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ONTHERECORD“Their problems are our problems and our well-being is

ultimately linked with theirs.” —Nyuol Tong in “The role of the black scholar.” See column page 11

Swain strives to improve DSG advocacyby Raisa Chowdhury

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Junior Alex Swain brings knowledge from a wide range of experiences and passion for positively chang-ing Duke with her brand of student leadership.

Swain, Duke Student Government vice president for Durham and regional affairs, is running for DSG president in hopes of mobilizing and organizing stu-dent voices to act in students’ interests. Her platform, “Advocacy that Works,” emphasizes solution-based ad-vocacy that aims to change the framework by which DSG engages students and implements policy.

As president, Swain said she hopes to shift the fo-cus of DSG so that it reaches out to the student body. By making DSG more transparent and instituting a student feedback system, the goal is to let regular stu-dents come to DSG meetings to voice their concerns, such as the campus hazing or alcohol policies. She also wants to use online avenues such as the DSG email blast and Twitter account to keep students informed of the

by Ben RakestrawTHE CHRONICLE

The Food Factory, which struggled to survive in its first se-mester on campus, is making a comeback.

The Central Campus restaurant, which replaced the Devil’s Bistro at the beginning of the academic year, struggled to at-tract customers in its first few months. At the time, owner Jim Schmid said he had difficulty adapting the business model of the original Food Factory location in Cary, N.C. to a university setting, losing approximately $15,000 in September. But the beginning of the Spring semester brought a host of positive changes for the restaurant.

Schmid saw an influx of business from students returning from abroad, who filled empty apartments on Central. Additionally

by Lauren CarrollTHE CHRONICLE

Duke is assessing the potential impact of a resolution that would make the University a more socially conscious investor.

By the end of the Spring, the Advisory Com-mittee on Investment Responsibility hopes to as-sess an investment resolution proposed by the Coalition for a Conflict-Free Duke and to pres-ent a recommendation on it to President Rich-ard Brodhead—who may then take the proposal to the Board of Trustees. University administra-tors do not anticipate any significant financial consequences for Duke’s investments if the reso-lution passes, but the question remains what the impact of the action could be.

The resolution proposes a proxy vote—that Duke’s investment managers vote in favor of all shareholder resolutions asking companies to be more transparent with their policies regarding conflict minerals as well as any efforts to reduce social injury caused by conflict minerals. The il-licit trade of conflict minerals—such as tin, tung-sten and gold —is largely responsible for fueling violence in Central Africa. These materials are widely used in consumer technology products, as well as food packaging and industrial goods.

If the CCFD resolution is approved through all the proper channels, it would act as a guide-line for the investment managers at DUMAC, the corporation that manages the $5.7 billion Duke University Endowment, said Executive

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Alexandra Swain, a junior, currently serves as the Duke Student Government vice president of Durham and regional affairs. SEE SWAIN ON PAGE 3

DSG PRESIDENTIAL RACE

After revival, Food Factory here to stay

Uni. considersconflict mineral investment rule

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Brodhead explores morality with studentsby Danielle Muoio

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Students had the opportunity Mon-day to discuss morality at the home of President Richard Brodhead, with a goal of applying the discussion to their every-day lives.

The three-course dinner at the Hart House focused on the challenges of exhib-iting moral courage on campus. At their tables, guests discussed moments where they had “moral laryngitis”—instances where they were unsure of what was the right thing to do. The dinner, sponsored by the Honor Council, aimed to encour-age students to be comfortable sharing personal moral dilemmas outside of this setting.

“The single thing that makes me hap-piest in a university is the idea of student initiative,” Brodhead said. “There would be nothing to discuss with this group of students if student life were entirely based on passivity. I like the idea that this Univer-sity exists to serve students but also exists to be made by students.”

Although the Honor Council tries to hold a large event each year, Honor Coun-cil Chair Nick Valilis, a senior, said this is the first time the group has hosted a din-ner. Students had to apply to attend to the dinner. Of the 80 applications received, only 15 were admitted.

“Our vision for this was to help Duke students find their voice,” Valilis said. “If you think of your values as a card deck, we want to add values to that deck, which al-low us to act ethically and also give those ethics a voice.”

Because the Honor Council wants stu-dents to carry the knowledge learned at

the dinner through the course of their academic career, no seniors were admit-ted to the dinner, Valilis said.

Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, noted that discussions on moral courage do occur on campus, but are not as widespread as they should be.

“Too many students don’t know how

to reach out to have these kinds of con-versations either with their peers, pro-fessors or administrators,” Nowicki said. “The value of this [event] is that it was intentionally made to be very visible, and that will help bring this kind of discus-sion into the limelight.”

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President Richard Brodhead speaks Monday in the Hart House.

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Hundreds of prospective freshmen are visiting campus over the next week for Blue Devil Days. Admitted students will discover what it means to be a Blue Devil, includ-ing learning about academic opportunities, co-curricular programs, the advising process and financial aid. They are also staying with current Duke students to get a taste of campus life. The Chronicle’s Jack Mercola spoke with prospective freshmen and hosts about their Blue Devil Days experience.

“President [Richard] Brodhead was pretty cool. I thought the president was going to be kind of dull, but he was funny. That was surprising.”

—Morgan Ramsey, prospective student from Philadelphia, Penn.

