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Reggie Day Four candidates to run for DSG president examines racial justice by Georgia Parke THE CHRONICLE
As debate over voter identification laws persists in North Carolina, a lecture series put on by the Reginaldo Howard Scholarship Program hopes to bring racial justice to the table. In a two-part lecture series this month, the program is seeking to educate the Duke community on topics related to equal protection under the law. The first part took place in White Lecture Hall Monday evening, focusing on the recurring issue of voting rights in North Carolina. The hosts, student recipients of the scholarship, first screened the short film “Section 5,” a documentary on equal protection produced in part by Reginado Howard Scholar and sophomore Ernie Britt. A panel of four activists then answered questions, encouraging the audience to fight voter suppression by trying out at polls and educating themselves about the issue. “Equal protection should be that every eligible voter should not have their right to vote abridged,” said Jeremy Collins, a panelist and fellow at the Southern Coalition See LECTURE SERIES, page 4
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The four Duke Student Government candidates come from a variety of backgrounds. by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE
Four candidates announced the beginning of their campaigns for president of Duke Student Government—
sophomore Lavanya Sunder and juniors Nikolai Doytchinov, Rence Nemeh and Will Giles. The election, which is scheduled for March 4, will also include voting for the
Executive Vice President and the Student Organization Funding Committee Chair. Additionally, the 40 Percent Plan See DSG, page 6
“choose life” license plates struck down by circuit court by Kirby Wilson THE CHRONICLE
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A piece of anti-abortion legislation has been terminated by the Circuit Court of Appeals.
North Carolina has terminated a piece of anti-abortion legislation, just over two years after it was passed into law. In a unanimous decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week to strike down a law that allowed the production of anti-abortion “choose life” license plates but prohib-
ited pro-abortion rights license plates. Circuit Judge James Wynn wrote in the 3-0 opinion that the law violated the first amendment, describing the legislation’s rejection of pro-abortion rights plates as viewpoint discrimination. “In this case, North Carolina seeks to...privilege speech on one side of a hotly debated issue—reproductive choice—while silencing opposing voices,” Wynn wrote in the opinion.
Mike Meno, communications director for the plaintiff, the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, said the decision was straightforward. “This is something that we have said all along is a very clear-cut first amendment issue,” Meno said. “The court agreed with us. This was a very stronglyworded, unanimous, three-way decision.” See PLATES, page 6
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DUSDAC members sample mi gente seeks office to serve Mama Duke’s food truck as hub for latino culture
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DUSDAC members sampled Mama Duke’s food truck which serves Mediterranean food with a southern twist.
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Members of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee sampled options from Mama Duke’s food truck during their committee meeting Monday night. Mama Duke’s owners—father-and-son team Michael and Mike Alexakis—served up signature Mediterranean cuisine with a distinct southern twist. Falafel, coconut curry and chicken masala were among the options that DUSDAC members sampled. The group’s responses to both the flavor of food and efficiency of service were positive. “They had a big menu tonight and they got the food out immediately,” said senior Chris Taylor, co-chair of DUSDAC . “It seemed like really fast service compared to every other truck we’ve had” Although Mama Duke’s has found success catering corporate offices, nightclubs and private events, Michael and Mike said they are looking to expand
their client base to include Duke students. They highlighted Mama Duke’s flexible menu options when speaking about their truck. “We can go any direction that you’d like,” Michael said. “Steak, shrimp, fresh seafood—we can do it all to order.” The father-son duo is also willing to adjust dishes to fit student’s dietary needs. “We do take special requests and we make things to order right on the spot,” Mike added. Among the truck’s more popular items are curry and chicken tikka, both of which are gluten free. DUSDAC is in the process of sampling various food trucks to decide which vendors to ultimately bring to campus on select weeknights. They will taste Durham pizza truck, Pie Pushers, during next week’s meeting. Following the food truck tasting, the See DUSDAC, page 6
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Mi Gente is looking to find a space on campus to hold general meetings and events, as well as serve as a space to learn more about Latino culture.
