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Education prof. sparks dialogue on status of Latino faculty by Rachel Chason The Chronicle

A Latino visiting professor’s approaching departure has raised concerns about Latino/a faculty representation and treatment. According to the 2013 Faculty Diversity Initiative Biannual Report, there are only 12 Latino/a professors in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. Latino/a faculty currently comprise 2 percent of all tenured professors—a figure that has been nearly stagnant for two decades, even as numbers have increased for other underrepresented groups. Speaking at the Unity Through Diversity forum hosted by the Center for Multicultural Affairs, Jason Mendez—a visiting assistant professor and the director of the minor in education who is leaving at the end of the academic year—described the environment in the education program as contrary to the spirit of equity and diversity promoted by the University. The only fulltime professor of color currently employed by the department, Mendez said that the program’s leadership is not committed to recruiting or retaining diverse faculty and has failed to provide minority students, faculty and staff with the support that they need to succeed. Mendez also said he has experienced “microaggressions” and “inequitable practices” from the department of education’s leadership. “My issue is not with Duke,” Mendez said. “My experience at the University as a whole has been wonderful, and I’ve had the opportunity to form some incredible relationships. However, change—and See Mendez, page 4

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PowerPoints created by the program in education featured stereotypical images from Latino and Asian cultures, prompting some to say the slides have racist connotations.

In light of MOOCs, intellectual property policies remain flexible by Abhi Shah The Chronicle

When English professor Cathy Davidson announced her move to City University of New York, a question was raised as to who would retain the rights to the massive open online course she created while at Duke. The Intellectual Property Board, one of the Provost’s committees, gave Davidson—who is the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies—the rights to the MOOC titled “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education” after interpreting the University’s intellectual property and online courseware policies written in 2000. Although the policies

were drafted during a time when online education looked much different than it does today, its language continues to be relevant, administrators say. “The revisions in 2000 were drafted with an eye for online education,” said Laurence Helfer, the Harry S. Chadwick Sr. Professor of Law at the Law School Helfer. “[Duke] didn’t know what it would look like, but the directors knew it was coming. [The policy] is efficiently broad and has flexible language so that it can be applied to the types of MOOCs that are offered today.” Duke’s interpretation of the policy tends to allow professors to retain the rights to their course materials that Duke funds. Kevin Smith, director of the office of copyright and scholarly

communications, explained that the University’s interpretation is similar to those at a majority of other schools. Faculty members own the property of the content, but Duke also has a hand in some forms of ownership. “Duke has a license to enter into an agreement with platforms like Coursera to publish the content online,” Smith said. “Other institutions have ownership and give faculty members a license. In a practical manner, both parties have the ability to do what they want to do.” Smith said that although the policy was written in 2000—long before MOOCs in their present form were created—it does not need to be revised because the policy is flexible enough that the Intellectual Property Board can

interpret it as they see fit. Helfer is teaching a MOOC on international human rights law and also noted that the University’s existing policy has the ability to adapt to new forms of online education. Although Duke’s intellectual property policy’s wording may be flexible enough to accommodate new issues raised by MOOCs, not all peer institutions have found that this is the case. Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for instance, have recently announced changes to their policies. Faculty members believe that the current policy supports their efforts in the classroom. See MOOC, page 3

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Duke Student Government debated the SOFC allocations for the annual budget Wednesday night but was unable to reach a conclusion before adjourning at 2:45 a.m.

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The Duke Student Government Senate reviewed appeals and voted on Student organization Finance Committee allocations for the 2014-2015 annual budget Wednesday night. The SoFC annual budget funds capital expenditures and events for chartered student groups outside of the programming fund. After considering adjustments for student-run magazine The Standard, Students of the Caribbean Association and DuArTS, the Senate decided to adjourn at 2:45am and thus postpone the approval of the final annual budget until the last Senate meeting of the year on April 22. Pro tempore Patrick oathout, a senior, moved to postpone the budget approval due to the late hour and the Senate’s lack of concentration on the issues at hand.

“The reason i think we should end right now is because we’re all tired—we don’t have the attention span to give this important material the attention that it deserves,” oathout said. There were 19 student organizations that submitted appeals, seven more than last year and 17 more than two years ago. The groups that appealed were The Standard, Students of the Caribbean Association, duArTS, Duke Africa, the Duke Partnership for Service, the Catholic Center, inferno, Unzipped, Muslim Students Association, Duke Political review, Vietnamese Students’ Association, Blue Devils United, Duke real estate Club, The Chanticleer, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, latent image, DukeAfrica and Duke College republicans. DPS was appealing on See dSG, page 3

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MOOC from page 1 “Ownership by instructors is essential,” said Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the philosophy department and the Kenan Institute for Ethics. “The best professors would not put in so much time if they did not retain intellectual property rights, because then they would worry that others might distort their vision of the course.” Both Helfer and Sinnott-Armstrong said that developing and teaching a MOOC has been a rewarding but timeconsuming educational experience. “I have invested hundreds of hours in the course preparation overall,” Helfer said. “I have 18,000 students from six continents.” Smith explicated that the interpretation of the intellectual property policy is constantly adapting to meet changes in educational technology and the experimental nature of MOOCs. “The Provost made it very clear that the incorporation of MOOCs into Duke’s curriculum is an experiment,” Smith said. “It has two purposes: the first is to expand the reach of the Duke education globally and the other is to improve teaching here at Duke.”

