Duke - Fall 2017 https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/issue/fall-2017 en A conversation about net neutrality https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/conversation-about-net-neutrality <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In February 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) re-classified broadband Internet as a Title II common carrier, meaning it prohibited Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from treating certain items differently from others—they couldn’t block, throttle, or prioritize content or traffic. This policy came to be known as “net neutrality.”</p> <p>On December 14, the FCC, under a new chair, voted to reverse these regulations. To gain an understanding of what this new ruling means, staff writer Lucas Hubbard ’14 spoke with Professor of the Practice in economics and former chief economist of the FCC Michelle Connolly.</p> <p><em>This conversation has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.</em></p> <p><strong>Consumers and content providers have argued that net neutrality is essential to keeping the Internet open and fair; however, in 2015 you referred to the policy as “net neutering.” What did you mean by that?</strong></p> <p>The whole terming of “net neutrality” is really a marketing campaign, and it wasn’t about keeping things fair. It was essentially subsidizing very large content providers that were causing congestion and problems in terms of the amount of data they put through on the Internet Service Provider’s networks. This wasn’t about keeping things open; this was about preventing natural market mechanisms from occurring.</p> <p>Let me give a parallel: No one says that the United States Postal Service can’t charge more for an overnight delivery or two-day delivery. It’s a different service, and you pay a different amount. But the net-neutrality concept says, “Oh no, it’s illegal to pay more for express delivery.”</p> <p>With the Internet, you have these things called Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). When you’re using the Internet, you’re pulling information. And how far that information is from you affects the speed of how quickly you receive that information.</p> <p>For some content, it doesn’t really matter all that much. But especially for content like video, or things that are big and where you want a high quality of delivery, what you can do is put content on these local (private firm) content delivery networks. And they hold your content closer to big consumer centers. If you’re asking to watch Netflix, the content might be on a content delivery network, so that when you pull it, it goes from there to your Internet Service Provider [ISP] to your TV/device. And if it’s close, you have a higher chance of getting it quickly.</p> <p>If you think about that, well, that’s prioritized service. It’s not prioritized at the level of the ISP, but it is companies paying someone (in this case, content-delivery networks) to offer a prioritized, or at least faster, service to the consumer. That was considered perfectly legal under the old net-neutrality rules, but it wasn’t considered legal for ISPs to provide a similar type of service.</p> <p>But there may be some services that require high-quality, guaranteed delivery of content. And for those companies, they need a priority lane. If an ISP can’t charge for a priority delivery, then that means everything is being treated in the same way, and in the same average way. Then when congestion occurs—if, say, you’re in the middle of [remotely controlled] heart surgery, but you get frozen because there’s too much congestion – sorry, you are out of luck.</p> <p>So, when you don’t allow for any prioritized content, you’re actually blocking the development and sustainability of technologies that are evolving right now from being feasible, if they can’t guarantee their level of service. It’s an anti-competitive regulation in the sense that it blocks firms from being able to compete in certain dimensions.</p> <p><strong>Have you seen effects from the 2015 ruling that have concerned you?</strong></p> <p>One of the clear consequences of net neutrality ended up being a subsidy from ISPs and ultimately from consumers to really big content providers like Netflix and Hulu. In 2015, Netflix and YouTube alone were over 52 percent of data traffic on the Internet. Under the 2015 ruling, the cost of congestion from these services ends up being borne by the ISP, and some of that cost is passed on to the consumer. So that raises the price for the average consumer; and if you’re reducing profitability to ISPs, then in terms of additional investment, you should see a decrease in continued investment—both in terms of reaching out to new markets and in terms of improving qualities of existing markets.</p> <p>And there’s been surprisingly strong data, starting from 2014 to 2016, around capital expenditures by the big ISP firms: Not only did they slow their rate of expenditures, but it actually fell. So at least at first pass, that looks like there was a definite response. In my lab at Duke, we’re going to look at that a little more carefully, because you want to control for everything else that was going on. This was not a recessionary period; there aren’t immediate things that would cause you to think it’s being influenced by something other than that regulation. But I want to be careful about assigning causality.</p> <p><strong>Assuming the December ruling survives the courts and Congress, what do you expect the new Internet will look like? </strong></p> <p>Well, net neutrality only came in two years ago. So I don’t think that the average consumer saw the Internet looking obviously different from what it was three years ago, and they’re not going to see anything looking obviously different now from what it was six months ago.</p> <p>But what we will observe at the industry level is that this is likely to spur the ISPs to pick back up their investment levels—both in improving quality and in improving coverage, at least relative to where they would have been if we maintained net-neutrality rules.</p> <p>The other marketing strategy people keep talking about with net neutrality is that this is somehow about free speech. And it really isn’t. No one was blocking or slowing content because they didn’t want the information provided in content to be suppressed. They were just saying, “Well, Netflix, if you’re causing congestion, we have two choices: We can slow your traffic, or you can pay us to develop priority lanes for you.” It wasn’t about blocking every Republican website or conversely, every Democratic website.</p> <p>And this notion that you need to impose these economic regulations to avoid censorship—it’s like saying that on television you need to give free advertising, because if you don’t give it for free, then that’s censorship of speech. Free speech doesn’t really mean free broadband services, and that’s kind of what the net neutrality people are saying needs to hold in order to guarantee free speech.</p> <p><strong>Consumers do have a lot of fears of what ISPs will do under the new policy—raise rates, throttle and block content, suppress speech, and so forth. Why should users believe that this won’t happen?</strong></p> <p>Because that would be really bad economic decision-making on the part of the ISPs. There is more than one ISP. People can go around them, and if a consumer isn’t happy with what an ISP is doing, then they’re going to lose market share. It doesn’t make economic sense for these groups to behave in such a fashion.</p> <p>The Internet will be more efficient and will work better. This [outrage] is really about unfounded fears. Really, it’s kind of the boogeyman. This is saying, “We’re afraid of this, and we’re going to impose all these costs.” Think about this: If ISPs aren’t investing in greater deployment, who’s that hurting? It’s hurting people in the areas who aren’t getting a second ISP, or maybe not even a first ISP. It’s hurting people who otherwise might receive higher quality of service and/or a lower average cost of service.</p> <p><strong>A common refrain from net-neutrality proponents is for broadband Internet access to be treated more like a utility, like water or electricity. Why do you think letting the open market operate makes more sense?</strong></p> <p>Well, it’s not a utility. A utility is a government-sponsored legal monopoly. Most of our markets are not in the monopolistic case; in fact, the FCC Open Internet Order recognized as much. They simply said that there are costs of switching between providers, and so we [the FCC] think of that as giving them some sort of monopoly power. But that’s not usually the standard for defining monopoly power.</p> <p>If you think about the technological advances with wireless, we have not just fixed broadband but we have mobile broadband. When that’s occurring, you’re greatly increasing the number of competitors. The reality is that most of the United States population has two or more [ISPs].<strong> </strong>If you think about it, all your old telephone companies can give you give Internet service and all your old cable companies can give you good, hard-wire stuff. So most of the population should have [at least] two. And the technology is pushing it where the amount of competition that’s going to be in this area is only going to be increasing, and it’s increasing pretty quickly.&nbsp;</p> <p>Most of these utility regulations were written in the 1934 act. So, putting these utility regulations from the 1930s onto a very high-tech industry that’s evolving, making drastic leaps every five years—I mean, our water service is not exactly an industry that’s changed. But the speed of innovation in this industry—and the value of the industry—means there’s huge incentives for firms to come in and compete. So I want them to be able to do that.