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Turkey, Israel gaining political influence,

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Top college basketball teams remain predictable, study says, Page 3

onTherecord“She was a devoted friend, an intelligent engineer and a true connoisseur with regards to living life to the fullest.” —Pratt graduate Mollie Oudenhoven on friend Lindsay Rawot See story page 3

DPS admin reflects on his first year

‘Bull’s Eye’ credited for 10-year crime low

by Tong XiangTHE CHRONICLE

Reflecting on the first year of his tenure, Durham Public Schools Superintendent Eric Becoats said he plans to focus on im-proving low-performing schools, develop-ing and retaining good teachers, recruiting strong administrators and expanding com-munity partnerships.

Becoats—who wore a pinstripe suit, pais-ley tie and French cuffs—spoke yesterday in the Duke Chapel about his background as a “non-traditional educator.” After grad-uating with degrees in finance, Becoats began a career in banking. But after work-ing with high school students in a weekend tutoring program, he decided to pursue an administrative position with Baltimore City Public Schools.

“I really didn’t want to... continue in bank-ing [because] basically what I was doing was increasing individuals’ debt,” he said. “My heart and soul was making sure that students had what they really needed.”

When asked by Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells about the effect of race on education policy in Durham, Becoats skirted the ques-tion to speak about general diversity.

“I do think that this a prime place to show that diversity can work and that it does work and that it can work in a school system,” he said. “I am an advocate for di-versity—you can look at it in terms of gen-der, socioeconomic status or race.”

Both leaders emphasized the need for more community partners to support a school district affected by socioeconomic problems.

“You are over the threshold of society’s unresolved issues which all come through your door,” Wells said to Becoats. “And yet you haven’t got a lot of colleagues in ad-dressing those issues.”

In response, Becoats identified key part-ners in the community—the DPS Board of Education, the city government and the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce—with whom he hopes to forge deeper part-nerships.

“This is a rich community... and people want to help,” Becoats said. “At the end of the day, I want kids to really be able to say to me that I’ve received a quality education and that they can do whatever they desire after school.”

This year’s Dean’s Dialogues series aims to examine the Duke-Durham relationship. In the previous two lectures, Wells empha-sized the need for Duke students to invest themselves in their community—a theme

Ledbetter discusses wage discriminationby Kinnari Bhojani

THE CHRONICLE

When Lilly Ledbetter realized her employer of 19 years paid her significantly less than her male counterparts, she was deter-mined to make things fair for herself and other women—and she did.

Ledbetter took her case for workers’ rights all the way to the Supreme Court, and later Congress. In January 2009, she be-came the namesake of the first legislative act President Barack Obama signed into law—the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which

improved an employee’s rights to challenge wage discrimination. The act amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of race and sex.

Ledbetter’s search for justice was not an easy one, and she spoke to an audience of about 40 professors and students in Perkins Library yesterday about her endeavors to improve work-ers’ rights. Her talk celebrated the beginning of Women’s His-tory Month, and was sponsored by the Duke Office for Institu-tional Equity, Baldwin Scholars and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture. It was followed by a question and answer session moderated by Nancy Zisk, professor at the Charleston School of Law.

In her speech, Ledbetter encouraged students who will be en-tering the workforce soon to take an interest in employee rights. Although Ledbetter’s efforts have strengthened workers’ rights, issues concerning pay inequality still exist today. Now, white women still make 77 cents for every dollar that their male coun-terparts make, and the discrepancy is even larger for minorities, she noted.

Ledbetter had served as a supervisor in four divisions at Good-year Tire and Rubber Co. in Gadsden, Ala., when she received an anonymous note stating that her male counterparts were making $500 more per month than her.

“I felt devastated and humiliated when I got that note,” she said. “I got shortchanged not only in my overtime and my pay twice a month, but I get shortchanged today and I will for the rest of my life.”

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by Chinmayi SharmaTHE CHRONICLE

When it comes to crime-fight-ing, Durham seems to have hit the bull’s eye.

Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez announced Feb. 21 that the city’s crime rate has reached a 10-year all time low and attributed much of the 31 percent drop to “Opera-tion Bull’s Eye,” a sustained effort to concentrate police resources in a two-square-mile portion of north-east Durham identified as an epi-center of crime. The operation, which began in August 2007, has re-duced violent gun crime in the ar-ea—the initiative’s primary focus—by 57 percent and drug-related calls to 911 by 38 percent, according to the Durham Police Department’s annual report for 2010.

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tunis, tunisia — the violence in libya threatened to turn into a hu-manitarian crisis tuesday as thousands of people fleeing into tunisia were overwhelming relief efforts, creating a bottleneck of evacuees stranded on the libyan side of the border.

u.n. officials moved to erect a tent city to shelter the more than 15,000 people arriving each day, largely egyp-tian migrant workers but also libyans as well as oil workers and menial la-borers from chad, sudan and nations as distant as Bangladesh and china.

More than 75,000 people had al-ready arrived in tunisia since the up-rising against libyan leader Moammar gadhafi began Feb. 17, but the sharply increasing flows over the dusty desert crossing of ras Jdir was forcing tuni-sian authorities to periodically close the border to stem the tide.

coluMBus, ohio — thousands of union supporters descended on the ohio statehouse tuesday to protest a proposal to dramatically curtail bar-gaining powers of government work-ers, as the state becomes the latest flash point in the fight over union rights.

like their counterparts in Wiscon-sin, protesters here accused lawmakers and gov. John kasich, r, of trying to use a budget crisis to destroy public-sector unions. government workers did not cause the crisis and should not bear the brunt of it, protesters said.

But unlike the ongoing standoff in Wisconsin, democrats don’t have the numbers to walk out and delay a vote. supporters said that a measure, which would go further than the one in Wis-consin by also affecting police officers and firefighters, could emerge from the state senate Wednesday.

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Physicians to petition NIH on animal research

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Friday in the city of Taiz, Yemen, a man holds a little boy as they march to denounce President Ali Ab-dullah Saleh. Residents of Taiz are urging the President to step down in an effort to protest the gov-ernment neglecting their region. Taiz’s residents include a large number of ambitious, middle-class families who are emboldened by President Saleh’s pledge to step down in 2013 when his term ends.