DSG from page 2 behalf of 17 organizations that fall underneath it. Before adjourning, the senate approved $1,599.45 to The Standard, mostly for administrative costs. The senate also approved $800 to the Students of the Caribbean Association and $1728.50 to duARTS. Two representatives from The

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Chanticleer presented their appeal for a minimum of $20,000. Junior Rodolfo Baquerizo, treasurer of The Chanticleer, explained that students end up paying approximately $40 to The Chanticleer through Student Activities Fees, which is significantly less than that required by peer institutions. “Every peer institution—Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown—charges over $85 for their yearbooks. That means we’re producing and giving a yearbook to each of our seniors for less than half of that cost,” Baquerizo said, adding that 92 percent of seniors have opted in to receiving the book this year. Naty Arenas Gallo, editor in chief of The Chanticleer, said they have been looking for ways to limit the amount of funding required from SOFC by seeking out funding from the Alumni Association and decreasing the number of pages printed. Gallo, a junior, noted that The Chanticleer may seek funding from the Senior Class Council and the Development Office, though she said khloe kim/The Chronicle both groups require that SOFC give 19 student organizations appealed to the Duke Student Government Senate for changes to the preliminary support to demonstrate annual budget this year, seven more than last year and 17 more than two years ago. student interest. present. The Senate voted to approve “I don’t think that this statute really In other business: all recommended students except for compels you to do anything more The Senate voted to select justices Schreiber. difficult, it’s more about the principle for the seven justice positions on the Sanka presented the second reading of and the values that I want to set as EVP,” Judiciary for the 2014-2015 academic year. a statute to revise the house rules of the Sanka said. The DSG Judiciary Selection Committee Senate. The revisions include disallowing The Senate approved a class council recommended eight students for this senators from using computers and other resignation policy that states that the position – freshman Jonathan Chapman, technology for “unrelated business and vice-president elect will take over for the junior Nikolai Doytchinov, freshman social communication during meetings,” president-elect if he or she is unable to Zachary Fuchs, junior Will Giles, junior requiring that senators to ask permission take office and if the vice president-elect Joseph Provenzano, sophomore Max of the Executive Vice President to leave is unable to take office, the presidentSchreiber and freshman Catherine Fei. early prior to the meeting and removing elect will appoint a replacement. Executive vice president-elect, Abhi time limits from public forum and The policy comes after junior class vice Sanka, a sophomore, spoke on behalf question time. The Senate approved the president-elect Isabella Kwai announced of freshman Dana Raphael, who was not statute. her resignation earlier this week.

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MENDEZ from page 1 significant change—needs to happens within the program in education.” The Chronicle made repeated attempts via telephone and email to contact Director of the Program in education Jan riggsbee and Director of Undergraduate Studies for education David Malone, but neither could be reached for comment. Angela o’rand, dean of the social sciences, and laurie Patton, dean of arts and sciences, declined to address ongoing personnel matters. Mendez was hired summer 2012 by a search committee run through the program in education. he said that the committee promoted the position as a two-year visiting appointment that would lead to a national search to permanently fill the opening. earlier this year, however, Mendez said riggsbee informed him that, due to budgetary constraints, the search will no longer be conducted and his appointment at Duke will end. “Two narratives about the discontinuation of the search exist,” Mendez said. “The first is the story put forth by those in the program in education and the administration. The second is the story that i’m telling now. i’m telling this story—despite the possible repercussions—for my students and for all those that follow, so that they know the truth.” Mendez’s Impact Mendez’s impending departure will leave an already small latino faculty presence with one fewer member—upsetting a number of latino students. Mendez has been involved in Mi Gente—the latino student association—throughout his time at Duke, and students in the organization have been advocating to retain him since the beginning of this school year. Junior Samantha huerta, senior Sarah

