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Students rally Uni offers new intensive eating disorder treatment against fuel investments

by Timothy Mcdermott THE CHRONICLE

Following a week of protest regarding endowment transparency, another student group held a rally Wednesday urging Duke to make environmentally conscious investment choices.

Student group Divest Duke held a rally in front of the Allen Building to call on the University to remove its investments in the top-200 publicly-traded companies that hold a majority of the world’s coal, oil and natural gas resources. About 15 students gathered outside of the Allen Building with banners and signs such as “a future doctor for divestment” or “a future astronaut for divestment” to show a multidisciplinary effort to end investment in fossil fuel companies. Divest Duke members said they will present at the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility in November.

“Duke, every day you prepare us to succeed in the future...you help us shoot for the stars and dream big and I love you for that,” senior Laura Mistretta said at the rally. “However, if you are sincere about preparing us for the future, then don’t threaten it at the same time with your investments.”

Mistretta added that Divest Duke’s main priority is to end investment in these top200 companies, though they would also like to see Duke stop investing in any other fossil fuel companies.

Divest Duke was started in Fall 2012 by a group of graduate students as a movement attempting to stop Duke from investing its assets for the betterment of the environment.

Although the group was created by graduate students, Anthony Oliveri—a graduate student in the Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health program—was the only graduate student to attend the rally.

“For a number of graduate students ,they think that this doesn’t involve them. They think it’s a purely undergraduate thing,” he said. “The number of graduate students, professional students that pay tuition, are involved in large financial investments on the part of research, I think we’re just as responsible for pushing the administration.”

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said the ACIR is the best forum to address these concerns.

“This is an important and complex issue that requires careful study,” Schoenfeld said in a statement. The best forum for that is the University’s Advisory Committee on See DIVEST DUKE, page 10

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A new program is providing students who have eating disorders with specialized treatment avenues aimed

to minimize disruption of their lives.

The Intensive Evening Program at the Duke Center for Eating Disorders provides comprehensive care to students who have moderate to severe

symptoms of disordered eating without forcing students to take a medical leave. Opened to Duke students two See DISORDERS, page 4

Research reveals new crop planting strategy

by Azeb Yirga THE CHRONICLE

The degree-day model, which most farmers currently use to determine when they should plant their crops, might be defunct as a result of climate change, according to a recent study led by a Duke professor.

The study focused on investigating how different plant systems—some manipulated by experimenters and others growing naturally—respond to climate change and developed a statistical model for planting that accounts for climate change. The research was conducted by James Clark, the H.L. Blomquist Professor of the Nicholas School of the Environment, Jerry Melillo, the senior investigator at The Ecosystems Center, Jacqueline Mohan, an assistant professor of ecology at the

University of Georgia and Carl Salk, a research associate for the University of Colorado Boulder’s Environment and Society Program.

The researchers’ approach is unique in that it followed one set of plants through their developmental process, Clark noted.

“The model differs from those currently in use by following the development of plants over time,” Clark wrote in an email Tuesday.

The degree-day model estimates when leaves will arrive by measuring how many degrees above or below a mean the temperature has been over a period of time. Clark compared the difference between the degree-day model and the statistical model developed by the study to planning for a road trip. “[Using the degree-day model]

is like planning a trip to somewhere you’ve never been—take the distance and apply an average speed to estimate travel time,” Clark noted.

The statistical model can help farmers account for variables that can skew the average, particularly temperature variations that result from global warming, Clark said. He added that his model helps travelers deal with the “stoplights” or the “restroom breaks” of their trip.

“The average-speed model is bad when travel time is affected by conditions that vary,” he wrote—in the case of plants, variations in temperature.

Clark said the degree-day model will remain important.

“The traditional degree-day model See CLIMATE CHANGE, page 4

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Rise in “flipped classroom” model, improvements apparent

by Aditya Khurana THE CHRONICLE

As the use of the “flipped classroom” model rises on campus, students and faculty are taking time to adjust to the idea.

The “flipped classroom” concept requires students to learn the lecture and information prior to class so that they can apply their knowledge to practice sets and activities in class. Currently, there are a few Duke professors who have already adopted this technique and are witnessing improved student performance.

“If you keep up with it, you will absolutely not have to pull an all-nighter,” said Mohamed Noor, Earl McLean professor and associate chair of biology.

The biggest apparent advantage to the “flipped classroom” model is its more dynamic and engaging environment, Noor said. This is what he created in his course, Biology 202L. The flipped classroom model is significantly different from the stereotype of a lecture hall filled with hundreds of students and one professor at the front, relaying information on the chalkboard while students take notes, struggle to pay attention or even sleep.

“There is more time talking to the students [in a flipped classroom], which is more rewarding,” Noor said.

Some concepts do take a while to get across, so giving students the opportunity to read material at their own pace and at their own time allows for better understanding, Noor added—the idea should seem more appealing than an 8:30 a.m. lecture to many students. He believes he definitely saw an improvement in student performance after he switched to the “flipped classroom.” For the first test in the Spring semester, students did better in 2013 with the flipped classroom than in 2012 when the class was still in lecture format, Noor noted.

Although the exact number of professors who utilize the “flipped classroom” method is hard to measure, there has been a “definite” increase in its use over the past three years, said Keith Whitfield, vice provost for academic affairs.

“We are working to help faculty understand the strengths of this approach but are limited to who we know are doing these sorts of classes,” Whitfield wrote in an email Wednesday.

Stephen Craig, professor of Chemistry 110, believes that the biggest benefit—along with student interaction—is that the model allows students to discuss alternative views.

“Lectures do a wonderful job of explaining the ‘Why?’” Craig noted. “But we should also focus on the ‘Why not?,’ considering alternative ideas and possibilities and discuss why a certain view has more merit than another.”

Steve Nowicki, dean of undergraduate education, believes that the future of this concept looks promising.

“Any course that has a significiant amount of content just lends itself to this,” Nowicki said. “Eventually, stu-

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Coursera, which offers massive open online courses, is used as a tool in many flipped classrooms.

dents are going to expect this.”

Especially for introductory science courses, the flipped classroom concept would be effective since there is an enormous amount of factual content, Noor noted.

“You’re flipping the way information transfer and understanding are happening,” Nowicki said.

Though the “flipped classroom concept” seems promising, both Nowicki and Noor noted that not all professors are inclined to make the transition. The upfront investment for flipped classrooms is very high, and that for many it is easier to just keep on teaching as they have in the past, Noor said. Professors are responsible for creating their whole curriculum before the course even starts, such as recording lectures. It is easier in the end, however—no need to teach the same lecture to multiple class sections if students can watch the lecture online, Nowicki added.

On the other hand, the student reactions are mixed.

“Students are on their own,” said freshman Alexander Chen, a Chemistry 110 student. “They are less likely to ask the professor questions. It does increase student motivation, though.”

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Chen noted that student learning in a flipped classroom is very independent. At times, it can be quite a commitment for students to watch all of a 30-minute lecture prior to the class.

“It is way different than a lecture class because our interactions in the class are based on practical use,” said freshman John Victor Alencar, another Chemistry 110 student. “Some students would prefer lecture because they feel they’re not getting enough substance since they have to learn by themselves.”

Noor does agree that there is a high level of effort involved, from both the student and faculty. But he also pointed out that if the students keep up with it, it will become easier in the long run. Students can better understand the material earlier on so that they do not have to memorize the night before an exam.

Nowicki is hopeful that the “flipped classroom” will flip the way students learn for the better.

“Good teachers are always working to improve the way they teach,” Nowicki said, “and the flipped classroom is one innovation that a number of our best faculty are using to take their teaching to the next level.”

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Tropical storm threat shows DSG leadership presents yearlong strategic planning local impact of shutdown

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DSG members were inaugurated as part of the Judiciary Wednesday evening.

by Carleigh Steihm THE CHRONICLE

The members of the Executive Board of Duke Student Government presented their yearlong agendas at the Senate meeting Wednesday evening.