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Mi Gente, Duke’s latino student association, is working to get its own office space. The Center for Multicultural Affairs has been home to the association’s activities up until now. The desire for a physical location separate from the CMA is part of an effort to increase Mi Gente’s presence and visibility on campus. Some minority student groups have space already—such as the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture and the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. The search for space has been a major priority for this year’s Mi Gente executive council. “We understand that a large space such as the Mary Lou requires time and alumni support, so our first step toward acquiring a cultural space like the Mary Lou is an office space,” Mi Gente coPresident Karina Santellano, a junior, wrote in an email. Santellano did not indicate a specific
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timeline, but she noted that they want the space as soon as possible. Ideally, the space would be in the Bryan Center. The office space, if granted, will serve as a place where the Mi Gente executive council can hold their meetings and plan cultural events, including Latino Student Recruitment Weekend. The space would also be a site for learning more about Latino culture. “We need a space for which to not only conduct meetings, plan events such as the LSRW and be active on campus, but also to allow the entire Duke population [to] know that both Latino and non-Latino students have a physical space to study, hang out and learn about Latino culture,” Santellano said. The CMA has been supportive of Mi Gente’s efforts to look for office space, Santellano said. Other associations have been backing up Mi Gente’s efforts to obtain more visibility. See MI GENTE, page 6
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Duke pediatrician Alex Kemper has been selected to join the US Preventive Services Task Force. Kemper will serve a four-year term on the task force, which makes recommendations on preventive medical tools, tests, procedures and policies. As a physician, Kemper focuses on research regarding how medical care delivery and public health services affect children and will contribute this knowledge to the task force. During his active term, Kemper and other members will consider a variety of treatment issues such as autism care, counseling and cancer screenings. “We are extremely pleased that [Kemper] was willing to accept this responsibility. It’s a lot of work,” said Virginia Moyer, director of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. “It’s a lot of responsibility and we are very pleased to have him on the task force.” There are 15 members on the task force each serving a four-year term, Moyer said. The task force accepts recommendations from anyone, and then evaluates candidates before making appointments. Kemper, who was nominated in the middle of last year and began his term Jan. 1, will attend his first task force meeting in early March. “The purpose of the preventive services task force is to make recommendations to clinicians as well as the public as to what things are really worth doing,” Kemper said. “The task force evaluates
all the scientific evidence that is out there and from that, it makes a series of recommendations.” The task force has dozens of active recommendations on approximately 70 topics listed on its website, Moyer said. The task force examines medical preventive measures and grades them on an A through D scale, with A and B grades indicating a positive recommendation, a C grade indicating a neutral recommendation, and a D grade indicating a negative recommendation. The task force nominates certain topics on which they issue recommendations, but only considers topics which have special importance and which could be influenced by the task force. “We don’t undertake just any topic,” Moyer said. “We are limited by the fact that we are all volunteers, all of us have day jobs, and so we can only undertake a certain amount of work.” Dennis Darcey, chief of the Duke Medical Center’s Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, noted that the importance of the task force comes from the fact that many of the most prevalent diseases today are preventable. “Most of these chronic diseases we suffer from in our society are preventable,” Darcey said. “Lifestyle changes— stopping smoking, good diet, exercise, all the common things you hear about all the time—they do make an impact in See TASK FORCE, page 6
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for Social Justice. “What it should be and what it means in reality are two very different things.” The conversation also featured senior Adrienne Harreveld; Kerry Haynie, an associate professor in the political science and of African and African American Studies departments; and Jennifer Frye, associate director of Democracy North Carolina. Junior Destiny Hemphill, also a Reginado Howard Scholar, moderated the panel. Frye outlined the major issues caused by the voter ID law that was signed by Gov. Pat McCrory in August—mainly that the law discourages minority or otherwise critical populations from voting, including but not limited to people of color, women and youths. Measures such as requiring voters to have a governmentissued photo identification, cutting early voting and eliminating same-day registration is a costly, inconvenient and suppressive attempt to maintain voting integrity. “After the Civil War during the Reconstruction, we had an opening up of the voting process,” Frye said, noting at one point there was an 80 percent voter turnout. However, when backlash resulted in restrictive measures such as grandfather clauses and protests, “turnout tanked,” Frye said. “That backlash perpetuated issues in N.C,” she said. Harreveld, a columnist for The Chronicle, agreed that the issue is not a new one—rather, a historical recurrence— and people must take steps to maintain
the rights that have been granted and established. “The same issues keep coming up over and over again,” she said. “Systematically there’s still so many ways racism affects outcome, whether you’re white or a person of color.” Nash Mepukori, a sophomore from Kenya who attended the event, noted the concern she feels seeing the situation unfolding in North Carolina despite being secluded from the issue on campus. “I wasn’t aware their rights were still being denied,” she said. “There’s so much we could be doing to help the Durham community.” Harreveld also noted that she thinks the University as a whole could be more actively involved in encouraging people to vote, such as arranging rides to polling centers on election day. The Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship commemorates a student of the same name, the first AfricanAmerican Duke student body president who died in a car accident during his sophomore year. The merit scholarship is awarded annually to students of African descent. GeorGia parKe/The ChroniCle The second event in the lecture series will take place Monday, Feb. 24 in Duke A panel discussion was held with Duke faculty and students after the screening of Divinity School and will focus on mass “Section 5.” incarceration in North Carolina and ways to avoid it by resisting racial and class-based discrimination. “We’re making sure we connect students with the panelists,” said Derek Lindsey, a senior and scholarship recipient who introduced the event to the audience. “It’s exciting that the the Duke population is excited to be behind it.
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“We have received support from different student groups, including the Council for Collaborative Action, and are looking [forward] to furthering discussion and seriously ensuring that we are considered for space in the very near future,” Santellano said. The group’s proposal will be discussed in a meeting Friday with Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. Moneta said he has received a proposal from Mi Gente. He also noted that there is no formal process for requesting space. The Black Student Alliance supports Mi Gente in their efforts to get campus space, said BSA President Marcus Benning, a senior. “We feel that providing more spaces for minority student populations is a great gesture to show that the University is dedicated to creating an equitable environment for their students,” Benning said.
