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Weed, alcohol mix hurts learningNew Chapel dean takes the pulpit

by Elizabeth Djinis THE CHRONICLE

For a reverend who seems at his hap-piest preaching sermons to the congre-gation, Luke Powery, the new dean of Duke Chapel, still gets the jitters each time he takes the podium.

“You’re always going to have butter-flies, but the key is to have the butter-flies fly in formation,” Powery said. “The butterflies are there for you to control. When you are in the moment, you’re focusing on what you’re saying and how you’re saying it.”

Powery’s nerves are understandable given the quick transition he made this Fall. Powery became the first black dean of the Chapel in July following an inter-national search for someone to fill the role. His predecessor, Sam Wells, served as dean of the Chapel for seven years be-fore moving to St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London this summer.

Powery was nominated anonymously —to this day, he does not know who it was that nominated him. In June, he was brought down to preach at the Chapel and to tour the University. As Powery de-scribes his selection process, the transi-tion was nearly instantaneous.

by Danielle MuoioTHE CHRONICLE

Senior Nick Swartzwelder decided to study the effects of drugs and alcohol when he was sitting in the passenger seat of his father’s car.

It began with a discussion about “crossfading”—using marijuana and alco-hol at the same time—and its regularity on Duke’s campus. This was an unfamil-iar term to his father, but Nick told him that knowing people who have cross-fad-ed led him to question its effects on the adolescent mind.

This conversation led to a study on rats, published in Neuroscience Letters Aug. 29, that found that combining al-cohol and THC—the chemical active in marijuana—affects adults and adolescents differently. It caused adults to have prob-lems learning and remembering new ob-jects, whereas it made adolescents more disposed toward familiar objects.

At the time, both Nick and his father—Scott Swartzwelder, professor of psychol-ogy and neuroscience—knew of studies that looked at each drug’s effects on the minds of adolescents and adults, which typically showed some form of memory loss and learning impairment in ado-lescents more than adults. Few studies, however, actually looked at the combined drugs’ effects on the mind, and the few that did contained errors.

“Nick said, ‘Here’s a drug combina-tion that is used frequently during ado-lescence, and we know each drug affects learning more in adolescents than in adults, but is there a different effect in

adolescents than adults when you put them together?’” Scott said. “My reaction to that was, ‘Well, why don’t you do it?’”

Nick took his father’s advice and transformed his question into an under-graduate research project. In 2010, he began conducting a study that looked at

the effects of marijuana and alcohol com-bined on rats, which were chosen because of their natural tendency to interact with unfamiliar stimuli. Because of lab rats’ nearly unwavering inclination to explore

UNC Chancellor Thorp to step down in June

from Staff ReportsTHE CHRONICLE

The University of North Carolina at Cha-pel Hill will be under new leadership in the next academic year.

UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp will step down, effective June 30, 2013, according to a Monday press release from the

university. He said he is vacating the posi-tion because it is best for the future of the university.

Since Thorp took the chancellor posi-tion in 2008, the university has faced sev-eral high-profile athletic scandals related to the football program and cheating in-

volving student athletes. Thorp has decid-ed to return to the chemistry department where he became a professor in 1993 and the department chair in 2005.

“I will always do what is best for this Uni-versity,” Thorp said in the relsease. “This wasn’t an easy decision personally. But when I thought about the University and how important it’s been to me, to North Carolinians and to hundreds of thousands of alumni, my answer became clear.”

Thorp informed Tom Ross, president of the UNC system, of his decision Sunday and said he would be willing to work be-yond June 30 in order to make the change in leadership seamless.

“Chancellor Thorp’s love of and de-votion to UNC-Chapel Hill are beyond

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Researchers at Duke recently studied “crossfading”—using marijuana and alcohol at the same time—and found that the practice did not reduce memory in adolescents, contrary to the researchers’ expectations.

Uni. approves Nowicki for second five-year term

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Stephen Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate educa-tion, has been appointed to a second five-year term, the University announced Thursday.

Nowicki was reviewed by a faculty committee as part of the standard procedure of reviewing deans and senior admin-istrators every five years.

“Steve is the first dean in this new posi-tion and has done an excellent job of fulfill-ing our desire to have someone responsible for leading and coordinating all facets of undergraduate academic and student life,” Lange said in a press release. “He has made

headway in creating greater synergy among the many curricular, co-curricular and social components of our undergraduate experi-ence.”

His position was created in 2007 in the hopes of more effectively integrating aca-demic and student life aspects of the under-graduate experience.

Nowicki is also professor of biology, psy-chology and neuroscience in the Trinity Col-lege of Arts and Sciences and a professor of neurobiology in the medical school.

Nowicki has worked with Vice Presi-dent for Student Affairs Larry Moneta to develop the new house model. He has also been a key innovator of new forms of teach-ing, such as DukeImmerse, a semester-long program that combines classroom learning

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Ikal Angelei won the Goldman Environ-mental Prize—the largest award for grassroots environmentalism—this year for her efforts to fight for the tribes in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya against the construction of the Gibe III Dam in Ethiopia. The dam, if completed, would deplete water flow into the already wa-ter-scarce Lake Turkana region, exacerbating existing issues of poverty and resource conflict facing the indigenous people there. Angelei sat down with The Chronicle’s Kelly Carroll for a one-on-one interview after speaking about her work at Duke Friday.

The Chronicle: What is or was your motivation for starting this project and continuing it now?

Ikal Angelei: My motivation for start-ing it was because my father, my big-gest inspiration, he always believed that when there was something to be done, you then had to find a way to do it or get someone to do it. My inspiration to go on is really the people who I have been representing—the spot they’ve given me, and the belief and more and more understanding of their need for this re-source.

TC: Did you ever foresee yourself do-ing something like this?

IA: No, I never did. It was instinc-tual—a situation had cropped up and somebody had to do it. It was not one of those things where people say, ‘I grew up knowing that I was going to be an activist.’ I just grew up not even know-ing that I would make a difference. I just was always questioning the state of [things].

TC: How do you think winning the Goldman Environmental Prize will con-tribute to your project?

IA: It has created a lot of awareness around the issues. So more people who didn’t even know about it are now start-

ing to want to know about it. It has also helped us in increasing our belief, just our hope for the struggle and possible support from interested donors to look at this as an area of interest in terms of resource rights.

TC: How does the need for electric-ity compare to the need for water in the area, especially at a time of drought?

IA: It’s highly improbable that we will fight for electricity. It’s evident that

people have been fighting for water. So I think just by looking at that, human needs for water supersede human needs for electricity.

