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Shirin Ebadi, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, addresses an audience at the Sanford School of Public Policy Monday.

Ebadi addresses US-Iran relations

by Michael ShammasTHE CHRONICLE

The United States should help Iranian human rights activists in their efforts to attain a more democratic soci-ety, said Shirin Ebadi, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.

Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and academic, discussed chal-lenges to promoting human rights in Iran at the Sanford School of Public Policy Monday. Speaking through a trans-lator, Ebadi emphasized that human rights abuses have increased in Iran since the Green Revolution—a series of protests following the 2009 presidential election—and, as a result, the United States should continue pressuring Iran, even if the country halts nuclear proliferation.

Ebadi noted that oppression in theocracies like Iran raises an important question as to whether Islam is com-patible with human rights.

“The non-democratic Islamic governments believe that human rights is a Western concept and is not com-patible with Islam,” Ebadi said. “This is how they justify their suppression of their people.”

Rulers in Iran, Bahrain, Syria and some other Middle Eastern countries abuse Islam’s tenants to justify oppress-ing women, limiting free speech, curtailing the right of as-sembly and resisting democracy, she said. This interpreta-tion of Islam—one that does not respect the concept of

Media portrayal of Southern politics behind the times

by Maggie SpiniTHE CHRONICLE

Modern media stereotypes of Southern politics may be outdated.

During national political campaigns, media outlets occasionally comment on the country’s regional differ-ences, often stereotyping the South as uniformly conser-vative and evangelical. But this generalization, rooted in the South’s history of racist practices, might begin to fade during this election cycle, some experts say. This year, both party conventions will be held in the South—with the Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay, Fla. and the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte—

LoYo founder discusses entrepreneurshipby Kristie Kim

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Starting a business can be sweet and tart, and some-times involves an assortment of local fresh fruit.

Leah Bergman, co-founder of Local Yogurt—a re-gional, independently owned frozen yogurt shop—spoke to a crowd of students Monday about her ex-perience with turning passions into a business. The event—sponsored by The Duke Entrepreneur, a stu-dent group focused on developing entrepreneurial skills—encouraged students to pursue business ideas that they are enthusiastic about. The talk took place in Schiciano Auditorium in the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences.

Bergman noted that it was difficult to leave behind her previous job in asset management at J.P. Morgan, but she ultimately wanted to pursue a profession that she was passionate about.

“Of course I missed the bonuses, but I was done taking orders from other people, and I wanted to be

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Leah Bergman, co-founder of Local Yogurt, speaks to students.

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Freshman Gbinije elects to transfer

Michael Gbinije has decided to continue his basketball career elsewhere and will transfer, the Duke men’s basket-ball program announced Monday afternoon.

The 6-foot-7 wing played in 19 of the team’s 34 games last season, averaging 1.7 points and 0.8 rebounds per contest.

Gbinije will leave Duke in good aca-demic standing and is expected to trans-fer to another Division I school, though he has not yet announced which pro-grams he will consider.

“We wish Michael [Gbinije] the best of luck and we will support him through

his impending transfer,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyze-wski said in a press release. “He is a talented player with a solid future ahead of him.”

Gbinije scored a season-high eight points Dec. 19 in the Blue Devils’ win over UNC Greensboro.

Ranked 29th in the ESPN.com Class of 2012, Gbinije chose Duke over Connecticut, Wake Forest, West Virginia and Alabama. After Austin Rivers, he was the highest rat-ed incoming Blue Devil in his recruiting class, which was ranked No. 2 overall by ESPN.com.

The Chester, Va. native would likely have competed for playing time with 6-foot-8 classmate Alex Murphy, who red-shirted during 2011-12 after suffering a concussion early in the season.

“I wish Mike G the best of luck. Good kid from a good family,” associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski tweeted Monday afternoon.

Gbinije is the seventh player to transfer out of the Duke program during the last decade, and the first since Olek Czyz left for Nevada in the middle of the 2009-2010 season.

—from Staff Reports

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Duke mock trial wins national championshipby Margot Tuchler

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Duke’s mock trial team became nation-al champions for the first time Sunday.

The championship team com-prised of eight undergraduates won the American Mock Trial Association’s 28th Annual National Championship Tournament, held at Hamline Univer-sity School of Law in St. Paul, Minn. Of the 655 participating college mock trial teams from across the nation, 48 advanced to the national tournament. Duke faced Rutgers University in the final round.

“We’ve always been a well-respected national program, but now we are tru-ly an elite program,” said junior Will Hawkins.

Senior Franklin Sacha, president of Duke Mock Trial, said he was incredibly pleased with the team’s performance, especially in comparison with recent years. The program did not qualify for the tournament last year, and although two teams went the previous year, nei-ther was able to reach the top 10.

“This year is just far and away better than anything we’ve ever done,” Sacha said.

Alex Bluebond, a second-year law stu-dent and coach, said the team defied ex-pectations going into the tournament.

“I don’t think anyone predicted us to win this,” Bluebond said. “We knew we had it in us, but we were by far not the favorite.”

Duke’s championship team finished the tournament with a 7-1 ballot record after four rounds, breaking what the program has deemed the “Duke curse,”

a failure to earn more than four ballots, Sacha said.

“The goal going in for me was beat-ing the [Duke curse],” Hawkins said. “Then the wins started piling up, and it became more and more realistic that we’d win the whole thing.... Our expec-tations definitely evolved. Everyone was getting more and more excited every round.”

