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Uni reacts to The cost of being a Crazie immigration Students attempt to scalp Duke-UNC game tickets earned through tenting legislation by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE
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A path to American citizenship may soon be possible for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, as members of the Duke community weigh in on the likelikhood that major changees to immigration policy would take place. A bipartisan Senate committee has reached an agreement on a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The proposal addresses several components of immigration reform, primarily a path to citizenship possible for most illegal immigrants. They would be required to register with the federal government and then face a series of background checks, taxes and fines to receive “probationary legal status.” Such legislation would affect current Duke students with undocumented relatives as well as the University’s future applicant pool, said Noah Pickus, Nannerl O. Keohane SEE IMMIGRATION ON PAGE 6
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How much would somebody pay to be a Cameron Crazie on the craziest day of the year? At least one student tried to find out, attempting to sell his spot at the Feb. 13 game against North Carolina for $1,000 on DukeList—a sale that could potentially break the law and violate University honor code. Alex* posted the offer Sunday, and it was up for approximately an hour before he took it down at the request of one of the line monitors, students who police the tenting process and undergraduate admittance to basketball games. The hour was long enough, though, for somebody to see the post and contact Alex, though he did not ultimately respond to the inquiry. Head line monitors Bradley Baird and Jackson Lindsey, both seniors, wrote an email to the Krzyzewskiville listserv Monday informing the tenters that selling student seats to the game is both illegal and against Duke Student Government and the University honor code. According to North Carolina statutes, “student tickets issued by institutions of higher education in North
Some students have tried their hand at scalping student section tickets to the Duke game against North Carolina next week, potentially violating University honor code and breaking the law.
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Daisey muses on truth Bhutani cites prior campus and storytelling at Duke policy achievements by Linda Yu THE CHRONICLE
Controversial performer Mike Daisey challenged the distinction between theater and journalism in a visit to Duke. At 7 p.m. Monday evening, Daisey capped off a weeklong residency with Duke Performances by speaking at Manbites Dog Theater with Duke law professor Jedediah Purdy and Duncan Murell, writer-in-residence for the Center for Documentary Studies. He had just wrapped up a five-show run of his new monologue, “American Utopias,” at the PSI Theater at Durham Arts Council. In the show, Daisey deals with “how people create public spaces in which they come together to act out dreams of a better world” by exploring three such spaces: Disneyland, the Burning Man festival and the occupation of Zuccotti Park. Daisey, however, comes with a certain
amount of baggage since his earlier monologue “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” which described factory workers in the Chinese Foxconn Factory, aired on the radio show “This American Life” before it was revealed that he had fabricated encounters and events he described in the show. In response, “This American Life” pulled the monologue and issued a show called “Retraction,” which disavowed the show and featured a fifteenminute interview with Daisey. “We invited Mike to perform in Duke and Durham because he makes theater that is worthwhile, and he’s an incredible virtuoso in making the sort of theater he makes,” said Duke Performances Director Aaron Greenwald. After Duke Performances invited Daisey, Greenwald said that he had gotten a letter SEE DAISEY ON PAGE 5
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Senior Gurdane Bhutani wants to build on previous campus policy successes as Young Trustee to promote innovation for Duke’s future. Bhutani has served as executive vice president of Duke Student Government, DSG vice president for student affairs, chief financial officer for the Last Day of Classes celebration and president of the Council for Collaborative Action. He said that in these roles, he has lobbied successfully for several causes to help students. During his time in DSG, Bhutani advocated for putting free testing for sexually transmitted infections back on the Duke Student Health Insurance Plan after Student Health
Senior Gurdane Bhutani points to his history of advocating policy in his Young Trustee campaign.
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Global Health offers Students invest their own grad student certificate money in campus businesses by Lucy Hicks THE CHRONICLE
Duke graduate students will be able to earn a global health certificate, starting this Fall. The new Global Health Doctoral Certificate, sponsored by the Duke Global Health Institute, will be available to any student pursuing a Ph.D. who wishes to learn more about the subject. Specifically, it targets students who have had limited or no previous experience in global health, allowing them to investigate side interests while conducting research in a separate field. The program’s creation came from increasing interest in global health in both undergraduate and doctoral studies, DGHI Director Dr. Michael Merson said. “The student demand for global health courses has grown at Duke and around the U.S. over the past 10 years,” he wrote in an email Monday. “The success of the undergraduate certificate program, along with the demand by doctoral students to learn more about global health led to our desire to create the program,” This certificate program also caters to a wider array of Duke graduate students than some other DGHI programs because it fits global health into other areas of study. “It offers a formalized, structured way for [a graduate student] to be able to focus parts of their research career on global health as they are getting a degree,” said Kathleen Sikkema director of doctoral studies at DGHI and professor of psychology, neuroscience and global health. Some administrators noted that the interdisciplinary nature of this new certificate will bring many different scholars with a variety of specialties under
the same roof. Sikkema said the group work also facilitates networking across a spectrum of fields, which is uncommon in many graduate programs. “You don’t often get to work with other doctoral students from other schools and programs unless you bring them under some umbrella like this,” she said. This certificate is DGHI’s second formal graduate degree, in addition to the Master of Science in Global Health. The Institute also hosts various graduate-level courses and the Global Health Scholars program, targeted toward graduate students interested in pursuing global health as a primary area of study. The scholars program pairs students with DGHI faculty mentors and requires a global health research project and dissertation. In comparison, the doctoral certificate program is intended to complement a student’s academic focus in and outside of global health. The program requires four academic courses as well as fieldwork research. The certificate students will discuss ethical issues as well as the current literature and research in the developing field, DGHI Academic Programs Manager Sarah Martin wrote in an email. “The Global Health Doctoral Certificate will appeal to Duke doctoral students looking for more foundational exposure to global health,” she added. This certificate speaks to Duke’s fundamental goals, in finding solutions to worldwide problems using multiple areas of knowledge, Merson said. “Working across disciplines is central to the mission and ethos of Duke University,” he said. “That’s why Duke is now widely recognized as a leader in global health.”