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preventing these common diseases.” Although healthcare costs and the high price of medical testing is becoming an increasingly important issue both economically and politically, the task force does not take cost into account when making recommendations, Moyer said. It simply weighs the benefits for any procedure or process against the risks. “We make our recommendations based on the scientific evidence of benefit for health, and we do not consider cost as part of that,” Moyer said. “That is for other people to consider. Our task is to look at the scientific evidence and de-
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cide which preventive services are likely to improve health.” Going forward, Moyer identified a number of topics which may make their way to the task force for consideration. These include everything from preventing cavities in children to diagnosing autism. Darcey also pointed to recent studies casting doubt on the effectiveness of mammograms as another indication of what the task force might look at in the near future.
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The North Carolina state attorney general’s office could not be reached for comment. North Carolina has yet to decide whether it will appeal the decision, Meno said. If the state appeals, the case would be read by the United States Supreme Court. Jeff Powell, a professor at the School of Law said although the decision was unanimous, it could still be overturned if it reaches the Supreme Court. Meno noted an appeal by the state would be an unwise use of taxpayer money. “The taxpayers of North Carolina probably don’t want to see the state spending more resources on what is a blatant violation of the first amendment,” he said. Powell said that whether or not the bill survives judicial scrutiny, the legislature has expressed its view on the abortion issue. “It is often the case in legislation...that legislators are doing something other than putting in place a law that they think will last,” he said. “[These laws] serve the pur-
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pose of symbolically showing that a legislature holds a certain view.” Meno shared a similar view, saying the now defunct law was created for political reasons. “There are lots of anti-choice legislators in the assembly,” he said. “[They] tried to advocate one ideological viewpoint over another.” Meno added that the case was an important victory for free speech. “Any citizen should be concerned when the government gets into deciding what private opinions people can and cannot express,” he said.
candidate for SOFC Chair. Sunder is the current vice president for services. Doytchinov is the current executive vice president. Nemeh currently has no affiliation with DSG. Giles is currently an associate justice for the DSG judiciary. In order to be added to the ballot, each candidate had to acquire 100 signatures on a petition, noted sophomore Syed Adil, DSG attorney general. “This was actually the first time ever that electronic signatures were used to sign petitions, so it’s an exciting time, ” Adil wrote in an email Monday. He added that all candidates are encouraged to begin campaigning at 12:01 from page 6 a.m. Tuesday. “All candidates could have technically group discussed future plans to send out begun campaigning whenever they wanta survey that will gage general percep- ed after considering last year’s ruling by tion of food options on campus. The sur- the Judiciary that DSG cannot enforce vey will ask students what their favorite strict campaign timelines,” Adil wrote. eateries are, where they would like to see more variety in dining and what dietary restrictions they may have. Although DUSDAC is eager to hear about students’ dining preferences, Taylor emphasized that there will be no new restaurants added to the Duke line-up before the West Union construction is complete. “There is nowhere else to add a restaurant on campus. I don’t want people to think we’re going to tear down the Chapel to make room,” joked Taylor.
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Two of the ACC’s most storied programs, Duke and Maryland, evenly split on their first 78 meetings, with each side winning 39 apiece. In what could be the final conference matchup between the two teams, the Blue Devils broke the tie. No. 7 Duke snapped its two-game home losing streak with an 84-63 victory against No. 8 Maryland Monday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. After struggling on the defensive end in back-to-back home losses to Notre Dame and North Carolina, the Blue Devils used a revitalized effort on defense to put the team back on track. “I can’t really remember the last time that we had a full, 40-minute defensive effort, so it was just encouraging to see it,” junior center Elizabeth Williams said. “We’re hoping to keep it up for the rest of the week.” Asserting her team’s defensive presence from the opening whistle, Williams blocked Terrapin freshman guard Lexie Brown’s first shot and gave the Blue Devils their first offensive possession. Duke (23-3, 10-2 in the ACC) kept Maryland scoreless through nearly four minutes of play and grabbed a 5-0 lead early. Duke’s defensive performance was led by
Every time the Blue Devils needed a big play, their sophomore point guard rose to the occasion. No. 7 Duke ended its two-game home losing streak with an 81-63 win against No. 8 Maryland led by Alexis Jones—who had 22 points on 8-of-14 shooting, including a career-high five 3-pointers, four assists and four rebounds. The Texan started the game by making her first two 3-pointers and sparked the Blue Devils’ 52.6-percent shooting effort. Jones had four points and two assists during Duke’s 10-0 first-half run that gave the Blue Devils a seven-point edge late in the period. She added an assist and back-toback 3-pointers as part of Duke’s 11-0 run that put the Blue Devils up by 16 in the second half and blew the game open. “I thought she was fantastic,” Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said. “She played with a ton of poise. You could see that with her swagger out on the floor. She was in command. I thought the confidence she instilled in all her teammates was huge for Duke tonight.” Jones’ big night coincided with one of Duke’s strongest defensive performances of
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Georgia Tech presents Duke’s next test by Brian Mazur THE CHRONICLE
Entrenched in its toughest stretch of the season, Duke can only afford to focus on the present. Beginning a stretch of three games in five days, the No. 5 Blue Devils will face Georgia Tech at the Hank McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta Tuesday at 9 p.m. No. 5 Duke Head coach Mike vs. Krzyzewski even went as far as comGeorgia Tech paring the grueling stretch—which TUESDAY, 9 p.m. Hank McCamish Pavilion ends with a road matchup against rival North Carolina and a home game against undefeated Syracuse—to a Final Four weekend, both in atmosphere and quality of Duke’s opponents. “Whatever we do [against Georgia Tech], the last two games this week are really like a Final Four,” Krzyzewski said. “You are playing two teams that might be in the Final Four.”
