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New lunch Duke weighs in on sophomore slump time slow for News feature food trucks by Sasha Zients The Chronicle
Food trucks had a slow first week as a lunch option. In response to decreased dining options, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, Duke Student Government and Duke Dining worked together to bring food trucks to campus as a lunch option. The trucks are located behind Perkins and Bostock libraries where, as of yet, many students are unaware of their existence, explained senior Chris Taylor, co-chair of DUSDAC. “We found that this location is not very visible,” said Jody Argote, the owner of the Parlez-Vous Crepe food truck. “On Tuesday, the first hour didn’t go well but then I put up signs by the stairs that students walk by and that seemed to help.” Argote said that advertisement is particularly important since students will not see the trucks on their way to class. She plans on using Duke Dining’s promotional campaign as well as her own social media—specifically Twitter and Facebook—to publicize the location of her truck at lunchtime. Carolina Escobar, founder of Captain Ponchos, noted that her truck had 15 customers during Monday’s lunch hours—fewer than she had expected, given the popularity of the truck during dinner hours. “The location isn’t ideal. In a perfect world, the trucks would be in front of the Chapel or on the lawn,” Taylor said. “Duke doesn’t want anything in either of those places before 5 o’clock” Robert Coffey, director of dining services, noted that Duke Dining worked with student requests and different offices on campus to determine the location See food trucks page 12
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Two weeks after Duke’s newest freshmen packed the Chapel for convocation, the Sophomore Class Council welcomed back the Class of 2016 for a similar event—except for the dozens of empty rows behind the hundred or so students gathered near the front. The sophomore convocation is one of several efforts to counter a trend widely known as the “sophomore slump.” Schools across the country have long grappled with the problem of a decline in students’ motivation during
sophomore year, launching new programs to ward off drops in retention. Duke students who may be mired in the sophomore slump are not alone, said Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek. “It’s sort of a second-year phenomenon, and it doesn’t just exist in college,” Wasiolek said. “What has been reported is that the second year of doing something is generally not as exciting and uplifting and exhilarating as the first year.” At Duke, the sophomore slump manifests itself in ways other than retention rates. The
Social Relationships Project, which collected data from students between 2007 and 2010, offered evidence that sophomores do tend to experience a slump in their second year. Data from the project indicated that students felt a lesser sense of belonging and a greater feeling of loneliness during their sophomore year, said Deb Lo Biondo, associate dean of residential life for West Campus. One reason this might occur is that students are let down when their initial expectations are not met. See sophomore, page 9
Baguetteaboutit rolls out new Durham restaurant by Azeb Yirga The Chronicle
Baguetteaboutit is forgetting about only serving its sandwiches from a truck. The company, which has operated successfully as a food truck throughout the Research Triangle area since December 2011, is taking a step toward opening its own brick-and mortar restaurant on Miami Boulevard in Durham. Although the official grand opening is Monday, an opening celebration took place Friday
night with a food truck rodeo in the restaurant’s new parking lot. Gillian Mclane, the general manager of the new restaurant, said the addition of the restaurant could have significant benefits for the company. She believes that it will enjoy steady business from locals who work in Research Triangle Park. “I think it is a good expansion of the business,” she said. “I think it is a great opportunity, especially with the location that it is at.”
Since Baguetteaboutit imported the French sandwich specialty to North Carolina, the sandwiches have been selling quickly. At a Raleigh food truck rodeo on Oct. 13, the truck sold 300 to 350 sandwiches over a four-hour period, Kirkland said. This kind of success encouraged the business to consider opening a restaurant. Baguetteaboutit’s specialty offerings See Restaurant, page 12
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Most cultural SLGs succeed in filling bed quota by Georgia Parke The ChroniCle
Although latino cultural housing is still trying to get off the ground, other cultural living groups have prospered. The Black Culture living Group and Fusion, formerly known as the Asian Cultural interest house, were both founded in Fall 2011 and have since neared full occupancy. Dean for residential life Joe Gonzalez said that Black Culture living Group has filled all 22 of its beds. Fusion has three vacancies out of 46 available places in the house, but Gonzalez noted that after the spring rush period the section will be completely full.