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Any student who has ordered food online or had their laundry delivered can thank Campus Enterprises. Campus Enterprises is a student-owned and run business currently comprised of 42 students, who each make a one-time $9,000 investment to become company shareholders. The company uses its money to provide a variety of services—most recognizably online food ordering and delivery through Radoozle and laundry services through Laundrymen. “We act as a liaison between local Durham businesses and the Duke community,” said senior Mike Qu, a current member of Campus Enterprises’ board of directors. “The momand-pop shops around campus have to manage their normal operations, and maybe they don’t have the time or resources to commit to fully conceiving and implementing a delivery option. That’s where we come in.” Campus Enterprises is most well-known for its online ordering and delivery platform. The company hires delivery drivers, conducts background checks, manages payroll and more for their clients. The student company also partners with Laundrymen, the laundry delivery service, to pick up and deliver laundry bags to customers, and its screen printing business produces custom T-shirts and other paraphernalia for many student organizations on campus. “I don’t think there’s another opportunity on campus where you can get the real-world, tangible business experience that you’re getting with Campus Enterprises,” said junior and current CEO Bennett Varney. “One of our strongest suits is ability to be agile. Most of us are economics majors, but we all have some kind of entrepreneurial spirit.” Campus Enterprises recruits and vets freshmen students during the Spring semester through a competitive application process, Qu said. Older members of the organization target potential members by pitching the company to other student groups in which they are involved. After receiving applications and resumes, active members conduct five-onone interviews with the applicants before con-
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Student club Campus Enterprises invests in various Duke operations, including laundry service Laundrymen. vening to select the new members. In 2012, Campus Enteprises received 60 applications, taking 14 new members. New members are then required to buy into the company with a $9,000 share price. “It’s a sizable financial commitment, but we want people to take it seriously, and we want people to be involved,” said Qu, who has been a member of the organization for the last four years. When active members graduate, they sell back their share to incoming members for the same price at which they bought the share— effectively guaranteeing that members’ initial investments are insured. The ability to be involved in a real business, however, is what draws its shareholders in, Varney said. “We sat down with [the Food Factory] at the negotiation table, hammered out a contract for delivery services, online ordering and marketing,” Qu said. “As a 21-year-old kid, I was writing legal documents and creating contracts with real business owners.” In September 2011, the Food Factory’s sales were bleak and the Central Campus SEE ENTERPRISES ON PAGE 5
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Obama misses deadline for budget in third straight year By Lori Montgomery THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — For the third year in a row, President Barack Obama on Monday blew the deadline for submitting his budget request to Congress, prompting Republicans to grouse once again about presidential fecklessness on fiscal matters. Less usual was the administration’s refusal to say when Obama would release his 2014 spending plan. Congressional aides in both parties said they expect to see the budget in mid- to late-March — a delay of more than a month, unmatched by any other incumbent president except, on one occasion, Ronald Reagan. Though Obama’s budget requests have been dead on arrival in Congress since Republicans took control of the House two years ago, the blueprint remains an important political document. That’s particularly true this year as lawmakers gird for showdowns over automatic spending cuts, a government shutdown and the federal debt limit. “The budget at least will tell us . . . whether Obama really seriously wants a grand bargain or whether it will be more marginal adjustments like last year,” said Rudolph Penner, a budget expert at the Urban Institute. “It will tell us a lot about just what he wants to do over the next four years.” As policymakers grapple with record budget deficits, Obama has repeatedly called for a grand bargain to bridge the partisan divides over taxes and federal entitlement spending. In an interview Sunday with CBS News, he made another pitch for a “balanced approach” that would pair reductions in health-
care costs with an overhaul of the tax code that would generate fresh revenue by limiting tax breaks for the wealthy. “The average person doesn’t have access to Cayman Island accounts. The average person doesn’t have access to carried-interest income, where they end up paying a much lower rate on billions of dollars,” Obama said. “So we just want to make sure that the whole system is fair, that it’s transparent and that we’re reducing our deficit in a way that doesn’t hamper growth.” Republicans insist that they will not vote for additional revenue on top of the roughly $600 billion to be gained over the next decade from a Jan. 1 deal to avert the “fiscal cliff,” in part by raising tax rates on income over $450,000. Instead, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is at work on a budget plan that would wipe out deficits by 2022 entirely through spending cuts — starting with the “sequester,” nearly $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts set to hit agency budgets on March 1. “We spend $1 trillion more than we take in each year. In fact, we spend $3 for every $2 we take in. And we can’t keep that up,” Ryan said in a statement. “In the past two years, we’ve offered our solutions to the country’s fiscal challenges. Now the President must do the same.” Under pressure from House Republicans, leaders of the Democrat-controlled Senate have also agreed to write a budget bill for the first time since 2009. The shape of that document, as well as the general strategy for the fiscal fights ahead, will be under discussion Tuesday at a retreat in Annapolis, Md.
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Facebook friends travel to war’s edge in Syria By Jenna Johnson THE WASHINGTON POST
REYHANLI, Turkey — A journey that brought eight young Syrian Americans to the edge of a war zone for their winter break began on Facebook. But it was a common urge to witness the turmoil in their parents’ homeland that cemented the bonds among them, as they joined a parade that is bringing volunteers from around the world to the Turkish-Syrian border, each eager to play some role in supporting the two-year-old revolution against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. For these Syrian American men and women, determining that role posed difficult questions. Should they venture far into Syria? Should they take up arms themselves? And how should they address the fact that the opposition forces they firmly support now include Islamist extremists with views antithetical to their own? The group — mostly college students from California and the Midwest — met on Facebook and organized the trip over Skype. They collected $15,000 and packed extra suitcases with medical supplies, clothing and blankets. For nearly two weeks they immersed themselves in the crisis of a country that most had only visited before war broke out. “To actually be on the ground and to talk to the people and to see everything and to be witness to a massacre is a lot different,” Yisser Bittar, 23, the trip organizer and a recent college graduate
who now works for the Syrian American Council in Washington, said after the trip. “All of your feelings are multiplied and magnified.” In southern Turkey, sometimes within earshot of the fighting, the group met many who were injured in the war. They taught English to refugee children and performed a skit about the revolution. They made several trips into Syria, showing their U.S. passports at the border. They visited a refugee camp where families packed into drafty tents and only had a few boiled potatoes to eat. They donated several thousand dollars to a village’s flour fund and met with local leaders, asking how they could continue to help in the months to come. “It looks like what I would imagine a movie about a humanitarian crisis would look like,” said Kenan Rhamani, 24, a law student at the University of Notre Dame who frequently visited Syria while growing up. “That’s not really the Syria that we knew.” The group also collected video footage for a documentary that they hope will show Americans how dire the conditions in Syria have become. Layth, a senior at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, said that he has difficulty explaining the revolution to classmates. During one class discussion, Layth said he firmly supported supplying rebel forces with weapons. No one else agreed because they are worried that the SEE SYRIA ON PAGE 5