</p> <p><strong>With this FCC ruling, are you happy with the state of the Internet going forward? Are there other reforms you would like to see implemented?</strong></p> <p>I’m very happy with this rollback. There are still basic concepts of protections of speech (legal content), so that’s not gone. What’s gone is trying to regulate this industry as if it were a utility, which makes no sense.</p> <p>The only problem is that unless Congress steps in and says definitively the FCC should or should not be involved in regulating broadband, then every time there’s a political change, we risk having these ping-ponging regulations. And that uncertainty is bad for investment and innovation. It would be good if Congress could create more stability for the actors in this industry to know that—whatever the regulations are—they’re going to be something that you can count on for more than just one election cycle.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-12-20T00:00:00-05:00">Wednesday, December 20, 2017</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/writers/lucas-hubbard" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Lucas Hubbard</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/fall-2017" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fall 2017</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/MC_ECO_0_0.jpg" width="380" height="551" alt="" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Professor of the practice in economics Michelle Connolly talks about the new FCC ruling, and what&#039;s next. </div></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Cover Story </h3> <h3 class="field-label"> Homepage </h3> Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498278 at https://alumni.duke.edu https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/conversation-about-net-neutrality#comments Letters & Comments https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/letters-comments-0 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><strong>Like music to her eyes</strong></p><p>The “Secrets” issue was Duke Magazine at its best. The issue was well sequenced (like a great album of music) and the pieces excellently edited. The photography for each piece augmented the text so well.</p><p>I can’t remember reading a magazine word for word, cover to cover in a long time.</p><p>Pamela George</p><p>Adjunct professor,</p><p>Nicholas School of the Environment</p><p><strong>A door to more readers</strong></p><p>This was a most unique style among the many university publications I have read over many years. All too often there is a “sameness” in these magazines— a narrowness that is sometimes overlooked by the writers and staff. Of course, I am sure that the writers will vigorously defend their work in terms of the “whats and whys” that flowed from their pens. And what, therefore, might I ask of the contributors, are the visions and goals of the publications? Answer: to reach as many readers as possible.</p><p>With this novel issue, to me, you have opened the door to do that very thing of extending (slightly outside of the usual norm) and achieving a bit more influence over and enjoyment for many of those who may be “cover gazers and page flippers.” Congratulations on this publication!</p><p>James Macomson, D.D.S.</p><p>Gastonia, North Carolina</p><p><strong>Vandalism shouldn’t triumph</strong></p><p>How ironic that the Robert E. Lee statue was removed from Duke Chapel shortly after being “outed” in the “Secrets” issue. I would like to think it will be returned after repairs, but I imagine that is wishful thinking.</p><p>My grandfather, J. Deryl Hart, helped shepherd Duke through some very difficult times, as his presidency (1960-63) coincided with part of the civil rights movement. Among other things, he was instrumental in formulating the committee that made the decision to admit qualified blacks to Duke. I am quite sure, however, that he would never have seen fit to alter Duke Chapel by removing the likeness of a great man—not to mention a great educator—due to a senseless act of vandalism.</p><p>Charles H. Warner M.D. ’85</p><p>Roanoke, Virginia</p><p><strong>What about Washington Duke?</strong></p><p>Is there no contradiction between Duke forming a committee to sanitize its statuary and yet prominently displaying a monument to the world’s greatest drug dealer, Washington Duke? Duke owned one slave that we know of, fought in the Confederate Army, and then afterward created the world’s largest cigarette company. He peddled a drug that has killed more people than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined.</p><p>Yet, we condemn Robert E. Lee.</p><p>Here was a man who graduated number one in his class at West Point, never receiving a demerit. He served these United States for thirty- two years, fighting in the Mexican War with bravery and distinction— a war Congressman Lincoln opposed and avoided. He was offered the command of the Union Army and in a fierce internal struggle chose his state over these United States.</p><p>If this school had a shred of honor, which is hard to believe after its participation in the lacrosse scandal, it would remove Duke’s monument on East Campus and rename itself Trinity College.</p><p>John Maclean ’77</p><p>Savannah, Georgia</p><p><strong>Put this in your pipe and smoke it</strong></p><p>I have two concerns about your “Secrets” issue cover picturing the James B. Duke statue.</p><p>1. Covering his cigar is inaccurate. It is no “secret” that Duke was founded on money earned from tobacco sales and, through The Duke Endowment, continues to receive significant funding from money earned from tobacco sales.</p><p>2. Given Duke’s pervasive climate of political correctness, it would not surprise me to hear someone or some group of “protestors” have decided “something must be done” about the cigar on the statue.</p><p>Were that to occur, I suggest it would be hypocritical for any alumnus, student, or professor who feels that way, but who has benefited from being part of Duke, were they not to give back all of the salaries, scholarship money, and any other benefits they have received.</p><p>Harry Nolan ’64</p><p>Atlanta</p><p><strong>It’s not all about the surprise</strong></p><p>Your antidote to the fear of spoilers is an effective one, I think (“Unspoiled Territory”). Excellent storytelling is not always about the surprise shock. If it were all about the surprise shock, then we would not revisit the stories that we love. And there would be no new Star Wars fans. There would be no Shakespeare revivals or festivals. There would be no classics.</p><p>Keith Underwood ’83</p><p>Lewes, Delaware</p><p><strong>A geographical error</strong></p><p>I was perusing the “Secrets” issue and something jumped out at me. “Walden Pond in Kunshan” by Patrick Thomas Morgan was an interesting read, but the thing that jumped out was the background graphics depicting a silhouette of China. It included Taiwan, insinuating that Taiwan is part of China, which is both erroneous and offensive.</p><p>As a proud Taiwanese American who grew up in the deep South, I’ve come across my fair share of people who may not be able to pick out Taiwan on the map or [who] confuse it with Thailand. I understand that most of the time, it’s an honest mistake born out of ignorance or lack of correct information. However, there are instances where the inclusion of Taiwan as part of China is being done with malice, intending to provoke, demean, and oppress Taiwan and its people. I hope this was just an honest mistake.</p><p>Eric Lai ’05</p><p>Chapel Hill</p><p><strong>Another part of the story </strong></p><p>My father, David L. Swain ’48, M.Div. ’51, is the one Johanna McCloy referred to as the “missionary” in her story [“Before/After”], and the setting was our family cabin in the mountains of Japan.</p><p>My mother confirms that, yes, both she and my father knew Johanna’s dad was a “spy.” And yes, my dad was incensed with the idea that his own U.S. tax dollars were paying for CIA agents, like Johanna’s dad, to spy on American nationals, like himself.</p><p>There is a chance my father did garner some attention: As a United Methodist missionary, David Swain worked on peace and justice issues in Japan, helping students grow in their faith, assisting persecuted Christians in South Korea, and ultimately winning awards for his co-translation of “Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical and Social Effects of the Atomic Bomb,” the first comprehensive study of the events and results of the 1945 nuclear bombing of Japan.</p><p>My father passed away two years ago in his hometown of Asheville. I’m immensely proud of my dad, for what he did and produced for the world—and my dad was so proud of being a Dukie, as am I.</p><p>Dinah Swain ’86</p><p>Minneapolis</p><p><strong>SEND LETTERS TO:</strong> Box 90572, Durham, N.C. 27708 or e-mail dukemag@duke.edu. Please limit letters to 300 words and include your full name, address, and class year or Duke affiliation. