief, I did not run off and become the most opinionated columnist ever to walk through the Gothic Wonderland. I approached that year’s Editorial Pages Editor, begging her to let me be a columnist, only to hear that I would have to wait until second semester. Wait, I could not do. So I became a news writer and I loved it. I talked to famous professors, hardworking students and local leaders. I traveled to Raleigh for a fast food worker’s protest, explored downtown Durham for a protest against U.S. involvement in Syria and became the “campus crime” girl, always on hand to deal with the latest crazy Duke Alert.

But now, as a rising junior, coming back to Opinion feels like coming home. We are the heart and soul of The Chronicle. We are a place for the Duke community to vocalize their roles as activists, as professionals, as philosophers

and, most of all, as humans. At a large research University, it is easy to see the honors and lose sight of the people behind them.

That amazing girl in your Organic Chemistry class who aces every test? She spends her days thinking about the human condition. That brilliant professor who seems to have all the right ideas? He is secretly a devout Law and Order fan. That

football player sweating away in Wallace Wade? He reads Jane Austen before he goes to bed.

One of the greatest things about a school like Duke is its ability to introduce you to shockingly intelligent people who are more than meets the eye. We do not all fit into the tight stereotypes and labels we choose to give ourselves. So it is truly thrilling when we can look past those to see someone’s true self.

If the Opinion section has an official purpose, it is to spark campus dialogue. But, in my mind and in my hands, I hope it also serves to elucidate your own thoughts. By exposing our deepest beliefs, I hope we bring you closer to discovering who you are. Ultimately, that is what college—and Opinion—is about.

Unfortunately, I cannot practice what I preach. It probably comes as no surprise that I, myself, am nowhere near close to figuring out who I am. When people ask me what I want to do when I grow up, I spout off lists of careers I might want to pursue—emphasis on the might.

It seems like maybe I should open the paper once in a while and check out the Opinion section. But I sure hope you will, too.

Elizabeth Dijinis is a Trinity junior and the Editorial Pages Managing Editor.

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Elizabeth Djiniseditor’s note

I was an awkward fourteen-year-old.When I was that tender age, I didn’t

quite understand what type of bathing suits flattered a scrawny body, which appeared to be approximately 75 percent leg, and what colors might downplay a skin color that resembled the complexion of Casper the Friendly Ghost. I also didn’t seem to realize that I was not, in fact, Taylor Swift, and therefore could not pull off the sparkly shift dress/cowgirl boots combo.

The horror of these images of my younger self is fresh in my mind nearly four years later. I recoil at the thoughts, images and actions I posted on

Facebook nearly three years ago, all of which are instantly available to me and 700 of my closest friends through a few clicks and scrolls down my timeline on Facebook. Ah yes, shame and self-resentment due to catalogs of images and posts from an embarrassing yesteryear--one of the joys of modern technology.

Social media has tied us inextricably to every thought and action we have ever expressed online--just ask any teacher who has likely warned their students of the potential dangers of social media, of future college recruiters who might find raunchy or otherwise offensive material online and deny them admission to a college because of it.

But I have observed a less serious yet perhaps more embarrassing downside to social media--the image it projects to my peers. Each and every one of my Facebook friends has access to every bad haircut or embarrassingly misquoted Jason Derulo lyric I have ever set as my Facebook status. Worst of all, a heavily edited photo of my friends and me at the Jersey Shore in the summer of my freshman year greets anyone who has happened to find the first photo on my Facebook page--a task, in my opinion, far too easily accomplished with a single click backwards from my most recent photo. I sometimes feel enslaved to the statuses and photos I posted two-plus years ago, not because I fear losing a job or a place in the class of 2018, but because I fear what message about myself I send to my new classmates through my Facebook page. Am I overestimating how critical my classmates will be? Probably. But that does not stop me from agonizing over what classmates might think of photos of a younger one--after all, these are the people with whom I will spend what I’m told are the most important four years of my life, the people who might, in the future, help me

land a job or an internship (read: an invitation to a fraternity party).