BHUTANI from page 1 began charging for the service in 2010. The University resumed free STI testing on the policy Spring 2012. He also lobbied for a continuation of the alcohol amnesty policy, which allows students to be taken to the hospital for alcohol-related problems without suffering disciplinary action. Bhutani said his constant efforts to help the institution are indicative his love for Duke and his desire to support the University further after graduation by serving on the Board of Trustees. “I’m incredibly grateful for all the opportunities I’ve had as a student at Duke. I’ve [experienced] an immense amount of personal growth,” Bhutani said. “I want to make sure that every student who comes here after me is afforded every single one of those opportunities. As Young Trustee, it would put me in the position to be able to do that in a very effective and big way.” In his academic pursuits, Bhutani is an Angier B. Duke scholar, Computer Science and Public Policy double major and an Economics and Philosophy double minor. In his social life, he DJs and produces music. Bhutani said he aims to set Duke apart from peer institutions through groundbreaking programs inside and outside of the classrooms. He cited as examples the University’s partnership with Coursera, an initiative to bring college courses online, and the flipped classroom model, which allows students to watch lectures outside of class and participate in small discussions in class. “Duke needs to be an innovator of higher education,” Bhutani said. “No matter which top-10 university you go to, you’re going to get an outstanding education but for Duke to attract the best and the brightest students and faculty, it’s important that we are an innovator.” Senior Michael Asher, a fellow A. B. Duke
Scholar and friend, noted the originality of Bhutani’s ideas and said that he would bring this inventiveness to the position of Young Trustee. “As Young Trustee, I’m confident he’ll bring new and fresh ideas to the table and will earn the respect of the Board by demonstrating his wealth of knowledge of University affairs,” Asher wrote in an email Monday. Elizabeth Vigdor, associate professor of the practice of public policy, got to know Bhutani when he worked for several semesters as a TA for her class PUBPOL 55: Intro to Policy Analysis. She wrote in an email Monday that Bhutani’s past experience working with different components of the University equips him for the role of Young Trustee. “[Gurdane] has experience working with the Duke administration as well as with other student leaders, so I think he has a good grasp of the challenges involved in changing University policy,” Vigdor said. She also praised Bhutani’s ability to consider each angle of an issue before deciding on a solution. “Gurdane is very intelligent, has excellent people skills and is adept at considering a wide range of issues from many different perspectives,” Vigdor said. “He will thoughtfully and analytically consider all the decisions with which the Board of Trustees is faced.” Following graduation, Bhutani will take a six-month break to follow his musical interests, recording an album which will use the sounds of New York City as its inspiration. He then plans to work at Bain and Company as a managing consultant. Regardless of the election’s outcome, Bhutani said he is grateful for his years at Duke. “[Duke] truly changed my life in a very meaningful way,” Bhutani said. “It was such a great experience and I can’t even begin to express how appreciative I am for it.”
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from a student arguing against the booking because the retraction of Daisey’s monologue had hurt human rights efforts in China. “There’s a kind of knee jerk reaction to him that does not take into account the broader spectrum of Daisey’s work,” Greenwald said. He added that if there were to be a conversation around Daisey and the controversy of the Agony/Ecstasy performance, he would rather it be able to happen on Duke’s campus. In regards to the retraction, Daisey argued in an interview with Recess last week that journalism itself used the tools of theater. “The truth is that all stories are fiction, or more accurately, all stories are stories,” Daisey said. After Agony/Ecstasy was retracted on “This American Life,” Daisey noted that someone said to him, “Never commit an act of journalism again,” but that his rejoinder was “when journalism stops using the tools of theater.” He also argued that the “Retraction” episode of “This American Life” itself was a form of theater. According to Daisey, his interview with the show’s host Ira Glass, which had been condensed from a four-hour-long conversation, was the only fifteen minutes in the show’s history where the audio wasn’t mastered—so that Daisey’s every pause and breath could be heard. Daisey would later revise “Agony/Ecstasy,” excising the encounters he had made up. Sitting on a trio of armchairs Monday night, Daisey, Purdy and Murell discussed Purdy’s experiences in Zuccotti Park and evaluated Daisey’s monologue. Behind them was the set of “The New Electric Ballroom”—a play set to premier at Manbites Dog later this month—the two dresses hung on the mesh wall of the set hovering uncannily behind the three men’s heads. Murrell moderated the talk and began by mentioning that he didn’t quite know what his role in the discussion was. The bearded Daisey joked, “Start strong.” Purdy described his experience visiting Zuccotti Park when the Occupy Wall Street movement was in full swing. “The dorkiness of it drew me right there,” he said. “The library at Zuccotti Park had a very punctiliously maintained catalogue because it was run by librarians, but no record of the books that went out because they were all anarchist librarians.” He noted, however, that a lot of effort went into making the temporary community livable for activists and that the encampment had an overarching sense of active participation. Although Daisey had gone to Burning Man and Disneyland, he did not participate in the occupation of Zuccotti Park and described the movement as something that people viewed as “important, but I’m missing it anyway.” “Most people did not have any of these experiences. This show was meant to activate you,” Daisey said. In that token, “Utopias” ends with Daisey leaving the theater and inviting the audience to come along with him if they so choose to finish the monologue outdoors. “Utopias” began with an invitation from his brother Chris to go to Disneyland, and Daisey immediately thought that he should write a monologue about both Disneyland and the Burning Man festival. During the time that he wrote the monologue, the Occupy Wall Street Movement happened, and Daisey incorporated the occupation of Zuccotti Park into his monologue. He is planning to perform the monologue in New York in a found space two blocks down from Zuccotti Park so that during the end of the show the audience could walk down to the place where part of the monologue began.
restaurant lost $15,000. It then partnered with Campus Enterprises, Qu explained. Campus Enterprises was able to create an online ordering and delivery services for the restaurant, which tripled its sales profits as a result. “Food Fac is a pinnacle example of how we’re able to bring value to the Duke community,” Qu said. Radoozle, an online food ordering website partners with Campus Enterprises to offers delivery from campus eateries like the Armadillo Grill and the Loop Pizza Grill to off-campus facilities such as Bread-n-Kabob and Chopped Greens. Sophomore Sam Waters, who developed Radoozle in 2011 alongside sophomore Spencer Dahl, said he decided to work with Campus Enterprises in September 2012 because he had developed the technology, but Campus Enterprises had the relationships with the Durham restaurants that he needed. “It’s been a really good experience working with Campus Enterprises,” Waters said. “The relationship works very well, and our incentives are aligned to make our goals happen.” But most students are unaware of the role Campus Enterprises plays in services. The organization keeps a low profile by
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Monologist Mike Daisey spent several days as an artist-in-residence with Duke Performances, presenting his show “American Utopias.”
promoting their clients instead of their own name, Qu said. “Traditionally, we haven’t branded ourselves as a company,” he noted. “We’ve branded our products and services a lot more. Food Factory is one of our biggest clients, and everyone knows about them, but they don’t connect our name behind [the Food Factory].” Currently, Campus Enterprises is looking to expand its business. The company is in the process of developing an online ordering app for smartphones. In addition, it is hoping to expand its screen printing services to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s campus and heighten its marketing efforts to reach out to small family-owned businesses off campus. Campus Enterprises does not currently own any offices. Instead they meet on a weekly basis in the Social Sciences Building on West Campus. Of its 42 members, currently 20 are “active,” which means that they are working on projects and receiving dividends, Varney noted. “The return is based on dividends. Profits for each semester are divided up among the [active] members,” Qu said, noting that members are required to be “active” for at least three semesters.