TC: Can a country like Kenya, which needs energy, ethically displace a few people to bring power to many?

IA: There is a possibility to get energy in any country. So at what expense do we want to develop this energy? I think it’s not right to displace or destroy people’s environments.

TC: Do you find there is a large dis-connect between those benefitting from the dam and those being harmed by it? If so, has this been a major struggle in opposing it or finding support?

IA: It’s not extremely a disconnect. It’s just a sense of ignorance, because while all human beings need water or can appreciate the environment, it’s just a lack of understanding on the issues. And that’s what creates the disconnect, the lack of understanding or the lack of information.

TC: What is the role of foreign in-

vestment in the Lake Turkana region? How have you managed to reach these investors and demonstrate to them the negative consequences of constructing the dam?

IA: There is an increased role in vari-ous interests from foreign investment. It has not been easy, but mainly trying to reflect to them the impact of their work on the regions and on their businesses. So sometimes you have to highlight the business risks.

TC: Why is China so invested in the project?

IA: We don’t know, really. China’s interest in Africa is through setting up infrastructure. So we don’t know if this is one of the ways of doing it, through setting up infrastructure to then get

ground within the continent.

TC: Do you think that the environ-mental and social impact assessment was sufficient before the project began?

IA: It was nonexistent in the first place. Now the need is to actually do a comprehensive independent one.

TC: If you can’t stop the construc-tion, what would be the next possible scenario?

IA: I think it’s to really look at how best the communities can cope with the different changes, trying to understand how best to protect the communities at the best level we can.

TC: What will happen to the 40 per-cent of the dam that has already been built if the investors pull out?

IA: It’s infrastructure, so you can use it as it is. So if it’s roads it’s going to be a better road network than in the region. If the dam has actually been put up they can just use it to make a small dam.

TC: How long do you think it will take for the issue to fall either in favor of building the dam or of pulling out?

IA: That’s something we can’t really predict. As I said, I started [grassroots organizing against it] six months in and now it’s four years old. I think for me, I am willing to go on for as long as my bones will allow me to go.

TC: If you could give one reason to convince the world and especially the investors to stop the construction of the dam what would it be?

IA: We’ve seen conflicts around the world based on natural resources. That is just the beginning. With an increase in population, we are changing envi-ronments. We are part of the problem. And we are part of this problem by in-creasing the conflicts in the name of development.

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Nicholas School launches entrepreneurship program

by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE

A new certificate program wants to develop students’ experience at the intersection of entrepreneurship and environmental issues.

The Nicholas School of the Envi-ronment has created a new certificate program for graduate students that is scheduled to launch in the second half of Fall 2012. The Environmental Inno-vation and Entrepreneurship Certifi-cate will offer students a new program to explore the practical applications of environmental entrepreneurial en-deavors, said Jesko von Windheim, pro-fessor of the practice of environmental entrepreneurship. Students will follow a 12-credit environmental entrepre-neurship program in order to receive the new certificate.

“The environmental entrepreneur-ship program was initiated to create an effective and practical framework to help aspiring environmental entrepre-neurs change the world using sustain-able practices,” said von Windheim, who is in charge of overseeing the im-plementation of the certificate.

A combination of classroom learn-ing and out of classroom experiences aim to transition students directly into environmental entrepreneurial work.

The program is designed to give practical insight into every step in the process of translating environment en-trepreneurial ideas into real-life prac-tice, Nicholas School Dean Bill Cha-

meides said.“As environmental impacts have

been found to increasingly influence the bottom line in the corporate sec-tor, our understanding of environ-mental stewardship has moved steadily from concerns that revolved primarily around management and conservation of scarce resources into a realm that includes economics and business,” said von Windheim.

According to a brochure describing the new certificate, an ongoing incu-bator fund will be created to finance promising startup ideas. In addition, students will be provided one-on-one mentorships with established entrepre-neurs in order to instill realistic busi-ness and leadership skills.

“The program seeks to teach stu-dents to develop, evaluate, refine and possibly launch a new sustainable prod-uct or service—using both experiential and traditional teaching approaches,” said von Windheim.

Von Windheim has experience with startups, teaching and research pertain-ing to technology-based environmental entreprenuership, which could help provide real life insight to students as they prepare for business endeavors. He was the co-founder of Cronos In-tegrated Microsystems and the CEO of Nextreme Thermal Solutions—two firms that work to engineer microtech-nologies. He is currently engaged in a

Collection preserves Franklin’s Duke legacy

by Elizabeth Djinis THE CHRONICLE

The legacy of civil rights activist John Hope Franklin will live on in the form of his manuscripts, lists, diaries and other documents that the University has re-cently acquired.

In 1983, Franklin became the James B. Duke professor of history. He was well-re-garded for his work with racial relations and, in 1995, was awarded the Presiden-tial Medal of Freedom for his civil rights efforts.

The recent acquisition of more than 300 boxes of Franklin’s papers will broad-en the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s collection. The documents have brought both students and faculty from outside universities to Duke’s campus, said William Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin professor of history.

“These papers are a gold mine,” Chafe said. “Not only are they luminous and covering an extraordinary number of ar-eas, but they also are a magnet because they already have attracted a large num-ber of other collections from historians around the country who are not part of Duke’s community but people who want to be associated with John Hope Franklin and his library collection.”

Franklin’s papers run the gamut from his daily journal to conversations record-ed with John F. Kennedy, Thurgood Mar-shall, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other famous political and activist figures. The acquisition provides opportunities for

undergraduate research, said Naomi Nel-son, director of the Rubenstein Library.

Nelson said she was most excited about the idea of student involvement with the collection. If faculty and staff succeed in communicating to students the importance and scope of Franklin’s papers, students will appreciate him and access his work.

“[The papers] are wide open to stu-dents,” she added. “[The Rubenstein Library] is among the leaders in seeking

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Occupy anniversary draws more arrests, fewer protests

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NEW YORK — New York City police on Monday arrested 124 Occupy Wall Street protest-ers celebrating the movement’s first birthday as events drew fewer participants than similar demonstrations in May.

Hundreds of marchers took to the streets just after dawn from Lower Manhattan’s Zuc-cotti Park, the physical birth-place and symbolic heart of the

global movement. Police on foot, motorcycle and horseback trailed them at every turn.

The protests failed to keep the markets from opening as scheduled, though some com-muters in the largest U.S. city were inconvenienced as police blocked off parts of the Finan-cial District near the New York Stock Exchange and asked tran-sit officials to close the Broad Street subway station. Richard Swensson, a 24-year-old college graduate, said he missed a job interview.