The permanence of social media has made it harder to partake in that classic post-high school phenomenon--”reinventing oneself” before going off to college. With the addition of Twitter and Instagram to the set of almost-necessary social media sites, a group that once just included Facebook, our online profiles are becoming more and more detailed and harder to manage. Sure, hiding one’s past on may be as easy as deleting any unsightly photos or humiliating statuses, but that can be excruciatingly time-consuming. Even more

significantly, it seems that we paradoxically want those old photos and posts, letting nostalgia take over when scrolling through pictures of an eighth-grade formal or a family vacation during freshman year. Whatever the reason, be it nostalgia or the fear that we will one day need those photos for a high school reunion or wedding gift, it’s the same reason I don’t delete Timehop, an app that serves as a social media time capsule, and why I can’t bring myself to delete the embarrassing posts I made three years ago, however much I physically cringe every time I see them. It appears that doing a social-media 180 before going off to college is nearly impossible for anyone with a Facebook--pictures and statuses by one’s past self essentially make one’s present self. In short, your past isn’t your past anymore.

I openly acknowledge that this predicament might be the epitome of a “first-world problem,” but it is one that I have nonetheless experienced. And perhaps my confession to readers that I once informed all of my Facebook friends I cried during Taylor Swift’s episode of 60 Minutes is not the best idea if I want my online presence to emulate “graceful” and “cool”--or even “emotionally stable.” But nostalgia and the hope that I will one day become comfortable with my embarrassing fourteen-year-old self keep me from hitting that status’ Delete button. And when I step onto campus as a student for the first time this fall, my classmates will have to judge me based on me--and a record of all my social events from the past four years. The permanence of social media is affecting how we form opinions of each other. Our lives are now an open book, and anyone you meet from now on has a free copy of it.

Mary Ziemba is a Trinity freshman. Her biweekly column will resume in the Fall.

your past isn’t your past anymore

This past New Year’s Eve, while my family was celebrating the holiday, the conversation turned to politics. My uncle Alex explained to us his most deeply held conviction

about the way the state should work. According to him, every person who works an honest job deserves to have the means to sustain themselves. His use of the word “deserve” tapped into a conversation that I’d been having with myself for a while about the concept of moral “desert,” a term commonly used in political philosophy to mean something that is deserved. One

of the main conclusions I had come to on that subject was the following nugget of wisdom:

The universe doesn’t owe you jack s**t.Central to the concept of “desert” is the notion that if there

is any justice in the world, good people get good things and bad people don’t. So Alex’s conviction was essentially that the government exists to right cosmic injustices. But to nail down what exactly that means is difficult. The more I tried to, the more I realized that the concept was a deeply-held intuition with plenty of heuristic and instrumental value, but no intrinsic value. It seemed unquestionably appropriate—a moral obligation even—for good people to get good things by virtue solely of the fact of their goodness, but when I asked myself why that was the case, I couldn’t produce a deep answer. You can argue that good people deserve good things as an incentive for other people to do good, but this line of argument implies that distributing just desserts is necessary only insofar as it promotes the right behaviors, and not that it’s valuable in and of itself. What really matters is that there exist good people and that they do good things. In other words, we’ve had to look deeper than desert to get at what we really value.

Another way to think about this nugget of wisdom is the following. This doesn’t come out in the conversation we had with Alex, but a large fraction of the rhetoric about dessert—and this is true also for the rhetoric about rights—is from the standpoint of those who think they are deserving. While in many cases, those who claim to deserve something might actually deserve it (if we accept that desert is actually a meaningful concept), the way we talk about desert obscures its reciprocal nature. For if I claim to deserve something, it means I believe that someone else has the moral obligation (or at least there is a moral incentive) to give me whatever it is that I think I deserve. But there is a symmetry to all this—if someone else is deserving, then I have the same responsibility to give that person what they deserve, provided of course that I can. In claiming our own entitlements, we often forget that we are also the executors of each other’s rights and the distributors of each other’s just desserts. Desert is therefore much more about a collective responsibility than it often appears to be.