“I was hosted at Blue Devil Days last year, and I’m part of the [First-Year Advisory Counselor] program for next year, so I want to my p-frosh to realize what a well-balanced school this is, just like I did last year.”

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“I’ve met a lot of people from New York.”

—John Wilhoite, prospective student from Cartersville, Ga.

“I like that you got to meet a lot of possible classmates. I saw Biology 101, and I thought it would be scary be-cause it was so big, but I liked it a lot. And I’m most looking forward to get-ting to know the campus—this is my first time visiting. I need to figure out everything I can about Duke so I can

make a decision.”—Kathy Zhu, prospective student from

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“I went to an organic chemistry class early in the morning—it was great. And I accidentally left a piece of luggage on the C-1, but I went to a bus driver, and he radioed it in and I had my bag within 10 minutes.”

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“When I first came to the campus, there weren’t really people helping me out. Duke could get more students in-volved [in Blue Devil Days] and guide us through the day. I wish there were people to show us around the Bryan Center.”

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“There is nothing I have not liked about Blue Devil Days. I love the cam-pus. I love how everything is pretty guided, but we still have the freedom to explore what we want. I’m pretty sure I’m coming to Duke.”

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bluedevildayssoundoffdiscussion and decision making process rather than just the end result.

“I don’t assume that I know every-thing, and I want to surround myself with other people with different per-spectives,” Swain said. “That’s the way I want to approach things on campus as well as in Durham.”

Swain noted that she has already used the “Advocacy that Works” model to bring an on-campus early voting site for the up-coming municipal elections. By talking to administrators and working with the Durham and regional affairs committee, Swain helped circulate a petition that re-ceived more than 1,300 signatures in sup-port of a voting site for this May’s primary election. The ballot includes the referen-dum on Amendment One.

“Since we haven’t had a primary site [before], we had to demonstrate there was strong interest so Alex went back and in very short order got a petition together,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of public affairs and govern-ment relations. “That really spoke to the administration and the Board of Elec-tions of Durham county.”

Next year, Swain added that she will promote gender neutral housing and work out the class breakdown within houses in the house model— what she believes will be an important issue in the new residential model. She hopes to continue using ad hoc committees, so students outside DSG can meet with ad-ministrators and discuss specific issues such as the house model. Swain added that she would also advocate for reno-vations to residence halls, more dining options, more spaces for students to congregate and continued engagement

in local Durham issues.Swain—who served as a senator for

Durham and regional affairs as a soph-omore and as a member of the Young Trustee Nominating Committee as a freshman—has worked with the Dur-ham Convention and Visitors Bureau to publish a monthly calendar of events happening in Durham in The Chronicle. Swain has also been involved with plan-ning and negotiations for the new tail-gating process, space negotiations for West Union Building renovations, the re-duction of the student dining fee, work-ing to help circulate a petition against the sexual assault policy changes and internal DSG reform. In addition, she has worked to strengthen relationships between students living off campus and their neighbors through an off-campus community receptions.

Phail Wynn, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, said he has gotten to know Swain through her initiatives to in-crease student ridership of the Bull City Connector and to revive the Duke-Dur-ham Discount Program with downtown Durham merchants and restaurants.

“I believe Alex Swain has carefully prepared herself for the opportunity to serve as DSG president,” Wynn wrote in an email Friday.

Having grown up in Durham, Swain said she has built bridges within the uni-versity and has quickly moved along the process of connecting students to the community, Schoenfeld said. He has known Swain for several years and said he has watched her develop into a lead-er with extraordinary capabilities.

“She is calm under pressure and also very focused on both setting goals and achieving goals,” Schoenfeld said. “Her service already to the university and on behalf of students has been exemplary.”

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Vice President Tallman Trask. The investors’ objective is to make decisions that maximize return on investments within legal and ethi-cal boundaries. Passing this resolution would create a new ethical boundary but still allow Duke to be a prudent investor.

Duke would not consider any proposal that could potentially have a considerably negative financial impact, Trask said. This resolution would likely have no significant impact on Duke’s investments, however, so administrators will probably not base their decisions on the proposal’s financial impli-cations.

“[DUMAC is] required to be prudent managers of investment, but I don’t think we’re going to get near that point,” he said. “Our shares are not substantial.”

Trask said details of the investments main-tained by DUMAC that might be affected by the resolution are not available to the public.

President and CEO of DUMAC Neal Triplett, Trinity ’93, declined to comment be-cause the company does not typically make public statements.

A symbolic measureThis particular proposal is only the second

of its kind. In June 2010, Stanford University passed a similar resolution.

Although resolutions of this nature might show that universities such as Duke and Stan-ford are taking a stand, the new investment policies are not expected to stop the conflict because Duke is only a minor investor in any company and has limited influence among shareholders, Trask noted.

“[Enacting this policy] is consistent with Duke’s general pattern of trying to be respon-sible around certain social issues,” he said.

Trask added that Duke tends to be aggres-sive about issues of social responsibility com-

pared to other universities, noting previous policy changes regarding labor rights, the environment and the genocide in Darfur.

But the issue of conflict minerals has not gathered the same momentum among col-lege students nationwide as other human rights concerns have in the past, he noted. It is possible, however, that a few major universities making a statement about how they view con-flict minerals could cause a domino effect.

“The impact is largely symbolic, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing,” Trask said.

