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A group of Duke students are campaigning to remove the University’s investments in the top 200 publicly-traded companies. Divest Duke, started in Fall 2012 by a group of graduate students, is a movement attempting to stop Duke from investing its assets for the betterment of the environment. The group, now expanding to undergraduates, is working to gain a larger following before approaching administrators with its proposed changes. Courtney Trutna, a freshman volunteer for Divest Duke, said that Divest Duke hopes to raise more public awareness for the issue of climate change and the power that is given to fossil fuel companies through investments. “Pulling out investments is the only way to make fossil fuel companies understand that the public is serious about the environment, and that climate change caused by fossil fuel industries is strongly protested,” Trunta said. Divest Duke is currently trying to involve undergraduate students in greater numbers. Undergraduates are the heart of Duke, said Emily Palmer, a field organizer at Green Corps. Palmer was sent to the University from the organization’s field school for environmental organizing to assist the campaign. “If we could build up leadership and engagement amongst the undergrads, we think that is going to make our campaign incredibly strong.” Palmer said. Since the beginning of last week, fliers and posters about Divest Duke have spread to various places on campus. “We’ve only been out talking to people [about] the campaign since Monday [Sept. 2],” Palmer said. “In the last five days actually, we’ve had over 250 sign on.” Palmer said 250 is a number she has no doubt will increase. Divest Duke plans to follow the steps set by preceding campaigns. One example the group hopes to emulate is the conflict minerals divestment campaign in Spring 2012, led in part by current Duke Student Government President Stefani Jones, a senior. Jones’ campaign succeeded in having the Board of Trustees pass investment guidelines regarding conflict minerals. “They kind of legitimized [divestment] as a means to make social change on campus,” Palmer said. See DIVEST, page 4

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Students enjoy a day of apple picking, hay rides and treats as part of event organized by the Jewish Student Union to celebrate Rosh Hashanah at Millstone Creek Orchards Sunday.

Although Duke put forth new sexual assault sanction guidelines this summer, administrators are not forthcoming about how the changes will work in practice. When Duke announced a major change to the guidelines, which suggests expulsion as the preferred sanction for a perpetrator of sexual assault, the University received significant positive publicity. Although dozens of sexual assault cases come to the Office of Student Conduct each year, many administrators are unwilling to publicly discuss specifics as to how the new guideline will impact the student conduct process. Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of Office of Student Conduct, declined to answer questions over the phone or in person, and other members of the student conduct staff deferred comment to Bryan. After receiving email questions about the implications of the new sexual assault guideline, he deferred all comment to Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. Moneta has continued to tout the positive aspects of the guideline since it was first announced, including appearing in a video on The Huffington Post. But in interviews with The Chronicle, he has said he is unable to answer numerous questions about how it will be used in practice. See GUIDELINE, page 5

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Former North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue discussed the importance of continuing education throughout adulthood at the fall convocation of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The event, intended to celebrate “the joy of learning,” featured a number of speeches regarding the importance of adult education. Perdue emphasized the innovations in technology and the corresponding changes in education. “I’ve admitted to people that I’d never want to be young again, but as I see the way technology is changing it makes me want to stick around another 50 years to see what

happens,” Perdue said. Director of OLLI Garry Crites introduced Perdue as a former public school teacher in Florida and Georgia. He added that she recently taught at Harvard College, which he described as “the Duke of the North.” Perdue, who received her Masters of Education and holds a doctorate in Educational Administration from the University of Florida, wrote her dissertation on lifelong learning. In preparing for yesterday’s speech, she reread the conclusions she had drawn in 1976 as a student and realized how much things have changed in recent years. “Four million students are getting a college education online,” she said. “This

transformation of education is the most important innovation in learning since the printing press.” Perdue and her husband, Bob Eaves, are both planning on enrolling in OLLI next semester. OLLI offers non-credit courses to those over the age of 55 who pay a $35 annual membership fee. Course offerings range from Chinese brush painting to Mastery of your iPad. The courses do not have tests or award grades—the students enroll simply to learn. Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton See OLLI, page 4