There are a number of other reasons why the concept of desert is poorly fleshed-out. What if it’s not actually possible to give everybody what they deserve? Even if we only accept Alex’s statement about desert as the one that carries moral weight, it’s very possible that we just don’t have what it takes to unload this moral weight. In that case, how do we choose to whom to give their desserts? Presumably, we would want to give it to as many people as possible, but beyond that, we would need some way of choosing between situations in which the same number of people gets their desserts. Alternatively, what happens if distributing just desserts places an enormous burden on the populace to the point where a very large fraction of society is reduced to poverty for the sake of a marginal benefit for others? Here we have to think about whether or not there is some superseding value that can tell us that such a situation is undesirable.

So if dessert doesn’t quite capture what we are getting at, how should we look at things? Here’s my view—everybody’s happiness is important. Whether or not we have moral obligations to each other, each one of us can play important roles in the happiness of others, and a world in which we do is better than one in which we don’t. This system gets at a more fundamental value than desert does, namely that of happiness. And my view also better captures the reciprocity of desert. The crucial takeaway here is that, whether or not I have convinced you on the subject of moral desert, the next guy’s interests matter in the same way that yours do. So, the next time you ask something of the world, don’t forget that the world asks something of you.

Eugene Rabinovich is a Trinity senior. His biweekly column will

Discussing politics over ‘desert’

Eugene Rabinovichare we there yet?

Mary Ziembaeastern exposure

“[Dean Catherine Gilliss] leaves big shoes to fill.”

— Dr. James Tulskey

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Alan Townsend has been named dean of the Nicholas School.

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Catherine Gilliss announced her intent to step down as dean of the School of Nursing last September.

too junior,” Urban said. “Since that time, he has been deliberately getting the experience he needed to be our dean.”

Townsend, now 48, has engaged in a number of ventures in the time since he was last considered for the role. At the University of Colorado he launched an interdisciplinary pro-gram and secured several notable grants for doc-toral research, and he proved his capability with working in science ad-ministration as director of the Division of envi-ronmental Biology at the national Science Founda-tion, Urban noted.

The combination of academic credentials and ad-ministrative leadership was appealing to the search committee, Urban added.

“We wanted somebody who would be a leader that people would look up to,” Urban said.

Townsend has also been named a Google Science Communication Fellow and been an author on more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. his research fo-cuses on the ways in which ecosystems interact with the changing global environment.

Townsend will be the fourth person to serve as dean since the nicholas School was established in 1995. in April, the school debuted its new home—the 70,000 square foot environment hall, completed after two years of construction that totaled $40 million.

“Alan Townsend is a distinguished scholar who has the proven ability to get large, diverse groups to work together in the environmental field,” President richard Brodhead said in a Duke news release. “Under his leadership, the nicholas School will play an ever greater role in research and teaching on campus as well as in the national and in-ternational conversations on the care of the natural world.”

research focuses on pain interventions for children.The search committee for the new dean received

nominations from across the country, said Dr. James Tul-sky, professor of medicine and nursing and chair of the committee. Broome was one of four finalists brought to campus for in-terviews.

The new role of associ-ate vice president of aca-demic affairs is a particu-larly exciting opportunity, Tulsky said.

“one of the things we’re looking for is a close partnership with the health system,” Tulsky said, noting that such a partnership could differ-entiate Broome’s time as dean.

Broome will assume her positions Aug. 1. As Gilliss prepares to step down, she leaves a legacy of distinct growth—a decade in which the school doubled its en-rollment and constructed a new building.

“Dean Gilliss has been an outstanding dean and has done an excellent job of taking the nursing School from a place where it was growing and... bringing it up to a very high profile and making it a top 10 nursing school,” Tulsky said. “She leaves big shoes to fill.”


Visitors to the Duke Lemur Center will be able to see newborn lemurs, such as Gertrude pictured here, this summer.

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An infected willow oak tree near the Social Psychology building is being “treecycled” into various materials.

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