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Vega and junior Walter Solorzano— the secretary, chair of latino Student recruitment Weekend and co-president of Mi Gente, respectively—have reached out to those in the program in education, arranged meetings with administration and collected letters of support for Mendez. “it has been eye-opening and shocking to learn everything that Dr. Mendez has been

going through over the past two years,” Vega said. “As a student, it’s difficult to understand the whole picture, but the Director and DUS of the program in education’s lack of transparency has been incredibly frustrating. it’s hard to understand how something like this is happening at a school that prides itself on diversity and accountability.” huerta said that they have received more

than 40 letters of support from faculty, Mendez’s students and others that he has worked with on and off campus. “We even received one letter from a student at Yale who considered Duke and was inspired by Jason’s speech at latino Student recruitment Weekend but upset See Mendez COnT., page 5

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The Chronicle by the lack of Latino faculty on campus,” Huerta said. “It’s been heartbreaking to read letters like these, but also great to see the support.” Administrators have said, however, that efforts have been made to increase the presence of Latino/a faculty. “[The low percentage of Latinos] is not for lack of awareness of the issue or lack of interest in hiring them to improve our faculty. Attention is being paid, though we have not been very successful,” Academic Council Chair Joshua Socolar told The Chronicle in January. “One thing we see as a way to make our faculty better is to make it more diverse and representative of all the groups, and there have been efforts.” Solorzano said that such a lack of diversity can make it difficult for minority students to relate to their professors. “Jason has been a role model for me, and honestly he’s been my first role model at Duke,” Solorzano said. “He’s the only professor that has a background similar to my own, so I know that when we have a conversation, he knows what I’m talking about.” Mendez has worked extensively with the CMA during his time at Duke, speaking at and supporting a number of events. CMA Project Coordinator Sean Novak noted that Mendez’s support has been vital in creating links with Latino/a alumni and students. “[Mendez] provided valuable mentorship to many students on how to navigate hardships in a way that they can maintain their authentic selves,” Novak said. Inequity within the department When he saw the advertisement for his current position—which went out in July 2012—Mendez said the position sounded like it perfectly fit his interests and skill set. “When my position as the director of the minor in education was presented, it

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seemed like the minor would be mine and I could run with it,” Mendez said. “After a few meetings, though, I realized that even though I was given the title of director, I was not going to be allowed much freedom and was expected to do more labor work than anything else.” Mendez said that he felt concerned about his future in the department beginning in October 2012 when he noted what he perceived as increased hostility from leadership in the program. As a result, Mendez began reaching out to other professors of color at Duke. After speaking with several faculty members, Mendez said that he was presented with exploring the possibility of a joint appointment between education and African and African American studies. But leadership within the department did not seem to be receptive to such an arrangement and declined to meet with Mendez to discuss, he said. In addition to what he felt was unfairness in his personal treatment, Mendez described a work culture that he found lacking in tolerance. “My experience is unique, but this environment in which difference isn’t tolerated has existed for a long time,” Mendez said. ‘Change needs to happen’ PowerPoints produced by the department for welcome parties at the start of the 2008-2009 and 2010-2011 academic years underscore Mendez’s claims. Obtained by The Chronicle, the PowerPoints feature stereotypical images from Latino and Asian cultures—including sombreros, maracas, tigers and fortune cookies—imposed on faculty’s profiles. “The content of the Powerpoints is shocking, but I was not surprised given what I have experienced over the last two years,”

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Mendez said after seeing the slides. Students in Mi Gente and the Asian Student Association have also received the PowerPoints and expressed concern over their content. “The PowerPoints were especially shocking because those in the program in education are supposed to be working with communities of color and educating children,” Vega said. “The slides with things like cartoon sombreros trivialize the communities that these professors are working with.” Huerta said that the PowerPoints’ content is especially frustrating in light of what those in the program in education and administration have said about Duke’s commitment to diversity. Secretary of ASA Charlotte Ke, a junior, said that she was disappointed but not surprised by the PowerPoints. “Most people of color on campus are pretty accustomed to seeing our cultures and histories reduced to what others perceive as a ridiculous and fun caricature,” Ke said. “This is often seen at student-hosted theme parties and on Halloween—it is no surprise

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that the same ignorance and racism would exist among staff and faculty as well.” Huerta also referenced past fraternity party scandals – including “Asia Prime” and “Pilgrims and Indians”—and said that it was shocking to see faculty taking the same type of actions that students had gotten in trouble for. “How can these faculty hope to educate a diverse group of young adults in how to educate other young people in the future when they cannot even appreciate multiculturalism respectfully?” Ke said. Mendez said he chose to speak at the Unity Through Diversity forum about his experience in order to serve as a role model for others fighting for social justice, saying that he wanted to put into action what he teaches in his classes regarding agency and the power of voice. “Change needs to happen,” Mendez said. “I am not talking about diversity workshops or some politically correct PR statement showing leadership’s newfound commitment to issues of equity and diversity... the program in education is in need of major repairs.”