CCFD Chair Stefani Jones, a sophomore, said that if enough stakeholders make it known that they are taking active steps to ad-dress the conflict mineral issue, it could cause companies to change their policies.

“It shows a symbolic measure,” Jones said. “Duke is a thought-leader, and that’s the main point. It has a symbolic say in the dialogue of the country.”

Trask noted that the proxy voting resolu-tion would not have as direct an impact as one that would address Duke’s procurement of various electronics. Instead of simply advis-ing the investors, a procurement policy could involve boycotting particular products.

Jones noted that CCFD previously con-sidered a procurement proposal but found that it would be difficult to manage the pro-curement of conflict minerals because they contribute to a wide range of products that Duke uses.

Due processJones said the coalition did as much re-

search as possible when drafting the propos-al, but it was still difficult to assess how im-pactful the resolution would be. DUMAC is not transparent with its investments, so CCFD had to make assumptions about whether Duke invests in electronics companies that are involved in conflict mineral trade.

“You have to take a shot in the dark in

order to guess [electronics] are something we’re investing in and [the issue] is some-thing Duke would take seriously,” Jones said.

Even with the uncertainties, CCFD sub-mitted their proposal to the President’s Spe-cial Committee on Investment Responsibility in November. In January, CCFD officially met with PSC—charged with assessing whether such proposals address issues that cause seri-ous social injury. PSC then decided that the negative effects of conflict minerals were im-portant enough that the University should officially consider the proposal, Provost Peter Lange, chair of the committee, wrote in an email Sunday. The proposal was then sent to the ACIR.

Last Wednesday, ACIR held a closed fact-finding meeting and open forum to gather the general opinions and sentiments of Duke and its stakeholders.

According to an agenda provided to The Chronicle, ACIR met with representatives from CCFD, DUMAC, the Stanford Manage-ment Company and Apple as well as multiple Duke professors at its fact-finding meeting April 4, before hearing the thoughts of the public at the open forum.

ACIR Chair Jonathan Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins professor of law, de-clined to comment on ACIR’s current lean-ings regarding the proposal. He emphasized that, because ACIR is an advisory board, whether it does or does not recommend the resolution will not ultimately determine whether or not Brodhead presents the pro-posal to the Board.

Jones noted that it took many weeks for CCFD to create a proposal that would be able to move this far along in the process because the resolution has to be well researched and plau-sible. As a result, the administration has been receptive and supportive overall, she said.

“At the point when people have proposals that are sound, [administrators] are willing to listen,” she said.

Students shared their various opinions on the best way to move forward from the dinner. Jack Morris, a junior, said students should make other members of the Duke community comfortable to speak freely of instances of moral paralysis.

“You can’t tell people what to do in a given situation,” he said. “The best thing we can do is to create an environment that fosters the ability for people to rise up and speak out.”

Not all attendees agreed with this sen-timent, however. Dan Ariely, James. B. Duke professor of behavioral economics, spoke against the idea that moral courage can be purely be solved by open discus-sion. He said the best way to implement moral courage on a wider scale is through paternalism—stricter rules carried out by the University to prevent immorality.

“The reason that we have punishment is because we want to deter, and without deterrence you cannot create any trust,” Ariely said. “If you think that morality is something important for the communi-ty, then we need to be much more strict about violations and understand that even small violations have effects.”

Although no one in attendance was able to come to a concrete decision on how to advocate for moral courage, Dan-ielle Nelson, a sophomore, said having these conversations will eventually lead to more answers.

“We asked more questions, didn’t get any answers, and that’s the nature of this sort of dinner,” Nelson said. “The word moral is fueled—it’s difficult to define what morality means. But having these conversations, we are able to come up with concrete ways to work moral cour-age into our daily life.”

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Duke Dining introduced Robert Coffey as its new director in February.

Jim Wulforst, former director of dining services who brought Food Factory to Duke, stepped down from his position in August—causing communication challenges between Schmid and the Food Factory. Since arriv-ing, Coffey has already provided helpful feedback and suggestions, Schmid said.

“Having [Coffey] at Dining has really improved things there,” Schmid said. “With-out a leader, I think they were overwhelmed managing all the campus restaurants.”

In the short time he has been head of dining, Coffey noted that he has already seen the Food Factory making steps toward having a sustainable, profitable business.

“They’re still in the transition phase of taking student input, listening and trying to make changes,” Coffey said. “They’ve put a menu in place that the students were looking for.”

Early challenges have forced Schmid to shift the way he runs his restaurant, he said.

He noted that they initially used the same menu from their Cary restaurant, but it was not successful. The Central Cam-pus location was more suitable for dinner rather than lunch, unlike the old Cary lo-cation. Students who live on Central tend to eat lunch on West Campus because they are already there for their classes, Schmid noted.

As a result, Schmid changed the menu to include dinner items such as pizza and pasta. The lack of daytime business made it difficult for the restaurant to earn enough money to cover payroll and food expenses, causing the restaurant to close for lunch most weekdays.

“When we first opened, I don’t think we used the pizza oven for over a month,”

Schmid said.Coffey added that he believes the eatery

will be able to continue to adapt to student needs and become a long-lasting fixture on campus.

“I am optimistic, and [Schmid] feels the same way,” Coffey said. “They really care about the business, and they are doing a good job.”

Despite brightening prospects, some hurdles still remain. The business is now making money, but it has yet to make up for its dismal first months, Schmid said.