Sacha and Hawkins were joined on the championship team by seniors Ben Dean, Michael D’Ippolito and Jennifer Lin; juniors Luke Shuffield and Heath-er White and freshman Marquese Rob-inson.

Hawkins noted that the team mem-

bers’ confidence in each other was key to their success.

“This year’s team was excellent be-cause you could trust everyone to get their job done,” he said. “Whenever someone would go up and do their part in trial, you trusted them.... That showed in how well we did.”

This year’s case, State of Midlands v. Danny Dawson, involved a man being charged for driving under the influence and murder after crashing his vehicle and killing a passenger, Sacha said. The case was written by the AMTA for the competition.

Hawkins noted that the case was more emotional than in past years because it

involved a situation that many college students could relate to.

“[This case] hits closer to home.... Every year or so you hear about some-thing horrible happening to a Duke kid, something involving drinking,” he said.

First-year law student Erika Hyde, a coach for Duke’s mock trial team, has worked with the team throughout the year, though she did not attend the tour-nament. She said the team showed dedi-cation to the program both during and between scheduled practices.

“They practice on their own, [and] they bounce around ideas with each oth-er via email,” Hyde said. “There’s a real sense of camaraderie. They do well not just because they’re incredibly talented, but because they genuinely like being around each other.”

Hawkins said he expects the team to be invited to some of the country’s elite tournaments next year as a result of this year’s success.

“My excitement about next year is the opportunity for more members of the program to go to the best tournaments in the country,” he said.

He added that he was eager to take younger members of the program to tournaments in New York, Los Angeles and Miami to continue the momentum and enthusiasm from this year.

Sacha said he has high hopes for the program’s continued success.

“We have four seniors graduating, but we have a lot of talent,” Sacha said. “[We need to] keep building on this success—make sure it’s not a one time thing—and not get complacent.”

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so the South will be able to shape its image in the na-tional media.

It is fair for the media to portray the South as con-servative, but the nature of conservatism is evolving, said Pope McCorkle, visiting lecturer of public policy studies. The media often fails to present these changes, however, because they do not align with “Old South” ideologies.

Although stereotypes of conservatism represent some truth about the region, they do not pay homage to the diversity of the South and the progress it has made, said Ferrel Guillory, professor of the practice of journalism and director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“The South these days is much more a metropoli-tan place,” Guillory said. “This is a region that builds automobiles and has some of the strongest banks in the world [and] does research in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.”

The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte has the potential to focus national media attention on North Carolina politics within the context of the South, McCorkle said.

Current N.C. issues such as the proposed Amend-ment One referendum— a state constitutional amend-ment that would ban same-sex marriages—would highlight the diverse politics of the South, said John Aldrich, Pfizer-Pratt university professor of political science at Duke.

“If we’re the first state of the nation to vote down a constitutional amendment that would ban gay mar-riages, that would really help to reverse some of the Old South ideas,” Aldrich said.

But North Carolina is not always assigned to the same stereotypes as other Southern states. Since World War II, North Carolina has had a “charmed existence” in the media because it has been considered the exceptional liberal state of the South, McCorkle said. North Caro-lina has one of the nation’s longest continuous streaks of Democratic governors, he added—but Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory, former mayor of Charlotte, could interrupt this tradition if he wins.

McCorkle noted that the variety of Christian beliefs of this year’s Republican presidential primary candi-dates show how conservatives are changing in a way that does not reflect the traditional South, which was primarily in favor of Protestantism.

“We had a Mormon with [Mitt] Romney, a born Catholic with [Rick] Santorum and then a born-again Catholic with [Newt] Gingrich,” he said. “The idea that this resembles in any way the Old South doesn’t work. While there’s conservatism to the South, it isn’t the old traditional born-here-by-blood conservatism.”

Despite the region’s changing persona, there are persistent problems in the South that reinforce nega-tive stereotypes including racial tensions, poverty and educational gaps, he said.

Current Southern stereotypes are rooted in the re-gion’s long history of racial oppression, said History Professor Laura Edwards. Prior to the 1960s, the Dem-ocratic Party was considered the “white party,” which helped it garner Southern support. In the mid-20th century, Republican politicians began to explicitly use race as a way to attract white voters, she added.

When today’s media portrays the South as staunch-ly conservative and evangelical, the media is talking about a particular slice of the electorate that still votes based on race, she noted. The group of white, South-ern voters still exists, but does not represent the entire region.

“There [is] a tendency to overgeneralize that this is what’s indicative of all Southern folk,” Guillory said. “It’s not the whole story.”

Aldrich added that stereotypes of the traditional South have created roadblocks for past candidates and affected campaign strategies. Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter had to overcome stigmas at-tached to strong Southern accents so they could join the political elite, he said.

Candidates who have polled the region know the South does not necessarily conform to popular per-ceptions, McCorkle added. Still, they are affected by Southern stereotypes and sometimes treat the region as if it is a foreign country.

“Mitt Romney and his talk about cheesy grits and saying ‘y’all,’ came across as pandering,” Guillory said. “But at the same time, [Barack] Obama campaigned in the South in ways that wouldn’t have been expect-ed generations ago—and he carried three Southern states.”

happy,” Bergman said.Bergman worked at J.P. Morgan after finishing her

studies at the New York University Stern School of Business. Using her profits, she began buying North Carolina real estate at the advice of her father, who was in the real estate business. Bergman founded Lo-cal Yogurt in fall 2008 with the proceeds she received from selling a building.

