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The Judiciary is considered a branch of Duke Student Government—but this branch seems to be snapping off the tree during recent conflicts over the Judiciary’s expanded role. The DSG Judiciary is responsible for resolving disputes that arise under the DSG constitution and bylaws, but the addition of a bill of rights to the DSG constitution last year increased the scope of their responsibility. The bill of rights, spearheaded by senior Patrick oathout, senator for services, was added to the DSG constitution after students voted in favor of the bill on the undergraduate Young Trustee ballot last February. The bill protects students’ freedoms, including their freedom of expression, ideology, privacy and the right to vote—and the Judiciary ensures that DSG upholds these established freedoms in its legislation. “Before the bill of rights, the Judiciary was a regulatory organization to settle disputes amongst clubs or amongst clubs and members,” said sophomore Max Schreiber, who is currently standing in as chief justice following senior Daniel Strunk’s resignment. “Post bill of rights, that same role still exists, but we have the additional responsibility to protect students’ rights listed clearly in the bill of rights. our scope has been significantly widened.” This newfound judicial power has caused conflict between DSG and the Judiciary in two major cases during the past year: Dinner and Wang v. Board of See JUDiCiarY, page 3

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Skanska, the team in charge of the renovation of West Union, began the demolition phase of the building’s core Tuesday morning.

An unlocked room on the second floor of the Few building was entered by an unknown male Tuesday morning. Sophomore Catherine White and sophomore Kimberly* woke up at around 5:40 AM to find the man standing over their beds. White’s roommate questioned the stranger as to why he was there and he offered various excuses, first claiming to be in the wrong room then telling Farmer that he had a cab for her outside, using her name that he had seen written on the door. Both girls told the man to leave the room and he left. “i was dumbfounded because i didn’t really know what was going on and i’m still pretty asleep and i looked over to my right and my roommate was awake and she was asking him questions like ‘Why are you here?’” White said. initially, Kimberly believed the man’s statement and assumed he was a student simply in the wrong room. it took her a second glance to realize he was too old to be an undergraduate and his presence in her room was not an accident. “After i got a good look at him and [saw] ‘oh, this isn’t a student,’ i was very much caught off guard,” Kimberly said. “i didn’t really realize what to do. he wasn’t leaving our room.” Following the incident, White and Kimberly contacted the Duke University Police Department, alerting them of what had happened. Two officers came to their door soon after, asking them about the man and reminding them to lock their doors. “They kind of ended it trying to teach us a lesson—you just have to lock your door,” See FEW, page 4

Rence Nemeh draws upon cross-campus experiences in DSG platform by Hayley Trainer The ChroniCle

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Nemeh said he would like to see the relationship between DSG and the student body change.

Junior rence nemeh plans to use his experience in “cross-campus student collaboration” to serve the Duke community as the next Duke Student Government president. nemeh, a candidate in the 2014 DSG presidential campaign, said that he is uniquely qualified for the position because of his experience in many student life sectors, including Duke University improv, Duke University Union, Sabrosura, DefMo and DukeAfrica. he noted that these collaborations have given him a thorough understanding of the University.

“We need to break down what types of experience matter,” nemeh said. “i collaborate with almost every inch of our campus and am the only candidate with these first-hand Duke perspectives.” nemeh emphasized the importance of his relationships with Duke administrators, especially Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek. “i have both co-hosted theater departmental shows with Dean Sue and yelled at her in Sabro promo videos, but at the end of the day we are just two pickles in a jar,” nemeh said. “A jar large enough to fit only two pickles, so we’re pretty close.” in the future, nemeh said he would like

to see the relationship between DSG and the student body change, allowing for more open discussion and accessibility. he said the DSG president should take responsibility for students’ rights and represent their interests. “i would like to see DSG...as a resource for students and not an ambiguous entity of suits in a room,” nemeh said. “i would enthusiastically open executive office hours, give out my personal number and be on call 24/7 and continue to attend and collaborate with as many student organizations, events and causes year-round.” See nEMEH, page 4

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Rise becomes first Durham Graduate parking moved business to accept Bitcoin to the Blue Zone by Kirby Wilson The Chronicle

Tom Ferguson, owner of Rise bakery, is the first business owner in Durham to accept Bitcoins. Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009 that allows people to buy goods and services and exchange currency across borders without going through a bank. Many small business owners opt for Bitcoin in place of credit cards because of the smaller transaction charges. “I pay as much as $30,000 a year in credit cards, which is really rough if you are a small business owner working with small margins,” Ferguson said. Instead of having his customers swipe credit cards, Ferguson has a machine that converts dollars to Bitcoins. Customers scan a barcode with their smartphones, and the online currency is automatically transferred to Ferguson’s account with Coinbase, a third-party Bitcoin exchange company. Coinbase then converts the Bitcoin back into dollars–at a much cheaper rate of 1 percent. Campbell Harvey, J. Paul Sticht Professor Professor in International Business in the Fuqua School of Business, noted, however, that the bitcoins are very volatile. “Bitcoin is ten times more volatile than holding the stock market, and it is ten times more volatile than the price of gold,” he said. “That doesn’t mean it isn’t useful, it just means you don’t hold it for that long.” The notoriously volatile currency made national headlines recently when the major Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, appeared on the verge of bankruptcy. The company had been defrauded out of 744,000 Bitcoins over several years, raising questions for some about the security of the currency, according to an article in The New York Times Monday. Ferguson said he is not concerned though. “There’s really no chance that I’m taking with this,” he said.

