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As more apply early, spots for early admits rise

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Despite the Monday arrest of a man living in the Bryan Center, Duke Police maintain that campus security was patrolling all areas of campus throughout winter break. Chief of Police John Dailey noted that the suspect, ryan G. howard, has no affiliation with the University, though he identified the man as local to Durham. howard’s arrest report indicates that he is 23-year-old white male that weighs 180 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Although police are unsure as to the exact date of his entry into the Bryan Center, they suspect that it occurred over winter break, Dailey said. Although class was not in session, the full staff of security and police patrol campus throughout break. Dailey noted that the presence of the suspect probably went unnoticed because he is “college-aged”and there were fewer people than normal on campus. “We maintain a full staff of security and police during that time patrolling all parts of campus including the residences halls and parking lots,” Dailey wrote in an email Wednesday. The incident report filed by Duke Police Monday accused the suspect of five crimes— breaking and entering of a building, possession of stolen property, possession of burglary tools, felonious larceny and trespass warning for all Duke property. At the time of the arrest, howard was found in the Buddhist Meditation Area of the Bryan Center. in addition to being in possession of stolen items from nearby offices, the report See INTRUDER page 4

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As the number of students admitted to Duke via binding early decision has risen over the past few years, the number of students applying for those spots has skyrocketed. Duke’s number of early applicants has more than doubled in the past decade, going from 1,435 in 2002 to 3,180 in 2013,

and the number of acceptances has jumped from 472 to 797. Because the overall class size has stayed at approximately 1,705, early admits now make up a greater proportion of each incoming class—approaching 50 percent—leaving fewer spots for regular decision applicants. in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the office of Undergraduate Admissions said it aimed to limit the proportion of the class

accepted early to around 30 percent. As the early applicant pool has changed over the past decade, however, Duke Admissions has adapted its early admissions philosophy. “in limiting the size of the entering groups, we are in the minority among selective colleges,” Director of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag told The See ED ANALYSIS page 4

Duke Barber Shop opens new location in the Bryan Center by Alyssa Coughenour The ChroniCle

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The Barber Shop has been in business since 1912.

The Duke Barber Shop reopened its doors for business last month in a new location on the bottom floor of the Bryan Center. The new shop, serving all Duke community members, officially began business again on Dec. 16. The shop was previously located in the basement of the West Union and moved as a result of construction in the building. renovations in the Bryan Center space prevented the shop from opening earlier in the Fall semester. The new location is across from post office mailboxes in the Bryan Center,

making it less visible to customers than the old shop. There is clear signage indicating its whereabouts, but shop manager David Fowler has plans for more advertising and a new website to maintain previous levels of business. The biggest challenge for the business will be getting people to walk in the door given the new more obscure location, Fowler noted. “People shy away from places they can’t find,” Fowler said. “it’ll just take time.” Prior to West Union construction, the central location of the shop attracted new customers that were walking by. eventually, the Barber Shop became

more isolated as offices and businesses moved out of the West Union, ultimately leaving it alone in the basement. long-time customers are not fazed. retired history professor Peter english, for example, had his hair cut Wednesday morning. “Up until today, i always went to the one in the West Union. it took me a while to find [the new location], but once i found it, it wasn’t a problem,” english said. At the new shop, the number of employees remains the same—four barbers and two hairdressers. The new See BARBER, page 4

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Death sentences remain low in North Carolina by Rebecca Chen The Chronicle

Public opinion, high costs and geography have contributed to a decline in the use of the death penalty in North Carolina. Only one person was sentenced to death in North Carolina out of five people tried for the penalty. The number of people sentenced to death has decreased since the 1990s with 34 sentenced in 1995, 18 in 2000 and six in 2005. In the past decade, approximately three people have been sentenced annually, said Kenneth Rose, senior staff attorney and former director of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation. One major reason the death penalty is becoming a less frequent outcome of convictions is because of the large cost associated with it. “The death penalty is extraordinarily expensive relative to the benefit from it,” said James Coleman, the John S. Bradway Professor of Law and co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic. If the death penalty is not abolished by law in the future, it will likely die out on its own because of the costs, Coleman said. As defense lawyers gain more experience and skill in death penalty trials, they create more complex trials that are more expensive. Additionally, when people are sentenced to death they will often seek another trial in an attempt to remove the sentence. “[In] a lot of these cases, if the state didn’t seek the death penalty the defendant would likely plead guilty,” Coleman said. “In many cases, the evidence of the person’s guilt is not really disputed—the only question is whether the person should be sentenced to death.” The expenses associated with a death penalty trial include lawyers for the defendant, an investigation, reviews by the state supreme court and post-conviction procedures if the person is actually sentenced. Most of the time, everything is funded by the state because many defendants are poor and have a constitutional right to be represented in court, Coleman said. “As taxpayers, we’re spending an enormous amount of money for an extremely small amount of return,” said Jay Ferguson, an attorney from The Law Office of Thom-

