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END OF THE ROAD UConn ends Duke’s national championship run by Delaney King The ChroniCle

norFolK, Va.—Duke suffered its first loss to Connecticut in program history in the game that mattered the most. Taking on the huskies and seeking their first-ever national title, the fourthseeded Blue Devils fell 2-0 at the l.r. hill Sports Complex in norfolk, Va. Capitalizing on two goals at the end of the first half, Connecticut took home its third national championship. “We have to execute in a corner situation against a team like Connect-

icut,” head coach Pam Bustin said. “We didn’t execute on our opportunities, which were the attack penalty corners.” Despite Duke claiming four of the first five penalty corners in the game, the huskies were the first to score. After a shot was deflected off Duke goalkeeper lauren Blazing, Connecticut’s Chloe hunnable capitalized on the loose ball, tapping in her 23rd goal of the season to put the huskies up 1-0. Six minutes later, Connecticut scored again, this time with hunnable assisting teammate Mckenzie Townsend to double its advantage heading into the locker room. At halftime, the teams had an even four shots and four corners each. huskie senior goalkeeper Sarah Mansfield See FIELD HOCKEY, page 9

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Protestors respond to death Construction a hindrance to kilgo Quad residents of in-custody 17-year-old by Elizabeth Djinis The ChroniCle

A riot occurred outside of the Durham Police Department headquarters Friday evening, resulting in property damage and local disturbance. The demonstration began as a non-violent meeting between community members in light of 17-year-old Jesus huerta’s death Tuesday from a gunshot wound in the back of a police car. The group gathered in the CCB Plaza by the bull statue in the center of downtown Durham and continued towards the police station. According to a november 23 news and observer article, as masked demonstrators joined the procession, throwing firecrackers at officers.

DPD released a statement Saturday afternoon recalling the events of the protest and its end. Police officers arrested Shahqeel McCrimmon, a 19-year-old Durham resident, and charged him with failure to disperse on command, holding a meeting while wearing a mask and causing a public disturbance. he was released from jail Saturday after posting a $1,500 bond. huerta’s case is still under investigation by the north Carolina State Bureau of investigation. DPD Police Chief Jose lopez issued a statement Tuesday clarifying the details related to huerta’s death. After the juvenile was taken into custody for second-degree trespassing See RIOTS on PAGe 4

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Construction near Kilgo Quadrangle has left some residents unsatisfied. Part of the West Union renovation project, the construction has brought student complaints regarding noise and hours. Administrators, however, said that they are working to mitigate the problems. “We’ve both been woken up, me and my roommate, on a lot of occasions, especially in the mornings,” said Kilgo n resident Alex Wertheim, a senior. “Sometimes it gets so loud that once you wake up you can’t fall back asleep and so it’s been pretty bad.” Students were told that work would begin at 8 a.m. each day, but some claim that the workers start earlier.

“My friends live in a room just overlooking the construction, and they say that [the workers] start earlier than 8 a.m.,” said sophomore Carolyn Peterseim, a Kilgo resident. She suggested to the Kilgo house Council that the windows might be soundproofed, an idea brought about from conversations with friends. house Council took the idea to the administration, she said, and it is now being worked on. The windows will be soundproofed during winter break, said Vice President for Student Affairs larry Moneta. “The construction that is going on is going to take two years, so it is a long term process,” Moneta noted. “We are installing See CONSTRUCTION on PAGe 3

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Mixed levels support for LGBT anti-discrimination bill by Georgia Parke The Chronicle

An anti-discrimination bill in the U.S. House of Representatives could benefit LGBT employees in North Carolina, but it is meeting mixed levels of support. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act was passed in the U.S. Senate earlier this month, and it is now up to the House to move it to a vote. The legislation prohibits discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan voted in favor of ENDA, and Senator Richard Burr voted against it. Though some LGBT rights advocates report strong public support locally, there are organizations in North Carolina pushing House members not to vote for ENDA. Equality N.C.—an organization aimed at promoting equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people—lobbied North Carolina members of Congress to support ENDA throughout its Senate passage. As the bill is considered in the House, the organization is using a social media campaign and gathering signatures with over 1,000 petitions. Equality N.C. Director of Communications Jen Jones said the “vast majority” of North Carolinian constituents—73 percent—are in favor of ENDA, according to the N.C.-based Public