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Owing to space constraints, we are sometimes unable to print all letters received. Published letters represent the range of responses received. </p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-12-11T00:00:00-05:00">Monday, December 11, 2017</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/fall-2017" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fall 2017</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/special_cover_0_0.png" width="673" height="860" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">What you thought of our storytelling</div></div></section> Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498279 at https://alumni.duke.edu Recently Published Books by Alumni https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/recently-published-books-alumni-2 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>Karl M. von der Heyden ’62 led a storied career in business, holding C-level executive positions at H.J. Heinz Company, PepsiCo, and RJR Nabisco. But his youth is the subject of his new book, </em><strong>Surviving Berlin: An Oral History </strong><em>(MCP Books). Born in Berlin in 1936, he grew up during the heart of World War II and its aftermath, came to America as an immigrant in the late ’50s, and noted the cultural changes of the U.S., particularly in the South, in the following decade with an unusual perspective, one he maintains today. Now retired, he recently spoke with the magazine; this is a condensed version of the conversation.</em></p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>Your interest in journalism is one of the reasons this book exists, and in the book you describe it as a long-term interest. Can you point to a particular story that, or moment when you realized you had this interest?</strong></p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>Von der Heyden: </strong>I don’t know how it came about. I remember a newspaper coming to our house every morning, and it had this fresh smell, and the way the columns looked and the headlines were positioned—all of that appealed to me. And then they had whole pages of nothing but numbers—those were the stock market results of the previous day. That fascinated me to no end, even though I had no idea what it meant.</p><p class="rogerstext">When I went to the secondary school, which we entered at age ten, they had a school newspaper which I mentioned in the book, and I found that interesting because the paper was written and edited by students. So I thought, I can do that, and that’s when I started my own little newspaper. I was about  eleven years old at the time. </p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>Coming to America, what were the provisions of your student visa?</strong></p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>Von der Heyden: </strong>Getting a student visa through the consulate in Berlin—in those days, the capital of West Germany was in Bonn, not in Berlin, so we only had a consulate— was a piece of cake. There was a stipulation that you had to come back when you were no longer a student and that you couldn’t work without permission. So, when I decided to stay for a second year [his sophomore year], I had to get permission from Washington to work during the summer, which I did.</p><p class="rogerstext">And when I came back the second time [Ed. Note: von der Heyden went to Berlin after his sophomore year but returned for his senior year studies at Duke], I actually applied for a student visa again, and the consular officer said to me, “You want a student visa, or an immigration visa?” He said, “It’s all the same to me.” That was really unusual, because in those days there was a quota by country. Germany had been a big provider of immigrants in the nineteenth century, and the U.S. has a large German-American population, but the German quota was not fully used at that time. Now, we’re talking ’61. So, I thought about it, and I said, “Well, it can’t hurt to have an immigration visa, right?” First of all, if I need to work, I don’t have to apply for permission, and also if I decide to stay, I can stay. And so I said to him, “If it’s all the same to you, I’ll take the immigration visa.”</p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>What sort of stood out to you about Duke at that time? And also, I don’t know if you got to experience Durham at all in that time, but I’d be curious to learn more about your impressions of the city in that era.</strong></p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>Von der Heyden</strong>: It’s quite different now. It was a tobacco town at the time. When I took the bus to East Campus  and then walked from there into town to get something like underwear or other clothes. The town smelled of tobacco, the whole town. The people were very curious because most of them had never seen foreigners. There were no Mexican laborers or anything like that. It was whites and blacks, and in some parts of North Carolina, Native Americans. That’s what they knew.</p><p class="rogerstext">There’s one story in the book, when we tried to go to church at Christmas Eve, but other than that, I really had very little reason to go [into Durham]. It was the same with the other students. There may have been one or two restaurants that people went to. The fraternities would have off-campus places where they would go for their parties because there was no drinking at Duke. Since I didn’t have a car and I didn’t drive, when I was invited to these places I never quite knew where they were, but they were mostly out of town. </p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>In the book, you describe finding old German newspapers in Perkins Library that describe the war and the atmosphere in Germany at that time. In light of recent events in Charlottesville and in other cities, do you see any similarities between now and your youth? </strong></p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>Von der Heyden:</strong> I’m not all that surprised about what happened in Charlottesville, although Charlottesville is a lovely town and quite tolerant, and these racists came, from what I understand, from all over the country. So you can’t necessarily blame it on the South. But it’s not a surprise to me that these strains of racial prejudice, anti-African American, anti-immigration, and anti-Semitism are below the surface—and maybe not too far below the surface in America. I stated in the book that I came across sympathy for Hitler occasionally during my student days in the American South. In the final part of the book, I mention that these same sentiments are still below the surface in Germany, as well. The book is really about some parallels between the discrimination of the Jews in Germany and the discrimination of the blacks in the South. That is one of the features of the book that made my upbringing more unique, because a lot of people went through the Nazism time, and other people went through the segregated South time, but I had both experiences.</p><p class="rogerstext">I realize that it makes the book more timely right now. It just shows that basic human attitudes don’t change that quickly.</p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>You said these attitudes persist—is it just that humans don’t change that quickly? I would imagine that people would see the sort of thing that you saw in Perkins in those excerpts and be disgusted by it, but do you think it’s just not that simple? </strong></p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>Von der Heyden:</strong> I would say at this point the overwhelming majority of Germans are disgusted by what happened during the Hitler period, and the overwhelming majority of Americans are disgusted with what happened in Charlottesville. So we are talking about small minorities. And that’s progress, because at the time when Hitler was in power, he got huge support from the local population, and when America had segregation in the South, that got huge support.</p><p class="rogerstext">Partially as a result of the civil rights legislation, the South, which used to be almost entirely Democratic when I was there, turned Republican. And the Southern bloc still carries a lot of political weight. </p><p class="rogerstext">Very few people are like the people who marched in Charlottesville. But there is, I think, an underlying remnant of old prejudices still visible. When we had the launch party of the book, somebody asked me about this, if things have changed on campus, and I said, “At Duke, yes.” Duke’s campus has probably more diversity than almost any of the top universities in the country, and it may have one of the highest African American student populations, percentage-wise. I think it is around 14 percent. That’s good, because Duke has to redeem itself in some ways from its past, its own past. When I was on the Board of Trustees, we all supported the push for more diversity.</p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>The book stops prior to a lot of your business dealings, but there’s been a trend recently for CEOs to sort of speak out against what’s happening, to leave these presidential boards. From your experience in business, did this sort of thing happen in prior decades? Or is this more of a new thing?</strong></p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>Von der Heyden:</strong> It’s fairly new. Big corporations need to stay apolitical. They need to be able to work with any government in Washington, work well, and try to be neutral, because, for example, if you’re a consumer-products company like Pepsi and you start ranting and raving about one party or the other, you risk losing half your customers.  They start boycotting you. So you have to be careful about offending people, even minorities, but you can work behind the scenes. And we did, but the openness that we have today is new.</p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>I feel like a lot of what’s happening today, there’s a groundswell from the public to have the companies denounce the president or stop working with him. Do you recall in your time at any of the companies, that sort of public pressure and nothing happening?