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Montell discusses Arts on the rise at Duke Medicine peace process by Gautam Hathi THE CHRONICLE

Although the peace process is valuable, there may be danger in focus too much on peace at the expense of human rights. Jessica Montell, executive director of the Israeli human rights nongovernmental organization B’Tselem, spoke about her work during a brunch discussion Sunday. The talk was sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Center for Jewish Studies and the Duke Islamic Studies Center. “We need to be really smart about how we engage with the political process in order to ensure attention to these [human rights] issues,” Montell said. She explained the work that B’Tselem does documenting human rights abuses by the Israeli military and government and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She also detailed the paradoxical nature of the peace process, which is necessary to solve the ultimate problems in the region but has the immediate effect of cementing the status quo and stifling awareness of human rights issues. “The peace process is much more present in public conversations in Washington than it is in Jerusalem,” Montell said. “I was in Washington last in March. Probably the week I was in Washington I heard that phrase…‘peace-talks,’ ‘twostate solution,’ more than in the year I was in Jerusalem.” Montell spoke about the overemphasis on the peace process as opposed to the human rights situation on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza. She noted that the last round of seemingly successful peace talks in 1993 left Israel in control of 60 percent of the West Bank and led to a tripling of illegal Israeli settlement presence, leading to a “swiss-cheese” map of the West Bank. At the same time, violations of human rights by both Israeli and Palestinian authorities have increased. Montell also described the need to infuse human rights considerations into the peace process, expressing her fears that the new round of talks announced by Secretary of State John Kerry in July will serve only as a distraction from the reality of the human rights situation on the ground in the occupied territories. She pointed out that the peace process itself can have a dampening effect on human rights, as Palestinian voices who criticize or oppose the process are often silenced. “The human rights issues are going to be central,” she said. At the end of the day, however, Montell acknowledged that the peace process is the only way to bring about a lasting solution to human rights issues in Israel and Palestine. See MONTELL, page 4

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Arts and Health seeks to nurture the artistic talent of patients and improve the environment at Duke Medicine.

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After undergoing its own makeover, Arts & Health at Duke is ready to revamp Duke Medicine’s artistic environment. Arts & Health at Duke—formerly known as the Health Arts Network at Duke—allows hospital staff, University students and a range of artists and volunteers to participate in projects related to the arts in order to provide a creative outlet to patients receiving treatment and to improve the hospital’s environment. The program underwent a name and logo change this May to overcome the ambiguity of their old title and to broaden the range of opportunities the program can provide. “Sometimes writing, listening to music, reading a poem or looking at a piece of artwork on the wall can help people manage their feelings, and express themselves or feel connected in some way,” said Elizabeth Von Brocklin, communication specialist for Arts & Health at Duke. Program Coordinator Sharon Swanson said the previous moniker limited the scope of the program to three disciplines, whereas Arts & Health at Duke aims to incorporate a broader scope of activities. “HAND, although a handy acronym, didn’t really

tell people what we do,” Swanson said. The program allows patients to participate in various art programs in order to ease the anxiety associated with treatment and recovery. Programs include the Eye Center’s touchable gallery, which allows patients with limited vision to enjoy tangible art, and the journaling session, which provides an outlet for patients to write about their experience in the hospital. Arts & Health at Duke is working in line with numerous studies that have cited the physical and psychological benefits to patients, Swanson said. For example, in a study led by Nancy Morgan—director of the Arts and Humanities Program at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center—patients who participated in a 20-minute creative writing exercise reported having positive changes in their thoughts about their illness. The program is currently organizing events for patients awaiting or recovering from surgery. The Duke Eye Center is organizing an art cart that will display touchable art for those awaiting surgery. Additionally, professional musicians who play in the wings of Duke Medicine will serve as mentors to hospital volunteers as part of the revamped musical students program. See ARTS, page 5