Duke (20-5, 9-3 in the ACC) won the last duel between the two teams with a 79-57 victory in Durham Jan. 7. Forward Rodney Hood led the Blue Devils to a second-half offensive surge after Duke clung to just a one-point lead at halftime. The redshirt sophomore finished with 27 points and six rebounds. Despite Hood’s big game, fellow forward Jabari Parker struggled in his last matchup against the Yellow Jackets, scoring only 12 points in 21 minutes. But the freshman appears to be playing some of his best basketball of the season, scoring 21 points or more in his last three games, including a 23-point, eight-rebound performance Saturday night against Maryland. “I think he’s such a multi-dimensional player and so versatile that he can hurt you in a lot of different ways,” Georgia Tech head coach Brian Gregory said. “His strength and explosiveness to the basket—either from the perimeter or in the post—is very difficult for guys to stop 1-on-1.”
Georgia Tech (13-12, 4-8) has struggled this season but is fresh off a 74-71 win against Boston College Thursday. The Yellow Jackets managed a slim victory playing without leading scorer Trae Golden, who played a year at Tennessee before transferring to the Yellow Jackets. Gregory said Golden’s playing status was questionable for Tuesday’s matchup. Georgia Tech recently welcomed back forward Robert Carter, Jr., who did not play the last time Duke squared off with the Yellow Jackets. In Thursday’s win, Carter scored 10 points and grabbed five rebounds. Before his injury, the sophomore also led the ACC in rebounding. In Carter’s absence, Georgia Tech turned to center Daniel Miller for a paint presence. The senior is second in the ACC in blocked shots and has averaged 15.3 points per game in his last four contests. His play is capturing attention around the ACC. “People who just use ‘big man’ [to See M. BASKETBALL, page 9
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Jabari Parker scored just 12 points in his first outing against Georgia Tech but is currently playing some of his best basketball.
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Williams and senior forward Richa Jackson, who combined for eight of the team’s 10 steals and four of the team’s six blocks. On the offensive end, Williams notched her fifth double-double of the season with 17 points and 11 rebounds. Jackson added a season-high 19 points. “Elizabeth played with a lot of poise. I really thought she took a lot of hits—more elbows than an overworked plumber,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I think [Jackson’s] productivity and the way she was on both sides of the ball was the best it’s been, and that’s what she’s capable of doing.” Struggling to combat Duke’s defense early, Maryland senior forward Alyssa Thomas assisted Brown for back-to-back buckets to finally put the Terrapins (20-5, 8-4) on the board after their initial drought. Despite going 1-for-9 from the field through 27 minutes of play, Thomas led her team offensively, finishing with 14 points and 12 rebounds. Although two other Maryland players finished in double figures, the Terrapins shot just 32.4 percent from the field in the disappointing loss. “I thought we had a lot of great looks from the perimeter,” Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said. “The game’s that we’ve struggled [in], when you see the percentages, we didn’t really have anyone who shot the ball extremely well, and you’ve got to be able to find a way.” Both teams struggled to execute offensively in the early-going. The Terrapins relied on fast break points and put backs. Maryland outscored Duke 7-2 in transition and 6-2 on second-chance points in the first
10 minutes of the contest. The Blue Devils found open looks behind the arc from senior guard Tricia Liston and sophomore guard Alexis Jones, who finished the night with a career-high five treys. Duke’s offense found its spark when Williams’ first made field goal of the night and a Liston putback capped a 7-0 Duke run to take a 17-13 lead. In a game with eight lead changes, the Blue Devils turned to its bench to continue the scoring effort. Freshmen forwards Oderah Chidom and Kendall McCravey-Cooper combined for 11 points off the bench. “[Chidom] was very consistent, very confident out there, and I was really, really happy with Kendall,” McCallie said. “They’re both very, very physical players…. They’ll be playing more and more as they focus and do what they do.” Although the Blue Devils managed their best offensive effort against a ranked team since playing then-No. 24 Florida State Jan. 23, they were unable to pull away in the first half, heading to the locker room with a 38-31 advantage. Duke’s lead dropped to just three points early in the second half despite three rebounds and four points by Williams in the first two minutes of the period. The Blue Devils would make a run, and Jones’ fourth 3-pointer stretched the score to 62-48, giving Duke a comfortable double-digit lead that lasted until time expired. “They were balanced, and they were fighting, and that was the only thing we asked,” McCallie said. “I just wanted everyone to fight for 40 minutes, that’s it. I don’t care what the score is, I don’t care what’s going on—we’ve got to really fight.”