as, Ferguson, and Mullins, LLP. “No executions since 2006, yet we still spend millions and millions of dollars for [the trials] per year.” A discriminatory process The majority of defendants’ lack of money represents another reason why the death penalty may not be a fair result—the policy

Ferguson said. Coleman also mentioned the mentally ill as another population that has often been treated unfairly by the death penalty. Ferguson recalled one such defendant he worked with. “He represented himself wearing a Superman t-shirt,” Ferguson said. “He went through the entire legal system until three

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has a discriminatory nature, Coleman said. “The quality of a defendant’s legal counsel is a factor in whether a person is sentenced to death or not,” Coleman said. “There are no rich people on death row. They have good lawyers.” In addition, race plays a factor. The most likely demographic to face the death penalty is a black person who kills a white person. “Race permeates death penalty prosecutions, and I think people are tired of that,”

days prior to his execution, before the court finally stopped him and said he was too insane to be executed. It’s cases like that that make me very wary of the death penalty.” The number of death sentences is also affected by where the trial occurs. Jurors living in rural areas in eastern North Carolina are more likely to convict defendants than jurors from urban cities such as Durham or Chapel Hill, Coleman said. He added that rural jurors are more

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likely to assume police are telling the truth, while urban residents are more likely to be skeptical of the police and sensitive to the possibility of wrongful convictions. A public wary of a broken system Increasingly cynical jurors are another reason for the death sentence decrease. More publicity concerning wrongful convictions has resulted in a public skeptical of imposing a death sentence because of the possibility the defendant is not guilty, Coleman said. “A jury in that situation is likely to convict because they don’t want to let somebody who might be guilty go free, but they’re not going to sentence a person to death because they know that they had some lingering doubts about whether the person was in fact guilty of murder,” Coleman said. Rose illustrated this issue by pointing to a case in which he represented an innocent defendant who was on death row for more than 10 years, going through multiple levels of appeals before a federal judge finally granted him a hearing. There was “readily available” evidence of the client’s innocence that the trial attorneys did not sufficiently examine during the process. “Once someone is put on death row, there is a tendency for courts not to second guess the decision to put a person on death row,” Rose said. “I’ve had other clients who were executed without ever having a hearing after their initial trial, and it has showed me, and I think other people as well, that the system is broken.” A number of public interest groups and defense lawyers have made it their goal to abolish the death penalty, and they have been effective, Coleman said. Reforms include increased leniency for prosecutors who avoid seeking the death penalty, the provision of better lawyers for defendants and a ban on imposing the death penalty for the mentally disabled. “A lot of individuals believe in the death penalty in theory,” Ferguson said. “But when they’re actually given the choice of life without parole, a majority of North Carolinians believe life without parole is a better option than having the death penalty.”

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Freshman relays her accidental trip to Arkansas When two international freshmen found themselves unable to go home for the holidays, they began to plan a trip to the city of Fayetteville, N.C.—about 90 miles away. An error in planning, however, left Cassie Yuan and Florence Tesha over 1,000 miles away in Fayetteville, Ark. A run in with the local media gave way to an instant status of town celebrities for the two girls, who ended up enjoying their holiday by being welcomed by their new midwestern friends. The Chronicle’s Carleigh Stiehm sat down with Yuan to discuss her winter adventure. The Chronicle: Can you describe how you ended up in Arkansas? Cassie Yuan: i was looking for a travel companion, and Tesha happened to be looking for one as well. That’s how we came together. We were trying to decide on where to go when one of her family friends who lives in north Carolina booked her a hotel in and flight to Fayetteville, n.C. however, later we found out that they accidentally booked a flight to Fayetteville, Arkansas instead of north Carolina. But since neither of us had been to northwest Arkansas anyway, we decided that we would just go with it. TC: What did you end up doing while you were there? CY: The plan was to stay at the hotel, explore the surrounding area and just chill for three weeks. however, on Christmas Day, we were walking on the empty neighborhood and desperately [trying to] find a place to go, but all the businesses were closed. Then a car drove by and we were like, ‘finally there is someone else on the street.’ So we