“We dug a hole that we are definitely still digging out of,” Schmid said. “We hope to pay off the money we borrowed by this summer, but I still haven’t gotten a pay-check.”

Student support is key to any campus eatery’s survival, and the Food Factory had to take time to build its reputation, said senior Jane Moore, co-chair of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Com-mittee.

“A lot of [their success] was them find-ing a niche,” Moore said. “It’s tough on Central from the very beginning.”

DUSDAC served as an adviser for the Food Factory, as it does for all campus eat-eries, taking feedback from students and using it to offer suggestions.

Moore added that she expects the Food Factory’s business to grow in the next year, as they continue to expand and refine their menu and as next year’s house model brings more selective living groups to Central.

“The new house model is putting a whole different customer base on Central,” Moore said, noting that she expects an in-crease in group events at the Food Factory.

Whatever changes may come to the Food Factory moving forward will be made with students in mind, Schmid said.

“I just want students to feel at home,” he said. “This is their space, not ours.”

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Searching for a full 60 minutes fromstaffreportsThis is the point in the college lacrosse sea-

son where everyone starts to pay attention.Now that basketball season is over and

Masters Weekend has passed, teams across the country will play some of their biggest regular season games, dabble in confer-ence tournament play and finally turn their focus to the NCAA tournament.

The more focused lacrosse fans may have been on board since the first games

back in February, but now even the casual Duke supporters will be watching as the Blue Devils face key tests in the coming weeks against No. 1 Virginia and No. 10 Denver in the final

two regular season contests—plus the ACC tournament sandwiched in between.

But before you go hopping on the cham-pionship bandwagon, you may want to consider tempering your expectations for Duke’s postseason. While the Blue Devils will certainly be contenders in both tourna-ments, there is one critical area that must be improved before they can be expected to compete with the elite teams in the com-ing weeks—fourth-quarter scoring.

While the team heads into the critical

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portion of their schedule on a seven game win streak, take a closer look at the oppo-nents during that period. Only one—North Carolina—was ranked higher than Duke, and none of the seven foes are currently slotted higher. These are teams that the Blue Devils should have beaten, and they did so accordingly.

Now, look at the scoring breakdown in those games. Duke did the bulk of its scor-ing in the first three periods, heading into the fourth quarter with a total scoring mar-gin of plus-33. But the Blue Devils’ total winning margin was only plus-22, meaning that Duke was outscored by 11 goals in the final period of these seven games.

But it doesn’t matter when the goals were scored as long as the game is won, right? All that counts is the tally in the W column at the end, right?

“It doesn’t matter that you’re playing Syracuse, it doesn’t matter that you’re playing Marist, it doesn’t matter that you’re playing Virginia—what matters is that you play the right way all the time,” head coach John Danowski said after his team’s most recent game, Saturday against the Red Foxes.

The important part of that quote is “all the time.” Even if the Blue Devils are win-ning these games against inferior compe-

tition, being outscored significantly in the fourth quarter means they’re not playing the right way all the time. The deficit is a signal that Duke is either shutting down because they think the game is out of reach, or the Blue Devils are running out of steam in the fourth quarter—both cases fuel careless of-fensive possessions, high turnover rates and defensive lapses that lead to goals.

Beyond simply being outscored in the final period, the fourth quarter represents Duke’s lowest output on the season by a long shot. The Blue Devils have scored a total of 35 goals in the first period, 45 in each of the second and third, and only 26 in the final frame on the year. The goals al-lowed numbers are much more consis-tent, so it’s not an issue of opponents scoring more—it’s an issue of Duke scoring less.

Based on the offensive numbers, the Blue Devils have been a three-pe-riod team this season. Lately this pat-tern has been enough to win. But it will not suffice against the likes of Vir-ginia and Denver, and it will certainly pose problems in single-elimination

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The forgotten Fuqua behind Duke athleticsby Andrew Beaton

THE CHRONICLE

Jamie Fuqua means business.But he bears no relation to Duke’s Fuqua School of

Business, which shares his name. People regularly ask the 41-year-old horticultural specialist what he is doing working manual labor with that last name, but for him it is just a coincidence he can laugh about.

“I’ve always been intrigued by that,” he said. “Maybe I’ll have to hunt down that [family] tree and see where it runs me to.”

Coming to Durham directly out of high school with his ex-wife and her mother, both of whom had jobs at the University, Fuqua first began work at Duke as a grounds equipment officer 23 years ago. He has received promotions since then to senior GEO, land-scape specialist and now to horticultural specialist, but his job has always centered around the maintenance of the athletic facilities.

Sitting on the bleachers of Koskinen Stadium—a field heavily used in both the fall and spring with soc-cer and lacrosse, respectively—Fuqua has already been at work for three hours and it is just 10 a.m. No day is an easy one when he has to take out the trash, trim the grass, paint field lines and take care of any number of additional behind-the-scenes tasks that make the ath-letic facilities pristine.

His job regularly begins at 7 a.m. and often carries over to weekends, but he takes pride in getting to work the outdoors surrounded by activities he loves.

“I’m a sports nut, and I’ve always been a sports nut,” Fuqua said. “I grew up on a tobacco farm. If you put me inside somewhere, I’d probably go nuts.”

With his proximity to the athletic facilities, he holds a unique perspective on their evolution.