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The 2014 U.S. News and World Report national universities rankings will be released Tuesday. The 2013 rankings saw Duke climbing from 10th to eighth on the list of universities offering doctoral degrees—tying for the position with the University of Pennsylvania. Eighth was the University’s highest position since 2008, though below the peak ranking of third in 1997. This year, U.S. News and World Report announced a new system for evaluation that will minimize the weight of factors that reflect a university’s student body and increase the weight for factors that measure students’ success after graduation. Less weight was given to the high school rankings of incoming freshmen, though the new methodology gave more weight to the SAT and ACT scores of the incoming class. The importance of student selectivity decreased, but graduation rate performance is weighted higher in the new methodology. Robert Morse, founder of the rankings system, wrote on his blog that the new system will result in major changes to the rankings. In the past, Duke administrators have said that they do not hold much stock in the University’s movement within the top 10 spots. “We know our programs are improving, our entering classes as well, but the annual fluctuations really are a mystery, reflective of not a great deal,” Provost Peter Lange told The Chronicle after the rankings were announced last year. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said that the University’s strong commitment to small classes and personal attention were likely big factors in Duke’s ranking jump last year. He noted, however, that the rankings do not greatly impact the reputation of the University. “Our research every year shows that when you’re in the top 10, the rankings make far less of an impact on applications and yield than people think they do,” he said last year.

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MONTELL

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In addition to giving her perspective on the new round of talks arranged by Kerry, Montell also described the work that B’Tselem does on a regular basis in the occupied territories researching and documenting violations of Palestinian rights. After giving her presentation, Montell took questions from the audience on topics ranging from Palestinian cynicism regarding the peace process to the role of the Israeli Supreme Court in stemming human rights violations within the occupied territories. Reactions to Montell’s talk were positive, both among members of the Duke community and among others who had come to listen. Many in the room, including junior Eugenie Dubin, thought that Montell did a good job of illustrating the stark nature of human rights issues even in the context of the peace process. Senior Prashanth Kamaakanthan, a columnist for The Chronicle, said he appreciated the non-political nature of the

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talk, which helped to illustrate the importance of the human rights issues. The event was attended by people not only from the Duke community but from the Research Triangle area as well. “The fact that she could [discuss the issues] from the top level down to the individual level—that gave me some valuable insight. Plus she’s very clear about what the legality and illegality of this is and very clear on what the human rights issues are,” said Jenny Ratcliffe, a Durham resident who attended the talk.

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Divestment as a student movement to take a stance on social issues has been a practice for almost three decades, ever since the call for divestment from South Africa in protest of the Apartheid in the 1980s. Campaigning for divestment from fossil fuels has gained attention nationwide. 11 cities in the United

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States have committed to divest from fossil fuels, including San Francisco, Seattle and Madison. Universities like Harvard University and Stanford University have also expressed willingness to address the issue by hiring full-time endowment employees dedicated to fossil fuel divestments. “Divestment campaigns for fossil fuels are happening all over the country, but no school as big as Duke has made a public commitment to divesting,” said Jennifer Lunde, a junior and environmental science major who is actively involved in the campaign. At the same time, however, officials at schools including Vassar College and Middlebury College chose not to divest from fossil fuels. The decisions against divestment at other schools resulted mainly from administrators’ concerns for endowment returns and financial loss. However, Palmer said that the main priority for Divest Duke is that the University’s investments be sustainable and in line with its goal to be an environmentally conscious school. “Divest Duke is an opportunity for Duke to take a stance on fossil fuels and global climate change,” Lunde said. The campaign has not yet approached administrators about the issue, Palmer said. The campaign hopes to get more signatures on its petition before doing so. “We can only do this with student engagement and student support,” Lunde said. Lunde said that the University has made commitments in the past to be sustainable, but said that explicit support for divestment would give the initiatives more clout. “If President [Richard] Brodhead can make the public statement saying that Duke is divesting from fossil fuels, that will just skyrocket in terms of leadership and our status as a sustainable university,” Lunde said. Divest Duke will hold its first big event, a general kickoff meeting, on Sept. 19.

