November 24, 2014

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New student Captain Cook leads Duke to CVC title health location raises concerns Anderson Woods site could limit research and harm natural environment, professors say Alex Griffith The Chronicle Concerns over the location of the new Student Health and Wellness Center have created tension between administration and Duke faculty.

Scheduled to begin construction this coming February, the center will be located next to Penn Pavilion on the corner of Union Drive and Towerview Road in a portion of the Anderson Woods—named after Lewis Anderson, the late professor in the former botany department. The new center will house Counseling and Psychological Services, the Office of Case Management as well as Student Health and Wellness Center. Since the announcement of the University’s plans to develop the area, concerns over the research and

Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Though Stanford’s defense held freshman center Jahlil Okafor to a career-low scoring output, senior guard Quinn Cook led the way for Duke with 18 points. After scoring 17 points in Duke’s 74-54 victory against Temple, Cook earned Coaches vs. Cancer Classic MVP honors (See story on Page 6).

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‘A privilege to be released’: 51 of 180 applicants to go off-campus shortly before Spring semester begins, said MJ Williams, director of housing assignments and planning for Housing, Dining and Residence Life. The releases are granted through a lottery process.

“It really is a privilege to be released,” Williams said. “It’s not a given.”

This year’s 51 exemptions compares to 165 granted for Spring 2011 and 98 granted for Spring 2012. The exemptions are distributed through a random lottery process in the Fall. Before juniors can be released from the housing contract, however, HDRL must fill all available bed space on both West and Central Campuses. As a result, the number

Carly Stern The Chronicle Less than one-third of juniors who applied for exemption from living on campus in the Spring were granted their release.

Of the 180 juniors who applied this year, 51 were given exemptions from the requirement—a lower proportion than in years past. The number of juniors allowed to move off campus fluctuates from year to year based on available housing, making it difficult for administrators to determine exactly how many exemptions can be granted until

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of exemptions—often distributed in multiple waves—can vary widely from year to year depending on how many students choose to study abroad, take leaves of absence or engage in other programs that take them away from campus.

“We are pretty transparent in our communications to students,” Williams said. “We tell all students who are studying away that they are not to sign leases for housing until they hear from us that they’re released.”

Williams pointed out that many students ignore this request and put down payments for off-campus housing despite HDRL’s warnings. HDRL notifies students about

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their housing situation in October or November, and the timeline of the lottery process can pressure some students to seek out apartments in the event that they are given permission to live off campus. Since they are already abroad by the time they are notified, it can be difficult to scramble for suitable housing.

Junior Emma Bramson, who is studying abroad, said that some of the appeals of living off campus for her include more space, cleaner places to live, easier access to restaurants and release from Duke’s food plan. She

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‘The future is unknowable’: famed journalists talk state of media “Whether it’s a good time to be a journalist or not, I’m not sure,” says Nate Silver Gautam Hathi Health & Science Editor Three journalists of different stripes analyzed the media’s role in November’s midterm elections and presented their views for the future of political journalism during Saturday’s Zeidman Colloquium on Politics and the Press.

Nate Silver, founder and editor-inchief of FiveThirtyEight, joined Molly Ball, national politics staff writer at The Atlantic and Brian Stelter, senior media correspondent at CNN, for a panel discussion on election coverage and data journalism. The discussion was moderated by Bill Adair, Knight professor of the practice of journalism and public policy.

During the 90-minute event, the panelists examined the successes and failures of pollsters and pundits during the 2014 elections and discussed the integration of quantitative journalism tools into the mainstream media.

“It’s okay to be surprised. That’s why we have news, because things happen that we weren’t anticipating,” Ball said regarding some of the unexpected outcomes seen this year. “I know that people think that we’ve made a factual error when we fail to predict the future, but that’s not true. The future is unknowable, and that’s why we do this.”

Underestimated Republican victory Silver, Ball and Stelter spent time dissecting how news organizations and polling models underestimated the scale of the Republican victory earlier this month. Although most national media and polling organizations predicted that Republicans would have a good election night, Republicans were generally not expected to do as well as they did.

The three all agree that polling inaccuracies did not have a major impact on the overall coverage. They said, however, that some lessons could be learned from

the process. Stelter said that this year was much better for the media than previous election cycles, where some outlets made predictions that were clearly off the mark.

“There were no big mistakes this year,” Stelter said. “There was no giant egg-on-the-face, eat-your-shoes moment.” Brian Stelter Silver pointed out that polls and election models are supposed to have some uncertainty, and that models cannot be judged simply by how often they pick the winner.

“At FiveThirtyEight we emphasize that we are making forecasts that have the uncertainty built in, and the uncertainty can be considerable,” Silver said. “If you’re making your 70-30 calls, you’re supposed to get those wrong 30 percent of the time. Not only will you, but you’re supposed to or you’ve done something wrong.”

Flaws in media coverage The panel also analyzed the flaws in midterm election coverage this year.

Ball pointed out that the severe cuts to local newsrooms and lack of focus on local politics may have resulted in the national media being taken by surprise in several races. The national media missed the sense of discouragement and unease on the ground that made voters reluctant to vote for incumbents.