“I was and still am a horrible sweet tooth, but I didn’t want to get obese,” Bergman said. “I wanted a treat that was healthy, and you just couldn’t find that around here.”

Bergman emphasized, however, that not all pas-sions can be expanded into a profitable business.

“There are some things that should be left as hob-bies,” she said. “Only when you have enough informa-tion to creatively exploit this passion should you go in. You have to be passionate but smart.”

Senior Vidhan Agrawal, president of TDE, noted that Bergman differed from most of the speakers hosted by TDE in that she succeeded in a business which was not part of the corporate world. Her expe-rience enabled her to impart a unique set of skills in students interested in entrepreneurship.

“[Bergman] has an inspiring story that shows [stu-dents] that a successful business does not mean that you have experience in the Silicon Valley,” Agrawal said. “LoYo is an example of something created at the grassroots level.”

Local Yogurt has expanded to include two loca-

tions in Durham, one near Elon University, one in Greenville and a mobile unit. Bergman said that many of these venues were chosen based on the company’s largest target demographic: college students.

Durham is a unique center in terms of its restau-rants and food diversity, Bergman said.

“Local businesses thrive in Durham, and not every city in America is like that, especially in this day and age,” she said.

Local Yogurt’s business strategy does not rely on advertising because Bergman prefers not to wait for long-term advertising benefits that may not actually appear, she said. A few past advertising attempts led to no foreseeable increase in business.

Even with advertising, businesses that either begin with a bad idea or do not have good luck will fail, Bergman said.

Several students sought advice for those who, unlike Bergman, did not have the initial capital to launch their business.

“It’s important to find investors who are from a similar field and understand what both of you are get-ting into,” Bergman said. “It’s also good to know that it’s easier to sell a great story as opposed to a great idea [to these investors].”

Several students noted that Bergman’s focus on lo-cal business strategies prompted them to attend.

“I am interested in local businesses and the chal-lenges they face and what it is like to start a business in the local Durham area,” junior Jonathan Marks said. “I was glad she talked about these challenges—which include dealing with the local competition and strategies for pricing.”

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“With a correct interpretation of Islam, we can respect human rights and democ-racy,” she said. “And Muslims should not permit their non-democratic governments to abuse the name of Islam.”

Born in 1947, Ebadi was raised in Tehran and became one of the first fe-male judges in Iran. She served on the bench until she was demoted to clerk after the success of the Islamic Revo-lution in 1979. Despite this setback, Ebadi risked imprisonment to promote the rights of women and children in Iran and co-founded the Defenders of Human Rights Center in 2001. She has been living in exile in the United King-dom since June 2009.

Ebadi has claimed national attention for her efforts in human rights. Forbes magazine listed her as one of top 100 most powerful women in the world in 2004. She has also garnered a number of honorary doctorate degrees, including at the Uni-versity of Toronto, the University of San Francisco and the University of Akureyri in Iceland.

Ebadi, the author of three books, cited numerous human rights abuses in Iran. Discriminatory laws—such as laws that give child custody to the father—are constantly used to limit the prospects for women. Drinking alcohol is punish-able by flogging and—on third offense—execution. Adherents to the Baha’i Faith are constantly persecuted. Perhaps most striking of all, if a non-Muslim has sexual relations with a Muslim out of wedlock, the offenders are sentenced to death im-mediately, she said.

“After China, we have the largest num-ber of executions in the world,” Ebadi

said. “With regard to the fact that the population in China is over a billion and that of Iran is only 75 million, if we look at the per capita, Iran has many more ex-ecutions.”

Although Ebadi is against military action or external intervention, she said the Unit-ed States and other countries can do more to help Iranian human rights activists.

If Iran halts nuclear proliferation, the United States may stop pressuring the Ira-nian government, Ebadi added.

She said she is especially concerned about statements made during nuclear talks in Istanbul last week. Before the con-ference, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would make assur-ances to Iran if the regime decides to halt its nuclear program.

“I want to ask the kind people of Amer-ica to give me their hand for help,” Ebadi said. “Help the people of Iran improve the situation of human rights. Do not permit your politicians to sacrifice human rights at the time that they are concluding eco-nomic agreements or negotiating nuclear issues.”

Seth Cantey, a doctoral candidate in international relations , said he is unsure whether the U.S. can effectively pressure Iran to halt nuclear proliferation if it tries to deal with human rights issues at the same time.

“Ebadi helped the audience grapple with some of the difficult decisions that face policymakers and some of the ten-sions between human rights and democ-racy,” he said. “The difficulty is that the nuclear problem is so urgent that it may not be realistic to link it to human rights right now.”

The speech—this year’s Crown Lec-ture in Ethics—was sponsored by the Sanford School and the Duke University Union.

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WRESTLING

Lanham takes over as Blue Devil head coach

Loss of Gbinije not a sign of impending doom

Assistant coach Glen Lanham has been promoted to replace Clar Anderson as head coach, Director of Athletics and Vice Presi-dent Kevin White announced Monday.

Lanham started with the Blue Devils in June 2010 after assistant coaching jobs at North Carolina, Oklahoma State and Purdue. He has over 20 years of coaching experience at both the high school and college levels.

Former head coach Clar Anderson resigned March 21 after accumulating a 101-125-2 record over 15 years with the Blue Devils.