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noted that OLLI is unique from a community college in that all of its members are older and are interested in just learning, rather than obtaining a degree. “OLLI has homemakers teaching college presidents a thing or two, and that is a very good thing,” Patton said. Perdue, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Sanford School of Public Policy, noted how after the recent economic recession, many people over the age of 60 had to further their education out of financial necessity. She recounted visiting a community college during her term as governor and being confronted by a 63-year old man who was frustrated with his situation. After being laid off from a North Carolina factory along with approximately 5,000 other employees, he enrolled in college courses to get his G.E.D. Perdue noted his resilience, quoting the man, “I’m going to be a plumber, and then I’ll never get laid off again. Programs such as OLLI, therefore, provide another opportunity for adults to better their lives. Rita Weimer, who has taken a number of military history courses through OLLI, came to Reynolds Theater to hear Perdue’s perspective on adult education as someone no longer in the political spotlight. “It’s very good to see what these politicians are like when they’re not on the campaign trail,” Weimer said.

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GUIDELINE

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“We have guidelines for most behaviors and sanctions just to provide to panels precedents for like circumstances,” he wrote in an email Aug. 24. “In general, we advise panels to apply those guidelines unless they feel there are unique or compelling mitigating factors that would justify variance.” He could not, however, provide examples of “compelling mitigating factors.” “We don’t have strict rules because every case is different and merits thoughtful and distinctive consideration,” Moneta wrote. Moneta said he was not aware if the new guideline was recorded in any official documents, nor could he explain the method in which the guideline would be conveyed to a hearing panel. Sexual assault is also not defined in the Duke Community Standard. When asked about a specific definition, Moneta said it fell under the broad definition of sexual misconduct: “any physical act of a sexual nature perpetrated against an individual without consent or when an individual is unable to freely give consent.” Duke Student Government President Stefani Jones, a senior, said she was unclear on specific circumstances in which the guideline would not be followed. “The understanding is that the new standard is going to always be expulsion for sexual assault, and we don’t expect anything other than that,” Jones said. “So we hope that that is exactly what is going to happen in the future, and that is what we have been pushing for.” When asked the extent to which previous sexual assault guidelines have been followed, Moneta said that because so few sexual assault cases are reported to the Office of Student Conduct, he was unable to say what the most common process for doling out sanctions has been in the past.

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Unlike in the judicial system, students do not need to be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Rather, a preponderance of the evidence is needed to find a student responsible—meaning that the panel must be more than 50 percent convinced that the student is responsible. The Office of Student Conduct holds hearings to produce verdicts of responsibility or non-responsibility, as opposed to guilty or not guilty. “First, we don’t use words like ‘conviction,’” Moneta wrote of the nature of the hearings. “Let’s save the courtroom language for the criminal justice system. If a student is found responsible for any violation, the sanction will generally be consistent with the sanction guidelines, but, as I said, there can be variances.” Duke’s management of the policy stands in contrast to the more transparent student conduct systems of some other universities. Northwestern University encourages openness between students and administrators on the subjects of sexual assault and other student conduct policies, Lance Watson, Northwestern’s assistant director of student conduct and conflict resolution, wrote in an email Aug. 28. “We welcome students who have questions about our process or policies to reach out to us directly to discuss them,” Watson said. “We’re always happy to sit down and talk through the University’s expectations of students.” A recent study found 2.8 percent of women on a college campus will experience a rape or attempted rape each year, according to Duke Women’s Center Director Ada Gregory, who would only answer questions via email. “For last fiscal year, the Women’s Center had 78 reports of rape or sexual assault,” Gregory wrote in an email Sept. 3. Duke has 6,484 undergraduate students, meaning approximately 1 percent of