“We misread the national mood,” Ball said. “There was a sort of sense of discouragement and disappointment. That was a phenomenon that mostly affected Democrats, it turns out. They didn’t see reason to vote.”

Silver concurred, adding that there also may have been a perception that there was less at stake in this election than in the past few election cycles since a change in the Senate majority will not be able to change the overall divided government in Washington. This resulted in lower turnout, which generally hurts Democrats, he said.

“It was not the sort of existentially

important election that you might have had two years ago or four years ago,” Silver explained.

Stelter identified the media itself as part of the reason why turnout was low.

He pointed out that there was much less coverage of the midterms from the major network news organizations in the months leading up to the 2014 elections than there had been in the same period leading up to the 2006 elections.

“We need to put some of it on the press,” Stelter said. “We do drive interest. We drove interest in Ebola. We drove interest in ISIS. We did not drive interest in the election. Those may not be conscious choices, but it’s interesting to think about the ways we are acting as supposed to reacting.”

A polling ‘crisis’ The panel also identified issues with the polls themselves as a cause of error in election predictions this year. They cited both instances of bad polling methodology and issues across the Nate Silver board. Ball said that the polling industry is itself having trouble as it tries to deal with a population that responds less and less to traditional polling methods.

“There is a crisis in the polling industry,” Ball said. “These days people don’t have landlines, or they don’t answer them, so pollsters have to call more cells phones, and there’s different rules on that, but people don’t answer their cellphones either.”

Silver pointed out that some of the incorrect forecasts may have been caused by questionable polling methods from some organizations, such as suppressing outlier polls or seeking to create polls that conform to the polling average.

This reduces the independence of polls and makes systematic error more likely, he said.

Future of media in politics The conversation also explored the future of political media. The panelists

discussed how data journalism could be incorporated into the mainstream of political media. Ball said that she already uses data as a starting point for her reporting and sees part of her job as explaining why the numbers are what they are, rather than making predictions about Molly Ball what the outcomes will be.

“There’s a lot of talk about the supposed tension between what Nate [Silver] does and what I do, between first-hand reporting and data-based reporting and I think they’re absolutely complementary,” Ball said. “I use polls very much to try and figure out what’s happening in an election and the go out and try and figure out why.”

Silver said that FiveThirtyEight is itself still figuring the best ways of doing data journalism and using digital platforms. He noted that it is sometimes hard to figure out exactly which pieces will appeal to a wide audience and which will not.

Stelter added that the ongoing transition to data and digital is a reason to be optimistic about the news industry as a whole, and spoke about the transitions at his own company in particular.

“We’re more responsive to our audiences,” he said. “Here’s how I think CNN’s changing. CNN is primarily in the future a digital product that happens to have a TV channel. Right now the TV channel is where the money comes from, for the most part. But it’s increasingly going to be a digital operation.”

The panel agreed that these changes in the political media were not only challenges but great opportunities. News organizations have taken a multitude of approaches to integrate new tools and produce new types of content.

“Whether it’s a good time to be a journalist or not, I’m not sure,” Silver said. “It’s an interesting time. But I think on balance it’s been good for the consumer.”

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FiveThirtyEight founder tackles use of statistics in media Data journalist and election predictor Nate Silver came to campus for Saturday’s Zeidman Memorial Colloquium on Politics and the Press. As founder and Editor-in-Chief of FiveThirtyEight, Silver publishes data journalism and developed models to forecast the outcomes of the 2014 midterm elections. The Chronicle’s Gautam Hathi spoke with Silver about the elections, FiveThirtyEight and life in general.

The Chronicle: You’ve had your own site for a few months now. You’ve been putting out these messages about how people need to look at uncertainty, about the fact that they need to accept errors in models, but it seems like people have a hard time accepting those kind of messages. So what do you think that your version of journalism has contributed so far, and how can people overcome the resistance to accept messages that aren’t often easy to hear?

Nate Silver: It’s easier when you have a continuing dialogue and discourse with people. The people who are reading our site every day, they do understand that stuff over time. What’s challenging is that it goes against a lot of instincts that some journalists might have, where you want to put a ribbon on something and say, “This candidate is going to win” or if you don’t do that, then you say, “Too close to call. We have no idea. It’s 5050.” We don’t exist in a 100-0 or 50-50 world.

Most things in the world are 75-25 outcomes.

There’s more evidence on one side, but not so much that you can be clairvoyant about it.… But look, FiveThirtyEight has inspired a lot of competitors. You see The New York Times and the Washington Post and the Huffington Post and all these other folks all trying to do this, so that strikes me as pretty significant. It’s great to exist in a world where you have the monopoly profits of being the only

person doing something, but it’s not how the market works and it’s not how ideas spread over time. I hope that—probably not by next election cycle, but by 2024 or 2028—it’s just kind of incorporated into the DNA of political coverage and encourages people to think more about uncertainty.

TC: What’s next for FiveThirtyEight? Are you comfortable with the model you have set up in terms of coverage and what you are reporting on? If not, what are you changing?

NS: I think we have a philosophy about what we think our brand of journalism should be, and I think at first that makes it harder because it means you can’t do just anything. You can’t just say, “Well, I’d love to write a nice essay about the racial politics Check out the exof Ferguson,” as opposed to panded version of what we did, this Q&A at www. which is have a dukechronicle.com. reporter go out there and report on the economic context….