Among other topics, President Stefani Jones, a senior, focused on dining and construction on West Union, developing the gender equity taskforce and clarifying the alcohol policy in her agenda. Each of the vice presidents presented plans for their goals.

“Construction on West Campus is really affecting us, and dining is one of the biggest ways,” Jones said.

The gender equity taskforce will work to provide additional resources for victims of

sexual assault—including academic support and the possibility of a single-semester leave of absence, Jones said. She noted that victims are currently only able to request a leave of absence for a full year.

The goal of strengthening the guideline of students found responsible of sexual assault was realized this summer, Jones added.

Additionally, the current alcohol policy does not create a safe drinking culture on campus, she said.

“A lot of the high risk drinking behaviors are happening at the off-campus, less safe locations,” Jones said, adding that she plans to meet with President Richard Brodhead and other administrators to change the policy.

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Weather providers scrambled to keep North Carolina residents updated during hurricane season as tropical storm Karen moved towards the state Monday.

The major agency responsible for monitoring hurricane and tropical storm paths is the National Hurricane Center—a division of the National Weather Service—which has remained closed since the Oct. 1 government shutdown.

Agencies more local to the Triangle, including the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, have been more active in providing information to residents through different media. For the Atlantic coast, hurricane season ends Nov. 30.

“When it comes to storms, we monitor the weather very closely—we even have our own meteorologists—and coordinate with the staff at the Raleigh National Weather Service Office,” said Julia Jarema, communications officer of emergency management at NCDPS. The division works to keep residents up to date on dangerous local weather and what safety precautions should be taken through news and social media.

“When we know there is a good chance for severe weather, we send information to the news media and post on social media platforms to remind people how to be safe,” Jarema said.

Tropical storm Karen was supposed to head north through Florida to North Carolina, but dissipated along the Gulf Coast. Although North Carolina remained out of harm’s way, agencies re-

porting the weather are still concerned about properly informing citizens of the dangers that tropical storms and hurricanes can pose.

“The biggest problem we face is that people don’t think the hurricane will impact them, for example, because they are too far inland or don’t understand the power of hurricanes, and think the lower category storms won’t cause that much damage,” said Jarema, who explained that the state’s worst storm on record in terms of damage costs was a category 2 hurricane in 1999 that caused 66 regions to flood in NC counties.

The American Red Cross Triangle Area Chapter has developed several smartphone applications that are designed to help people stay current with hurricane and tropical storm coverage in the region, said Lu Esposito, the regional communications officer of the chapter.

“It’s important to be safe all the time,” Esposito said. “Most residents of the Triangle don’t know what to do during a hurricane because they are so rare, but they are very dangerous and it is important to know what to do.”

Some of the mobile applications provided by the Red Cross include shelter finders, first aid help and tornado and hurricane information.

The University’s protocol for approaching storms is focused on student safety.

Emergency Coordinator Kyle Cavanaugh said that the University has direct contact with the NWS as well as privately See HURRICANE, page 4

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DISORDERS from page 5 weeks ago, the program provides patients with treatments over the course of three three-hour weekly sessions—all covered by the University’s insurance policy.

Counseling and Psychological Services will assess and refer students who have severe symptoms of disordered eating to the program.

“Eating disorders are severe mental illnesses that can be life-threatening,” said Nancy Zucker, director of the Duke Center for Eating Disorders. “The impetus for this program was to see if it’s possible to provide more intensive care while keeping students matriculated at Duke.”

In the 2012-13 academic year, CAPS provided assessments for 72 students, and referred 20 to the DCED for specialized care, said Paula Scatoloni, the eating disorder coordinator at CAPS. “It’s been pretty good,” said Danna Alvarado, a nursing student suffering from anorexia nervosa who was referred to Zucker’s care five months ago by CAPS. “The people not only at CAPS but also Dr. Zucker’s

program really care.”

The Intensive Evening Program provides nearly 10 hours of care each week to patients during which their medical status is monitored by physicians from DCED. Each treatment day of the week, patients participate in guided meals, where a group of physicians provide support while the patient is given a medically-approved meal.

When symptoms of disordered eating become severe, patients often become medically unstable and require hospitalization. Inpatient care provides intense therapies to patients in an isolated environment, Zucker explained. Individuals coming out of inpatient settings often find they are unprepared to handle realworld scenarios, which leads to relapse.

“The difference between being in an inpatient setting and being in the real world is vastly different, and relapse rates for people coming out of inpatient treatment in the first year is very high,” Zucker said. “We’re actually giving folks tools that they can then practice that day, the next day… and then have a buffer of support in the evening.”

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During the 2012-13 academic year, nearly 40 percent of the students who sought treatment at CAPS had mild to severe body image and food concerns, Scatoloni said.

“CAPS is actually not an appropriate place to treat eating disorders because we only offer short-term support,” Scatoloni said. “We’re actually doing [students with intense eating disorder symptoms] a disservice by treating them at a college counseling center for something that needs a specialized service center.”

She added that treatment for patients with severe eating disorder symptoms is often complex and can last between one and seven years—a type of treatment that the Eating and Body Image Concern team within CAPS was not created to do and does not have the resources to carry out.

Blue Cross Blue Shield—the insurance provider for students—has supported efforts to develop an intensive outpatient therapy for students, said Sue Wasiolek, dean of students and assistant vice president for student affairs. “[Representatives from BCBS] were readily willing to cover the intensive outpatient treatment that is offered through Dr. Zucker’s office,” Wasiolek said, adding that research on the therapy has been promising.

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will not (and should not) go away,” he wrote. “It provides a basic rule of thumb that can be applied when there is no knowledge of how organisms respond to temperature variation.”

Dole Food Company, the multinational agricultural company, is open to adjusting plant cropping methods in order to adapt to climate change. “[Planting crops] has a lot to do with the climate— if things change climatically, we would have to make changes,” Dole Customer Response Representative Kevin Lane said.

He explained that Dole carefully considers the growing needs of each of the fruits and vegetables it cultivates.

“If we weren’t able to make changes, then we wouldn’t be a company that has existed for over 100 years,” Lane said.

Lane declined to give specific information about how Dole plants crops, saying that it was proprietary information.

Du Pont Pioneer, a major producer of genetically modified hybrid seeds, does not foresee changes in agricultural practices.

“I don’t know that there is that much [climate] variation that you have to do that,” said Jerry Harrington, the sales and marketing public relations manager at Du Pont.

He added that Du Pont waits until the soil is 50 degrees Fahrenheit or above before planting, in place of relying on the degree-day model.

“At that time, we are confident that the soil is warm enough to induce germination by the seed,” Harrington said.

Clark said that his team’s work is representative of a newer, more holistic and collaborative type of research.

“One of the exciting developments in science over the last decade has been our increasing ability to combine models about how things work with models for information, like observations from experiments, previous studies and theory,” Clark said. “The developmental model for effects of warming on bud break is an example of how this methodology can provide new understanding.”

HURRICANE from page 3 contracted meteorologists.

“If any severe weather is predicted for our area, a dedicated severe weather team is placed on notice and starts to initiate plans depending upon the timing and severity,” Cavanaugh said.

Duke provides severe weather updates to students through the Duke Alert System, which utilizes texts, emails, web site updates and sirens.

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Following a bye week that gave Duke some much needed rest for several key players, the Blue Devils will wrap up nonconference play Saturday against Navy.

The Midshipmen will travel to Wallace Wade Stadium to take on Duke at 12:30 p.m. Saturday following heavy specuNavy lation as to whethvs. er or not the game would be played Duke due to the government shutdown. But SATURDAY, 12:30 p.m. despite the rumors, Wallace Wade Stadium the Blue Devils used their off week to prepare for Navy.