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Policy Polling. She said the statistic solidifies that the issue is noncontroversial. “It’s hard to find 73 percent who agree on anything in North Carolina, let alone on an LGBT issue,” Jones said. “This is something that isn’t a divisive issue. It’s simply about protecting people in the workplace.” A 2011 report from the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law estimated that there are nearly 7 million private sector LGBT employees in the United States, of which 167,317 were in North Carolina. The 29 states that have not passed equivalent legislation on a state level would be most heavily affected if ENDA passes, said Gary Gates, the Williams Distinguished Scholar at the Williams Institute. North Carolina is one of these 29 states. A different North Carolina organization has been countering the acts of Equality N.C. The N.C. Values Coalition lobbied Hagan and Burr to vote against ENDA, and now the congressmen and congresswomen who are considering it in the House. The N.C. Values Coalition has argued that ENDA will usher in unnecessary and expensive lawsuits that will hurt small businesses, provide See ENDA on page 4

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Pi Kappa Phi fraternity held a start-up contest on campus safety in honor of the memory of Drew Everson, a student who died in Oct. 2010 from an alcohol related death.

The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain ‘hang[s]’ in Durham by Sasha Zients The Chronicle

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performed Sunday evening at Paige Auditorium. The orchestra—composed of eight performers—has been on a tour in North America, said Aaron Greenwald, executive director of Duke Performances. The tour included stops at Princeton University and various venues in New York City before culminating at Duke. “We are the last stop, and then the orchestra will return to England for turkey, gravy and a full slate of NFL viewing,” Greenwald joked. Greenwald noted that the orchestra

would be having a “Ukulele hang” at Full Steam Brewery in Durham after the concert, which he said that he hoped the orchestra and audience would attend. “It’s great to be here at [University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill],” orchestra co-founder and director George Hinchcliffe quipped as he introduced himself and his fellow orchestra members. Hinchcliffe and his colleagues—Peter Brooke Turner, Kitty Lux, David Suich, Jonty Bankes, Richie Williams and Leisa Rea—performed a selection that ranged from British folk music to popular music. They performed a song by David Bowie, which Hinchcliffe said was about Bowie’s identity crisis.

Hinchcliffe noted that what the audience was about to see was music of only ukulele and vocals. “There is no guitar, no banjo and no bass,” Hinchcliffe said. The audience of students, faculty and people from outside the University applauded heartily throughout the performance. Many said they appreciated the show. “The music selection was fantastic,” said Jenny Meadows, a member in the audience. “I really enjoyed it.” Before intermission, orchestra member Bankes explained the different types of ukuleles, which range from soprano to bass.

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Duke student and alumna selected for the USIreland alliance’s George J. Mitchell Scholarship by Emma Baccellieri The Chronicle

Senior Daniel Strunk and Sanette Tanaka, Trinity ‘12, have been awarded the George J. Mitchell Scholarship. Sponsored by the US-Ireland Alliance, the scholarship supports one year of study at a university in Ireland or Northern Ireland. The program covers living accommodations, tuition and an international travel stipend. A total of 12 recipients received the scholarship from a pool of nearly 300 applicants, according to a press release. “I’m incredibly honored and thrilled,” Tanaka said. “I feel really fortunate to have this opportunity.” A public policy and history double major, Tanaka served as the editor-in-chief of The Chronicle’s 107th volume during her senior year and oversaw the launch of its redesigned website. She currently works for the Wall Street Journal as a reporter and multimedia producer for the paper’s weekly luxury real estate section and plans to use the scholarship to study creative digital media at the Dublin Institute of Technology. “I first started to become interested in digital news products when I was editor [of The Chronicle],” she said. “I’ve become even more interested since graduation.”