waved to them and walked on. A few minutes later, the car came by again and pulled off by us. it turned out that they were reporters from KnWA—a local nBC news channel—and they were desperately looking for people to talk to as well. They were looking around for people to take videos of saying their thoughts on Christmas as a holiday. So we told them our story and how we ended up in Arkansas. After we parted, we saw their car following us again, and this time they asked if we’d be willing to let them do a news package on our story. This news piece later gathered some attention from some really hospitable families and individuals in northwest Arkansas, and we spent the rest of break with these local people who reached out to us through the news station. Some of them had us over to stay with their family, some showed us around the town or took us out for dinner, some invited us to their new Years celebration. So we got to meet and become friends with a lot of kind people that were eager to know about us also. TC: What did your friends and family say when they found out about your adventure? CY: My family was very much confused. Because at first i was planning on going to Canada, then i told them no, i am going to somewhere in north Carolina, and then when i called them again i was in Arkansas. But to them it was all the same—i was not anywhere close to home. So as along as i kept calling them and told them that i was safe and eating well, they were fine. My friends who knew me for a long time were not sur-

prised that this craziness happened to me, but for those who just got to know me this year, they were just glad that we made it safe and sound, and were excited for us that it turned out to be quite an adventure. TC: Did you learn anything from your experience? CY: every second was part of a learning process. i am especially grateful for Tesha because i not only got to learn about her home country more, but also because of her company i was able to take some risks that i would not otherwise be taking on my own. having a friend with me the whole journey definitely made all the miracles that happened possible. TC: Did the Duke staff help you in any way? CY: We did not seek, nor did we expect, any help from Duke anyways because we knew we were supposed to be on our own during the break. if we needed help we would not have chosen to go off campus in the first place—there was on campus housing available during the break for international students. however, Duke helped spread the story through social media— Facebook and Twitter—and that got us in touch with some people that cared about us. Since we came back on campus, we have had people... come up to us, ask us about our trip and tell us how worried they were—that meant a lot to us. We also met up with a Duke Divinity student who lives in Arkansas when we were there. She was of great help to us as well.

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years, and it’s only gotten more competitive,” Taylor said. Guttentag also said that though early decision tends to be less diverse than regular decision, the early pool has grown increasingly diverse in both geography and ethnicity. A record 37 percent of this year’s early admits were students of color, which marks an 8 percent increase from last year.

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noted that howard had stolen office keys in his pocket at the time of the arrest. Some of the stolen items included an iPad, a laptop, AKG audio microphones from Small Town records and Duke Technical Services equipment. emergency Coordinator Kyle Cavanaugh deferred all comment to Dailey.

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space is slightly smaller, but still has room for customers to wait and enjoy complimentary coffee. The shop maintains its traditional red, white and blue spirals, reminding customers of a 1950s salon. The shop has managed to stay in business since 1912—making it over 100 years old. Fowler said the shop was busiest in the 1970s. “There was one point when i was booked six weeks out,” said Fowler, who has worked at the shop since 1959. Students returning from winter break have started to use the Barber Shop again in its new incarnation. Junior nic Meiring is excited that the Barber Shop is back. “i had to get my hair cut off-campus, and i missed the Barber Shop,” Meiring said.

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conference play usually breeds familiar matchups, but Duke will venture into unfamiliar territory for its next conference game. the no. 3 Blue Devils will travel to Syracuse, n.Y. to take on the orange 7 p.m. thursday at the carrier Dome. it will be the first conference home game for Syracuse during its first year in the Acc. Duke (14-1, 1-0 in the Acc) will face a difficult test in Syracuse (11-3, 0-1), which held a no. 20 rankNo. 3 ing prior to its 67-61 Duke loss at n.c. State vs. in its Acc opener. Syracuse the Blue Devils are well-prepared for the rigors of conTHURSDAY, 7 p.m. Carrier Dome ference play, thanks to a schedule that has already featured several ranked opponents, said head coach Joanne P. Mccallie. “We played a very, very strong nonconference schedule,” Mccallie said. “So for us, there’s not much of a difference. Whether you’re playing Kentucky, oklahoma, Georgia tech, Syracuse— they’re all excellent programs. So for us, we simply press on and continue to try and get better.” in order to defeat Syracuse, Duke will have to slow down its two primary scoring