“With tournament season fast approaching, it’s time to look at duke’s biggest problems, how to fix them, and what kind of team the Blue devils want to see down the stretch. this past week, against temple and virginia tech, several strengths and weaknesses were brought to the forefront, including both recurring issues and newer realizations.”

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by Melissa DalisTHE CHRONICLE

The Duke men’s basketball team may have suffered a loss to Virginia Tech Sat-urday, but a recent report suggests that top college basketball teams—including Duke—will always dominate.

Predicting March Madness is no dif-ferent from predicting design in other flowing aspects of nature, according to a recent report conducted by Duke re-searchers. These systems—such as river basins, migration, lightning and animal movement—are governed by the “con-structal” law, which states that everything that evolves in nature tends to flow more easily over time.

In a flow system like basketball, there is a visible and rigid configuration hierarchy, said Adrian Bejan, J.A. Jones professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of “The Natural Design of Hierarchy: Basket-ball versus Academics,” which appeared in Monday’s International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics. In terms of the constructal law—an idea which Bejan proposed in 1996—March Madness is sim-ply a system with a continuously improv-

ing structure. “In this case it has to do with the play-

ers,” said Perry Haynsworth, Pratt ’09 a for-mer student of Bejan and contributor to the study. “The easiest path for these high school basketball players to the NBA is to the top 10 schools, and because of that these top 10 schools have more success.”

Basketball’s hierarchy is rigid and well-defined, with only a handful of key leaders—Duke; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Kentucky; Kansas University; and a few others, Bejan said. The study found that these top teams will contin-ue to dominate the sport.

Breaking into the top tier of teams is extremely difficult, Haynsworth noted. To do this, a university would need to increase spending for its program and recruiting. He added that breaking out of the top rank is also difficult, as shown by the fact that the number of Final Four appearances drops considerably after the top five to 10 schools.

“The principle is that winning will return

Top college basketball teams remain constant

Former student was source of ‘inspiration and strength’

by Samantha BrooksTHE CHRONICLE

To her friends and peers, Lindsay Rawot embodied courage, enthusiasm and optimism.

Rawot, Pratt ’09, passed away Sunday at the age of 23 after a two-year battle with non-Hodgkin’s lympho-ma. She was diagnosed with the cancer in No-vember 2008, during her senior year.

Rawot, a native of Bentleyville, Ohio,

graduated with a degree in civil and en-vironmental engineering as a General Motors Scholar and member of the Pratt Research Fellowship Program.

“She was a devoted friend, an intel-ligent engineer and a true connoisseur with regards to living life to the fullest,” Mollie Oudenhoven, Pratt ’09 and friend of Rawot, wrote in an e-mail. “She will be sorely missed. A huge void now remains within both the Pratt community and the greater Duke community as well.”

According to Lauren Wessel, Pratt ’09, Rawot was extremely gifted in her engineering studies. While at Duke, Ra-wot designed and began a program that “utilized the power of real-world data... in conjunction with wet-lab learning” to form an online laboratory meant to en-gage students in engineering, environ-mental science, chemistry, biology and

technology, Wessell explained. Rawot also earned the Eric I. Pas Award, which recognizes civil engineering seniors who have conducted the “most outstanding” independent study projects.

Apart from academics, Rawot was ac-tive both on and off campus through so-cial activities and volunteer work. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority as well as a volunteer for the Emily K Center and Habitat for Humanity. She also studied abroad at the University of Queensland in Australia Fall 2007.

Emily Roesing, Trinity ’09 and Ra-wot’s four-year roommate and sorority sister, wrote in an e-mail that Rawot had a unique relationship with members of her sorority because she went through recruitment as a sophomore.

“She was thrilled to join as a sopho-more and felt especially dedicated to her mostly-freshmen pledge class,” Roesing said. “In turn, her characteristic enthusi-asm and appetite for fun left an indelible mark on the chapter and the members who knew her.”

During the spring of her senior year, Ra-wot and close friend Amanda Zwilling, Trin-ity ’09, co-hosted an event for the I’m Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation in or-der to raise money for the organization and spread awareness about lymphoma.

“Lindsay is a constant source of inspira-tion and strength not only for her family and friends, but for all those whose paths she

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to a campus such as Duke because Duke is one of those channels of processing the best talent in the country,” Bejan said.

That hierarchy has evolved over a pe-riod of years and will not be affected by the outcome of a single tournament, Be-jan said. He added that March Madness is analogous to the morphing of a river basin or any other flowing system.

The constructal law is not about predict-ing what will happen in this year’s tourna-ment specifically, but it can statistically determine who will make it to the tourna-ment over a long period of time.

“The prediction is that, after this particular March Madness, the hierarchy of who’s who in basketball will be completely unchanged,” Be-jan said. “The hierarchy we have in our minds today will be the same as in mid-April.”

Because basketball is featured in popu-lar culture, the study used the sport to relay the theory of constructal law to the general public.

“There is nothing more pleasing in aca-demia than talking to your colleagues in a language that is actually understood by a man on the street,” Bejan said.

The paper draws a distinction between academic and athletic long-term success. Each of the categories has its own path and history—most schools excel in only one arena, with only a few exceptions.

Ability to predict university and basketball results based on a few key leaders does have its limits as represented by fluctuations, such as Duke’s recent loss. The rigid hierarchy, however, will not change, Bejan said.

“Even if the president of Duke decides to discontinue basketball tomorrow, Amer-ica will think that Duke is a powerhouse,” Bejan said.

Panelists evaluate Turkey as a model for democracyby Ian ZhangTHE CHRONICLE

As old regimes in the Arab world dissolve, a new voice is asserting itself on contentious regional issues. Now the world’s 15th largest economy, Turkey is quickly becoming a powerful voice in Middle Eastern politics.

To address the changing political landscape of northern Africa and the Middle East, the Sanford School of Public Policy held a discussion Tuesday with two journalists who fol-low Middle Eastern politics, focusing especially on Turkey and Israel. In a panel titled “Israel-Turkey and the Greater Middle East,” Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, and Semih Idiz, a Turkish columnist and in-ternational television commentator, each gave speeches and answered questions on the recent developments in the two countries and changes to their relationship.