“The Latino community at Duke has struggled to have any kind of space on campus and this has limited how much attention we’ve received from administration and the student body.” KARINA SANTELLANO JUNIOR AND CO-PRESIDENT OF MI GENTE
“our house is full… i’m happy with the membership,” said senior Marcus Benning, president of the Black Students Association. “We were able to accommodate everyone who wanted to live in the group. in addition to drawing in a quota of residents, both cultural groups have
attracted members of different races. Junior Becca Bau, vice president of cultural affairs for the Asian Students Association, said that though the house demographic is primarily Chinese-, Taiwanese-, Vietnamese- and KoreanAmerican, there are also international students from China and Singapore as well as students from non-Asian backgrounds. “They share the interest of Asian culture—food, pop culture, yearly traditions, etc.,” Bau wrote of the non-Asian student residents in an email Wednesday. “What makes Fusion unique from a club/student organization is that it intentionally makes Asian culture a part of one’s living experience.” Benning noted that the Black Culture living Group has similarly drawn students from a variety of backgrounds and races, noting that to assume “the cultural interest only exists for that particular culture” would be counterintuitive to the purpose of the organization. “i always encourage everybody who has an interest black culture to stop by the living group,” Benning said. “i think it’s amazing that people of all races have opened themselves up to that.” Fusion is not affiliated with the ASA but was founded by a former ASA executive board member, Bau said. Benning said that although the the Black Culture living Group originated under guidance from the BSA, it has since become its own organization and is no longer directly associated with the BSA. Filling space housing space was also awarded in
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2011 for the latino Cultural house, sponsored by student latino organization Mi Gente, at the same time as the origin of Fusion and the Black Culture living Group. not enough students showed interest, however, in living in the section and the house was disbanded. “They lost their house before they ever lived there,” Gonzalez said. Mi Gente co-president Karina Santellano, a junior, said that having a designated space for interested students to live together on campus would increase awareness of the latino population at Duke and would unite the community that already exists. “The latino community at Duke has struggled to have any kind of space on campus and this has limited how much attention we’ve received from administration and the student body,” Santellano wrote in an email Wednesday. She said that so far there has not been a motion to recreate the house, but Mi Gente plans to discuss the possibility of forming a cultural living group and gauge student interest this year before deciding to sponsor one. “Mi Gente recognizes that having a living space open to latinos and non-latinos could potentially aid in establishing a united latino identity and presence at Duke,” Santellano said. Gonzalez said that parameters for determining if a house should be disbanded because of a lack of residents is so far undefined, but if a house’s occupancy is between 50 to 70 percent it will be evaluated by housing, Dining and residence life. Gonzalez said that hDrl is currently working to develop more specific parameters for evaluating occupancy by
the semester’s end. Gonzalez mentioned that two members of the interfraternity Council and “a couple of non-greek groups” are notably lacking occupants but declined to say which ones, citing that it would not be good for the groups to identify them, and that they could fill space during the Spring.
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Suspect charged in Los Angeles airport shooting by Josh Hicks and Martin Weil The washington post
The suspect in the shooting death of a TSA screener during a gun rampage at the Los Angeles International Airport was charged with murder Saturday, and authorities said he had signed a letter to TSA employees saying that he wanted to “instill fear in your traitorous minds.” Federal prosecutors said Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, killed TSA screener Gerardo Hernandez during a terrifying outbreak of gunfire Friday in which two other TSA employees and one airport passenger were wounded, before police shot Ciancia. The source of Ciancia’s apparent hostility toward the TSA remained unclear and puzzling to some who knew him. But a statement filed in court by the FBI gave the first detailed account of how the shootings unfolded. According to the FBI, Ciancia entered the airport’s Terminal 3 about 9:20 a.m. and approached the security checkpoint. Pulling a Smith&Wesson .223 caliber M&P-15 assault rifle from his bag, he fired multiple times at point-blank range at Hernandez, who was on duty and in uniform, leaving the screener wounded. Then, after starting up an escalator, Ciancia looked back at Hernandez, who appeared to move. Ciancia then went back to shoot him again, killing him, the statement said. Ciancia then shot and wounded two other uniformed TSA employees and one passenger, before two pursuing Los Angeles police officers wounded him, the FBI said. In a bag that Ciancia had at the airport, the FBI said, other law enforcement officers found a handwritten letter, signed by the suspect, saying that he had “made the conscious decision to try to kill” TSA employees. The gunfire sent panic through the nation’s third-busiest airport and disrupted air traffic there along with the travel plans of thousands of would-be passengers throughout the nation. The airport was fully reopened on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. On Saturday, Hernandez’s wife spoke to reporters outside her Los Angeles area home, describing him as a “wonderful husband, father, brother, son and friend.” She said her husband, who was about to
turn 40, had come to the United States at age 15 from El Salvador and “took pride in his duty for the American public.” Still unclear Saturday was what had led Ciancia to make the TSA his alleged target, but there were signs of psychological trouble. According to an account from police in the New Jersey town where he grew up, Ciancia had sent a text message to his brother indicating that he might harm himself. The message had aroused enough concern to prompt his father on Friday to get authorities to check on him in Los Angeles, where he was living.