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Playing against the defending national champions on one of the nation’s biggest stages was no problem for Duke. The No. 8 Blue Devils closed out the regular season on a high note, notching a 7-6 upset win DUKE 7 against Tobacco 6 Road rival No. 3 UNC North Carolina at Keenan Memorial Stadium. It was Duke’s leading scorer, junior attack Kerrin Maurer who scored the final and possibly most important goal of the regular season to give the Blue Devils a dramatic overtime victory. The game was the first-ever women’s lacrosse game played at the football stadium, which seats 63,000 fans. “To come here and play in Keenan against a great Carolina team and execute a game plan as well as they did was a great effort,” Duke head coach Kirsten Kimmel said. “Our kids kept fighting and executing. Our kids did a really good job considering we have been in [close] games in the last couple of weeks here that we have not come out on top. It is easy for them to be discouraged and they just kept fighting.” Trailing 6-4 with a little more than 12 minutes to play, the Blue Devils (9-6, 3-4 in the ACC) found the net for the first time since the 10:17 mark in the first

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with Maurer boosting her team-leading season total to 47. North Carolina (12-2, 5-1) dominated the time of possession during the first overtime, but the Blue Devil defense held the nation’s top scoring offense scoreless in the first episode of extra time. The Tar Heels averaged more than 16 goals per game coming into last night’s matchup and were held to their lowest season-total since a 5-7 loss to Northwestern in March. Wednesday night marked only the second time all season they had been held to single-digits, something Kimmel credited to the

Duke has a lot at stake heading into its final weekend of ACC play. The Blue Devils are riding a six-game winning streak as they head to Winston Salem, N.C, Friday to play No. 25 Wake Forest in a rematch of last year’s ACC Tournament semifinal. The team then heads back home to the Ambler Tennis Stadium to wrap-up their season against No. 8 North Carolina Sunday in a match that will likely determine the No. 2 seed in the ACC Tournament. “This weekend’s going to be really fun. It’s a huge two matches against two really big rivals,” junior Jason Tahir said. “They both have really good teams so it should be really fun and a good measure heading into the ACC Tournament.” While its match against North Carolina seems like the more important of the two, Duke (16-5, 9-1 in the ACC) knows it cannot overlook the Demon Deacons, especially on the road. Wake Forest (3-6, 14-10) has been an extremely tough opponent to beat at home this season, losing just one home match during conference play—a tight 3-4 loss to No. 13 Notre Dame. “We’re all just really looking for-

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The Blue Devils closed out the regular season in thrilling fashion when Kerrin Maurer found the back of the net with 26 seconds left in double-overtime to beat rival North Carolina. half when senior attack Sydney Peterson slid the ball into the net to cut the deficit to just one point. Although Duke had a number of good looks on the goal in ensuing minutes, the Tar Heel defense held its ground, denying the Blue Devils the chance at a tying goal. But with less than five minutes to play, Maurer drew in the defense and lofted a pass to Peterson who nailed the game-tying goal. Both teams had chances to score go-ahead goals in the final minutes, but neither could convert and the game headed to overtime. The duo of Peterson and Maurer finished the game with three goals apiece,

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The Blue Devils have played five straight games within the confines of Durham and are 4-1 during that stretch.

For the Blue Devils, home field advantage might as well mean any field in Durham. Duke continued its domination of the Triangle against N.C. Central with an 11-2 win Wednes11 day at the Durham Duke NCCU 2 Athletic Park. The Eagles had no answer for a strong Blue Devil pitching lineup supported by an efficient offensive effort. “I thought there were a lot of positives. I thought we played a good game defensively,” head coach Chris Pollard

said. “We were opportunistic in terms of taking advantage of some of the walks and turning it into offense, which is something that we talk about a lot.” Duke’s offense jumped out to 9-0 lead behind a combination of hits and walkedin runs. N.C. Central’s six pitchers combined for 13 walks on the evening, with the walk total equal to the Blue Devils’ runs scored at the end of five innings. A home run over right field by pinch hitter David Perkins in the eighth inning sealed the win for Duke, its second in two weeks against its Durham foe. Keeping the Eagles (15-22) scoreless with just two hits after four innings, junior Andrew Istler earned his fifth win of the season. Istler notched six strikeouts and lowered his ERA to 2.89 before surrendering the mound to David Haviland, who would be the first of six other Blue Devil pitchers that would take the mound before the night was over.