But I think in the long run having constraints is really important for the creative process. It gives you more focus and allows you to differentiate yourself in a crowded market. We’re finding ways to expand people’s understanding of what data journalism means, I think to show that it’s not incompatible with traditional reporting, sometimes it’s very much in line with it…. The thing about this is that it’s an enterprise where you just get better with practice.

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stream before you came along and pushed it there. What have you learned from that process of taking something that’s on the fringes and bringing it into prominence.

NS: I think it’s like any other technological innovation. At first people are resistant to change and then it finds an audience and then it proves to have a use case and actually informs people. So you have a big ramp-up in expectations. Now we’re at the next phase where the disruption has occurred and there’s maturation that has to take place. We would assert at FiveThirtyEight that there’s still an undersupply of this content. It’s definitely not the only way to cover the news, we don’t think it should be the only way to cover the news, but maybe now only two percent of coverage is in this vein as supposed to the dozens of outlets who do it the same way as they’ve always done it.

TC: You’ve done a whole bunch of differ-

ent things that are different but oddly similar in your career. What general advice do you have for people, like many on this campus, who don’t know exactly what they want to do but have some idea?

NS: Get specific. This is cliché advice, but find something you’re passionate about and start doing it. Be a little obsessive about something. I think one of the curses of the millennial generation is that there is not as much economic opportunity, but in terms of having choices about how to spend your time and what media to consume and who to interact with, there’s so much choice that I think that people can get stuck where they’re not specializing in anything very much. So avoiding that mushy middle ground where on the one hand you’re spending time deeply learning about a problem and on the other hand you’re spending time stepping back and trying to take a more global vantage point.

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continued from page 1 teaching values of the Anderson Woods have been raised among Duke faculty and Anderson’s family members.

“The issue has to do with the siting of the new center on an area where there’s been a great deal of long-term research,” said Norm Christensen, professor emeritus in the division of environmental sciences and policy in the Nicholas School of the Environment.

The site was chosen by administration without much consultation with the representatives from the department of biology or the Nicholas School, Christensen said.

“I don’t know what happened in this case, but typically the University [consults involved groups] and is very careful about it and is very respectful of research being done. Something happened in the process and people weren’t notified and we didn’t learn of this project until a week ago, and we know that the timeline is short so we want to work quickly,” he said.

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask wrote in an email Friday that he has been in contact with concerned faculty and is looking at alternatives.

“Still working thru the issue. Have been on the site with concerned faculty and we’re looking at alternatives,” Trask wrote, declining to comment further on the issue.

Modifications to the plans may be underway to try to mitigate the impacts of these developments on the forest, Christensen said.

“Some other faculty and myself met with several other faculty including Ex-

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ecutive Vice President Trask and several other people to see if we can find a way to eliminate the conflict. That’s underway right now and it looks very promising,” he said.

The woods cover an area roughly the same size as Wallace Wade Stadium and are bound by Union Drive, Towerview Road, Science Drive and the Bryan Center. Home to many animals, the woods are also one of the few wooded areas on West Campus, Christensen explained.

In addition to its environmental values, the woods are also a critical teaching resource for biology courses, Christensen said. Several classes use the forest as an experimental learning tool.

“Here in the biology department we use the plot to teach ecology,” Bill Morris, professor of biology, said. “We take students across the street and its very convenient that it’s so close. We have them remeasure trees that were there 30 years ago analyze what changes have occurred. It’s one of the last remaining pieces of old-growth forest in the central part of campus.”

The new center will require approximately 25 percent of the forest to be chopped down. The impacts, however, go beyond the destruction of a few trees, Morris said. The ecological make-up of the forest could suffer damage from construction.

“Once you cut down the edge, you have sunlight penetrate deeper into the forest, which will make it unlike the center of a forest. It means that many nonnative plants, which need high light will invade because they’ll be able to take advantage of the greater light ability. Often when you build something, you bring in seeds that invade a site,” Morris said.

In the previous meeting between faculty and administrators concerning the

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issue, redesigns to the center were discussed, including making the building taller and eliminating some of its footprint.

The best alternative, Christensen said, was to move it in front of the SchwartzButters Athletic Center on Towerview Road—one of the sites originally proposed for the center. Christensen, however, acknowledged that at this stage in the planning, this is highly unlikely.

If the health center construction goes as planned, there are still some things that can be done to preserve the forest, Morris said.

“If they can’t re-site the center entirely, it would be helpful to think about

some strategies to mitigate the impact on the woods,” said Morris. “Perhaps they could plant a row of evergreen trees that would prevent the sunlight from penetrating into the forest, or minimize the number of invasive plants which they bring in in the construction process.”

Morris also expressed a desire to prevent lapses in communication between the two groups in the future.

“If we can come to a good solution [about the site of the health center], then the other thing we should do is try to figure out ways that communication can be improved so stakeholders would be involved in the decision-making at an earlier stage,” he said.

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Blue Devils run away from Stanford to claim CVC title Behind its veterans and stingy defense, Duke claimed its fifth win of the year Saturday Daniel Carp Beat Writer NEW YORK—Stanford threw the kitchen sink at Jahlil Okafor in hopes of slowing down college basketball’s most dominant big man. And although the Cardinal succeeded, it was the Blue Devil supporting cast that had the last laugh.