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IMMIGRATION from page 1 director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics. “With a broken immigration system, it becomes harder to attract the best talent and hang onto them once they complete their education,� Pickus added. “The more we have a system that people believe is fair and just, the more likely Duke is to benefit from that system.� The reform could also have a major impact on current students. David,* a freshman, has a personal stake in immigration reform as several of his aunts, uncles and cousins are undocumented immigrants. He explained that if pushed through Congress, this proposal would provided opportunities for immigrant families. “Right now, [my family] can’t get citizenship, and its hard for them to find jobs,� he said. “The jobs they do find are paid under the table, so many times [their rights] can be abused.� It is especially difficult for his younger cousins in public schools who will face obstacles when later attempting to pursue a college degree. Most undocumented immigrants are not able to receive federal financial aid, and paying for college on their own is incredibly difficult if not impossible, he added. But he remains hopeful
BUDGET from page 3 Senate Democrats have a multitude of problems to resolve, including an internal dispute over whether to use tax reform to raise additional revenue. But a consensus appears to be emerging that Democrats should strive to replace the
that Congress will reach an agreement that will allow his relatives to gain citizenship. “I [understand that] there are undocumented people who live in this country and don’t follow the rules and don’t pay taxes,� he said. “But my family does, and they just want to be able to make a positive impact on this country.� Both sophomore David Winegar, president of Duke Democrats, and junior Taylor Imperiale, chair of Duke College Republicans, said this proposed reform is a step in the right direction for both parties. Other students are also hopeful that Republicans and Democrats will be able to agree on legislation. Freshman Diego Nogales, a member of Duke University’s Latino student association Mi Gente, is confident that Congress will pass the reform because of recent attention the issues has received, forcing the government to take action. Freshman Arjan Saraon agrees that Congress should turn the proposal into actual legislation. “America is built on the back of immigrants,� Saraon noted. “So if these illegal immigrants want to be a part of productive American society, we should give them the chance.� *Name has been changed for the source’s protection. Source’s class year is accurate. sequester with $600 billion in more-targeted spending cuts and $600 billion in new taxes. Neither chamber can move forward with its budget plan, however, until lawmakers see the president’s request and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has a chance to check the administration’s math.
SYRIA from page 4 rebels have ties to terrorist groups, said Layth, who did not want his full name published for fear that the regime will target him or his relatives in Damascus. Layth, 21, had already ventured to Syria twice since the revolution began. Many of his professors are fascinated to hear about his adventures, he said, but his friendships at home faded as his number of “revolution friends� grew. One weekend, the group journeyed to Aleppo’s northern suburbs. As they sat in a home in the Tal Refat neighborhood, the building shook and a window shattered. They later learned that a barrel of explosives had landed nearby, killing 18. After that, they remained near the border. Soon after New Year’s Day, most of them returned to the United States. Layth stayed and ventured to Aleppo in a beatup taxi with a shattered windshield. He posted on Facebook: “Things are about to get real.� He wanted to fight and asked to be taken to the front line. He had one condition: He refused to interact with members of Jabhat al-Nusra, a militant Islamist group operating in northern Syria.� In January, Layth entered an abandoned apartment in the Sakariye neighborhood and knelt next to a hole punched
through the wall. Across a courtyard, Layth says, he saw the willowy silhouette of a government sniper. Layth aimed a rusty gun, likely older than he, and pulled the trigger. At first, the gun jammed; then it released a stream of bullets. The sniper returned a couple of shots. As one rebel fighter in the room recorded the scene on Layth’s iPhone, another grabbed the 21-year-old’s arm and pulled him out of danger. Layth said he doubts he hit the sniper, but he’s comfortable with the idea that he could have killed someone. “That sniper, on the other side, has probably killed a dozen people,� Layth said soon after returning to Turkey. “His hands are covered with blood.� Winter break is over, and everyone in the group has restarted classes or returned to work. They are readjusting to life with heat, warm showers, cable television and the stresses of being a 20-something in a first-world country. They are forging ahead with plans to share what they saw, heard and experienced in Syria. Layth hopes to finish his business administration degree by the end of 2013. “The regime should fall by then,� he said. “If it doesn’t fall by then, I plan to go in for the long haul. . . . I’m not just going to watch videos on YouTube. That’s what I did for two years. I can’t do that anymore.�
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Two redshirts take different paths with last year freshman then 27 games the next season as the Blue Devils’ top option off of the bench. That year, Duke made its first-ever national championship game appearance, powered by a defense anchored by four players in that 2009 recruiting class. “I’m super lucky to have come in with that class…. I think that we had the opportunity of changing the program and starting a new culture for our team that I’m super proud to be a part of,” DeCesare said. “It’s sad that I’m going to play another season without them, but… I’m happy to be a part of the upcoming senior class as well. It’s the best of both worlds I’d say.” Last season, DeCesare moved into the starting lineup—playing primarily forward for the first time in her Duke career—and the team recognized DeCesare’s value as a senior leader by naming her one of three captains, along with Simpkins and senior goalkeeper Tara Campbell. As a redshirt senior, she will be even better prepared to lead the Blue Devils. “There’s something about being a senior two times,” DeCesare said. “You have more experience and you just kind of know the ropes.” Simpkins, too, enjoyed her role as a captain and made the most of the opportunity
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The 2012 season ended abruptly for Kim DeCesare and Callie Simpkins. As part of the 2009 recruiting class that took Duke from under .500 in their freshman year to a national championship appearance in 2011, DeCesare and Simpkins were looking forward to another deep run in 2012. “At the time, I didn’t think we were stoppable,” Simpkins said. “In my mind, we weren’t going to lose.” But the Blue Devils came up short, knocked out of the quarterfinals by a Penn State penalty kick, ending the careers of many in that 2009 recruiting class. For DeCesare and Simpkins, though, there was still a chance for one more go-around. Both players came into their freshman season at Duke sidelined by injuries, and as redshirt juniors, had one more season of eligibility available. Simpkins struggled with her decision and ultimately chose not to return next season, but for DeCesare, returning was never a question. “I got hurt my freshman year so I knew that I wanted to take a fifth year—a ninth semester—from the time I got to Duke,” the Massapequa Park native said. “My plan from the start was to play.” After sitting out her first season, DeCesare played 20 games as a redshirt
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Redshirt Kim DeCesare will use her final year of eligibility next year after missing her freshman campaign injured.