Harvey said the security concerns about Bitcoin are overblown. According to him, the Bitcoin network has enough computer power to perform 312 quintillion operations per second—approximately 10,000 times more operations per second than the world’s fastest computer. Sophomore Raffi Garnighian, a Coinbase fraud monitor, said the failure of Mt. Gox to keep their assets secure was unrelated to the Bitcoin network. “Mt. Gox is run by 18 to 22-year-old children,” Garnighian said. Harvey said Mt. Gox was defrauded through a series of online hacks. The robbers would withdraw some Bitcoin and then alter the transaction record in such a way that it would appear as though the transaction did not go through. They would then complain to Mt. Gox that they never received any of their currency, getting two withdrawals for the price of one. Ferguson said he is not risking his business by using the currency because he never holds the currency for long enough for it to depreciate, as it has in the wake of Mt. Gox’s downfall. “I own two Bitcoins,” he said. “That’s my big risk.” Lori Leachman, professor of the practice of economics, said the more businesses begin to use Bitcoin, the more it will appreciate. Garnighian said he believes online currency such as Bitcoin is the future of money, especially in foreign countries where monetary systems are not as stable as they are in the United States. Ferguson said his use of Bitcoin is partially a symbolic act. He wants people to change how they think about money and how they think about technology. “I really hope there’s something to this,” he said. “I’m just trying to put a little hope out there.”

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Due to contruction of a new track, graduate and law school students and faculty will have to park in the Blue Zone.

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Some students at the School of Law, Sanford School of Public Policy and Fuqua Business School now have to walk a little further from their parking spots. Due to ongoing construction of a new track, graduate students and law school faculty that used to park in the Whitford lot—located between Sanford and the law school— must now park in the Blue Zone. Although 176 spots have been taken away due to the construction project, gravel lots have been constructed both in the Blue Zone and near the Al Buehler trail to compensate said Sam Veraldi, director of Duke Parking, Housekeeping and Transportation. “Construction in Whitford parking has really put a damper on a lot of law students’ abilities to park close to school,” said Ben Shellhorn, a Graduate and Professional Student Council student life co-chair and second-year

J.D./M.B.A. candidate. Construction-related parking difficulties are not new for graduate students, Shellhorn said, noting that parking spaces have previously been taken away from the Green Zone for construction on soccer fields. Stephanie Reist, an MPP-PhD candidate in Latin American studies, noted that the parking changes have caused her to worry about personal safety. “If you’re kind of here all day…it could be kind of dangerous getting back there,” Reist said. She added that the walk from Sanford to the new parking structures is not particularly well lit. Shellhorn said law school students are prone to studying late into the evening, and a walk to the Blue Zone may be uncomfortable at such an hour. See Parking, page 4

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elections and Strunk v. DSG. Both rulings by the Judiciary opposed existing DSG legislation, creating tension between the two governing bodies. “As a judicial body, the DSG Judiciary strikes down DSG legislation when the student government has gone too far, and in doing so protects the rights of the students,” said senior Daniel Strunk, previous chief justice. “We are not a policy making body.” Dinner and Wang v. Board of Elections last April, freshman Bryan Dinner, a candidate for vice president of social culture and sophomore Cynthia Wang, a candidate for senator for academic affairs, disputed DSG’s restrictions on campaigning after the election was postponed for five days, The Chronicle previously reported. The Judiciary determined that the Board of elections could not restrict students’ freedom of speech under the new bill of rights, overturning previous Boe rulings. Specifically, the Judiciary struck down DSG’s ability to limit the amount of time candidates can campaign. “Putting a window on the time when you can talk about yourself as a candidate is violation of freedom of speech— we struck that window down,” Schreiber said. “That was not a law we made, we just nullified the current policy.” he also noted concerns about a short

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campaign period favoring candidates with friends in DSG since familiar faces bring easier votes, while a longer campaign could give a new candidate without DSG connections more time to become recognized on campus. oathout—former executive Vice President of DSG—was not convinced, however. “it’s hard to predict whether longer campaigns determine anything in an election,” oathout wrote in an email Tuesday. “Certainly, the election should be long enough for the student body to get accurate information about all the candidates.” The Judiciary also ruled that DSG cannot set set monetary values to campaign materials, though they can still set a budget. Members decided that DSG has the capability to create a cap for campaign budgets, not to designate the cost of certain materials. “DSG cannot arbitrarily assign value to something that already has a market value,” Schreiber added.

it burdens students’ freedom of speech outlined in the bill of rights. in addition, members confirmed that students can now create online petitions using net and Unique iD verification from students. “This is one of the first times where instead of just striking a law down, we modified current policy so that everybody could sign a petition and had the option of how to identify themselves when doing so,” Schreiber added. DSG members, as well as two of the six justices, disagreed with the ruling. The dissident read, “A disturbing precendent has been set today. essentially, the Judiciary is acting as a legislative body. This is both irresponsible and detrimental to governance.” Justice Catherine Fei, a freshman, wrote the dissident with Justice Joseph Denton, a sophomore. She noted that by requiring DSG to verify signatures, the Judiciary was overstepping its role. “By mandating DSG to do something, we’re legislating from the bench,” Fei said.