“I’m very excited to lead the Duke wres-tling program,” Lanham said in a press re-lease. “Becoming a head coach has been a long process in the making and I feel right now that Duke University is a perfect fit for me as a coach. We have a very talented and amazing group of young men and I am thrilled for the opportunity to guide them on and off the mat.”

Lanham has proven himself on the

recruiting trail at several stops, helping the Tar Heels land a top-25 recruiting class in 2006, and the Boilermakers se-cure the No. 12 class in 2008, according to InterMat.com.

During his two years at Duke, Lanham helped two Blue Devils to NCAA champi-onship berths—Diego Bencomo in 2011 and Tanner Hough in 2012.

“Glen brings outstanding experience, professionalism and principles to Duke wrestling,” White said in the release. “Certainly, the young men represent-ing our program will find Glen has tre-mendous leadership qualities, unlimited passion for the sport and an uncompro-mising commitment to their total experi-ence as student-athletes. It became very evident throughout the search process that all roads led back to Glen Lanham being an ideal fit for Duke wrestling at this point in time.”

—from staff reports

BASEBALL

Duke seeks revenge in matchup with ‘Cats

Losing six of their last seven contests, Duke will look to regain its groove as it takes a break from ACC play to host Southern Conference foe Davidson Tuesday at 6 p.m at Jack Coombs Field.

Tonight’s matchup will be the sec-ond meeting between the two North Carolina squads this sea-son. The Wildcats (14-19) edged Duke (14-23) 2-1 in the first meet-ing of the year on March 27.

The Blue Devils’ first game against Davidson was one of their finer games defensively without Stroman on the mound. Freshman pitcher Nick Pis-cotty struck out a career-high seven batters and held the Wildcats to one hit in five innings. The Blue Devils’ inability to support their strong de-

fensive play with offense, however, led to their undoing. Davidson was able to load the bases in the bottom of the seventh and score the eventual game-winning run on a wild pitch to pick up a pivotal home victory against an ACC opponent.

The Wildcat pitching staff held Duke to just four hits in the game. Blue Devil right-hander Drew Van Orden took the loss even though he only allowed two Wildcats to reach base.

In tonight’s game, Piscotty will have an opportunity to avenge Duke’s loss to David-son from a few weeks ago. This time around, the Blue Devils will look to take advantage of a Wildcat lineup that lacks firepower at the plate. Davidson’s best hitter, senior out-fielder Drew Gadaire, is the only player bat-ting above .300 on the year. The Wildcats’ next best are Andrew Barna and Calvin Si-gelbaum, who have averages of just .278 and .276, respectively. And as a team, head coach

The top-rated player in Duke’s 2011 recruiting class, Austin Rivers, is gone and headed to the NBA next season. Michael Gbinije, the second-highest rated fresh-man, is also departing but for a very differ-ent reason.

Whereas Rivers used his lone year in Durham as a trampoline to launch him to the game’s highest level, Gbinije never got his footing and will transfer. Once the No. 29 recruit in the nation, Gbinije is willing to sit out for a year just so he can play else-

where.Duke fans, be-

tween Gbinije trans-fering, the opening-round loss to Lehigh in the NCAA tourna-ment and the one-person recruiting class coming in next

season, it’s time to FREAK OUT! Abandon ship! Honestly, Duke will be lucky to make it to the NIT next season!

You know all of that is true because it includes two words in all capital letters and three exclamation points. And all sentences beginning with “honestly” must truly be honest, because any sentence without being prefaced that way is obvi-ously dishonest.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

Sarcasm aside—somebody who works for a newspaper quitting drinking? What a riot!—the Blue Devils will actually be just fine next year. I personally think they might be quite good, but more importantly, it is not the end of the world as Duke knows it.

Good players transfer, even away from top teams, and head coach Mike Krzyzews-

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ki is more than well-equipped to handle it. He has done so in the past and will do the same with next year’s team.

From a pure depth-chart perspective, it is difficult to know how much Gbinije might have contributed next season. Alex Murphy, who was recruited along-side Gbinije but redshirted last year, fits better into Duke’s offense at the same position while holding an extra year of eligibility. Even without Murphy, Duke often played a three-guard lineup last season and will have a crowded back-court yet again with incoming freshman Rasheed Sulaimon competing for min-utes against Quinn Cook, Tyler Thorn-ton, Andre Dawkins and Seth Curry.

It’s easy to see why Gbinije wasn’t eager to stick around in that melee for minutes and why it was probably hard for the Duke staff to sit him down and explain how his role would fit his hype next season.

Olek Czyz, another top-100 recruit, transferred midway through his sopho-more season in 2010 after one-and-a-half disappointing seasons with the Blue Devils. Following a strong senior year at Nevada, though, he might be selected in June’s NBA Draft. Between Czyz and Gbinije, maybe the coaching staff just gets tired of players whose names they can’t pronounce.

Elliot Williams, who transferred to Memphis in 2009 and played one more collegiate season before going pro, now plays for the Portland Trail Blazers. Wil-liams and Czyz were good players, but the team certainly did not miss the pair

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Dick Crooke’s club boasts a batting average of just .242 on the season.

Despite their offensive woes, the Wild-cats are coming to Durham with some mo-mentum. Davidson managed to sweep Wof-ford in a three-game series last weekend and did so by only scoring a total of eight runs in the three games, four of which came in the fifth inning of the series finale.

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as the Wildcats have struggled on the road this year with a record of just 3-11, while Duke is looking for its first win in Durham since March 16.