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the season. The Blue Devils (23-3, 10-2 in the ACC) showed increased defensive intensity from the opening tip, causing Maryland to miss its first four field goals. Two-time reigning ACC Player of the Year Alyssa Thomas started the game 1-of9 from the field and faced swarms of Blue Devils at every turn. The Terrapins (20-5, 8-4)—who came into Monday’s game averaging 84.0 points per game—shot just 32.4 percent from the field for the game. Jones was one of Duke’s most active defenders, frequently getting deflections and flying around the court. Her counterpart— Maryland point guard Lexie Brown—shot just 4-of-15 from the field and was thrown off by Duke’s variety of defenses and Jones’ ball pressure. “We were really aggressive on the defensive end,” Jones said. “We were helping each other out a lot, which we worked on a lot during this past week. Helping each other a lot made us focus more on the defensive end.” Once Duke had asserted its defensive prowess, Jones went to work by attacking in transition and spreading the ball around to spark Duke’s big runs. The Blue Devils had four players in double figures and freshmen post players Oderah Chidom and Kendall McCravey-Cooper combined for 11 points off the bench. Jones emulated injured point guard Chelsea Gray with the way she evenly distributed the ball and made big shots. “I was really happy with [Jones],” McCallie said. “[Jones] was very smart, very competitive and did many, many good things out there directing.” Richa Jackson also had a big night thanks to Jones’ vision and pace of play. The senior had 19 points and frequently filled lanes on the break before receiving passes from her point guard in stride. However, even Jackson was not prepared for all of Jones’ nolook passes. “There’s a nice connection between [Jones and Jackson],” McCallie said with a joyful smile. “[Jones] sees everybody really well. Richa’s got to get used to those passes because a couple of times [Jones] found her and Richa [wasn’t ready].” Last season when Jones stepped in for the injured Gray late in the year, she played
her best basketball—averaging 13.8 points, 6.1 assists and 5.4 rebounds per game. She was also the MVP of the ACC tournament. Duke could use another strong late-season stretch from its dynamic floor general with contests against No. 14 N.C. State and No. 2 Notre Dame looming this week. The Blue Devils also play at No. 11 North Carolina next Sunday before opening ACC tournament play. Jones’ ability to set a defensive tone and control the pace like she did Monday could determine Duke’s fate in those big games. “She’s our point guard and our leader on the floor,” Williams said. “For her to display that kind of energy—it really gets a lot of us going both offensively and defensively. She did a great job of just leading us. It was nice to see that confidence in her.” Perhaps even more importantly, all of the Blue Devils—including their head coach—seem to enjoy the game more when they see Jones flying down the court with the ball in her hands. “One of the biggest things for us is to have fun and enjoy what we’re doing,” Williams said. “We just try to relax and do what we do.”
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describe him] are mistaken,” Krzyzewski said. “He is very mobile. He can score with his back to the basket, but he can also face the basket. He can pass, he runs well and he has been one of the best shot blockers.” Duke forward Amile Jefferson will have his hands full with Carter and Miller, but has proved to be a reliable and potent force near the basket, grabbing 12 rebounds against the Terrapins. Despite the sophomore’s best
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Thank you, Duke employees This month, spates of winter weather—including a snow storm three weeks ago and last week’s “Snowpocalypse”—have resulted in the most substantial snowfall in the Durham area in recent memory. Although perhaps not as severe as storms that hit the Northeast, the snow interrupted life on Duke’s campus—three consecutive days of classes were canceled and the much-anticipated Duke-UNC basketball game had to be postponed. But, unlike the City of Durham—which more or less completely shut down for several days—Duke launched a proactive and superb response to the unexpected weather. Many of Duke’s staff members stuck around campus to oversee the University’s essential functions, and we would like to take this opportunity to extend our thanks to University staff and administrators. Duke’s employees—especially those who worked during the snow days—are integral members of the Duke community and, without them, the University would not be able to carry out most of its day-to-day functions. And yet, as students at a University that focuses primarily on excelling in research and teaching, we often take the contributions of Duke’s staff for granted. First, we would like to acknowledge the residential staff, bus drivers, food workers, security
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Editorial roads and walkways would have been impassable. Second, we would like to thank the library staff for facilitating academic research despite class cancellations. Finally, we extend our gratitude to the hospital and medical school personnel, whose presence is essential for the health and safety of Duke, Durham and the region. These acknowledgements are well-deserved under normal circumstances, but they are even more important now, given the sacrifices that many employees made so that they could come to work in the snow. Canceled classes allowed students to avoid treacherous roads and walkways. The multiple snow days also afforded many faculty members the opportunity to stay home with children who were unable to attend
I don’t believe that all of the online name-calling, bullying and blatant sexism surrounding Lauren is wholly representative of campus sentiment. A few brazen souls find it in themselves to speak out with a whole lot of judgement... and unfortunately most of us who don’t agree with them refuse to engage. —“Amanda Sol” commenting on the editorial “The persistence of sexism”
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school due to school closings. Many essential staff, however, received none of these benefits. Instead of staying home with family, these employees came to Duke and, in doing so, played an integral role in ensuring the safety and comfort of students. It is also necessary to thank administrators, whose planning laid the groundwork for the University’s quick and effective response to the weather. Given the infrequency of severe winter weather in North Carolina, it is not practical for Duke to purchase and maintain large quantities of expensive equipment, such as snowplows. However, the administration’s foresight in spreading sand and salt on campus surfaces and roadways went a long way towards mitigating snow-related risks. Moreover, all buildings on campus were kept heated, even though many households throughout the region lost power during the storm. Duke’s administration often takes heat for being uncommunicative, but, during the storm, their communication proved to be exemplary. Online notifications and constant emails kept students, faculty and staff updated on important developments. For that and more, thank you Duke employees.