Strunk v. DSG The most recent case involving the Judiciary’s expanded scope and the bill of rights examined the burden placed on students seeking a referendum. The original law required a petition with physical signatures from two-thirds of the Senate or 15 percent of the undergraduate student body, The Chronicle previously reported. The Judiciary struck down the bylaw requiring physical signatures, arguing that

Judiciary v. DSG? These two cases in the past year involved the Judiciary ruling against a DSG body on the basis on the bill of rights – legislation created by the DSG executive committee itself. Conflict in judicial rulings has fostered animosity between the two governing bodies, Schreiber said. “We feel absolutely hated by DSG members, especially by [the executive board]. We have a less than cordial rela-

tionship,” he said. DSG President Stefani Jones, a senior, said she felt the Judiciary was acting within the boundaries of its power— even if she does not personally agree with the outcomes. “i think their rulings are legitimate interpretations of the bill of rights,” Jones wrote in an email Tuesday. “While i think the impacts of some of them are ultimately negative, i wouldn’t fault the Judiciary itself for ruling a certain way.” Schreiber believes that the hostility drives DSG to discourage potential Judiciary applicants. “i think DSG exec intentionally does a terrible job of advertising about the Judiciary. it is the DSG exec’s responsibility to let people know that we exist, and they have failed miserably at it,” he added. But oathout said that he wished more people applied to the Judiciary. “it’s an important role, and the competition to enter should match its influence. i wish more people from nonpolitical background and women would apply,” he added. Moving forward, members of the Judiciary and members of DSG will need to define their independent roles and understand their ability to check each other’s power, Schreiber noted. “Both bodies need to understand that disagreement is an oK thing,” Schreiber said. “Someone who disagrees with you is not an evil or stupid person—they just have a different opinion.”

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“Students at the law school are notorious bookworms,” Shellhorn said. reist also considered the impact that this change might have on all students, noting that it could be particularly difficult for those with a physical disability. “if you had any sort of physical disability…that could be a real problem, just finding a spot that’s even remotely close,” reist said. Shellhorn said that a group of law students approached their dean with concerns about the closure of the Whitford lot. After speaking with Duke Parking and Transportation, many students had their parking privileges restored. Although they have the permission to park in the Whitford lot, there are not enough spaces to make this feasible for all who have lost their spots. Abigail Probert, a graduate student representative on the Academic Council’s Transportation Advisory Committee and a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and eurasian Studies, declined to comment. Still, not all graduate students have been effected, Shellhorn

said, noting that graduate students who park in the Chemistry lot and those with Blue Zone passes have not experienced any change in their parking privileges.

NEMEH from page 1 one of the most significant issues currently facing Duke students is the noise and inconvenience caused by West Campus renovations, nemeh said. he suggested that students work around the temporary construction and realize that the benefits will eventually outweigh the costs. “By pushing to maximize student spaces in the future West Union, actively seeking student input on current dining options and finding a cute nickname for the Chapel Crane, i will make the best out of the renovations process,” nemeh said. nemeh has a student-centered position on the 40 Percent Plan, a hot-button issue for many undergraduates. he noted that DSG should ultimately support student opinions and debate on the issue and should reform the Student organization Finance Committee power carefully.

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FEW from page 1 White said. Kimberly noted that the event happened in part due to the girls’ decision to leave their door unlocked and that DUPD had been very thorough in their investigation. White said she was surprised no Duke Alert was sent to notify campus of the male’s presence, who has still not been found. When she asked one of the DUPD officers she had been in contact with why no alert was sent, he told her that, because there had been no robbery or assault, an alert was not necessary. “on the flip side, if we didn’t get this guy out of our room, what were his intentions?” White said. “his intentions could have been assault or robbery…so that’s why i [said] just because he didn’t follow through with whatever was in his head doesn’t mean we shouldn’t warn people.” Kimberly echoed White’s sentiments, adding that the event happened at a time when students were beginning to wake up and walk around campus. White and her roommate were called to the police station afterward to try to identify a suspect who had been previously apprehended, but concluded that this was not the man who had entered their room. She noted that, after the chaos of that morning, she spent the rest of the day trying to return to normality. Chief of Duke Police John Dailey and Vice President of Administration Kyle Cavanaugh could not be reached in time for publication. “i was numb to the whole experience,” White said. “i don’t know what happened so i’m going to try to get back to my normal day and not think about it.” White added that the event has left her worried for things that could happen in the future to other students early in the morning. “it was early enough in the morning [that] i had crew practice…walking by myself at 6 AM,” White said. “[it] happened at 5:40 am and people were trolling around campus, so it’s scary.” *Kimberly’s last name was not included for privacy purposes.

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if elected, nemeh said he will bring new ideas and perspectives to DSG, including his recommendation to plant a time capsule on the Main Quad for students to write letters for the Class of 2020. Although he does not have significant DSG experience, his relationships with many varied student groups will allow him to represent the University fairly. “i want to challenge the social constructs we have of what a leader is supposed to look and sound like on campus,” nemeh said. “While no candidate this year is the typical candidate with years of DSG experience, i am uniquely prepared and confident to represent our campus.” Maha houssami, professor of Asian and Middle eastern studies, said nemeh will be an unconventional but valuable addition to DSG. “he’s a hot mess,” houssami said. Junior Zeena Bhakta, a friend of nemeh, said he is the most qualified candidate and will work hard in his position if elected. “he has the most experience collaborating with all parts of campus first-hand and his energy is unmatched,” Bhakta said.