Fuqua recalls when the locker rooms and bath-rooms behind Koskinen did not exist, forcing athletes

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Horticultural specialist Jamie Fuqua has been making sure all of the Duke athletic facilities are up to par for his 23 years at the University.

Baseball stays home to face Spartans

After being swept at home by Clemson last weekend, Duke will look to rebound in a midweek nonconference matchup with UNC Greensboro.

The Blue Devils (13-20) have lost all four of their games against Southern Con-

ference opponents this season, and split a pair of matchups with the Spartans (17-13) in 2011.

Nick Piscotty has started the last two midweek games for Duke, giving up two earned runs in a com-

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April matchups, scoring 31 runs during the stretch. The Spartan offense leads the na-tion in sacrifice bunts, with 55 so far this season, but has also shown off some power with 33 home runs.

The Blue Devils have been led at the plate by senior centerfielder Will Piwnica-Worms, who leads the team with three tri-ples and the same number of home runs.

Duke will resume ACC competition over the weekend, when it hits the road to take on Maryland in a three-game series.

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play—especially if the team’s conditioning is at fault for the decline.

Duke has been improving in its late-game play, how-ever, posting two consecutive games with positive fourth-quarter scoring margins after being on the losing end in the final period five consecutive times. The most recent outing against Marist was the only instance during the seven game streak that the Blue Devils found themselves trailing heading into the final 15 minutes, and Duke managed to pull out the comeback victory with a 4-1 fourth quarter.

Playing in front of a shaky goalie rotation, the Blue Devils need to find a way to continue this progress and be more consistent and more reliable on the offensive end if they want to keep winning as the quality of op-ponents increases significantly in the coming weeks. Their next test comes in the biggest game of the year, against the Cavaliers, Friday night in Charlottesville, Va. For Duke to win, the Blue Devils will need to match the Cavaliers’ potency on the offensive end—for a full 60 minutes.

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to use portable toilets. He saw the overhaul of Wilson Gymnasium and the construction of the Schwartz-But-ters Building. And where the 70,000 square-foot Yoh Football Center now stands, Fuqua remembers there used to be endless trees.

But he has seen the transformation of people at Duke, too. Fuqua used to see men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski walk past Card Gymnasium to the Intramural Gymnasium, where he would play racquet ball every morn-ing. He has not seen him do that in a while.

The connections he makes with coaches and athletic programs make the job worthwhile for Fuqua because it rewards his commitment to the University.

“They make you feel appreciated,” he said. “It’s good to hear the feedback from coaches when you’re doing this

day-in, day-out.”One person with whom he became particularly

close was Mike Pressler, the former men’s lacrosse coach who lost his job after 16 seasons in the midst of the Duke lacrosse scandal. The pair bonded first with their love of sports but their relationship grew through their love of the outdoors when they began to hunt and fish together.

Quickly, Pressler made Fuqua a part of the team. In 2005, when the Blue Devils made the NCAA semifinals, Fuqua drove a van of players to the game who otherwise would have been left home due to space constraints.

“He was kind of our security guy, our equipment guy and our jack of all trades,” Pressler said.

During fall practice of 2005, Fuqua tattooed the Duke logo on his upper arm with a lacrosse stick in the middle of the “D.” He did not show anybody but Pressler, so when the head coach called him up in front of the team to reveal the ink, it came as a big surprise.

The team “erupted” when Fuqua showed off his tat-too, he said, but it became an even larger rallying cry for the squad when Pressler said he would get a match-ing one on his chest should the Blue Devils win the na-tional championship.

Unfortunately for the duo, that team never had the chance to win the 2006 title due to the ensuing scandal that forced the cancellation of the season.

The day Pressler announced his resignation, Fuqua could not be there to comfort the head coach because he was experiencing pain of his own—Fuqua watched the news from the emergency room as he prepared to have his appendix taken out.

“Jamie was crushed for his friend, and he was crushed for the team. Part of his life was put up in turmoil,” Pressler said. “Loyalty is measured not when things are going well, but when things aren’t going well. And when the people you are loyal to face adversity, how you react. Without question, Jamie’s true colors showed brightly throughout that period of time.”

Following the scandal, Fuqua regularly visited Pressler, who was still living in Durham at the time. Since then, Fuqua has developed a strong relationship with current men’s lacrosse head coach John Danowski.

As always, Fuqua’s presence can still be recognized by the white pickup truck that he drives when taking care of the fields across campus.

He has spent his entire adult life doing a job at a location with people and landscapes that have con-stantly been changing. But at the end of the day, Fuqua proudly smiles because nothing satisfies him more than having spent its entirety under the sun.

“A lot of the time people envy you because they’re like, ‘Hey, I wish I had a job where I could sit there, be there for a game and take it all in,’” Fuqua said. “You get paid to do a job, but you get paid to do something that you really like.”

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Earlier this year, when the Black Student Al-liance marched to the Allen building with a list of recommendations to improve condi-

tions for Duke’s black community, a lot of us Latinos noticed parallels between both of our communities’ concerns. In conversations with our peers, we supported BSA’s actions, yet we purposely decided not to run behind them with our own list of demands lest it take away from their momentum. Today, we wish to continue the dialogue with Pres-ident Brodhead, a leader whose words are closely followed.