briefed on the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly. As described to the AP, the note appeared to contain terms and references often found in messages from antigovernment fringe groups. One of the terms was “fiat currency,” AP said. The letters NWO also were used, in apparent reference to “New World Order,” a term used by groups claiming the existence of global conspiracies. The federal government created the TSA to upgrade airport security after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Over the years, complaints have emerged about TSA’s screening
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A gunman opened fire at LAX Friday morning, killing a TSA screener and wounding 3 other people. “I understand that they tried to reach him,” said a neighbor of Ciancia’s father in New Jersey, “but they missed him.” The incident also raised questions about airport security and the possible mixture of mental illness and weapons, as well as about Ciancia’s state of mind. According to the Associated Press, in the note found by authorities Ciancia said that he wished to kill at least one Transportation Security Administration officer but did not care who. “Black, white, yellow, brown, I don’t discriminate,” the note read, as paraphrased for the AP by a law enforcement official who was
efforts, which some air travelers have described as onerous and intrusive. Ciancia’s relatives could not be immediately reached on Saturday. But little that could be found on Saturday suggested an association between Cianci and the antigovernment hostility said to have been expressed in the note. Ciancia grew up in the southwestern corner of New Jersey in Pennsville, where his father owned an auto-repair shop and was known as a pillar of the local community. His mother, who had been a teacher in a Catholic school, died more than four years ago. The town’s police chief said he had never
had trouble “with anyone” in the family. A former classmate at Salesianum High School in Wilmington, Del., where Ciancia graduated in 2008, described him as “kind of quiet and timid, but smart.” The classmate, James Kerrigan, called him “a nice guy” who “never struck me as the type that would do this sort of thing.” Others who knew him in high school also called him quiet and shy, with no signs of violent tendencies. David Hamilton, who also graduated from Salesianum in 2008, told the Los Angeles Times that Ciancia “kept to himself and ate lunch alone a lot.” A 17-year-old living across the street from Ciancia’s family home said, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, that “you wouldn’t think someone like that would come out of a family like that.” James Mincey, who said he had shared a Los Angeles apartment with Ciancia until February, told an ABC affiliate that he was “absolutely shocked.” “From knowing this guy, it just doesn’t make sense,” Mincey said. After finishing high school, Cianci had worked for a time for his father, said New Jersey neighbor Gary Hankins. It was not clear when Cianci moved to Los Angeles or what he was doing there. The AP described him as an unemployed motorcycle mechanic. Current roommatesreportedly said he had seemed fine as recently as Thursday. The airport said in a statement that 40 flights were affected Saturday, including 30 cancellations and 10 delays that slowed an estimated 4,000 passengers. On the day of the shooting, an estimated 1,550 scheduled flights and 167,000 passengers were affected, according to the statement. Los Angeles Airport Police Chief Pat Gannon said at the Saturday news conference that the LAPD dedicated extra resources to the airport and that visitors will see an increased law-enforcement presence for some time. Along those lines, the TSA said it would review its policy on officer safety. TSA Administrator John Pistole said Saturday that the agency would make every effort to make certain Friday’s events are not repeated.
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editor spills on setting up The standard A new multimedia publication, The Standard, is looking to bring together the many aspects of campus life that make Duke unique. Highlighting fashion, culture and student opinions, among other things, the leaders of The Standard—seniors Stephanie Chao and Maeva Recchia—are working to provide unique insights into the lives of students while cornering the market for online campus media. Their first issue launched Oct. 25. The Chronicle’s Carleigh Stiehm sat down with Chao to discuss her goals for the online magazine. The Chronicle: What is The Standard? Stephanie Chao: The Standard is a student-run digital publication, seeking to provide a dynamic and interactive approach to media. With a modern edge and clean interface, our mission is to elevate the way students see and talk about Duke lifestyle by featuring exceptional individuals on our campus, as well as constantly updating with content that is both relevant and insightful. Surrounded by the beauty, elegance, and diversity that make up our university, we seek to capture the richness of Duke cultural milieus, intellectual pulses and aesthetic trends. our publication covers a broad range of topics—from editorials on art, music, politics to visual narratives on travel and style. The common trend amongst all of our stories is the approach—opinionated. We hope to provide the Duke community with a conducive space where our versatile talents and many interests find creative expression. TC: Why did you decide to create the
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As far as our content goes, we have the capacity to use not only text and photography—but illustration, graphic design, video. The possibilities are endless. Writers have the freedom to develop their own stories and columns. We don’t cover events or news simply because it happens—we publish things because they have an angle and someone wants to discuss it further. it opens the door for further conversations. This generates interesting stories and really allows each author’s voice to really shine through. Actually, this is true for all our content, not only our writers. Moreover, we are not a fashion-based magazine. We do have a style section, however, the content falls under the overarching categories of culture, lifestyle, opinion, politics, travel and more. We have a mix of very experienced members to less experienced, but we are an extremely collaborative team. At shoots for example, we have two photographers so that they can work on that dynamic. We constantly want our members to feel like they are not only providing The Standard with their skill, but are also learning and growing from the experience. We are extremely proud of our team. We have an eclectic mix that span all four undergraduate years and are looking to get more graduate students involved as well. one of our photographers is actually a nurse at the Duke hospital. During recruitment we were determined to bring together people from all different corners of Duke so we could really create See the standard, page 12
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Students celebrate Halloween from Perkins to Franklin Street Duke campus culture is characterized by its enthusiasm for celebration and joining together in festivities. This past weekend marked one of the biggest party weekends for college students nationwide--Halloween. Many students made the trek to University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s famous Franklin Street while others made a much shorter trek to Perkins Library. The Chronicle’s Elizabeth Djinis sat down with students to discuss their Halloween experience.