“I couldn’t even get near the building and had to call to say I wouldn’t make it,” Swensson said in Battery Park. He said he understood the frustrations of the protesters but wished they would “think a little bit more instead of just getting all ral-lied up.”

Monday’s numbers contrast with Occupy Wall Street’s last major public event May 1, which drew tens of thousands of dem-onstrators across the United

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A New York police officer stands while Occupy Wall Street protesters march during a demonstration in New York Monday on the movement’s one-year anniversary.

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Dominique Bagnato, born in France, is greeted by his family, following a naturalization ceremony Sept. 17, the 225th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution.

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On the 225th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, 215 people became U.S. citizens in a naturalization ceremony held in the National Archives Building in D.C.

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IPhone 5 pre-sales top $2M, double prior recordby Ryan Faughnder and Adam Satariano

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NEW YORK — Apple said Monday that advance sales of its iPhone 5 topped 2 million units in one day, more than double the record set by the previous model of the device.

Because demand for the iPhone 5 exceeds the initial supply, some of the smartphones will be shipped to custom-ers in October, Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple said in a statement. Most orders will be delivered on Sept. 21, the same day the handset arrives in U.S. retail out-lets, Apple said.

“Clearly it’s a blowout,” said Brian White, an analyst at Topeka Capital Mar-kets in New York, in an interview. He had anticipated sales of 1.3 million to 1.5 million units in the first 24 hours and up to 12 million by the end of the month. “These estimates look conservative.”

The iPhone is Apple’s best-selling product, making up about two-thirds of its profit. The company’s entry into the smartphone market in 2007 resulted in sales of 244 million iPhone units as of June and helped Apple become the world’s most valuable company. The new model, unveiled last week in San Fran-cisco, has a bigger screen, lightweight body design, faster chip and new soft-ware features.

“IPhone 5 pre-orders have shattered the previous record held by the iPhone 4S and the customer response to the iP-hone 5 has been phenomenal,” said Phil-ip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of global marketing, in the statement.

Apple is vying with Samsung Electron-ics Co. and other smartphone manufac-turers for customers in a global market that grew 79 percent to $219.1 billion last year. Samsung, which releases several handsets a year using Google Inc.’s An-droid operating system, was the world’s biggest seller of smartphones in 2011. By contrast, Apple releases only one iPhone a year, resulting in pent-up demand.

AT&T, the largest U.S. phone compa-ny, said its customers ordered a record number of the iPhone 5. Subscribers or-dered more of the new model than any previous iPhone both on its first day of advance sales and during the weekend, AT&T said in a statement today, without providing details.

With so much demand, production bottlenecks may curb how many iPhones Apple can sell, said Ben Reitzes, an ana-lyst at Barclays Capital Inc. The new touch-screen glass technology for the iPhone 5 is one of the biggest potential sources of supply constraints, he said.

“We still believe Apple is facing sig-nificant production constraints,” Reitzes said in a note to clients today. Manufac-turing delays could postpone some pur-chases until later this year or early 2013, he said.

From October to December, Apple may sell 50 million iPhones, said Mike Walkley, an analyst at Canaccord Genu-ity Inc. The new iPhone hits stores this week in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the U.K. It goes on sale in 22 more countries on Sept. 28.

“It’s pretty clear there was a lot of pent-up demand for the new phone,” Walkley said in an interview.

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People line up in front of the Apple store on Fifth Avenue in advance of the sale of the iPhone 5 in New York. Apple says advance sales of its iPhone 5 topped 2 million units in one day.

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Rev. Luke Powery is the first black dean of the Duke Chapel. Coming from Princeton University, he as-sumed the role last week.

question,” Ross said in a release. “I have accepted his announcement with consid-erable sadness, but fully understand he is acting in what he believes to be the best interests of UNC-Chapel Hill and the en-tire university.”

Despite Thorp’s intention to resign, the university’s Board of Trustees has put their full support behind him—they even tried to talk him out of resignation, said Chair Wade Hargrove.

“I respect his unwavering commitment to always do what he thinks best serves the university,” Hargrove noted. “Thorp has done an exemplary job as chancellor, es-pecially in improving a wide range of pro-

cesses and academic and fiscal manage-ment procedures.”

In recent months, Thorp has guided UNC through both a series of student-athlete cheating scandals and a review of the department of African and Afro-American studies. Ross added that, by announcing his resignation now, Thorp can focus his next nine months on tying loose ends on university issues and imple-menting policies that will prevent similar issues in the future.

Thorp’s number two, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Bruce Carney, an-nounced in late August that he will also be stepping down June 30, 2013, according to the Daily Tar Heel. The search for Car-ney’s replacement will be put on hiatus until a successor for Thorp is found.

new objects as opposed to familiar ones, the research team decided to test if the combination of the drugs would alter the rats’ natural tendency.

The rats were first isolated and put into chambers where each was given enough time to familiarize themselves with an ob-ject. Afterwards, the rats were given doses of THC and ethanol, went to sleep and were put back in the chamber the next day with the familiar object and an unfa-miliar one.

“What you expect is that if the drug combination wiped out memory, they

would spend equal amounts of time ex-ploring both objects,” said Scott, co-au-thor of the study. “That’s what the adults did.”

The adolescent rats, however, did not show signs of memory loss. Instead, they chose to solely interact with the familiar object because it was preferable to the new one, completely counter to their evo-lutionary tendency to explore.

“It suggests that something about the drug combination overpowered the [ad-olescent] animal’s natural tendency to explore what it doesn’t know and made it more comfortable with what it already knows,” Scott said.

A person is scientifically considered

adolescent until age 25, which is when the brain stops developing. The results of the study indicated that the combination of marijuana and alcohol is more addictive in adolescents than adults, Scott said, add-ing that young people need to be more careful than adults when using THC and ethanol.

The results could also help scientists understand the archetypal stoner, said Shawn Acheson, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-author of the paper.

“The image attached to chronic THC use is the stoner who sits in his mother’s basement, who doesn’t do anything and doesn’t go anywhere,” he said. “Histori-

cally, that behavior was explained by the THC not activating the frontal lobes to initiate action, but the research suggests it might be a preference for environ-ments associated with the drug that cause this.”

Nick, lead-author of the study, said the findings show students that one weekend of using both marijuana and alcohol has long-term ramifications.

“If you decide to drink and smoke throughout an entire weekend, it affects you long beyond just that day,” he said. “A lot of people don’t really understand that it does affect you longer than you think and prevents you from being as effective as a student.”

