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Research Scholars Duke Dining expands vegan repertoire Program receives mixed reviews by Jenna Zhang The Chronicle

Duke’s Research Scholars Program, which connects undergraduate students to research mentors, has drawn both high praise and criticism from its participants. Currently in its fourth semester, the Research Scholars Program selects 20 undergraduates each year from a pool of nearly 200 applicants and matches them with mentors—professors or graduate students, mostly in the sciences. Students in the program participate in lab research and assist mentors with their projects over the course of a semester. At the end of the program, they may choose to continue with their project or move on to other labs and fields of research. Despite the opportunities provided through the program, poor matches and lackluster work have left certain mentees wanting. “Basically, the goal of RSP is to look at students who are motivated and eager to get into wet lab research and connect them with mentors who have expressed an interest in taking on undergraduates,” said junior Akhil Sharma, RSP administrator and a former participant. “We try to build a relationship where both the mentor is happy, and the student is learning.” Since its establishment in 2011, the program has drawn polarized reactions from its participants—with some scholars lauding the program and other scholars expressing dissatisfaction. Still others claimed the middle ground and described their experiences as unexceptional, but useful for getting into other labs. See Research, page 5

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Duke Dining tries to acccommodate dietary restrictions by increasing vegan options following student concern.

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Duke Dining is continuing to expand its vegan options on campus in light of student concern over accessibility. Duke Dining Executive Chef Joseph Dowe expressed that although it is difficult to provide adequate vegan options for people representing a variety of eating pref-

erences, he said he plans to continuously experiment with certain foods and then offer the successful dishes more consistently in Penn Pavillion. For example, this month’s Chef’s Chatter Series at the Marketplace and Penn Pavillion offered a variety of sample vegan dishes by Dowe and fellow chef Joe LaPorte. See Vegan, page 12

Locopops stores close due to shifting business demands by Jen Chen

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The Locopops stores in Raleigh and Chapel Hill are out of business. Summer Bicknell, the owner of Locopops, said the venues closed Oct. 27 because many customers are no longer interested in visiting the brick and mortar stores. The venue in Durham remains unaffected, though it will be closed for the holiday season from mid-December to mid-January. “Customer feedback tells me that folks increasingly want to

enjoy Locopops during festivals, farmers markets, ball games, etc. and they want the convenience of grabbing a pop or pint while they’re shopping for other items or getting a coffee,” Bicknell wrote in a statement. “They’re less and less likely to make a special trip for one item. This trend prompted me to explore new delivery models.” Bicknell added that Locopops plans to have more carts and kiosks at events and popular venues, where the consumer demand is higher. “This change will free up resources so I can explore a mo-

bile option so we can take our frozen treats on the road,” the statement read. Bicknell wrote in an email Tuesday that the flagship Durham store, which opened in 2005, will always be open as long as Locopops exists. She declined to comment on the financial situation of the Durham store and whether the closing of the Raleigh and Chapel Hill locations was due to financial hardship. See Locopops, page 12

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Photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva spoke about her experiences documenting mammoth hunters in Artic Russia, Monday.

The Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology has secured a $15 million grant renewal to continue its research. Spanning several disciplines and six institutions with its headquarters at Pratt School of Engineering, CEINT will use its renewed endowment—a joint grant from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency— to continue studying the potential hazards of small particles on organisms and ecosystems in a rapidly evolving modern world. The five-year-old CIENT has received this grant before, said Jie Liu, a CEINT investigator and George Barth Gellar professor of chemistry. “It’s a very important task to understand how nanomaterials will impact the environment,” Liu said. “We all know that nanomaterials are becoming more useful in many areas, and how that will impact the environment is not well studied. Duke has a very strong theme to study the environmental impact of these materials.” The center was founded in 2008 by CEINT Director Mark Wiesner, James L. Meriam professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Deputy Director Gregory Lowry, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, which is part of the center. CIENT has been using top-of-the-line technology to apply basic science research to the study of the environmental implications of nanotechnology, Executive Director Christine Hendren noted. The center, which explores a variety of interdisciplinary topics, will begin to hone in on the issue of organisms coming in contact with certain nanomaterials and the effect on the environment. “There’s a lot of work going on about what the hazards are of what nanomaterials might do to organisms and what the possible exposure of nanomaterials might do to organisms in ecosystems,” Wiesner said. “The gap between those two is the area of biouptake—once you’re swimming around in it, will it take it up?”