CONSTRUCTION from page 1 soundproofing into the windows that face the construction site in Kilgo. That will happen by January.” Moneta said he was not aware of construction occurring outside of prescribed hours, but he would take action if he received information that something of this nature was happening. He explained that a meeting was organized last Wednesday with administrators and Kilgo residents to improve the transparency of the process. “We know details of the project and we know what the construction timeline will be and we share those with the

She said she hopes to continue her career in the field of media after receiving her degree. The scholarship will give her the opportunity to do something she did not do while at Duke—study abroad. Tanaka said that she will appreciate the chance to expand on her professional interests in an academic setting. “I really love the idea of studying within a community of other scholars,” she said. Strunk is also looking forward to the experience overseas. “I’m looking forward to obviously the study, but re-

“I think that a lot can be learned from studying other forms of government.... Ireland is perfect for this.” — Daniel Strunk, scholarship recipient Kilgo residents,” Moneta said. Peterseim said she appreciates the University’s efforts and feels that it has the students’ best interests in mind, but also noted a lack of openness earlier in the year. “They did not tell us before we signed up for housing arrangements that there would be construction, because I think this would have affected many peoples’ decisions,” Peterseim said. “The University is for the current students, not just for the future students, and the current students need the ability to study in their dorms during the day and this is being compromised.” The situation, however is not the same all over the dorm. Wings on the opposite side of the construction are spared.

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ally, the travel,” Strunk said. A double major in political science and economics, Strunk will use the scholarship to study politics at Trinity College Dublin. He worked as the North Carolina Young Americans Manager of the Romney for President campaign and currently serves as the chief justice of the Duke Student Government Supreme Court, in addition to being a columnist for The Chronicle. “I knew that I wanted to get an upper-level degree in comparative politics because I have a long-term interest in government work,” Strunk said. “I think that a lot can be learned from studying other forms of government.... Ireland is perfect for this.” Both Strunk and Tanaka expressed gratitude to friends, family and connections made at Duke. “I’m very grateful to Duke, because they’ve been tremendous in this process,” Strunk said. The last Duke student to receive the scholarship was Ryan McCartney, Trinity ‘08, who also served as editorin-chief of The Chronicle and is now a student at the Yale School of Law. Jimmy Soni, Trinity ‘07, currently the managing editor of the Huffington Post and a former columnist for The Chronicle, received it the year before. “I don’t hear any construction noises,” said sophomore Madhu Ganesh, a resident of Kilgo J. “But I know my friend who lives in Kilgo N wakes up every morning at eight because the construction starts at eight and that’s kind of her alarm clock.” Senior Tim Kreulen, a resident assistant on the third floor of Kilgo N, said that although he received a number of complaints at the beginning of the year, they have since tapered off. “I haven’t heard any major complaints from my residents [recently],” he said. “Then again, they might be hearing the noise and they might recognize that I can’t personally do anything about it, so maybe they just haven’t told me.”

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ENDA from page 2 special exemptions to LGBT employees and target the religious liberties of employers to refuse to hire someone who does not align with their beliefs. “It will take away the right of business owners to make employment decisions on the basis of merit, experience and performance, replacing it with special rights for homosexuals, bisexuals and transgendered people,” said coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald in an emailed statement. “ENDA crushes religious liberties, free speech and rights of conscience of Christian parents and business owners.” Gates said the litigation of discrimination claims would be comparable to claims that are based on sex or race. He argued that the protection offered by ENDA is a civil right, not a special one.

riots from page 1 charges and the police transport took him to headquarters, a shot was heard from the back of the vehicle. The officer, in shock, rolled the car into a parked van. Huerta was immediately taken into the hospital and died later that day. Huerta’s death is the third in a long line of police-affiliated deaths occurring in recent months. Jose Ocampo, a 33 year-old Durham resident, was shot four times by officer R.S. Mbuthia after reportedly holding a knife out against the officer. In a highly publicized case, 26-year-old Derek Walker was shot in the CCB plaza after proclaiming his suicide wish and entering into an hourlong standoff with law enforcement recently on September 17. Despite this recent conflict, emergency coordinator Kyle Cavanaugh noted that

