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BC spaces officially open for business Uni aims to increase transfers by Carleigh Steihm THE CHRONICLE
Despite traditionally admitting low numbers of transfer students, Duke administrators are seeking to slowly increase the presence of transfer students among the student body. For the 2013-14 academic year, admissions received 753 transfer applicants. Of those, 37 students were admitted and 23 enrolled in the Fall. In the past five years, the number of applicants per year has increased from an average of 500, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said. The majority of transfer students are sophomores, but every year there are some juniors. “Duke has traditionally accepted very few transfers as compared to many of our peers,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. “In the last couple of years, we have begun rethinking that.”
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A series of events marked the official opening of the Bryan Center’s newly renovated spaces.
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Increasing Applications Guttentag said that the admissions department is working to expand the transfer program. “It’s hard to actively recruit transfer students the way you would a freshman, because once they are at a four-year college, you don’t want to encourage students to be dissatisfied in their current school,” Guttentag said. Transfer students apply to the University for a number of reasons. “While our social scene has quite the allure, my experiences with transfer students tell me that our academic offerings offer far more compelling reason for transferring to Duke,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. Guttentag added that the admissions team is working on making information for transfer students a larger part of the website See TRANSFER, page 7
Students flocked to the Bryan Center Monday to experience the official reopening of its renovated spaces. Students flocked to the Bryan Center Monday to experience the official reopening of its renovated spaces. This event marked the official end of the Bryan Center renovations. The construction began in June and finished within three months. Students
can now visit the reopened Joe Van Gogh, a new Au Bon Pain plaza cart, a revamped The Loop and the new addition, Red Mango—a self-serve frozen yogurt store. Monday’s festivities were filled with events publicizing the eateries—Joe Van Gogh handed out free coffee, Red Mango distributed free t-shirts and McDonalds featured a spin wheel with prizes. Students were particularly excited about the arrival of Red Mango on cam-
pus. The Bryan Center shop is one of only three stores of its kind in North Carolina. The frozen yogurt chain did not receive its space until Friday but worked to move in all of its equipment for its Monday opening. The store has eight yogurt flavors, self-serve toppings, smoothies, and allows students to pay for their food by the ounce. The restaurant also offers See UPGRADE, page 11
Construction hinders student parking by Kasey Wien THE CHRONICLE
First years with cars will have to walk farther for parking than in years past. Parking capacity for students, employees and visitors has been compromised as a result of the campus
construction projects underway and increased visitor flow following the reopening of Baldwin Auditorium. Near the end of March, the decision was made to move first year parking to Smith Warehouse, which is about a five to ten minute walk from East Campus.
“We wanted to do what we could to keep freshmen as close as possible to East Campus,” said Sam Veraldi, director of parking and transportation. “Smith Warehouse was the best option.” See PARKING, page 10
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The Grad Digest In the past, The Chronicle’s University coverage has centered on Duke’s undergraduate students and schools—the academic, extracurricular and social policies and ventures that affect the freshmen through seniors of Trinity and Pratt. This year, that will change. Each Tuesday, the paper will devote a page to Duke’s graduate and professional schools: the Divinity School, the Fuqua School of Business, the Graduate School, the Nicholas School of the Environment, the School of Law and the Sanford School of Public Policy, as well as the graduate division of the Pratt School of Engineering. (The School of Medicine and School of Nursing will be featured on a separate page on Wednesdays dedicated to the Duke health system.) This page will showcase various aspects of graduate student academic and social life, the actions of the Graduate and Professional Student Council and the work of the schools’ administrations.
GPSC: the basics The GPSC serves as the umbrella student government for Duke’s nine graduate and professional schools and the primary liaison between individual schools’ own student government organizations.