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Junior Elizabeth Williams appears to be hitting her stride just in time for conference play with two straight double-doubles heading into Thursday’s matchup with Syracuse. threats, sophomore guards Brianna Butler and Brittney Sykes. the duo has combined to score almost 35 points per game this season. Butler is a sharpshooter who thrives from beyond the arc, where she is firing at a 39.4 percent clip. “Butler is tremendous,” Mccallie said. “She’ll shoot from anywhere on the floor and she’s always ready to shoot. the big key is to limit her touches and limit her

ability to get comfortable, so hopefully our team defense can be a huge part of that.” Sykes is a versatile threat off the dribble who can also cause damage on the boards, as she is averaging 5.4 rebounds per game. “Sykes is more off the bounce, more inside the arc,” Mccallie said. “She’s very athletic, and she loves her pull-up jump shot. So again, limiting her touches and her comfort zone, contesting her pull-up

jumper and keeping her off the boards [are keys to stopping her].” the Blue Devils will look to repeat their defensive performance from their conference-opening victory against Georgia tech, where they held the Yellow Jackets to a season-low 47 points and 26 percent shooting from the field. Despite the dominant defensive performance, Duke still lost the battle on the boards—a minor concern for a team that has quality rebounders up and down the roster. Syracuse’s main inside threat is redshirt senior Shakeya leary, who is averaging 9.6 points and 8.8 rebounds per game on the season. At 6-foot-3, her size can cause matchup nightmares for opponents. Duke junior elizabeth Williams, who also stands at 6-foot-3, will likely draw the assignment of keeping leary in check. After a slow start to begin the year, Williams seems to be finding her groove, posting consecutive double-doubles for the first time this year in the last two games. She was an All-American last year, and if she can perform at that level once again, the Blue Devils will be a tough matchup for any opponent moving forward. “[Williams] learned a lot from the schedule, and she’s excited for Acc play, just excited to take her game to the next level,” Mccallie said. “She’s playing with a lot of energy and she’s pursuing the ball more, which is fantastic.”

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Blue Devils boast deep squad to start spring season by Lucas Hubbard the chronicle

Duke’s afternoon session tuesday at the Sheffield indoor tennis center was an unusual sight—practice was... crowded? “We were joking [tuesday] that this is the largest practice we’ve had in two years,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashcroft said. “to be able to actually work on things and not have to worry about who’s hurting… [our depth] is a good problem to have.” All eight players on the Duke roster have returned following a tumultuous spring 2013 season. Sophomore Beatrice capra, the no. 3-ranked singles player in the intercollegiate tennis Association preseason poll, and junior ester Goldfeld, ranked no. 45, both missed time last spring but returned to compete in the fall season. Senior rachel Kahan, who also was sidelined in the spring after undergoing tommy John surgery to repair her

elbow, has recently set foot on the practice courts and looked fine in competitive intra-squad sets, Ashcroft said. Senior hanna Mar is the other nationally ranked singles player the Blue Devils boast, coming into the season at no. 49 in the itA poll. Despite the national recognition that some of his players have received, Ashcroft is understandably hesitant to rank his players. “We have eight girls who can definitely play and compete,” he said. “And we’re going to give people different opportunities.” one of the dangers of a full, talented roster in any sport is that, beyond creating difficult personnel decisions for the coach, it can breed discontent among team members who are struggling or are overly competitive. in team tennis— an individual sport that accumulates a team result—the underlying threat of

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Last spring, Duke struggled to field a healthy lineup, but this year the Blue Devils feature a deep roster with three ranked singles players, including No. 45 Ester Goldfeld. emotional turbulence lurks even closer to the surface. nevertheless, Mar isn’t concerned about this being an issue for the Duke squad, which enters the season ranked no. 10 in the itA poll. “We do have a lot of depth, ten-

nis-wise, which is a really great thing because we have eight fantastic players, and practices are great,” Mar said. “But in off-court team stuff, we’ve got seniors, freshmen—everybody is fitting into a See W. Tennis, page 8