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assurance that there is a wholly correct answer to every ethical dilemma. This moral arrogance transcends our legislators. People hate to acknowledge that others are right, especially at the expense of their own beliefs. Regardless of our individual values, arrogance affects us all. This is hardly surprising given how our moral outlook first originates. Social scientists have reached a general consensus that, when individuals are born into the world, they burst out of the womb with certain inborn tendencies. These tendencies interact with their childhood experiences as they begin to form their own identities. Imagine the original slate as a rough sketch of a portrait. The foundations of the picture are well established, but they can be edited to varying degrees in response to social expectations and personal transformations. Children develop their genetic sketches by learning values from their parents and peers as well as from whatever is heavily represented in popular culture. This trend is both beautiful and detrimental. While children learn to define and express themselves, they are simultaneously conditioned with the notion that their moral compasses are uniquely astute. When children grow into rational adults, they begin to challenge and be challenged by their morals. They mentally categorize others into ideological camps separating “conservatives” and “liberals.” After enough time passes in one group or another, individuals stop questioning why they believe what they do—why question what is unquestionably right, after all? Of course, I am making a generalization. Some individuals go through their lives with a fluid perspective on various issues, but the gridlock currently found within U.S. legislative chambers serves as profound evidence that there are many others who not only preach moral absolutism, but who also demand it. The resulting close-mindedness results in the name-calling, ignorance and misunderstanding that summarize the current politicized state of affairs. The truth is—and this might be a hard pill to swallow— that on the cliché social, political and economic issues people debate every day, both sides’ arguments have merit. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt delivered a Ted Talk in 2008, in which he presented his research on
the moral roots of both liberals and conservatives. He outlines five dual foundations of morality: harm and care, fairness and reciprocity, group belonging and loyalty, authority and respect, and purity and sanctity. Take a moment to consider these five, and you might postulate that liberals are prone to valuing the first two more than the others while conservatives emphasize the importance of the later three. This prediction is a generalization, but it is backed in research: Haidt polled over 23,000 people and found that while all five pairs of moral outlooks were valued by everyone, liberals worried more about harm and fairness than loyalty, authority and purity (and vice-versa). In simpler terms, liberals believe in equity of individuals even at the expense of societal stability, and conservatives believe that stability provides maximized general utility even if the preservation of conservative values comes at the expense of some minority groups. At this point, readers will likely associate with one side of the bandwagon or the other and numbingly wonder how any rational individual could disagree with them. At Duke specifically, students live in a liberal bubble, unwilling to challenge each other for fear of being socially ostracized. But this type of moral bubble does not leave room for open-mindedness. On abortion, we often ridicule those who think that life starts at conception; on the rights of LGBTQIA members, we scorn those who hold onto orthodox concerns about familial health; on immigration, we hold contempt for those who have the audacity to want enforced borders and a stable citizenry; on redistribution of wealth, we manipulate our limited economic knowledge and foresight with the certainty that welfare programs can advance our country; and on climate change, we baffle ourselves over the idea that anyone can put economic strength ahead of the environment. But when it comes down to it, on these issues and more, both sides have merit. Of course, “merit” is a subjective term—my own personal beliefs correspond more with liberal values—but there is a difference between standing up for your beliefs and ridiculing those of others. This blurred line is the one that can be most difficult to draw. The path toward social progress should not begin with close-minded suppression of views that differ from our own. After all, we each play for the same team. Given the choice between the world we live in now and a theoretical perfect world without economic and social inequality, climate change or violence, what type of Republican or Democrat really would prefer the first option? If we want compromise in D.C. we must first set the example that we want representatives that value each other’s moral backgrounds. Attacking each other for our opinions does little but foster further division in our moral outlooks. Brendan McCartney is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Tuesday.