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GOALS FOR THE YEAR 1) Improving graduate student housing —Safety —Affordability —Compiling housing information 2) Bridging GaPs (Graduate and Professional Students) Program —Bridging gaps between different graduate and professional schools 3) Increasing G&P student advocacy
—Finance Committee —Judicial Committee —Young Trustees Screening Committee —Basketball —Student Life —Community Outreach —Student Health Insurance —GPSC Green Team
EXECUTIVE BOARD —President Amol Yadav (PhD, Biomedical Engineering, 4th Year) —Vice-President Shannon O’Connor (MD/PhD, Biomedical Engineering) —Treasurer Eden Ellis (Master of Public Policy/MBA, 2nd year) —Executive Secretary Betty Jiang (MD, 4th year) —Attorney General Brad Hover (PhD, Biochemistry, 5th year) — Communications Coordinator Fumiko Chino (MD, 4th year) —Student Life Co-Chair Ben Shellhorn (JD/MBA, 2nd year), —Student Life Co-Chair Tiffany Wilson (PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 5th year) —Community Outreach Coordinator Daniel Brown (PhD, Toxicology, 5th year) — Academic Officer Yilin Liu (PhD, Medical Physics, 2nd year) —Student Group Liason Abigail LaBella (PhD, Genetics and Genomics, 3rd year) —University Affairs Coordinator Shanna Lehrman (JD, 2nd year) —Career Development Chair Junchi Li (PhD, Math, 4th year)
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New eateries open, old Private grant received in favorites mere memories midst of sequestration by abhi shah THE CHRONICLE
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Students check out the many new food option on campus. by maggie hammerle THE CHRONICLE
Students entered the Bryan Center Monday, the first day of classes for the fall semester of 2013, to find a party: free coffee from Joe Van Gough, a McDonalds’ spin wheel with endless free prizes, Red Mango t-shirts, the opening of two restaurants (The Loop and Red Mango), and much much more! Construction workers were putting the finishing touches on the new places. Managers were getting everything in order and reaching out to students. The manager of The Loop was even taking pictures of students to display in their new location. Students flocked to the Bryan Center Monday to experience the building’s reopening.
This event marked the official end of the Bryan Center renovations. The construction began in June and was finished within three months. Students can now visit the reopened Joe Van Gogh, a new Au Bon Pain Plaza Cart, the revamped Loop and new addition self-serve frozen yogurt store Red Mango. Monday’s festivities were filled with events publicizing the eateries—Joe van Gogh handed out free coffee, Red Mango distributed free t-shirts and McDonalds featured a spin wheel complete with prizes. Students were particularly excited about the arrival of Red Mango on campus. The Bryan Center shop is one of only three stores of its kind in North Carolina. The frozen yogurt chain did
Charles and Daneen Stiefel donated $1.3 million last week to Duke researchers investigating the link between immune deficiencies and cancer. The privately funded donation will be used by Dr. Patricia Lugar—professor of allergy and immunology at the Duke Asthma, Allergy and Airway Center— and Dr. Sandeep Dave—associate professor of medicine at the Duke Cancer Institute. The researchers hope to elucidate the genetic relationship between Common Variable Immune Deficiency and lymphoma in order to create better diagnostic tools for treatment. “Very little research has investigated the genetics of immune deficiency,” Lugar said. “Many patients are misdiagnosed, and this research will help in developing better diagnostic tests and novel models for the disease.” CVID destroys antibodies, which jeopardizes the body’s immune system and increases the chance of cancer. Patients with CVID are 10 to 100 times more likely to develop lymphoma, Dave said. Currently, there is a lack of good diagnostics tests for CVID, said Dr. Nancy Andrews, vice chancellor for academic
affairs and dean of the School of Medicine. This means people with CVID can be undiagnosed for months or years, which leads to unnecessary suffering. James Siedow, vice provost for research and professor of biology, noted that the donation came at a time where research funding has decreased dramatically because of the federal sequester. “In general, grants have been reduced by more than 1,000 proposals,” he said. When Duke Medicine receives a large donation, like the one from the Stiefels, it is funneled to support research designated by the donor, and the associated costs of the research, Andrews added. The Stiefels also funded Dr. Lugar’s previous research in 2011, which worked to identify genes associated with CVID. Dave is confident that the money will be used well, noting that Lugar’s research is being conducted in the largest center serving patients with CVID. “If we can investigate the underlying genetics and prove that a subset of CVID patients are at high risk for developing lymphoma, we can potentially diagnose these patients early and cure them,” said Dave. Charles Stiefel serves on the Duke Medicine Board of Visitors.
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RUSSIAN WRITERS IN BITE-SIZED CHUNKS Can’t fit those gigantic novels into your bookbag? Tackle the “accursed questions” in short works by Russia’s tormented, eccentric, inspired geniuses. It’s all there: God and the devil, murder and mayhem, crime and punishment, prison and terror, war and peace, passion and romance, laughter and the absurd. Get re-acquainted with old sparring partners (Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky) and meet new ones (Pelevin, Tolstaya, Petrushevskaya, and many more).
Music Classes Fall 2013
Music 162S: INTRODUCTION TO COMPOSITION (ALP) TuTh 1:25 PM – 2:40 PM, Stephen Jaffe Investigate the expressive uses of sound shaped through time, touching on music theory, orchestration, music technology and analysis, with the primary emphasis on composing. No previous background in music theory is required.