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The center’s focus on the translation of basic science into the research of environmental risk assessment initially won the center its first joint grant from the EPA and NSF at the time of its foundation. “We have a lot of expertise in complex environmental interactions—we’re looking at an environmentally relevant and realistic scenario,” Hendren said. CEINT conducts ecological nanomaterials research through the use of its mesocosm facility, which consists of test chambers that can replicate the natural environmental conditions of the wetlands in a controllable, experimental setting. “In the environment, you start getting factors you don’t actually think about, like sunlight or small bacteria or fungi inside the water,” Liu said. “The mesocosm facility is very important for the center. We’re not just testing in the lab, and the results from the lab and the mesocosm are very different, sometimes the opposite.” While each research team in the center will continue its individual research project with its allocated grant money, the center as a whole hopes to further explore the various effects and hazards of nanomaterials on the environment in the years to come. “In the second arch of the funding in the next five years, we’re going to get much more detailed and focused on the complexities involved and get more into what is required to measure concentrations and biouptake,” Hendren said. “We really hope to grow in some of the areas related to this.”

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Naresh Vissa graduated from Fuqua in 2012 and has recently published a book about the business school.

Naresh Vissa, Fuqua ‘12, recently published a book titled “everything You need to Know About the Duke Fuqua MMS: A Guide of Memoirs for Applicants and Students.” Half of the book’s profits will be donated to the Fuqua School of Business. The Chronicle’s Emma Baccellieri sat down with Vissa to discuss the new publication.

high-quality information at a relatively cheap price. TC: is there a part of the book you think readers might find particularly interesting? NV: not only does it have good information about the application process— most of the questions that i’ve been getting from the applicants have been about what is the admissions interview like, what will i need to prepare—but i think the most beneficial part of the book actually targets current students, as well. i have several chapters devoted to interviewing, getting a job, what industries to look at when you’re looking for jobs, how to be more entrepreneurial. The benefit of these chapters is that they draw specific questions for anyone, it doesn’t even have to be an MMS student—it can be any Duke student, it can be any student around the world—i address these questions.

The Chronicle: What inspired you to write the book? Naresh Vissa: While i was a student, i received several inquiries from international students who wanted to apply to the MMS program, and i also received several inquiries from students who attended my undergraduate institution, which was Syracuse University.... Because so many people were reaching out to me, people obviously had questions and the best way to answer these questions was to write a book—to really explain what Fuqua is like, what the MMS is like, how the professors are, what student life is like, what Duke is like and Durham—to have the entire picture for TC: is the book intended to be more these students and to give access to this for applicants or for students, or geared

towards these audiences equally? NV: The first part of the book is dedicated to the application process, so that includes who to look for when you’re getting a recommendation but the other half is geared more towards students, the current MMS students who are looking for jobs or are wondering what they are going to do with their lives... A lot of a students are a little confused as to what they want to do professionally. it’s really half and half, i think both applicants and current students will find it pretty beneficial. TC: Why did you decide to donate half of the proceeds to Fuqua through Duke Forward? NV: i knew when i was writing this that it wasn’t going to set any bestselling records. Donating made sense because i’m basically writing about my experiences as a Fuqua student and telling people about Duke, about Durham, about Fuqua. it made sense to give back to Fuqua because of what Fuqua gave me.

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Students’ complaints have ranged from research interest mismatch during the initial selection process to dissatisfaction with the work they were given during the course of the program. “i didn’t list cell biology at all, but i got put into a cell biology lab,” said sophomore Kevin Do who participated in the program this year. “i got really lucky. What if i was unlucky and i hated cell biology?” The program sends student applications to professors and graduate students who have expressed interest in becoming mentors. Based on an applicant’s strengths, experience and interests, the mentors then choose four to six students to interview and ultimately select one or two with whom to collaborate. Through the interview process, the research Scholars Program hopes to maximize student-mentor compatibility. Approximately 12 or 13 mentors working in a variety of fields offer to participate in the program each year. on the program application, however, there are 18 fields of interest listed. As a result, students often end up working in fields of research in which they are not sufficiently interested. one scholar majoring in biomedical engineering ended up working in a psychology lab, while anowwther scholar who had expressed an interest in cell biology was put into an evolutionary biology lab. Sharma noted that there was a lack of mentors available and said that the program was trying to increase the variety of fields participants can explore through rSP. “A lot of times, you see a lot of interest by students in terms of say, i want to do biology research or i want to do research in medicine,” he said. “But we can’t obviously offer everybody a spot in those areas, unless we have enough mentors. So a problem we’ve had is a lot of students applying for research in the same fields, and we’re only able to accommodate a few of them.” Participants often did not know that they had the option of expressing mismatch dissatisfaction to program administrators without losing their spot in the program. Sharma added that even though the program would try to find