“This is Duke. If by fun on Halloween you mean studying, then yes.”
“I went to Chapel Hill on Halloween night and although it was less party focused for me, as a student under 21 who couldn’t get into most clubs and bars, the costumes were amazing. I posed with characters from Game of Thrones, ‘Holes,’ and someone dressed as the Pixar lamp. I felt happy to be back at Duke for the rest of the weekend, I was reminded of why I chose Duke.”
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“On Thursday, I watched a movie and had pizza with my Japanese class as a fun class assignment, and afterwards just chilled and had some candy with friends back at my dorm. And then Friday till today, I went with Intervarsity (the Christian student fellowship) to Camp Dixie in Fayetteville, where we got to break from the hustle-and-bustle of campus and go canoeing and go-carting and hanging out with friends. “
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“If everyone’s saying it’s going to be such an amazing year, you might wonder why it’s not going so well for you,” sophomore Josh Kalejaye said. “You feel like you’re somehow underperforming, whether it’s not getting the grades you should be or not having the amazing social life you should have.” Sophomores also find themselves in a unique position on campus. Freshmen are adjusting to the college experience and juniors and seniors are looking to the future, but sophomores are in “no-man’s-land,” Kalejaye said. But the term “sophomore slump” misrepresents the complexity of challenges faced by second-year students, said Gary Glass, assistant director for outreach and developmental programming at Counseling and Psychological Services. “There are a lot of phrases that catch some momentum: the freshman fifteen, the hookup culture, the sophomore slump,” Glass said. “They are usually misleading, because to the degree that they are true, they’re not true for any single reason.” Describing sophomore year issues as a “slump” suggests that it is unnatural to feel challenged during the second year, when in fact those challenges are a natural part of a student’s growth, Glass said. He added that every year comes with its own distinct set of issues. In recent years, sophomores have comprised 28 percent of the undergraduates who use CAPS services, suggesting that sophomores do not use the services disproportionately more than other classes. Senior Andrew Leon Hanna, who previously served as sophomore class president and helped to start the tradition of sophomore convocation, cautioned that the sophomore slump may act as a “self-fulfilling prophecy.” “It’s really valuable to acknowledge the things that make sophomore year a little more challenging,” Hanna said. “But it’s not good to ignore the opportunities that you have, sudoku_395B and it’s also not good to resign yourself to the
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your dorm and expecting a bunch of people hanging out and talking, you walk in and it’s silent and you go to your room.” On the other hand, living groups can also divide students. “Being affiliated can make it really difficult to connect with people when they’re in a different organization,” Kalejaye said.