Russian 316:
“RUSSIAN SHORT FICTION” MW 1:25-2:40 Allen 229 CCI, ALP credit. Students design their own projects (creative writing, translation, research, performance, blogs, multimedia, etc.). Readings are in English, but students proficient in Russian (or desiring to become so) may work in the original. Questions? Email flath@duke.edu or pop in at 310 Languages.
Music 259-01: MUSIC AND MODERNISM (ALP, W) WF 1:25 PM – 2:40 PM, Stephen Jaffe Through a seminar approach involving listening, writing, and discussion, explore evolving traditions like jazz; innovative musical instruments; the interchange between popular and concert music; and the future of music and its many streams.
Music 261: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TONAL MUSIC I (ALP) Section 001: TuTh (lecture) WF (lab) 10:05-11:20 AM, Paul Leary Section 002: TuTh (lecture) WF (lab) 3:05-4:20 PM, Robert Parkins The building blocks of all music, from classical to jazz and beyond. Principles of tonal organization and introduction to musical forms. This course is a prerequisite for the music major and minor.
Music 290S-1-01: FROM 42ND STREET TO MOULIN ROUGE: QUEERNESS & CAMP IN THE AMERICAN FILM MUSICAL (ALP) WF 1:25 PM – 2:40 PM, Stephen Pysnik Explore film musicals from throughout the genre’s history and the wide-ranging impact of queer musicians, artists, directors, performers, and audiences on their creation and subsequent reception. The ability to read music is not required.
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FDOC Soundoff Whether it was their first FDOC or their last, Duke students have a lot to say about their first day of classes.
“There’s a guy in a panda suit outside Panda Express.” —sophomore Emily Spiera
“I can’t believe it’s here already but I’m really excited for it because every semester is a new adventure.” —junior Mansoor Safi
“It’s weird being on campus because all my friends are abroad but I don’t have classes on Monday so it’s okay.” —junior Christina Lee
“I made it to my first class on time; I’m turning over a new leaf.” —sophomore Nick Sam
“It’s so great to see all these people I haven’t seen in three months.” —sophomore Isabelle Daly
“Everyone is struggling so hard today.” —sophomore Freddie Camerlynck “This reminds me so much of last year...reminiscing hardcore.” —sophomore Meaghan Davis “Ditto.” —sophomore Jonathan Im “Au Bon Pain is giving away free coffee cups!” —first year Candice Dunn “I think that it wasn’t as overwhelming as I had expected and I was so pleased to see such passionate and well experienced teachers. I feel excited to learn!” —first year McCall Wells
“I got lost today walking from my off campus apartment to West. I felt like a freshman again.” —senior Melissa Bradley “It’s my LFDOC. I’m pretty excited about that.” —senior Amit Vora “FDOC is different from any first day of school. It’s really not just that classes are starting again. It’s also when the Duke community is whole again.” —senior Valentine Esposito “My orgo chem teacher looks like Jesse Eisenberg.” —first year Jake Son “Why is West Duke on East?” - first year Stan Fox
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US face mid-October deadline to raise debt limit by Zachary A. Goldfarb THE WASHINGTON POST
The United States is set to run out of borrowing authority in mid-October, leaving the government at a high risk of not being able to pay for Social Security checks, military salaries and other operations, the Obama administration said Monday. The announcement, which comes at the early end of what many in Washington were anticipating, creates a new crisis point in the nation’s protracted fight over the size and role of government. Republicans are demanding significant new spending cuts in exchange for increasing the nation’s $16.7 trillion debt limit, with some GOP lawmakers insisting on a delay or the scrapping of President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law. Obama, meanwhile, says he will not negotiate on the debt limit, the government’s legal cap on borrowing. With the two sides far apart, there is no clear path to resolving the differences. Not raising the limit would ultimately lead to a default, undermining the nation’s credit. The Obama administration on Monday did not indicate the date that such a default might occur. Rather, it said that it expects to have only $50 billion in cash on hand in mid-October, with no ability to borrow more. That amount would not cover the nation’s spending for long, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said in a letter to congressional leaders. He added that if the debt limit is not raised, investors who own trillions of dollars in U.S. government bonds could begin to refuse to lend money to the nation. “Such a scenario could undermine financial markets and result in significant disruptions to our economy,” Lew said. Steve Bell, economic policy director at the Bipartisan Policy Center, said lawmakers should not take comfort in the $50 billion the Treasury will have once it runs out of borrowing authority. The amount of money coming in and out of federal coffers fluctuates wildly, he said, adding that the $50 billion might last only three or four days. “We think the $50 billion cash balance indicates that Lew is right to raise the borrowing authority before mid-October,” Bell said. “People may think it’s a big number, but these intergovernmental transfers that are paid every month to Social Security and Medicare are as big as $30 billion in one day.” The U.S. government formally hit the ceiling on what it could borrow in May. Since then, Treasury has deployed a variety of accounting techniques to continue to borrow. In addition, a sharp decline in spending this year and repayments from bailed-out mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac eased the need for the government to rely on debt. Now, Congress must raise the debt limit sooner than many expected — and it’s not the only deadline fast approaching. Separately, the White House and Congress face a deadline at the end of next month to renew regular funding for government operations — or risk a shutdown. In a shutdown, many agencies would close but “essential” functions, such as Social Security and Medicare payments, would continue. Congress is in session for only nine days in September, leading to expectations that lawmakers may pass a budget measure to fund the government for a few weeks or months. But here’s no guarantee — mainly because of partisan disagreement about whether to continue the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester that are slicing defense and domestic agency budgets. Republicans favor restoring funding to the Pentagon while cutting domestic programs even more deeply. But Democrats want to roll back the automatic defense and non-defense cuts — in part through alternative spending reductions and tax increases on the wealthy. Although Democrats say they are happy to debate how to fund the government, they add that they won’t negotiate over the separate issue of the debt ceiling. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Md., the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said Republicans ought not put the nation’s creditworthiness at risk by demanding concessions in return for raising the debt limit.