a better match for these students, there was no guarantee that they would be accommodated. other students have expressed dissatisfaction regarding the type of work they were given during the program, describing it as “monotonous” or “menial”. “For me, going into the lab during the rSP, it felt like a chore, and i hated that,” sophomore Keizra Mecklai said. “it taught me that i didn’t like research because i thought it was a chore. it didn’t feel like i had any ownership.” in response to these complaints, Do criticized other program participants for not being more proactive and putting more outside time into their research. “one of the big differences is willingness to read outside,” he said. “i mean, as undergrads, you probably don’t know the specialty your [principal investigator] works in. if you don’t mind doing boring stuff all day, that’s great. if you’re interested in doing high level science, then you have to be willing to read outside, and i feel like a lot of people aren’t doing that.” rSP administrator emma Fridel, a senior, said that many of the tasks which some scholars perceived as tedious are an ordinary part of every lab. “Your Pi washes dishes,” she said. “At the end of the day, somebody is going to have to do the menial work, and if you’re not doing it, your mentor’s doing it.” Despite the criticism it has drawn from certain participants, rSP has also garnered praise. “i highly recommend the program,” said senior Melissa Day who still works in the lab she was matched with through rSP. Many of those who expressed mixed or negative reactions to the program recommended it as a launchpad for evaluating interests or finding positions in better-suited labs. After the program, scholars who did not continue in their assigned labs said they found it easier to get lab work in other fields with some lab experience on their resumes. “A lot of us weren’t working in stuff we’d have chosen,” sophomore Kaustav Shah said. “But it’s still a good experience, working in a lab. it’s good for all of us to get our feet wet.”

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Storm that field, baby Those fans loyal enough to stick around for the end of Saturday’s game against Miami got to experience the most awe-inspiring event in all of sports—storming a college football field. Up 48-30 with just four minutes to play, the Blue Devils kicked off to the Hurricanes, and fans started their descent to the the wall, anticipating the postgame charge. Miami turned the ball over on downs with less than a minute left to play, and Duke supporters located where they would jump over the wall onto the field. The announcer reminded the crowd several times that only “authorized personnel” are allowed on the field after the game. Yeah, right. Anthony Boone took a knee and the clock started to tick down toward zero. The cheerleaders got out of the way, and armed policemen stood beside yellow-clad security guards facing a daunting task. Those brave souls charged with keeping fans off the field looked as outnumbered as the Spartans in 300 but without the resolve to hold back the tidal wave of Blue Devil faithful. The final seconds ran of the clock, and a thousand newly “authorized personnel” went over the wall and rushed onto the field. The celebration was on. No one really knows what to do once they are on the field. The team rushes towards each other at the 50-yard line, and everyone else follows. State troopers encircle Coach Cutcliffe like he is the

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After freshman Jabari Parker and the Blue Devils opened the game hitting 11 straight shots and built an 18-point lead, East Carolina fought back to draw within one in the final minutes.

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East Carolina overcame a 17-point deficit with less than 10 minutes remaining to beat Norfolk State Monday night. Tuesday, the Pirates spotted Duke an 18-point lead then nearly came all the way back to stun the Blue Devils. Playing in front of another below-capacity crowd at Cameron Indoor Stadium, the No. 6 Blue Devils survived

a scare from the upstart Pirates, 83-74, to advance to next week’s semifinals of the NIT Season Tip-Off. Duke was powered by 30 points from Rodney Hood and 21 from Jabari Parker. “They came back last night, they’re used to doing that,” Hood said. “They’re playing with free money, they’re playing on our home court. No pressure on them, all the pressure on us.” The Blue Devils (4-1) came out on fire, hitting their See M. BASKETBALL, page 9

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Parker and the Durham Dunk Co. always put a show on in Cameron A Monday-night game against UNC-Asheville: A pithy student crowd shows up to a 91-55 Duke blowout. The very next day, the Blue Devils play again. This time, the opponent is East Carolina. Section 17 appears nearly as empty as the day before, except there is plenty of Pirate purple sprinkled in. “In warm-ups you can see it,” Quinn Cook says. “If you can see the brown, you can see the bleachers— something’s going on.” Duke hits its first 11 shots, and another rout appears in order. But then it isn’t. The Pirates storm back and bring the game within one, only to fall short 83-74. “It was a heck of a basketball game,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I wish that more people could have attended.” Part of the emptiness is to blame on the Preseason NIT. Both days, the pair of games was considered a single-admission doubleheader, and each school was given an area to sell tickets to their fans. The single-admission part essentially guarantees some empty areas because

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fans from the schools not playing aren’t necessarily going to watch the other game. It happens in tournaments all the time. East Carolina’s allotted area was in Section 17, explaining why it appeared even emptier during Monday’s Duke game and purpler Tuesday. The bigger problem, though: The schools couldn’t sell their allotment of tickets, and Duke was only informed about this Sunday, said Mike Cragg, senior associate director of athletics for operations. Usually, Duke can figure out how many students will come to a game and when it won’t be full. That’s when they sell tickets to Section 17. “We can anticipate these nights,” Cragg said. “But we couldn’t do anything about it.” Duke tried to give away the tickets for free, but the Preseason NIT didn’t allow them to, Cragg said. As Krzyzewski said after the game, the seating arrangement at the Preseason NIT “stinks” because it “ruined the atmosphere of Cameron.” Students, though, could have continued to come. They weren’t being turned away. Any stuSee BEATON, page 8