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students, reported being the victim of rape or sexual assault last year. Moneta noted that the number of cases that are reported are lower than the number that truly occur on campus. Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students, said she was concerned that the guideline change could deter victims from reporting an attack, and that this concern was a major consideration in the decision to make the guideline. “It is incredibly difficult to speculate what impact this new guideline will have moving forward,” she said. “We will need to consistently monitor how frequently cases are reported.” Gregory wrote, however, that she is not concerned that the new sanction will deter victims from coming forward following an attack. Sophomore Daniel Kort, co-president of Blue Devil’s United, echoed this sentiment. “If anything, I suspect that this will actually encourage victims to come forward,” he said. “The ultimate resolution will likely be that victims will no longer face the prospect of running into their offenders on a day-to-day basis.” Wasiolek added that the change is not necessarily as impactful as it was portrayed in some earlier publicity. “I don’t know if I would necessarily suggest if this is as big of a change as [The Chronicle] has previously outlined,” she said. Although the change may not be as impactful as previously suggested, administrators still feel it is a step in the right direction for the University. “This announcement affirms the commitment that the University has to listening and responding to students, protecting the community and the survivors within it and ending sexual violence,” Gregory wrote.

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Swanson added that Arts & Health also provides an outlet for artists and musicians to showcase their talents throughout the hospital. A visual arts committee is constantly reviewing requests from artists and donors who have works they’d like to give to the hospital, and Duke Medicine’s Chorus and Orchestra, composed of hospital staff, perform throughout the year. “The hospital staff are our biggest fans,” Swanson said. “When you have a musician on the unit, it’s not that unusual for the staff to start dancing in the hallways. It’s really lovely to be able to provide that sort of service.” A Duke student organization under the same name works in tandem with the program to connect interested Duke students with available opportunities at the hospital. Students can take bimonthly volunteering shifts at the hospital and contribute to a Holiday Concert that takes place every December. Along with volunteer opportunities, the group meets throughout the year to reflect and discuss their volunteer experiences. Senior Diana Christensen, co-president of Arts & Health at Duke, attested to the success of the organization during her three years as a volunteer. “A doctor once told me that the minute students begin performing in his unit each week, he notices a real difference in the ambiance, stress levels and attitudes of both the patients and staff,” Christensen recalled. “I’ve gotten feedback like this and heartfelt thank you’s from doctors and patients each volunteer shift I’ve put in at the hospital.”

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for the Board. Although we have no problem with the Board making major University decisions, the administration should have been more forthright if it knew student suggestions would eventually be scrapped at the Board level. On the other hand, the rejection may reflect deep

Editorial divisions between the Board and administrators. The University’s major decision-making bodies typically collaborate on large-scale projects to avoid disagreements, so when the Board rejects a major University initiative, it not only slows progress, but also reflects poorly on Duke. The West Union vote is not the only example of division within the University’s leadership. Disagreements between the administration and faculty—exemplified in the faculty’s rejection of Provost Peter Lange’s 2U initiative last spring—also point to poor internal communication. In any case, the Board’s decision reveals a deeper, more systemic problem—a lack of Board transparency. Currently, Board meetings are closed to the public and media, and there are advantages

to the current system. The Board is focused on the long-term vision for the University, and its unilateral decision-making power allows it to execute projects efficiently. Moreover, the Young Trustees ensure that a student perspective exists at Board meetings. We find it deeply troubling, however, that the Board not only refused to explain why it rejected the initial West Union plans, but also failed to announce its decision in an official press release. Although the Board should not fling its doors wide open, a University that takes seriously the opinions of its stakeholders must have greater transparency at the Board level. At the very least, the Board should release more detailed justifications for its decisions. Members of the Duke community have a right to know why the Board votes the way it does and, as we have written in the past, greater transparency stands to benefit everyone. If students understand the rationale behind critical decisions, they will more readily accept those decisions as legitimate. Whereas opaque communication invites problematic speculation, greater transparency increases student buy-in. The Board ought to provide better justifications for its decisions because, ultimately, we all have to live with the consequences.