“I don’t think the American public is going to stand for playing with what remains an economic weapon,” he said. “Playing around the debt ceiling will create unnecessary economic harm.” But House Republicans on Monday linked the two debates. They said they will insist that any increase in the debt limit be offset dollar for dollar by other spending cuts or cost-saving changes to federal programs — a principle established by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, two years ago. “The debt limit remains a reminder that, under President Obama, Washington has failed to deal seriously with America’s debt and deficit,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said. The White House and Republicans have been fighting over the debt since 2010 — a series of debates that have linked questions about taxes and spending to the bigger issue of whether to raise the limit.
In the summer of 2011, such clashes led the government to come within days of a default before an agreement was reached to increase the debt ceiling through the beginning of 2013. Many economists say that episode led to uncertainty that harmed the economy. At the start of this year, Republicans agreed to suspend the debt limit for several months while they crafted a broader fiscal strategy. Republicans are continuing to draft that playbook, with ideas centering around changes to entitlements, among other issues. On Monday, the White House reiterated that although it will negotiate over the budget, the debt ceiling must be handled separately. “We have never defaulted, and we must never default,” press secretary Jay Carney said. “That is our position, 100 percent, full stop.”
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and presenting more information about transferring at information sessions. “Over time, the word will spread that we are expanding our transfer program,� Guttentag said. “But our admissions rate will always be discouraging.� Guttentag said that the admissions team accounts for the possibility of transfer students as they plan the acceptances of first year students. “[Transfer students] are not taking anyone’s place,� he said. “They are factored into our overall goal of 1,705 students per class.� Nowicki added that the University will wait until the pool of transfer applicants is stronger before there is any noticeable increase in the number of students admitted. As only students of “Duke quality� can be admitted, it might take a few years. “The trick is that because we don’t have a reputation for taking transfer students, we don’t get too many requests,� Nowicki said. There is an intersection between an increased number of transfer students and an increase in the number of international students, Nowicki noted. Many students start out oversees and then decide that they would prefer to come to the United States. He added that most students who transfer to the University are very academically successful. “The majority of transfer students are students who might have thought about coming to Duke and decided to go somewhere else, but then determined that wasn’t the best fit for them,� Nowicki said. He noted, however, that there have been successful transfer students who were denied to Duke on their initial application. “Transfer students contribute widely to the undergrad experience,� Moneta said. “They offer perspective and experiences obtained
from their other school and have generally thought long and hard about the distinctive reasons they prefer to be at Duke. They tend to be extremely motivated to catch up with their classmates and have clarity about their Duke and post-Duke goals.� Guttentag echoed this sentiment. “Whether they come from community college or MIT—and we have had transfer students from both—they always bring unique perspective,� Guttentag said. Making the Transition Moneta added that transfer students have a separate orientation each year—including a Transfer Advisory Counselor program that pairs new transfer students to older ones, similar to the First-Year Advisory Counselor program. Senior Katherine Fraile, co-chair of the TAC program, transferred to Duke from the University of Pittsburgh as a sophomore. She called the transfer an all-around “amazing experience.� “I count myself lucky to have been able to transfer here,� Fraile said. “While it presents its own challenges and opportunities, there’s such a great community at Duke that transfers feel like a welcome part of the family from the second they step foot on campus.� The TAC program—founded by former Dean of Arts and Sciences Bob Thompson— is much like the FAC program for first years and is intended to teach incoming transfer and visiting international students all about Duke, Fraile said. She added that it is important for transfer students to know there are others going through the same situation. “It’s a great opportunity for them to get to know other students who are going through the same experience now or have previously done so,� Fraile said. “Every year we have a small—but very impressive—group of students from universities all over the country and world.�
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She added that each transfer brings their own unique perspective from other universities. “I think, for that reason, transfer students are able to appreciate even more all that Duke has to offer and how great it is because they have real experience to which to compare it,� Fraile said.