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dent who showed up before game time would’ve been allowed in. Any student who wanted to watch Duke dribble out the clock after a thrilling second half probably could’ve walked in for just that final moment. Perhaps it was because students have midterms, Cragg said, and that Duke is amid a stretch of three home games in five days. There was the epic football game Saturday too. That’s a lot for even the most dedicated Blue Devil fans. And then there are other reasons that are common sense: Sometimes it’s nice to watch a game in high-definition on a couch with a beer and a laptop. But go watch this team in person. This isn’t to blame students—I’ve spent plenty of games watching on a couch. And I’ve never bought the argument that any athletic team, professional or amateur, “deserves” fans. This argument has been made with practically every non-revenue sport, football and women’s basketball over the years. It usually sounds something like, “Fans should go because the team is good and deserves the support of its peers.” I don’t want to blame people for not going as if they’ve done something wrong. I just want to say: If you’re not watching this team in person, you’re missing out. There is something so incredibly fun about this year’s team that doesn’t quite translate to television, even with surround sound and a 60-inch 1080p flat screen. This is the type of team fans dream about. Not fans of Duke, fans of the sport.

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A team that runs and guns, pumps fists and bumps chests, and dunks and dunks again. It’s a real-life video game. Jabari Parker dunked the ball four times against East Carolina. One was an alley-oop from Cook that sent the fans— those that were there—berserk. On another, he dribbled the full length of the floor through four Pirate defenders and sent it home with ease as if he were playing alone on the Central Campus courts. There was almost a fifth—another alley-oop from Cook—that might have been the best slam in program history if Parker were able to successfully put it down with his mighty right arm that stretched out like Michael Jordan’s at the end of Space Jam. There will be plenty of time to watch Parker on TV next year, when he’s most likely playing in the NBA. What Parker, Rodney Hood and the rest of the Blue Devils are doing right here and now on Coach K Court isn’t the same on TV. Whether the game is a blowout, like against UNC-Asheville, or a nail-biter, like against East Carolina, entertainment is guaranteed. If it’s a blowout, just enjoy the Durham Dunk Co. put on a highlight reel with ease. If it’s a good game, enjoy that. You’ll get some awesome dunks too. The price of admission to Club Cameron is free, and the show is unlike any other in recent memory. Just ask any student who was there because with all the excitement this team generated, the noise at the end made it seem like the stands were packed. “I felt like it was regular Cameron in here,” Cook said. “The fans who came did great.”

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President of the United States, and general pandemonium sets in. Some people take pictures, some tear up the turf to take home as a souvenir and some brave souls might even go for the goalpost to tear it down—a tradition that colleges have put a stop to for safety reasons. Something akin to a rave starts up in the middle of the field, as fans swarm the players, jumping up and down and slapping them on the helmets and shoulder pads. There is nothing as exciting as pouring over that wall and streaming onto the field with friends and strangers alike, everyone caught up in the excitement and bonded together by a common sense of euphoria. Duke fans have been lucky enough to participate in this unique celebration two years in a row. Last year’s game against North Carolina was the first time in a long time Blue Devil fans got to storm the field. The showdown with the Tar Heels ended in dramatic fashion. Jamison Crowder caught the game-winning touchdown pass with just seconds left, and the crowd took to the field in celebration of Dukes’ first bowl berth since 1994. After the dust settles, a lot of people will say that they were the first one on the field following the victory. I am one of those people. After Crowder scored, I ran down to the front of the student section and took my place in the first row. As my legs dangled over the wall waiting to jump, a security guard politely asked me to use the stairs to access the field once the game finished. I don’t know if he was required to say that, or if he was just naïve. Either way, using the stairs never even crossed my mind, or anyone else’s. Where’s the fun in calmly storming the field? After last year’s experience, people were ready this year. As the game came to a close Saturday, fans knew exactly what was about to happen

and exactly how to do it. And it was a beautiful sight, watching everyone come together to celebrate the victory. For the second year in a row, the Blue Devils last home game ended in the best way imaginable. In typical Duke football fashion, some students left the game after halftime to get ready for their Saturday night out, even though the Blue Devils went into the locker room with the lead. Some fans even left after the third quarter with Duke up by one. Those poor unfortunate souls missed out. When I was 15 years old, I went to watch Kentucky play No. 1 LSU in Lexington, my hometown. The Wildcats knocked off the undefeated Tigers in three overtimes, and Kentucky fans stormed the field and tore down the goal posts. Although my dad probably would have let me go onto the field, I didn’t. I stayed in my seat and watched one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in sports. But to this day, my biggest regret as a football fan is that I didn’t take to the field that night. I told myself I would never make that mistake again. Thankfully, Duke has given me two opportunities to repent for my sin. I will be a senior next year, and I might never get another opportunity to storm a football field. I can live with that. Thanks to the incredible seasons the Blue Devils have put together the past two years, I will remember for the rest of my life the times I got to go over the wall and onto the field at Wallace Wade Stadium like a Civil War solider rushing into battle. At the N.C. State game two weeks ago I heard chants of “football school” coming from the home crowd in Wallace Wade. Saturday I chanted it along with most of the stadium. We may not be a “football school” for a long time, or ever, but the Blue Devils gave us a chance to celebrate like it Saturday, and that’s good enough for me.