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hile charming girls with my awkwardness at Shooters the other night, my blood alcohol content reached the critical level of 0.25—a.k.a. the Shooters minimum. As a Duke student, I firmly believe that once you commit to something, you go full force. This Shooters night was no different. Being in both peak physical and intoxicated condition, I decided it was time to attempt the coup de grace of any successful Shooters night, the Triple Crown. The golden standard, the Triple Crown consists of dancing on both bars, riding the bull and capping it all off with some good old-fashioned cage dancing the way our forefathers did. After breezing past the bouncer and both bars, I set my sights on the Shooters bull. I patiently waited my turn while two drunken sorostitutes clung on for dear life with legs of steel which only could have come from excessive use of that “awkwardly open and close your legs while hoping no one sees your camel toe” machine at the gym. Then I proceeded to watch an excessively inebriated male and female hop on to enjoy the greatest dry humping seen in public since your dog took a fancy to that sexy throw pillow. After toughing it out and trying to maintain my buzz, I finally reach my goal of next in line to ride “El Torro- Drunk Edition” with my bromantic life-partner, just to be cast aside because two men are not allowed to ride the bull at once. I’m sorry. I thought this was America. Ladies and gentlemen of Duke University, this is an outrage. As we all have seen in numerous articles and protests for equality around campus, Duke is not a safe haven for all genders or sexual orientations. I personally find this disparity of basic human rights a travesty. Currently, Duke boasts having a Women’s Center, a Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity and many cultural organizations such as the Asian Students Association and the Mary Lou Williams Center. Although these organizations are a good start towards equality on campus and are totally capable of producing a large, unified protest of more than 20 angry Asians (I’m looking at you KSig) against racial injustice, Duke is still lacking true inclusivity for all its students. Therefore, I propose Duke implements a new line of equality objectives to create a truly equal institution, rather than one that only brags about having black students for 50 years. Sorry guys, but that’s actually one year after Ole Miss admitted its first black student in 1962. YOU LOST AT RACIAL DIVERSITY TO MISSISSIPPI. First, I demand the immediate installation of a Men’s Center to counterbalance the Women’s Center. Just as the Women’s Center promotes social justice, female empowerment and feeling confident in those four-inch heels, the Men’s

Center will actively engage students in how to avoid detection while staring at boobs in public, how to cope with the fact that she will never let you

Monday Monday MEAN BOY be little spoon and how to give a girl a compliment without seeming like a sexual predator. The men of our campus struggle daily with these social micro-aggressions which threaten our gender identity and self-image. The Duke Men’s Center will put males on an even playing field with our female counterparts and will create a healthier campus environment. Furthermore, we need a Center for White Advancement. Currently, Duke is giving far too much scholarship money to those with “racial diversity” or who come from “difficult situations.” Is anyone else bothered by the fact that one of the first questions on every scholarship form asks about race? Imagine the soul-crushing shame as you scroll down the race list, pass African-American and Asian-American and finally arrive at Caucasian. “I’m African-American because my ancestors came from Africa.” That’s cool. My ancestors came from white, the most useless color in that godforsaken Crayola box. The Center for White Advancement will bridge the gap between racially challenged students and the rest of the races that Duke likes to throw money at due to white guilt. Finally, I would like to address with rancor the current socioeconomic disparity at Duke. Every day, like ten poor people harbor feelings of resentment towards the fabulously wealthy of Duke University. The plebs try to disparage the fiscally fortunate with attacks such as “I buy clothes at The Gap because it has good prices,” or “I can’t afford to add to my food plan.” Imagine the crushing awkwardness that Duke’s wealthy must deal with as they indulge in luxuries while the poor watch with their soulless, needy eyes. The Duke Center for Dealing with Poor People will provide a safe haven for our wealthy, while teaching them how to properly interact with the unfortunate peons of our campus. With the cooperation of Shooters and Duke University, we can work together to make Duke University a more inclusive environment for the male, white and upper class. Mean Boy is ashamed of his race and socioeconomic status because they have not given him stories of struggle to use on scholarship and job applications.

