T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y
The Chronicle
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2012
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH YEAR, ISSUE 50
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Independents lack Interior play leads Duke to victory house community M. BASKETBALL
by Patton Callaway THE CHRONICLE
After three months of living within the house model, some independent students do not feel that the system fosters community within unaffiliated houses. The house model, implemented for the first time this year, aims to create equal opportunities for independent and affiliated students alike. Students are guaranteed a spot in their designated house for both their sophomore and junior years, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for Housing, Dining and Residence Life. “We felt that this model could increase and strengthen the residential community ties that students experience,” he added. “This could create a stronger sense of identity to their residential experience.” A goal of the house model is to create an identity within unaffiliated houses through student house leaders, he added. But some independent students do not feel a sense of community in their houses. “I don’t feel like I am a part of the house, but I also don’t feel like that’s a huge problem,” said Kilgo resident Zhou Fang, a sophomore. “When we have house council events, people come and just leave. It’s not very social, and it’s not fostering a community.”
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Administration will consider changing the timing of house officer elections when re-evaluating the model at the end of the year, Gonzalez said. They concluded earlier this Fall, but moving elections to the Spring would allow houses to determine officers before the subsequent academic year. The house model was designed also to create an equitable solution for all students, whether independent or affiliated, but some students believe efforts to overcome division have had the opposite effect. “It’s depriving greeks from having a classic Duke experience on West Campus,” said Kilgo resident Taliya Golzar, a sophomore. “They’ve created a greek community somewhere else and segregated the Duke experience from them. No one should be forced to choose between those two defining experiences.” Before the house model, the majority of sophomores, both affiliated and independent, lived on West Campus while independent upperclassmen occupied 21 of the 27 houses on Central Campus, said Terry Lynch, associate dean for Central Campus. Beginning this year, affiliated groups live in 22 of the 27 houses on Central Campus,
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Senior forward Mason Plumlee scored 19 points on 7-of-7 shooting and grabbed 10 rebounds in the Blue Devils’ exhibition game against Winston-Salem State Thursday night. by Brady Buck THE CHRONICLE
In recent years, Duke’s strength has been its prolific shooting from the perimeter. In Thursday night’s exhibition game against Division II Winston-Salem State, however, the Blue Devils’ interior post presence carried the team.
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With the team shooting a paltry 1-for-17 from three-point range, Duke forwards Mason Plumlee and Amile Jefferson were forced to pick up the slack. And they delivered with 19 points and 13 points, respectively, to help the No. 8 Blue Devils earn a 69-45 victory in the team’s final preseason tune up.
“I don’t know if we broke a record for lowest 3-point percentage,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said Jefferson, a 6-foot-8 freshman, brought some much needed energy to a game that lacked it, with the two teams combining for just 30 points midway through the SEE BASKETBALL ON PAGE 9
Student finds global food connections Exhibit captures Day by Elizabeth Djinis THE CHRONICLE
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Graduate student Ashley Young, who is researching 19th-century food from the American South, shows off her cooking talents. She notes gumbo as a dish that combines several different cultures.
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Graduate student Ashley Young is aiming to redefine what it means to be a foodie. Young’s current research—focusing specifically on the American South of the nineteenth century—aims to show how urban food markets impacted the era’s ethnic fusion of recipes. Analyzing the typical New Orleans dish, gumbo, she illustrates how various cultures intermingled to form the unique meal. “Food has always been globally connected,” Young, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in history, said. “Food is just that common denominator. Everyone eats.” Gumbo, she noted, represents SEE FOOD ON PAGE 5
of the Dead tradition by Jack Mercola THE CHRONICLE
Duke’s “Days of the Dead” photography exhibit communicates an un-American way of interacting with the deceased. As Americans and plenty of Duke students dressed in ghoulish and bewitched costumes to celebrate Halloween, Latinos and Latinas of Mexican descent prepared for their own midautumn tradition, said Jenny Snead Williams, co-curator of the “Days of the Dead” exhibit and executive director of the Latino/a Studies in the Global South certificate program. The exhibit features photographs
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and traditional wares of the Days of the Dead, a Mexican holiday celebrated on Nov. 1-2, during which families honor deceased ancestors through a variety of rituals. Snead Williams, who was also a photographer for the project, said the exhibit should not only inform its viewers about the community and culture surrounding the Days of the Dead, but also teach about the migration of the holiday into Americana—a culture she said makes discussion of death almost taboo. SEE DEAD ON PAGE 4
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