The democracy that Turkey has nurtured has not gone

unnoticed by countries like Egypt, Idiz said. Egypt is watch-ing Turkey, which has shown that democracy and Islam are not entirely incompatible.

“How can a 99 percent Muslim country attain a level of ad-vancement and democracy and actually be part of the develop-ing new world where it is increasingly influential?” Idiz said.

Idiz noted that there is significant talk about a Turkish model of democracy and whether it can be replicated in other Muslim countries like Egypt, Tunisia or Libya. He said there is an ongoing debate over the extent to which the nation’s democracy can be used as a template for oth-er governments. Idiz personally believes that Turkey as a model for democracy has at times been misinterpreted.

“It was a model that did not emerge overnight. It emerged as a result of what I call the school of hard knocks,” he said. “If there is anything in the Turkish model argument, it shows that this is not an easy path for these countries to follow.”

Beyond addressing the idea that Islam and democracy are not mutually exclusive concepts, Bronner and Idiz both mentioned the increasingly complex relationship be-tween Turkey and Israel.

In May, the relationship between the two countries was strained after Israel raided an aid ship headed to Gaza, killing nine people in the process, many of whom were Turks. Bron-ner also noted that Israel perceives “the niceness” Turkey is showing toward Iran as undermining the economic sanctions that Israel and the United States believe could be effective.

Idiz said the two countries previously had a relationship that was “sustained through thick and thin” but “recently went sour.” Both speakers were disheartened with the pros-pect of future relations between the two countries.

“The first thing to say of course, is that the state of Israe-li-Turkey relations as they are today means that something is out of joint,” Idiz said.

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Adrian Bejan, J.A. Jones Professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of “The Natural Design of Hierarchy: Basketball versus Academics,” proposes that the hierarchy of basketball is rigid and well-defined.

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he reiterated yesterday. “I see a lot of students who, through Teach for Amer-

ica... will take two or three years teaching public schools, but I don’t see many seeing a life in teaching,” Wells said. “How do you foster a culture in which a Duke undergradu-ate would see themselves as having a whole life future in teaching?”

About 40 individuals attended the lecture, including Duke faculty and members of the community. Sam Migla-rese, director of community engagement at Duke’s Office of Durham and Regional Affairs, said he was impressed by Becoats.

“I really feel strongly [that] the commitment of [Be-coats] to Durham Public schools is extraordinary,” Migla-rese said. “I think he’s been very open to working with Dr. Phail Wynn [vice president for Durham and regional affairs] in the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership and we have 400 student tutors [working in DPS] at any given time.”

Recognizing that he leads a school district plagued by high dropout rates for African-American males, Becoats closed on a personal note to emphasize that his commu-nity enabled him for success, and he believes Durham can do the same for its students.

“I was not the perfect child in school,” he said. “There was a triangle of support for me. My principal, my coun-selor and my social studies teacher put me in the middle and they told me, ‘You’re going to be successful.’”

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In a speech at the Duke chapel Tuesday, Durham Public Schools Su-perintendent eric Becoats described his priorities for the future.

crossed,” Zwilling said. “[We] rallied hundreds of family mem-bers and friends, traveling from all over the country to support her efforts and celebrate her continued survivorship. Lindsay’s passion, optimism, strength, and perseverance will forever be with everyone who had the pleasure of knowing her.”

Rawot returned to Durham after graduation in Sep-tember 2009 to receive a stem-cell transplant from the Duke University Medical Center. While back in the city, some of Rawot’s friends and former classmates helped organized an event on campus to demonstrate support for her illness. Jen Zwilling, a junior and Amanda’s sister, organized the DKMS Bone Marrow Donor Registration Drive March 22, 2010 in honor of Rawot.

Rawot’s funeral will take place March 4 in Cleveland, Ohio after a visitation ceremony March 3. Many of her civil engineering classmates have contributed a combined $1,000 to the I’m Too Young For This! organization in her honor.

“The vivacity with which Lindsay lived often made me think that she lived too much and too deeply too quickly,” Wessell said. “While I know that this is not true, I would give anything to have her by my side for just a second longer.”

amount was later reduced to $360,000. After the lawsuit, Goodyear changed Ledbetter’s job

description from supervisor to technical engineer—a posi-tion that required physical labor that would have left Led-better crippled had she continued in her job.

With the help of a pro-bono lawyer, Ledbetter took her case to the Supreme Court in 2006, but the court ruled against Ledbetter in 2007 because she had exceeded the 180-day statutory period of limitations within which she should have submitted her claim. Ledbetter, however, was determined to open this “Pandora’s box” to seek justice.

“I thought about letting it go, but I couldn’t. There is no way. So I stayed with it,” she said of her persistent efforts to challenge the Supreme Court ruling.

Ledbetter began lobbying Congress to broaden the time period during which an employee can file discrimina-tion lawsuits challenging their employers. Eventually, law-makers decided to take up Ledbetter’s cause in Congress and proposed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

The passage of the act marks one of the many efforts Ledbetter has taken to be proactive in the protection of workers’ rights. She has also appeared on NPR and ABC News, and in Equal Employment Opportunity Com-mission training videos and programs designed for law schools in an attempt to spread more awareness about workers’ rights.

Ledbetter’s efforts have also raised further questions about the discrimination in the workplace, noted Zisk, Trinity ’80 and Law ’83, in her moderator remarks after Ledbetter’s speech. Zisk said Title VII also does not ac-count for persons to be eligible for compensation if they discover discrimination after they retire.

Several students at the talk said Ledbetter’s experienc-es can be used as a learning experience in the classroom and in society.

“As a woman [entering] the workplace, her story en-courages me to fight for my own rights,” said junior Zi-fan Lin, who attended the speech for her class “Women at Work.”

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by Scott RichTHE CHRONICLE

Clemson may be Duke’s opponent in Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight, but they are hardly the main attraction.