As stated in The Chronicle’s March 23 article, “Brodhead assesses Duke’s race relations,” Presi-dent Brodhead delivered his annual Report of the President to a faculty audience in which he commented on some of the related controversy (research related to African-American students’ choices of major) and spoke of Duke’s efforts to improve in the diversity arena. “This Univer-sity,” he said, “has had a commitment to making Duke a place of access, opportunity and mutual respect for all.” He “reconfi rmed” that his most recent strategic plan aims for just that. We urge the President, however, to reexamine the in/ex-clusion of Latinos and of Latino/a Studies in his strategic plan.

Over the years, Duke has experienced a growth in the numbers of Latino students and Latino ser-vice employees, thus better mirroring our city and state demographics (North Carolina has one of the fastest growing Latino populations). Can the same be claimed about the Duke Latino faculty? The 2011 Faculty Diversity Initiative Update states a count of 448 Asian faculty and 2,472 white fac-ulty along with an increase of black faculty from 44 in 1993 to 142 in 2010. In that same report the faculty count identifi ed as “Hispanic” is 76, and almost half of them operate in the professional schools. How are we Latino undergraduates sup-posed to feel when we have a minute number of role models in our classrooms? In his speech, Pres-ident Brodhead also commented on the advances his administration has made, which includes lead-ership recruits of “two African-Americans, one Asian-American and one woman.” Where are the Latinos? Why were we silently left out of a 24-para-graph address?

In 2004-05, undergraduate, graduate, faculty and alumni organizations, collectively known as El Concilio Latino, met with the President to discuss Latino issues they felt needed to be addressed on

campus, several of which were similar to those re-cently presented in BSA’s Black Culture Initiative. Seven years later in 2012, the work from this initia-

tive is only partially complete.In the coming days, newly admit-

ted Latino undergraduate students from the Class of 2016 will step on our campus for the 14th Latino Stu-dent Recruitment Weekend, dur-ing which we will introduce them to

Duke. We will highlight some of the University’s existing opportunities such as the service-learning courses with the Durham Latino community, the new perspectives gained from (a limited amount of) courses in the Latino/a Studies in the Global South Program and the activities of groups like Mi Gente and GANO.

But while the recruitment weekends may be great tools for student body diversifi cation, we feel the University is not providing enough support systems for these same students once they arrive on campus in the Fall. This begins with the lack of role models. Why are Latino faculty only 2.4 per-cent of the total faculty count? How can there be “equal opportunity” when we have few Latino role models in the classrooms and administration? Fur-thermore, if the University wants to focus on the “crucial preparation for the world our students will be living their lives in,” it is critical that more Latino faculty oriented in the U.S. Latino experi-ences be actively recruited across all fi elds.

By no means is this letter intended to pit La-tinos against other minority groups; such groups are not even mutually exclusive at times. We also note that there were other groups not mentioned in the President’s speech. However, in the Latino community specifi ed here, there is often a senti-ment of not belonging “here, nor there.” We want to be sure that Duke doesn’t foster such an envi-ronment as well.

Finally, we recognize that the University has made progress in various areas of diversity and, as the President stated, we should “remember [this] with pride.” He goes on to say that we should ac-knowledge those areas where there’s still work to do. Today, we ask President Brodhead and the University to include the Latino population in his strategic plan and all plans for diversity improve-ment. We remind the President that “work teams are more productive when they embrace a variety of viewpoints and make each player feel included.”

Michelle Lozano Villegas, Trinity ’12Stephanie Kenick, Trinity ’12

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Sophomore Patrick Oathout, the sole candi-date for Duke Student Government executive vice president, is a man on a mission. Oathout exudes ambition and competency, two traits that will serve him well as he at-tempts to lead a newly re-structured DSG Senate.

Last year, Oathout ran and lost against Gurdane Bhutani for the executive vice presi-dent position. We endorsed Bhutani last year, citing Oathout’s narrow conception of the executive vice presi-dent as merely an enforcer of procedural rules. But after serving a year as a senator for athletics, services and the environment, Oathout has matured substantially. As be-

fore, he maintains a fervent commitment to rules and procedures. But he also has concrete ideas about how to make the Senate better at outreach, advocacy and policy

creation. Oathout un-

derstands that running a successful Senate entails far more than enforc-ing the rules. First, it entails le-gitimacy. Students must believe that the Senate truly represents their interests and can act upon them effi caciously. Oathout ad-mits that the Senate does not fully succeed in this regard. To that end, he cites leader-ship development, especially among younger senators, as one of his goals. Another goal is improving outreach through greater online presence and in-creased accessibility to constitu-

ents through DSG offi ce hours and other avenues.

All this underscores Oathout’s larger goal to make the Senate a truly representa-tive institution. In the recent DSG restructuring, Oathout favored a model of representa-tion based on house location, which did not eventually mate-rialize. Nevertheless, Oathout is thinking critically about how the Senate can get students personally invested in their own governance, with or with-out a location-based model. In the future, Oathout desires the Senate to act increasingly as an advocacy group rather than a think tank, refl ecting the real desires of the general student body rather than the disparate ideas of individual senators.