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“It’s an incredibly frustrating event for us,� he said. “We’ve made enormous changes from spring and summer in staffing, in physical layout...now we’re looking at the next option that we have, which is restricting access to some of these roads.� He noted that if the University opts
to shut down roads, it will do so for all vehicles—meaning that individuals with DukeCards will not be able to swipe their cars through, as is the case with parking lots. Though an official decision has not yet been made, Cavanaugh said that restricting road access is currently the option that “makes the most sense.� “If we [restrict access],we want to do it with full disclosure and with appropriate consultation,� he said. Security presence will be refocused around the area of the incident as well, Cavanaugh noted. “Any time we have an event as offensive as this one, we always want to be concerned,� he said. “We’re putting all the resources we possibly can. It’s the single highest priority we have, keeping our students, our faculty and staff and our visitors safe.�
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2013 Knock and Talks Attention off-campus residents!
This week is your opportunity to meet with representatives from Duke Police, Student Affairs and DSG. Representatives will be visiting homes to answer questions about off-campus safety, living in Durham, how to connect with your neighbors, and other related issues.
We are excited to meet you during our 2013 Knock and Talks!
Knock and Talks will occur on Tuesday and Wednesday from 5-7p.m.
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Students should fight Voter ID law If you blinked this summer, you may have missed the North Carolina legislature’s push to revise policies on hot-button issues ranging from Medicaid to abortion. The legislature nestled its aggressive leap to the right in bills about Sharia law and motorcycle safety, drawing wide criticism and spawning the Moral Mondays protests. But of the issues that received attention this summer, Duke students should be particularly concerned about the new voter identification laws that threaten to undermine student involvement in politics. The voter ID law, signed Aug. 12, shortens the early voting period from 17 to 10 days, eliminates same-day voter registration and prohibits the use of college identifications when voting, among other provisions. State Republicans claim the law is a commonsensical attempt to stem voter fraud. Meanwhile, progressive groups like the ACLU and NAACP contend that the new restrictions will disproportionately affect poor and minority groups, which are less likely to possess stateissued IDs, rely more heavily on early voting periods and, skew Democrat. The debate has divided the state between skeptics, who see the
voter ID law as a tool of voter suppression, and believers who see it as a necessary tune-up to lax election procedures. Discerning intent is always a thorny exercise, but we see the Voter ID law as an unjustified measure regardless of its goals. It is
Editorial true that voter fraud dilutes the weight of valid ballots and threatens democratic institutions. However, there is little evidence that voter fraud is a problem in North Carolina, let alone one significant enough to merit excluding thousands of citizens from the ballot box. As former Secretary of State Colin Powell noted in address to the NC CEO Forum last Thursday, it is contradictory to claim that voter fraud is both “widespread and undetected.” The law contains two separate sets of measures: voter-ID requirements and restrictions on early voting and same-day registration. The law’s Voter Identification and Verification Act (VIVA) may be the law’s least objectionable component, but the majority
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of the 56-page document restricts access to voting and will inevitably hurt those for whom getting to the polls is already a complicated and burdensome process. At best, strict voter ID requirements ensure that voters are indeed who they say they are. However, the other restrictions are nothing more than arbitrary barriers to voting that will further harm the most disenfranchised members of society, a consequence of the law that outweighs the dubious benefits of stricter voter ID requirements. Regardless of one’s ideological position on the issue, this law will undoubtedly make it more difficult for Duke students to vote in North Carolina. Student efforts to simplify voting on campus have been upended by this sweeping bill, which will drastically change the incentives to vote for out-of-state Duke students, a group that makes up 85 percent of our student body. Although the law’s passage is disheartening, we should continue to fight this change. To throw up our hands and admit defeat would only fuel apathy and allow more bills like this one to spill out of the North Carolina statehouse.