On your own again Although there is disagreement about the legitimacy of a slump, administrators and students alike agree that the sophomore year marks a pivotal transition for students. Selecting a major is a large academic decision sophomores must make. That choice is more than just selecting a suite of classes, said Beth Fox, director of the Academic Advising Center. “Choosing a major…is affirmatively choosing a scholarly community to join,” Fox wrote in an email. “It asks each person to sit quietly and be genuinely thoughtful about who they are as a scholar, and who they would like to become.” Freshman year milestones are generally experienced as a group—move-in day, the class photo, and Writing 101, for example. The selection of a major is an individual affair, which causes stress and confusion for uninformed students, Fox said. The sophomore year also represents a social transition, as students leave behind the close-knit communities of East Campus residence halls. After the first year, the sophomore class is scattered throughout houses on West and Central Campuses, Lo Biondo said. The new housing model, which began last year, was created in part to allow unaffiliated sophomores a chance to return to a single house throughout their remaining time at the University. Lo Biondo noted, however, that it was too early to tell if the new model has had any impact on the sophomore transition. Selective living groups and Greek organizations could help ease the transition for members. “It provides an immediate sense of camaraderie in the dorm, so it’s not as much of a change from freshman year,” Hanna said. “For a lot of people who aren’t [affiliated], if they’re put in a house that isn’t quite as social, or their house council isn’t doing as much, then they’ll be in a situation where there’s not as much camaraderie. Instead of walking in
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Help is out there For sophomores who are struggling, Wasiolek encouraged self-reflection. Deliberate reflection could alleviate the “FOMO,” or fear of missing out, that is prevalent among Steps taken students faced with multiple pathways. In 2002, the University formed the Com“[Students] try to figure out how to do it mittee for the Sophomore Year Experience to all because they fear missing out on someidentify the key issues that distinguish sopho- thing,” Wasiolek said. “I would advise stumore year. The 10 items recognized include dents to, during their sophomore year, take major declaration and social acclimation, as a deep breath and try to assess what their well as opportunities such as study abroad, re- first year was like, where they are right now, search and student organizations. The Univer- and what opportunities…they truly want to sity has hosted events such as the Majors Fair take advantage of.” to target theses areas. Campus resources that were introduced In response to common transitional issues, during the first year are still accessible in the Sophomore Class Council has also set out successive years, Wasiolek said. She suggestto improve unity in the class. ed that the Career Center, the Academic AdSophomore class events this year have vising Center and various identity centers, largely had good turnouts, said current sopho- such as the Center for Multicultural Affairs, more class president Isabella Kwai. She added, are resources sophomores may be underutithough, that attendance should not be the lizing. primary indicator of how effective events are, Fox noted that last year, only a quarter of since students are frequently busy. The sopho- students in the Class of 2015 met with the dimore convocation was sparsely attended in rectors of academic engagement in Underpart because of poor timing, as the event was graduate Global Advising, who specialize in held during Rosh Hashanah, she noted. global and civic engagement opportunities. “We had a sophomore come up to us and A new advising website for sophomores will specifically tell us how much he appreciated launch next year and have features to track the convocation, and that it really gave him a advising meetings. sense of placement,” Kwai said. “That to us was Academic engagement was also shown an indicator that the event was really success- to correlate with belonging, according to ful.” the Social Relationships Project. Faculty Besides convocation, the class council also outings, the FLUNCH program and other works with SYE to host events such as Fall Festi- interactions with professors outside the val, Midnight Breakfast and a sophomore class classroom could help increase academic informal. The council also plans smaller events vestment, Lo Biondo said. such as breakfasts, dorm reunions and comAbove all, students who are experiencmunity service projects, Kwai said. ing a slump should remember they are not Class council events have seen success in alone. past years. According to a survey conducted by “Share your thoughts, share your fears, SYE, the “sense of belonging” among sopho- share your hopes, share your confusions withCorporation each other,” Glass said. “The thing that mores increased by 25York percent year that Sales The New Timesthe Syndication can 10018 really rob people of their own growth is the first sophomore among 620convocation, Eighth Avenue, NewothYork, N.Y. Forwas Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 er sophomore events, held. Hanna, who the perception of conformity.”
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widespread underemployment for Ph.D.s. For those who find jobs in academe, many have little choice but to seize on adjunct (non-tenure track) positions. Moreover, Ph.D. programs in the humanities typically take about 9 years to complete, and inconsistent funding streams coupled with stringent
Although universities benefit from a large stock of poorly compensated laborers, prospective postgraduates have a responsibility to consider the realities of graduate education before enrolling. Placement statistics for graduate programs are available on most university websites, and students unprepared for top graduate programs may want to consider other options. Ph.D. programs offer incalculable value to students, universities and society, but the current rate at which universities are producing Ph.D.s is unsustainable. Indeed, absent significant and immediate increases in university and government budgets, any solution to the graduate education crisis will require tradeoffs. Universities should adequately compensate the people who labor for them, but we have to be prepared to accept, as a condition of higher wages, the possible reduction in available Ph.D. positions. Solutions are scarce, but greatly needed. The paucity of jobs for Ph.D.s weakens, over time, both the research and pedagogical power of the American higher education system. Having specialists in academic fields not only strengthens individual colleges, but is also indispensable for a society that hopes to make significant contributions to the corpus of human knowledge.