</strong></p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>Von der Heyden</strong>: The Iraq War created very deep fissures in American society, and there were always pressures from certain citizens and citizen groups to come out and denounce President Bush and other politicians. But companies would say that this is not their mission; they are not publicly getting into politics. And I think that will continue. Business executives are quite careful about being openly political.</p><p class="rogerstext">The last board I was on was a defense contractor, Huntington Ingalls. They are the biggest builder of Navy ships. They build nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines. I thought I’d go down there and join a totally Republican board, because the Republican party claims to be more supportive of the military. But that wasn’t true. The strategy all along has been to work well with whoever is secretary of the Navy, who is generally an appointee of the president.</p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>Last question: In a different online interview, you mentioned that you’re optimistic by nature. So much of your childhood and upbringing was affected by war and the aftereffects of war. Have you thought about how your optimistic nature developed, either in spite of these circumstances, or maybe even due to making it through these circumstances?</strong></p><p class="rogerstext"><strong>Von der Heyden: </strong>I’m optimistic partly because of my experiences in America. I am constantly amazed how fair people are to me. I am an immigrant; I was a foreigner; I had an accent; but none of that ever developed into any kind of discrimination. Americans know that we are a country of immigrants, and we are at our best when we cherish that tradition.  I’ve been here for sixty years now, and I am still an optimist about our future.</p><p> </p><p><strong>A Surgical Path</strong></p><p><em>In his new book</em>, <strong>Healing Children: Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine </strong><em>(Penguin Random House), Kurt Newman M.D. ’78, president and CEO of Children’s National Health System, explores the resilience of the children he has treated over three decades as a pediatric surgeon. Here he explains how he first was drawn to this role.</em></p><p>My journey began during my third year of medical school with an unlikely discovery while working in the lab of Duke’s Robert Lefkowitz, a future Nobel Prize winner. The assignment was inspiring, and the scientific breakthroughs were incredible, but my world changed when I felt a lump in my neck while leaning over a microscope. I needed surgery to remove the mass—it was thyroid cancer.</p><p>Being a cancer patient at my own medical school was emotional and intense. Wearing a hospital gown instead of a white coat or scrubs was totally disorienting. However, being fixed by someone else’s hands opened my eyes to the magic and possibility of surgery. In an incredible act of grace, at the post-op visit, my surgeon unbuttoned his shirt, showed me a scar on his neck, and said, “I had thyroid cancer as a resident, and I’ve had a happy life—you can, too.” And with that, I was hooked.</p><p>Several years later, as a surgery resident at one of Harvard’s teaching hospitals, I had a rotation at Boston Children’s Hospital. This was a new world for me—a hospital devoted solely to children. Contrary to my expectations, it was filled with music, art, light, and fun. But it was the children that sealed the deal.</p><p>During my first month, I was called to the Emergency Department to work up a twelve-year-old girl for appendicitis. At the end of my exam, I could tell she was terrified. Channeling my past, I pulled down my collar, showed her my scar, and joked, “See, it’s not so bad, and your scar won’t even show.” She laughed, and I made sure to do my best suturing job ever in the OR that day.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Book Club With Lane Windham </strong>’90</p><p><em>The associate director at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University spent many post-Duke years involved in the union movement. Her new book, </em><strong>Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide</strong><em> (UNC Press), explores the thriving labor movement four decades ago and how it has declined, as well as what these recent difficulties mean for the future of labor.</em></p><p>Amy Goldstein’s <em>Janesville</em> really nails the current crisis facing America’s working class. She digs into people’s lives after a General Motors plant shuts down, showing how hope and determination will get you only so far when there are no decent jobs. The intimate portraits of real-life characters set this book apart, such as the middle-schoolers who secretly turn to the school’s clothes bank or the “GM gypsies” who carpool to other states each week just to work.  </p><p>Heather Thompson’s <em>Blood in the Water</em> won the Pulitzer Prize for good reason.  Reading it, you pretty much feel like you’re there, inside the Attica prison uprising of 1971. I have been shocked by how little I really knew about what the state covered up at Attica. It’s an emotionally wrenching story and brings in a missing piece to today’s conversation on race, policing, and civil rights.      </p><p>Kathleen Barry’s <em>Femininity in Flight</em> is great airplane reading. It’s about flight attendants’ labor activism in the 1960s and 1970s. Airlines used to fire women when they turned thirty-five! To protest that injustice, stewardesses donned their high heels and perfectly coiffed hairdos at a Capitol Hill press conference and dared lawmakers to guess who among them was above the age of thirty-five. <span style="font-size: 13.008px;"> </span></p><p>I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Lawrence Goodwyn’s classic, <em>The Populist Moment</em>. Like generations of Duke students, I learned in Goodwyn’s undergraduate course “Social Movements in the American South” that movements thrive within a culture of change. That idea is pretty much embedded in my DNA at this point and allowed me to see how the rights consciousness of the civil rights and women’s movements fed workers’ union desires in the 1970s.   <strong><em></em></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Recently published</strong></p><p>The new book from Karlyn Forner A.M. ’11, Ph.D. ’14, <em>Why the Vote Wasn’t Enough for Selma</em> (Duke University Press), aims to explore just that: Why, in the symbolic heart of the civil rights and voting rights movement, did African Americans fail to achieve economic justice? Forner, the project manager of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) Digital Gateway at Duke University Libraries, examines the history of the city in greater depth and plumbs the individual stories of its citizens.</p><p>Catherine Taylor Ph.D. ’98, associate professor of writing at Ithaca College, has a history of genre-bending writing. Her latest nonfiction book, <em>You, Me, and the Violence </em>(Mad Creek Books), features a turbulent narrative that examines puppetry and military drones to explore larger questions of autonomy.</p><p>Two Duke alumnae have new books detailing tactics for thriving in life. In <em>Regroup: The How-To of Never Giving Up</em> (Inkspiration Press), serial entrepreneur Jaunique Sealey ’00 weaves personal accounts with a well-rounded perspective to provide lessons for readers. In a more pocket-sized effort called <em>The Launch Book </em>(LID Publishing), Sanyin Siang ’96, M.B.A. ’02, the cofounder of the Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics at Fuqua and faculty member at the Duke Story Lab, builds a start-up bible by pairing origin stories from many recognizable industry names with core principles of behavioral economics. </p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-11-06T00:00:00-05:00">Monday, November 6, 2017</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/writers/lucas-hubbard" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Lucas Hubbard</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/fall-2017" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fall 2017</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/KARL_0_0.gif" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">An interview with new author Karl M. von der Heyden &#039;62, recommended reads from Lane Windham &#039;90, the driving force behind the career choice of Kurt Newman M.D. &#039;78, and more!</div></div></section> Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498280 at https://alumni.duke.edu CASE: In the business of bettering the world https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/case-business-bettering-world <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Jonathan Woodward’s passion to change educational opportunities for minorities is taking shape at Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers, better known as TROSA, a comprehensive program in Durham that helps people recover from addiction.</p><p>Woodward is observing a lesson in how to turn former addicts into productive, recovering individuals. “Their system is interesting,” he says. “They bring folks who struggle with addiction and put them to work so they can heal and create a new life for themselves…. Much of TROSA’s revenue comes from businesses they started. They have a thrift store and a moving company, where people can learn vocational skills and earn money.”</p><p>The trip to TROSA is part of Day in Durham, an annual pilgrimage for firstyear M.B.A. students like Woodward who come to the Fuqua School of Business. It’s when students begin to understand how their business skills can be used for social, environmental, and economic impact.</p><p>Woodward, a former English and history teacher from South Central Los Angeles, is one of several recipients of Fuqua’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to individuals with social-sector backgrounds who are looking to acquire business skills for use in their pursuit of social impact.