“There were rumors of us playing Fresno State and things like that,” defensive end Kenny Anunike said. “We are thinking about it like, ‘Whoa what are we gonna do?’ Everybody’s asking us— family, friends everybody. Coach Cut helped out with that. He kept reassuring us, ‘You guys will be playing Navy. Don’t worry. And if anything changes, I’ll be the first to let you know.’”

Once again, the injury bug came around for the Blue Devils (3-2). But this time, its bite did not hurt that much thanks to the bye week. The week off provided Duke with the time to rest up players that had succumbed to injuries against Troy and get an early look at Navy (3-1).

A fantasy football confessional

ACC wins that are really important,” head coach Jolene Nagel said.

North Carolina (15-0, 4-0 in the ACC) will enter Friday’s contest as the top-ranked team in the conference. Playing for first place in the ACC, the Blue Devils (13-2, 4-0) will have a chance to spoil the Tar Heels’ flawless start to the season.

Although the magnitude of the DukeNorth Carolina rivalry is not lost on the Blue Devils, the team’s primary goal will be to extend its winning streak to 10.

“Now that the week is upon us, we are all very excited for the rivalry in itself, but then also going into the match that both us and Carolina are undefeated in the ACC,” said Ali McCurdy, senior captain and libero.

The Tar Heel attack is led by graduate student outside hitter Jovana Bjelica,

I have a problem. I’m addicted to something and I’m not sure I can quit cold turkey. There are few things in the world that I both hate and love as much as this. Let me set the scene.

It’s Sunday, which means it’s football day. Yes, I understand, we’re in college and we should be college football fans, but I’ve just always been a bigger NFL fan. It’s almost midnight, and rather than studying for my midterms for the following week, I’m intently following the box score of a game between the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders. I have no rooting interest in this game whatsoever, and the outcome of the game will not affect my life in any way, shape or form. No, the reason I am glued to my computer screen is because Danny Woodhead is playing.

Wait what? Danny Woodhead?

You mean the guy that has arguably the best porn name in the National Football League? The guy that has been a backup for contending teams his whole career? Yeah, that one.

The Chadron State alumni was the most important man on the field.

Why? Because if he managed to get in the endzone, I would pull off an upset in my fantasy football league.

This story is no different than many you’ll hear from men and women across the country. Fantasy football has become more than just a way to pass the time and awkwardly exchange banter with your coworkers at the water cooler. It has gotten to the point where Skip Bayless, who is almost as intolerable in print as he is on TV, wrote an article about the few remaining fantasy holdouts in the world. I hate to say it, but I almost envy those that have yet to join the masses.

On the one hand, it is truly a unique way to look at sports. Rather than just cheer for your favorite team, you have a vested interest in 75 percent of the games every weekend. Why on earth would I care about the Jacksonville Jaguars unless I had Maurice Jones-Drew in one league and Cecil Shorts in another?

There are a lot of talented players in the NFL, and with fantasy football, anyone can play GM for at least 17 days a year.

I’ve experienced the highest of

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Danny Nolan

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After allowing 38 points to Georgia Tech, Duke’s matchup with Navy pits the Blue Devils against another triple-option attack. “[The bye week] helped a lot,” redshirt senior cornerback Ross Cockrell said. “Coach Cut took care of us. We worked on the option, got a head start on Navy. We also got a head start on some of the stuff we needed for the rest

of the season.”

The linebacking corps was thinned out against Troy, with redshirt junior Kelby Brown missing the entire contest See FOOTBALL, page 7

VOLLEYBALL

Duke faces local foes looking to extend streak

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Elizabeth Campbell is one of Duke’s many weapons it has called upon during a ninegame win streak.

Traveling around the Triangle to take on North Carolina and N.C. State this weekend, Duke hopes to extend its ninegame winning streak to double digits.

The Blue Devils will square off with the No. 10 Tar Heels Duke Friday at 7 p.m. at Carmichael Arena vs. in Chapel Hill beNo. 10 fore Duke travels to UNC Raleigh’s Reynolds FRIDAY, 7 p.m.

Coliseum Sunday at Carmichael Arena 2 p.m.

“We have had a Duke tremendous start and we are excited vs.

NC State about that, but we know we have got a lot of hard work SUNDAY, 2 p.m. ahead of us as we try Reynolds Coliseum to get some of these

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highs and the lowest of lows. My first season of fantasy football I finished second to last. I was left 20 dollars poorer and with the unfortunate knowledge that I lost to people who may not even recognize the players on their own roster if they saw them on the street. And yet, two years later, the Rick Ross Grunts took home 200 dollars and bragging rights for a whole year. I’m so nostalgic about that championship team I have named every fantasy team in every league since the Rick Ross Grunts, with newer versions followed by a 2.0, 3.0, etc. With the exception of those outliers, I have pretty consistently made the playoffs and lost before the championship game.

It’s a fascinating dynamic when you really think about it. Let’s say a national college fantasy football league existed (I realize this is a preposterous proposal considering the number of teams in the FBS, but bear with me here). Brandon Connette has been the subject of a roller coaster ride of both criticism and praise the past few weeks. His play at quarterback, however, would be a dream for fantasy owners across the country. Against Pittsburgh, Connette threw for 323 yards and four touchdowns, ran for 101 yards and two more scores, and threw four interceptions. Based on the standard fantasy football scoring rules, Connette would have compiled 43 points. To put this in perspective, Peyton Manning would have scored

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36 points last weekend during a 51-48 shootout in Dallas against the Cowboys.

In the grand scheme of things, this means absolutely nothing.

There is no national college fantasy football league (though there are some for individual conferences) and Peyton Manning is infinitely better than any college quarterback.

I would know, I’ve lost to Peyton in two different fantasy leagues already.

It wasn’t enough for him to win a Super Bowl, put up the best career quarterback rating in history, become the arguably funniest athlete host of SNL ever AND own a chain of Papa John’s pizza stores? Seriously, what can Peyton not do?

I write all of this down only to help with the healing process.

They say the first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem.

Regardless, today I will most likely tinker with my lineup for around 30 minutes. Tonight, the Chicago Bears will take on the New York Giants, and I have the Chicago defense in one of my leagues (score one for the Rick Ross Grunts 3.0). My teams may be average right now, but after a few weeks, they could be right back in it! I know, it’s sad, maybe even hard for people who don’t play fantasy football to understand, but all of the time and energy we put into fantasy football—it’s worth it. Once you have reached the top of the mountain and tasted success, you’re hooked for life. And so as I conclude this column, despite the extreme love/hate relationship we have, I’ll compete in fantasy football leagues for years to come.

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who leads the team m with 157 kills on the season and rankss third in the conference with 0.39 service rvice aces per set.

For Duke, its strength trength has been in the team’s versatility. tility. At different stretches throughout out the nine-game win streak, Emily Sklar, Elizabeth me Obeime have Campbell and Jeme led the Blue Devils ls in kills.

“I don’t think we have one go-to person, so I think we are doing a really ly good job if someone is having an off match of other people steppingg up and other peoplee filling those roles and just trying to help each ch other out in our game,”” said senior captain and middle blocker Chelsea Cook.

The play of junior libero Alston Kearns rns has powered the Wolfpack olfpack (12-4, 3-1) defensively nsively this season. The Apex, N.C., native leadss N.C.

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The Triangle Survivors of Suicide will host The Survivors Walk to raise suicide awareness, promote suicide prevention, and provide support to those who have lost a loved one to suicide. Walkers are expected from throughout the Triangle area in the upcoming community walk on Sunday, November 10, 2013.

The approximately 3 mile walk will begin at Halifax Mall in Raleigh, NC at noon.

According to the CDC, suicide claims over 38,000 lives per year.

It is the third leading cause of death in 15-24 year olds, and the second leading cause of death in 25-34year olds. 90% of these people had a diagnosable and treatable mental disorder at the time of their deaths.

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State with 258 digs on the year. Offensively, the Wolfpack will w look to set up junior outside hitter Dariyan Hopper, whose D 171 kills lead the team.