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Hood finds frustration in travel restrictions by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE
Rodney Hood feels like a man doing time. He knew that after transferring from Mississippi State to Duke this summer that he would have to sit out a season. But here are two things Hood did not know before coming: There’s no TV in the Duke dorm rooms, and he’s not allowed to travel with the team because of his transfer status. “It’s almost like a prison, like you’re on punishment type of thing,” Hood said. “It wasn’t like I just decided to leave. My coach left. I went to that school to play for that coach. When he left, I felt like a big part of me left, as far as the reason I went to the school. For me to be put in this shell, and have to stay here all the time— even though Duke has a great campus—it feels like more punishment than anything.” Hood is not prevented from going to road games, but from having Duke pay his costs. According to NCAA bylaw 16.8.1.2, an institution may only provide travel expenses for a student-athlete “eligible for intercollegiate competition.” As a transfer student who did not receive a waiver, Hood is not eligible for competition.
“Think of it as not just a basketball rule,” said Cameron Schuh, NCAA associate director for public and media relations. “This is an NCAA all-sports rule, so think of it in terms of football—what the expectations would be of a school with a football program with however many kids that have transferred in and are ineligible that year—having to pay for all of them to travel, the meals, the hotel and stuff like that.” While the NCAA is reforming some recruiting rules, Schuh said this rule is not among the ones being discussed for change. Because Hood is allowed to go to games if he provides his own transportation, he has been able to go to ones that are close by, such as the loss to N.C. State. He did not sit on the bench for that game, however, and was unable to attend the team’s loss to Miami. “You sit here and battle with these guys every day, and then you can’t be there to support them,” Hood said. “[Tyler Thornton] pointed out to me the other day, ‘We’re undefeated with you on the bench.’ I ain’t think about it—not saying I get any credit for that—but I just ADDISON CORRIHER/THE CHRONICLE
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As a transfer unable to compete, Rodney Hood is not allowed to travel with the team to road games.
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wish I could be there.” Hood finds other ways to stay connected with the team, even when he cannot go to the games. He said he sends his teammates text messages both before and after games, just to let them know he’s watching. Where he watches, though, varies. Because there is no cable in the dorm rooms, he said he often watches with some of the managers in the locker room and uses halftime as an opportunity to get in a quick workout. Sometimes the quiet-mannered Hood likes to go to the Buffalo Wild Wings near Chapel Hill because he is less of a celebrity there, farther away from Duke. The people who work at Buffalo Wild Wings know him, he said, but help him keep a low profile in contrast to his popularity on the Duke campus. Hood, who did not expect many people on campus to know who he is considering he cannot play, said life at Duke is different because the students “throw themselves into the game, which is a shock to me.” On the court, Hood said senior forward Mason Plumlee has been the one to take the extra time and mentor him as Hood primes himself to assume a leadership role next year. “I probably won’t be the leader,” Hood said, “but I’ll be one of the leaders.” The pair often plays 1-on-1 after practice, though Plumlee owns at least two inches over the Meridian, Miss. native. “Sometimes when I get to winning, he’ll get to posting up, which I can’t do nothing about,” Hood said. The other person who spends extra time with Hood is the team’s head coach, Mike Krzyzewski. Hood said Krzyzewski will work with him after games, pointing out things he can work on whether it is his movement on the court or areas he should be focusing on in the weight room. So the year has not been a total waste. Hood has noticed good habits he has developed during the course of the season: moving without the ball, going for offensive rebounds and staying down in a defensive stance. “Even since I was little, I heard he’s a great coach, blah, blah, blah. But you don’t get the full effect unless you’re right there with him every day,” Hood said. But Hood still can’t wait for when he actually gets to suit up for the all-time winningest coach. “It’s great playing for him, even though I’m not playing g now,” Hood said. for him reallyy right
Carolina for sporting events” may not be sold online, though online resales are allowed in other cases if the venue allows it. “I wanted to go on a trip and didn’t have enough money,” Alex said. “I didn’t really expect anybody would want to pay that, and the second option was going to the game, which is a pretty good option.” Because Alex posted on DukeList, potential inquiries would likely come from within the Duke community. In his post, Alex wrote that he would continue tenting until the final day, after which he and the buyer would switch names on the tent roster. But another student had their eyes on a bigger prize. Saturday, a student posted on Craigslist with the title “Duke vs. UNC STUDENT SECTION ticket!!!!” The post said they would be willing to sell for “$3,500 or best offer.” The student would give up both their wristband and DukeCard in order to help the purchaser gain admission. Baird said he had not seen the Craigslist post as of Monday night, and the author of the post did not respond to an inquiry from The Chronicle. Another Craigslist post from Monday offered admittance to the graduate student section, but did not list a price and required that the purchaser have a DukeCard for entry. This is not the first time this has happened. In 2006, freshman Tristan Patterson tried to sell his ticket online, also for $3,500, and the line monitors kicked him out of line for the game. Alex was not kicked out of his tent by the line monitors, though they will not be as kind to any other potential violators now that fair warning is out. “We felt that it could happen to anybody without them realizing it is against the rules, so we wanted to make it clear before any further incidents,” Baird said. “Now that it’s been made clear, students found trying to sell their tickets will be kicked out.” But there is a price gap between Alex and the Craigslist poster, so who had it right? The average price to get into this year’s Duke-North Carolina game thus far is $1,169 said Will Flaherty, Trinity ’10, communications director of SeatGeek.com, a website that gathers data from “a hundred different retailers on the secondary market.” Most of those seats, however, are in the upper bowl of Cameron Indoor Stadium and not lower level, where the student section is. Seats between the baselines in the upper level are selling for between $1,500 and $2,000 on average, Flaherty said, and ones in the upper bowl behind the basket usually sell for at least $1,000. Because the secondary market for student tickets is so scarce, though, estimates for what they might be worth are difficult to come by. “The sources we search—there would be no way for somebody to sell a student ticket on that,” Flaherty, a for-
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With the two top teams in the nation losing this past weekend, the Blue Devils moved up one spot in the AP Poll. Following its first two true road victories of the season, No. 4 Duke has extended its streak of being ranked in the top 10 to 107 consecutive weeks. Kansas, which held the No. 2 ranking last week, dropped to No. 5 after losing to Oklahoma State Saturday, 85-80, moving the Cowboys into the poll at No. 22 and paving the way for the Blue Devils to move up in the poll. Michigan, which had its first No. 1 appearance in more than 20 years last week, also dropped in the rankings from first to No. 3 following an 81-73 loss at Indiana. The Hoosiers now sit atop the rankings again with 58 of 65 first-place votes, marking the fifth consecutive week that there has been a new No.1. Earning the other seven first-place votes, Florida now has the No. 2 spot. The Gators have not lost since Dec. 22, and have won by more than 14 in each of the 10 games since then. After escaping with a 79-78 win at N.C. State Saturday, ACC leader Miami has joined Duke in the top 10. Miami jumped from 14th last week to eighth in this week’s poll. The ranking ties the 1960 Hurricanes squad for the highest AP Poll ranking in program history. mer Chronicle sports reporter, said. Flaherty guessed a lower level seat between the baselines would be potentially worth upwards of $2,000 with graduate student ones, which are behind the basket, selling for a minimum of $1,000. Beyond the money issue, though, selling a student ticket violates the spirit of Krzyzewskiville, Baird said, recalling a sentiment expressed in the 2006 incident. “This is the most disgraceful and greedy act in the history of K-ville,” Lauren Troyer, then-head line monitor, wrote in an email to Patterson and his tent. “Tenting is a time-honored tradition, not a business.” *Name has been changed for the source’s protection.