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It started and finished like an easy victory, but the Blue Devils took a turbulent road to get there. Despite jumping out to a 24-4 lead in the first 10 minutes of the contest, No. 6 Duke had to scratch and claw its way past a resilient Virginia Tech squad Tuesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils ultimately overcame the Hokies’ comeback attempt and prevailed 66-48 to cap off a grueling stretch of five games in 11 days. “When you get off to that lead... sometimes, that’s bad,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I’ll take it all the time and just deal with the consequences, but you let up a little bit because you think it’s going to be easy. But the reason we had that lead is because we played so hard. I mean we were playing great basketball, and then we let up, and they never stopped.” Virginia Tech (9-18, 2-13 in the ACC) attempted to stifle Duke’s offense with a 2-3 zone, but the Hokies’ defense lacked the same intensity that Jim Boeheim’s Syracuse squad brought to Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday night. Redshirt sophomore Rodney Hood made Virginia Tech pay, attacking the center of the zone and using his soft shooting touch to knock down jumpers from the elbow. The Meridian, Miss., native led all scorers with 21 points on 9-of-17 shooting. Virginia Tech had no problem looking

Duke dismissed any fears of a defensive letdown Tuesday night. Coming off a 66-60 win against thenNo. 1 Syracuse Saturday to play a fifth game in 11 days, head coach Mike Krzyzewski kept the Blue Devils’ intensity high by starting the squad in a fullcourt press against the ACC’s last-place Hokies. “We just wanted to come out and step on their throats right away and force the pace and try to speed them up and get them out of rhythm,” sophomore guard Rasheed Sulaimon said. Duke’s pressure paid off early. The Blue Devils forced nine first-half turnovers and held Virginia Tech to just four points through the first ten minutes of the game. At the halftime buzzer, the Hokies had given the ball away on 28.1 percent of their possessions. Keeping Virginia Tech off the scoreboard early proved especially helpful given Duke’s shooting performance. The Blue Devils missed four of their first five 3-point attempts but scored seven of their first nine points off turnovers or second-chance attempts. For the half, Duke shot just 23.5 percent from beyond the arc and 36.1 percent overall from the field. “Defense is always going to win the game, especially when our shots aren’t falling like we were hoping like we wanted them too,” said senior guard Tyler

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It’s been more than 15 years since their last meeting, but the Blue Devils hope that history will repeat itself as they take on Norfolk State. The Blue Devils haven’t faced the Spartans—a member of the MEAC— since the 1998 season, but they own Norfolk State an undefeated revs. cord in five contests against Norfolk Duke State and will look to push that win WEDNESDAY, 4 p.m. total to six when Jack Coombs Field the teams face off at Jack Coombs Field Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m. On the mound for Duke (4-3) will

be senior Drew van Orden. The righthander will look to rebound after being roughed up in his only start of the season thus far. Against UNC-Greensboro, van Orden yielded five earned runs in just 3.1 innings in an eventual 9-8 loss. He will be facing a Spartan lineup that has been struggling at the plate, hitting just .200 with only six extra-base hits as a team. “I think Drew will make the adjustments this week,” head coach Chris Pollard said. “One of the big keys for Drew is—when he’s in a starter’s role—establishing all four pitches, not falling back on the cutter as a crutch. He needs to really work to establish the breaking ball and the changeup to make him a complete, four-pitch guy. When he does that, he’s as good as anybody on our club and

can shut down anybody that he pitches against.” Freshman southpaw Devin Hemmerich will receive the starting nod for Norfolk State (1-5) in the first start of his career. Hemmerich has pitched exclusively out of the bullpen so far this season, and has yet to give up an earned run in seven innings of work. He appeared in both of the Spartans’ games this past weekend, combining for three shutout innings against Quinnipiac and Villanova. The Blue Devils will look to take advantage of his recent workload, as well as the fact that his longest outing of the season was just three innings. “We’ve got to [lengthen Hemmerich out],” Pollard said. “He had two relief See BASEBALL, page 8

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like the conference’s last-place team in the early-going. Even as they struggled to hit from beyond the arc, the Blue Devils (23-6, 12-4) forced early turnovers and dominated the glass to jump out to a 15-2 lead just 4:24 into the contest. Although Duke had it clicking on all cylinders at that point, the large advantage came more in part due to the intensity of the team’s ball pressure than its offensive efficiency.

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The rout appeared to be on as Duke extended its lead to 20 points with a 9-0 run, but seven straight points from forward C.J. Barksdale helped to keep the game within reach. “We just lost a lot of the energy we had, with the first group giving us all of that defense,” freshman forward Jabari Parker said. “It allowed them to score and catch up, and it ruined our run.” The Blue Devils’ shooting went silent down the stretch in the first half as Virginia Tech outscored Duke 16-8 in the final 9:50 of the half to head into the locker room trailing 32-20. The Hokies were able to threaten Duke’s lead early in the second half, hitting four consecutive shots from the floor to pull within single digits at 34-27. Krzyzewski, frustrated with his team’s lack of defensive intensity, called a timeout. “We can’t relax,” Hood said. “We didn’t have the same mindset we had against Syracuse. That’s not how Duke teams play. We can’t come in and think... we’re just going to blow them out.” But that was the closest Virginia Tech would get for the remainder of the contest. Sophomore Rasheed Sulaimon stroked a 3-pointer to push the Blue Devils’ advantage back to double digits. He added another triple less than three minutes later to help put the momentum squarely back in Duke’s corner. “That was big to get the crowd into it, get another stop and help each other out on the defensive end,” Hood said of Sulaimon’s triples. “I think the second half we started out poor.” Closing out a stretch of five games in

11 days allowed Krzyzewski to be more content with his team’s deficiencies in an 18-point victory. The Hall of Fame coach said he was simply trying to get as much as he could out of his tired squad. “It’s kind of like... getting that last bit of toothpaste out,” Krzyzewski said. “Even though you’ve got two full containers, you want to get that last little bit. Today was kind of, ‘Let’s get it out there.’” With a full eight days off before returning to action against Wake Forest, the Blue Devils will get more than just some much-needed rest. For the first time in two weeks, Duke will get to focus on itself rather than its next opponent. “We need to get away a little bit,” Krzyzewski said. “We need to review our stuff instead of always planning for someone else’s stuff.... Our team really needs this break from games.”