Powery’s appointment as dean is sym-bolic because the Chapel had, in fact, been segregated until the Civil Rights Movement. Kameron Carter, associate professor of theology and black church studies, said Powery’s role at the Chapel will benefit the Duke community.

“This is a very wise and forward-thinking appointment,” Carter wrote in an email Sunday. “Rev. Dr. Luke Powery is at the vanguard of a new generation of young African-American scholar-preachers .”

Powery’s interest in religion has been present since birth. His father was a minister from the Wesleyan Pentecos-tal tradition, and Powery spent much of his childhood traveling while his fa-ther preached. He attended Stanford University with the intention of work-ing in Silicon Valley but was inspired by his mentor, Rev. Floyd Tompkins, to pursue a career in ministry. After re-ceiving a degree in music at Stanford University, Powery went on to receive a Master’s of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a doctorate of theology from Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto.

“[It was] an ecumenical journey

for me with a cosmopolitan context, crossing borders within the denomina-tions,” Powery said of his education. “[It was] a huge part of my journey, a bridge of faith.”

Powery’s arrival at Duke has been warmly received by locals. He noted that everyone has been kind and wel-coming to his family—his wife Gail, his daughter Moriah and his son Zachary.

“Some people have brought meals for us in the transition,” Powery re-marked.

Sunday marked Powery’s second time preaching in the Chapel as dean. Congregation member Richard Heitzenrater, William Kellon Quick professor emeritus of church history and Wesley studies, complimented Powery on his engaging sermons.

“He used a lot of literary and cul-tural references,” Heitzenrater said. “You can’t go wrong when John and Charles Wesley are mentioned in the same sermon.”

Now Powery is turning his attention to better understanding the Duke com-munity and his role within it.

“Classes in preaching, some classes in worship—I’m looking forward to that when I get there,” he said. “[Right now] I’m in the practice of listening to what has been and where we are now.”

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and global education, Lange said. Nowicki said he has enjoyed the opportu-

nity to develop the position he holds.“One of my favorite aspects of the job is

changing the way we think about teaching and learning, by bringing faculty and students together in ways that transcend the traditional classroom,” he said. “Both groups learn from each other, plus it’s fun.”

Nowicki came to Duke in 1989 and was named dean of natural sciences in 2004.

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Bring blue bloods to CameronLet me preface this column by saying

that Duke plays one of the toughest schedules in all of college basketball year

in and year out. That notion

holds true again this season as one of college basketball’s blue bloods—the programs expected to compete nation-ally every year.

Last week, the Blue Devils’ schedule was released and it features exciting non-con-ference tilts against Kentucky, Minnesota, Temple, Ohio State and potentially Mem-phis and Louisville in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas.

The only problem with Duke’s scheduling over the past several years is that Cameron Indoor Stadium rarely gets the opportunity to play host to these high-profile matchups against out-of-con-ference foes. The only time Duke does is when it gets to host the ACC-Big Ten Challenge every other year.

During my four years at Duke, only two non-conference home games had consid-erable hype—Michigan State in 2010 and Ohio State this November, both of which are ACC-Big Ten Challenge games. Need-less to say, I feel a bit shorted, especially with the ACC being underwhelming as a whole these past few years.

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Cockrell earns ACC honors

by Bobby ColtonTHE CHRONICLE

Redshirt junior Ross Cockrell had a game to remember Saturday against N.C. Central. Monday, the ACC acknowledged his skills by naming him the ACC Defensive Back of the Week.

Cockrell recorded six tackles on the night, broke up two passes and twice inter-cepted Eagles’ quarterback Jordan Reid, the latter of which took 32 yards the other way for a touchdown.

“Both times the quarterback was roll-ing out because you got pressure up the middle and around the edge and…. I was fortunate enough to read his eyes and break on the ball,” Cockrell said follow-ing the game.

Three games into the season, Cockrell is fourth on the team in tackles with 16 and has recorded a team-high six pass break-ups and three interceptions. He’s the only Blue Devil with an interception this season and has more than half of Duke’s total pass breakups.

Cockrell’s progress this season is evident in his statistics. Last season he didn’t record his first interception until the final game of the season, intercepting North Carolina’s Bryn Renner. He only defended nine total passes in 2011 and no Blue Devil intercepted three balls all of last season.

The Waxhaw, N.C. native’s stats also stand out compared to the nation’s top de-fensive backs. Cockrell is tied for first na-tionally in both passes defended and passes broken up, and third in interceptions. Cockrell has also moved into a tie for ninth place on Duke’s all-time pass breakups list, now having recorded 22 in his career.

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Duke appears to have overcome its early-season slump with victories against Georgia State and Clemson last week.

A win against UNC Greensboro Tuesday at Koskinen Stadium would lift the Blue Dev-ils above .500 for the first time this season.

Through two ex-hibition games and its four regular-sea-son matchups, Duke (3-3) managed to string together just three goals. The Blue

Devils worked out their offensive woes last week, however, scoring a combined five goals in their past two games. Duke head coach John Kerr credits the team’s work on specialty plays for their recent success on the offensive end.

Although the Blue Devils dominate the all-time series against UNC Greensboro 13-4, the Spartans (2-3-2) outlasted Duke 3-2 in its 2011 season opener.

“We want to resurrect that result in our fa-vor this year,” Kerr said. “We started our season against them last year and lost at their place so we want to get one back on them for sure.”

To add to their win total, Duke will have to adjust to UNC Greensboro’s aggressive style of play. The Spartans force teams to deal with

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After Duke scored just three goals in its first four games, Sebastien Ibeagha has lifted the offense in the last two.

the long ball by making plays such as knock-ing the ball from their own defense 45 yards down field.

“A lot of things are going to come down to the second ball, meaning once the header goes up, who’s going to go to the second ball,” Kerr said. “Loose balls are going to be crucial to the match, and if we can win more than them in that category, I think

we’ll do alright.”Junior Sebastien Ibeagha, a defender, leads

the Blue Devil attack with seven points on the season. Igbeagha, who has netted three of his seven shots this year, was selected to the All-ACC second team in 2011.

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Last season, when Duke did not get to host the ACC-Big Ten challenge, the Blue Devil’s non-conference-home schedule left a lot to be desired. With a non-conference home slate consisting of Belmont, Presbyterian, Davidson, Colorado State, UNC Greensboro, Western Michigan and Penn before ACC play, it’s no wonder that there were fewer Cameron Crazies and they were a little less crazy.