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For YTNC consideration A popular game in the last vider and the unfortunate few years has been to declare reality of bias in any selecwhat the role of the Young tion process, we can create Trustee is. One answer has be- a selection process that pits come obligatory: The Young the right kinds of biases Trustee does not represent against each other in service undergraduate of producing a students—he suitable Young editorial or she merely Trustee. provides the perspective of What separates reprean undergraduate to the sentatives from perspective Board. Obviously, most of the providers? The short answer attempts at play ring hollow, is that representatives are since it is not at all clear what interested and perspective line separates representatives providers are detached. The from those who supposedly purpose of any Trustee is to bring perspective. develop a comprehensive Our purpose now is to conception of the general draw that line. Monday, we good of the University—a discussed a collection of conception that could be biases that bear down on appealed to, for instance, the Young Trustee selec- in deciding how to allocate tion process. Today, we ask scarce resources between how, given the role of Young construction projects and fiTrustee as a perspective pro- nancial aid spending.
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A Trustee should not substitute a comprehensive conception of the general good for a conception of some group’s good—a Young Trustee who only thought of the interests of undergraduate students would be a failure. But he or she would also be a failure if their conception of general good failed to be distinct from every other Trustees’. So, the role of the Young Trustee is to form the conception of the general good of the University that the undergraduate student body would form, and to effectively represent that conception. What selection process will get us this? Monday’s editorial gestured to the myopia that infects any selection committee convened by
the Duke Student Government—a committee like this will overrepresent the perspectives of major campus organizations, who share many members in common. A general election also has problems: It becomes a popularity contest that tends to reproduce existing campus power structures. But committee structures force collective deliberation and reflection that tends to produce more reasonable judgments than individuals reasoning by themselves. And general elections are our sole means of expressing the will of the larger student body. Our solution is to keep the two-step process, with committee deliberations narrowing the field of candidates and a general election
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t is perhaps the most fundamental premise of any and realize the inadequacy of his training in medical intro biology course that, although tremendously school from afar, the importance of these questions useful to study, our inherited anatomy (and by dawned on me in parallel. It became easy to see that extension our genetic code) cannot the world we lived and operated in alone explain the mysteries of life. had overt ways of blockading progress Far from being a template for develin health, and the resulting existenopment, our “nature” is not detertial questions plagued me. Did it reministic; it’s a factor that, only when ally matter if I helped contribute to a combined with the environment in cure for cancer if one out of every six which we’ve been “nurtured,” can Americans lacked health insurance help explain who we are. It’s also a to access it? And here’s where the arconcept that’s not very novel, a strand tificial divides and false dichotomies of common sense that every pre-med materialized out of thin air. From student here has had drilled into their conversations with professors, doctors head ad nauseum. Yet, it’s the one and students, it was evident that questruth we’ve failed to truly integrate in tions of structural violence and social medicine for generations. justice weren’t really in the realm of To see this concept at work, look per se. Those fell under pre-med series medicine, no further than me. As a goofy Inthe jurisdiction of public policy, or premeditations dian kid born the youngest in a famphilosophy, or heck, didn’t we have a ily of two immigrant doctors with a global health institute created just so physician-scientist as an older brother, my interest folks could think about those things? in medicine was as predictable as my love for masala True, but here’s my logic. Medicine is the science of chai and Taco Bell. This stuff was in my blood, and health, a function of both nature and nurture. Whenhonestly, thinking about health—especially through ever we discover a biological mechanism responsible the lens of the basic sciences—was all I knew. Nature, for illness, physicians assume it is our role to dream check. Nurture, check. I spent the glory days of my up and execute interventions—no matter how absurd childhood studying genetics at Duke TIP (you may be or expensive. Yet, when we encounter social mechamore familiar with the title “nerd camp”) and chilling nisms for disease, such as poverty and educational inas a science fair groupie, where I cultivated aspirations equality, we’re conditioned to let someone else figure to pursue genomic medicine. You see, my 18-year-old it out. If we’re serious about training the next generaself believed that solving the most pressing challenges tion of leaders to improve health, exposure to the soin health—from cancer to HIV to malaria—was as cial determinants of health should be more than just simple as isolating a random gene, tinkering around an elective or optional certificate—it’s got to be core. with it for a few years and winning a Nobel Prize. In my eyes, Rawls’ conceptions of fairness and equity From my first days in the Genome Revolution are just as instrumental toward promoting health as FOCUS at Duke, professors planted a different seed: Pasteur’s contributions to germ theory. Yet, nowhere “Nature versus nurture, Sanjay, don’t oversimplify.” At in the intimidating gauntlet of pre-medical training— a superficial level, I got it: In crude terms, it didn’t from the eight “weed-out” basic science courses to the matter how much of a “genetic freak” LeBron James checklist volunteer experiences to the marathon-long was, if he favored a dietary regiment of Twinkies every MCAT—is there an explicit introduction to the strucday (R.I.P.), he wouldn’t be the All Star he is today (or tures that actually dictate the environments in which at least wouldn’t be as good as Kevin Durant). Recog- we’re nurtured. nizing the perils of biological determinism was a way Indeed, the times are changing in the field of medof qualifying one’s thinking, just like every research icine, a trend also reflected in my own evolution as a paper calls for further study in its limitations—one student. At some level, we’re all products of nature had to control for the environment. We learned that and nurture—functions of innate predispositions and differential environmental exposures affected biol- environmental influences that have reached a tempoogy, and this had important implications for health. rary equilibrium. Nowhere is that reality more crucial, I was trained to be able to tell you that malnutrition at both the individual and systemic levels, than in the was bad for the physiological development of chil- future of medicine. dren, and I had the background to interpret and even run a randomized control trial to prove that to you. Sanjay Kishore, Trinity ’13, is a Duke pre-med. This But, after a while, I realized there was one question column is the fourth installment in a semester-long series of we failed to even consider: Why was there no food for weekly columns written on the pre-med experience at Duke, as those kids to eat in the first place? well as the diverse ways students can pursue and engage with As I watched my brother encounter these issues the field of medicine.