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outings over the weekend. So I think it’s important for us to stretch him out early—make him have a lot of at-bats where he has to throw a lot of pitches to get our guys out of the box and force his pitch count up and get into their bullpen.” Hemmerich will be facing a dangerous Duke lineup that is averaging 5.57 runs per game this year. Redshirt junior outfielder Chris Marconcini has been red-hot lately, collecting 10 hits during the weekend to boost his average to .481. The cleanup hitter belted home runs against La Salle and Akron, both of which led to victories for the Blue Devils. Leadoff hitter Mike Rosenfeld and third baseman Jordan Betts are also in a groove at the plate and boast averages of .370 and .345, respectively, giving Duke threats up and down the lineup. “We’ve got some guys that are really going well at the plate,” Pollard said. “Like most teams in the country, we’ve got some guys that need to get going at the plate, but that’s part of the early-season process.” The Blue Devils are coming off a 2-1 weekend at the inaugural Duke Baseball Classic in which they posted victories against La Salle and Akron. Duke’s lone defeat came at the hands of Saint Louis—a one-run loss, as were its two other defeats this year. The pitching staff allowed a total of just six runs across the three games and has been a strength for Duke this season, posting a team ERA of 2.19 through the first seven games. Although the season is young and ACC play has yet to begin, Pollard is pleased with what he has seen from his squad so far. “Overall, I like what we’ve done to this point,” Pollard said. “Obviously, we’ve dropped three close games and you don’t love that, but our guys are competing very well. With the things that we’re doing well and the way we’re competing, I feel very good about where we’re at.”

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Thornton, who had three takeaways on the night. Playing 36 minutes, Sulaimon highlighted the defensive performance. The sophomore overwhelmed Hokie freshman Devin Wilson, pressuring him into six turnovers on the night. In the last three games, Sulaimon has solidified a spot in the starting rotation, and Krzyzewski attributed his team’s improvements to the guard’s on-ball pressure. “Coach has a lot of confidence in me and he constantly tells me that he thinks I can be a lot better defender,” Sulaimon said. “I mean if Coach K’s telling you something, it must be true, so I’m starting to have a lot more confidence in myself as well, and I’m trying to use my quickness and not necessarily steal the ball but just try to disrupt their offense.... especially when you have 9,000plus fans, Cameron Crazies cheering for you as well, and even when you’re tired, it keeps you going.” The Blue Devil defense did not stop in the backcourt however. Freshman forward Jabari Parker posted his fourth three-block game of the year and added three steals to his statline. Redshirt sophomores Marshall Plumlee—who also had two blocks against Syracuse— and Rodney Hood each added a block. And Duke’s big men gave up just four offensive boards in the contest. After going through their own five-minute stretch without a field goal in the first half, the Blue Devils had left the Hokies with a window back into the game. Two minutessudoku_408B into the second half,

Virginia Tech pulled within seven points on a layup from forward Jarrell Eddie. Krzyzewski immediately called a timeout to remind his team of what was at stake against a team that had played four consecutive games decided by seven points or less. He told the Blue Devils that if they did not turn around their defensive effort, they would be risking their NCAA-leading 31-game home winning streak, Parker said. “In the last four games, Virginia Tech had a chance to win in the games that they played,” Thornton said. “We didn’t want to be a team that [let them stay close], especially protecting our home court. We want to stay undefeated at Cameron.” Sulaimon’s offense gave the Blue Devils some breathing room when he hit a 3-pointer right out of the timeout. Although the Hokies pulled within eight later, Duke tightened up its defense again, holding Virginia Tech without a field goal for 8:21 in the last 12 minutes of the game, allowing the Blue Devils to find their shooting touch. “We’ve been having these lulls these last couple games at sporadic points in the game, but one thing that we don’t want to have a lull on is defense,” Sulaimon said. “We’re going to keep the defensive pressure up, and when we don’t hit jump shots like that, our defense can get us easy buckets in transition, and that can get us going. So no matter how we’re playing offensively, if we continue to play well defensively, we’ll be fine.”

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eer universities are actively challenging the income inequality between their highest and lowest paid employees. Students and faculty at St. Mary’s College of Maryland have proposed a plan that would limit their president’s salary to 10 times that of the salary of the lowest-paid full-time employee. The plan also aims to ensure that each employee earns enough to keep a family of four off food stamps. Although this plan has not yet passed, it has started a conversation at St. Mary’s about the disparity between executive compensation and staff pay. We do not propose a reduction in President Richard Brodhead’s salary, but think that students should consider whether or not high executive pay is warranted at an institution committed to public service. Although St. Mary’s risks losing qualified candidates by reducing the salary of their president, the students and faculty behind the proposal hope to attract a president who agrees with the goals of the pay plan. According to St Mary’s mathematics professor Sandy Gazell—an author of the plan— students want a president whose behavior aligns with the mission of the university. According to a Chronicle of Higher Education

report from 2013, Brodhead makes nearly $1.2 million per year. Most employee pay data is not publicly available, but we know that some of the lowest paid employees earn so little that Duke felt the need last year to offer housing subsidies to some staff. In the past, some low-paid workers

