Although I’ve had my differences with you over the time we’ve been in contact, the one thing I’ve always respected about you was your integrity.

So it’s disappointing to me that you decided to lie in this, what I can only hope will be our last interaction.

Most importantly, I hope you’ll explain to your readers that you were being untruthful when you claim that I promised not to “out” you.

I explained to you that at the time of our conversation immediately after I found out who you were that I did not see any immediate reasons why I would have wanted to do so; but I very carefully avoided making any sweeping promises, as you will recall.

I would have liked to have talked to you about this matter before it was published, but you will also recall that you insisted on my agreeing to a number of points, many of which I could not possibly in good conscience agree to, before we had any phone conversation.

Then, as now, I’m disappointed you have sought so hard to cut off communication between us.

Now, to the matter of how The Chronicle obtained your identity: Although I know you’ve corresponded with Chronicle staffers in the past, I figured out who you were the old-fashioned way: By reporting. When you made one of your phone calls to the office, we noted your number and then linked that number up with a name. It would indeed be deplorable if a staff member who had promised you anonymity had gone back on that.

You will also recall that none of our interactions were those of reporter and source, but were rather conversations following your initial betrayal of trust.

I hope you’ll make clear to your readers that this is the case.

Philosophically, I find your link to Mark Twain and others spurious; Twain did not use his anonymity as a forum for betraying trust, as you have done, or for malicious ad hominem attacks, as you have also done. I will also say that
although I consulted with some members of the staff on this matter, the decision was in fact mine alone.

I hope this closes our interactions. Now, I’ll be getting back to investigating the witch hunt, the frame-up attempt, and the ongoing cover-up as well as the predicable recent problems involving student and campus safety that have included the murder of one of our own.

Best,

David

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“[For] a university that has a great deal of money saved in the bank like we do and has plans for construction, it’s a good time to be building when other people aren’t,” he said.
Moreover, with a fairly diversified portfolio spread across domestic and foreign assets, it is unlikely that a slump in one market will drastically impact the University’s finances. This is a product of the fast-pace of financial globalization that has lowered barriers to capital movement over the past twenty years and allowed for a degree of stabilization of large portfolios.
The slumping U.S. economy is hurting investors that overexpose themselves to a single asset class, namely sub-prime credit. The recent government-backed buyout of Bear Stearns by JP Morgan Chase is a perfect example. Bear Stearns is perhaps the poster-child of how a financial institution can be damaged by overexposure, as the firm lost billions of dollars due to the sub-prime market and saw two of its hedge funds collapse in July 2007.
For Duke, smart investing and a tendency to avoid exotic and risky securities kept the University from taking a hit to its balance sheets throughout the sub-prime debacle. In May 2006, the Duke University Management Company, the non-profit that manages Duke’s investments, pulled out of the hedge fund Amaranth, just months before its crash. With a cool head and a little luck, Duke might emerge from this economic downturn unscathed.
–Eugene Wang

But mostly, I don’t understand the sick feeling in my stomach that hasn’t gone away since I began reporting this story today afternoon. And I don’t understand why my hands won’t stop shaking when to me Eve Carson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill should not be anything more than the YouTube videos and smiling pictures CNN has been blasting at me all day. And I don’t understand why I’ll never forget her face.

So I don’t want to know about her death now. I don’t want to think about the person who could commit such an unspeakable crime because doing so is glorifying a person plagued with hate, anger and cruelty—three things even I know Eve never would have honored.

Instead I want to think about the beautiful people that are here, to think of the Eves that blessed, bless and will bless us for years to come. I want to think there’s something left here to believe in, to trust in and to move us to be something more than what we think we are.

I want to think of how intelligent, how talented and how caring this one girl was. I want to think of the friends and family members who made her that way, who inspired and were inspired by this one-of-a-kind human being. I want to think that after today, maybe we will all be a little more like Eve.

And then I want to shed some tears. For Eve and for all of us.

–Shreya Rao, News Editor

Due to less sleep, more work and copious opportunities to eat out and order in, students’ overall health can easily deteriorate if they don’t consciously make an effort to take care of themselves, sophomore Michael Worsman said.

The nature of Duke’s academic excellence and competitiveness also play a part in student health, Director of Health Promotion Franca Alphin said.

“Those that have high expectations are highly driven and tend to compromise for their health for the things they want to achieve,” she said, adding that these are characteristics of many prestigious universities.

A senior who did not want to be named said although she can see how being at Duke can make students submit to peer pressure, personal health is still a personal issue.

“I think people can make themselves unhealthy,” she said. “I don’t think it is fair to blame an entire institution for the well being of people. At the end of the day you decide how much pressure you want to put on yourself and that in my opinion determines whether you live a healthy lifestyle.”