Give the fans at least one non-conference opponent to get crazy about before conference play. Other Blue Blood programs like Kentucky and North Carolina sure do while football season is still going on.

Kentucky treated Big Blue Nation to non-conference home games against both North Carolina and Louisville in Rupp Arena before SEC play last season. Baylor—last year’s Big 12 tournament champion—will be the feature non-conference home game for the Wildcats this year.

Similarly, the Tar Heel faithful had the luxury of see-ing Wisconsin in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge and Texas in Chapel Hill last season, two NCAA tournament teams. This year, North Carolina plays UNLV—a legitimate top-10 caliber team—at the Dean Dome in December.

The program’s reluctance—whether it begins with other teams or Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyze-wski—to schedule true nonconference, home-and-home series with other perennial top-25 programs largely stems from the fact that NCAA tournament games are played on neutral courts. So why damage Duke’s NCAA tournament resume when you can play those same teams at pro-Duke, yet technincally neutral, settings like Madison Square Gar-den and the Izod Center?

To combat that line of thought, playing true road games in non-conference play helps prepare you for the hostile environments that await in the ACC, which the Blue Devils see in virtually every conference road game. This will become more crucial as the ACC becomes tougher in the future—will Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Notre Dame provide friendly environments for Duke to play in?

Avoiding road games outside the ACC altogether is likely not a wise approach. In 2010-11, the Blue Devils did not play a true non-conference road game against an NCAA tournament team, which one could argue partially led to Duke’s demise in its first ACC road game against Florida State that season.

Furthermore, experiencing the rigors of the road is piv-otal because neutral-site NCAA tournament games can end up being very unfavorable atmospheres. Case and point—the last two seasons. In the 2011 Big Dance, Duke fell to a red-hot Arizona team in Anaheim, Calif.

Last season the Greensboro Coliseum hosted North Carolina and Duke in the opening rounds of the NCAA tournament. The venue instantly became the Dean Dome

Hakan Ilhan, who has registered 11 points this year. Ilhan gar-nered first team All-Southern Conference honors last season after leading his team with 25 points—good for second in the conference.

“Hakan’s a very good forward,” UNC Greensboro head coach Justin Maullin said. “He’s very technical, a good back-to-goal player, and his movement in and around the box is very good.”

Kerr noted that paying close attention to Hakan’s move-ment is the key to neutralizing his attacking prowess.

“Hakan is a very talented player,” Kerr said. “He’s well-versed in the striker position, and he knows how to find the goal so we have to be very wary of him all the time. If you get your eye off him for one minute he’ll score a goal against you.”

Kerr was quick to praise the Spartans’ skill in set pieces, particularly their long throw to the back post and corner kicks. Maullin agrees that set pieces are an area where his team’s talent lies.

“We’re pretty good at set pieces, we’re technical, we’re organized and we’ve figured out how to defend now,” Maullin said.

West, which undoubtedly helped propel Lehigh to an upset win over Duke.

Ensuring that there is one juicy non-conference home game in the first half of every season would also give the Blue Devil coaching staff one more prime-time slot to host the top recruits.

I acknowledge that neutral site games draw more money, better TV deals, increased attendance and boosts the school’s brand in larger media markets. But the prefer-ences of the Cameron Crazies and season ticket holders as well as adequately preparing the team cannot be ignored.

In the future, bringing top-flight programs like Kan-sas, Kentucky, Louisville, UCLA, Arizona, Texas or Baylor to Cameron Indoor Stadium each season that does not feature a home ACC/Big 10 challenge game should be a scheduling staple for Duke.

Virtually every other big-time college basketball pro-gram does it for their fan bases.

It’s not asking too much.

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Duke goalkeeper James Belshaw has recorded two consecutive shut-outs in the team’s games against Georgia State and Clemson.

In case you missed it on our blog at www.sports.chronicleblogs.com>>Making the Grade—After Duke football’s 54-17 win against N.C. Central, we break down and grade every part of the Blue Devils. This week? The passing offense led the team, earning an A, while the rushing game left something to be desired.

>>Around the ACC—Miss any of the ACC football action this weekend? Not a problem, we have you covered. Highlighted by No. 4 Florida State drubbing Wake Forest 52-0 and then-No. 13 Virginia Tech fall-ing to Pittsburgh, there was no shortage of excite-ment in the conference this week.

>>Recruiting roundup—Who are the future Duke men’s basketball players? The coaching staff visited a number of the nation’s top recruits in the last week and have a meeting scheduled with the nation’s top prospect, Jabari Parker. Meanwhile, N.C. State made a big pickup, nabbing point guard Anthony Barber.

>>Soccer scorecard—If you didn’t catch any of the weekend men’s and women’s soccer action, make sure to always visit the blog on Mondays for a recap of all the action. Both the men and women pulled out conference wins this weekend.

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This week our nation mourned the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, killed last Tuesday in an attack

on the American Embassy in Benghazi. During the past summer, I worked in Jor-dan through DukeEngage. While there, I met Libyan refugees who spoke highly of Ambassador Ste-vens. They respected the ambassa-dor because they believed that with his guidance they had a chance to return to a stable, welcoming and democratic home. Those Libyans had the sort of hope that was in-conceivable for Syrians, elusive for Iraqis and jaded for Palestinians.

But the death of Ambassador Stevens has reminded me of the overwhelming fragility of hope in the Middle East. It’s been nearly two months since I left Jordan, but I re-member the people who are still there. Men, women, children—all refugees, searching for a home, for a life, with little hope to guide them. As I remember the refugees I met, worked with and lived with, I particularly recall one man and his daughter.

The memory begins in the offi ce of the refu-gee organization where I work. I’m eating lunch with the supervisor (let’s call him Nadeem), and a man enters the offi ce accompanied by a withdrawn, young girl. Nadeem shows them the couch and they sit down, perched on the cush-ions with tense expressions. Nadeem tells me they’re Iraqi; the girl is his daughter. The man looks like he’s in his early 30s, and he has dark hair and skin and thin, hooded eyes. His whiskers slip into his mouth when he speaks. That mouth moves in close to his daughter’s ears and he inau-dibly whispers something that relaxes her tense posture. Nadeem brings them tea, and they be-gin to converse in Arabic.

It doesn’t take long for the man’s previously reserved demeanor to become desperate when Nadeem gives replies that do not satisfy. The man is yelling, not at anyone in the room, just yelling into the air. His daughter grows sullen and she sinks into the couch and digs her chin into her chest. Nadeem is telling the man to calm down, everything will be okay, but the man is then reach-ing into his black bag. He pulls out a folder, whips it open, removes a letter and pleadingly presents it to Nadeem. There’s acknowledgement from Nadeem and he gives a supportive nod. The man then gets up, holding his daughter’s hand, and they slowly exit the offi ce with Nadeem’s words behind them.