In a matchup that pitted Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski against Stanford’s Johnny Dawkins—his former protege— the No. 4 Blue Devils prevailed 70-59 to take the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic title at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. On a night where Okafor was held to a careerlow scoring output, senior guard Quinn Cook led the way for Duke with 18 points on 4-of-9 from beyond the arc.

After leading the Blue Devils with 17 points in their 74-54 semifinal victory against Temple, Cook earned tournament MVP honors.

“Probably didn’t get him enough shots,” Krzyzewski said of his senior captain.

“Quinn is playing great. He’s playing great. He’s so deserving of the MVP.” Okafor and freshman forward Justise Winslow earned all-tournament team honors as well.

Stanford (3-1) pestered Okafor with a

continuing to have big hearts and quick triggers.”

Cook padded Duke’s lead shortly after halftime when he hit jumpers on back-to-back possessions—the last of which was a triple—to push his team’s advantage to 50-35.

Senior guard Chasson Randle, who tallied a game-high 22 points, kept Stanford in the contest. His personal 4-0 run midway through the second half trimmed the Blue Devil lead back to single digits with 9:38 to play.

Following the ensuing media timeout, Krzyzewski’s squad went right to Okafor, who took it straight to the basket and banked it in with his left hand to give Duke a much-needed boost. He added a thunderous dunk on the next possession to send the Blue Devil-friendly crowd into a frenzy.

Duke never led by fewer than 10 from that point onward.

“We wanted to go to him quick and for him to make his move really fast,” Jefferson said. “Those two plays were huge for us because it gave us the momentum and helped us to see that if we make a few more plays, they might break.”

Sporting a starting lineup that features three freshmen, the Blue Devils’ season-opening stretch of five games in nine days was no easy task. Duke will get a much-needed rest before it welcomes Furman to Cameron Indoor Stadium Wednesday night.

SPORTSWRAP Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Senior guard Quinn Cook earned MVP honors at the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic after dropping 35 points in two games, including an 18-point performance against Stanford.

consistent double-team in the post from the game’s opening tip. The freshman from Chicago managed just 10 points on 4-of-10 from the field and added 12 rebounds for the first double-double of his collegiate career. Okafor was nearly nonexistent on the stat sheet in the first half, tallying just two points on 1-of-5 from the floor.

“I don’t expect to see single-man coverage too much,” Okafor said.

“Today I was just really looking for my teammates, they did a great job just knocking down shots.... It’s a lot of fun when they keep bringing the ball in the

post and I’m just throwing it out.”

With Okafor receiving constant attention, Duke’s shooters had a lot of space on the perimeter. Even with ample room, the Blue Devils (5-0) connected on just 6-of-17 attempts from 3-point range in the first half, taking a 40-29 advantage into the locker room. Duke hit 9-of-25 triples on the evening.

“We did a great job at hitting the shots we needed to,” junior forward Amile Jefferson said. “The 3-point shot is going to be there, and it’s going to get better because [Okafor] demands so much attention. It’s just about guys

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O CAPTAINS, MY CAPTAINS Duke’s captains Quinn Cook and Amile Jefferson came up big against Stanford Bobby Colton Beat Writer NEW YORK—Jahlil Okafor, Justise Winslow, Tyus Jones.

Those are the names that have garnered headlines thus far this season for No. 4 Duke.

And after Winslow and Okafor were named to the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic All-Tournament Team, those will be the names that continue to monopolize headlines. But Saturday night, as the Blue Devils topped Stanford 70-59 to claim the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic championship, it was Duke’s two captains who shined brightest.

“Our guys followed the lead of Quinn [Cook],” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“Quinn was a great leader for us. So was Amile [Jefferson]—Amile was a warrior.”

The immense impact Cook and Jefferson had on Saturday’s game started well before the 9:30 p.m. tip-off time. In the midst of a debilitating stretch featuring five games in nine nights—which included travel to

Indianapolis and New York—Duke was forced to change its regular routine this week. But with two steady pillars in place, the Blue Devils were able to stay focused and take home the November hardware.

“The one thing that me and Quinn are trying to stress is just talking to each other, making sure everyone has the right mindset going into each game,” Jefferson said.

“Making sure guys are getting rest. But we have a mature group, so it’s not really that hard. It’s just about making sure guys’ minds are where they need to be to play such a grueling schedule.”

Cook was the star Saturday night and was rewarded handsomely with his second preseason tournament MVP trophy in three years, having claimed the Battle 4 Atlantis MVP honors his sophomore season. On a night when the freshman trio shot just 8-for26, time and again Captain Cook rose to the occasion, burying momentous triples and making crisp passes en route to an 18-point, five-assist night.

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Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Junior forward Amile Jefferson scored nine points and seven rebounds in Duke’s 70-59 victory against Stanford Saturday.

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Blue Devils dominate Golden Eagles in home opener Taseen Haque Beat Writer In its first home game of the season, Duke gave its fans something to look forward to as it soared past Marquette.