Editorial have also been given little to no notice when opportunities for work were cut short. As a non-profit institution that prioritizes public service through education, it is surprising to see such stark contrasts in salaries. It is understandable, moreover, that universities like St. Mary’s, Vanderbilt, Brandeis and others are challenging this disparity. Although we do not endorse cuts in Brodhead’s salary, it is important to assess the fairness of collegiate pay schemes. If the president’s salary reflects the value we place on his work and his contributions to the University, do the low salaries of Marketplace employees indicate how little we value their work and contributions? If, as a University, we believe that Brodhead deserves

Great fan support at home is a good thing. Just remember that you also want to get a fair shake when you “go on the road” whether in college hoops or the life journey itself.

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reshmen year, I took a post-colonial literature course that opened my eyes to a world of beautiful difference in fiction. The class focused on books that were produced by authors outside of the traditional English cannon that had dominated my high school curriculum. It looked at writers who hailed from

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$1.2 million each year—which is arguably more than any family needs to live comfortably— then must we also maintain that the lowest paid employees deserve to earn so little? It is difficult to disentangle the cost of a president from other expenses, and it is true that salaries are mechanistically determined in a marketplace of competitive universities. Consequently, it is easy to write off persistent income inequalities by insisting that they represent the way things have inevitably to be. But equity in institutions of higher education should not be understood as a simple byproduct of market exchanges. Although the University’s competitive advantage is hugely important, questions of fairness ought to be treated separately from those of competitiveness. Students at other universities are having conversations about equity in compensation, and, if this is something that matters to Duke students and faculty, perhaps we need to have this conversation here. Lower executive pay might translate into lower quality executives, but, for some students around the country, a president willing to take a pay cut as a show of solidarity might be the right person for the job.

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incredibly salient today and worthy of discussion. We are all in danger of subscribing to a single story at times, and that’s a dangerous thing. Misconceptions and latent racism contribute to an environment in which people feel unwelcome. This occurs on several levels at Duke. And whether it’s the labeling of greeks as

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states that were the products of colonialism and the impact that this experience had on their writing. Now that I’m a senior, I still consider it one of the best courses I’ve taken at Duke because of the way it forced me to confront different perspectives. We examined the impact of a post-Apartheid South Africa from the viewpoint of a white professor and fractious Nigeria from that of an expatriate. These novels gripped me and invited me to consider a world outside of the bounds I was comfortable with and understood. One of the most memorable moments came from viewing a video by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie titled “The Dangers of a Single Story.” Born and raised in Nigeria, Adichie is a now a prominent author who has published a number of award-winning books. In her talk, she spoke of the impact Western literature had on her early consciousness and conception of self. She detailed her attempts at writing stories early in her childhood based on the English literature that she had access to. These stories invariably featured ginger beer and snow, things that were completely foreign to subtropical Nigeria and her own experiences as a child. The single story of Western literature had painted a picture that was impossible for Adichie to empathize with or internalize as her own. The characters were all white and frequently talked about the weather. Thankfully, Adichie was able to access her own narrative through the burgeoning genre of African literature. Yet the danger of the single story concept followed her to America where her first college roommate assumed that English was her second language and that she was deserving of pity just because she was from Africa—assumptions that were completely incorrect, yet not unfounded by the standards of mainstream society. These encounters were all poignant reminders of the importance of not automatically accepting a single viewpoint. The talk was incredibly moving, and I make a point of re-watching it every year. I feel that its theme is

unintelligent or other social or ethnic groups as possessing specific characteristics, it’s a habit we should try to break. It’s a discouraging reality that too often plagues the discourse about everything ranging from academic majors to social circles. It also has the unintended consequence of perpetuating the stereotypes we seek to address. Yet, as Duke students, we are also the subjects of this single story in the same way that we perpetuate it amongst ourselves. Just look at the common stereotype of Duke students being arrogant, upper-middle class Caucasians who care more about basketball than academics. Obviously, this isn’t true of every single student and, yet, that perception persists. The problem then is a wider one that perhaps defies an easy solution. Yet, there is a way for us to move past the single story and into the wider world of human experiences. At the end of her talk, Adichie extols the audience to read everything that they can possibly get their hands on. It’s through reading and the digestion of the internal dialogue and world of another person that we are able to try to empathize and move past the single viewpoint. There is a danger in understanding Duke as a monolithic place devoid of diversity. It encourages us to gloss over problems and simplify people into easily defined boxes. We are all guilty of sticking to our own social circles and overlooking the plethora of people that exist at this University. Never again in our lives will we be surrounded by such differentness and sameness. Different in the sense that we are all born into separate identities and cultural backgrounds. Same in the notion that we are all students in pursuit of a liberal arts education and the understanding that comes from it. This can be a very special place. Embrace it and the opportunity it presents to move past the danger of a single world. Colin Scott is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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year or two ago, The Chronicle ran several columns by students recommending the end of faculty tenure. I beg to differ. The following commentary on literary criticism demonstrates why faculty tenure is still necessary: “Such criticism thus constitutes a virtually endless praxis as opposed to a theoretical propaedeutic. It requires continual lateral procrastinations, a critical-methodological catachresis that (self-) destructs revisions of canonicity by means of formalist self-demystifications (Frye), Oedipal totalizations (Bloom), antioedipal detotalizations

to emulate while simultaneously convincing elite academic publishers to either swing along or risk losing their cutting edge in the marketplace of ideas. So now the question becomes: Why did the academic elite establish so dreadful a style of writing? The answer to this question follows the logic of a syllogism, the first premise of which is that at an elite research institution, the only path to success is doing something new. That is a tough assignment in so ploughed-over a field as 19th century literature, so one must find new ways to be new. When I was a graduate student in the late 1950s, that need was met by the so-called New Criticism, a moniker