Squaring off with two in-state rivals, w the Blue Devils won’t just have to face w tough competition—they will touggh ACC co have to do so in hostile road environments.

“We need tto be really mentally tough t ugh because the environments that to w are going into this weekend are we friendly environments for not friend student-athletes to be in,” Duke stud head coach Jolene Nagel said. that to come away with Nagel said tha two more wins this thi weekend and extend winning streak, focus will her team’s winn b the key. The Blue Devils have not be posted 10 strai straight victories since the team won 11 in a row at the end of the 2006 season.

“We need to t be tough to able to whatever the environment handle whate is going to throw at us as we try compete out there,” Nagel to comp said. “I just hope that we can relax able to play our game.” enough and be ab

“So much more needs to be done to help prevent suicide.

Suicide and the mental illnesses that lead to suicide are surrounded by a stigma, which results in less people getting the help they desperately need.

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The Triangle SOS organization works to educate the public in three areas of Suicide: Prevention, Intervention and Aftercare or “Postvention.” “We work alongside prevention organizations like Triangle Coalition for Suicide Prevention (TCSP) and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) to promote awareness in our community and beyond”, states Bernstein.

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despite some early shaky play, has come on strong as of late. The redshirt junior has thrown seven touchdowns in Duke’s last two games, and while turnovers were an issue early on in the season, he threw only one interception compared to three touchdowns against in the Blue Devils’ 38-31 victory against Troy. “[Connette] is a great player,” redshirt junior receiver Braxton Deaver said.

“He’s a great leader and a great friend of mine. He’s done a tremendous job at filling in as the starting quarterback.”

The matchup should be favorable for the Blue Devil defense, as the Midshipmen will not be attacking their secondary but rather Duke’s strong front seven, which has only allowed five rushing touchdowns all season. Navy sports a run-first offense that is ranked eighth in the nation, picking up 294 yards on the ground per game.

The Blue Devil secondary enters the contest determined not to drop its guard against another spread option team as they did against Georgia Tech, when the Yellow Jackets scored five touchdowns through the air. Though the Midship-

and younger brother and backup Kyler missing the second half. On the offensive side of the ball, running back Jela Duncan was sidelined for the second half of the contest due to a shoulder injury sustained in the first half.

Redshirt junior quarterback Anthony Boone remained out against Troy for the third game in a row after suffering a broken collarbone in week two against Memphis. But after four weeks of rest, Cutcliffe hinted at a possible return this week, referring to Boone’s status as day-to-day.

“He’s getting some work,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “We’re still holding him as far as any full speed work, but that hold can change, as we all know, with any medical exams. But we’re letting him practice, so he’s getting practice. He’s gotten progressively better each week, and at this point, maybe now, a little bit every day. I would talk in terms of day-to-day with Anthony Boone.”

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men rank 119th in the NCAA in yards per game and dead last in attempts, Cockrell was adamant that the defensive backfield will do its job against Navy.

“You’ve still got to do your responsibility,” Cockrell said. “As corners, we’ve got the outside guys on the line of scrimmage. We’re going to guard the receivers. We’ve just got to be a little more keyed into the run because they do run the option. If you don’t play your technique, they’re going to go over the top.”

Saturday’s contest against Navy will conclude Duke’s nonconference schedule and give way to a six-game stretch of ACC opponents, starting with back-toback road trips to Virginia as the Blue Devils take on Virginia and Virginia Tech in the coming weeks.

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Runner Runner Film review, pg. 6

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In 12th grade, my English teacher taught Voltaire’s “Candide.” We analyzed Voltaire’s use of humor, cliché, cultural criticism and most importantly, satire. Voltaire brings up his distaste with various institutions and philosophies illustrated through larger-than-life adventures of the optimistic (and eventually disillusioned) character, Candide. The objective of satire, in theory, is to illuminate social, political or cultural problems; it implicitly or directly criticizes those who are perceived culpable for creating and perpetuating those problems.

Satire, in its best manifestations, moves citizens to action against a substandard norm.

A proper satire about Duke serves its purpose when it targets the perpetrators of oppression and incites progress toward a better social culture, one that is as inclusive as it is conscientious. Duke Student Broadcasting’s “S**t Duke Students Say” is a recent addition to Youtube’s immeasurably vast catalog of s**t that anyone says—for the record, it is 2013 right now.

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“If you go to his formal, you have to f**k him,” explains a character in the video. Is this aiming to represent how most women at Duke feel? Is it meant to affirm this absurd and horrifying culture of sexual obligation? In this case, the lines are blurred. There is no indication that what is said is wrong, let alone changeable or indicative of a culture necessitating change.

“Trinitards,” laments another character. What happened to spreading the word to end the word? Am I naïve to expect better from the average Duke student?

Aside from its employment of a format long past the point of relevance, the video assumes a questionable position of authority. In identifying this alleged s**t, DSB does more than make reference to Duke-specific buzzwords for nods and laughs; the video’s tone is one of representation. If it is an attempt to mock the students who say this s**t, it serves a dual purpose of reinforcing these sentiments. Casual ableism, misogyny…why are these our accepted standards? I do not think it takes much additional work to make a creative piece less actively hurtful, just as it is not especially difficult to promote the usage of more sensitive and empathetic language in general.

DSB is not the only voice on campus, nor is it the objective best or worst, nor is it necessarily more or less influential than any

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But it is a voice that makes its way around the web zone more than most. And voices with that sort of privilege owe it to their diverse and discerning population of viewers to provide more mindful depictions, or at least some indication that their s**t is offensive at worst and unamusing at best.

As a reasonably self-aware consumer of media, I seek ideals in the content I choose to absorb. I like stuff that perpetuates the belief that people’s views and experiences are worth portraying in a dynamic way even if they are not heterosexual, cissexual (male), healthful, able-bodied, wealthy and white. I like stuff that does not pander to the lowest common denominator of what can be considered entertainment, relying on cheap shots against already targeted people. I like stuff that allows marginalized groups to represent themselves.

I’m not on some high horse at the periphery of pop culture.

I have listened to Miley Cyrus’s “Bangerz” more than I feel willing to admit in this context. I have seen every episode of “Flavor of Love” and every episode of each spin-off. People who know me personally are aware of how I feel about Fall Out Boy’s discography from 2003 to 2007. But handling a truly rich and satisfying zeitgeist requires more than shamelessness. It takes a critical eye and a healthy dose of skepticism.

— Lauren Feilich

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Art space embarks on event-filled fundraisers

by Hannah Anderson-Baranger THE CHRONICLE

“I’d rather not show anywhere else in Durham,” said local artist Lee Moore Crawford as she gazed through the beautifully decorated second-story windows at The Carrack Modern Art Gallery in downtown Durham. The natural light brings life and a sense of openness to the exposed brick walls and aged hardwood floor. “It’s an honor to be a part of this space.”

The Carrack has delved into its second annual fundraising venture, hoping to raise enough money to uphold the guarantee of being a zero-commission space for its exhibiting artists in the upcoming year. This two-week endeavor, consisting of events such as live performances, an intimate gala and a silent auction, has taken a slightly different approach from the Carrack’s past methods.

“We wanted to add something this year to our fundraising events that was also more community-oriented,” said Carrack co-founder Laura Ritchie. “We wanted to figure out as many ways for people to meaningfully give.”

This year, there will be the ticketed Gala and Art Auction on October 12, with live jazz accompaniment by the Brian Horton Quartet. The gallery will also host a Red Dot Community Sale on October 18, during which the public can purchase red dots to claim donated art pieces.

Artists who showed at the Carrack this past year have donated 27 pieces to the art auction, and the community sale has a collection of smaller donated pieces that will be displayed in a lively reception that is open to the public. All proceeds from the Red Dot event will directly fund the Carrack.

Additionally, there are donationbased workshops and performances, that will take place between October 9 and 19.