“Istler had a good start, pitched well. We got him out of there right where we wanted his pitch count to be,” Pollard said. “I really liked the outing by J.R. Holloway, who came in in the eighth [and] was very aggressive.” The Duke pitchers could relax due to a successful offensive performance, stretching their runs across four innings in a consistent outing overall. Chris Marconcini—whose only hit of the day stayed in the park by only a few feet— knocked in three runs, and Aaron Cohn led the Blue Devils with three hits, an RBI, and two runs scored. Heading into the bottom of the sixth with a comfortable nine-run lead, Duke (21-17) had to regroup as the Eagles scored two runs off of four hits against Haviland. Junior Sarkis Ohanian took to the mound shortly after, managing to See BASEBALL, page 8

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keep the rest of the lineup away from first and end the inning. “i give a lot of credit to Sarkis ohanian…. he did a good job of picking up the team right there because he made some pitches, kept the runs off the board [and] got us back in the dugout,” Pollard said. “i thought it was a good job of our team not panicking, just continuing to play.” To demoralize n.C. Central even further after its attempted rally, Perkins stepped into designated hitter Matt Berezo’s slot to fire off his second homer of the season and bat in two runs. The score would stay at 11-2 as the eagles tallied just one more hit for the rest of the game. The two teams faced one another just last week at Jack Coombs field, where Duke was victorious yet again, having won all 14 of the programs’ contests. Playing at the eagles’ home field also meant a visit to the historic Durham Athletic Park—the original home of AAA

Durham Bulls team as well as the filming site for the movie Bull Durham. “it’s a thrill for our kids. every single one of these guys has seen the movie probably ten times, so it is a thrill to be able to say you played in this park,” Pollard said. “You start to hear guys riding over on the bus quoting lines from the movie. it’s fun to be in such a historic place and feel the history that’s associated with the movie.” Duke has been on a roll from within the confines of Durham city limits, notching four wins in the past five games. With all five matchups coming against Triangle teams, the Blue Devils boost their season record against fellow area teams to an impressive 7-1 on the season. Much to their dismay, the Blue Devils will have to leave the Triangle area for their next game in a return to ACC play Friday as they kickoff a series at Virginia Tech. The hokies are 18-17 overall with a 7-11 conference record and enter the weekend’s series fresh off their own nonconference win at liberty.

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ward to playing them,” Tahir said. “We want to reverse the result from the ACC Tournament where we felt we didn’t show up and compete as well as we could have.” north Carolina (22-3, 9-1) also poses a significant challenge, as it has been one of the best teams in the country this season, with three singles players ranked in the top-30. however, the Blue Devils do have the upper hand heading into Sunday’s match against their local rivals, as they defeated the Tar heels in a 4-2 victory in the iTA Kickoff Weekend finals back in January “it shows that we can beat them, so we’ll have the confidence going into that,” Tahir said. “i also think that they’re going to be pretty fired up since they lost to us and they’ll want to get some revenge. i think it will be an incredibly close between two really good teams.” The previous match between the two teams should not be an indicator of who is

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The Blue Devils have won three of their last six tournaments and are led into the postseason by a trio of the nation’s best With a successful regular season behind them, the Blue Devils have set their sights on an equally fruitful postseason. no. 3 Duke takes on the rest of its conference this Thursday through Saturday at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, n.C., as part of the ACC Championship. Things have come together for the Blue Devils since September—the team has not finished outside of the top two in its last six tournaments and has three team and three individual titles during that span. Duke will be looking to convert that momentum into the program’s third straight ACC title this weekend. “i really like the chemistry on the team,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “They’re a hard working group, and there’s a lot of passion on this team for what we are trying to accomplish.” leading the Blue Devils is a trio of top-12 golfers. Freshman Yu liu has finished in the top-10 in each of the seven events she played in this season, and is currently ranked third in the nation with a 71.62 scoring average. After making an adjustment to increase her distance off the tee, sophomore Celine Boutier has won the last two events Duke has entered. A native of Montrouge, France, Boutier’s recent success has catapulted her to no. 10 in the nation. Senior laetitia Beck’s four top-five finishes and 72.21 scoring average on the season have her earned the no. 12 ranking heading into the postseason. rounding out Duke’s lineup are freshman Sandy Choi and senior Alejandra Cangrejo, who notched top-three finishes at Sedgefield in her last two ACC Championships. Sedgefield Country Club, which will play as

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favored in this one, as both teams are drastically different from when they met earlier this season. north Carolina has been on a tear since losing to Duke, dropping only two matches since the January defeat—to no. 1 ohio State and no. 4 Virginia. on the other hand, the Blue Devils have been forced to overcome various injuries and the loss of their no. 1 player in Michael redlicki. Duke has had to reshuffle its lineup and doubles teams as a result. The match is not only important for momentum and seeding heading into the ACC Tournament, but also has implications for seeding for the nCAA Championships. “We just want to get the win for ranking purposes so we can host at the end of the year for nCAA’s,” Tahir said. Sunday’s match will also be an emotional one for the Blue Devils, as it will be Senior Day for lone senior Fred Saba. Duke will try its best to send him off with one last victory. “We’re just going to be playing our hearts out for Fred and i know he’ll do the same,” Tahir said. “it’ll be an awesome experience.”