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once tweeted at Twitter asking them for a job at their company. Jezebel had just written a post about the tech company’s “woman” problem (no women on the board), so I naturally jumped at the opportunity, linking the article and tweeting: “I am a VERY skilled tweeter…Hire me @Twitter?” It was totally a joke. But the thing is, it really wasn’t. I would gladly work for Twitter. Actually, I would love to work for Twitter. I’m basically like a walking Twitter testimonial, singing its praises. And the question: Facebook or Twitter? Please. I know where my loyalty lies, and I can get a bit defensive about it. You could say my love for that little blue Twitter bird runs deep. I was crowned “Twitter Queen” at my internship this past summer.

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(Deleuze and Guattari) and ideological Jetztzeiten or the hypostases of literary texts within an ‘arrested moment of time forced to its revolutionary crisis.’” In case anyone is still reading, I hasten to explain that these lines purport to facilitate a better understanding of an elegant 19th century story by Sarah Orne Jewett titled “The White Heron,” about a girl’s coming of age in the Maine countryside. The most obvious question evoked by this pile of professional gibberish is why anyone would write it, and the next question, even more pressing, is why anyone would publish it. The immediate answer to the first question is that the author, a young assistant professor, was doing what he had to in search of tenure at his Ivy League school. He would have to publish a book, and to have any chance of that, he would need to emulate the practice of the high authorities in the profession. Together with this, contemporary with our young scholar’s book, are samples from two of the highest such authorities. Our first sample was compiled by Homi Bhabha, a greatly distinguished professor of English now ensconced at Harvard. (Note that each sample comprises a single sentence): “If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudoscientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to ‘normalize’ formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.” The other sample was written by Judith Butler, a greatly distinguished professor of literature and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley: “The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.” This sort of writing, which I could illustrate with thousands of examples from a decade or so on either side of 1990, set the standard for young faculty

echoed in other disciplines by the New Economists and New Historians. We don’t have space to go into detail about those movements, but let’s just say that after a generation or so, the New Whatever is no longer new, so getting ahead in the game requires yet more innovation. In my discipline—and many others in the humanities and social sciences—the 1970s and 80s saw the propagation of ideology as the “Something New” for that time. The ideology itself, which sought to affect a better society by exposing and resisting social evils such as racism, sexism, class inequity and homophobia, was not new. What made those familiar ideas “new” was the foregoing style of writing. How well huge gobs of professional gobbledygook have served to improve society may be arguable. What’s not arguable is that the elite schools that pumped out these innovations have profited well from them, not only by creating a generation of grad students to train but by forcing job openings for these cadres in colleges across the nation, which are themselves obliged to keep up with Whatever New descends from on high. So I see a double motive for the guru-istic style I have cited: Its advocates presumably believe that what they are doing is worthwhile, and not coincidentally, significant benefits accrue to these propagators of the New. I will leave the value of Whatever New for others to calibrate. What I most value is the practice of independent judgment that enables skeptical thinking. The young scholar cited above could not risk skeptical thinking: Flouting the rules of the game would make him unpublishable and therefore out of work. So the reason faculty tenure is still needed is not fear of a McCarthyite political vendetta, though we can’t rule that out in some future dystopia. The faculty needs tenure to resist the pressure for conformity from within the academy. Without tenure, I (representing many like me) might well have lost my job long ago. In failing to emulate the style I have cited in this column, I would have been guilty of neglecting the Next Big Thing, the Cutting Edge, the Fashion of the Time, the Imperative of the Zeitgeist. (I have known young faculty to be denied tenure on precisely these grounds, and not only in my discipline.) And without tenure, I might not have risked writing this column.

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Victor Strandberg is a professor of English. His column is the fourth installment in a semester-long series of biweekly columns written by members of the humanities faculty at Duke.

Letter to the Editor Response to “Heroin usage on rise in Durham” The content of Kirby Wilson’s article on changing patterns of heroin use in Durham beautifully (but unintentionally) illustrates the power of relative prices. It also serves as warning against listening to physicians and other “health professionals” who give us advice about how to tackle the problem of drug use. First of all, not all drug use is a problem. Some drug users are rational consumers, rather than addicts frothing at the mouth, and—according to Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron—most drug users are not drug addicts. This claim is likely to make some people angry, but anger doesn’t make it false. Second, while the author of the article is simply reporting on changing patterns of use, economics can help us explain why more people are turning to heroin than prescription opioids. Specifically, as more stringent regulations and penalties for prescribing legal opiates like oxycodone and morphine make it more difficult to get drugs to patients, supply decreases, which

drives up the price of prescription opiates sold on the black market. Even if the price of heroin remained the same, the relative price of heroin is lower than it would be without increased penalties and policing of prescription pain killers, which are almost perfect biochemical substitutes for heroin. Thus, Cynthia Kuhn, a professor of pharmacology who was interviewed for the article, is wrong when she says “One of the most useful things [the federal government] is doing is to try to shut down ‘pill mills’.” Unless we think it is better if people use heroin rather than oxycodone or morphine, it is hard to see why Professor Kuhn thinks more government intrusion in the legal market for prescription opiates is a good idea. Since it lowers the relative price of heroin, it is likely to have exactly the opposite of its desired effect.