“This whole space is an experiment, and it’s meant to be. We want this to be a space for experimentation for our artists, and we are also experimenting with our own identity,” said Ritchie. “There are a few things that are hard-wired in, but the actual manifestation of that is growing and changing because we want the community to be a part of that process too.”

The Carrack opened June 2011 due to the success of a Kickstarter campaign that funded the art space through 2012.

“We feel that art really enriches any community, any cultural landscape, in a really meaningful way, especially right now in Durham.” Ritchie continued, “I think it has a lot to do with the revitalization of Durham that we’re seeing.”

The nourishment of the arts in Durham not only affects the arts community but also other surrounding businesses.

Visual artist and Carrack volunteer coordinator Libby Lynn noted the immense changes that have taken place over the last three or four years, citing Parrish Street as an example. Property value has increased tremendously, and there has been a significant surge in the amount of traffic passing through the area.

The Carrack has been able to develop valuable relationships with many of the surrounding businesses as well. The upcoming fundraising events will feature goods and services provided by Loaf Bakery, Bull City Burger and Brewery, Wagon Wheel Arts and more. “I’m totally overwhelmed with gratitude all the time here,” said Ritchie.

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The Carrack has delved into its second annual fundraising venture, hoping to raise enough money to uphold the guarantee of being a zero-commission space for its exhibiting artists.

rack has helped increase visibility and access to the arts in Durham, and the sense of community has grown immensely.

“I love the Carrack,” said Lynn, who will have a solo exhibition in November.

“Every time I come here I either cry or have some amazing experience with someone completely random, whom I’ve never met, who just comes in and asks questions about the show and the business model, and we end up talking for hours.”

“A lot of artists come into their own and have their first public experiences here, and a lot of seasoned artists have had different experiences exhibiting here than in any other space,” said Ritchie, “[This] has helped them learn a lot about themselves and their work.”

Along with its zero-commission gallery, free arts space and quick exhibit rotation, the Carrack is also known for other programming and events, such

as roundtable critiques, workshops and quarterly non-juried community shows.

“Work comes in that I’ve never seen before. I’ve never met the artist, and a lot of times the artist has never displayed work.

That’s one of my favorite moments,” explained Ritchie.

Over the past two years the Carrack has housed over 60 exhibits, providing support for a multitude of both visual and performing artists. And as a way to thank all those who have been involved with the Carrack over the past two years, the final event of the fundraiser will be a Community Appreciation Afterparty on October 19.

“The arts scene in Durham is flourishing and it’s been a massive honor to experience it and grow right along with Durham,” said Ritchie.

For a schedule and more information on The Carrack’s 2nd Annual Fundraiser, visit http://thecarrack.org/event/fundraiser/.

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Durham dancer to have double-debut this weekend

by Andrew Karim THE CHRONICLE

Christiana Barnett-Murphy started dancing the second her legs could work.

Growing up in the nearby Creedmore, NC, dancing in the living room with her mother was the highlight of her daily routine.

“It’s really ingrained in me,” said Barnett-Murphy. “Dancing is part of who I’ve been from the beginning.”

Fast-forward to another beginning: “Burning,” BarnettMurphy’s first independent performance as dancer and choreographer premieres this Saturday at the DurCHRISTINA BARNETT-MURPHY ham Arts Council.

I sat down with Barnett-Murphy hadn’t initially planned on developing “Burning”—her first independent performance as a dancer and choreographer— as an autobiographical project, but it B a r n e t t - M u r p h y seemed inescapable. to find out more nett-Murphy drew on autobiographi- translation means “to set light to” or The third and final part of the perabout the performance. formance will blend these two styles The word ‘burning’ made a sponta- cal references that applied to burning: “to clear an area by burning.”

Barnett-Murphy hadn’t initially while incorporating spinning to reneous appearance in Barnett-Murphy’s Moses’s burning bush via her experilife—kind of like psychic ticker tape, ence as a theology student, her fam- planned on developing “Burning” trace the series of movements in the she said—two years ago. Something ily’s home burning down in 2002 and as an autobiographical project, but preceding two sections.

Audience members are invited about it stuck with her, and although finally, her own last name. Through it seemed inescapable at this point. the ideas hadn’t coalesced as a com- her and her mother’s interest in their Crowd-sourcing came next. Barnett- to check out the interactive preprehensive project, she started paying family’s genealogy, Barnett-Murphy Murphy drew on her far-reaching net- performance installation that will attention to its creative capacity. Bar- discovered that Barnett’s Old English work of artists, dancers and friends be set up in the lobby an hour beto further cultivate the idea. For two fore the performance. Based on one years, she then explored movement Barnett-Murphy produced as part of in the studio, a process that culmi- the American Dance Festival (ADF), nated in a three-part video prelude this installation encourages audience members to get to know one another to her now-seasoned concept.

While she had come up with a better. The gist is for audience memfoundation of visuals and movement bers to pair up with strangers and concepts, it was not until Barnett- move through each of the installaMurphy received the Durham Arts tion’s three stations. Even though Council’s Ella Fountain Pratt Emerg- the installation is not directly related ing Artists Grant that she officially to “Burning,” it sets the tone for the began “Burning.” The grant awards kind of participation Barnett-Murphy artists who have mastered their tech- wants the audience to feel.

“I believe in dance work that’s able niques and are attempting to establish professional careers or take their to break the proscenium by letting the audience feel like they’re part of current ones in a new direction.

“Applying for the grant was like what’s happening onstage,” said Bargoing to an audition knowing you nett-Murphy. “When the audience is weren’t going to get the part,” said allowed to interact, they care about Barnett-Murphy. “I viewed the appli- the work that much more.”

Barnett-Murphy’s work thrives not cation as a way to train for the many others I’d have to fill out in the fu- only off of audience interaction, but ture and never thought I’d actually also the community’s involvement as get it.” But she did, and the grant be- a whole. Having grown up near Durcame the catalyst that ushered “Burn- ham, she takes its role in her dancing development seriously. ing” into a full-time production.

“In order to make art happen, “Burning” is a 45-minute performance with no intermission. The there has to be a community behind work features three autonomous se- it, and I have that community here in quences that simultaneously inter- Durham,” she said. “In that sense, my lock to produce a single and cohesive work is about me in part, but it’s also dance narrative. Movement styles will beyond me.”

“Burning” will premiere at the Durshift with each sequence, beginning with very linear, safe and predict- ham Arts Council on Sat., October 12 at CHRISTINA BARNETT-MURPHY able moves before progressing to 7 p.m. The pre-performance installation “Burning” is a 45-minute performance with no intermission. The work features three autonomous more weighted and floor-heavy ones. will be open at 6 p.m. sequences that simultaneously interlock to produce a single and cohesive dance narrative.

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Manbites Dog production dares to raise, embrace questions

by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

Sit down in the audience of the provocatively-titled “Cock” and you suddenly find yourself in the midst of battle. Characters take swings at one another, some more biting than others, wrapping into a complex affair of love, attraction and lack thereof.

As a piece of theater, “Cock” employs a rather minimalist approach. Out of the four characters, only one character has a full name, John, while the male love interest, his father and the female love interest are called M, F and W, respectively. There are no props, no costume changes and only one noise beyond the actors’ voices.

A gong punctuates time and interaction, propping up the ‘cock fight’ motif that serves as the inspiration for the play’s promotional materials as well and provides the structure to the play. Along the same lines, the play is performed in the round, an ideal setup for John and M to throw punches within the constraints of the audience ring.

I’ve been told that the qualities you don’t like in other people are in fact the ones you don’t like about yourself. This is an apt description for why I was so quick to scorn John, played by Duke senior Phil Watson. Simply put, John is cripplingly indecisive. It’s easy to hate the parts of John that lie within ourselves, despite quietly relating to him. Throughout “Cock,” John cannot decide who he is (gay or straight) or what he wants (his comfortable, long-lasted relationship with M or his fresh foray into women with W).