I ask. Nadeem says, “He was denied resettle-

ment in America without ability to appeal. And this man, he worked with American army in Baghdad. He has letter from White House saying he helped Americans. He does not know why he

can’t even appeal and he is mad. He cannot return to Iraq because the militia, they will kill him be-cause he worked with American army. He is also Christian, so little support back home. He has no time for job because he has to take care of his daughter—his wife is dead, the girl, she has no mother. He say, ‘Why they deny me? I have no future, I help American army. I have letter from White House.’”

Iraqis who helped the Ameri-can army usually get preferential treatment in the refugee resettlement process. This man’s ap-plication for resettlement was not only rejected but also denied an opportunity for appeal. I ask Nadeem why he thinks the International Organi-zation for Migration (IOM) made this decision. Nadeem says, “I think maybe he defect from army. The army remembers if people go, but they don’t understand that they must leave to protect their family from militia. I don’t ask this man but I guess. He is too crazy, this affect his psychology. Now American army has left; he has nothing but his daughter.”

Months after my encounter with the collabo-rator, I haven’t forgotten his story. That man kept the hopes for his future, the hopes for his daugh-ter’s future, in a letter from the White House. But he left his hopes in our offi ce, and I wanted to chase after him and give them back. But I didn’t. I couldn’t.

I look at the Middle East now, and my own hopes for peace are elusive. But the death of Ambassador Stevens reminded me why we can’t let go. Our country must continue to work to-ward peace in the Middle East, and the path to that peace starts with the contagious hope of democracy. Libyans won their revolution, in part because they were guided by the leadership of Ambassador Stevens. The ambassador was a dedicated public servant who managed to inspire while also serving his country. Yet, there are still so many individuals without hope, like the Iraqi collaborator. In memory of the ambassador, I hope all of us can continue to work toward peace in the Middle East. For the sake of all who have helped us, we cannot give up.

Patrick Oathout is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Patrick on Twitter @patrickoathout

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Last week, The Chronicle put Duke’s jump from eighth to tenth on the U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings on its front page, accompanied by a graph of Duke’s ranking over time, with a ribbon over the year 1997 when its posi-tion peaked. Chest-thumping Facebook statuses are not the most scientifi c metric, but the continued mania surrounding the U.S. News’ annual release both refl ects and perpetuates an unhealthy obsession with rankings in higher education.

Although rankings can refl ect very broad trends in academic quality, yearly in-cremental fl uctuations are inconsequential. Certainly there would be a difference between a school in the top 20

and a school in the bottom 20 of the list, which ranks almost 200 national universities. But the difference between fi rst and second, eighth and 10th, or 75th and 78th are all essen-

tially meaning-less.

The lack of precision leads to a false perception that, in any given year, schools whose rankings have changed become cat-egorically “better” or “worse” than its peers above or below it in the list—misleading ap-plicants who genuinely be-lieve the strict hierarchical order of the U.S. News rank-ings refl ect some vital truth. The obsession with rankings conditions universities to pri-oritize improving their num-ber—inculcating a “teach to the test” mentality—rather

than pursuing positive edu-cational goals for their own sake. This behavior was taken to an extreme at Claremont McKenna College—where administrators falsifi ed SAT scores to get a bump up in the rankings—indicating just how excessive the rankings-mania has become.

Aside from meaningless and even imagined differ-ences between schools, the U.S. News rankings use almost arbitrary criteria to begin with. Emphasizing fi nancial re-sources, selectivity or alumni giving rates propose a very par-ticular conception of a “good” university. The controversial peer review criterion—where administrators are asked to rank academic programs at their peer schools from one to fi ve—is painfully reductionist,

ignoring both the complexity of the modern university. Ask-ing a dean at a different school to rank hundreds of Duke pro-grams and subprograms that she is not intimately familiar with is obviously absurd.

Further, in a higher edu-cation landscape increas-ingly roiled by budgetary and philosophical questions, an obsession rankings can stifl e innovation. Sarah Lawrence University, for example, will now accept, but not require, SAT scores in their admissions process after the U.S. News rankings assigned them an av-erage SAT score based on peer institutions. Ignoring the rank-ings entirely is a luxury no uni-versity can afford, especially if they are trying new things.

University rankings have some validity in ordering the

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If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, then any given Duke football fan from the past two decades or so is dangerously insane. I

seem to have a particularly bad case, as I not only continue to attend Duke games and get loud, but also try to get others to go as well. Sure, the fact that Duke has inar-guably the greatest basketball program of the last 25 years is nice, but I make it a point of pride to watch Duke foot-ball at every available opportunity. It has been a fortunate coincidence that my time at Duke has coincided with the emerging relevance of Duke football.

College football has never been a winning venture for me. The fi rst foot-ball game I can remember took place in Evanston, Ill. in 2001. Northwestern was hosting Iowa, the game was half an hour from my house, and my dad brought me along to see it and root for the home team. I didn’t really understand much of what was going on, and the only play I still remember was an illegal kick that Iowa made in their own end zone for a safety. That was one of the few highlights of that very rough day for Northwestern, as Iowa went on to a 59-16 curb stomping. I didn’t know Northwestern was supposed to win the Big Ten that year; all I saw was this team I’d never seen before get its tail handed to it on a fancy silver platter.

I’ve been to a lot of football games since then, most of which have taken place at Wallace Wade Stadium. The majority of them have been losses. In my fi rst few years, as a marginal Duke football fan, losses were rou-tine: From 2002 to 2007, the team’s record was 10-60. The football team hadn’t won half of its season games or played in a postseason game since 1994. Any game I went to, a loss was less a disappointment than an expectation. Because of that, I never understood just how awful a loss in football could feel.

Somewhat older, yet still somewhat football-ig-norant, I attended the first game of the Cutcliffe era with my dad. In that first game, Duke matched the win total of the entire previous year with a 31-7 win over James Madison University. I still remember one fan a few rows behind us trying his darnedest to heckle the opponent’s quarterback, despite being

at the very back of the section. In previous years, he would have been a symbol of the program’s futility; in the years since, he has been symbolic for me of the program’s newfound confidence.