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removing bias from the equation A recent Yale study has revealed that employers who fail to establish pre-fixed hiring criteria before evaluating prospective employees tend to discriminate against female applicants. Employers who allowed their hiring criteria to shift after learning the gender of applicants, the study found, were biased in favor of men—a bias that persisted regardless of the age, gender and educational level of the hirer. Interestingly, the employers who reported being least sexist expressed the greatest subconscious bias. Bias diminished when employers applied pre-fixed criteria for applicants, indicating the importance of employing fixed, pre-determined criteria when evaluating candidates for jobs and other positions. As a major research institution with a premier engineering school, Duke has an interest in promoting both scientific achievement and gender equality. The University is currently seeking to address the gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics by investigating the ways female students negotiate the collegiate academic environment. These projects include the Gender Task Force and the Global Women’s Health Technology Center, a partnership between the Pratt School of Engineering and the Duke Global Health

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Editorial subtle gender discrimination that impacts female students’ long-term opportunities in these fields. Engineering students at Duke are mostly male, and the rate at which female students transfer out of Pratt is 10 to 20 percent higher than the average. This phenomenon is not unique to Duke, but remains problematic nonetheless. We cannot dismiss gender imbalances in the school or workplace as merely the result of personal preferences or biological differences. Possible social and cultural causes are, at the very least, worth exploring. Moreover, personal choices, informed by a variety of factors, and gender discrimination are not mutually exclusive explanations for a female students’ decision not to pursue STEM. Positive feedback loops driven by cultural attitudes produce

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particular, gendered academic identities. Students, believing their gender makes them more or less suited for a particular field, select areas of study in which they feel likely to succeed, reproducing gender imbalances within academic fields. Furthermore, if subconscious biases infiltrate some hiring practices, as the Yale study suggests, we must entertain the possibility that similar biases affect how Duke evaluates prospective students and faculty. Prolonged examinations into questions like these help not only to reduce the gender gap, but also to improve the academic culture at Duke. It remains imperative that the University seek to root out subconscious biases in hiring practices. As A Harvard Business School report notes, training sessions designed to educate employees about subconscious bias can help to eradicate it. Women have made historic inroads into science and technology over the last fifty years as cultural attitudes have become more accepting of female professional success. These fields possess tremendous importance and are sites of power and influence in the modern economy. Addressing subconscious biases in hiring processes could help Duke craft policy solutions to the problem of gender imbalance in STEM fields.

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Social media has transformed our generation. Social media makes it acceptable, sometimes encouraged, to photograph, crop, filter and

Ashley Camano going camando caption your breakfast. Social media has cost job interviews. Athletic eligibilities. Scholarships. But for what it’s worth, for our generation, the benefits outweigh the potential costs, and we document our lives on platforms that beg for feedback in comments and likes from people we haven’t seen in months or years, or maybe ever. Maybe it’s me. I’ve been called an old soul, and that’s fine. I have basic cable that I rarely watch and a turntable in my apartment to play vinyl records found in my parents’ basement. They sound far more rich and alive than any MP3 or stolen file from the depths of cyberspace. I’d prefer Frank Sinatra or Jo Stafford to Miley Cyrus or 2Chainz or any amount of chainz. I drink tea and whiskey and hate tight clothing. My brother got me a quill pen for Christmas, and it’s the best gift I’ve ever received. I had a flip phone— equipped with a pull-out antenna—until I was a sophomore in college. And that’s fine with me. Maybe I’m in the wrong generation. But yet, being active on social media is a binary of hate and need. As a journalist, Twitter helps me stay in the know. As a person, Facebook helps me hate social media. But I have one anyway. I’m connected with over a thousand of my “friends,” many of whom I’ve known in previous lives and can’t even pick out their faces in a tagged photo. Thankfully, Facebook’s black magic can identify my face in photos and slap on a tag to my head without question. Walking down the Quad, if I’ve ever met you, say hello. Or don’t. It’s up to you. But I think it’s time we stop hiding behind LCD screens—because that’s not something people should do. It’s not normal. It’s non-traditional. Maybe this year it’s time to show your face out loud. Look at the world in front of you, not through a camera lens or as seen as a tweetable moment. Because social media is all well and good—but if you’re always hiding behind its veil, there’s no one to share your life with. And when this column runs, I’ll post it on Facebook and Twitter. Maybe that’s where you found it. Self-promoting, shamelessly, our endeavors as the world spins on around us, waiting to be filtered, cropped and posted. Ashley Camano is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Thursday. Send Ashley a message on Twitter @camanyooo.