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“We oppose ENDA and other measures like it,” Fitzgerald said. “We oppose any attempts by government to create a special right based on sexual orientation and gender identity.” Fitzgerald said Hagan, who voted in favor of the act in the Senate, acted contrary to the wishes of people in North Carolina and that the vote “exposes [Hagan’s] allegiance” to a radical gay rights agenda. N.C. Values Coalition is working with a grassroots network of pastors and citizens to urge congressmen and congresswomen to vote against ENDA if it comes to a vote in the House, Fitzgerald noted. This vote will have difficulty taking place, however. Speaker of the House John Boehner has expressed his opposition to the bill and refused to bring it to the floor. If it does pass, it would have to do so without majority Republican support, something Boehner has attempted to prevent. “This situation makes it difficult for Speakrecent negative perceptions of the police department in lieu of these events do not hinder the positive relations between Duke and Durham police. “In terms of the relationship interface with not only the city but also the county and state…we’re fortunate to have an excellent working relationship with [the police department,]” Cavanaugh said. Cavanaugh said that Duke police focuses their jurisdiction on incidents occurring on campus and students who live off campus fall primarily under the jurisdiction of the Durham police. But Cavanaugh added that this phenomenon does not concern him. “When we’ve had issues… in areas in close proximity to the campus, [Durham police] has helped with ramping up some of the patrols and has been very good in helping to increase visibility,” Cavanaugh said. “We’ve been in partnership with them and they’ve been very cooperative and very responsive.”

er Boehner to move on ENDA since he has been criticized in the past for passing legislation without majority support from his party,” Gates said. Every Congress since 1994, except the 109th Congress, has seen ENDA introduced. Gates said increasing acceptance toward LGBT issues nationwide has contributed to the progress ENDA has made in this congressional session. Every congressional district shows majority support for the bill, which was not true the last time Congress voted on it in 2007. Jones noted the importance of the 2012

fight against Amendment One, which changed North Carolina’s constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. She said the issue, though it was passed into law, publicized that people feared supporting LGBT issues because they might lose their jobs. “There are instances every day that impact gay and transgender people not just in North Carolina but all across the country,” Jones said. “It is a problem with a solution, and this is the solution.”

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getting here was unbelievable.” The championship matchup marked the final game for seven Duke seniors and one graduate student. stopped Duke’s offense with four saves in the first half “A huge amount of credit obviously for everything and finished the day with five. that’s been accomplished this season goes to our se“We know [Connecticut’s] corner attack is very niors,” Blazing said. “With the culture that these segood, and we take a lot of pride in our defensive cor- niors have built, and that our coaches have built, and ners,” Bustin said. that we’ve bought into, I think that we’re ready to go Beginning the second half, Duke attempted to get for next year, starting now.” on the scoreboard with two corners just five minutes into the half. Two crucial saves by Blazing 10 minutes later kept the Huskies from putting the game out of reach, but Connecticut’s defensive stops on the other end of the field left the score unchanged. “We talked about starting the second half thinking the score is 0-0,” Hunnable said. “You can’t ever relax— it’s a national championship game.” Duke was unable to convert any of its ten shots or its ten corners into goals. Bustin attributed this to a combination of Duke’s failure to execute and UConn’s strong defensive pressure keeping the Blue Devils off the scoreboard. “In the three games previous to this, we scored 13 goals, so we had no doubt that we could score those goals,” Duke senior forward Emmie Le Marchand said. “Unfortunately, it didn’t happen — they have a fantastic goalkeeper and a very strong defense, but we believed until that last whistle.” Duke’s offense continued to fight as time wore down, notching six corners in the second half to Connecticut’s two. Near misses on back-to-back corners in the final two minutes made up Duke’s final attacking effort. From that point on, The Huskies maintained possession to finish the game and claim the 2013 NCAA championship. “It’s been a good journey,” Bustin said. After the game, the Blue Devil squad received runner-up recognition, and seniors Emmie Le Marchand and Paula Heimbach and sophomore Hannah Barreca were named to the 2013 All-Tournament Team. “It was an unbelievable season for us, and obviously in the locker room right now we’re pretty heartbroken, darbi griffith/The Chronicle but you won’t ever beat the love our team has for each other,” Le Marchand said. “We love playing hockey… Despite scoring 13 goals in its first three NCAA tournament The by New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation The journey we’ve been on this season, none of us will contests, the Blue Devils were held scoreless Connecti620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 kakuro_399E.txt ever forget it, because it was fantastic, and the journey cut in the national championship game. For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 from page 1