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Gracie Willert introspeculative for the nastiest and lowest of scathing attacks on character. I could learn a thing or two by writing a column about the elasticity of demand, the history of miming or advanced algebra. Oh, but no. I don’t dare. Because here at Duke we are all experts, and if we are not, we are quiet and poker-faced. Whether it be in most classrooms or here scrawled in printed ink letters to the editor or anonymous posts to the website, expertise is expected when anonymity is relinquished. You don’t know? You do not pass GO. You do not collect $200. I wouldn’t say trying to conquer the politics of ancient Rome as they apply to the modern-day is appropriate for an 850-word piece, but who am I to say? Let people write. Let people think and explore crazy, interesting, weird, unpopular ideas. Challenge their words and thoughts, not their character. I would say we have all privately thought untoward some things in our lives that we would never want disclosed. Does that make us bad people? Ignorant? Uninformed? Nah. I say it makes us inquisitive individuals. How are we ever expected to learn if we hide our knowledge gaps? How are we ever supposed to have a more tolerant society if we can’t express opinions freely and have them respectfully challenged? I don’t know. What we’ve got going certainly doesn’t seem to be working. So many Dukies (God/Buddha/Joseph Smith/ Ganesh help you) want to go into politics. But too often Duke is a microcosm of the kind of dysfunctional, petty mudslinging that has come to define Congress these days. You don’t believe in global warming? Can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. You think affirmative action perpetuates the problems it aims to mitigate? You’re not a minority, you’re not entitled to an opinion, you racist you. You think Common Ground is ironic? CG reject. You don’t like Chron columns? Good grief. Apply to write one next semester, you cynic you. Gracie Willert is a Trinity senior. Her biweekly column runs every other Monday.
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married father of two, an engineer living in Germany and a handful of college and graduate students in such places as Colorado, Ontario and Mexico. What do they have in common? They all strip nude for strangers online. In my last column, I attempted to normalize print and video pornography and suggest it could actually be an area of academic research. This week, I seek to explore what
the internet (four out of 16), that their parents or, separately, friends would find out (four and five out of 16, respectively), that someone would try to blackmail them (five out of 16) or that they would be stalked (two out of 16). Indeed, “Rodrigo,” a 34-year-old computer programmer in Colombia, noted that some of these things had happened to one of his friends. “Diego,” a 25-year-old man in Brazil, reported he’s been recognized from
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motivates some men to participate in online “adult” broadcasts. In quasi-scientific style, I surveyed 16 such individuals who engage in this activity and whose names have been changed to protect anonymity. They ranged in age from 18 (yes, 18, with governmentissued ID as proof) to 34, lived as far away as Kuala Lumpur and New Delhi and as close as Durham and were a mix of races, sexual orientations and educational levels. My thesis was that money makes the world go ‘round, and the pursuit of greenbacks is the primary reason these men had shown themselves off. As it turns out, about 81 percent (13 out of 16) reported instead they were doing it for fun. Four of these 13 (25 percent of the whole sample) also noted that a desire to make money led them to broadcast. Permitted to select as many other applicable reasons as they wished, half of the respondents admitted it turned them on, about 37 percent (six out of 16) said they did it because they were bored and 25 percent used it to meet like-minded individuals. “Jimmy,” a 27-year-old respondent who is currently unemployed, wrote that he loved exposure and hoped his broadcasts would allow him to become a porn star, and, though it wasn’t necessarily a reason at the start, “Ozzy,” a 26-year-old healthcare administrator, added that he “[planned] to expand into adult films soon.” On the other hand, “Neil,” a 21-year-old undergraduate from India who is studying in the United States, responded only that he thought participating in amateur webcam pornography was “a way to get out of [his seasonal affective disorder and major depressive episode] and to make [himself] feel better.” About 69 percent (11 out of 16) of these guys found the hosting websites— places like Cam4 and Chaturbate—on their own, though a few heard about the sites from their friends. One of the major differences between a strip club and an online broadcast is the perpetuation of the images. In a club, the number of viewers is known, and photography—at least in the United States— is strictly prohibited. Online, anonymous users could be across the country or across the street, and certain computer programs can copy video streams—a nouveau form of piracy forbidden by the hosting sites. (That said, the anonymity of it all gave some heterosexual broadcasters some comfort in catering to mostly male audiences; performing live in front of other men, as in a strip club, might have been much more uncomfortable.) To this end, about onethird of those surveyed worried about their safety or privacy. Specific concerns included: that their photos or videos ending up on
his broadcasts at parties. “Jimmy” reported one of his own friends caught him (after which he just changed his profile name and resumed broadcasting). “William,” a 28-yearold Latino graduate student, worried that his participation in online pornography would “come up at an inconvenient time and affect [his] career.” “Bentley,” a 22-year-old Indian student in Sweden, has seen his photos and videos pop up elsewhere on the internet, but generally hasn’t minded unless the poster has passed them off as his own. Interestingly, an equal number of respondents (five out of 16) specifically said they had no regrets, and “Javier,” a graduate student at Duke, said he avoided mixing the online world with the offline by never showing his face. He was in the minority, though, as at least 13 respondents exposed themselves from soup to, well, nuts. The impacts have not been all bad, however. About 63 percent (10 out of 16) reported making friends while chatting with others during their webcam shows. Some respondents reported feeling more confident or sexually liberated from their shows (four and five out of 16, respectively). Ozzy, William, Bentley and “Anthony,” a 19-year-old trailer unloader in Maryland, reported making money from their amateur webcam pornography, ranging from $50 to nearly $2400 total, excluding additional gifts from their Amazon wishlists. (“People like to buy me underwear,” Anthony joked.) These forays into pornography don’t necessarily last very long. Since I initially made contact with these men, 25 percent have retired from broadcasting. “Neil,” who had looked to his broadcasts to fill an emotional void, said, “As I got better with medication, I stopped broadcasting… [I’m] doing good now. Rebuilding my college career.” Twothirds, however, reported that they either had no plans to stop broadcasting or didn’t really know when they’d stop. “Being a ‘camboy’ has been a lot of fun for me,” Ozzy wrote. “My day job is very stringent and professional, so this has been a great way to just let loose and have fun.” And in the spirit of fun, “Dushan,” a straight 27-year-old student in India, expressed just one wish: that more girls would use these websites. “‘Cause when on an adult site,” he typed, ending with a smiley emoticon, “the ice is already broken.” This begs the question, then, if amateur webcam pornography will become the new frontier of internet dating. Hell, it can’t be any more embarrassing than admitting you met someone on eHarmony.