The Blue Devil frontcourt played on another level, and the Golden Eagles had no response in an 83-51 victory for MARQ 51 the home team at Cameron Indoor DUKE 83 Stadium Sunday.

Two Blue Devils, freshman Azura Stevens and redshirt freshman Rebecca Greenwell, posted double-doubles to lead Duke to victory.

“I think [efficiency] is just indicative of Azura’s game,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “She’s extremely capable, a very poised player, and nothing should get in the way of that. And I think from what you saw tonight, nothing did.”

The game began very aggressively as both teams raced down the court on fast breaks and fought for position on rebounds. No. 7 Duke (3-0) went into its diamond press fairly early with Marquette (1-3) responding with its own press shortly after.

Throughout the early moments of the game, the players matched their coaches’ aggressive tactics. With about 15 minutes to go in the first

SPORTSWRAP Lily Coad | The Chronicle Freshman forward Azura Stevens posted her second double-double in three games in Sunday’s home opener against Marquette, contributing 18 points and 10 rebounds in just 18 minutes of play.

half, an errant elbow from Marquette player Cristina Bigica left Blue Devil guard Ka’lia Johnson on the ground.

The intensity continued throughout the game, as two screens set by Duke left Marquette players leveled and rethinking their decision to go through the pick.

The game began with the Golden Eagles taking an 8-4 lead, but after a timeout by McCallie, the Blue Devils regained their composure, going on a 15-0 run to take a 19-8 lead.

Marquette, on the other hand, struggled in the first half after its quick start of two consecutive 3-pointers. The Golden Eagles could not find the range after that, going 3-of-17 from beyond the arc in the first half. Marquette also had trouble holding onto the ball, at one point having three unforced turnovers in a row with two consecutive travels and a bobbled pass.

“It was an interesting game,” McCallie said. “We really ratcheted it up in keeping them at 51 [points]… by really

having good team defense.”

Going into the half with a 42-20 deficit, the Golden Eagles refocused, coming out of the gates with an 8-0 run. Marquette began making the game competitive in the second half as they zeroed in on the long ball, hitting six 3-pointers. Guard Arlesia Morse proved especially deadly, shooting 41.6 percent on 12 attempts from downtown.

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Cain notches sole win in loss to No. 9 Nebraska Jack Dolgin Staff Writer Hoping to play the role of David against No. 9 Nebraska, Duke fell flat to its Goliath in Saturday’s home opener.

After strong tournament performances to kick off their season, the Blue Devils dropped their match at Card Gymnasium to the Cornhuskers, 45-3. Duke won only one matchup—Marcus Cain’s—and it dropped seven and forfeited two.

“I thought it was rough,” Blue Devil head coach Glen Lanham said. “I felt like our guys were a little tentative.

We didn’t get to our offense a lot. We were counter wrestlers out there today, and I think that hurt us in a lot of our matches.”

Forfeiting the 125- and 174-pound weight classes, Duke started in a 12-0 hole. Blue Devil Bailey Jack—making his first career start—was then pinned in the 133 matchup by Eric Montoya, and Duke’s Brandon Gambucci dropped the 141 matchup to No. 15 Anthony Abidin.

Just like that, it was 22-0.

“College is different,” Lanham said on Jack’s first career start. “The guys move faster, they’re stronger. And he got to a lot of his offense, but he just stopped wrestling in certain situations.”

Cain—ranked No. 19 and the Blue Devils’ lone favored wrestler Saturday—followed with a dominating performance. Tied 2-2, Cain got an escape and a takedown in the second, only to add a third-period takedown en route to a 7-2 victory against NCAA qualifier Justin Arthur at 149. It was Cain’s 10th win this season.

The next matchup was a heavyweight between Duke’s No. 19 Immanuel KerrBrown and Nebraska’s No. 2 James Green. Green recorded a takedown as time expired in the first period to take a 2-0 lead, but Kerr-Brown responded with consecutive escapes. Giving Green a taste of his own medicine, the Blue Devil electrified the crowd with a takedown as the second period came to a close to take a 4-2 lead.

Green, however, came back and notched the score at five, only to take a 7-5 lead off a controversial takedown call.

“I got a little heated on that one,” Lanham said. “You take that away, and it’s still a 5-5 match and we’re going into a good situation… so I thought the call was rough.”

Although Kerr-Brown managed an escape to keep close at 7-6, Green would pull away and ultimately win 11-7, all but sealing Duke’s fate. Kerr-Brown has now lost twice this season, both to ranked

opponents.

“I’m upset that I lost, but I wrestled really well. I know what I have to work on and it actually made me excited,” KerrBrown said. “If I had won that match, I would have been complacent with how I am now. But knowing I was so close but just fell just a little bit short, it makes me more hungry to keep going.”

Duke’s Jacob Faust and Spencer Neff, wrestling in the 165 and 197 classes, would later fall in major decisions, and Nebraska pinned Jacob Kasper and Brenden Walsh in the 184 and 285 matches.

Neff was filling in for redshirt junior Conner Hartmann, who is ranked No. 5 but is currently taking the semester off according to GoDuke.com.

Duke will pack its bags and hit the road for two more competitions in the 2014 calendar year, before a January road trip and its second home game this season Jan. 31. The team hopes that, by then, starters Trey Adamson and Randy Roten will have returned to action, as both are currently sidelined with injuries.