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ince September, Duke Student Government has ted in support of judicial punishment. been working to codify an official bill of rights in 5. All students have the right to equal protection unthe DSG constitution. The bill received the re- der the law. No student shall be subjected to discrimiquired two-thirds vote in the Senate and nation on the basis of race, ethnicity, was moved for a referendum vote by the gender identity, sex, religion, national student body. This Thursday, Feb. 7, stuorigin, sexual orientation, disability or dents will have the opportunity to vote socioeconomic status; but this enumeraon this bill of rights. tion shall not be construed to condone During Senate debate on the bill, a other violations of equal protection. Senator raised the concern that upon 6. All students have the right to vote passage the bill of rights would become in all referenda and public elections irrelevant to the student body. This is patrick oathout held by Duke Student Government and a justified concern given the nature of by their respective classes and houses. realpolitik with rules and regulations. Given that the No student shall be deprived of the patrick bill of rights directly impacts student right to vote, nor shall any poll tax or interactions with DSG, they must be adother payment be a condition to voting, equately disseminated so that students can know what nor shall any proof of eligibility or identity be required they are due. unless it is readily available to all students. These rights are a check on student government, 7. All students have the right freely to associate ensuring fairness and transparency. They are a vast and, upon meeting the criteria established in by-law, improvement on the status quo, an 18-year-old joint to form groups recognized or chartered by DSG. Every statement of rights that currently resides in an un- such group is a legal entity and entitled to freedom enforceable legal limbo. The passage of the bill of from invidious discrimination, to due process and to rights makes student rights an explicit part of our fair dealing under the law. But this article shall not be day-to-day interactions. Any student that feels that construed to grant to groups all the rights secured to their rights have been neglected may bring suit to individuals, to privilege any student from accountabilthe DSG Judiciary. ity for misconduct, or to permit the otherwise prohibThe rights are enumerated below—should anyone ited expenditure of funds. have a question of clarification or concern, or a sug8. The rights and protections enumerated in this gestion, please send me an email. I hope you all will bill shall not be abridged by any recognized or charvote “yes” for the bill of rights this Thursday. tered groups, residential houses, class governments or The bill of rights: affiliates of Duke Student Government. Duke Student 1. Every undergraduate student, enrolled in Duke Government shall secure the rights of students against University and subject to the student activities fee, is violations by these entities and shall also uphold the a student within the meaning of this bill, a member of rights of students against infringement by any other the student body and a constituent of Duke Student person or body. But DSG shall not be liable for any Government. In their interactions with DSG, all stu- acts or omissions of any federal, state, local, University dents are entitled to the rights enumerated in this bill. or other entity not subject to its jurisdiction. 2. All students have the right to freedom of ideol9. Any student or group whose rights under this ogy and religion. Duke Student Government shall not bill, or under other provisions of the constitution create any establishment of religion, or prohibit the and by-laws, have been violated has the right to seek free exercise thereof, or require any religious test or a statutory or equitable remedy from the Judiciary. qualification for office. And every student or group suffering punitive action 3. All students have the right to free expression. from DSG, beyond removal from office and enforceDuke Student Government shall not abridge the ment of civil obligations, has the right to an imparfreedom of speech, the press, petition or peacetime tial trial by the Judiciary before such punishment may assembly or protest. But this article shall not define be imposed. No conviction shall be sustained except speech by the money spent to exercise the right. This on clear and convincing evidence that the defendant article affirms the right of the Duke Student Govern- committed an offense, which, before its commission, ment Senate to place limits on the amount of money had been defined in by-law. spent in student elections. 10. The enumeration of certain rights in this bill, or 4. All students have the right to protection and elsewhere in the constitution and by-laws, shall not be privacy against arbitrary search, seizure, investigation, construed to deny or disparage other rights retained prosecution and punishment. No student or group by the student body. shall be deprived of rights or property without due process of law, nor shall any student be compelled to Patrick Oathout, DSG executive vice president, is a Trintestify against himself or herself in any proceeding, ity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can nor shall any evidence unlawfully obtained be admit- follow Patrick on Twitter @patrickoathout.
young trustee endorsement Duke Democrats endorses Chris Brown for Young Trustee All three young trustee candidates are very strong this year; they all share our values and recognize the improvements that Duke needs to make. However, Duke Democrats has chosen to endorse Chris Brown for Young Trustee. Chris has leadership experience in a number of Duke organizations, including Duke Student Government. He is able to go into specific detail about his plans, and seems to have given the most thought to difficult problems and solutions on Duke’s campus. For example, he recognizes that there can be a lack of resources for students not wanting to pursue professional careers, and proposes that the Career Center work to give more exposure to companies that do not have a large recruiting budget. He has been involved in Board subcommittees for three years and can highlight his experience in dissenting to the Board. We are
concerned that Young Trustees can sometimes be marginalized voices, but Chris has shown his ability to speak up and assert himself. We also often feel disconnected from our Young Trustees, especially after they graduate, and Chris proposes measures to keep Young Trustees more engaged with current students. Gurdane Bhutani is also a strong candidate for Young Trustee. His experience lobbying on student loan rates and with activism on campus gives him valuable insight on the activist culture Duke should encourage. His experience includes working to reinstate free STI testing at Duke Student Health. Gurdane has experience with the Board of Trustees and has been involved in its subcommittees; he would make a fine addition to the Board. David Winegar, Trinity ’15 Co-president, Duke Democrats
No means no