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first 11 shots from the floor and sprinting out to an early 21-7 lead. Duke’s first miss came with just more than 11 minutes remaining in the first half. Point guard Quinn Cook led the offensive barrage, finishing the opening period with 11 points and seven assists, but it was where his teammates were catching his passes that enabled them to have success. Twenty-eight of Duke’s 43 first-half points came in the paint. Parker was the main beneficiary of Cook’s passing, pouring in 12 first-half points on 6-of-8 shooting, nearly all of which came inside the key. “They were going man, so we have scorers and guys that can make plays when they get in the lane. And then they went zone and kind of stood us up,” said Cook, who finished with 14 points and 10 assists. “We gutted it out at the end, and we needed this learning experience.” The hot shooting did not last. Duke made just 16 of its last 46 shots, including plenty of looks around the rim. The vaunted 3-point assault was also lacking, as the Blue Devils were just 5-for-14 overall from downtown. “When we did get close to the bucket, we couldn’t finish the play tonight,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “And then all of a sudden, [the Pirates] stay in there, and they’re playing really well, and there’s an incredible amount of game pressure. You can cut it with a knife. And I’m proud of my guys, we responded.” Although East Carolina (4-1) never held a lead, there were times Tuesday when Duke’s nonconference home winning streak, which sudoku_401A now stands at 105, ap-

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The role of athletic scholarships Athletic scholarships not only reward outstanding athletes for their hard work, they also allow the University to increase the competitiveness of its sports teams. In order to field a competitive squad, Duke Football uses all 85 scholarships allotted to it as a way to attract promising players to Duke. The results of this recruitment effort—which Duke has coupled with other investments in the football program—are beginning to show, and we laud the team for its recent successes. Although football scholarships have proven immensely valuable for the University, the current system of allocating athletic scholarships presents a set of difficult tradeoffs. In 1972 Congress passed Title IX, a portion of which seeks to promote gender equity in collegiate sports. To comply with Title IX, Duke counterbalances the 85 scholarships allotted to football by allocating an equal number of scholarships to women’s sports. As a result, it may put a strain on the allotment of scholarships for male non-revenue sports team, as adding scholarships for male athletes would knock Duke out of compliance with Title IX. Gender equity in college sports—and Title IX, in particular—is extremely important.

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unimaginable and unpredictable ways. She might exchange her childhood desire to become a doctor for the equally eyesight-damaging career goal of becoming a lawyer. Or she might eschew the post-grad route altogether and opt instead for a lucrative career in finance or consulting, or a slightly less well-remunerated job as a teacher or a Peace Corps volunteer. Whatever transformation ends up happening, parents and students alike can rest assured that students will come out the other side as different people, for better or for worse. It is the University’s responsibility to simultaneously foster students’ exploration of life-changing alternatives and to ensure that these pivotal transformations occur in as safe an environment as possible. There is no doubt that this is a difficult balance to strike. After all, most college students are legal adults, and many are of legal drinking age for at least the last year of their undergraduate career. But it is precisely students’ situation in this nebulous period between adolescence and adulthood that necessitates a brand of oversight that provides guidance and protection when requested and exists comfortingly and respectfully in the background when it is not. Vanderbilt University students on Thursday filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education, alleging that the university has not adequately responded to sexual assault on campus. Similar to complaints made by students at Yale University and Swarthmore College, Vanderbilt students alleged the school had not fulfilled its obligation under the Clery Act to ensure that cases of “domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking” be provided a “prompt, fair and impartial investigation and resolution.” In September, a former Vanderbilt football player accepted a plea deal for his involvement in the aggravated rape and battery of an unconscious female student in June. In exchange for testifying against his ex-teammates, Chris Boyd can stay in school and even get his record expunged if he stays out of trouble for a year. I understand the practicalities of the deal. I understand how useful it is for prosecution to have Boyd testify against his former teammates. I even