Perhaps the most interest-ing piece of Oathout’s plat-

form is his desire to reduce the number of amendments in the Senate. In his view, the Senate excessively regulates its inter-nal affairs, agonizing about relatively miniscule changes in its constitution instead of focusing on achieving positive policy outcomes. For a senator so keen on rule enforcement, it is striking that Oathout sup-ports a less pedantic approach to rules. He is headed in the right direction. DSG indeed suffers from a perception problem, partly because it can-not seem to successfully defi ne its own structure, goals or pro-cedures. Instead, the Senate should strive to ensure its cul-ture of innovation remains fl u-id while its rules are not. Time spent debating bylaws is time not spent crafting and pass-ing legislation. Oathout has

thought long and hard about this problem and, as executive vice president, will have the power to partially remedy it.

Lastly, Oathout will be an excellent complement to who-ever is elected DSG president. Oathout is attuned to all three presidential candidates’ lead-ership styles, including their strengths and weaknesses. As the president’s second-in-command, Oathout will tailor his own approach to achieve the best overall dynamic. Oathout is a bright and pur-poseful student leader. Our only reservation is that his extraordinary ambition may cause him to be entangled in infl ated DSG politics. But Oathout’s concrete proposals and careful thinking convince us that will most likely not be the case.

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On April 19, 2012, Angela Davis will speak here at Duke about the role of the black scholar. Dr. Davis is one of the few black

academicians who are able to en-gage issues in both the academy and society. In fact, we can begin to outline the role of the black scholar from her political activism and criti-cal scholarship. But before we do that, there are a few questions that we need to keep in mind. For exam-ple, is the role of the black scholar any different from that of any other scholar? I sense elitism, self-indul-gence and even self-fl agellation beneath our rather high-minded consciousness that we, as black scholars, have an obligation to our community. How do we come to terms with that? Most importantly, we must ask the central but rather counterintuitive question, whose answer is equally enigmatic: Who is the black scholar? We may not fi nd satisfactory answers, but these questions are worthy of our rumination if we really want to serve our community.

Historically, the black scholar has had neither the time nor the space to meaningfully examine these questions. Defending and affi rming the hu-manity, dignity and rights of black people subsumed and defi ned her intellectual, and even existential, preoccupations. The urgency and the immediacy of this undertaking made introspection and critical examination of the collective history, experience and destiny of her people a dangerous luxury. In other words, such probing means scrutinizing and questioning who we are and the basis of our belong-ing and commitments. In the end, we might arrive at a contemplative, nonconformist, individualistic attitude that might weaken our resolve and unity as a community. In short, the black scholar was largely busy confronting external systems and forces of marginalization, oppression and exploitation.

And I think it is high time we turn inward. We must begin to probe blackness itself, its meanings and its presuppositions. What do we mean when we identify as black? Are we referring to our skin pig-mentation or to something else, something deeper, more essential? Dr. Ward, my “Existentialism” profes-sor, proposes a useful way of thinking about the limits of being black. Are we “black-therefore” (that is to say, as a result of that blackness we are)? Or are we “black-and” (meaning that we are black plus some-thing else)? Thinking this way makes determining the role of the black scholar quite complicated.

If we believe we are black-therefore, then we do have responsibilities by virtue of our being black. And being black goes deeper, beyond mere skin col-or. It means that we share history, experience, iden-tity and even destiny with other black people. Their problems are our problems and our well-being is ul-timately linked with theirs. In this sense, the black

person, scholar or whoever, has a role, an obligation, to her community—in the same way that a citizen has a responsibility to her country. In many ways, we are

black in this sense and that is prob-ably one of the reasons that black scholars feel that they have social or political responsibility.

But what if we believe we are black-and something? Does that absolve us from that commitment? What if you are black and more of something else than black? That is, by pigmentation, history and experience you are black and you recognize that as your background, but not as the defi ning or the most

important part of who you are: Do you still have debts and duties to honor as a black person? Several friends of mine face this dilemma of being black-and more. They constantly negotiate where their loyalties should lie. It is a perennial reality for many minorities, this double-consciousness. But the pain and the diffi culty seem to deepen and intensify with time. A friend tells me he feels like an adulterer. He feels that he cannot be faithful to both his blackness and his otherness at the same instant.

I am not sure whether I should sympathize with my friends or whether I should tell them to grow up and embrace the fact that every healthy and real human being, in one sense or another, is an adulterer. We cannot be faithful to everyone or everything —community, identity or people—to which we think we should be faithful. But there is something else beneath the infi delity that the black-and more people (all of us really) feel, which sort of contradicts our thesis that we cannot real-istically be faithful to everything: Namely, that our faithfulness to other communities is not necessar-ily a betrayal of, and does not always confl ict with our obligations to, the black community.

Not all human commitments are exclusive.Now, let’s return to a more immediate ques-

tion: Does the black scholar have any particular commitment to the black community? Or rather, does the role of the black scholar lie within or outside of her academic interests and professional occupations? I say yes, that the role of the black scholar transcends her scholarship and that Dr. Davis is the best example. But what does that re-ally mean? It means that we, as black scholars, have failed miserably in meeting our responsibility. We have several of the so-called public intellectuals, but not that many scholars whom we can seriously consider committed political activists. But the real alarm is that there are very few signs that the next generation of black scholars—the career scholars —is going to be any more engaged.

Nyuol Tong is a Trinity sophomore. This is his fi nal column of the semester.