“Like I tell these guys,” Lanham said, “Right now it’s winning and learning until ACC’s and nationals, and I‘m going to continue to look at our season like that.”

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Duke sweeps Cardinals with epic third set win Jacob Weiss Staff Writer It took an epic set full of lead changes for the Blue Devils to complete their sweep of the Cardinals, as they moved to 13-3 in ACC play.

No. 21 Duke defeated Louisville 3-0 DUKE 3 at Cardinal Arena Friday to extend its LOUIS 0 win streak to four games. The Blue Devils totaled 61 kills and posted a .355 hitting percentage in their rout of the Cardinals.

“We’re excited to get an ACC road win in a tough volleyball environment,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “[Our players] did a good job of moving the ball around and being aggressive. We also did a good job of setting and timing the block today. That helped us dig balls then get on target in transition and allow our offense to be effective.”

Duke’s play could not be matched by the Cardinals (15-15, 7-10 in the ACC) in the first set, as the Blue Devils secured a 25-15 decision.

Duke (21-6, 13-3) boasted 19 kills and opened the frame with a 11-3 run. With the Blue Devils up 19-8, senior outside hitter Jeme Obeime

nailed three-straight kills to provide a cushion.

Duke then won the set with four of its last five points coming off of kills. Senior setter Kelsey Williams clinched the 1-0 set lead for the Blue Devils with a kill of her own.

Duke was dominant again in the second set and registered a hitting percentage of .400. The Blue Devils’ 17 kills in the second set separated them from a Cardinal team that only totaled 40 kills in the entire match.

Louisville managed to tie the score at 6-6, but Duke responded with an 11-0 run and eight kills, four of which were delivered by Obeime.

Fellow outside hitter Emily Sklar tallied an ace, recording her fifth consecutive doubledouble with 15 kills and 16 digs.

“Those first two sets were unbelievable,” Nagel said. “To hit over .400 in [those sets] was really a great team effort. I think our serving was a big part of getting great starts in those first two sets because we were able to keep the pressure on.”

The third set, however, was much more tumultuous for the Blue Devils. Duke shook off an early 3-1 Cardinal lead to tie the set at 5-5, but Louisville won the next five points on a series of sloppy plays by the Blue Devils.

Down 17-12, Duke was able to claim the next three points to pull within two, and eventually evened the set at 19. Obeime led the way for the Blue Devils with four kills in five points. Louisville, however, was able to inch ahead for a 22-20 lead and put Duke in jeopardy of dropping the set.

Sophomore middle blocker Jordan Tucker had a kill and sophomore defensive specialist Sasha Karelov served an ace to tie the game at 22. The Blue Devils and Cardinals went back and forth throughout the next 22 points until Duke was eventually able to win two consecutive points and take the set 34-32.

Sklar and Tucker provided the final blows with back-to-back kills to finish off the Cardinals.

“We didn’t do ourselves any favors and made too many errors early in that third set to give Louisville opportunities,” Nagel said, “That was a tight third set, which I thought was good for our team. We were able to hang in there and come out with it.”

Duke will finish off the 2014 regular season with a pair of road matches next week against its Research Triangle rivals. The Blue Devils will play No. 7 North Carolina Wednesday, Nov. 26 at 2 p.m., and North Carolina State

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continued from page 6 make Krzyzewski admit he needed to get his point guard more shots, it was his defense that made the biggest impact.

Standing at just 6-foot-2, Cook has had to make an adjustment to playing next to Jones not just offensively, but defensively, where he now has to body up against bigger, stronger guards than he is used to. Friday night, Cook pestered 6-foot-5 Temple guard Quenton DeCosey into 5-of-16 shooting from the field.

Then, Saturday night, Cook did a number on 6-foot-6 Stanford swingman Anthony Brown, who went just 4-for-12 and missed all of his 3-point attempts. This coming from a player who shot 45.3 percent from distance a year ago and started this season at 75.0 percent clip.

“Tyler Thornton, I talk on the phone with him a lot,” Cook said. “And Nolan Smith.

Those guys always had to guard off the ball, bigger guys, so I’ve just been asking them little tricks and little things, because I’ve never guarded off the ball. It’s fun. I’m still learning, and I still need to get better.”

Although Cook may gain some notoriety

thanks to his shiny new MVP trophy, Jefferson will still lurk in the shadows, despite being a starter for a 5-0 team. Even though he played only 24 minutes due to Stanford’s zone defense, the junior still managed to stuff the stat sheet. The Philadelphia native scored nine points on 3-of-6 shooting, grabbed seven rebounds—four offensive—and added two assists, two steals and a block. And that doesn’t even mention the vital, unquantifiable role he plays as a vocal leader on the defensive end.

“It’s just about getting in wherever I can and making plays,” Jefferson said. “Even if I can’t get the rebound, tipping it out, let somebody else get it, making sure the ball is in the air, we have a chance of making a play. And for me, it’s just being around. I’m confident in my abilities and I know I can help this team, so it’s just about making plays.”

And so, with four days off before taking on Furman back in Durham and 11 days until Duke’s next marquee game at No. 3 Wisconsin, the likes of Okafor, Winslow and Jones will continue to dominate the waves of headlines about the Blue Devils.