understand that Boyd’s involvement only in covering up the crime makes him a good candidate for such a plea deal. He escapes a felony conviction and a twoyear sentence, and the prosecution gets a stronger case. What doesn’t make sense is the fact that Boyd is allowed to continue at Vanderbilt and possibly even continue as a member of the football team. Essentially, assuming Boyd can live a PG-13 life for a single year, he will get off scot-free. In the meantime, the girl whose rape he helped to cover up must struggle with the repercussions of a half-remembered event that has fundamentally changed her life. Even though reports such as Yale’s second climate campus assessment show that the obligations imposed by the Clery Act have contributed to a healthy sexual climate at schools, the unfortunate reality is that providing access to reporting mechanisms and fair trials does not ensure that victims of sexual assault and rape recognize their own need to take advantage of such services. This misrecognition could be the product of several different cultural realities, from the lack of sexual education class in middle and high schools across the country, to the double standard of responsibility for intoxicated people. Although universities across the country have come a long way in recognizing the prevalence of sexual assault on their campuses, a double standard of responsibility still prevails. The double standard is usually correlated to gender, where drunk women are held responsible for the aftermath of their drunken escapades, while drunk men are usually allowed to blame their actions on an alcohol-induced loss of inhibition. Under most criminal statutes defining rape and sexual assault, intoxication negates the ability of either party to consent. This de jure reality, however, stands in contrast with the stark de facto reality of the hookup culture of undergraduates, in which alcohol and intoxication play a central role. It is this reality that makes its participants reason that, while they might have technically been sexually assaulted or raped, surely the strict consent provisions of the law were not meant to apply to their case. That is not to say that undergraduate campuses should be dry. Nor do I want to argue that alcohol should be excluded from social interactions among adolescents and 20-somethings. It is just important to be careful where consent and alcohol are concerned. Universities may be obligated to deal with reported sexual crimes according to standards laid out in federal law, but individual students also have an obligation to translate legal standards into cultural reality. Joline Doedens is a second-year law student. Her column runs every other Wednesday. Send Joline a message @jydoedens.

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irst and foremost, let me apologize. This article will make no sense. I’ll admit it: I’m on drugs. I found out today that I have vocal nodes, a la Pitch Perfect. In the process of finding these nodes, as strange medical instruments violated my nose, I accidentally inhaled some sort of stimulant. I think there is a good chance it was an amphetamine, because I feel like I

who probably doesn’t have pubic hair yet to an event where people SNORT COCAINE OFF CARS … and then LEAVE THEM THERE ALONE??) But that was never the Tailgate I experienced. In fact, walking up to my first Tailgate, it was the first time Duke felt like home. When it came time to choose where to go to college, I had a really hard time deciding. In fact, I did not pick

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omewhere along the way, students and educators became an afterthought at this school. When, on April 25, 2013—a day after undergraduate classes had ended—Duke’s faculty representatives voted against the adoption of online courses for credit, certain decisions had already been made. A special session of the Arts and Sciences Council had to be scheduled to approve an agreement with a for-profit corporation, 2U, that the Provost signed five months prior. Wary of unanswered questions, faculty representatives

tion to new technology. They agree: Lectures made freely available, a kind of “educational television,” are overwhelmingly positive. But should that subsume the classroom? “In general, online seems good for highly specialized courses,” notes Olcott. “It works well for remedial education, where there’s a pretty clear answer.” Research, critical engagement and students with special needs—what distinguishes a school—are tossed by the wayside. I found that even administrationsponsored presenters generally concede

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could wrestle a bear. But alas, the show must go on, even if your teeth are sentient and attempting to eat your face. Anyway, I’d like to extend congratulations to the Duke Football team on their new Top 25 ranking. Your effort, teamwork and dedication have clearly paid off. And that’s where my talking about football ends, because frankly, I think football is stupid. This is largely because it has too many rules, and also because I have serious ADHD, and any sport with 30 seconds of action for every 10 minutes of life spent watching is not for me. But football fans, don’t take it personally. It’s more that I don’t like college sports in general. It makes approximately zero sense to me why sports are priorities of educational institutions. Who decided those two things go together? It makes just about as much sense for sports to be linked with prestigious academic and research institutions as it does for such institutions to be linked with pretty much any other hobby. Say baking. Or interpretive dance. Or competitive gardening. Think what life would be like if the Duke Campus Farm’s director made $10 million a year. Free zucchini for everyone. For LIFE. Despite my qualms with athletics, back in freshman year, I went to pretty much every football game. And that, my friends, was because of Tailgate. YES, I SAID IT. It’s a law of physics: The longer Duke football is discussed, the higher probability Tailgate is mentioned and its elimination is harped upon. Or, actually, mostly, it probably works the other way around. Ah, Tailgate. The beautiful, somehowrelated-to-football land where fairies, cowmen and human bananas came together to make out. Where we could drunkenly devour Chick-fil-A guilt-free, because sandwiches were not yet political props. Where trashcans were filled not with trash but with beer. I’ll admit, as I was a freshman (and, perhaps more importantly, a freshman with a boyfriend) for all of my Tailgate experiences, I probably didn’t understand Tailgate’s greek-ness or its role as a prolonged mating ritual. The world I saw in the Blue Zone was simply perfection. Now, I understand Tailgate had its problems, culminating in the world’s most appalling demonstration of idiocy ever. (Seriously, who would bring someone