Long live the people of Burma!

lettertotheeditorHonor Council endorses Brown and Oathout

The Duke Honor Council is pleased to for-mally endorse the following candidates for the upcoming Duke Student Government elections:

For president, we endorse junior Chris Brown. Brown’s experience, professionalism and engagement with specifi c campus initiatives uniquely position him to be an effective presi-dent and persuasive liaison between the student body and administration. Furthermore, his vi-sion for next year includes actionable steps to meet the challenges of the new housing model and the upcoming renovation of the West Union building. In addition, his understanding of in-tegrity at Duke enables him to work proactively with the Honor Council to promote the Duke Community Standard.

For executive vice president, we endorse sophomore Patrick Oathout. His desire to en-gage in open conversation with the Council demonstrates his commitment to dialogue on issues of academic, social and civic integrity on campus.

We wish all the candidates the best of luck in the upcoming elections, and encourage the student body to vote on Thursday.

Amit Parekh, Pratt ’13 and Neha Sabharwal, Trinity ’13

Vice Chairs of Duke Honor Council

Note: Chair Michael Habashi recused himself from the endorsement process due to his personal and professional association with the candidates.

If you are really stressed out and discouraged by the headlines and looking for news that will feed your hope about the future of our planet, pay attention to what has been going on in my fi rst adopted

homeland, (I only have two—the U.S. is the other one) Burma, also known as Myanmar. A historical change and trans-formation for the better is taking place with very little attention or support from the rest of the world. Decades of patience, perseverance and endurance, in the form of peaceful resistance against one of the most brutal regimes in recent history, are fi nally bearing fruit for the noble people of Burma. This great nation is teaching the global human community a great les-son of hope and non-violent resistance. Burma, the jewel of Southeast Asia, is fi nally about to get what she deserves—God willing.

What feeds the intensely optimistic tone of this column is recent political changes taking place in Burma. The brutal military regime, which has been ruling (read as ruining) the country since 1962, is fi nally giving up and relaxing its iron grip on the Burmese people. If anyone is wondering how a country of great prosperity and cultural richness could deteriorate to become one of the most bankrupt and miserable countries in the world in a only few decades… study recent Burmese history. This former British colony was one of the rising stars of Asia after WWII—with its booming economy and vibrant intellec-tual life—until a communist military coup took over the country on March 2, 1962. The military junta has consistently crushed the people under its boots, regularly killing people and creating one of the most inhuman societies. North Korea, which is much better known than Burma, is strikingly and ironically similar. All this bad luck has been changing as pro-democracy movements led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi gain more momentum and infl uence in the coun-try. Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party (NLD) has just won 43 of the 45 seats being contested in recent parliamentary elections. The angel is out of the bottle. The country is on an irreversible path of change.

For fi ve years and four months I lived in this beautiful country. I fell in love with the land, people, culture and history from the moment I fi rst stepped on its soil. I thought I was going to live in Burma for the rest of my life until my forced departure separated us. I learned Bur-mese pretty well, I dressed in the Burmese style for all those years, I ate Burmese food, I dreamt in Burmese for many years and I often still do. I even bought a pair of grave sites for me and for my wife, which are legally required if you want to be buried in a Muslim cemetery in Burma, thinking that I would die there. What made me deeply con-nected to this great but out-of-luck nation is beyond any rational ex-planation because it was mostly an emotional connection. However, if I have to name one thing that has fi lled my heart with intense love and admiration for Burma and its noble people, it would be my profound dismay and humble empathy for the decades-long injustice and op-pression the Burmese people have been going through.

The Burmese are one of the most peaceful and resilient people that I have ever seen in my life. Despite the harsh social, economic and political calamities that they had to go through, the spark of life is always present in their smiles and in their peaceful presence. Quite honestly, I see more unhappy and stressed-out people in the U.S. than in Burma. They may have a lot less than we do. They may have been going through much tougher realities than we have, but their souls have not been crushed and they remain hopeful for the future.

The people of Burma deserve almost all of the credit for the recent positive changes in the country. The international commu-nity did very little other than levy ineffective sanctions and employ useless political rhetoric as the Burmese people suffered over many decades. The global superpowers who “love” going after oppressive regimes, toppling bloody dictators and “liberating” people never got interested in Burma and the Burmese people during all of those years. A half century of Burmese cries for help often fell on deaf ears because Burma didn’t have the oil or the strategic importance of other countries. Humanity fell woefully short in its ethical and moral responsibilities to this nation of over 60 million people.

As this nation expels its demons through its own internal struggles, how can we fulfi ll our moral and ethical responsibility toward this deep-ly wounded nation? Shouldn’t we be in solidarity with the noble people of Burma as they try to build a better future? Shouldn’t we urgently rush to their aid in their efforts to build their nation in the post-junta era? Isn’t a call from Mount Sinai inviting if not commending global society to serve the Burmese people as they try to establish currently non-existent social, economic and civic institutions? We have so much to make up for, and now this nation is giving us ample opportunities to do so. I hope and pray this column will encourage all of us to think and act: “What can I as an individual, my society as a whole and my nation collectively do to be in service of Burma in this very critical time?”

Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain and an adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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Duke Symphony Orchestra. Harry Davidson, music dir. Abundant Anniversaries Redux, with Laura Valles, soprano; Nathanael Hein, tenor and Brian Johnson, baritone. Works by Coleridge-Taylor, Debussy, and Massenet, and featuring Giovanni Gabrieli’s Sonata Pian’e Forte performed by the combined brass of the Duke Symphony Orchestra & Duke Wind Symphony, Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, conducting. 8pm. Page Auditorium. Free.

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