Since most of my job meant perusing feminist Twitter for pitch ideas and newsworthy topics, my tweeting and Twitter networking reached an all-time high. By the time I woke up in the mid-morning in California, it was early afternoon on the East Coast, which meant I was already behind on the news cycle. So every morning, I would get up a few hours before work in order to scroll through my mainstays over coffee— Jezebel, Salon, Slate, Feministing, The Atlantic, New York Magazine— and the hundreds of writers, feminists and social justice organizations tweeting, writing, hashtagging and activist-ing across the web. At my peak, I was reading at least 30 articles per day, and of course sharing them all on Twitter. I was even allowed to tweet from the @MsMagazine account, which was pretty sensational—except for that one time I accidentally retweeted a Lena Dunham tweet thinking I was on my personal account. Luckily, the situation was rectified almost immediately (key word: almost). And I’m absolutely sure none of Ms. Magazine’s 50,000-plus followers even noticed my little mishap! (Which if you’re aware of how Twitter actually works, is nothing short of very, very wishful thinking.) These days, I hardly go an entire day without tweeting or consistently sharing articles accompanied with short excerpts from the pieces or bits of commentary. My Twitter feed also serves as my primary news source, where I consume the majority of my media, and I take note of what the journalists, writers and activists I admire are reading and discussing. I study bylines. I “follow” influential thought-leaders, editors, writers and academics. I dissect the tone and style of particular news outlets. I’m a regular reader of the publications and news outlets where I want to someday contribute, finding the staff writers and freelancers whose words resonate and inform my viewpoints. I balance my retweets with original tweets and always tag the twitter handles belonging to the author of the articles I share. I use Twitter to network and connect with other like-minded people. I reach out to successful writers and media activists for professional advice—conversations that sometimes even happen offline or through email. I have about a million tabs open on my browser at any given moment and hordes of articles I email to myself to read en route to class or in line for coffee. I’m always reading, consuming, writing, thinking and sharing my opinions. In other words, I’m always expanding my feminist writer-ly voice and challenging myself to think in new ways— to see myself, like my opinions, as evolving and ever-changing. Over the last year or so, Twitter has become a place where I’ve been able to find my “beat.” I’ve been on Twitter since the middle of my freshmen year, but it wasn’t until my sophomore year that I began tweeting about race, gender and other issues of social justice—slowly and sporadically at first, until suddenly my opinions gained momentum and grew stronger and more vocal. I’ve watched my(self) and my voice take different form over social media. It seems silly at first to say that we are what we tweet, but I know personally, this certainly holds true. On Twitter, I have packaged myself in under 160 characters and my opinions in 140 characters. It’s now, in a sense, like a quasi-creative resume, weaving together both my personal and professional selves in an authentic way that speaks more fully to my personality as well as my interests, passions and accomplishments. I hate the idea of a person becoming his or her own “brand,” but it’s a brand that only guarantees one thing—a unique perspective that makes you you. The “brand” part just means that you have readers or a community that value the things that you have to say. And the hope is, of course, that with time and maturity, you can tap into your “brand” power to reach larger networks and more and more people. But the thing about social media is you are the one molding and shaping it to the likeness of you. It’s an aesthetic and a choice—one that’s driven by how you want to communicate yourself and your image to the outside world. Through my own personal platform, I embody a “brand” that speaks to more than a set of bullet points on the page. I am a writer, a change-maker, a cultural critic, a millennial feminist, an INFJ, a “media-ist” (OK, the last few might have come straight from my Twitter bio). And yes, admittedly a compulsive article sharer and incurable Twitter-holic to boot.

Jonathan Anomaly Assistant visiting professor, Duke-UNC Philosophy, Politics Danielle Nelson is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other and Economics Program Wednesday. Send Danielle a message on Twitter @elleeenel.

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The Aaron and Blanche Scharf Inaugural Lecture Thursday, February 27, 2014 4:30-6:00 Room 130 Sociology Psychology Building

Christopher DeMuth The Hudson Institute

Debt, Demography, and Democracy The national debt is very large and is the subject of never-ending brinksmanship between Congress and the President, and yet political rhetoric obscures essential truths about the causes and consequences of our debt predicament. In this talk, DeMuth will present a fresh analysis of the debt with surprising implications. Christopher DeMuth is a Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. He was president of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research from 1986 to 2008, earlier served in the Reagan and Nixon administrations, practiced law with Sidley & Austin, was managing director of Lexecon, and taught at Harvard.

Grad Finale 2014 Announce your Achievement in Style. February 24 - February 26: 10am - 4pm Schaefer Mall, Bryan Center, West Campus

A reception will follow the lecture

This is the perfect time to purchase class rings, caps & gowns, diploma frames, and personalized graduation announcements!

• Order personalized graduation announcements • Purchase caps and gowns • Purchase your diploma frame - $10 off • Order class rings Diploma frame discount offer is valid February 24 - February 26, 2014. ** Register for a $100 Duke Stores Gift Card to be given away daily. First 100 participants each day will receive a Class of 2014 key ring. No purchase necessary to enter.

The Lecture is co-sponsored by the Program in American Values and Institutions, Political Science, The Sanford Institute, the Program in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and the Center for History of Political Economy.