Duke for its academic rigor or because it “felt right.” I chose Duke for the aid package I was offered. Knowing money ruled my decision over actual fit with the school, I was already unsure whether I’d like it at all. Arriving at college, I didn’t understand the Duke scene. Social status was a new concept to me, and I hated the pressure to “act cool.” I was used to my hometown, where my friends and I spent most of our time acting like immature 5-year-olds high off of Pixie Sticks. During my first month or so at Duke, I couldn’t find anyone willing to be weird or even a bit uncool. I was pretty sure I’d made the wrong choice. And then came the first football game. Walking up to Tailgate and seeing what must have been every single Duke student dressed in absolutely ridiculous (and awesome) costumes, dancing to blaring music, throwing beer everywhere and generally just not giving a f--k—it was the first time I knew I had made the right choice by coming to Duke. I knew if the entire Duke student body was easygoing enough— or goofy enough—to participate in something like Tailgate, I would surely find I would like it here. But Tailgate is gone, and for many good reasons. And as much as I’d love to see it back, I don’t miss most parts of it. What I do miss is the realization that although Duke students are intelligent and driven, they also don’t take themselves too seriously. As I’ve progressed in my Duke career, I’ve become less and less sure of the lesson Tailgate taught me. When Duke lost Tailgate, it lost more than a party. It lost its only true venue for all students—any students—to be goofy. But Dukies, take heart. Everybody’s weird, and it shouldn’t take a coating of beer for that part of you to come out. Tailgate exists in the hearts and minds of Duke students, as long as we’re willing to look for it. Even though we don’t have a formal event to be weird at, you shouldn’t be afraid to show off your internal tutu and let everyone know the weirdo you truly are.

voted to break that contract. But pursuing online education had long been promised—and not by people in classrooms. That commitment carries forward. Over the summer, the University named a new vice provost specifically to “oversee Duke’s experiments with online education.” (Details are hazy, but it’s clear who the test subjects will be.) Since then, departments have been hit with solicitations for online proposals, the campus with a surge of presentations promoting the medium. I attended two in just the last week. It’s part of a wave sweeping across American universities, one that conservative columnist David Brooks calls a “campus tsunami.” What these tides will bring—and who they might submerge—remains to be seen. In the midst, we are pushed along like so much flotsam. As for many of my fellow students, this story—the future they foresee for us—was unfamiliar to me until recently. It only broke the surface when, on November 7, a concerned faculty member emailed me writing of “terrifying” curricular changes advocated by the administration. The letter describes “alarm wideranging attempts by the provost and dean, with the acquiescence and eager cheerleading of the chair of Trinity Arts & Sciences Council, to push through a fundamental transformation of undergraduate education at Duke.” This tenured professor with a family and children prefers to remain unnamed for fear of professional pressure. After further conversation, however, I was introduced to several other faculty members relating the same issues. “We’re talking about the questions that don’t even get raised, because there’s no place to raise them,” says Wahneema Lubiano, associate professor of African and African American studies. “If you show up to a forum that tells you how to do online teaching, that’s not the place where you can say: Wait, isn’t there an earlier conversation that we should have had, before we got to how to do this thing? Why do we do this thing, and under what conditions? For whom is this intended?” These are people, in the words of Priscilla Wald, professor of English and women’s studies, who are “profoundly committed teachers.” Potential erosion of the pedagogy so central to their lives has driven them to voice their concerns. Jocelyn Olcott, associate professor of history and international comparative studies, literally drove from research leave to speak with me. She articulated a position shared by all of the educators I met, far from simple opposi-

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Lillie Reed is a Trinity senior. Her column is part of the weekly Socialites feature and runs every other Wednesday. Send Lillie a message on Twitter @LillieReed.

this point. Online packages follow a typical formula: resource pages, comment threads and taped lectures/discussions that leave “synchronous” engagement for office hours and seminar sessions. “At its worst,” says Olcott, “it’s a cookie-cutter approach that assumes knowledge is static and all students learn in the same way.” In its open letter rejecting the offer to adopt Harvard’s online course surveying justice, the San Jose State University philosophy department was less polite. To teach justice via “videotaped lectures that include excerpts of Harvard students making comments,” they wrote, “amounts to a cruel joke.” “Scholarship is something that lives,” Wald emphasizes. “Over a year, I’ve changed my perspective; I’ve read other things … I have—best of all—learned from my students.” Micaela Janan, associate professor of classical studies, observes how old the proposed model actually is. “It’s the teacher with the yellowed notes,” she says, referencing the crude practice of giving unchanging lectures. Put differently, it’s an upscale University of Phoenix, at $58,278 a year. The headlong rush to digitize curricula has left questions lingering across campuses. Academic labor implications, for one, are staggering. While Dean Laurie Patton proclaims “profit is not a dirty word,” as she did of 2U, faculty members foresee funds flowing from teaching positions (you only need the one on video, after all) outward to a handful of Ivy League stars and tech corporations. And we still barely understand what “online” does to “education.” A 2010 Department of Education report found only five sufficiently rigorous studies on online education’s “learning effects,” concluding that the research largely remains to be done. A study published this year found instructional technology generally “helps in logistics, not learning” at research universities. Its author, sociologist David Johnson, describes with dismay the “ceremonial myth” among administrators “that being a cutting-edge university means being high tech.” There’s a better way for Duke to be cutting-edge in its cohort, and it’s what these dedicated teachers ask. Let us think through what this means for our community: broadly, openly and collaboratively. Let us set the terms of our relationships collectively. Isn’t that what the internet was supposed to be about? Prashanth Kamalakanthan is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday. Send Prashanth a message on Twitter @pkinbrief.