When the No. 4 Blue Devils (26-3, 12-2 in the ACC) step onto Coach K court for the final time this season at 9 p.m., the attention will instead be on Duke’s stellar senior class, who will be playing in college basketball’s most storied venue for the final time.

But while the eyes of the fans will be on Kyle Singler, Nolan Smith and Casey Peters, the seniors know that the game itself is still the most important thing—especially if the Blue Devils are to claim the ACC regular season title with victo-ries in their final two games.

“First thing that comes to mind is to win,” Smith said. “Thinking back over all the wins I’ve had in Cameron, there’s go-ing to be nothing better than to put on a great performance in my last game here.”

Emotions will certainly run high for this senior class, though, who brought Duke’s fourth national title to Durham last season and, with a victory, would graduate with a 65-2 record in Cameron as well as the longest active home winning streak in the country.

The two players who have been there for the whole ride, Smith and Singler, have had a relationship that has run the gaunt-

let of experiences during their four years as Blue Devils. Their first year on campus was a tumultuous one that ended with a second round exit from the NCAA Tourna-ment. Two years later, however, they found themselves on top of the college basketball world and decided together to return for one last season at Duke.

“The decision was easy because we want-ed to come back and wear the Duke jersey

some more, win more games and lead this team,” Smith said. “Our junior year is when we became brothers.... Living together, do-ing everything together off the court, our relationship has been great, and we want to finish this year off the way we planned coming back for our senior years.”

The two will have to put their relation-ship and emotions to the side, though, in order to win one more game against a des-

perate Clemson (19-9, 8-6) team that finds itself squarely on the bubble as Selection Sunday approaches.

That’s something that associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski knows well from his experiences both as a coach and a player for the Blue Devils.

“When you know it’s the last time you’ll put a uniform on in Cameron, there’s a lot of different emotions,” Wojciechowski said.

“There’s a lot to celebrate with these guys, but when the ball goes in the air for the jump ball you need to put all that to the side and focus on the task at hand.”

That task is to beat the Tigers, who face a similar situation as Duke’s last opponent, Virginia Tech, in that a win could take them off the bubble and secure a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Clemson is com-ing off two straight wins and very nearly up-set North Carolina three weeks ago, losing to the Tar Heels by just two points.The Tigers also have the experience to

weather what is sure to be a hostile Cam-eron crowd. The Tigers boast eight up-perclassmen on the roster, and most have had successful careers under former head coach Oliver Purnell.

When Purnell left the university to coach DePaul, though, Brad Brownell took the

If you’re good at something, people are always eager to notice when you don’t meet your usual standards. The Atlantic Coast Conference and basket-ball have been synonymous with success for a long time, and as the dominance

of the ACC in the national basket-ball landscape has diminished in the past few years, critics have been more than happy to point that out.

But while the arguments against

the ACC aren’t without merit, that doesn’t mean the conference lacks the potential to make a postseason impact.

Defense is the name of the game for several of the underrated teams in the conference, and good defensive teams are often strong candidates to be post-season surprises. The ACC is full of such teams. Virginia Tech has been dec-imated by injuries, but as they showed against Duke on Saturday, they’ve still got plenty of heart and a defense that

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Casey Peters, Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith will all play their last games in Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight, facing off against a Clemson team on the bubble.

THE LAST HOMESTAND

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“There’s going to be nothing better than to put on a great

performance in my last game here.”

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>> INSIDE Laetitia Beck and Lindy Duncan [pictured] both finished in a tie for third at the Suger Bowl Intercol-legiate. Duke also finished T-3 overall. PAGE 9

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by Matt LevenbergTHE CHRONICLE

Riding a six-game winning streak heading into Tues-day’s matchup against in-state rival High Point, Duke looked to maintain its momentum and improve to 8-1.

But the Panthers (4-5) had different plans, tallying 17 hits in a 9-3 victory over the Blue Devils (7-2).

In his second career start, fresh-man Drew Van Orden began the game with three scoreless innings, but in the top of the fourth the wheels came off for Van Orden and Duke.

High Point batted around the order, and the dagger came with leadoff shortstop Mike Mercurio at the plate. Mercurio, who finished the day 3-for-5 with three RBI, came through for his team with the bases loaded and a 3-1 lead, driving a line-drive double down the rightfield line. He knocked in all three runners to cap off a six-run fourth inning.

“Mercurio is a good player and a very good hitter,” head coach Sean McNally said. “We went after him and he made us pay. That’s what good hitters do.”

Duke had several chances to score off High Point start-ing pitcher Drew Dades. Dades surrendered six hits and five walks through five-plus innings. In the second inning, all three of the Blue Devils’ outs came at third base. Although the bottom of Duke’s order has produced thus far this season, they did not offer much help yesterday as the six through nine hitters went a combined 2-for-14 in the game.

Despite surrendering six runs in the third, the Blue Devils had a chance to battle back in the sixth. Catcher Jeff Kremer began the inning with an infield single and scored on a long double by freshman Jordan Betts, cutting the High Point lead to four. With a runner on second with no outs, the Pan-thers went to the bullpen. Reliever Spencer Andrews battled out of a jam by getting designated hitter Dennis O’grady to foul out to first, and then he struck out outfielders Anthony D’Alessandro and Joe Pedevillano back-to-back.

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Sophomore catcher Jeff Kremer went 2-for-2 in the contest, finish-ing with a single, double and his ninth RbI of the year.

3 named to All-ACC teamJasmine Thomas named to first team for 2nd straight year

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As the Blue Devils prepare for the upcoming ACC tournament, Jasmine Thomas, Krystal Thomas and Chelsea gray earned All-ACC honors for their standout regular season performances.

Senior Jasmine Thomas was named to the All-ACC first team for the second time in her career, placing her in the elite company of past Duke stars Alana Beard, Monique Currie, georgia Schweitzer and Iciss Tillis. At least one Blue Devil has been named to the All-ACC first team in 12 of the last 13 seasons.

Thomas is averaging 14.9 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists this season. Her statistics fail, though, to show her importance in the clutch, as Thomas has repeatedly stepped up for the Blue Devils this year and hit shots with the game on the line.