</p><p>This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of CASE, <a href="https://centers.fuqua.duke.edu/case/">an award-winning research and education center based at Fuqua</a>. It was founded by the father of social entrepreneurship education, Greg Dees, and Beth Anderson, a former student of Dees and currently the executive director of the Hill Center, an educational nonprofit that serves students who struggle academically. “CASE has been one of the crown jewels in the business school,” says Fuqua dean Bill Boulding.</p><p>Boulding reflected that Greg Dees had a strong belief that businesses that were trying to create a positive social impact could also adhere to the same market standards of excellence. “You don’t need a totally different playbook for social impact. You need a commitment to making a difference in lives through your company,” Boulding says.</p><p>“At Fuqua, we strongly believe business can be a force for good and solve tough challenges in society in ways that government or other entities can’t,” says Boulding. “It’s possible to reasonably sustain a business by making it profitable while improving lives. Nonprofits and other social sector organizations can use business principles to achieve greater impact as well.”</p><p><span class="dc">D</span>ees, who died in December 2013, knew that people suffering from various ills and conditions in the world needed solutions right away. And he believed that a center like CASE had the power to accelerate the pace of change.</p><p>Erin Worsham, CASE’s executive director, says that CASE does just that. The center trains hundreds of students each year through classes and extracurricular activities. And CASE’s work doesn’t stop in the halls of Fuqua. The goal is to make the entire social impact field better.</p><p>“We think of ourselves as a hub for research, teaching, and practitioner engagement in social impact,” Worsham says. “Over the years we have educated thousands of students and have also worked with thousands of nonprofits, for-profits, government agencies, funders, impact investors, and researchers to develop and share best practices and tools. We want to empower leaders and organizations to change the world and to do so faster, better, and at greater scale.”</p><p>Social entrepreneurs have noticed.</p><p>“I don’t think there’s been a more important academic institution for social entrepreneurship than CASE,” says Sally Osberg, president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, which invests in and connects social entrepreneurs and innovators to help them solve the world’s most pressing problems.</p><p>“It’s the one people turn to. It’s the one that was actually launched by Greg Dees. And it’s no accident that it’s now coming up on fifteen years, that even when its founder is no longer, sadly, very sadly, here to guide it, that the people he put in place, the people he inspired, the academics who have really flocked to CASE should be ensuring that it’s poised for its next fifteen years, too.</p><p>“So, in terms of research, in terms of contributing to this field, in terms of offering both practical and really smart counsel to students, CASE is really the institution that sets the agenda and sets the pace for us all.”</p><p>For Loree Lipstein M.B.A. ’15, CASE and Fuqua are interwoven. Lipstein is the founder and principal of Thread Strategies, a fundraising consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., that helps nonprofits and social enterprises raise the funds needed to advance their missions. She assists them with their fundraising, their organizing, and ways to measure their impact to prove to funders their programs work. Their causes include supporting literacy, solving clean-water issues, assisting adults with disabilities, and mentoring children through college.</p><p>Lipstein says she was attracted to the general business foundation Fuqua provided, coupled with CASE’s attention to the social sector. CASE’s programs made her keenly aware of the nuances of the social sector. The hands-on learning and start-up support offered through CASE gave her the opportunity to refine and implement her business venture.</p><p>“I came from a purely nonprofit background,” Lipstein says. “And I started a for-fee business that works with nonprofits. I am now able to come at it using a business lens. I’m able to use business constructs and strategies to help my clients.”</p><p><span class="dc">O</span>ver the years, CASE has continued to innovate and expand its work to stay at the cutting edge of social impact. One way CASE has changed is the addition of impact investment— the practice of investing for social and environmental impact as well as financial return—as one of the center’s focus areas. Established in 2011, CASE founded the globally recognized Initiative on Impact Investing (CASE i3), which includes a two-year student fellowship program, research partnerships, and innovative tools such as CASE Smart Impact Capital, an online toolkit for entrepreneurs seeking impact investment.</p><p>CASE has also led efforts such as the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), a global-health scaling accelerator, funded by USAID. The ventures raised more than $56 million and improved health outcomes for more than 30 million beneficiaries during their time in the SEAD program.</p><p>After his Day in Durham visit, M.B.A. student Woodward wonders out loud about running a high-quality teacher- placement service that would match school districts with the right teacher for their environment. Or maybe bring in master teachers to train new hires.</p><p>Before enrolling at Fuqua, he worked in various positions in education from program management for a national teacher policy-advocacy group (Teach Plus) to talent acquisition at the largest charter-school network in Los Angeles (Alliance College-Ready Public Schools). He wants to help organizations in the urban- education sector create more sustainable business models and talent-management practices.</p><p>“I want to make changes so that students have access to high-quality education,” he says. Woodward says that education nonprofits depend heavily on state grants and wealthy contributors. “I like the idea of creating an organization that can sustain itself, like TROSA.”</p><p>He’s just at the start of his CASE journey, but he’s sure his coursework and experiential-learning opportunities with CASE will guide him in implementing best practices.</p><p>“The thing I know above anything else is I want to make a social impact,” says Woodward.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-10-31T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, October 31, 2017</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/FUQUACASE-main_0.gif" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/bridgette-lacy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bridgette A. Lacy</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/fall-2017" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fall 2017</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-photo-credit field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Photo Credit:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/photographers/alex-boerner" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Alex Boerner</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">For fifteen years, the program has prepared business leaders who want to make a social impact. </div></div></section> Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498285 at https://alumni.duke.edu How CASE helped Sightlife Surgical's CEO https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/how-case-helped-sightlife-surgicals-ceo <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Monty Montoya M.B.A. ’03 works to solve real problems. In 1997, Montoya joined an organization called <a href="http://www.sightlife.org/">SightLife</a>, a nonprofit that recovers and processes corneas for transplant. “The impact of restoring people’s sight is literally lifesaving,” Montoya says. Giving people the gift of sight generally translates into making them self-sufficient— able to go to school, to read, and to work.</p><p>When Montoya first came to Fuqua he had ten years of technical experience but lacked the leadership, business, and marketing skills to scale his organization. He has worked closely with CASE, interacting with the team as a student and then later participating in CASE programs as an alumnus. “CASE has really set the standard nationwide and worldwide to help social ventures scale and have impact,” he says. “It’s allowed me the inspiration and knowledge to grow SightLife’s annual budget from $1 million to $45 million.”</p><p>Before connecting with CASE, SightLife provided about 700 people a year with corneal transplants. This year, more than 30,000 people will receive new corneas. But Montoya was not satisfied. With the skills and inspiration he gained at Fuqua, Montoya and his team developed a plan —as he says, borrowing a phrase from former Duke President Terry Sanford, an “outrageous ambition”—to eliminate corneal blindness worldwide by 2040.</p><p>But as Montoya and his team work tirelessly to eliminate corneal blindness, they knew they needed to do more. One of the challenges of transplants is a simple matter of supply and demand. There are only 150,000 corneas available annually from organ donors, but more than 10 million people need the sight-restoring surgery.