After their matchup with the Southern Conference foe, the Blue Devils’ sched-ule does not lighten up. Duke will stay at home this weekend to host a three-game series against No. 23 Virginia, who will be fourth top-25 squad the Blue Devils have faced this season.

—from staff reports

when it was cutting down the nets after the 2010 national championship.

This program is built to handle losing good players because good players are plentiful in Durham. It’s about having the right players, and sometimes even the most talented ones don’t fit that mold, so it’s probably best for both parties in-volved to part ways. It’s no indictment of Gbinije’s skills or character, which are both reportedly quite high, but players

who struggle to shoot the 3-pointer struggle to get minutes in Duke’s offense.

Krzyzewski may not run the type of one-and-done-hired-guns program that John Calipari has mastered at Kentucky, guar-anteeing the Wildcats a top-five ranking seemingly every season from now until the end of time, but Duke will have no trouble competing with the best of the best for next season’s ACC crown.

This one straw won’t break the Blue Devils’ back. Don’t freak out.

Looks like I picked a fine week to quit drinking.

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Last week I got into a catfi ght. And it was the proudest moment of my life.

No, not proud because I beat the crap out of anyone—because I am (sadly) physically incapable of doing that. Proud because I surprised myself by being able to act like a crazy, jealous girlfriend in a (can you believe it?) Shakespearean play. But the experi-ence made me realize that the thrill of cat-fi ghting is not all that it seems. In fact, I almost felt like at traitor.

It made me wonder where all the hype about cat-fi ghting comes from. So naturally, I thought of “Mean Girls”—one of the few successful docu-mentations of the secret world of girl behavior in cinematic history.

While the feminist voice currently takes the Gothic world by storm, I think it’s only appropri-ate to delve back into that great sociological study of teenage girl behavior in its most natural and savage habitat: high school.

So what happens when you mesh feminism with the pre-“Gossip Girl,” post-“Thelma and Lou-ise” world of the Mean Girl?

Cady Heron: Well, when I was in Africa, I didn’t really notice a lot of feminist movements because women were in very socially-constrained roles. But here, it’s totally different. Women here are so liberated. Just yesterday I pushed someone in front of a bus—it was great! Haha, just kidding! (Laughs nervously)

Gretchen Wieners: I’m totally for feminists. I think too often girls just try to like, stab each other in the back when it’s already so hard growing up as a woman in this world. Except for Caesar. “We should all totally just stab Caesar!”

Karen Smith: On Wednesdays, we wear pink!Janis Ian: Everyone is always talking s**t about

feminists. But really, these people are just lazy a-holes who don’t know how to make their own sandwiches or wish they had as much chest hair as their moms.

Regina George: Most of them are girls that are just trying to get their 15 minutes of popularity, because, let’s be real, there’s no way they’re gonna get a guy wearing those sweatpants. It’s probably all they fi t into right now.

Random Girl: I heard Regina George say that feminists were totally in right now, so I decided to become a feminist.

Coach Carr: I think feminists are great. There’s no need for any girl to ever try to be

plastic, rubber’s the way to go. Mr. Duvall: I think the world could use more

strong-willed women who have the right priorities. I know how mad I get when I have to speak to girls in my offi ce for getting into a fi ght because one of them was seen canoodling with the other’s boyfriend. Almost as mad as I get when the boyfriend posts a video of the fi ght on the Internet.

Ms. Norbury: I think high school girls would have a lot to learn from feminists. I try to teach feminist val-ues to my own students, but it’s not that easy. One of them still thinks

her breasts have ESPN.Regina George: I mean, they’re all like men-hat-

ing freaks who wish they were less hot versions of me. They should just take their stupid picket signs and shove them up their—[gets hit by a school bus].

Cady: Sometime in high school it fi nally hit me: “Saying someone is stupid doesn’t make you any smarter. Saying someone is fat doesn’t make you any skinnier.” If we women want to co-exist in this world, then we have to learn to accept each oth-ers’ faults rather than talk s**t about other people. (Pauses and thinks for a second) Ya, Regina too.

Damian: Equal rights for you, and you and all you men and women! “And none for Gretchen Wieners.”

Now, I know what you’re thinking. What do they know? They don’t even go here.

But look a little deeper into the back-stabbing, gossip-fi lled, hate speech of this mean-girl world. It’s a jungle. It’s high school. And on some of our worse nights, it might be college, too.

We might not have a Regina George to collec-tively despise as the source of inner-female strife. Even so, I am sure that we all, at some point in our lives, have acted like her in one way or an-other without realizing what it could do to our own friends, especially those of the same sex. So women of Duke, as we think about ways to make this world a better place for equal opportunity for all genders, and particularly for women, let’s remember that one of the biggest obstacles to fe-male empowerment may be our own selves.

Close your eyes and raise your hand if you have ever actively victimized another person by saying something negative about them behind their back. Now open your eyes, and take a good look around.

Sony Rao is a Trinity Junior. This is her fi nal column of the semester. Follow Sony on Twitter @sony_rao

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Tuition rates at Duke have been rising steadily for a de-cade, averaging around a 4.5 percent increase annually. Along with similar tuition in-creases at peer universities, this phenom-enon marks a tuition arms race among elite American universities. Michael Schoen-feld, vice president of public affairs and government rela-tions, has claimed increases in tuition refl ect increases in real costs. However, since tuition hikes outpace the in-fl ation rate, there seems to be more to this story. Duke should provide explanations for tuition increases that are as specifi c and quantifi able as possible.