John’s decision-making paralysis opens up the space for M, W and even F to take

control. M (the expressive Gregor McElvogue) does so with childish whining and fabrication, whereas W (Emma D. Miller, T’12) does so gently but with self-assuredness.

Because John cannot choose on his own, the choice of who makes the better pair is left up to the audience. Choosing sides between M and W is a challenging affair, as W’s sweet affection for John is a point on the scoreboard for her, but then again, M is loyal and clearly needs John.

Questions of sexuality are thrust into the front of your mind throughout “Cock,” but a stark age difference between John and M creates a curious additional layer. The love we see between John and M at the start of “Cock” seems true; the chemistry between the two is genuine. John is teased by M but it seems to be only out of affection. When W is brought into the equation, she presents a difficult question to John— does his role as the younger counterpart to M stunt personal growth?

The bigger question of the play is addressed head-on during the ‘awkward’ dinner party where F’s attendance is haphazardly announced. F struts in and proceeds to berate John for even considering a woman, given that being gay is in his nature. W takes issue with this. She asks, if F’s son is gay by nature, then where is F’s gay gene? Both are fighting for selfish control: F’s definition of sexuality means that John must stay with his son, and W’s definition lets her justify their newfound intimacy. In this conflict lays a quick synopsis of the play: is John simply experimenting physically with W, as M suggests, or is he actually

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John (Phil Watson) has to make a choice in Manbites Dog Theater’s production of “Cock,” by Mike Bartlett. Directed by Jeff Storer.

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But it’s how “Cock” ends that forms an entirely new question: should it even matter? It’s a bold proposition that we shed

the questions about our sexuality and the other identities we embrace—or push away—in order to just be.

It can also seem like a forced proposition. I found myself wincing at the preachiness of it all, especially during John’s speech about how love shouldn’t be restricted by categories. But, I’m willing to swallow some preaching if it means following a suspenseful love-tinged whodunnit, more precisely named who-does-helove?

We never get the answer, but that’s kind of the point.

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John (Phil Watson) has to amke a choice between his boyfriend and the woman he is seeing (Emma D. Miller) in Manbites Dog Theater’s “Cock.” Playing through October 19th.

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“Runner Runner” takes the same base as “The Social Network”: an Ivy League guy too smart for his own good finds a way to make a lot of money and gets shut down by his school. The film manages to turn what theoretically could have been an exciting, absurdist thriller (or at least a fun gambling romp à la “21”) into a tasteless drama.

Justin Timberlake stars as Richie Furst, a Princeton graduate student who directs students and professors to gambling websites for money. A dean at the university finds out and orders Richie to stop encouraging students to gamble with a cliché-riddled speech reminiscent of the chastising Reverend Moore in “Footloose.” Obviously, the next logical step for Richie is to take all the money from his bank account and use his impressive gambling skills to win enough to complete his master’s degree. But he gets greedy and his winning streak turns sour.

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Richie gets pissed off, and when Richie gets pissed off, he does statistics. His research proves that the game he played was rigged, so he jets off to Costa Rica to track down Ivan Block (Ben Affleck), the mogul who runs almost all the world’s online poker sites. All this unfolds in about 10 minutes.

When Richie confronts Ivan about his lost tuition, Ivan inexplicably offers him a job with his questionably legal company, apparently impressed by his guts and ingenuity. Timberlake plays Richie as alternatively too-cool-for-school and eager beaver.

One minute all he wants to do is chill on a yacht and the next he excitedly spouts out statistical jargon. Affleck is an apathetic villain. I’m unsure whether he was trying to play ‘hard to read’ or if he was genuinely disinterested in acting in the film. In what could have been a tense and disturbing scene, Ivan halfheartedly coats two men in chicken fat and kicks them into crocodileinfested waters. The gap between Timberlake’s and Affleck’s energies is too vast for them to work cohesively in the film.

There are also women in this movie—a lot of women. They walk around, lounge around or get passed around, mostly silent and always scantily clad. One of the women is played by Gemma Arterton. I honestly don’t remember her character’s name. She has more screen time than the rest and wears slightly more clothing. That makes her a main character by default, albeit one with no development or story arc of her own.

I was also disappointed by the miniscule role of Ben Schwartz (Jean-Ralphio Saperstein of “Parks and Recreation”) as Richie’s roommate. He was there solely to fill the Andrew Garfield role in “The Social Network”: the one who worries Richie is pushing things too far and is subsequently ignored and forgotten, even when Richie invites all his buddies down to party with

him in Costa Rica.

The movie could have benefited from better pacing. The most interesting plot points all occur in the whirlwind beginning scenes of the film, which are underscored with spinning, confusion-generating shots.

But never fear: Justin Timberlake’s narration is here to keep the audience from getting too lost. The establishing action sets up a ‘who’s playing who?’ long con, a drawn-out series of power plays by Richie and Ivan. The film fails to push on the more interesting aspects of the drama, such as Richie’s relationship with his gambling-addicted father and his interaction with the FBI. “Runner Runner” is an utterly confusing film. There’s really no moral conclusion except that you have permission to be a bad guy as long as you’re not the worst guy. The audience is presented with a double message about gambling and risk-taking: one that “everyone gets a fair chance” and another that “the house always wins.”

It’s also unclear whether we’re even supposed to like Richie. There’s something to be said for ambiguity, but the obscurity in “Runner Runner” is derived from bad writing and a lack of clarity rather than from any actual ethical dilemma.

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Although it is important for students to know what dining options are available to them, we remain unconvinced that the lackluster performance of Penn Pavilion is a function of insufficient publicity. It seems more likely that students have tried the Pavilion and found it wanting, either because they prefer other eateries on campus or because the Pavilion has failed to recreate the lively and inviting atmosphere of the Great Hall.

Although food taste and quality are important, we suspect that students’ waning interest in Penn Pavilion has less to do with taste and more to do with variety and ambiance.

The dining options lack diversity—some stations offer food similar to that found at other venues on campus—and the food choices are significantly less varied than those once

available at the Great Hall.

Penn Pavilion will house a dining hall only temporarily, and, regardless of how well DUSDAC markets the new eatery, we question whether the space will ever become a strong dining venue. Renovations to the West Union Building

Editorial will stretch over the next two years, and, in the meantime, the University may have to accept the absence of a centralized dining space on campus.

The effects of the West Union renovations extend beyond the Great Hall’s absence, however. The Faculty Commons have also closed, depriving faculty of a swanky lunch spot and students of a place to FLUNCH with their professors. With these restaurants gone, few eateries remain on campus where large groups of students can sit down and converse with one another. Many of the popular food vendors on campus feature grab-and-go style eating, with little space for students to have sit-down meals, and the eateries with ample seating space are often crowded at peak dining hours. Food

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The difficulties faced by Penn Pavilion reveal that simply placing tables in a cafeteria does not create a communal dining culture on campus.

To foster a convivial dining experience at Duke, we will need inviting dining spaces, a variety of food options and a student body disposed to communal eating.

We are hopeful that the new West Union will address most of these concerns. Featuring multiple dining rooms on several floors, the building will provide students more space to eat together and will offer a range of eating options.

Although it is impossible to know whether or not the new West Union will succeed in reconfiguring Duke’s dining culture, we suspect a space designed specifically to promote communal eating will have more success than Penn Pavilion.

Ultimately, students create the dining culture on campus, and there are small things students can do to create a more positive dining experience. Suspending work to eat with friends, staying on campus for dinner and sitting down for a meal all help to create the dining culture we want.

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ometimes I wonder if I’ll ever be able to love someone as much as I love my cats.

Anyone that knows me can attest to my affinity for both talking about my two cats and shamelessly forcing people to look at pictures of them on my phone. People are okay and all, but there’s something about cats that spur my unwavering love and devotion in ways human beings just can’t. My parents got me my first kitten when I was 7 years old, and even though I discovered his rotting corpse in the bushes after he got hit by a car a few months later, my adoration for felines has persisted ever since.