Fellow senior Krystal Thomas was named to the All-ACC third team after leading the ACC in rebounding with 9.0 boards per game. She is averaging 8.3 points per game this season, and has excelled in ACC contests, leading the conference with 10.3 rebounds per game in 14 league matchups.

Although gray has seen limited playing time recently due to the flu and an ankle injury, she still earned All-ACC honorable mention honors. The freshman aver-aged 8.3 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game. gray also played some of her best basketball in confer-ence play, tallying six double-figure scoring performanc-es in ACC matchups.

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allows just 62.9 points per game to com-plement a dangerous inside-outside duo in Malcolm Delaney and Jeff Allen.

Clemson’s defensive chops are the most impressive, as the Tigers’ 60 points allowed per game rank them 12th in the nation, with most of the teams ahead of them playing in smaller conferences or the much slower-paced Big Ten. Their execution on the offensive end leaves something to be desired, but their excel-lent length and athleticism could give any opponent fits as tournament time rolls around. Their 19-9 record may not ap-pear especially impressive, but consider that their losses have been by an average of less than five points, with their only double-digit defeat coming at the hands of North Carolina on the road.

Yet the Tigers are an example of an ACC team—for a change—not getting the credit it deserves. ESPN bracketolo-gist Joe Lunardi currently does not proj-ect Clemson to crack the top 68.

Maryland joins Clemson in the pile of teams that Lunardi says will be playing in the NIT instead of battling for a national championship in the Big Dance. But in addition to solid team defense, the Terra-pins possess another attribute that could cause trouble for opponents: a player who can take over all phases of a game. Jordan Williams has emerged as one of the na-tion’s best post players, ranking fifth in the

conference in scoring, first in rebounding and first by a wide margin in free-throw at-tempts. He’s also an excellent shot block-er and he rarely turns the ball over, so he’s the kind of player who can single-handed-ly control a game when he’s on.

North Carolina represents another team flying under the radar. The Duke faithful have especially enjoyed the Tar Heels’ relative fallow period in the recent past, but the trio of Tyler Zeller, Harrison Barnes and John Henson has the sheer talent to dominate any game. Although Barnes and Henson have not lived up to lofty expectations, their recent per-formances suggest an ability to sustain a higher level of play—Henson has av-eraged 12.3 points and 12.4 rebounds over his last nine games, and Barnes has chipped in 17.9 points and 6.7 boards during that same span.

Duke has games remaining against two of these squads, Clemson and North Carolina, and then will undoubtedly face one or more of them in the ACC tourna-ment. The Blue Devils will have to be on top of their game if they want to make it through that stretch unscathed.

But as an ACC team themselves, they know firsthand just how dangerous some of these teams can be.

It’ll be the teams from the rest of the country, who have been reading the national press, who will be sur-prised to get tripped up by an unde-rhyped squad from an undeservingly downtrodden conference.

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High Point’s other big bat, Steve Antolik, entered the game batting .400, and he stayed hot. In the seventh Antolik ripped a double past the outstretched glove of third baseman Betts to score teammate Sal Pezzino and make the score 8-2, effectively killing Duke’s chances of a comeback. Eight of the Pan-thers’ nine batters recorded at least one hit.

McNally erased any idea about the defeat being a good loss, saying the Blue Devils played a better game in their previous loss against Richmond Feb. 19. Duke allowed two players to reach base on bunts which were intended to be sacrifice bunts, and they also had multiple baserunners thrown out, wiping away scoring opportunities.

“Mentally we weren’t sharp today,” Mc-Nally said. “We had guys coming off a good weekend. They were feeling good and re-laxing—they had an off-day yesterday. Let’s hope this is a lesson moving forward.”

reigns at Clemson and instituted a different defensive style that saw similar results. Indeed, his high pressure half-court defense has had just as much, if not more, success as Purnell’s full-court trapping scheme, as the Tigers have allowed only 60 points per game this season.

“Clemson is an outstanding defensive team,” Wojciechowski said. “They do the best job of anyone in our league of pres-suring the ball.”

Regardless of whether Clemson pulls off the upset or Duke gets the win, once the final buzzer sounds, the attention of Cam-eron will once again be squarely on Singler, Smith and Peters.

It’s something that the normally effer-vescent Smith knows and, in a way, dreads.

“I’m an emotional guy,” Smith said. “We take care of business, get the win, and I ex-pect my after-the-game speech to be very short, so the guys don’t see me cry.”

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Freshman Laetitia Beck shot a 66 on day one and led the Sugar Bowl Inter-collegiate for a time before ultimately finishing in a tie for third at the tourna-ment, which wrapped up play Tuesday.

The Caesarea, Israel, native’s impressive performance was matched by Blue Devil Lindy Duncan, who shot a 68 on the final day to also finish in a tie for third. Duke ultimately finished T-3 with a score of 15-over at the event played at at the 6,105-yard English Turn golf and Country Club.

Southern California won the 54-hole tournament, shooting an 868, and Alabama finished close behind with an 872. No. 5 Duke and Tulane came in third with an 879.

After Beck’s career-best round of 66 on Sunday, the freshman shot a 76 and a 71 to finish the tournament with a 213. Duncan took a much different route to her 213, starting off the tournament with a 73 then shooting rounds of 72 and 68 on days two and three, respectively.

Beck and Duncan were followed by Aleja Cangrejo, who went 76, 75, 76 to finish T-49 with a 227. The freshman finished her first spring tournament with a birdie on the final hole.

Kim Donovan and Stacey Kim both shot a 231 over the 54 holes to finish T-65. Courtney Ellenbogen, playing as an individual, shot 232.

Duke plays again March 11-13 in Ba-ton Rouge, La. in the LSU Invitational.

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During a recent visit to campus, former president Nan Keohane was asked whether she had any regrets about her time at Duke.

“I wish we could’ve con-nected to UNC more... I wish we could’ve done more collaboration with neighboring universi-ties,” she said in an interview with The Chronicle.

Robert Steel, former chair of Duke’s Board of Trustees and Trinity ’73, echoed a simi-lar theme in his Founder’s Day address last Fall, arguing that the University needs to “more actively collaborate with our neighboring institutions.”