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For master’s programs, concerns remain At last Thursday’s Academic Council meeting, several faculty expressed concerns about the expansion of master’s degree program offerings. Council members touched upon a variety of concerns throughout the meeting. They noted that additional programs can be a burden for faculty members, who already teach undergraduate students and Ph.D candidates. Additionally, master’s students, who are often concerned chiefly with professional goals, can dilute the academic atmosphere that undergraduate and doctoral students seek. There is nothing inherently wrong with master’s degree programs. Because the telos of undergraduate and doctoral education is to foster knowledge and not to arm students with skills that are directly applicable in the professional world, explicitly vocational master’s programs— like those offered in business and public health, among other fields—are necessary and valuable. Duke has an obligation to offer them. Lately, though, demand for more academically focused master’s programs, which bridge the gap between the undergraduate and doctorate levels, has increased. Although it would be foolish for Duke to ignore this opportunity for growth, the

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Editorial First, it must heavily scrutinize whether program proposals are academically legitimate. The fields of inquiry in which master’s students work should be focused and developed in a way that allows them to achieve profound levels of intellectual depth. Duke should not compromise its institutional and academic integrity by offering weak master’s programs. Second, the programs should act as a legitimate means to students’ professional ends. Graduate education, like all education, is expensive, and Duke must only accept students to programs that will make both the students’ and the university’s investment in each other worthwhile. It is not evident that a master’s in “Historical and Cultural Visualization,” for example, does this in any respect. The University should be transparent to applicants, publishing the placement

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statistics for its current master’s programs, and remain cautious when accepting new programs. Anything short of this is unfair to both parties. Lastly, master’s students should not diminish the academic experience of their undergraduate and doctorate peers. Rather, their presence should enrich the scholarly environment and complement their fellow students’ pursuits. Warren Grill, Addy Family Professor of biomedical engineering, noted that master’s students have made the discussion in their classes “superficial.” This is precisely the opposite of Duke’s mission. One of the University’s biggest selling points, especially as of late, is its focus on a nourishing, scholarly climate. Low student-to-faculty ratios, intimate classroom settings, high professor ratings and Flunches are all positive aspects of Duke’s educational package. The fact that professors feel master’s programs compromise Duke’s academic environment is a serious concern. Ultimately, as the demand for master’s degrees continues to grow, Duke must be wary of the broader effects the programs have on the school’s goals. Offering a wide range of educational opportunities is admirable, but it should never come at the expense of Duke’s most closely held values–intellectual development through rigor and dialogue.

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Ellie Schaack BRAVE NEW WORLD