such as Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter that foster togetherness and forgiveness, No Shave November is a month long holiday for men—and only true, manly men. Any man who has ever shopped at Bed Bath and Beyond, owned a dog weighing less than 10 pounds or watched the entirety of “The Notebook” without getting action need not apply. No Shave November is a time for men all over America and the world to reconnect with their inner homeless person. It is a time for each man to seriously look at himself in the mirror and say “I’m a man. I pee standing up. It is my God-given duty to grow a Garden of Eden upon my face—complete with at least six forms of wildlife.” Leviticus 19:27 states “Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.” Surely we should live our lives exactly as the Bible says—limited only to the month of November, of course. Then, in December, it’s time to follow Genesis 38:9, which states: “But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother’s wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.” No Shave November, then Pull Out and Die December. The way God intended it. Let us not forget the powers of beards. Moses, with his mighty beard, single-handedly brought peace and prosperity to the Hebrews while defeating the entire (clean-shaven) Egyptian army. Some of the greatest men throughout history have sported beards. Abraham Lincoln, born four score and seven beards ago, managed to free the slaves and win the Civil War by his beardly might. Charles Darwin, who first proposed survival of the thickest (beard), shook science to its follicles with his daring claims. Chuck Norris, who managed to hide a third fist under his beard, won the hearts and chins of men and women worldwide. Karl Marx, champion of the blue collar working man, upended Europe’s social hierarchy by penning the Communist Manifesto with a quill composed of his own man scruff. Even Santa Claus, whose voluptuous white mane, along with the presents he provides, brings joy to children worldwide by traveling over 3.219 x10^14 beardseconds per second. That’s 1000 miles per hour for the Trinity folk. (Note: one beardsecond = five nm, the SI unit for average length of facial hair grown in one second.) Furthermore, beards are a unifying factor of humanity. Straight men of almost all races (sorry Asians) can unite in the common act of
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growing facial hair. In addition to reminding us all of our common connection and superiority as men, No Shave November includes other benefits such as trimming down razor expenditures, cutting money spent on dates and shaving off the price of
buying condoms. For the exceptional few that actually can get some action this month whilst sporting their face carpet, remember to practice safe sex. Keep yourself and your beard safe by using Duke Medicine-approved dental dams, the only surefire way to keep a clean shave from STDs. But unfortunately, not everyone is a fan of No Shave November. This illfated dichotomy within our population splits us between those who wish to unleash the true potential of their jaw lines and smooth-skinned, baby-faced naysayers. Yes, glabrate pussy-willows and women are two unfortunate hindrances to the glorious spectacle that is No Shave November. In reality, women despise No Shave November because it is the one time of year when, we, men care more about our beards than their boobs. Practically, beards offer many perks that perky boobs do not. A manly man’s lion mane offers, but is not limited to: • Extra face warmth • Storing food for the winter • Scaring away girls who would probably suck anyway • Saving money on razors • Shelter for feathered friends • Fighting crime For those of you possessing the necessary Y chromosome (or, for females, the necessary African or Middle Eastern genetic background) but lacking the testosterone or sheer grit to grow a beard on your own this November, here are “Just the Tips” for beard growing. (Just the tips, just for a month, just to see how it feels.) • Don’t Shave • Chop down a tree • Toss a dwarf five meters, or 1,000,000,000 beardseconds • Marinate your chin in whiskey • Wear steel-toe boots • Build a log cabin • If it’s even possible at Duke these days, find a sexy lady and seduce her with your musk of rich mahogany and virility And if, despite your best efforts, your beard looks like it belongs on a prepubescent Indian woman, never fear. As excellently put in “Dexter’s Laboratory,” it’s not the beard on the outside that counts, but the beard on the inside. So whether you can grow a great-white Dumbledore floor sweeper or just some peach fuzz, remember that your beard is proof of your independence and chutzpah. So go forth, grow some face moss and be the man you’ve always wanted to be. Let’s get beard this November. Shave the date. Mean Boy proudly rocks a pair of vicious muttonchops that keep away both pansies and girls who would try to make him shave them.