a par-71 this weekend, hosts the PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship annually and is known for its crowned greens that are typical of Donald ross designs. The Bermuda greens will play hard and fast for the Championship, posing a challenge that Brooks thinks will benefit the team heading into the nCAA regional Championship next month. “Playing at Sedgefield is great to be doing towards the end of the season because it’s such a great golf course,” Brooks said. “it’s great preparation for us.” The Blue Devils will face a conference field that boasts five other top-30 teams, with no. 17 Clemson as the next highest-ranked ACC team after Duke. A win this weekend would give the Blue Devils their second longest streak of ACC Championship titles, behind only the program’s dominant stretch of 13 consecutive victories from 1996 to 2008. Duke will begin its ACC title hunt Thursday with tee times between 10:30 and 11:10 a.m.

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ecute. i was expecting someone to slide and no one slid to me. So i just had to pretty much just take the shot.” The game was a repeat of last year’s overtime game in Durham, which north Carolina won 12-11. The bigger stage fueled the Blue Devils’ revenge, adding emphasis to the heated and exciting rivalry. “The team on paper that is supposed to win doesn’t always win,” Kimmel said. “That is what makes it special and that is what makes it fun. our girls understand that it is a privilege to be part of such an awesome rivalry. Because of all the special things that come along with it, you can get finishes like this.” The win is a relief to the team, who came into the contest with a two-game

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Editorial a second major because they have already taken so many classes in a particular field that seeking a major just makes sense. Pursuing two majors might, however, simply be another manifestation of our resume-buffing culture, as it gives students a way to seek extra accreditation or protect themselves against an uncertain future. Considering applying to grad school but don’t know which one? Tack on another major to keep options open. Whatever the reason, there are significant tradeoffs to doing major double duty. Signing off approximately 20 credits to two disciplines means significantly limiting one’s capacity for intellectual exploration—for taking classes completely outside of one’s comfort zone. If students want

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ver since day one I’ve wanted this to be public—I’ve never been good at keeping secrets. Part of me is relieved that I can publish this anonymously, but part of me is also sad that this isn’t a dialogue meant for the public. I live in a closet. Six years ago was the first time I heard the voices. It was like someone turned on a radio, and suddenly there was a broadcast about how I was worthless, how I deserved every broken relationship and every bad grade, how I let down my parents, my friends, myself. The

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on my medicine that I’m sure it’s a form of addiction. I don’t trust myself to be alone ever, because when I’m alone I hear the voices. Because of this, needy, clingy and desperate are often used when describing me. I’ve learned to keep it together so well that even I question my own emotions. I overcompensated in high school, always looking for validation for the things I could right. I always kept busy and graduated with a 4.0 GPA, a Duke acceptance letter and the terror of having three months alone with nothing but my thoughts, my

guest column voices told me to hurt myself, kill myself and not to bother being clean about it because nobody would notice anyway. For the first time in my life, I thought I was crazy. I wrote down everything in a notebook and hid it under my bed, hoping that if I could hide what they were saying, the voices would leave me. My parents found the notebook not long after I hid it. Stupid me, thinking I could keep things from them. They sat me down, told me how everything would be OK. This was nothing but a chemical imbalance, “just like having diabetes or needing glasses,” my dad said. He said we would go to the doctor, I would take some medicine and I would be just fine. But I wasn’t. Four years ago, I was diagnosed with schizoid anxiety and depression. I started going to a therapist and taking antidepressants. I believed that a chalky pill and $200 therapy appointments would make me normal. I hoped to get better, like my mom said, in no time. I live in a closet. No time became a month, then three, then a year, then long enough that now the receptionist knows my name and birthday and can recognize my favorite outfits based on how often I wear them. I have lived this chapter for a significant portion of my life, and has it affected me? In more ways than I can count. My therapist is one of my closest confidants. I am so reliant

voices—my hell. I live in a closet. On the surface, you would never guess my story. For all you know, I could be the guy on the C1 looking at his phone, or the girl at the other table, eating her ABP salad. I could be your dorm mate, your hall mate, even your roommate. Such is the nature of the disease, I guess—there are no telltale signs of it. Nobody is going to have a runny nose because of anxiety, run a fever if they’re schizophrenic, lose their hair once they go on antidepressants. There are no blood tests, urine samples or DNA analyses that can say for sure, “Yes, you have depression.” We as a society do not know enough about the disease to say for sure who has it and who doesn’t, yet we assume that I can’t hold down jobs, am not reliable, am overemotional and lazy and don’t know how to handle my feelings. And so I hide behind the mask that I have spent years molding to society’s expectations. I live in fear that one day someone will find out my secret, the mask will come off and suddenly, people will look at me and see my anxiety. Every day I wonder, am I the only one? I live in a closet. Am I alone? The author of this column has chosen to remain anonymous. Please send an email to chronicleletters@ duke.edu if you would like to contact the author.