nouncement of an Iranian disarmament deal put nuclear annihilation on my mind. Visions of sugarplums danced alongside visions of mushroom clouds, and I thought about the strange beauty of the tale of nuclear weapons. Who could predict that we’d invent the bomb and set it off, and its use would usher in the greatest era of peace the world has ever seen, particularly in the countries that acquired it? If it weren’t real, it could be a parable: In order to convince ourselves that we should not destroy each other, we first had to prove to ourselves that we were capable of doing so. Shadows burned into sidewalks. That’s the image it took for us to seriously consider another way to deal with international conflict. This is my last column of the year, so I figured I’d go back before writing it and look through my old ones. While doing so, I came across the first column I wrote this year, which was about tragedy as a motivator in the wake of the Newtown shooting. I observed back in January that we seem to need tragedies of increasing magnitude in order to spur action to fix festering societal problems. The omnipresence of distractions and information leads to a situation in which tragedies seem more frequent and then are more easily forgotten. Thus, tragedies quickly lose their potency—and this potency is a necessary ingredient for fixing problems when the fixes involve difficult sacrifices. We used to react well to tragedy. The detonation of a nuclear bomb in 1945 ushered in the most peaceful era the world has ever seen. A picture of the hole in the ozone layer in the 1980s led to a successful banning of chemicals that cause ozone depletion. While the cost of implementing the changes was high, some have predicted that the ozone layer will be entirely restored in a few decades. Pictures of the carnage from gun massacres in Dunblane, Scotland and Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996 led to severe increases in gun control in the U.K. and Australia. While they were hotly debated at the time, the policies are now celebrated. Photos of Hoovervilles and soup kitchen lines spreading down city blocks during the Great Depression led to the Glass-Steagall Act, which outlined stringent regulations that forced a

complete reworking of the banking system, but eventually kept our financial system stable for half a century. This isn’t the case anymore. This year, as in many of the last, we read news about more extreme weather events. We read about the typhoon in the Philippines and unprecedented heat waves across Europe. Yet despite mounting evidence partially attributing an increase in extreme weather events to climate change, talks in Warsaw this week are expected to result in little agreement. This year, the economy continued to recover from the crisis that has defined our generation, yet we’re recovering with the same problems, perhaps even exacerbated: The increase in regulation following the financial crisis has been weak. While the stock market reached its highest ever levels, the recent senate proposals to increase the minimum wage will most likely die on sight in the House. And after I wrote the column about my hope for Newtown’s ability to spur action on gun control in January, the legislation it inspired was voted down in April. Social Security and Medicare are going bankrupt, and we don’t even talk about this difficult reality anymore. The healthcare system is broken, and efforts to fix it have been endlessly criticized without any feasible counterproposal. In fact, Congress’s overall productivity is at an alltime low. The 112th Congress was the least productive congress on record, and the 113th is on track to be worse—by far. Almost comically, this has been a year of Congress attempting to manufacture tragedies to force themselves to act: the fiscal cliff, the government shutdown, the debt ceiling. Repeatedly, these incidents have failed to inspire their intended action. But we’re not blowing ourselves up. Iran is on its way to disarmament—and that’s the single piece of truly good political news we’ve read in quite a while. We’ve convinced ourselves of our destructive capabilities when it comes to violence between nations, and we’ve changed. But I feel like we need images of shadows burned into sidewalks to inspire any kind of action these days. I don’t know how to change this. I almost wish for enormous tragedies now so that we can fix these problems before they get even worse—the bomb coming earlier might have saved lives if it ended our world wars at an earlier date. But another way is to keep talking. My first column was about how we can’t seem to find motivation in tragedy, and I’m writing one again after a year in which this trend was even stronger than the last. We have a complacency problem in this country. We need to keep the memory of these tragedies alive long enough to find motivation to change. So I’m writing again with the same observation. Next year I might do the same thing again. I hope I don’t have to. Ellie Schaack is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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A summer in Mound Bayou

spent my freshman summer in Mound Bayou, Miss. working for a local outreach organization called St. Gabriel’s Mercy Center. Mound Bayou is one of the oldest historically black communities in the United States. Extraordinarily rich in history, at one point it was an economi-

ter how exciting of an experience it might have been. I would never presume to say I helped Mound Bayou a great deal in the short time I was there. The nuns who labor day in and day out at St. Gabriel’s Mercy Center can claim that distinction. But while, at the time, I had no clue, my work

Daniel Strunk

Footy ball school

ith a stellar football season and this weekend’s Wake Forest comeback win, it’s finally official. Duke is now kind of big deal. With the new additions of Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow to our team already boasting Rasheed Sulaimon, Rodney Hood and Jabari Parker, it is evident that Duke is well on its way to becoming a school centered

Tailgate cancelled, again. 2. New greek recruitment You can’t have Southern football without greek life. In honor of the spirit of Duke’s recent football victories, this upcoming greek formal recruitment should be conducted NFL Draft style. As new rushees register, they will enter an official greek combine to assess their house potential.