And while most people fear becoming a crazy cat lady when they get older, I enthusiastically plan on it.

I fully intend on living a life of cats well into old age. I want to have at least six cats, whose names I’ve already taken the liberty of deciding. (So far I’m down to Raskolnikov, Svidrigailov, Herman, Melvin, Kendrick and Llama.) Depending on how long they live, I will replenish my supply approximately every 18 years, or until I perish. Ideally, I’ll ultimately become one of those old frail ladies who takes Christmas portraits with her pets and passionately celebrates all of their birthdays. I have my life pretty figured out.

When I tell people about my life plan to grow old with my cats, I usually get dismissive glances and deep, brooding looks of concern followed by a series of questions. How will you hold a stable job? How will you get a husband? How will you raise kids?

Well, from what I’ve read on Yahoo! News lately, I’ll probably be homeless with no job prospects after college anyway because I’m a humanities major, so I try not to think about the first one too much. And in regards to the second and third questions, most people are surprised to learn that I really have no intention of ever getting married or having kids. Like, at all.

I’m all for the sanctity of marriage and fist bump to those who can make it work, but I don’t think it’s for everyone. The notion of a life long partner whose supposed to love you unconditionally is a nice idea, but especially in our modern society where people are living longer than ever, it just doesn’t seem all that realistic to me. And maybe this is partially because I’m a gross byproduct of what Duke students passive aggressively call “hook-up culture,” but it’s hard to imagine myself in a stable, healthy relationship for more than a few months, let alone an entire lifetime.

But, as a modern and empowered female, I certainly don’t need a man to have kids. So I definitely plan on finding my life fulfillment by embracing the

gift of motherhood, right? Uh, hell no.

I know childbirth is supposed to be this beautiful, incredible thing, but there is

Michelle Menchaca MAKING CONNECTIONS absolutely nothing appealing to me about having a fetus latch itself onto my uterus, feeding off of my insides for nine months like some parasitic leech. Plus, along with the agonizingly bloody mess that is labor, imagine your cervix stretching 10 centimeters during childbirth. TEN CENTIMETERS. You don’t come back from that.

Not to mention, small children in general just kind of terrify me. With their beady little eyes and flailing limbs—they remind me of large arachnids. And every time I’m around a child, I have a physical reaction to their presence.

My heart starts pounding, and my entire body tenses, fearing its next move. I’ve heard that all women are born with some sort of innate maternal instinct, but I’m pretty sure I missed out on that one.

So no, I tell people, I really have no any intention of finding a husband or allowing a baby to claw its way out of my womb. From this I get an array of responses, ranging from a nonchalant “It’s just a phase,” to a panicked “It’s okay. We can fix this.”

But there’s something wrong with that mentality. I know I’m just a naïve college student with no idea what she’s doing the majority of the time she’s doing something, but there is nothing inherently wrong about wanting a life of cats if I genuinely believe that will make me happy. Leading a meaningful life isn’t defined by some archaic formula of a high paying job and picturesque partner and kids. Not everyone wants that. Not everyone is made for that—and that’s okay. We should do what makes us happy, not what someone else tells us should make us happy. So whatever life path I do choose, orthodox or otherwise, I know it will provide me with the personal fulfillment that I long for because I know that it is a path I am choosing for myself. Maybe I’ll find a life mate and maybe I’ll have kids, but for now I’m content with the notion that I will have none of that, and I look forward to living a rewarding life anyway, six cats and all.

Michelle Menchaca is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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estled in the lofty, green hills of Ito, our room had a beautiful view of the sea. The bay was dotted with the warm glow of fishing boat lights, set under a sky splashed with stars. The crisp smell of bamboo wafted up from the garden, where a series of waterfalls cascaded down. The faint chirping of crickets brought life to an otherwise still night.

I retreated inside at the call of our server— dinner was ready. A long, low table sat at the center of the room, over the tatami-mat floor.

Behind the table was a small alcove with a flower arrangement under a traditional Japanese ink painting. Our server, Miyo—a young woman clad in a cherry-pink kimono with a white, peonypatterned obi—brought in our first course.

Japan was such a nice escape from the crowds, pollution and noise of Beijing. In my week there I cheered on the Yomiuri Giants—the “Yankees of Japan”—in the Tokyo Dome, watched Hayao Miyazaki’s newest film, “The Wind Rises,” in Roppongi and paid a visit to the memorial shrine of the Tokugawa family at the Toshogu Shrine in Nikko. Before heading down to Ito, I even had 5:30 a.m. sushi at Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market.

As our second course—an assortment of seasonal vegetables and seafood—arrived, I began to tell my friends, an American couple visiting for a week, a bit about the dishes in front of us. Our meal, called kaiseki, was a multi-course (five in our case), small-plate meal of traditional Japanese cuisine. Later, inspired by the artistry and delicate balance of flavors and colors present in our dishes, we got onto the subject of work-life balance.

This topic has become an increasing concern of mine since deciding to pursue a career in medicine. Medicine is a field that ostensibly tips the balance in favor of work over leisure: being extremely busy is normal, even glorified.

I remember shadowing a surgeon in Wisconsin who easily logged 15 or 16-hour days. Even the ER docs that I shadowed in Boston—lucky members of a “lifestyle specialty”—spent 40 hours on shift and 20 hours doing research every week.

I have already struggled with work-life balance in Beijing. My daily two hours of Chinese lessons and 10-12 hour workdays have taken a toll on my health. (As has the Beijing air.) But I don’t seem to be the only one struggling. My friends in Tokyo, many of them at top Japanese conglomerates, work 12-16 hour days. Duke friends, many of them now working in New York or D.C., share similar stories of long hours, little sleep and lots of stress.

Busy is a global phenomenon.

Every once in a while it is good to question why we do things. Being in Japan at that quiet seaside ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn), removed from the hustle and bustle of Beijing, certainly put me in an introspective state of mind. I asked: Why is it that I work so hard to be so busy all of the time? And why is it that being busy is not as much fun as it used to be?

For me, some of the answer lies in societal pressure. I am busy because I am expected to be

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used to know how tough I was. Growing up playing a variety of contact sports, practicing martial arts and serving in the military gives you the sense that you know your physical and mental limits. That feeling of pushing yourself as far as you thought you could go and then giving just a bit more is an amazing feeling of accomplishment as well as an affirmation that you can always do more and be more. Going through officer’s course as a chaplain candidate with a Marine drill instructor and serving with people who had been in a variety of combat roles prior to being

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busy. A physician once told me that if you’re not working at least 12 hours a day, then you’re not doing meaningful work—part of me thinks he’s right, the rest of me thinks he’s crazy. That is the part of me that thinks we all have much to learn from kaiseki dinners. (And now you most likely think that I am crazy.)

I wish I could share a picture of our kaiseki dinner with you. It was a total work of art: pink and white sashimi on a blue-glazed plate, lobster sprawled out on a bed of flowers, delicious tea in a rustic cup. In each dish and every item the passion and toil of a master chef or master potter is evident. Passion is one of the first things we lose when we make ourselves busy for the sake of being busy, for the sake of meeting societal expectations, for the sake of simply paying the bills.

And mastery—mastery is lost on the busy. It takes time, patience, faith—but what busy person has those?

What busy person has time for a kaiseki meal? Fivecourse, three-hour dinners sound like the luxury of the ridiculously rich (true it will set you back at few yen) or the outrageously lazy. So what is a person with outrageous ambition to do? Perhaps the best they can do is to find some middle ground between the passionate, masterful, artistic kaiseki and the dull, soul-shriveling busy work that many of us want to avoid but unfortunately wade into.

Paul Horak, Trinity ’13, is currently conducting research as a Peking University Young Health Economist Fellow in Beijing, China. This column is the sixth installment in a semester-long series of weekly columns written on the gap year experience, as well as the diverse ways Duke graduates can pursue and engage with the field of medicine outside the classroom. Send the “gap year-ers” a message on Twitter @MindTheGapDuke.