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f you’re white and enjoy being the center of attention, Uganda is the place for you. The word “mzungu,” a word meaning “white person,” isn’t specific to Uganda; it pops up just about anywhere in East Africa where people speak Swahili and enjoy yelling at tourists. But where I was in the Buganda kingdom, the borderline insult had really taken hold. Vendors sold t-shirts that read “My name is not mzungu!” or for those willing to embrace the term, soccer jerseys from the Ugandan national team with “Mzungu” printed where someone’s last name ought to be. These novelties came into being as a result of a total fascination that Ugandans possess for white people. Touching my hair was a super popular activity amongst strangers and it seemed like every personal ad on television requested responses only from Americans (and “real” Americans, not like those sixth generation Americans who were really from Asia/South America/Africa). Uganda is one place that as a sunburn-able white-bread American it’s impossible not to be ogled at. Initially it’s kind of a fun novelty, that instant infamy. Children will run to the perimeters of their schoolyards yelling, “Mzunnguuu! How are you, mzuunnnguuu?!” People of all ages and dignities will literally stop and stare, first their eyes following you, then they’ll swivel their neck, and finally accomplish the whole body pivot. I once saw a three-year old fall in a ditch in his haste to turn and stare at me. This weird obsession highlights two things that are incredibly common in Uganda and pretty much taboo in the United States: staring and using race as an identifier. Ugandans get their fair share of stares when they do the slightest thing out of the ordinary (it takes one man to saw a piece of wood and fifteen children to watch). But combine this proclivity with the fact that I am white, and anything I did was like the circus coming to town. I don’t think that in the United States people are any less curious about people who are different than them, but we’ve been ingrained with this “don’t stare” mentality that teaches if you ogle at someone who is different, you reveal a curiosity that must be grounded in ignorance. This is especially true when it comes to race. The United States obviously enjoys a vast amount of racial diversity, so it’s not necessarily a novelty to see someone who doesn’t share your racial background. Trying to wave at them all would just be exhausting. Still, even acknowledging that someone is a certain race seems to be a departure from the American norm. When I find myself trying to describe someone, some sort of reflex makes me feel rude for using race as a primary descriptor. I
know a lot of people who would rather say, “Do you know John? Glasses, buzz cut, really likes Indian food, oh and he’s black?” than provide a
Lydia Thurman THIS ONE TIME IN AFRICA physical description that might suggest race is the first thing that comes to mind when they describe people. Rhetoric here is constantly under review for political correctness and rudeness, and there seems to be a consensus that over-acknowledging race can begin to violate both of those social codes. Coming to Uganda, then, where people stared when they found something to be interesting and where people considered a person being white to be fascinating was a weird combination. It wasn’t hostile, and in fact most of the staring was very cheerfully done, but it was unnerving nonetheless. For me, it became a constant reminder that no matter how long I was there, I wouldn’t really be truly a part of the country. Being accepted by my host family and the people I worked with was never ambiguous; they were some of the most welcoming people I’ve ever met. Step outside, though, and it’s a barrage of reminders that I’m very different and carry all the expectations of that difference. Despite its good-naturedness, Ugandan staring is no less judgmental than its more furtive American counterpart, and it still confers all the stereotypes of wealth, stupidity and promiscuousness upon the subject. Personally, I hated the stares and the yells. Never mind that there are a lot of aspects of the country that I absolutely loved: the fresh fruit, my host siblings, the motorcycle rides. It’s not worth it to become a spectacle. Thus my appreciation for the United States has been cemented. The anonymity I’m afforded here is an incredible welcome home present after twelve weeks of attention. It’s also kind of nice to know that even if I have food on my face I’ll still be able to avoid a crowd of well-wishers trying to determine if it’s jam or blood. It’s certainly a weird choice to make, between constantly being told (or yelled at rather) that people are watching and judging you, and never knowing if you are perceived as unique or fascinating or utterly strange. But I can now say decisively that I would pick the place that doesn’t consider me to be a point of interest in the least. Every time. Lydia Thurman is a Trinity junior. Her biweekly column will run every other Tuesday. Send Lydia a message on Twitter @ThurmanLydia.