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t was Jan. 14, 1984. The Maryland Terrapins were playing at Cameron. Herman Veal of Maryland walked out onto the court. A barrage of more than 1,000 pairs of panties, contraceptives and a sign reading, “Hey Herm, Did You Send Her Flowers Afterward?” greeted him. Although never formally charged, Veal was alleged to have sexually abused a fellow student. But this was 1984, three years before the Duke Women’s Center was proposed. Things have certainly changed. It was Jan. 26, 2013. A sophomore from the University of Maryland stepped up to the foul line inside Cameron. He rocked from travis smith side to side, centering himwith a space self. As he focused on orhelmet on ange iron, a chant started to build to his right. Frantic hand waving, then steadied rhythm, finally the words, “No means no.” His attention gathered on one spot 15 feet ahead and 10 feet high; he probably didn’t hear the chanting. But I did. The sophomore was Dez Wells, the guard eligible to play for the 2012-13 season after the NCAA approved his appeal. He transferred to the University of Maryland after being expelled from Xavier “amid sexual assault allegations later deemed unworthy of trial by a prosecutor in Ohio.” These are the same allegations that motivated the chant and almost kept him out of the sport he loves. I’ve always been a big fan of taunting. For me it’s a major part of the game: a test of mental strength, a source of home field advantage and a way for the fans to do more than just watch. And the Crazies are pretty good at it. After popularizing the term “airball,” we covered the court with pizza boxes for N.C. State’s Lorenzo Charles, who had been arrested for stealing pizzas, and shoes for N.C. State’s Jim Valvano, when the team was being investigated for sneaker violations. All of these taunts mocked something solely about the player, or team. This isn’t the case with Dez Wells. “No means no” implicates the victim. On one hand, Wells is legally innocent and trying to move past a potentially career-ending accusation. You aren’t calling him fat, or short, or stupid; you are calling him a rapist. But on the other hand, someone felt victim to sexual assault. The saying, “We will look back on this and laugh” doesn’t really apply to rape. To anyone who has been sexually assaulted, hearing the student population cheer “no means no” trivializes a trauma. It was odd to see these chants coming from the Cameron Crazies, who exemplify a work hard, play hard mentality that is uncommonly popular with the administration. As I looked around and saw a diverse mix of men and women smiling and chanting, I just chalked it up to crowd mentality. I mean, half the time you don’t even know what the chant is, you sort of just start making a noise in rhythm until you manage to decode what everyone is saying. And we are a homogeneous group valuing Duke’s success and opponents’ defeat, so it is usually a safe bet. That is, until the impact of the chant leaves the court. I’m not here to preach. I just see this sort of mob mentality as a pervasive problem, our morals and thoughts being easily skewed by the actions of a large enough group, As a society, we’ve progressed since 1984, but as individuals, we still battle the same problems. For me, it’s about integrity. Don’t ride from the Women’s Center on a moral high horse to dismount right before entering Cameron. But if you chanted “no means no,” conscious of its implications, and continued despite them, this article isn’t for you. That’s your right, and we are allowed to disagree. Integrity is something I’m working on, as part of the whole growing up shtick. I witnessed a lot of hypocrisy in Cameron at that home game, but I was only bothered because I don’t think it was intentional. I think it was just a lot of amped up Duke fans chanting whatever and trying to have a good time. These types of situations will continually find us, with social pressure pushing us toward a subjective “good time.” From career paths to weekend activities to what books to read, what the majority is doing is not synonymous with what’s right for you. Think for yourself. It’s scary at first, but you’ll get less dizzy by not constantly looking around to see what everyone else is doing. P.S. For a good taunt, Google “Duke Speedo Guy.” Travis Smith is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Travis on Twitter @jtsmith317.
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Callie Simpkins opted not to use her last year of eligibility and instead will work at Goldman Sachs next year.
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to mentor her younger teammates, but for her the decision whether or not to come back was not so clear-cut. After completing a summer internship with Goldman Sachs in New York and receiving a job offer for the following year, Simpkins had a lot to consider going into the fall. “My mind changed a bunch during the season and at one point, it was getting to be like I was thinking about it too much,” Simpkins said. “What was I going to say? Was I going to leave? It was taking away from how much I was able to enjoy the moment.” With the decision looming over her, Simpkins reached out to a former Blue Devil for advice. Ashley Rape, who tore her ACL in 2011, faced a similar decision to come back for another season, ultimately deciding to move on to a position at Bridgewater Associates, an investment management firm. The former Duke defender told Simpkins to stop thinking about it and play the season as if it would be her last, Simpkins said. Being able to relate to Simpkins’ position, Rape also provided her former teammate with advice. “[People would say] ‘Just do what’s best for you. I can’t tell you what I think,’ which is frustrating,” Rape said. “So I tried to tell her exactly what I thought but also say to her, ‘You have to take all these inputs and make the decision for yourself.’” Rape and Simpkins also looked to head coach Robbie Church and his staff for advice. “They want the best for us as people, not just as soccer players so it was almost frustrating at times because I wanted them to tell me what to do,” Rape said. “[They would say] ‘We’d love to have you with the Duke family, but at the end of the day, your personal growth and your happiness are more important to us than anything else.’” Simpkins also called on another member of the Duke soccer family to help her work out the decision: Duke’s leading goal scorer in 2006, 2008 and 2009 and current Goldman Sachs employee KayAnne Gummersall. Having communicated with Simpkins throughout the course of the summer internship, Gummersall, who now works in Chicago, understood Simpkins’ options and helped advise her. “Obviously, your senior year is filled with a lot of emotion. I remember thinking I would give almost anything to get one more year when I was a senior,” Gummersall said. “Unlike Callie I had used up all four years of eligibility. If you had asked me at the time, I probably would have stayed all four years at Duke, but I definitely didn’t know what I know now…. The way I saw it, she had this opportunity now, and I told her if I were in her shoes, I would probably go for it, but at the same time, it was her decision.” After the season ended, Simpkins did not immediately tackle the decision. When she started to think about a final decision, she did not consult DeCesare about it to avoid being tempted to join her friend for a second senior year based purely on how fun it would be, Simpkins said. Around Christmas, she made her choice, electing to forego her final year of eligibility and accept the position at Goldman Sachs. “For me, it’s just my time to move on,” Simpkins said. “I feel like I’m going to thrive in the next chapter of my life, and I’m ready to pass the torch on to the junior class. I feel like they’ve done a really good job with this program, and it’s their turn to lead.” Gummersall, who said Simpkins is wise beyond her years, was excited about the her fellow Blue Devil’s future. “I think Callie is absolutely incredible,” Gummersall said. “I think she will do great things. My money’s definitely on Callie going forward… and I’m excited to have her as a teammate again.” Back in Durham, DeCesare has high expectations for her and her teammates. With one last shot, the redshirt-senior to-be is itching for another shot at winning it all. “We’re still striving for a national championship, and I don’t plan on achieving anything less than that,” Decesare said. With an attitude like that, it is not hard to believe that DeCesare, who has aspirations to play soccer after college as well and possibly become a collegiate coach, was always going to come back for one more season. “One teammate asked me, ‘Kimmy, are you sure you’re coming back next year?’ And I was like ‘Yeah, I’m sure I’m coming back.’” DeCesare said. “I wasn’t against changing my mind… but I knew I was going to stay. I love this place too much.”