</p><p>To accelerate and scale their work, Montoya led his team at SightLife in launching a new for-profit subsidiary, SightLife Surgical, which is focused on raising capital and driving innovations in research, products, prevention, and policy. “How do we get patients treatment better and faster? How do we make an impact so they don’t need transplants?” he asks.</p><p>CASE executive director Erin Worsham called Montoya a great example of how the CASE team is preparing leaders and organizations to change the world.</p><p>“He has an insatiable drive and passion, truly understands the complexity of the problem he seeks to solve, and is using his business skills—regardless of whether we are talking about a nonprofit or a for-profit structure—to drive to scale,” she said.</p><p>In business, to scale typically means to grow, adding more locations, or hiring more people. But at CASE, scale does not necessarily mean building a bigger organization.</p><p>“Achieving scale is not about budget size or number of locations,” Worsham said. “When we are talking about social problems, scale is about the amount of social change we can achieve. Monty is not satisfied with tens of thousands of corneas transplanted each year, or even millions. He wants to transform the entire system and eliminate the problem. Scaling social impact is not an academic exercise; it’s real people with real problems. And we are thrilled that we have been a part of Monty’s journey to achieving impact at scale.”</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-10-31T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, October 31, 2017</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/fall-2017" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fall 2017</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/MONTY-portrait_0_0.gif" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498284 at https://alumni.duke.edu CASE's faculty director helps to spread a good idea https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/cases-faculty-director-helps-spread-good-idea <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><span class="dc">C</span>athy Clark’s aha moment came more than twenty years ago, when she had lunch with Lloyd N. Morrisett, one of the creators of the groundbreaking children’s television show <em>Sesame Street</em>. Clark was working in communications technology at the Aspen Institute in Washington when Morrisett, the president of the Markle Foundation, explained he was a venture capitalist.</p><p>Clark, now CASE’s faculty director, didn’t know what he was talking about.</p><p>Morrisett explained that there were financial institutions that invested in growing companies that want to make a social impact. “I thought this was amazing—how you can use money to build enterprises,” says Clark, who, at that point, had only a bachelor’s degree with a major in French literature.</p><p>Clark quit her job and moved to New York to find out how Morrisett was able to use new technology to solve educational issues. She wanted to see how he was able to prepare children for kindergarten by using commercial television production elements and techniques to teach children their A-B-C’s.</p><p>She was a part of the generation that, with many of her classmates in inner-city Philadelphia and the rest of the country, mastered reading and arithmetic by watching Big Bird and Elmo. “As a teenager, I recall being a counselor at summer camp putting kids in front of <em>Sesame Street</em> on TV, to complement the books we were reading to them.</p><p>“I was in awe,” she says. “How do I learn to do that?” She wanted to master the knowledge of taking a good idea, testing it in a small enterprise, and then sharing it to address the needs of the masses. This became her first lesson in how to scale a project.</p><p>Most ideas stay really small, but Clark says she wanted to examine how to reach more people with a good idea. Encouraged by Morrisett, Clark eventually earned an M.B.A. at Columbia University. Then she returned to Columbia to teach for nine years before coming to Duke.</p><p>Clark was recruited by Greg Dees, the founder of CASE, in 2007. She started as an adjunct professor teaching social entrepreneurship. Dees and Clark had compatible views of the field, despite coming from different backgrounds. She came with a New York network of for-profit enterprises interested in making a social impact. Meanwhile, Dees had worked in rural Kentucky with nonprofits wanting to do the same.</p><p>“CASE is about the discipline of what business principles can add to the pursuit of social impact,” Clark says. “What can you learn about marketing? How can finance propel a good idea forward faster? How do you take good ideas and grow them? How do you grow innovation? How do you figure out if it’s working? How do you attract people to help you?”</p><p>Recently, Clark served as the lead author of CASE’s online learning series, CASE Smart Impact Capital. She also coauthored, along with CASE Executive Director Erin Worsham and Director of Programs Robyn Fehrman, the Scaling Pathways series, a partnership among CASE, the Skoll Foundation, USAID’s Global Development Lab, and Mercy Corps that explores strategies to solve widespread, seemingly intractable social problems.</p><p>She was named, in 2014, one of the top-twenty women in the U.S. working in philanthropy, social innovation, and civic engagement. Clark has been an active pioneer, researcher, educator, and consultant for over twenty-five years in the fields of impact investing and social entrepreneurship. She also founded and directs CASE i3, the Initiative on Impact Investing, and co-leads the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), an accelerator working to scale impact of global health ventures in India and East Africa.</p><p>“When Dees started CASE, social entrepreneurship was not well understood," Clark says. “He explained what it was. He basically said this is not a hobby, this is a discipline. We can see patterns. These problems are urgent for the people who are suffering. We need to do everything we can to help the person trying to read or to provide food for people in a food desert. Our team lived and breathed that sense.”</p><p>“What’s happened in the past fifteen years?” Clark asks, rhetorically. “There are CASE networks now around the world. There are university programs helping them grow. At CASE, we are focused at the graduate level on really going in-depth in the discipline of businesses scaling up a good idea. When we talk about scale, we are not talking about ideation but more about when people hit a wall. When your enterprise is not the shiny new thing, and you hit a roadblock. When you need to hire a manager or the environment has changed.</p><p>“That’s where the business skills are needed. How do social enterprises pivot smartly? They have to pivot toward impact. And that takes a different level of skills.”</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-10-31T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, October 31, 2017</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/bridgette-lacy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bridgette A. Lacy</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/fall-2017" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fall 2017</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/kathy-portrait_0_0.gif" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498283 at https://alumni.duke.edu CASE alumna puts her non-traditional background to good use https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/case-alumna-puts-her-non-traditional-background-good-use <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><span class="dc">W</span>hen Lauren Gardner M.B.A. ’06 was living in a fishing village in St. Lucia, serving as a Peace Corps volunteer for small-business development, she realized she lacked some of the concrete skills needed to make a big social impact.</p><p>Gardner began researching M.B.A. programs to gain those skills. “The more I read about Fuqua’s reputation as a challenging, team-oriented program with a cutting-edge commitment to social entrepreneurship, I knew that I wanted to apply,” she says.</p><p>Gardner is now the chief operating officer at the Emily Krzyzewski Center, a nonprofit organization that serves as a hub to help propel academically focused, low-income K-12 students toward success in college. But she credits CASE with providing her that opportunity.</p><p>“I’m not sure I would have been accepted at Fuqua without CASE,” Gardner says, explaining that she was a non-traditional M.B.A. candidate. Her work experience was not finance, marketing, engineering, or business.</p><p>But after reading about Greg Dees, the founder of CASE, she knew Fuqua had the best professor in the country for teaching social entrepreneurship.</p><p>Gardner had a bachelor’s of science in foreign service with a focus on international economics from Georgetown University. While she benefited from scholarship and family support for her undergraduate degree, for her graduate studies she only had a readjustment allowance from the Peace Corps to start her life in Durham.</p><p>Fuqua’s Loan Assistance Program, which provides financial support to graduates who take jobs in the social sector, offered a path. “I had this safety net on the other end that meant I didn’t need a big corporate job in order to pay off these loans. I wanted to take a job that matched my passion and to use my skills for a nonprofit.”</p><p>During her first summer at Fuqua, Gardner found that opportunity at the Emily K Center. It was 2005, and the center was operating out of a trailer behind the construction site for its new building. Outfitted in a hard hat, Gardner assisted in needs assessments, developed marketing materials, and helped create programs.