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ELEmENts Of styLE cally vibrant town. Today, however, it is unfortunately one of our country’s poorest communities. In 2011, the year in which I volunteered, 84 percent of Mound Bayou’s residents were receiving government support. For many of them, this support was their sole source of income. This summer undertaking was the result of the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program, which requires its rising sophomores to spend their first summer in community service. In Mound Bayou, two other Duke Robertson Scholars and I were tasked with running a youth program for 40 children from grades two through seven. Each of us taught three classes a day, doing our best to engage the students in our chosen topics. I taught U.S. government, American history and what I would loosely term “everyday life skills.” Before receiving permission to enter the classroom, for example, each student had to give me a good, firm handshake. I now look back upon this summer as one of the more valuable opportunities I have ever had the fortune to experience during college. That being said, had you asked me about it at the time, my freshman self likely would have given you a different answer. It wasn’t that I didn’t value community service. I didn’t dislike engaging with the children—on the contrary, that was by far the most rewarding aspect of the job. Nor did I look down upon the work I was doing—no one in the world is too good to serve. But if you’ll recall, this would have been Summer 2011, and a little thing called the debt-ceiling crisis was happening. At the time, I thought this crisis was going to be a once-in-a-lifetime historical moment to witness in D.C. (How sadly wrong was I?). All of 20 years old, I consequently had myself convinced that I needed to be in the Capitol, working for any senator or congressman that would have me. Every morning, I’d read the New York Times coverage in its entirety. Every evening, I would devour Politico. It didn’t help that the 2012 Republican presidential primary was kicking in to full gear. I made my first ever donation to a campaign ($23 to Jon Huntsman for President) and called the Huntsman headquarters during lunch breaks, trying to find a way to join the campaign. Today, nonetheless, I thank God that I did not spend that summer in D.C., no mat-

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at St. Gabriel’s was impacting me in ways I only now, years later, am coming to realize. I look back upon that summer I spent with more nostalgia as a senior than any other experience over the last three years. As just one example—for potentially the first time in my life, I witnessed a breakdown in generational progress, up close and ruthlessly personal, with children, families and an entire community trapped in the throes of institutional poverty. This challenged my conception of the American Dream. For me, the Dream isn’t about money so much as opportunity. It’s about having the chance, if you put in the work, to come as close as you can to what might be termed selfactualization—to realizing your full potential and fulfilling your life’s passions. A teacher who loves teaching has no less achieved her American Dream than a CEO making millions a year. In Mound Bayou, opportunity was slowly dying, and at its root was a decaying educational system. Utterly cemented was my understanding that education, opportunity and the American Dream are intertwined entities. The children of Mound Bayou, no matter how hard they worked at it, were faced with nearly insurmountable obstacles. Witnessing the educational breakdown, with seventh grade children still struggling to read, helped me realize the extent to which education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet. It is the best tool we have to level disparities in opportunity. St. Gabriel’s was not a pre-professional engagement. It long ago fell off my resume, and, when it was listed, I rarely, if ever, was asked about it. But it was a more valuable experience than almost all of the pre-professional endeavors I’ve undertaken. It sparked an interest in educational policy, challenged my views on fiscal policy and, through the work of the Mercy Center, has provided me with an ever-enduring example of people living selflessly in the service of others. Above all, however, I think the greatest lesson I learned was this: You can’t always know how the experiences you are having will speak to you later on. And many times, frankly, you might be wrong about the experiences you think you should be having.