But residing just under the radar will be the captains Cook and Jefferson—the engines that make Duke run.

outset of the second half, it recovered quickly, racking up boards and pushing the Golden Eagles on the fast break. The Blue Devils also stepped up on the defensive side, taking multiple charges, colliding midair for rebounds, fighting for jump balls and combining for a total of eight blocks. The strong defense converted into offensive opportunities for Duke, as it finished the game on an 18-0 run.

The play of the Blue Devil forwards and centers proved too strong for Marquette, which just did not have an answer for Duke’s height. This season, the Blue Devils boast seven players that are 6-foot-3 or taller, and it definitely showed Sunday.

Stevens in particular had an impressive performance, posting a double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds in just 18 minutes of play.

“Offensive rebounds really get [Azura’s] game going,” McCallie said.

“She’s got this capability of getting to the ball sooner than most… and her whole game just picks up.”

Sanjeev Dasgupta | Chronicle File Photo Senior Kelsey Williams clinched Duke’s firstset victory with a kill to give it a 1-0 lead.

Saturday, Nov. 29 at 2 p.m., as they look to improve their seeding in the 32-team NCAA Championship bracket.

Along with Stevens, Duke senior center Elizabeth Williams—along with her 12 points and 7 rebounds—had a pair of dazzling rejections where she rose above everybody else and returned the ball to the shooter. All in all, the Blue Devil side out-rebounded the Golden Eagles 56-34.

And although the post play made a big contribution for Duke, it was not the only impressive display.

Greenwell had yet another imposing performance Sunday. After she and Williams combined for all the Blue Devil points in the first seven minutes of the contest, Greenwell went on to score 22 points. Aided by the double teams the Blue Devil frontcourt was drawing, the Kentucky native played a remarkable inside-out game, cutting into empty space in the lane and receiving nicely placed lead passes.

She also knocked down four 3-pointers to go along with 12 rebounds.

“I was very proud of [Rebecca],” McCallie said. “She’s always productive and always looking for ways to get things done.

Anytime you get 12 rebounds, that’s a lot of work.”

The Blue Devils will play next on Tuesday, Nov. 25 at home against Buffalo.

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ditionally, living off campus can sometimes be cheaper, he said.

In 2011, Duke experimented with running continued from page 1 a pre-lottery in the Spring of students’ sophomore year, which released a small number of said she felt that, ideally, the lottery process students from the residency requirement at a should be done earlier in the year, and that much earlier date. However, the amount of HDRL should notify students ahead of time students exempted was solely based on specuabout how many people they expect to re- lated estimates about attendance for the follease. lowing year, Williams said. As a result, HDRL Zach Gorwitz, a sophono longer runs this premore and Duke Student lottery. e will probably look Government vice presi“When we release dent for residential life, at the process again people early, we run the noted that students have this year and see if we can risk of releasing too many a variety of motivations for people,” she explained. choosing off-campus or come up with a system that Gorwitz said that DSG on-campus housing when works better for students. understands how stressful returning from study it can be for students to not — Zach Gorwitz know where they will be abroad programs.

“A lot of students in living only a month before independent housing like to return to their returning to campus. DSG is examining the lothousing on campus,” Gorwitz noted. tery system and working with HDRL to explore However, some sororities, fraternities or possible changes for the future, he said.

“We will probably look at the process again selective living groups do not have space for all of their members in their section, Gor- this year and see if we can come up with a syswitz said. If juniors are unable to live with tem that works better for students,” Gorwitz their affiliated group, they may have greater explained. “We are trying to fix it as best as we incentive to seek apartments off campus. Ad- can, but there are definitely obstacles.”

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We are all a little elitist Other than the bone-chilling temperatures, the football game against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last week was a typical display of (un)friendly sports rivalry and verbal riffing.

Some chants we heard frequently from Duke

Editorial students were: “We’re gonna be your boss someday!” and our favorite—a contemporary variation on a classic—“Go to class, Carolina!”

Sports can be good fun, but they are not just good fun. How we conduct ourselves during the frenzy of sports matches is as accurate an indicator as any of how we perceive ourselves. Under the guise of friendly competition, we no longer have to rein in the bloodlust of our id. Games are the few occasions during which we are allowed to strip half-naked, cover ourselves in paint and scream ourselves hoarse in a public space. At Duke sports games, under the guise of cheering on our own teams, we also bare the darker, more closely held facets of our identity than we would care to admit.

Meanwhile, Duke suffers from a public image

I get that it’s frustrating for the individual students, but look at it from the other side: Wallace Wade security has no idea how many students are going to show up, most of them minutes before game time.

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all is probably my favorite season when I’m at Duke. Growing up in the seemingly perpetually sunny Los Angeles, I never realized the complete and total lack of seasons. I was under the impression we had all of them. But then I came to the south and was amazed to discover that leaves do in fact collectively change colors and autumn is a real occurrence. And I fell in love with the sights and flavors and the overarching beauty that is fall.