</p><p>By Gardner’s second year at Fuqua, the bricks had been laid. Construction on the Emily K Center was completed in February 2006, and by the end of that spring semester, the center had found money to pay for an operational staffer. Gardner started working full time that summer.</p><p>Back then, there was one program and thirty-eight kids. The program, Pioneer Scholars, was designed to help elementary and middle- school students prepare for high school and college.</p><p>Now, the center offers four programs, including Scholars to College and Scholars on Campus, and works with students from first grade through college. And last year when some seniors in the Scholars to College program realized their classmates also needed support to get to college, the center started the Game Plan: College program to help even more high-school students.</p><p>“We went from an empty building to an organization that is changing the face of college access in Durham—opening our doors to any high-school student who wants to go to college and working with more than 700 elementary, middle, high-school, and college students this year alone,” says Gardner.</p><p>Last May, thirty seniors in the center’s intensive Scholars to College program walked across the stage in their caps and gowns and announced where they would be attending college. “Most of these students will attend college on a full scholarship and graduate with little or no debt,” she says. Two students from the Scholars to College program are attending Duke this fall. They’re both the first in their families to go to college.</p><p>As she continues her work, Gardner keeps showing how her education has made her a premier teammate. Just ask the coach. “We have personally benefited at the Emily K Center from the top-notch business education Lauren received at Fuqua,” says Mike Krzyzewski, chair and founder of the center. “We are so grateful she had the opportunity to join our team.”</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-10-31T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, October 31, 2017</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/GARDNER-main_0.gif" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/bridgette-lacy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bridgette A. Lacy</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/fall-2017" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fall 2017</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Lauren Gardner M.B.A. &#039;06 is a striver now helping strivers at the Emily Krzyzewski Center. </div></div></section> Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498282 at https://alumni.duke.edu Loan assistance program offers a little help https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/loan-assistance-program-offers-little-help <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Lauren Gardner M.B.A. ’06 calls Fuqua’s loan assistance program an “impact multiplier.”</p><p>Now named the Rex and Ellen Adams Loan Assistance Program, after Fuqua’s former dean and his wife, the program provides <a href="https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/programs/daytime-mba/financing-your-degree">financial assistance</a>, in the form of loan forgiveness awards, to qualifying Duke M.B.A. alumni who work in the nonprofit or public service sectors. It was originally launched with a gift from the Daytime M.B.A. Class of 2001; during the Duke Forward campaign, the F.M. Kirby Foundation made a $2.5 million gift to endow and re-name the program.</p><p>Alumni are eligible to receive assistance annually toward both federal and private loans.</p><p>With that kind of help, students pursuing careers in the social sector are more interested in attending Fuqua, and graduates can choose careers that align their skills with their passions. Gardner, a recipient, is grateful.</p><p>“Thank you for investing in me so that I can invest in this community. Thank you for making sure the Loan Assistance Program has been endowed so that someone right now who is in the Peace Corps, or working in an inner-city school, or working for a start-up social enterprise can be confident that Fuqua is not only feasible, but a place that will support them for the long run as they invest in their communities after graduation.”</p><p> </p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-10-31T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, October 31, 2017</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/fall-2017" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fall 2017</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498281 at https://alumni.duke.edu Uncle Terry saves the day https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/uncle-terry-saves-day <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As a former governor, Terry Sanford often used his political skills during his tenure as Duke president, from 1970 to 1985. One of his best-known missives, the “Avuncular Letter,” was sent to the undergraduate students in 1984. At once humorous and chiding, effective but gentle, the letter, signed “Uncle Terry,” is a triumph of Sanford’s acumen. The story behind the letter, however, tells the tale of the long-standing problem facing Sanford, as well as the path it set toward the creation of what we now know as “Cameron Crazies.”</p> <p>Student rowdiness at basketball games didn’t begin in 1984. In fact, correspondence about the issue in Sanford’s presidential records dates back to 1973. Even then, opposing teams accused enthusiastic Duke fans of spitting on them in Cameron Indoor Stadium. A number of student cheers also contained words some alumni and other viewers felt were unfitting for a school of Duke’s caliber.</p> <p>After a particularly nasty incident in 1979, in which the wife of the North Carolina State University coach was taunted, Duke fans were reviled in the press. A Richmond <em>Times-Dispatch</em> column by Mike Bevans suggested, “If ABC ever expands its Superstars competition to include collections of raving idiots, put your money on the Duke students who assemble behind press row for every game at Cameron Stadium.”</p> <p>Sanford wrote a letter to the student body in February 1979, remarking on the volume of letters sent to his office—“more than I have received on any other issue since I have been at Duke.” He warned that the conduct was beginning to interfere with Duke’s reputation, as well as its fundraising. He concluded the letter by saying, “We can have plenty of fun, kid others to whatever degree we want to, but there is a line that decent people simply have to draw. I contend that a Duke student has enough sense to know where to draw the line. I am counting on you to draw it.” The following day, Sanford wrote a letter to all fraternity presidents, asking them to do what they could to keep their members in line.</p> <p>The presidential caution didn’t curtail all bad behavior, however. At a game in February 1983, Virginia coach Terry Holland found himself with Duke students sitting immediately behind the visitors’ bench, and was on the receiving end of constant insults and enough noise that he had difficulty communicating with his players. “While I admit that I enjoy some of the ideas that Duke students come up with,” Holland wrote dryly to Duke Athletics Director Tom Butters, “the profanity and the personal attacks on coaches and their families really have no place in the college game.”</p> <p>As the 1983-84 season approached, Sanford wrote, perhaps wearily, to Butters: “With the approaching basketball season, I turn once more to a favorite peeve of mine, and that is the ‘dehumanizing’ conduct of a number of our students at home games. I hope you can devise a plan to minimize this kind of conduct, and to improve the rather sorry reputation our student body has in this respect.” It didn’t take long, however, before the antics in Cameron earned the school renewed attention from the press.</p> <p>At a game against Maryland in January 1984, a number of students threw underwear and contraceptives onto the court—a dig at a Maryland player who had been accused of sexual misconduct—and sang chants containing four-letter words, hurled personal insults against players and coaches, and created general mayhem. Clippings of critical articles were sent to Sanford, along with letters expressing shock and distaste at the behavior. One read, “To think that some of those same students might within just a few years be our doctors, dentists, lawyers, and legislators boggles one’s mind.” Many asked when the administration was going to step in.</p> <p>Even his friend Peace Corps founder and politician Sargent Shriver wrote him, expressing sympathy: “What can be done? Short of evicting the ‘fans’ (if they’re worthy of that name) or fining the home team points for foul behavior by home team rooters, I can’t imagine what can or should be done. But I’m guessing you can. So, the purpose of this letter is solely to tell you that a lot of fathers &amp; mothers would rally around a president with the courage to put an end to this kind of despicable conduct.”</p> <p>It was in response to all of this outcry that <a href="http://exhibits.library.duke.edu/archive/files/cca15475ca8e2844e1d4d112d7771d0f.jpg">Sanford penned his avuncular letter</a>. In it, he implored the fans to be creative, but to keep it clean. “Think of something clever but clean, devastating but decent, mean but wholesome, witty and forceful but G-rated for television, and try it at the next game.” He concluded the letter with a single sentence: “I hate for us to have the reputation of being stupid.” Duke students demonstrated their new and improved behavior at the next home game, against the University of North Carolina. A group of students attempted to deliver a bouquet to UNC coach Dean Smith, and the crowd, many of who were wearing halos, shouted, “Hi Dean!” in greeting. The referees received a standing ovation when they walked onto the court, and when the fans objected to their calls, they shouted, “We beg to differ” rather than their previous favorite cry, which referred to barnyard droppings. Even the signs in the stands were cleaned up: “Welcome honored guests,” and “Sorry Uncle Terry. The devil made us do it.”