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Letter to the Editor The Duke of 2014 Duke Service-Learning and the leadership of LEThe New Year provides an opportunity to set goals that we seek to actualize in the future. There are pressing issues that students expressed concern over in 2013 that we must carry over into the new year. As a concerned student, I have listed some of the issues that we as a University community should work together to achieve. The Duke of 2014 develops an investment policy that mirrors the moral responsibility it seeks to instill in its students. Duke’s mission to develop “…adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities” as stated by James B. Duke must be practiced in all of the University’s endeavors, including the way it handles its funds. Without transparency, we cannot be sure that Duke is practicing those values. The Duke of 2014 equals the playing field… If we are going to be a leader during the 21st century, the brightest minds of the world must view a

Duke education as accessible. Need blind admissions and financial aid for international and undocumented students is a necessity that we cannot afford to go without. The Duke of 2014 respects its diversity and demonstrates its respect through cultural awareness and sensitivity in every area of the university, including our social spaces, which can sometimes polarize campus and reignite cultural tensions. The Duke of 2014 continues expanding its global presence without brick and mortar, but through innovation online. We do not need a DukeEngage location or a campus in every country to be impactful all over the world. The Duke of the future will develop a robust online education program that brings a Duke education into the homes of people who seek intellectual stimulation, without undermining the power and prowess of the main campus. New year, new Duke. Marcus Benning Preisdent of the Black Student Alliance

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have 1,971 Facebook friends. I know that sounds like a lot, but believe me, I’m fairly Facebook aggressive. And we all know it’s not official unless it’s Facebook official. Over a thousand of these friends are from my last year at Duke alone. Some friends are from a single good conversation while waiting in the Pitchforks line. Others are familiar faces that, unfortunately, have been privy to all 25 of my Shooters dance moves. There are dorm mates I’ve shared both meal and memory with, upperclassmen I admire and kids that I don’t know well at all, but secretly stalk because they have seriously cool profile pictures. I mean, seriously? Skydiving in Aruba? Here is your 200th like. I bequeath it with my blessing!

hundreds of quick, surface conversations that lead to zilch, I’ve gotten lazy and grown jaded. And that is why I’m sick of small talk. Don’t get me wrong, small talk itself is great. It truly is impossible to keep fully plugged in with hundreds of people at once without going completely insane. Small talk becomes the easiest way to show we still care in the time-efficient way we do things in college. The problem is when small talk and creepy virtual stalking (we’ve all done it) begins replacing meaningful real-life interaction—when we become comfortable with these surface conversations in lieu of putting in the effort to develop an actual relationship with someone. Weeks of experiences can’t be squeezed into a five-minute conversation or a

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Isabella Kwai truth or dare But I suppose that begs the question: How many friends do I actually talk to on a regular basis in real life? Probably around four. Four people that I see more than once a fortnight. Four people that I genuinely confide in about my worries and dreams and how I feel about Breaking Bad. Four people that, in turn, share the funny idiosyncrasies of their lives with me. Outside of that handful, my interaction has become almost systemic. I’m sure you know the routine. You bump into someone on the way to class you haven’t seen since LDOC. It’s either a pleasant or awkward surprise. You laugh, give the brief rundown on school, classes and that time you tripped on the Chapel steps. OK, that last one might just be me. Hey, you might go for the hug and hold each other. You promise you’ll catch up as soon as you can. Sometimes it actually happens. In any case, we make the necessary motions and move on with our lives. If we’re going off pure numbers, Facebook tells me I’m chummy with hundreds of people at Duke. So how do I explain that in real life, I barely know many of my “friends” at all? That all I truly know about most people are surface snippets—what you’re involved in, what your major is, who you’re dating. How do I explain that there are too many days where I feel uncomfortably alone despite being surrounded by sociable, young people? That when I wave at you quickly on the BC Plaza, I’m actually wondering if you’re happy—and wishing I still knew you well enough to ask? I tell myself there isn’t time to have long conversations. I tell myself we’ll catch up properly “later.” But after