Letter to the Editor It’s not over yet – moving forward after the commemoration season During the 50th Anniversary Commemoration, from January until now, we have unearthed historical moments that tell a rich, vivid story of Duke’s past. We’ve learned about Duke’s first black mascot, and we’ve heard testimonies from the leaders of Duke’s infamous Allen Building Takeover.

And on Saturday, the commemoration officially ended with the presentation of a one million dollar check. The commemoration inspired black alumni and current students to give in record numbers.

As President Brodhead explained in his address on Saturday, during this period we have reclaimed and recovered black alumni who experienced tremendous hardships at Duke.

As a participant in this commemoration, I was overtaken with pride to meet the black alumni who toiled incessantly so that my Duke experience would be positive. And as the president of Duke’s Black Student Alliance, I was reinvigorated and more determined than ever to continue the legacy of activism that begin in 1963.

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period, the Black Student Alliance issues Duke another challenge. We challenge the Duke community to avoid becoming comfortable and complacent regarding matters of diversity and to resist the temptation to rest on its laurels. We have more to accomplish.

In areas like the recruitment and retention of black faculty membes, we still have work to do. We still have advances to make in the area of campus equity. In recent years, some black students have been asked to present their DukeCard before being allowed to use the van service, and black social events are routinely shut down by the Duke University Police Department. In terms of development, we have yet to fully endow the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship. We are poised to make considerable improvements in these areas. We still have work to do.

In 50 years we’ve moved Duke forward...and we don’t plan on stopping any time soon. The commemoration events may be over, but the commemoration will never end.

Marcus Benning President of the Black Student Alliance

called to chaplaincy, I was constantly impressed by not only how amazingly tough some of my colleagues were (and are), but also how our Gunnery Sergeant could draw just a bit more out of each of us. I knew I was tough even with people who were much tougher than I am, but that’s not enough.

It’s not enough not simply because we all know that no matter how tough you are there is always someone tougher— even Navy SEALs and MMA monsters like Georges St-Pierre know that. I would suggest that people who are that tough know that better than anyone else, because they know what they had to do to get there. It’s also not enough because I know that no matter how tough any man is, I freely admit that any woman who has been pregnant and given birth is tougher. Seriously gentlemen, please take this one on faith—we as a gender are simply not that tough (be thankful for that). Not even the biblical Abraham—who at the age of 99 circumcised himself as a sign of The Covenant—was that tough. It’s not enough because the toughness that we see and show is only part of the picture and a very incomplete one.

When we see someone take a hit and seemingly shrug it off, we see that as toughness. Think about the number of times you’ve either been playing in or watching a game and someone just gets rocked. Maybe it was a bad landing, a hard hit, another player they didn’t see coming—but it comes hard and fast, so hard and fast that we feel it even as it happens to someone else. There is that moment of hard silence before we erupt into cheers as they get back on their feet and keep playing. Those are amazing and emotionally charged moments: the enthusiasm we feel when a student, peer, friend, classmate or teammate gets back into the game and keeps playing even though we know that they’re feeling it. That is one kind of toughness, and it is both mental and physical.

Some of that is a toughness born of necessity. When you’re part of a team, you have a role to fulfill, a job to do, a function to perform and an obligation to your teammates and coaches. You keep doing what you have to do even when it hurts because that is just what you do. Not just because you have chosen to be there, but because you know that you will and can keep going until it is time to rest. You have faith that your teammates are going just as hard as you are and that your coaches and leaders are just as driven and committed as you are. If you’re not doing your best, then what’s the point? You will drive yourself as hard or harder in practice so that you’re even better when it counts in a game, and that makes it seem like it is a gift—something effortless that you were given as opposed to the prize that you fought for and earned.

That is where necessity gives way to determination and dedication. It isn’t only a question of toughness or doing what you have to do, but recognizing that this is part of something greater. Sometimes we see sparks of this as we realize that as much as we’re already giving, we can give more, we can do more, we can be more. We are asked to do something extra and just give a little more than we have already been doing, and in so doing we realize that if we can go that far then perhaps we can go even farther.

So how do you act in those moments? To what do you dedicate yourself? What limits do you have that you can or need to surpass? You don’t have to be as tough as Abraham, a Navy SEAL or a top athlete. You do need to believe that you can do great things and dedicate yourself to making them happen.

Push yourself, knowing that you might fail—but if you keep pushing, you’re even more likely to achieve greater success. Make the effort, and don’t be afraid to let it show, you’ll be all the stronger for it.

Jeremy Yoskowitz is the campus rabbi and assistant director for Jewish life. His column runs every other Thursday. Send Rabbi Jeremy a message on Twitter @TheDukeRav.

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Junior Nikolai Doytchinov, executive vice president, focused mainly on strengthening the internal affairs of DSG, but he also highlighted plans for working with policies in student conduct and University finances.

In addition to converting course evaluations to an online format, junior Ray Li, vice president for academic affairs, said his committee is actively working to create an Asian-American studies program at Duke.

“We are expanding the Duke-Durham discount program,” said junior Derek Rhodes, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, adding that the program gives students incentives to support local business.

With recent changes to voting law, Rhodes said that he will be working to determine the future of on-campus voting sites.

Aside from working with Jones on the gender equity taskforce, senior Jacob Tobia, vice president for equity and outreach, said he will be working to create University policies that support undocumented students.

During a time of construction on campus, junior Ellie Shaack, vice president for facilities and the environment and a columnist for The Chronicle, said that she aims to ensure residential construction supports the new house model.

If students living in the Edens Quadrangle are allowed to have 12 members in a block, there will be a greater sense of community, said junior Jacob Zionce, vice president for residential life. His committee plans to work on this goal before applications for 2014-15 housing are due.

Senior Leilani Doktor, vice president for social culture, said that her committee will be working closely with Jones to amend the alcohol policy on campus.

“In encouraging parties to be on campus, we avoid a lot of legal issues,” Doktor said. “Drinking on campus is actually a lot safer.”

Communication, dining and biking are the main focuses of sophomore Lavanya Sunder’s year-long agenda.

Sunder, vice president for services, will also be working to expand the merchants-on-points program in the Spring.

Junior Joyce Lau, chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee, said that she will be working to create a process for de-chartering student groups that have become inactive.

The agenda was approved by unanimous consent.

In other business: Senior Daniel Strunk was inaugurated as the chief justice of the DSG Judiciary. He then swore to “preserve, protect and defend” the constitution of DSG. Rhodes announced that through consultation with the Duke University Police Department, the closing of roads on Central Campus is no longer being considered. The discussion of the closures began in response to recent crimes across campus.

The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity appealed the SOFC decision not to allot any money for their Casino Royale Event.

The Senate voted to approve $2,550 for the event.

DIVEST DUKE from page 1 Investment Responsibility, which has been charged with reviewing issues related to Duke’s investments and making recommendations to the president.”

Divest Duke has a form proposal for the ACIR, which will ask Duke to divest from the top-200 fossil fuel companies over the next five years and to freeze new investments in those companies, said Emily Palmer, a field organizer at Green Corps.

The organization sent Palmer to Duke to assist with this campaign.

Duke is not the first university where students have raised concerns in regards to divestments efforts. There are currently 317 active university and college divestment movements, according to Fossil Free Campaign— a global organization seeking divestment of educational and religious institutions, city and state governments and other institutions.

Divest Duke’s rally follows a week of protests by student group DukeOpen, a coalition that aims to increase transparency regarding the companies in which Duke invests its assets.

Senior Jacob Tobia, a leader of DukeOpen, said that although Divest Duke and DukeOpen’s aims align, the groups are not working together.

“Divest Duke is certainly making progress in raising student awareness of the campaign,” he said. “DukeOpen has not formally collaborated with Divest Duke, but certainly the theme of transparency and investment responsibility is something that we both share.”