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LOCOPOPS from page 1 locopops products will continue to be available through 23 merchants in the research Triangle area, including The Museum of life and Science Café, Foster’s Market and Sam’s Quik Shop in Durham, she added. not all customers prefer the mobile convenience to the classical store setting though. “There was something special about the storefront—the large whiteboard with funny drawings, the freezers full of colorful pops, it felt almost nostalgic,” elliot Acosta, a frequent customer of the locopops raleigh store, wrote in an email Monday. “it’s sad it’s going away and that’s something you cannot replicate buying from a retail store.” Bicknell echoed a similar sentiment about the classical store setting. “i agree totally that there are flavors and a customer experience that are unique to visiting our store, which is one reason why we’ve kept Durham open,” she wrote in an email Tuesday. Acosta said he still looks forward to purchasing locopops products through other venues. Similarly, local Yogurt closed down its Dur-

ham store on University Drive in July. however, there are no plans to close other local Yogurt venues. “The lease was up and our erwin store is fairly close by, so we just thought it was the right timing to change some things,” said leah Bergman, co-owner of local Yogurt. local Yogurt currently has three locations in Durham, elon and Greenville. There are also loYo on the Go food trucks circulating around the cities, however the loYo truck was not invited back to Duke’s campus this year. local Yogurt’s business has declined slightly as of late, said Madeline Jones, an employee at the venue on erwin road. “Usually we get more customers at night than during the day, but in general things haven’t changed very much,” she said. Although business has changed in the past year, the local Yogurt on erwin road is here to stay. “of course, things are changing and we are always looking around for new locations to move to, but the stores that we currently have will stay for a while,” Bergman said. Bergman added that she plans to expand by adding a few more trucks and machines when students are away for the holiday season.

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The Locopops stores in Raleigh and Chapel Hill have closed due to slow business.

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VEGAN from page 1 “The trick is something that’s filling,” Dowe said. “People want vegan food to taste like steak or chicken—well, it’s not. We try to keep our food as real as possible, providing dishes made with products from the earth rather than those that are processed.” lavanya Sunder, vice president for services of Duke Student Government, said that despite complaints about lack of dining options in general, there have been few complaints about specifically vegetarian and vegan options. however, a lack of information regarding the vegan foods’ location has presented a larger problem than the quality of the food. “The problem is that students don’t know where these options are,” Sunder said. “There is a lack of readily available information.” Because of recent dining changes, DSG and Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee are working alongside the nutrition education Task Force—a student group promoting nutrition and healthy dining at Duke—in order to increase this accessible information and improve labeling, Sunder said. Sunder also said that Bon Appetit, a food management company Duke uses, is currently overhauling nutrition in Penn Pavillion. “The wheels are already turning,” she said. Dishes at the november Chef’s Chatter, which occurred in celebration of national Vegan Month, included black bean wraps, portabello sloppy joe sliders, lentil soup and vegan bruschetta. Junior Sandy ren, a non-vegan said the vegan sloppy joe was better than any meat forms of it she had eaten. “i was blown away by it,” ren said.

The Chronicle This kind of enthusiasm for vegan dishes is something Dowe aims for. Although he has heard no complaints about the quality of vegan food options, he said people are always looking for additional choices. other special dietary preferences are on DSG’s radar as well, such as attempting to provide sufficient options for those who keep kosher. The population of students who keep kosher is relatively small and Duke does what it needs to for the Jewish Community, said rachel Fraade, vice president of religious life for the Jewish Student Union. however, those who do keep kosher can find it to be a costly and inconvenient practice on campus. “Food at the Freeman Center [for Jewish life] is very good, but it can be out of the way and become very expensive,” Fraade said. The Freeman Center serves kosher dinner five nights per week with dishes that often include meat. Fraade said most kosher students tend to follow vegetarian diets in order to avoid dealing with kosher meat restrictions. “The biggest suggestion, therefore, is to provide more vegetarian options and to improve the level of convenience,” she said. Fraade speculated that with the upcoming opening of West Union and the prospect of a more expansive kitchen, however, dining services may be better able to serve the needs of those with special dietary preferences.

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