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ince this week begins the holiday of Passover, known as “z’man heruteinu” or “the time of our freedom” in Hebrew, I had been working on a column about the meaning of freedom and just how often it is abused for people’s own personal ends. All things considered, it was a pretty good column (that would become much better after the editors made a pass through it). It started with a great hook to draw the reader in, had some broad strokes about the way the concept of freedom is often invoked selfishly or used to serve a political agenda and concluded with the way freedom is frequently abused as a blunt instrument to silence and oppress others. It even had a solid

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I was, in some regards, immeasurably wrong. Since setting foot on campus on a balmy, humid day in early August 2010, I have changed my major, put on some extra weight in some of the wrong places and had less success than I wanted on my stats sheet in the NCAA. I still cannot dance, have learned of heartbreak and am almost positive that basic math is as much as I can handle. But yet, I have lived excitedly and I have loved immensely and I have surrounded myself with the most selfless and humble people that money can’t buy. I have been to a National Championship. I got a job that I would have not imagined in my wildest dreams and am moving to a city that is not home to anything I know. But soon it will bwe home, and that is terrifying and terrific all at once. Things didn’t go the way I planned—but if in your four years you shed the original plans you had, I applaud how truthful you can be with yourself. I did it, and it is unimaginably liberating. Life was supposed to be good—and it is, instead, remarkable and unbelievable. If you’re heading back up I-95 or jetting out west or back overseas, good luck. If you’re one so lucky to have time left in your Gothicshaped hourglass, enjoy it all—the nights where your neck is cramped over a textbook, the few exhilarating, humiliating moments spent dancing atop the Shooters bar, the traffic on Erwin road—take it all in, because these are the memories that will write your story. Tell the truth, to yourself and your friends. Eat more vegetables—your jeans will thank you for your honesty later. Drink more beer, for your wallet will thank you just the same. Write every day. Explore Durham and write your story. Find your truth and write it down. It’ll be more memorable than any paper you’ve ever penned before. They say the truth can set you free—and apparently, so can a diploma. With a heavy heart and an empty wallet, I say goodbye to Durham, and say always, Go Duke.

tie-in to this past Friday’s Day of Silence, the culmination of Genocide Awareness Week. And then…Kansas City. Specifically, Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City where many of my Jewish friends from summer camp called home. A place where many of their families still live and where other friends and colleagues now live. As I was finishing that column in one window on my computer screen, the newsfeed in the other window began to scroll very, very rapidly with people updating their statuses, sending out messages about to whom they had spoken and thanking God they were OK. By the time this is published on Thursday, we will know much more than we do now, but at the very least we know that several people are not OK. Three people were murdered by Frazier Glenn Cross, who, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, was the former Grand Dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and has been described as a “raging antiSemite.” He murdered a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather outside of the Jewish Community Center and another unidentified woman at Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community. When Cross was arrested, he was alleged to have shouted “Heil Hitler” as he was placed into the back of a police car. It’s 2014, and a 73-year-old man is shouting “Heil” after attempting to murder Jews. And not simply Jews—he attacked a community center and a retirement community, places where you find the very young and the very old. And he murdered a child. The week after the Duke community rallied together to say “never again for anyone,” we have someone who very much wants to see to the work the Nazis completed. Would it make any difference to the murderer that two of his victims were not Jewish, but members of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection? I don’t know, and I can’t say. What I can say is that seemingly out of hatred, people have had their lives taken from them. Not passively lost, but actively taken. There is nothing passive about murder, and our reaction to it must be an active one. This isn’t a rehash of “never again” (even though that message is sadly timeless out of necessity), but a societal imperative. A campaign of terror is the antithesis of freedom, as it seeks to create a system where people are enslaved and bound by chains of fear, and that is sadly only a precursor to active elimination. When people are not accorded the basic rights of human beings and are instead seen as “parasites,” as Cross evidently views Jews, there ceases to be any meaningful means of engagement. Bigotry does not necessarily have to end in murder, but it is a far smaller step than it might seem. The story of Passover begins in the book of Exodus, when the rule of Egypt declares that the Jews are an existential threat to the nation of Egypt, and therefore they must be dealt with cunningly. This leads to the enslavement of a people and an attempt to murder every Israelite infant. When that fails, every male Israelite child is cast into the Nile to drown. The actions described in the Bible are simply of a greater scope than those of the murderer in Kansas City. He too sought to start with children—but, thankfully, he is not the ruler of a nation nor capable of acting on such a scale. During the Passover Seder, there is a very short, very small section towards the end of the evening that many people omit. It is known as “s’foch ha’matcha” or “pour out your wrath.” It consists of four verses from the Bible, three from Psalms and one from Lamentations, where God was asked to take vengeance on the nations who do not know God and have attacked Israel. Those verses refer to the Assyrians and Babylonians, two people who were wiped out by other empires well after they had defeated ancient Israel. Yet the verses remain. While they became part of the Seder during the Crusades as the cry of the wronged, they remain as a call to challenge—to not take vengeance into their own hands, but demand for higher ethical standards for all people. We are called to always be active in holding ourselves to the highest of ethical standards and to hold society to the same standards. The text is a challenging one, and it should be. Rather than seeing it as one inimical to our values, I will suggest that we view it instead as an active challenge to always response actively, vigorously and powerfully in the face of bigotry and injustice. May this be the last year anyone needs to recite these texts at any Passover.