We agree with Steel’s claim that Duke’s proximity to other Triangle universities is a “com-petitive advantage” that should be recognized more often.

Two events last week particu-larly exemplified the pros and cons of collaboration.

Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced early last week

that a joint committee se-lected the non-

fiction book “Eating Animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer as the Class of 2015 summer reading book at both schools.

This represents a frivolous partnership with UNC—its only apparent purpose that Foer may visit both campuses on a single trip. The choice also raises the question of whether Duke capitulated to UNC’s historic preference for non-fiction books.

The summer reading book is an avenue to provide a bond-ing experience that is unique to Duke freshmen, as students

spend Orientation Week build-ing familiarity with their cam-pus and their classmates.

Choosing the book through a joint process ignores impor-tant considerations that are specific to Duke. For example, summer reading book discus-sions at UNC are faculty-led whereas students conduct them at Duke.

Successful collaboration with UNC should be based on mutual interests and meaning-ful connections, not collabora-tions of convenience that im-pinge upon the distinctiveness of student experiences.

One promising partnership occurred last weekend with the exhibition of the inaugural Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit. The two-day event hosted on both campuses fea-tured student and faculty lec-turers from Duke and UNC,

as well as business leaders from the Research Triangle Park.

Organizers of the confer-ence are planning to make it an annual affair, and par-ticipants from North Caro-lina State University may be added next year.

This type of grassroots col-laboration, led by students and faculty, is the sort that ought to be prioritized.

As the University strives to follow the ideals laid out by former leaders like Keohane and Steel, it should evaluate whether true synergies can be created in each endeavor. As illustrated by this year’s sum-mer reading selection, collab-oration merely for the sake of collaborating has no real ben-efit and can compromise our educational integrity.

Duke has already accom-plished much by associating

with UNC and other schools during the past decade.

The Robertson Scholars Program is a brilliant con-cept, despite its recent strug-gles with ineffective and in-consistent leadership. Duke also shares library resources with UNC, N.C. State and North Carolina Central Uni-versity via the Triangle Re-search Libraries Network.

Taking courses in Chapel Hill is relatively convenient, and Duke and UNC faculty tend to dialogue frequently as well.

As a private school sur-rounded by resource-laden public institutions that must answer to a centralized Board of Governors, Duke should continue to pursue greater col-laboration while recognizing that it has the freedom to de-cline superficial engagements.

It was a typical chilly Saturday morning in No-vember in Durham. As a Duke tour guide led his group past the athletic campus, a parent con-

fronted him with a difficult question: “Why are all these people dressed up as fairies and bodybuilders?”

The tradition known as “Tail-gate” has continued to perplex visitors, faulty, administration and many students since its inception. Why college kids would get up at 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning and emerge bearing tutus and Speedos in 40-degree weather is perplexing. Why they would then hang around to be bathed in beer only to pass out and never reach the game is beyond many peo-ples’ comprehension.

Just ask any student down the road at the Uni-versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where there is not even a designated student tailgate area. Of course, Tar Heels tailgate, but the celebration is more subdued and might involve grilling hot dogs and hamburgers, playing beanbag toss at frat houses and then actually going to the game.

Neither Duke nor UNC has a “traditional” col-lege pregame ritual, and neither student body seems to be entirely satisfied. Here at Duke, many students feel alienated by a social scene that, at times, promotes alcohol over athletics. Twelve miles down 15-501, UNC doesn’t even have a uni-fied place to celebrate tailgate.

Neither Duke’s nor UNC’s tailgate is ideal. Duke even cancelled its final Tailgate of 2010 due to safety concerns. This Monday, Duke Student Government (DSG) held an open campus forum in which students could contribute their ideas for how to restructure Tailgate. In the coming weeks, DSG, students and administration will work to re-structure Duke’s pre-game tradition and create a permanent solution that we can all support. In doing so, all parties involved should create an al-ternative that reflects the lessons we have learned from both Duke’s and UNC’s experiences.

First, create a community. UNC doesn’t have any effective way of bringing a sizeable part of the 18,000 undergraduates together to create camara-derie. A hefty dose of liquid confidence certainly helps, but Duke’s Tailgate creates a communal ex-perience that is unrivaled at UNC. Students who otherwise might not see each other come togeth-

er in one giant beer shower. Duke should seek to recreate an environment where everybody, sports fans and studyaholics alike, can come together

and enjoy a great Duke tradition (minus the shower, of course).

Second, don’t go big and go home. UNC students would scoff at the idea of not actually making it to the game to support their team. Have a drink or five if you want, but don’t let tailgating become the boorish fashion show that ours be-came. When the pregame becomes the game, and your friend actually has to consult the instructions on the back of his party monitor shirt

to find out whether your situation warrants call-ing 911, then you’ve had too much to drink. With the Blue Devils coming back from a 3-9 season, the team will continue to need our support in the stands.

Third, preserve the integrity of our image. Game days in Chapel Hill draw legions of town-ies and alumni who intermingle with the students, reminiscing about their college days and sharing their pride in the school that UNC has become since their glory days. On the other hand, Duke has received negative publicity lately as headlines across the country condemn its Tailgate extrava-gance. College students do many things they wouldn’t want their parents or future employers to know about. Poor decisions may be inevitable, but there is no need to make a spectacle of them. Football Saturdays draw significant attention from visitors, alumni and viewers across the country. We need to present an image that we are proud of and not one that would embarrass former Blue Devils or make our parents demand a refund.

Tailgating is a great college tradition, and it’s one that should be part of every Duke student’s experience. Let’s take advantage of this oppor-tunity to learn from UNC’s mistakes—and our own—and design a creative new Tailgate experi-ence that reflects our Blue Devil pride. It need not be a sober affair, but I also hope that when Duke tour guides are asked about Tailgate traditions in the future, they don’t need to come up with an excuse to cover up an embarrassing situation.

Chris Edelman is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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I was sick last week.In my medical opinion, my illness was among the

worst colds ever suffered. It was a cold so brutal and suffocating that Coach K might want to use it to guard Harrison Barnes. If the ter-rorists knew this cold exist-ed, they’d use it as a biologi-cal weapon. It was the swine flu of colds.