Given tuition is increasing faster than the rate of infl ation,

it follows that Duke is either pur-chasing absolutely more goods or goods whose prices are espe-cially skyrocketing. It is not clear what sectors of the University consume the most resources, so

we cannot know whether in-creased tuition

is actually improving a student’s college experience. On the con-sumer side, students are will-ing to pay more for what they perceive as greater prestige. The demand for elite higher education is almost inelastic: Duke can exploit its position by charging ever-higher prices for an intangible prestige quotient without producing better edu-cational outcomes.

Tuition increases are too dramatic for a responsible administration to ignore. Duke must address this is-

sue honestly—preferably by informing students what par-ticular costs drive up tuition the most. Although Schoen-feld cites energy, salaries and technological improvements as rising expenses, he does not provide enough detail for students and parents to make rigorous value judg-ments about what is and is not worth spending an extra $6,000—roughly the amount Duke tuition has grown over the last four years. The cate-gories themselves, other than being too broad, are also sus-pect. For example, the pay freeze for Duke faculty and staff ended last March, yet costs still increased substan-tially during that period.

Greater transparency would not only help students and their families make informed

college decisions. It would also benefi t the University as a whole. Theories about a pos-sible higher education bubble, espoused most famously by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, contend that eventually stu-dents will not be convinced that the quality of their univer-sity degrees justifi es surging tuition costs. There is already a push to encourage middle-income students to consider community colleges and state institutions. The demand for a Duke degree seems inelastic now, but if traditional higher education goes bust, that will quickly change.

Of course, there remains the intractable affordability is-sue. The University’s fi nancial aid system strives to increase grants by at least 4 to 5 per-cent each year to offset tuition

increases. However, while this helps students already receiv-ing grants, the percentage of students receiving any aid at all may stagnate. In the face of rising costs, the percent-age of Duke students on fi -nancial aid must also steadily increase.

Greater transparency sur-rounding tuition hikes seems justifi ed given the sheer amount of money a Duke de-gree seems to cost. We are not asking for a dollar-for-dollar breakdown but a clear budget that indicates where tuition markups are going within broad categories, such as en-ergy and technology. Amid soaring prices, a barely recov-ering economy and whispers of overvalued degrees, Duke would be wise to have a frank conversation about costs.

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I was living a life I had worked hard to achieve: a Duke and Stanford Law grad, working long hours as a hotshot junior attorney at a big, wonderful law fi rm. Duke had

just won the national championship (I fl ew to Indianapolis for it), my career was taking off and my husband (another Blue Devil) and I had just set-tled into our loft in downtown Los Angeles.

Then, I got blindsided. A diagnosis of stage IV colon cancer with the spread of can-cer so extensive that my sur-geon exited the waiting room in tears with a grim prognosis. I was 28 years old and had just been given a death sentence.

But I wasn’t afraid, or mad or sad. I was actually pretty psyched. Because, you see, I’m a Blue Devil—I relish a challenge and think of solutions. I’m a Cameron Crazie and I love to compete … and win. And I’ve believed in our Duke standards of excellence since childhood, when this L.A.-native decided to attend Duke at the age of nine (Coach K, Bobby Hurley, Christian La-ettner and Grant Hill deserve the assist for that decision). I knew that all those things would only help me in my battle against The Big C.

And they have. Over a year and a half later—after three surgeries and 25 rounds of chemo—I’m well on my way to beating cancer to death. My fi rst surgeon said I’d never practice law, lift weights or play basketball ever again—I do all of those things almost every day. After my second sur-gery, which was 11 hours long and included 18 different procedures, my doctors and nurses said I wouldn’t get out of the hospital in less than 21 days. I was discharged in 14 days, and two days later, I convinced my family to take me to Cameron for a game and to catch up with Coach and the K family (huge supporters of mine who have been behind me since day one of my diagnosis).

After my third surgery, just three months ago, doc gave another grim prognosis (he has since changed his mind) but my mom responded with the only question I prepared her to ask: When do I get out of the ICU and into my room because there’s a Duke game tonight. Come on now—I have priorities.

In dealing with my own cancer adventures, I also found that I could help others at the same time. I started a blog (wunderglo.com) to chronicle my cancer story, and it went viral. Soon, cancer patients from around the country were emailing me daily to ask for advice or a pep talk. Other people who weren’t patients were inspired to examine their gastrointestinal health and get colonoscopies (two people—one is 27 and the other, 31—found pre-cancerous polyps that were removed). I’ve had about three or four people credit me with saving their lives. That feeling of helping oth-ers in such a profound way was the best feeling in the world, and all I wanted was to do more. So I did. I started The Wun-derGlo Foundation, a non-profi t dedicated to fi nding the cure for colon cancer, promoting healthy lifestyle choices and supporting cancer warriors and their loved ones. We’ve raised tens of thousands of dollars for cancer research and advocacy. Every day, we’re doing our part to demystify the disease and empower patients to do what they can do to be healthy, strong and positive in their mind set.

Where would we go to spread our message beyond the confi nes of lovely California? Our fi rst stop was, of course, Duke. In the past couple of days, I met with the leaders of the Duke Cancer Center and collaborated with wonderfully engaged students and alums for our fi rst ever “Go To Hell, Cancer!!” three-on-three basketball tournament. I specifi -cally mention “fi rst ever” because we plan to come back to campus every year, with goals of expanding our event and making it a campus-wide affair. They are lofty goals, but I’m sure we’ll achieve them. Because if there’s any place and group of people who have each other’s back and my back—even through cancer—it’s Duke.