Ashley Camano is a Trinity senior. This is her final column. Send Ashley a message on Twitter @ smashleycamando.

Jeremy Yoskowitz is the campus rabbi and assistant director for Jewish life. This is his final column of the semester. Send Rabbi Jeremy a message on Twitter @TheDukeRav.

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he first piece of journalism I ever wrote was my own obituary. An exercise of journalistic practice, sure, but in hindsight, it represented an opportunity for self-reflection and real, true introspection. How do we remember ourselves? Memory is a wondrous phenomenon. We have this power—this incredible, innate and unconscious power—to file moments and events and people and places into our minds,

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learned to operate only with truth. Be truthful with yourself, even brutally so, or you will stunt any personal growth, private or for the world to realize, that is supposed to flourish during this four year Durham stand. I came here with wide eyes, and yet, narrow thoughts. I knew what I wanted to do and knew how to do it. I had a vision of my trajectory and was going to follow it. Life would be good and I would be good at it.

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going camando tucking them away neatly and pulling from experience when we so desire. We remember what we want to, the bright and brilliant, the happy and harmonious, and we forget the dismal—or often, attempt to. Life has a strange way of begging us to look into the rearview in certain moments, and in others, asking us to pull the mirror off the dashboard and drive forward. Break up, forget. Heartbreak, remember. Failure, forget. Fortune, remember. Technology and new media have fashioned tools for building our memory like never before. We can trace our lives through a systemic database of photographs, filtered and cropped and made more sentimental in a faded sepia tone with a cliché of words below. We can trace our feelings and our thoughts and our statuses through statuses, traversing a trail of tweets to piece together where we were and what we did. We can remember more easily and remember more tangibly. But how much can we remember that is purely the truth? In a few short weeks, they’ll kick me out of Duke. Done. Graduated. Gone. And in this strange limbo of my current life, I’m forced to reflect on the past while looking miles ahead. I’m told to remember the moments that have defined my time at Duke while simultaneously looking for a home in a new city some 3,000 miles from here. It’s the simplest and, often, the most gratifying tactic to reflect on our careers here in terms of accolades and events, whatever they may be for each of us. Perhaps you are graduating with highest honors. Maybe that defines you. Perhaps you were in the band. Maybe that defines you. For me, I wrote some articles and played in some games and found a team of individuals who I would live and die for. They define me. We have these things that allow us to compartmentalize our successes, to catalogue our memories—but sometimes the most valuable of lessons, the most promising and transferrable skills—sometimes these things are not things at all. If I have learned but one thing in my waltz through Duke’s wonderland—in lectures and practices, in matches and in meetings—I have

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Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics

Teju Cole Thursday, April 24 7:30 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium

dukeethics.org

Working in Washington this summer? Put the Duke D.C. Summer Institute on Law and Policy on your agenda. Duke Law’s D.C. Summer Institute offers short courses taught by Duke Law faculty on topics of broad interest to college and graduate students, as well as professionals working in D.C.

SESSION ONE:

Launched in 2013, the Institute is designed for those considering law school or careers in the public sector, professionals working in public policy, and others who are interested in how the law shapes policy and regulation in the United States.

July 21 – July 31, 2014

Evening course offerings over two two-week sessions will address national security, surveillance, and civil-military relations; the constitutionality of health care reform, affirmative action in higher education and state bans on same-sex marriage; international human rights advocacy; and how law and policy are shaped by principles of economic theory.

July 7 – July 17, 2014 SESSION TWO:

Institute classes will be held at the Duke in Washington offices at 1201 New York Avenue NW Suite 1110, Washington, D.C. (near Metro Center)

For more information visit

law.duke.edu/dcinstitute