I didn’t understand a loss in Duke football until 2009. That year, Duke opened the season with a loss to Rich-mond (sound familiar, sophomores?) and fell two wins short of the program’s fi rst bowl game since that 1994 season. For once, a fi ve-win season was disap-pointing. The 2008 season had been a pleasant surprise, but in 2009 there were expectations, dang it! The team fell to 3-9 in 2010. 2011 was another 3-9 season, this one fraught with tantaliz-

ingly close yet ultimately agonizing losses.That brings us to this year. Duke football’s repu-

tation precedes it, yet the program has surpassed its reputation: People know about Duke’s reputation as a losing program, yet college football fans nationwide, college football fans in the ACC and students on Duke campus have not latched onto the fact that the team no longer matches that description. The program is at a crossroads: It can either fi nd some equilibrium closer to its 2002-2007 levels, or it can take the next step and become a program that can reach the post-season somewhat consistently and even contend for the league title once in a while. If it’s any motivation, the latter state is exactly where Carolina is.

Duke football might never be the great program it was in its early history. A loss in basketball will prob-ably still be a point-blank shot to the heart compared to the punch in the stomach that a loss in football is. But as a Duke football fan and Duke student, I go into every year believing that it can be The Year, and I go into every game where we’re heavy underdogs thinking it can be The Upset. I want to be able to say that I was there when Duke football fi nally broke through. That’s what this year’s Duke football team means to me, and that’s why I keep going to game af-ter game, expecting different results than the past.

Jordan DeLoatch is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Jordan on Twitter @jstorm64.

A few months ago, I was excited beyond measure at the idea of leaving everything behind and starting a new life on my own. Every time I got an email from Duke

or learned something new from the Class of 2016 Facebook page, a smile spread from ear to ear as I would proclaim with excessive passion, “I can’t wait to go to college!” My fa-ther would slightly smile in shallow agreement. Now that I look back, I loathe myself for never really thinking about the person behind that sheep-ish smile. In all honesty, I con-stantly look back at myself in disgust and wonder why I tried so hard to make it known that I would be leaving home for the fi rst time.

Just a few days ago, I real-ized that I had entirely over-looked the past 18 years of hard-learned lessons, support and invaluable attention that my father provided me. After the vibration of my phone shat-tered the tranquil silence in Perkins Library, I annoyingly sighed, set aside my laptop and reached for the realization that would dampen me for days to come. I had just received a text message from my younger brother.

“Hey Mousa, why don’t you call us? You made baba cry for the fi rst time.”

After reading the message, I insensitively rolled my eyes, set my phone back down and returned to reading my objec-tives for international relations. Sadly enough, it didn’t dawn on me that I had done anything wrong until I trundled into my bed later that night. Looking back at my life, I couldn’t remember one instance in which my father ignored me for his own personal reasons. Never did he roll his eyes at my requests or disregard what I had to say, no matter how sense-less my appeals happened to be.

I got out of bed that night, turned on the lights and picked up my phone to confess to my father exactly how I felt – to apologize for my egocentrism and ungratefulness. After impatiently waiting for the call to connect, my eyes be-gan to fi ll with tears. As I waited for my father to pick up, I immediately remembered why I had decided to call in the fi rst place. If there’s anything I had wanted to say to my fa-ther that night, it would probably best be summarized in three simple words—“I’m sorry, Dad.”

I’m sorry for all of the times you stood in the pool to catch me after I had foolishly jumped off the diving board. I’m sorry for all of the meetings you missed so that you could at-tend my soccer games, and I’m sorry for keeping you awake every night while I noisily prepared for my exams. I’m sorry for ignoring your calls when you wanted to know if I needed anything. I’m sorry for not responding to your text messages when you wanted to know how I was doing, and most impor-tantly, I’m sorry for having forgotten everything you’ve done for me over the past 18 years of my life.

I’ve learned as much as I possibly can from you—how to be mindful, how to refl ect and reason about certain situa-tions, how to make thoughtful decisions and how to live not only for my own well-being but also for that of my communi-ty as well. Because of you, my vulnerability has been strength-ened. If certain fears have been dissipated, if confl icts have been avoided, it’s all thanks to you, Dad.

You have always been there for me no matter what. To me, you are the precise defi nition of ingenuity, determina-tion and perseverance—a leader who guides with sympathy and practicality. You exemplify selfl essness and have shaped your life around your family and the people whom you love the most. You are the very essence of dedication and have instilled in me the values that guide me to this very day. You picked me up when I was down, brushed off my shoulders, and pushed me to pursue the goals that only led me in the right direction. Though you rarely disagreed with me, you were never afraid to let me know what I was getting myself into. You are the busiest man on God’s green earth, but you always took time out of your day to sit down and talk to me. Now that I realize everything you have done for me, I apolo-gize for having put you on the back burner.

Going back to that night, I remember my heart almost stopping as I heard someone pick up the phone. Despite all of the calls I ignored and text messages I left unread, my father answered the phone the second he saw my name. And after breaking down into tears and trying to piece together every-thing I had planned to say, I went to sleep that night with the gratitude of knowing that my apology had been accepted.

I’m really sorry, Dad, and I mean it from the bottom of my heart.

Mousa Alshanteer is a Trinity freshman. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Mousa on Twitter @mousaalshanteer.

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September 18-24

EXHIBITIONSStudent Action with Farmworkers: 20 Years of Growing Farmworker Activists. Thru December 9. Exhibition and opening reception, and discussion with the curators. September 20, 5pm, Rare Book Rm., Perkins Library. Free.

Documenting the Politics of Food: Photographs from the Rubenstein Library Collections. Thru December 10. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

Eat, Pray, Weave: Ancient Peruvian Art from the Permanent Collection. Nasher Museum of Art.

ONGOINGAcross The Threshold. Now accepting proposals for papers, panels, workshops or lecture-demonstrations for the 2013 interdisciplinary conference. Registration required: danceprogram.duke.edu

Duke Arts Festival 2012. Now accepting work by student artists in all art forms and performance genres for the 2012 Duke Arts Festival, Oct 26-Nov 4.More info @ arts.duke.edu/festival

EVENTS September 18Artist Talk. Louise Toppin (UNC-Chapel Hill). Repertoire lecture on art songs by African American composers. 5pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

Screening. Interviewed, Durham Cinematheque program w/ filmmaker Tom Whiteside. 8pm, Richard White Aud. Free.

September 19Lecture from Hell. A solo performance/reading by Jay O’Berski, Ellen Hemphill, dir., with post performance bi-lingual discussion by Denis Guénoun, visiting writer and director of “Artaud-Barrault”, Théâtre de Chaillot, Paris. 7pm, Brody Theater, East Campus. Free.