</p> <p>The new behavior received positive feedback from almost all, including from UNC. Dean Smith told <em>The Durham</em> <em>Morning Herald</em>, “I’m impressed with the Duke officials and Duke student body that they tried to do something about it.” Slyly, Smith continued, “Of course, I didn’t ever notice the other things.”</p> <p>The Avuncular Letter didn’t end misbehavior, but it did usher in a new era for Duke men’s basketball fans and began some practices that continue, including line monitors. Within a couple of years, the remarkable fan base was bestowed with the “crazies” moniker. Sanford, with his typical finesse in working with students, alumni, administrators, and colleagues at other schools, helped make the Cameron Crazies into the creative and powerful force they are today.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-10-30T00:00:00-04:00">Monday, October 30, 2017</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/retro-MAIN_0.gif" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/valerie-gillispie" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Valerie Gillispie</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/fall-2017" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fall 2017</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/Retro-portrait_0_0.gif" width="250" height="300" alt="" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> Yes <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">When student behavior at basketball games got crazy, President Sanford wrote a note that helped pave the way for Crazie-ness. </div></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Cover Story </h3> <h3 class="field-label"> Homepage </h3> Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498286 at https://alumni.duke.edu https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/uncle-terry-saves-day#comments Alumni get an up-close look at change in the Arctic https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/alumni-get-close-look-change-arctic <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Go to Norway, and then head further north, three hours by plane. You’ll end up in Longyearbyen, the main settlement of the not-quite-sovereign archipelago of Svalbard. Formerly a mining town, Longyearbyen focuses now on tourism and climate research, an area of obvious interest, given its position in the Arctic. If you leave the settlement on foot, you’ll have to carry a rifle to protect against polar bears.</p> <p>The Arctic manages to both follow and upend your expectations. Polar bears present a threat, but they’re rarely seen. Svalbard has quaint limitations—its governor doubles as the region’s chief justice and head of police—but also luxuries: Longyearbyen has an airport, a university, and a number of museums. On the ocean, the wind whips but rarely stings; increasingly, the water can be traversed without breaking ice. Perhaps that’s the greatest shame: The Arctic is disappearing before people truly know what it’s like.</p> <p>This June, <a href="https://spark.adobe.com/page/0ASmstXmS0Wzg/">a number of Duke alumni (myself included)</a> made this northern pilgrimage before hopping on the National Geographic <em>Explorer</em> for a week at sea. The Lindblad Expeditions “Land of the Ice Bears” trip itself marks the decline in Arctic conditions. Launches are trending earlier each year; the next time Duke offers the trip, in 2019, it will be even earlier in the month. It’s a simple pattern: Less and less ice covers the ocean.</p> <p>“There’s always good ice years and bad ice years, but what we’re seeing is a string of consecutive ‘light’ ice years, which results in really bad conditions for these animals,” according to David Johnston Ph.D. ’04, associate professor of the practice of marine conservation ecology in the Nicholas School. Previous extremes of low ice levels have become the norm. “What we were seeing would happen once every five or seven years; it now happens every year or four years in a row with only one good year in-between.”</p> <p>As the ice that’s so iconic in the region— that’s so elemental to the region— disappears, an already-fragile ecosystem becomes threatened. Loosely speaking, the food chain flows steadily to its terminus of the polar bear, and the polar bear diet relies upon a surplus of seals. (To maintain body weight, a grown polar bear eats roughly one seal a week.) Johnston has studied harp seals at length in Arctic Canada and Greenland, and in numerous papers he has documented declines in seasonal sea ice and associated deaths of entire cohorts of their pups. He also explains how tenuous the situation is for another type of pinniped, the hooded seal. Like harp seals, they can’t give birth to their pups in the water, nor can birth/reproduction occur on land, as those seals would be sitting, well, seals for the predatory polar bears. What they need is pack ice—the floating ice that forms seasonally and increasingly unpredictably during their breeding season each spring.</p> <p>“They’re kind of walking this amazing evolutionary dance, where they’re using this ephemeral habitat, and they time their reproductive stuff so closely to take advantage of that,” Johnston says. “So if the ice is just a week late, then it makes a big difference to the animals, because then all their pups die.”</p> <p>What we saw in the Arctic, primarily, were hungry polar bears prowling the ice, looking for their next meal. The bears bolster the trip’s allure, certainly, and the expedition leader admitted to feeling relieved when the passengers saw polar bears in the first few days, as that freed up the chance to explore other wildlife and natural elements, like reindeer, walruses, and arctic foxes, or glaciers and ice floes. We became expert ornithologists capable of spotting kittiwakes and eider ducks at a distance, even finding interest in their guano and the purple saxifrage (flower) that it aids in fertilizing. Since every species affects one another, and because there aren’t that many species to account for, the Arctic system makes sense. Its barrenness, however, stands out.</p> <p>“For me, one of the moments was flying into Longyearbyen. You’re seeing all the snow-colored mountains, the lack of vegetation,” said Juliet Sadd Wiehe ’85, who traveled from Raleigh for the trip. “It really felt otherworldly to me—it was like a landing on a different planet.” We spent many an afternoon making landings and trudging through snow and melted permafrost. On the second-to-last day, we floated up above the 80th north parallel, a region where only perhaps expeditioner extraordinaire Peter Hillary (an onboard guest speaker) honestly felt comfortable. More tangibly, our satellite connection failed often, leaving us at times without the Internet; while the trappers who preceded us here were undoubtedly brave, we were far from the comforts of home.</p> <p>But while we adapted to the environment, the mammals have the harder adjustment. Early on during the trip, we witnessed a polar bear experience her floor fall out from underneath, the ice melting away and depositing her in the water. We saw a second bear hunting for food for over an hour, so hungry and apparently undisturbed by the ship to allow us the best photographs of the excursion: Wiehe later referred to the bear as “the poser.”</p> <p>“To me, the polar bear is the mascot of this whole climate change thing that’s getting discussed,” said Rich Frost M.D. ’73, a physician and travel writer who had been looking to take this trip for fifteen years. “I don’t think there’s any question that we saw things that people in the future won’t be able to see.”</p> <p>The last day on the ship, with the captain steering us down the western edge of the archipelago back toward Longyearbyen, we stopped in the cove at the 14th of July Glacier. As we gathered on the bow, we witnessed two distinct sights: the harsh brown moraine that the glacier has already left in its wake, and the pure blue ice, time after time, breaking off from its shelf and plunging into the ocean below. It made for a memorable image, showing what we’ve already lost, and what will be next to go.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-10-30T00:00:00-04:00">Monday, October 30, 2017</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/ARCTIC-main_0.gif" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/writers/lucas-hubbard" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Lucas Hubbard</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/fall-2017" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fall 2017</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/ARCTIC-portrait_0_0.gif" width="250" height="300" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-photo-credit field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Photo Credit:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/photographers/lucas-hubbard" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Lucas Hubbard</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> Yes <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue <h3 class="field-label"> Cover Story </h3> <h3 class="field-label"> Homepage </h3> Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498287 at https://alumni.duke.edu https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/alumni-get-close-look-change-arctic#comments