At least, that’s how it seemed to me.

Because the truth is, now that I’m on the mend, it was only a cold. Even when I was sick, I had no doubt that I’d get better in a matter of days. While some of my patients’ illnesses carry mortal-ity rates approaching 100 percent, I knew that there was an approximately 0 percent chance that my condition would kill me. And still, it was pretty awful.

I couldn’t go work in the hospital. I couldn’t go to parties with my friends. I couldn’t play intramural sports. I couldn’t cook, or clean up after myself or do much of anything besides lie around on my couch and feel sorry for myself.

But the unexpected break from my regularly-sched-uled life gave me time to think, for the first time in a while, about what being sick meant. And, even though my own illness could never be considered serious, it gave me more of an insiders’ view on sickness than I’ve had in a while.

Medical students don’t take much time to think about what being sick means. Being sick is for patients, not for us. Doctors—and med students—don’t have time to be sick. In fact, a recent survey of medical residents showed that nearly 60 percent showed up for work when sick at least once in the preceding year. Last Thursday, the day before I stayed home from work with my cold, I took a DayQuil and attempted to ignore my burning eyes, run-ning nose and pounding headache. One of my patients, when I told her I hoped she felt better soon, responded, “I hope you feel better soon.”

But the pressure to show up for work when sick isn’t external; rather, it’s internal. And it has a lot to do with what sickness means, and what health means and how we, as physicians and trainee physicians, define our identity.

Sickness and health are somewhat slippery terms. It’s intuitively obvious that the two are opposites: Sickness is the absence of health; health is the absence of sickness.

Friday, when I missed work, I was sick. Today, I’m at work and I’ll go to the Duke-Clemson basketball game; I’m healthy.

The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.” Further efforts to define health have focused on quality of life, since mere duration of life seems inadequate to capture “complete physical, mental and social well-being.”

The University of Toronto defines quality of life as comprising the areas of being, belonging and becom-ing—very loosely, who you are, who you hang out with and what you do. For medical students and trainee phy-sicians, all of these areas seem to converge at the hospi-tal. We are the caretakers of the sick; we hang out with other caretakers of the sick at the hospital; we help take care of sick people. For us, illness strikes at all phases of our identity—if we ourselves are sick, then we cannot be caretakers of the sick, cannot hang out with caretakers of the sick, cannot take care of sick people.

So we resist the label. We show up for work when we’re ill, ignoring the danger in which we put ourselves and our patients.

Our patients’ illnesses pose a similar threat to their being, belonging and becoming. No matter whom they hang out with or what they do, serious illness prevents them from leading their daily lives. The threat of death is a literal threat to one’s being. And, unlike my own minor illness, most of my patients have chronic illnesses. Even if they recover, they will never be quite whole again.

In comparison, my cold seems like no big deal. Maybe I should’ve shown up for work.

Alex Fanaroff is a fourth-year medical student. His column runs every Wednesday.

A break from spring break

lettertotheeditorCameron Crazies: an endangered species?

Duke Undergrads,I am a Duke alumnus and an Iron Duke with bas-

ketball season tickets. I have the pleasure of normally being upstairs in Cameron for almost all games. At the Feb. 20 Georgia Tech game, I had my former room-mate from Duke in town, and we were able to get tick-ets in the student’s section. When we picked up our tickets, I was very surprised to find out we were sitting in the main student’s section, directly across from the Duke bench. When I was a Duke student in 1983-1987, the early years of Coach K’s incredible Duke career, the graduate students were upstairs in the corner, and almost all of the bleacher seating was reserved for undergraduate students. Today many of the seats available to undergrads when I was an undergrad are no longer available. The area behind the benches is almost all allocated to the athletic department, and the end zones are now occupied by the graduate stu-dents. Yet with more undergrads at Duke today than ever before and less undergrad seating available, the undergrad seating is not filled for most games?

I don’t get it. There are 1,000 seats for 6,000+ undergrads. You are an undergrad at the best bas-ketball program in the last 20+ years, and have a free ticket to see your team play in what is arguably the best venue in college basketball. How about carving out a couple of hours from your other ac-tivities, studying or whatever you are doing and get out to a game?

So, are Cameron Crazies an endangered species? I hope not. We have rejected building a big arena to keep our home court advantage, and the Cameron Crazies are a key ingredient of our basketball success at Duke. While I really enjoyed being downstairs and had forgotten how great it is to be that close to the action, I hope that we are not heading towards a day when an old guy like me can have courtside season tickets. We can’t let this happen. You’ve got one more chance this year, so go over to Cameron March 2 to cheer on your Blue Devils to a victory over Clemson. GO DUKE!

John PhilipsEngineering ‘87

Today, this Californian woke up and decided the weather was finally suitable for breaking out the shorts and Rainbows, which can only

mean one thing: Spring is upon us. During this time of year, there are a few occurrences you can pretty much bank on. The first is that you’ll gain at least five pounds during Mardi Gras and probably not remember any of it. The second is that you’ll have to listen to all of your Catholic friends complain about how they shouldn’t have given up chocolate for Lent, only so they can eat their way through all 40 days and 40 nights worth in the course of three hours on Easter morning. Finally, and most importantly, you can be sure that next week all of your friends will be taking California, Florida and Mexico by storm in an unofficial race to see who can grind on the most strangers, drink the most marga-ritas and puke them up the fastest. Yet this nonstop lifestyle is nothing new to Duke students.

We come from a wide array of social, economic and racial backgrounds, but to a certain degree I be-lieve we have all come here for the same reason. Duke is the quintessential college experience. We have top 10 academics, top athletics, a gorgeous campus and amazing research and service opportunities. Simi-larly, our students are about as well-rounded as they come. Somehow, we manage to make the most of all this great school has to offer. That, in itself, makes the average Duke student very far from average.

But excelling at everything is far from an easy feat, and if I have learned anything in my short time at Duke, it is that our students have mastered the art of racing against the clock. Sleep is a luxury that can

only be afforded by those who are less driven and mo-tivated. When you are balancing five classes, two club sports, Campus Council, a research position and send-

ing out summer internship resumes, ev-ery second counts. It’s actually amazing that anyone can find the time to read these columns.