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here are some anniversaries that I wish I could forget. But Facebook will remind me. Or Google. Or MSNBC. Or The Chronicle. This Wednesday marks 12 years since the United States was rocked by four missiles, born from passenger aircraft, hijacked by al-Qaeda operatives and aimed at iconic American landmarks. Of course, I will never forget that day (I would hazard even those a generation my junior won’t either), so I certainly don’t feel like I need to be reminded. It will always be “too soon” to relive it. And though a solemn memorial service provides a deeply private moment to reflect and find strength as an individual, community and/or nation, the perennial media carousel of repeated footage and reprinted images from their archives represents nothing more than emotional abuse. It’s a graphic grab for ratings. Whether you knew one of the nearly 3,000 people who died that day, suffered health effects from the subsequent fallout or simply questioned the rebalancing of freedom versus security that followed, we were all affected. Having been forbidden by my mother to spend the summer working as an EMT in Israel—it’s too dangerous, I was told—I had instead transferred to a college in New York City. Sept. 11, 2001: I woke up, as usual, with just enough time to quickly get dressed and trek across campus for my biochemistry lecture. A month shy of my 21st birthday, I specifically remember thinking, “Today is a totally normal day.” Neither the iPhone nor Twitter had been invented yet and, ignorant to what was occurring on the south portion of the island (we faced away from the window), my classmates and I went about our routine, following the professor’s etchings in chalk. It wasn’t until I ran into one of my fraternity brothers in the lobby afterwards that I learned the grim news. And he got it wrong, partially. Planes have crashed into the Pentagon and the White House, he said. I don’t even remember if he had mentioned the World Trade Center, as I had already walked off, thinking he was making a very sick joke and looking for a computer terminal to corroborate his claim. CNN.com confirmed what was known at the time. Terrorism, it went on to guess. I reached for a phone to call home and let my mother know I was alright. The lines were flooded, and it was nearly impossible to call out. The best I could do was change my dorm room voicemail message and hope that those calling me would hear it. With subway service suspended (the WTC stop had caved in under the collapse of the towers) and bridges closed (for security), we were trapped on Manhattan. Even once public transport resumed and commercial jetliners began flying over the city again, it was a claustrophobic time to be a New Yorker. Fingers, too, had already started pointing, and for those seen as being of Arab origin (Sikhs in dastar were common targets) it was also a potentially dangerous time. Myself, I somehow

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ended up at MTV Studios in Midtown, wearing my own headgear—a yarmulke—in an unscripted post-9/11 PSA and pleading to an unblinking video camera that if our government carries out military retaliation, it’s against those responsible and not those just incorrectly blamed. Indeed, I was scared, and I felt helpless. Was anyone listening? Nearly five months ago, a rush of helplessness washed over me again as I first learned about the Boston Marathon bombings on Facebook after class.

n the early twentieth century, The Times sent a question to famous authors of the day asking this: “What’s wrong with our world today?” A certain gentleman replied: Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely, G.K. Chesterson A century or so later in the year 2010, Tom Shadyac joined the discussion: Dear G.K. Chesterson, Bingo. Sincerely, Tom Shadyac

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On the outside this time, I tried calling from Durham to Boston to check up on friends and was answered only by pre-recorded messages stating my call could not go through. Immediately, social media became my primary news outlet, and traditional news agencies took to social media. Bloody images from the crime scene leaked out with complete disregard for the victims or their familiars. Kevin Ware’s spontaneous leg fracture during the NCAA tournament just a couple weeks prior had been self-censored by most news outlets, so why was it okay to capitalize on mass casualty? To say, as a doctor, “I see this kind of gore every day” would be cliché. And a lie. But who would question me? Who had the time? In an effort to be the “first,” to “scoop” someone else, everyone from regular citizens to EMS officials to news networks themselves was posting and Tweeting rapidly— the facts be damned. The overwhelming flow of information and misinformation—especially during the search for the suspects—showed how social media allows everything to go viral, gnawing at our insecurities. The New York Post and social media outlet Reddit both published stories inaccurately showing “persons of interest,” even though they didn’t necessarily call them “suspects.” Whereas social media hadn’t been born yet for 9/11, by the Boston bombings, it was a raging, untamed, unruly teenager. Before, misinformation didn’t have the vacuum of cyberspace; now, any little rumor or idea is reposted to the masses. Before, we were bludgeoned until we were emotionally numb by media outlets’ fear-mongering; now, we seem to be doing it to ourselves. Social media is fine until there’s a disaster—then it goes haywire and can start doing some very real damage. At what point do we unplug and see the world through our own eyes? Benjamin Silverberg is a second-year graduate student and practicing physician. His column runs every other Monday. Send Ben a message on Twitter @hobogeneous.