Gloria Borges, Trinity ’04, is the founder and president of the WunderGlo Foundation. This column is the fi nal installment in a semester-long series of weekly columns written by dPS members addressing civic service and engagement at Duke.

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Some people call it “White Wall.”Wall Township, New Jersey. My hometown is a

moderately small, coastal municipality; diversity is hardly our strong suit. You’d be hard-pressed to fi nd anything in the local pa-per’s police blotter more disconcerting than a broken-up house party or perhaps the occasional DUI checkpoint on one of the two-lane highways in town. Wall is often referred to as a bubble—a place disjointed from the diversity to be found in the real world. All throughout high school, teachers and graduates urged students in town to get out of the cookie-cutter complacency that our town so eas-ily lulled us into. Get out of the bubble.

So began my journey to venture below the Mason-Dixon line, my quest to divulge and unearth what life is like beyond the corralled confi nes of suburban New Jersey. After 18 years of relatively secure complacency, the trek to Duke fi nally introduced me to life outside a small town with more than 1 percent minority students and residents. I drove through states where fi reworks are sold, legally, sometimes even inside roadside gas station off of Route 95. My bank account and I both learned that the speed limit in Virginia is strictly en-forced. I learned that the word “grits” actually has two syllables (“gree-its”) and that people frequently con-sume them with shrimp. Two years later, I am still not one of these people. I have adapted to life without gen-uine Italian food—no, pizza from The Loop is not real pizza. I fi nally got out of the bubble.

But did I really? Regardless of whether or not I can legally purchase and detonate fi reworks, and besides the fact that I haven’t found a satisfactory substitute for my mom’s homemade chicken parmesan, I’ve learned that if you’re not consciously trying to break out of your own personal comfort zone, there’s no one and nothing holding you back from staying cozy under your two-decade-old lifestyle security blanket. What you see is what you want to see. You can make what you want to out of your transplantation to Duke. If you only want friends that drive cars with the same license plate as yours, go ahead. If you only want to be friends with athletes, there’s nothing in your way. Participation is voluntary in essentially everything that we do here—making friends, joining student groups, going out.

If you really want it to be, venturing into residence halls or walking across the BC Plaza can mirror a scene out of “Mean Girls.” You can put yourself in Cady Her-ron’s shoes, bypassing ROTC guys, preps, JV jocks, cool

Asians, varsity jocks, girls who don’t eat anything, et cet-era, et cetera. You can undoubtedly fi nd the Plastics if you’re looking for them. The question is whether or

not you’re looking. You can venture as far beyond your comfort zone as you want, but cliques and clichés still exist even within the broader confi nes of our “diverse” campus.

Durham is on the opposite end of the spectrum from my hometown, but I could ignore the disparity between the personalities of the two cities if I wanted to. I could keep my eyes closed and may-be make a few acquaintances with col-leagues whose lives differed only slightly

from my own. I could skate through my four years at Duke, living on food points and FLEX dollars. I could believe that the deepest city limit of Durham lies at the entrance to Shooters II.

To occupy this mindset would be a waste of the quintessential “college experience.” Over the weekend, my team and I volunteered at the Urban Ministries of Durham, where we toured and cleaned the local shel-ter for the homeless. The people who use the shelter are grateful for a fi ve-foot long, four-foot high metal bunk bed to sleep on for the night. Sometimes these individuals are merely displaced. Sometimes they are considered “chronically homeless.” Sometimes they’re college graduates, sometimes they’re single mothers. Regardless of the individual circumstance, they are struggling and they are within a stone’s throw of our school.

I have never owned a pair of rose-colored glasses. I have never taken a service learning class at Duke and I have not engaged in spreading campus-wide awareness of the life of Shin Dong-hyuk and forced labor camps in North Korea. My visit to Urban Ministries was a pre-scription for sanity in a time of homesickness and stres-sors in academia. The weeks leading up to fi nals are an ineffable grind. More than once I have wanted to drop my computer out the fourth fl oor window of Perkins during a night spent wired on caffeine and plagued by problem sets. People stop holding doors and stop say-ing thank you. Keep in mind in the coming weeks that, regardless of your test scores and sleepless nights, you will live to see the light of summer, and that life out-side Gothic buildings is far more real than anything we learn in lectures.

Ashley Camano is a Trinity sophomore. This is her fi nal column of the semester. Follow Ashley on Twitter @camano-4chron

South of the Mason-Dixon

lettertotheeditorThanks to Coach Anderson from a former wrestler

I am writing this to publicly thank former Head Wrestling Coach Clar Anderson, one of the fi nest men I know.

Being a Duke wrestler is hardly glamorous; in fact I would be surprised if half the student population even knew there was a program. We put ourselves through grueling practices, during which the aver-age person would lose anywhere from three to six pounds of water (I averaged fi ve myself), then we restricted the amount that we put back into our bod-ies for the purpose of making weight. I truly don’t miss studying thirsty. We didn’t travel fi rst class; in my time at Duke, 10-hour rides in a 15 passenger van, dehydrated and hungry, were common. Our practice facilities were way too small, and as for support at our matches—well, let’s just say Cameron Indoor looks deceivingly large when it’s completely empty. The vast majority of the time we stepped onto the mat, it might as well have been David versus Goliath.