However, with the vibrant social scene and the social pressure to present a certain image, the adapted Duke lifestyle is subject to change after college, freshman Karan Chhabra said.

“I think college is the time we can get away with this madness,” he said. “Although we might leave with a beer belly and slightly lower GPA, the consequences are substantially lower here in terms of social norms. Thirty-one-year olds shouldn’t shotgun a beer–that’s just absurd.”

Still, the senior said she thinks “unhealthiness” is a problem.

“I think students across all universities struggle with similar issues that Duke students face,” she said. “They might be the same or different, but it doesn’t matter because unhealthy living is happening everywhere. It is a reflection of our culture and American values.”
–Emmeline Zhao

Thus, it was only natural that some problem would ensue from the screening of the film. When I spoke with Mayuresh Tapale, chair of DukeOUT, he told me that the group prepared for problems with the screening. The article details these issues, but one thing he noted was that Duke is a very “conservative” campus. I’m not sure whether or not this is true, but when it comes to the bedroom, Tapale’s assessment might be true.

It could be this post-lacrosse era of Duke that we are living, or it could be something else. Nonetheless, events like the Sex Workers’ Art Show and now this screening reveal a trend different from other schools. Just look at Brown University. Sure, it’s the “liberal Ivy,” but with staples in their social calendar like SexPowerGod, they are not shying away from sex. Why are we?

In the case of the Shortbus screening, the issue seems to be sex. As FVD Director David Paletz said, the events that transpired between Screen/Society and DukeOUT were by no means a controversy and this was not an issue of censorship. Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see how Duke responds to the perpetual theme of sex in the future.

–Andrew Hibbard

Conducted at Fort Lewis, Wash., the LDAC consists of four weeks of intensive training and evaluation for ROTC students between their junior and senior years of college. In preparation for LDAC, the junior ROTC members, who are enrolled in Military Science III and thus referred to as MSIIIs, take on the major roles in carrying out mock missions.

“As a senior, your job is way more strategic,” said sophomore Phil Cotter. “MSIIIs are more concerned with the tactics, and as a [sophomore] you take on more leadership, but not like the juniors.”

Performance at LDAC is extremely important for a ROTC members’ eventual placement. Cadets are evaluated on how well they can lead and given a score that determines their placement on a merit list. This list affects what branch the ROTC member is eventually placed in—some of which are more selective than others.

To help prepare them for LDAC, the junior ROTC members receive evaluations from seniors and Cadre faculty members.

“We help them with their job and then give them an evaluation,” said senior Alex Frank, who served as an evaluator to give students feedback. “The goal of all this was to help them learn.”
–Anna Lieth

It is also important to consider that the survey only examines reported crime. Since it does not include statistics of arrests or convictions, the survey does not investigate the validity of the crimes reported. Thus, some of these accounts could be fictitious or exaggerated.

By contrast, a higher incidence of reported crime could also indicate a more capable and accessible police force. Because they would be patrolling more effectively, police would be able to detect more crime and possibly make even more rightful apprehensions.

Everyone agrees that Duke, like other universities, suffers from a crime problem to some extent, and that this dilemma should be taken seriously and sought to be eliminated. But the notion that Duke’s campus is particularly dangerous for students is unfounded and does not seem to be adequately supported by the results from this survey.

–Jessica Lichter

Overcome with joy, Rebecca Sealfon, a doctoral candidate in biology at the University, screamed the spelling of the word “euonym” for the win in 1997 with a giddiness that has made her the butt of countless late night talk show hosts’ jokes. But the admiring comedians have nothing on YouTube viewers, who have relived the moment almost 100,000 times.

Sealfon’s notoriety seems to pale in comparison to that of Akshay Buddiga, who collapsed under pressure during the 2004 competition. Buddiga’s brother Pratyush Buddiga said the incident sparked a national media frenzy and the speller turned down interview requests from the likes of talk show hosts Oprah and Jay Leno.

“We felt like they were making fun of my brother,” said Pratyush, a freshman and the winner of the 2004 bee.

YouTube viewers seem to be doing the same. A clip of Akshay’s fall has been watched 240,000 times, with 794 sneering comments to boot.

Sophomore Michael Dechert only placed 32nd at nationals, but he said he’s thankful he didn’t stick around in the competition long enough for anything too embarrassing to be captured on film. Dechert had managed to keep his orthographic past from his brothers in Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity until pledging, when one of his tasks was to have his parents send the film of his time onstage.

“They had a lot of fun watching,” Dechert said. “A lot of fun.”
–Julia Love