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of the lunchtime food trucks. Coffrey explained that busy traffic patterns during the day around campus limit location options for the trucks. He added that it is too early in the process to make long-term predictions about the program’s success. “As always, we want to offer a tremendous amount of variety to the dining program while not over-saturating or cannibalizing any segment of the program for any of our vendors,” Coffey said. Taylor noted that DUSDAC is doing its best to publicize the lunch food trucks. “We want to make sure people go, or else it threatens the whole thing,” Taylor said. Taylor said that he is hopeful that DUSDAC can change people’s daily routine, noting that the location is not as inconvenient as some might think. “It’s the best, most immediate solution to this problem,” Taylor said. “We can’t build a Chick-fil-A in a month.”
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As for vendors, Argote said that she remains positive and realizes that this is a new location and a new program. “I’m not discouraged, because I honestly decided not to have high expectations,” she said. Argote noted that she thinks the amount of customers will grow each week. If her customer base for lunch doesn’t grow, she said she will be disappointed. “Hopefully the colder weather won’t affect business,” she said. “Students still have to go to class.”
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include sausage sandwiches, a variation of a typical American hot dog. Two vegetarian sandwiches are also offered on the food truck. Kirkland said that the restaurant menu would expand on that of the food truck, including items such as Greek salad, buffalo chicken, side salads and cookies. Kirkland stressed the similarities between the truck
and the restaurant operations, noting that despite the additions to the menu, the process for cooking the food will be the same. “Pretty much it’s the same process we do on the truck, just a bigger kitchen,” Kirkland said. “We don’t want to change the way we do things because it works the way it is.” To serve more people, Baguetteaboutit has hired additional employees, and some of the current employees are shifting from the food truck to the restaurant. Mclane, who had worked on the food truck before she became the general manager of the restaurant, said that many of the staff will work in both locations. Baguetteaboutit does not intend to make changes to the operating hours of the truck. “We will keep our schedule as full as we can,” Kirkland said. Although the store will not accept food points and will lack the conveniency of the on-campus food truck, some student patrons are enthusiastic about the opening of the restaurant. Freshman Sierra Tolbert said that she would be willing to drive to the restaurant since she has a car. Even though she can eat from the Baguetteaboutit food truck on campus, Tolbert said that she will value having the option to sit down with her friends and enjoy her meals. “Just getting people together, eating and having fun— that’s our goal,” Kirkland said.
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a unique product, but that would remain relevant to the entire Duke population. TC: What are you goals for the future? SC: One of the main reasons we started The Standard was because we were unhappy with the administration of other publications we were working with previously. From the beginning, sustainability was one of our main goals. We wanted to make sure that we were setting up an operational model that could be managed and understood for years to come. We also wanted to make sure that The Standard had all the resources to continue growing once we left, as Maeva and I are both seniors. Applying for charter recognition from DSG was step one to ensure we were monetarily sound and had campus-wide credibility. We got approval just last week as well and it was an amazing feeling to know The Standard would have the support from the University from now on. However, sustainability is still on our minds as we think of how to transition new leadership and maintain a professional and unique product. As far as product goals go, we do want to move on to create an app for tablets and smartphones. We are still working out the details of how that will look, but we think it is not only the logical next step to keep us on the cutting edge, but also a wonderful complement to the website. TC: What is the significance of the name? SC: When we were brainstorming names, we had this long running list of words we thought were cool and had an interesting sound to it. The Standard really resonated with all of us because it has a very professional feel to it. From there, the name has grown to have a life of its own. It means something different to each person, which is something that we thought would be very interesting. It is an invitation for people to define and set their own standards. TC: What are the challenges of working with onlinebased media? SC: We believe digital is the next step for publications—that most media will move away from print in the future. However, we are pioneering a new realm, and so it is a lot of trial and error. We don’t have as many references to fall back on or look to as inspiration so we appreciate how accommodating our staff and the overall Duke population has been. I think one of our main challenges is getting readers to come back to our website once they’ve accessed our platform. How do we keep our audience hooked and interested? It’s wonderful that there are so many possibilities with our website, but we always need to keep in mind what keeps an audience coming back and staying on our page navigating for more than just a few minutes. We are very excited that we have launched, but would love further input on what kind of content readers want to see on our site. Currently, we run on an eight week cycle under one theme. Our theme is Unveiled for the rest of the semester.