Shadyac was not a name I had heard of before. But I kid you not when I say it is now a name I’ll never forget. Tom Shadyac made his big directing break in 1994 with the debut of comedian Jim Carrey in “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.” The film grossed $107 million in theaters. From there, Shadyac’s career boomed as he wrote and directed the comedies that all 90s babies undoubtedly recall; “The Nutty Professor” and “Bruce Almighty” are a notable two. Shadyac had what so many of us Americans aspire to have: a big house, big bucks, a beautiful car and an exciting career. But in 2007, while biking in Virginia, Shadyac took a tumble that would indelibly upset his world. The months that followed involved a constant battle with Post-Concussion Syndrome, a condition involving sensitivity to light and severe headaches. The symptoms were so intense that, for the first time, Shadyac welcomed the idea of death. With this, something in him switched. He sold his 17,000-squarefoot house for a mobile home and gave his excess fortune to a Virginia homeless shelter and Colorado nature preserve. And then he dipped into the genre of documentary. In 2010, he began “I am.” Like The Times had so long ago, Shadyac posed a question— this time two—to some of the greatest thinkers of our day such as Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, David Suzuki and the late Howard Zinn. He asked: What’s wrong with the world? How can we fix it?” And on Sept. 6, 2013, I watched his documentary and something switched in me also. I fear as Shadyac does that what is wrong with our world today is the Western mentality of “the more, the merrier,” of individualism and of a dog eat dog maxim. We idolize Bill Gates for his immense money, success and intellect. We envy Emma Watson for her wit, charm and utmost beauty. We partake in the rat race that is one day affording these luxuries. We want the best, we want a lot and we want it ASAP. Last summer, I walked on my nana’s dock at her lake house and fell through hitting my head on the boards and narrowly missing a metal docking post. I was so lucky. This past summer, a few days into my two-month stay in rural Kenya, I fell through a metal water grate, catching myself on its concrete edges and narrowly avoiding a ten-foot drop underneath. I was so lucky. Again. But this time, this time again when things could have been so much terribly worse, like Shadyac, I wanted answers. My question was simply this: What do I believe in and why? I have tried to reconcile science with spirituality. I have grappled with the delicate balance of success and happiness. This documentary gave me some clarity in the form of the EPR paradox and Argon. Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen conducted a thought experiment in which two electrons are positioned at an infinite distance. The mathematical result was most perplexing to Einstein in that it suggested that the movement of one electron would cause instantaneous movement in the other. This idea, which has become known as the EPR paradox, continues to challenge the field of quantum physics. What’s more, consider one single breathe of air. In. Out. That one breath you just took is composed of 1 percent argon, an un-reactive element. Of the air you just breathed, it is possible to calculate just how many argon atoms were breathed by Jesus Christ, Abe Lincoln and Clara Barton. The EPR paradox—a caveat to a model that otherwise so accurately describes our physical universe—and this beautiful notion of argon’s ubiquity through time and space suggest a deep and fundamental interconnectedness of life on Earth. That is, everything matters. Every movement, every sigh, every situation. Not just because. Actually, physically. It’s the little kind gestures. It’s the moment to moment. We are part of something bigger and far greater than ourselves. Actually, physically. As one interviewee said, “We do feel like lonely people in a lonely planet in a lonely universe but we are far grander than we’ve been told. The science shows us that we never were alone. We were always part of a grander whole.” With great gift, comes great responsibility. What will make our world a better place? Dear Tom Shadyac, People like you. Sincerely, Gracie Willert Gracie Willert is a Trinity senior. Her biweekly column will run every other Monday.

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