Even more amazing is that with all these responsibilities, Duke students still manage to have fun. In fact, for many of us, partying is just one more thing at which we have to excel. So when that one week break in the middle of the very long Spring semester comes, we make the most of it. After all, we know no other way. The challenge of manag-

ing classes, sports and jobs is temporarily replaced by the test of juggling the beach, the club and child-hood friends. Those seven days whirl by, and we come back to school questioning if we ever really got a true “break.”

Spring break is a celebrated and sacred college tradition, and I would be remiss to suggest that you should miss out on the experience. Nevertheless, I think there is good reason for you to consider a brief one-day pit stop along the way.

So this year, I suggest a slight change of pace. If even for just a few hours, take a chance to learn how the other half lives. Fall asleep in a lounge chair or read a book for fun. Try something new: Spend a few hours doing absolutely nothing. Learn what the words “free time” really mean. You have the rest of your life to work at the speed of light.

Scott Briggs is a Trinity freshman. His column runs ev-ery other Wednesday.

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Even though the city still has a long way to go—Durham had 25 criminal homicides, a 19 percent drop from 2009 to 2010—Lo-pez said the Bull’s Eye project, which em-phasizes collaboration between DPD and the community, is reforming Durham’s im-age and making the city safer as a whole.

“Crime is contagious and must be con-tained. It has a lot to do with poverty in the area and general blight,” Lopez said, noting that poor, neglected areas often be-come hotbeds of crime where citizens have little confidence in the police. “People there don’t think any one cares.”

The area being targeted by Bull’s Eye, a “hot spot” that makes up only 2 percent of the city’s total area, was home to almost 20 percent of Durham’s violent gun crime and “shots fired” calls to 911, as well as one-fifth of arrests for prostitution, possession of stolen goods and drug activity, according DPD analyses.

City Manager Tom Bonfield said because it is hard to measure and quantify criminal trends, Durham officials studied crime data from May 1, 2006 through April 30, 2007 and determined that a concentrated, high-intensity approach was the best way to allocate resources.

The program’s first year was estimated to cost about $225,000 to be paid for using overtime funds and a federal grant. It is un-clear what the initiative currently costs DPD, Lopez referred comment to DPD Public Information Officer Kammie Michael, who could not be reached for comment.

Working with the communityCity officials said in addition to reducing

crime in the identified hot spot, the Bull’s Eye operation is intended to improve citi-zens’ perceptions of DPD’s ability to pro-tect them.

Like most cities, Durham has neigh-borhood watch initiatives, but Lopez said many Durhamites—especially those living in the hot spot—choose not to participate in crime prevention. Bull’s Eye works to combat this by employing law-enforcement strategy that depends largely on a motivat-ed community for success, in addition to answering emergency calls.

“Not all the contributing factors to crime are under the city government or DPD’s control,” Bonfield said. “This has to a collaborative effort.”

From its beginning, the program has tried to establish trust in the community. The Bull’s Eye initiative began with a door-to-door circuit of 3,400 addresses in which officers passed out bilingual information packets to hot spot residents in an effort to build confidence and encourage par-ticipation, according to a report issued by Steven Chalmers, former DPD chief. Chal-mers’ report called for conversations with citizens about their concerns and license checkpoints that would demonstrate a vis-ibly increased police presence.

DPD has also collaborated with many local organizations to reduce residents’ re-peated contact with officers. DPD works with churches, school systems and social services to address potential causes of crime, like drug addiction and psychological disorders. Chalmers noted in his report that the Bull’s

Eye initiative also collaborates with the Sal-vation Army and the John Avery Boys and Girls Clubs to provide programs and com-munity events for youths that would keep them off the streets. He added that DPD also partnered with the North Carolina Division of Community Corrections for this initiative to monitor juvenile and adult probationers to prevent crime recurrence.

The program’s first year was considered a success, and the city won a federal grant to help fund its efforts, the Comprehensive Anti-Gang Initiative, to help continue its ef-forts in the hot spot, Lopez said.

“People talk about how they never even wanted to walk out their doors but now feel much safer than even three or four years ago,” Bonfield said.

In 2010, robberies dropped 7 percent in Durham from 2009, according to the latest annual report. Lopez believes that such seemingly-small statistical reductions will make Durham a more enjoyable living environment for its residents.

“I’m not stupid enough to think I can send my kids out by themselves and breathe easy. But you don’t need to have to fix the problem all the way to realize stuff is getting better,” said Rebecca Welling-ton, a middle-aged woman who lives in the hot-spot area. “I’m not so scared no more. That’s the straight fact.”

Flexibility going forwardAlthough she admitted her experience

is confined to her personal life, Wellington said many of her neighbors suffer from social and psychological problems. Without help, she said, many of these people—who often

come from abusive or financially unstable households—can be drawn to crime.

To address issues like these that can cause crime, Bull’s Eye tries to be a flexible operation that responds to area residents’ needs, Lopez said. This year, DPD created the “crisis intervention training investiga-tor” position, which is charged with evalu-ating the relationship between crime and residents’ mental illnesses. The current investigator, William Fleeman, has already conducted 300 follow-up sessions with per-sons identified as possibly having mental illness and children suffering from family-related trauma.

“We are acting as a sort of leader in this field as police departments do not often become so heavily involved with the social aspects of com-munity problems,” Bonfield said.

Although Durham has made strides in reducing crime, Lopez said there is still room for substantial improvement. For example, the 2010 DPD report shows that aggravated assault crimes have increased 9 percent from 2009 to 2010, one-third of which involve domestic violence.

Lopez said he remains hopeful that Dur-ham will continue its general trend of im-provement, noting that statistics will fluctu-ate year to year. He said he hopes residents keep in mind the big picture—the past 10 years—in which Durham’s crime rate has dropped significantly.

“Almost all [cities] try to identify areas of criminal concern, but what is different is that after the first year of some success we did not walk away,” Lopez said. “We didn’t want to make a momentary change. We wanted to make a lasting change.”

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