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is still a barrier. Other people say that love is not something you can look for, but something that finds you. That is hard advice for a proactive college student to swallow—advice that obviously will not work if everyone is just sitting around waiting to be found. Most people say I have not found the right person and that all this pessimism will be submerged in the wake of true love. That is definitely a possibility, but an unsatisfactory consolation nonetheless, since it again leaves love
Patrick Oathout REALPOLITIK WITH PATRICK to destiny. Maybe I am not ready for commitment—and by “commitment,” I do not mean faithfulness. By “commitment,” I mean the long haul—the recognition that relationships have ups and downs, long periods of boredom and a lot more give than take. I arrived at college with the boundless freedom to date whenever, but that same freedom makes it impossible to do so. I enjoy being single too much, not for the hedonism, but for the freedom that comes with not being reigned in. I enjoy being able to only worry about my concerns—to not be constantly attempting to understand someone else’s qualms and emotions. I clearly am not as selfless as I would like to be. There is always the concern that my standards are too high. Maybe I am perpetuating my own loneliness by refusing to start something with someone who does not fit my idea of what love should look like. If that is the case, how do I fix it? ‘Letting go’ or ‘being more open’ is frustrating advice to hear—maybe because I refuse to let go of my standards. Conversely, it is also quite possible that none of this is my fault and that I have just been unlucky in my selections. Frustratingly enough, it is impossible to know which is the case. These are all dubious musings. They are dubious because they are whiny complaints, crafted by an impatient young adult who wants to discover the idea of love now. But these musings also stem from the worry that being single says more about my inability to find love than it does about personal choice. Did I really want to be in a long-term relationship when I came to college, or did I feel like it was just time? Am I too picky or just unlucky? Perhaps, most importantly, am I the only one who feels this way? Patrick Oathout is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Patrick on Twitter @patrickoathout.
My father died when he was 103 years old. He died knowing nothing. I’m 76. I’ve studied capoeira since I was 12, but I still haven’t learned anything. I know nothing, and I too will die knowing nothing.” I was floored. The old man speaking had cloudy blue eyes that only come with old age and hair as white as snow— snow, which he has never seen during his long life in the tropical city of Salvador, Brazil. Mestre Curió is a respected master of capoeira, the centuries-old Afro-Brazilian tradition that blends martial art and dance. He has his own capoeira center that has flourished through decades of his leadership. Capoeira students young and old make pilgrimages to his center from all over the world. And yet he says that he knows ELEVATOR PITCH nothing— about capoeira, or anything else. I’d never heard anyone talk like this. Why did Mestre Curió downplay his knowledge and his accomplishments? Why did a renowned teacher claim to know nothing about the subject he teaches? Imagine this happening on a college campus. A school newspaper reporter interviews a famous tenured professor of Spanish history on the eve of her retirement. “You’re considered an expert in your field. You’ve written well-received books on the Moors in the Middle Ages, the Napoleonic period and Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Which century do you know best?” The professor says, “I can’t say I know much about any period of Spanish history. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve learned very much about anything in my 50 years of studying and teaching.” The reporter would politely but hurriedly wrap up the interview with a few cursory questions—not out of interest, but to avoid hurting the professor’s feelings. Naturally, the reporter’s editor would tell him to forget about the story. “Who wants to read about an old lady who says she doesn’t know anything? We still need a human-interest story, though. Something more important that our audience actually wants to read about … Aha! Do another front-page spread about the switch to two-ply toilet paper.” My point is genuine, intellectual humility like Mestre Curió’s appears about as often on a “highly selective” college campus as Richard Brodhead appears on the Colbert Report. That is, not often. What is intellectual humility? I would define it as acknowledgement of our woefully incomplete understanding of the world. It might be an exaggeration to say, “I know nothing, and I too will die knowing nothing.” But we do need a willingness to feel ignorant. We acknowledge that we don’t truly know how the world works even in the face of humanity’s amazing discoveries—from DNA structure to human psychology to the obscure new location of the Duke Card office. A willingness to feel ignorant? But I go to Duke! I got into this top-ranked school and earned my parents the privilege of paying my weight in gold every year—plus my weight in biology textbooks, which apparently cost more per ounce. My admission letter definitely came with a gold-embossed bumper sticker proclaiming, “Never Wrong.” We can give presentations on books we haven’t read (guilty as charged) and proffer our opinions on military assistance to countries we’ve never visited. We go to an elite school, and aren’t we special? Ignorance is so, like, high school. Before arriving in Brazil, I thought I more or less understood the country. I took Brazilian Portuguese for a year and a half. I studied the country’s politics and wrote a paper on its dictatorship. I’d heard that race functions differently there but I felt ready to understand the society’s racial dynamics—after all, I did go on Common Ground. Yet there I was, in the sweltering city of Salvador, dripping sweat, failing to comprehend the political system and utterly failing to comprehend my host mother’s explanation of exactly what went into the mushy food I ate for dinner that first night. The language struggles were particularly poignant with my young Brazilian friends. When we talked on Facebook I wondered why they would constantly reference the Ku Klux Klan, until I realized that “kkk” actually means “hahaha.” I’m pretty positive that I once asked a female friend, “Do you want to sleep together next weekend?” instead of, “Do you want to hang out together next weekend?” I constantly felt ignorant, but I learned loads of Portuguese, more than I ever could have if I relied solely on basic phrases or avoided new topics or stuck with English-speaking friends. I had to accept constant correction and look up new words and struggle with charades to get the right verb. Only once I recognized the total inadequacy of my language skills did I start to improve. Slowly. That’s why I want to cultivate humility like Mestre Curió’s. When I see my knowledge as complete, I stop adding to it. When I think I understand a culture or language or style of dance, I fail to deepen my understanding. Without a bit of intellectual humility we will truly die knowing nothing. We can only learn more when we stop and acknowledge just how little we really know.