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Lydia Thurman doubly a lie that’s not a story. That’s a news article. That doesn’t appeal to empathy or allow anybody external to the situation to truly understand. If you want to understand the situation in Syria from a human perspective, you need to read Samar Yazbek’s “A Woman in the Crossfire” rather than the New York Times news alerts. Yazbek’s piece is a diary, recording the voice of a dissident journalist as the streets of Syria explode. The bulk of the story is hers, yet reading the book you see her daughter grapple with the fear of losing her mother, with the tension of the civil war. Her daughter paces and screams behind a closed door. You see her friends express concern and you see strangers as they are beaten or killed or tortured by the members of the regime and security officers. This question of when you can justify telling someone else’s story has never been anything but relevant, and remains particularly pertinent today as pieces are so easily shared from sources like Amazon Prime and internet publications. Yazbek’s book proliferates a powerful sense of dignity, which helps it to go down a little more easily. But when people write from external perspectives, this sense of dignity can be harder to produce, harder to retain. Should people be able to write about things in nations that aren’t their own? If you answer no, the question broadens: Should people be able to write about experiences they haven’t experienced? If holistic empathy is a pre-requisite for writing, then biography shouldn’t exist. I’ve always wondered about war photography. By merely living where war exists, individuals not only face risk of violence, but also risk of international fame. The next Pulitzer could very
well be from the death of a woman. Or it could come from the grief of a man, the emaciation of a child. Photography published online or in the United States can seem voyeuristic, but does that make the photographers themselves voyeurs? And of course there are less extreme journalistic invasions. The image that I cherish most from the Duke-UNC game when Austin Rivers hit the buzzer beater isn’t Coach K’s high jump nor the ensuing dog pile, but the pan of the Carolina student section. The tall, skinny guy with dropped jaw and a “Beat Duke” shirt. The brunette who clutches her head in her hand. The guy in between them with face painted half white, half baby blue and a hand over his mouth. These people have become memes and jokes, and I’m 90 percent sure that if I met them in real life I would recognize them. And every time you attend a televised basketball game in an arena like Cameron Indoor Stadium or the Dean Dome, you open yourself up to the possibility of being similarly lampooned. At the Duke-UNC home game last year, I wore a party hat in celebration of Coach K’s 66th birthday. Before the game began, my tentmate (also in a party hat) leaned over and said, “Be careful if we lose. It would be so easy to meme a disappointed Duke student in a party hat.” I took a creative non-fiction writing class my sophomore year and lost sleep over every attempt at character development. I could imagine someone finding the writing samples and becoming outraged. “You think my humming is ‘incessant’?” “Did you really have to make me seem so childish?” I quibbled over minor portrayals of some of my best friends and of people I had only met briefly. I felt invasive by writing, and each time I asserted anything about a person, each time I pinned down a specific trait or tried to describe their personality, I felt judgmental and deluded. I can’t imagine the struggle that goes into casting real issues, real hardships, in the context of the humans they affect. I recognize the power of war photography, but simultaneously recognize that I could never hold the camera. I go back and forth. Sometimes I do find myself thinking biography shouldn’t exist. That very well may be the cowardly conclusion to draw, but it also sometimes feels like the respectful one. I’m glad others are out there to record and portray and transmit, because I do think these stories are important. I do think memes of UNC students are funny. And I hope that every time a person’s story is told, the author and subject are afforded enough credit. People are people are people, and a story written with a single voice can only tell you so much.
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hen I announced that I would be presenting our proposed new rules and procedures, the DSG Senate heaved an understandable collective groan. The group I spoke with was already a select number of people—students who had volunteered and students who had run in hotly contested elections in order to legislate for the student body. Still, I couldn’t blame them. In a world of endless exciting opportunities and controversies—from doing research with world-class faculty to arguing about the place of greek life on campus—procedures are bland, boring and bureaucratic. As the executive vice president of DSG, my first duty is to oversee these rules and procedures, so I am arguably, at worst, a bureaucratic roadblock to progress and, at best, a giant bore. Process, however, does matter. Civil rights in the United States are protected through the Constitutional guarantee of due process of law. It is procedural and even technical that police must read a Miranda warning
DSG Series we’re relevant, we promise when arresting a suspect, that a judge must rule on the suspect’s continued detention with a certain number of hours and that a taxpayer audited by the IRS has access to multiple levels of appeal. Yet these procedures and technicalities are inseparable from our most fundamental rights—not to incriminate ourselves, not to be arbitrarily imprisoned, not to have our money taken from us by a scary federal agency without an opportunity to plead our case. Procedures matter on campus as well. A provision called “Privacy of student rooms and apartments,” listed in the Housing License, guarantees that RAs and staff may not enter rooms except pursuant to one of several enumerated procedures, such as routine inspections with notice, written search authorization from HDRL or emergency entry to secure students’ safety. This regulation ultimately protects students against arbitrary breaches of their privacy, like random searches for alcohol violations that some institutions conduct. The effect is not primarily to shield wrongdoers from punishment. Instead, this policy protects those who are doing nothing wrong but might otherwise be cast under a wide net of arbitrary or universal suspicion. The policy fosters a campus culture where students feel respected and secure. Above all, it furthers a mutually trusting relationship between students and those in positions of authority. It therefore behooves Duke to ensure that this policy is followed by training RAs accordingly and making it clear that evidence obtained through a violation of policy should not be a basis for disciplining a student. Interestingly, the 2000-2001 Bulletin of Information and Regulations had a very explicit prohibition on the use of improperly obtained evidence, in addition to a host of other rules and procedures that protected students. Students could request an open hearing and peremptorily challenge panel members. Sanctioning guidelines, at least for cheating and alcohol violations, were transparent. The exact rules for selecting new Undergraduate Judicial Board members were available for all to see and comment on. Above all, the policies themselves were procedurally protected: They could only be amended “on the recommendation of a duly appointed judicial review composed of undergraduates, faculty and deans.” Unfortunately, while the most recent Duke Community Standard in Practice has many other merits, it has eliminated these elements of transparency and due process. It is easy to see how these rules could have been removed as unnecessarily legalistic, technical and wordy. Yet they ensured that if found responsible and punished, no student could complain of arbitrariness or bias. They made sanctions consistent, and allowed the community to propose reforms if those sanctions seemed too lenient or too harsh. They guaranteed that the whole community, rather than one administrative office, truly owned the process used to set and enforce the community’s standards. To me, as the representative of Duke students subject to these policies and as a freedom-loving American, something as fundamental as due process is worth a little legalism and bureaucracy. At a basic level, rules and procedures matter for students, and they should matter for DSG. Over the course of the last several months, my colleagues and I have reformed bylaws governing everything from Young Trustee elections to auditing student groups. Throughout, we’ve bent over backwards to protect everyone’s rights through detailed, transparent and judicially reviewable procedures. Analogously, over the next few months, I hope to discuss student concerns with the administration and see whether we can restore some of the procedural specificity that Duke students used to enjoy. The intent of doing so is not to question the administration’s motives, nor to harp on empty technicalities, but rather to make sure that students are maximally respected and protected, and that any allegation of unfairness becomes so implausible as to be laughable. Therefore, I ask the Senate and the student body for patience when so much of DSG’s public meeting time is taken up by procedure. While rarely exciting, due process is at the core of liberty, and especially when advocating for it in the University, we must first practice what we preach.