quick Facebook browse. How many times have you answered “good” to the casual “how are you?” How many times have you truly meant it? Perhaps the tragic part is we do care. We may care deeply about too many people who have simply fallen through the cracks of busy Duke life. Unfortunately, small talk doesn’t always deliver that message well enough and friendships eventually fade away. With a new semester is the return to an occasionally overwhelming social community, one on the cusp of rush. So how do we do it then? How do we maintain those friendships without compromising sleep, academics or lifechanging TV shows? As someone who has guiltily chosen all of the above over catching up with friends, I don’t know. But maybe it starts by simply having what genuine conversations we can, while we can. Real talk, not small talk. Does that mean we have to philosophize on the meaning of life over ABP soup? Only if you want to. Let’s dare to go deeper though, than “I’m good.” Let’s dare to talk about who your favorite professor is (Tony Brown) and what makes you happy (travelling and rock music) and whether you’re afraid of death (a little) and what’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done? (Let’s just say it was in India and it involved a moving Tuk-Tuk.) So welcome, come on in, open the door. Sit down and have some hot chocolate with me. After all, I’ll be here all semester, writing more weird confessions than you probably want to read. I’d love to real talk with you. Isabella Kwai is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.

adly, my favorite pair of jeans is starting to fall apart, and they’re going to be very hard to replace. They’re my favorite pair not only because of how comfortable they are, but also because they have great pockets. They’re deep enough to hold anything I reasonably need to carry around with me, but not so deep I have to shove in my arm to the elbow to try and retrieve something. They’re wide enough that my entire hand fits in smoothly but not so wide that things fall out. In short, they’re just right— the Goldilocks pocket. In an ideal world, all pants pockets would be like this. Then I noticed something during break. My son’s outfit

Jeremy Yoskowitz the duke rav had eight pockets. Six on his pants—two front, two rear and two cargo; and two on either side of his chest. They all looked about the right size for his hands, not much else. But none of them will be used since my son is three and a half months old. When and if he puts a hand into one of his pockets, it’s not intentional, but each time it is an amazing and somewhat confusing discovery. But he also has nothing to put into those pockets. After all, he doesn’t carry keys or a cell phone yet (it’s going to be a while for either one) and none of his toys would fit into his pockets. After all, if he had a toy that size it would likely be a severe choking hazard, and no one is going to make a toy like that for an infant! So why does he have so many pockets? I checked, and just about all of his pants have at least one pocket. Looking through his closet and dresser at all of his outfits, there appear to be enough pockets on his clothing that if I were to remove all of them and sew them together, they might be enough for another two dozen baby outfits. Possibly fueled by new parent exhaustion, this struck me as exceedingly wasteful. Yes, the pockets are cute. Useless, but cute. First, why so many, and second, doesn’t the simple fact that the clothes are baby clothes mean that they’re already extremely cute? Do the pockets really add that much? Clearly not, since most of the time we just don’t notice them. We’re mostly focused on the child inside the clothing. Now clearly I could simply stop here and segue into a predictable and trite message about “clearly it is what inside that is really important!” But we heard that enough as little kids that hopefully we all remember it well enough as adults to apply it to our daily lives. Yes, what is on the inside is of course the most important thing. An infant is cute (at the very least for the infant’s parents—other opinions may differ) in clothing with or without pockets. Because maybe the pockets really don’t matter. Not because they’re not as useful as the ones on my favorite pair of jeans, but because they’re just an additional adornment to make a cute thing cuter. But there is a concept in Judaism known as Hiddur Mitzvah, which means “making a Commandment beautiful.” If you’re going to make something, don’t just make it well but make it beautiful and exceptional. While simple practicality has a beauty of its own, if something can be made more aesthetically pleasing, why not do so? This goes beyond Hunter S. Thompson’s famous quote of “anything worth doing, is worth doing right,” because it isn’t just about doing it right or doing it well—those are prerequisites. Everything you do should not only be the right things, but also done in the right way. This is about elevating that action. If it’s important enough to make an infant’s pants just a tiny bit cuter by adding proportional (and useless) pockets to them, how much more important is the work that you do every single day? At the start of a new semester, let’s embrace as a community the concept of Hiddur Mitzvah and make everything that we do an act of devotion and increase the joy and beauty in the world. Jeremy Yoskowitz is the campus rabbi and assistant director for Jewish life. His column runs every other Thursday. Send Rabbi Jeremy a message on Twitter @TheDukeRav.

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