Coach Anderson asked two things from us—to fi ght hard on the mat, and to be good people off it. What we quickly realized was that Coach was pre-paring us for something much greater than a seven

minute match—he was preparing us for life. I still re-member him saying that we would be more prepared to handle life’s challenges than most athletes, given what we put ourselves through. I can honestly say, for myself and many others, he was right.

I don’t know where I would be if I had not been a Duke wrestler for Coach Anderson. My fi rst job on the trading fl oor of an investment bank was the result of a Duke wrestling connection, and I try to bring the same intensity that I brought under Coach to work every day. The city to which I relocated is where I met my wife, and now I have two children. I formed lifelong friendships (half of my wedding party were wrestlers).

It has not been an easy road. I have fallen many times and have experienced failures and setbacks. But I get up and keep fi ghting because that is what Coach taught me to do, to never give up. And when the market closes each day, I go home to my beauti-ful wife and children. Coach, thank you for what you have done for me. You changed my life forever, and my family and I will forever be indebted to you.

Frank Cornely, Trinity ’06, 2x ACC Champion

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This message is brought to you by the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Performances, Duke Music Department, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Department of Theater Studies, and William R. Perkins Library with support from Offi ce of the Vice Provost for the Arts.

ExhibitionsAlexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy. Thru June 17. Nasher Museum.

The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Photographs by Frank Espada. Thru July 8. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

Events April 17 - May 10April 17Chamber Music Recital. Students perform chamber works from the 18th - 21st centuries, including music by Bach, Dvorak, Schubert, Brahms, Piazzolla and others. 7:30pm. Nelson Music Rm. Free.

April 18Immersed in Every Sense Lecture Series. Artist talk by visiting artist Ann Hamilton. 6pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Artist Talk. A conversation with Richard Goode, moderated by Prof. R. Larry Todd. 6:30pm. First Presbyterian Church, 305 E. Main Street. Free.

April 19Artist Talk and Book Signing. Documentary photographer Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian will sign copies of their new book, In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America (UNC Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies), in conjunction wtih a reception for Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland, curated by Bruce Jackson. 6-9pm; talk at 7pm. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Rueda de Casino Dance Workshops with Vladimir Espinosa. Cuban style salsa developed in Havana, Cuba in the 1950s. Workshops will also cover the history of Casino and its music. No partner necessary. 7:30-9:30pm. The Ark Dance Studio. Free. This workshop will also take place on April 20.

April 21Rueda de Casino Dance Workshops. Prior attendance at either the April 19 or 20 workshop required. 11am-3pm. The Ark Dance Studio. Free. ChoreoLab 2012. New works by Dance faculty and students. 8pm. Reynolds Industries Theater. Free. This event will also take place on April 22 at 3pm.

Duke Opera Workshop. Susan Dunn, dir. A Cockeyed Optimistic: The Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II, featuring songs from Show Boat, Carmen Jones, Oklahoma!, South Pacifi c, Carousel, Allegro, and others. 8pm. Nelson Music Rm. Free. This event will also take place on April 22 at 3pm.

Reunion Weekend Film Event. Duke alum Daniel Karslake ‘87, and award-winning fi lmmaker, will talk about and show a trailer from his newest documentary, Every Three Seconds, and introspective and hopeful call for change around the isuses of extreme poverty and hunger. 3:30pm. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

April 22Duke Jazz Ensemble. John Brown, dir. Performing arrangements by Duke alumnus Patrick Williams, Grammy Award-winning composer and arranger. Mr. Williams will be a special guest for this concert. 4pm. Page Auditorium. $10 general/$5 students/seniors.

April 25Exhibit Opening and Reception. Talk and reception for What Does Your Doctor Know? exhibit in Perkins Gallery. 4pm. Rubenstein Library, Rare Book Rm. Free.

April 27Duke Chorale. Rodney Wynkoop, dir. Chorale Celebration, featuring highlights from the Chorale’s 2011-2012 season. 8pm. Biddle Music Bldg. Lobby. Free.

April 28Duke University String School Concerts. Directed by Dorothy Kitchen. 3pm: Beginning Ensembles & Intermediate I. 4pm: Chamber Music Groups. 7pm: Intermediate II and DUSS Youth Symphony Orchestra. Page Auditorium. Free.

Duke Collegium Musicum. Alexander Bonus, dir. The Musical Isle: Choice Ayres, Anthems, and Sonnets from Seventeenth-Century Britannia. 8pm. Nelson Music Rm. Free.

May 7Student Exhibition. Works by Certifi cate in Documentary Studies undergraduates. Thru Sept. 8. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

May 10Advanced Documentary Photos. Vision and Craft by Alex Harris. Thru May 13. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Screen SocietyAll events are free andopen to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffi th Film Theater, Bryan Center.

4/17 THEY ARE FLYING (Taiwanese Documentary)Cine-East:East Asia Cinema. Q&A to follow w/ director Huang Chia-chun.4/18 AMIGOJohn Sayles Film Series. Q&A to follow w/ Prof. Marty Smith, Environmental Economics/Policy.4/23 HUMAN TERRAIN2012 Ethics Film Series. Q&A to follow w/ director James Der Derian.4/26 & 4/27 AMI Duke Student Film Showcase, Day One (5:30pm-10pm), Day Two (4:30pm-9pm)See fi nal projects from Duke fi lm courses this semester

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