September 20Panel Discussion. Who Owns The Past? A Cross-Cultural Roundtable. Discussion on cultural property and museums in America. 5 pm. Nasher. Free.

Reception and Artist Talk/Book Signing. Photographer Harvey Stein discusses his exhibit and book, Coney Island 40 Years, on view thru Oct 27. 6pm, CDS. Free.

‘80s to the M-M-M-Max. Free film series to complement Time Capsule: Downtown Calling (2009, Shan Nicholson, 75 minutes). 7pm, Nasher Museum Aud. Free.

September 21Vocal Workshop. Contemporary Commercial Singing Styles with Jeannette LoVetri. 10am-9pm, White Hall Auditorium, East Duke Bldg. Registration fee, call 919-681-4984.

September 22Vocal Workshop with Jeannette LoVetri. (See Sept. 21)

September 23Free Family Day. Gallery hunt, make-and-take crafts, live entertainment. Support provided by the Fox Family Foundation, Nordstrom and SunTrust Foundation. In-kind support by The Container Store®. Noon-4pm, Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

SCREEN/SOCIETYAll events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (ED) = East Duke 108. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium.(SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium.

9/18 INTERVIEWED (8PM, W) AMI Showcase. MFAEDA + AMI present a Durham Cinematheque screening w/ filmmaker Tom Whiteside

9/19 AVETIK (Armenia, 1992), - Skype Q&A w/ filmmaker Tropes of Home: Films from the Middle East

9/20 DOWNTOWN CALLING (Shan Nicholson, 2009) (N) ‘80s to the M-M-M-Max. NC Premiere

9/24 TOMBOY Tournées French Film Series

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States as protesters sang in Manhattan’s Union Square, smashed windows in Se-attle and seized a vacant building in San Francisco. In New York, 34 were arrested in the May Day rallies.

Most of Monday’s arrests were for dis-orderly conduct for impeding vehicular or pedestrian traffic, and follow more than 40 others over the weekend, said Paul Browne, a spokesman for the New York City Police Department. Police are “accommodating lawful protests” and making arrests for crimes such as block-ing traffic, Browne said in an email.

Dozens of police, some in riot hel-mets, arrested people, including a pur-ple-cassocked bishop, at the Broadway entrance to Wall Street. A man with an acoustic guitar on his back was thrown to the ground by five officers near the intersection of Nassau and Pine streets. Picketers at the plaza at 140 Broadway sang Woody Guthrie’s “Why, Oh Why” with a ukulele.

“I’ve been arrested four times now and I’ll get arrested 1,000 times more until we see some change,” said Barry Knight, a 44-year-old actor from Massa-chusetts. “We’re fighting for nothing less than the future of our country. Do you want your kids to grow up in ‘corptoc-racy’ or in a democracy?”

Members of the movement are seek-ing to revive the energy and emotion generated when thousands took to the streets to protest income disparity, cor-porate greed and the influence of mon-ey on politics. Protesters say the wealthi-est 1 percent of Americans benefit at the expense of the rest.

Corporate targets of Monday’s disrup-tion include the Broadway retail branch-es of Bank of America Corp. and JPMor-gan Chase, along with Deutsche Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Liberty Street and American Interna-tional Group, according to planning ma-terials. Events were scheduled in at least 15 other cities, including Asheville, N.C., and Hilo, Hawaii.

Andrew Landau, who works in mar-keting for a medical evaluation company in New York, called the crowds “a pain in the butt.”

“I realize there’s freedom of speech and everything else, but to upset every-thing on a daily basis and inconvenienc-ing people with the economy being so bad, it affects people going to work,” said Landau, 63. “There are other ways of taking care of this problem without upsetting the whole neighborhood.”

Adam Said, 35, who runs a coffee and doughnut stand on Wall Street and Broadway, said the protests may cost him 10 percent of his daily business.

At a rally at Bowling Green, a group of singers performed a rendition of “Down by the Riverside” with kazoos, a snare drum and trumpet. Around 11:15 a.m., hundreds sat under a cloudless sky in Battery Park for a midday organizing meeting. As individuals described pick-eting bank branches, interrupting traffic and losing friends to arrest, the crowd responded with cheers, laughter and whistles. They tossed green balloons and red confetti.

The Occupy anniversary marks a test of the movement after its public pres-ence diminished amid what organizers called flagging interest bordering on burnout.

The movement’s New York City Gen-eral Assembly, which made decisions for the group by consensus, ceased function-ing in April because of infighting, inef-fectiveness and low turnout, according to organizers and minutes of meetings. The group’s funds were frozen to pre-serve money for bail, ending most cash distributions, they said.

Occupy units across the U.S. coalesced last year to protest high foreclosure and unemployment rates that hurt average Americans while bankers and financial executives received bonuses and taxpay-er-funded bailouts. Similar groups, us-ing social media and other tools, spread around the globe to Europe, Asia and Latin America. Governments responded with concussion grenades, gas, riot gear, pepper spray and arrests.

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out opportunities for undergraduates to use primary materials. It is very much an extension of the learning at Duke.”

Although Franklin’s papers are a real asset to the University, his work ce-mented his legacy and significance at the school.

Chafe, who worked closely with Frank-lin during his time in Duke’s history de-partment, spoke to his influence on race relations amongst faculty and students.

“He was important in having an im-pact on policy for the administration and faculty. He helped to encourage a very significant number of black facul-ty” he said.

Franklin also had a reputation

around campus for his warm and en-dearing manner, said Benjamin Reese, vice president for institutional equity.

“I miss him every day,” Reese said. “We [were] friends, and I have lots of memories. One I have is the way in which, every time we got together, he would remember details of our last con-versation.”

Franklin’s esteemed standing in the activist world was instrumental in bring-ing notable guests to Duke’s campus, Chafe added.

“He was really important in terms of attracting distinguished scholars to come to Duke because he was here,” he said. “If he weren’t here, they might have gone somewhere else, but he was here and, therefore, this was the place to come.”

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project with Duke technology called “Zenalux,” which works to carry out white-light spectroscopy in clouded fluids.

The certificate, composed of 12 credits, inlcudes the course “Environ-mental Mega-Trends,” which will be of-fered for the first time in the second half of the Fall.

“[Students] would need to pursue an masters of engineering manage-ment degree in order to obtain this certificate,” said Marianne Drexler, program coordinator for undergradu-ate programs.

So far, there has been no feedback of interest in the certificate from un-dergraduate students, Drexler said.

“I just don’t know if enough under-graduate students know about it yet,” she added.

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