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Lydia Thurman is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Send Lydia a message on Twitter @ThurmanLydia.
Nikolai Doytchinov is a Trinity junior and DSG executive vice president. His column is the third installment in a semester-long series of biweekly columns written by members of Duke Student Government. Send Nikolai a message on Twitter @DukeStudentGov.
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DUKE PERFORMANCES February 18 - 24 Exhibitions
Deborah Stratman: Speculative Terrains. A range of work—photography, video, and installation—by MFA | EDA Visiting Artist Deborah Stratman. Thru February 28, Power Plant Gallery, American Tobacco Campus. Free. Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist. Remarkable paintings by American artist Archibald Motley, master colorist and radical interpreter of urban culture. Thru May 11, 2014. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.
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February 20 Black Masculinity, Genius and the Expressive Arts. Guthrie P. Ramsey, University of Pennsylvania, and Duke professor Mark Anthony Neal celebrate their new books The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and The Challenge of Bebop and Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities. They will be joined in a wide-ranging conversation about Black masculinity, genius and the expressive arts by eminent cultural critic Greg Tate. 7pm, Nasher Museum of Art. Free. Republic. Award-winning Brooklyn based Hoi Polloi’s Republic measures the big social questions of Socrates and company against today’s modern world. Presented by Duke Performances. 8:15pm, Manbites Dog Theater in Durham. $17, $15 Age 30 & under, $10 Duke students. Film Screening. Not Yet Begun to Fight. Sabrina Lee’s (’91) critically acclaimed documentary on the human cost of combat and the chance for redemption, sponsored by the Duke Alumni Assoc and CDS. Post-film Q&A with Lee moderated by CDS director Wesley Hogan. 7:30pm, Full Frame Theater. Free. The Duke University Wind Symphony. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, dir. Joint concert with the Durham Concert Band, Tom Shaffer, conductor. Premiere performance of a piece by Duke composer Paul Leary, and works by Bernstein, Grainger, Lauridsen and others. 8pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free. The Man Who by Peter Brook. Inspired by the book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” by Oliver Sacks, this play features Sam Kebede (T’14) (Sr. Distinction Project) 8pm, Brody Theater. Free. February 21 Piano Master Class. With Lise de la Salle. 3pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free. Republic. (See February 20) 8:15pm. Post-show discussion, with Alec Duffy (Hoi Polloi) and Wayne Norman (Kenan Institute for Ethics), moderated by Aaron Greenwald (Duke Performances.) The Man Who. (See February 20) 8pm. Life Is a Cabaret: The Library Party. Duke Marketing Club and Duke University Libraries present a night of sophisticated fun and entertainment, inspired by the library exhibit on Parisian cabarets. Open to the entire Duke community. 9pm-12am, Perkins Library. Free. February 22 Exhibition Closing. Legendary: Inside the House Ballroom Scene. Photographs by First Book Prize in Photography winner Gerard H. Gaskin. Thru February 22. Center for Documentary Studies. Free. Republic. (See February 20) 8:15pm. The Man Who. (See February 20) 8pm. February 23 Randall Love, piano. Works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Chopin. 4pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free. Organ Recital Series Concert. Dorothy Papadakos, a renowned international performer and improviser, who has received rave reviews for her silent film accompaniments, will present The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), accompanied on the Aeolian organ. 5pm, Duke Chapel. Free. Republic. (See February 20) 3:15pm.
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All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium (SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium. All events subject to change. 2/18
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Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005, 106 min, USA, in English, Color, Blu-Ray) A Chicago art dealer specializing in outsider art journeys to rural North Carolina for the first time. Q&A to follow w/ Duncan Murrell (CDS Writer in Residence) and Richard Powell (John Spencer Bassett Professor, AAH&VS) 2014 Ethics Film Series. Welcome to Dongmakgol (W) (Kwang-Hyun Park, 2005, 133 min, South Korea, in Korean and English w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD). Set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950, the film chronicles accounts of the soldiers from both North and South Korea. Cine-East “Paradox of the Post-Cold War in Asia” Series.
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