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Andrew Kragie is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.
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Approximately 50 events are already scheduled throughout the year at Baldwin, Veraldi said. In order to support audience parking for performances, the University opted for an alternative to undergraduate first years parking on East Campus, he added. Though the majority of first years do not bring cars to campus, some who have are disappointed by the move. “I think it’s very convenient having a car on campus,” first year Elizabeth Molinet said. “It gives you more independence, as you are not reliant on your friends who have a car or a somewhat unpredictable bus schedule. However, it’s frustrating to me that Duke would use Baldwin’s parking space for visitors and in turn, inconvenience their own students.” Danny Nolan, a senior living off-campus with a car, also had a car his first year. He noted that parking was never an issue on East for him, as there were always spots available close to his Randolph residence halls where he lived. A roaming security guard will be stationed at all times in the Smith Warehouse area. Duke’s buses also run until 2am on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 4am on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and 1am on Sundays. For individuals who need transportation after these times, Duke Vans will be available when the buses are not. Parking permits for Smith Warehouse cost $291 annually—the same as red zone permits last year which allowed first years to park on East Campus last year. The available East Campus parking is now used to accommodate graduate students and employees, in-
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not receive its space until Friday but worked to move in all of its equipment for its Monday opening. The store has eight yogurt flavors, self-serve toppings, smoothies, and allows students to pay for their food by the ounce. The restaurant even offers unlimited samples. General store manager Dennis Blocker said that he expects the year to be a successful one. “It has been a great process to get into Duke,” Blocker said. “The new store was absolutely worth the time and money four-fold.” The Loop has returned to the University and is now located on the second floor of the Bryan Center, a switch from its original position on the BC Plaza. Their menu has been changed to incorporate pasta and Southwestern dishes, such as Cajun chicken alfredo and shrimp with tomato creme sauce. Trey Kirwin, a member of the Loop training team and a current employee of the restaurant’s Jacksonville, Florida branch, said that he expects the Loop to attract more customers because of its increased seating and its new convenient take-out program, Grab-n-Go. The Grab-n-Go station will serve pre-prepared sandwiches and salads, in addition to pizza by the slice. Kirwin added that the restaurant has also put in a bar in their downstairs area. Kirwin specifically noted the importance of the restaurant’s new aesthetic. The BC store’s artwork additions were inspired by Kirwin’s own renovations to
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The Loop’s Jacksonville venue, which prompted an increase in business at the Florida restaurant. He cited the new industrial structure, mural and menu artwork as examples of the Loop’s improved look. But he also said that the artwork serves another purpose. “The artwork is attractive and will help educate people on menu items,” Kirwin said. Although some students have expressed some complaints at the loss of Armadillo Grill, Subway, and Chik-fil-a, most students have said that they are happy with the University’s added dining options. Sophomore Susanna Booth noted her excitement at the reopened BC. “I wish there was more variety and I miss the chains, but I’m happy that the Bryan Center is now open because it is a central place,” Booth said. Booth mentioned Red Mango as a particular favorite and said that the frozen yogurt business fits in well with campus life. Sophomore Harmony Zhang was one of the first to try Red Mango’s frozen yogurt and noted her excitement for the University’s new dining options. “I love Red Mango and the Events Pavilion seems modern,” Zhang said. “I am pretty excited because I’m a big eater and not picky.” Overall, students are prepared for a new dining experience and happy to see the construction gone. “The construction was hectic during the summer but now it’s comfortable and ready for us to enjoy,” Zhang said. ALEX STONEHILL/THE CHRONICLE
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Students enjoy a meal at the newly opened Pavillion, which has replaced the Great Hall as the main eatery on West Campus.