mEAN BOy around football. As Duke leaped from being worst in ACC football to having a winning record, one thing is clear: Duke football can now do more pointworthy things than the other team, most of the time. As a result, more students are coming to games, and Wallace Wade finally has more Duke fans than the away team. With all these changes happening, what does this new football culture bring for Duke? Not everyone is so hyped about Duke’s new growing identity. While increased football attention brings in more revenue and more national attention, some are concerned about the implications of Duke becoming a football school. Some argue that too much emphasis on sports will detract from the academic environment. They believe that students will come to Duke based on its sports identity and ruin the intellectually driven climate that they are trying to create. It’s a good thing Duke hasn’t been particularly good at any sports in the past decade. Otherwise our University would already have plummeted academically. In light of concerns about Duke’s academic culture, I ask you one question. What did Duke students cheer at Wallace Wade after winning? That’s right, “We want ‘Bama.” If a school such as Duke, top tier in both basketball and academics, cheers for Alabama, what does that say about the importance of football? It shows that nobody nowadays respects academics or being good at lame sports such as lacrosse and basketball. I say bring on the football! Duke finally has a chance to become the SEC football powerhouse we have always wanted it to be. In order for us to properly embrace our new role as a big time Southern football school, we must first make a few key changes. 1. Bring back Tailgate: twice the rage, no porta-potties Football schools tailgate. No discussion. SEC schools won’t take us seriously unless we bring back Duke’s greatest tradition in a big way. I’m talking beer kegs, cornhole, tents, scantily clad women, abusive alcohol consumption, absurd costumes and grilling. We can bring back the music, the pickup trucks and the shenanigans. Tailgate 2.0 will feature all of the greatest aspects of the old Tailgate, except now students might actually attend the game for which they were tailgating. As a failsafe measure to ensure Tailgate doesn’t get banned again, no porta-potties will be allowed in the Tailgate vicinity. The change will ensure a safe student environment and completely eliminate the danger of anyone passing out in porta-potties and getting

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The combine will be a daylong gamut of trials to estimate a candidate’s success in later greek life. Male trials will include events such as “How much can you pretend to lift,” the beer mile and a beer pong accuracy round. The female combine will focus on the 50-yard intoxicated highheel sprint, twerking ability and the 40-yard social climb. An unbiased committee will rank the rushees based on the results of the combine and their alleged wealth. The only difference will be that greek organizations will pick their pledges based on social rank on campus with the highest ranked organizations getting first picks and the lowest choosing last. This foolproof method will objectively show kids how much they suck and ensure that only candidates who are “like, dude, a TFM bro,” get social capital. The new formal recruitment will ensure that the top ranked houses get the best candidates and the lower houses fade into oblivion, thus raising the overall status of campus greek life. Let us wave good-bye to the wannabees and welcome in our new wave of Southern frat stars and sorority queens. 3. Put some South in your mouth— Let’s Get Southern If we truly want to be a Southern football school, we have to be more Southern. Duke already has a great start on this goal, seeing as our campus was proudly built off tobacco money and the broken backs of slaves. Combine that with Duke’s large endowment and the abundance of sweet tea available at the Washington Duke Inn, and our school is screaming Southern Proper. We can improve our campus dining options by incorporating Southern dining options on campus such as Bojangles and Waffle House. Southern Duke will have it all: the girls, the football and the glory. People were right about football affecting the kind of student Duke admits, but not for the worse. Rather, our campus could be filled with Southern belles and gentlemen instead of the typical, nerdy basketball lovers we have now. Becoming a big time football program will be positive for Duke because it will bring us to the SEC status we have always dreamed of. The tailgates will be bigger, the greek life better and the campus more Southern. To all of the Yankees concerned about the academic culture, I say drop the books, surrender to the South and let’s throw some pig skin to win the ACC Championship. Roll Devils. Mean Boy openly welcomes the reintegration of tailgate, as well as the team building and student camaraderie that comes with it.

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Perry Simmons DUKE UNIVERSITY Winner of a 2013 National Football Foundation National Scholar-Athlete Award, presented by Fidelity Investments.

Fidelity Investments and the National Football Foundation salute Perry Simmons for his work on the field, in the classroom and in the community.

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