So it’s to my dismay that we’re now entering that time period where everything just kind of dies. The leaves are shriveling up and the temperature is dropping to below what my body can handle. Thanksgiving break is this week, last week of classes is next, then it’s finals, and

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problem. We are all a little too familiar with this stereotype, and we have probably encountered this firsthand off campus—the privileged, selfrighteous, white, upper-middle class prepster both student media and the blogosphere have termed the “Dukebag.” In reaction, Duke has tried very hard to distance itself from these stereotypes. To our detractors, Duke points to its ever increasing plethora of civic engagement programs, service learning courses and outreach with the Durham community. We pride ourselves on being an interdisciplinary, globally-minded campus, with none of the pretension of our Ivy League peer institutions.

As students, we almost certainly do not believe we are snobby or elitist. We volunteer to tutor, travel to other countries for service learning projects and write research papers on international development. Yet, the way we choose to define ourselves during the unfiltered, primal fervor of sports games tells us otherwise. In these moments, we choose to to flash our class privilege and career prospects at our competitors. We get to temporarily be the elitists we really are, without the usual social repercussions. And throughout our Duke careers, from the moment we step on campus, we

are buffeted by language that grooms us to expect the best because we are the best.

Maintaining this contradiction—humble exterior, Dukebag interior—has both advantages and disadvantages. For one, Duke students are incredibly motivated and confident in part because of our high self regard. Yet, letting elitist instincts out only during the cover of sports games devalues other educational institutions and exacerbates the negative stereotypes perpetuated about us.

It is time to admit, Avenue Q-style, that we are all a little elitist. After all, we had to be to get into Duke. But, perhaps we need to be a little more honest with ourselves—there is nothing worse than an elitist Duke student than an ignorant one.

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just like that, the semester is over.

We’re a mere three weeks away from the finish line, which for a lot of students brings about a flurry stress, anxiety and perhaps a little nausea. Time is running out to raise any slacking grades and prove ourselves academically, all of which can crumble into destruction anyways depending on how finals go. Undoubtedly, the end of the school year matters, so it can be difficult to focus on anything other than doing well in this final stretch. Extraneous thoughts usually still have something to do with how horrible the current situation is. But as I’ve gotten older—still difficult to grasp I’m a junior—this part of the semester has taken on a very different tone. I feel like freshmen and sophomore year are often bound up in insecurity and uncertainty along with mental and emotional exhaustion. At this point last year, I was done with Duke—at least for the time being—and wanted nothing more then to be home for break.

But as a junior, I’ve become less inclined to wish away any part of my college experience.

As a first or second year, it’s easy to feel like the world is falling apart and every mistake— whether academic, social or otherwise—is detrimental to the rest of our lives. But I’ve found that, incredibly, life goes on. No matter how difficult an exam or frustrating a paper or impossible a class, I will be okay. Even when life seems overwhelming and all around terrible, there is no place else I’d rather be. I like to consider it the wisdom that comes with being an upperclassman. It doesn’t mean junior year is any less stressful or riddled with obligations, but merely that I no longer allow the current crisis to determine my overall outlook.

People used to say that fall of junior year would be the worst—over-loaded with classwork, internship searches and an overarching concern about my entire future. Plus, most juniors are abroad so I was told I’d probably also have no friends. And while some of this may be true, I can’t assign such a dismissive evaluation of these past few months. Every semester, and I would go as far to say every day, is great—even when it’s bad—simply because I’m able to be here. And so it’s a shame that as we reach the end, it’s easy to forget this crucial fact. It’s tempting to bury ourselves in Perkins, postpone social obligations, ignore different events that are occurring on campus—all in the name of focusing on why we’re here, on “what really matters.” It’s a delicate balance between school and everything else that we are always trying to achieve. But it’s my hope that no matter how our finals week, midterms week or whatever type of week is going, we all take a moment to look up and appreciate the vibrant and dynamic world around us.

Like I said, fall is beautiful here—so take a moment to enjoy it.

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e think we are exceptional. And it is true.

We are exceptional—a part of the 1700 in our class selected from an applicant pool of around 30,000 bright young minds to attend this institution of higher learning, yet perhaps not in the way we might think. We are exceptional because of our privilege. When the biggest thing I have to worry about is whether I will be employed at this company or another one, or which summer internship I should do, I have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

There are, of course, many members of the Duke community that face immense challenges in their daily lives due to their race, class, sexual orientation or gender identity, to name a few.

Systemic and structural inequality is not fiction, and white privilege does in fact exist in this

comparing this person’s job or that person’s academic research to our own drawing some sense of both pride and at times dejection from the constant comparisons.

But I do not want hubris become the trait of success in my life. I have been the beneficiary of luck, circumstance and privilege far too often for that to be a realistic reality. Being an exception gives us an obligation in some ways to serve, an ethic of responsibility to others to use our talents and abilities to contribute in positive and meaningful ways. The first thing I can think to start in combating these destructive attitudes this Thanksgiving is gratitude and compassion.

The Latin roots of the word compassion mean to endure something with another person.

Looking upon someone with compassion means stripping bare their humanity so that you can

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spent this past weekend in a stress-induced haze, mostly because I realized I have entire semester’s worth of work I haven’t done and my parents already told me they aren’t going to buy me four As this year. Naturally, because of my upbringing, most of my respect for my parents stems from their money or usage of money to solve my problems, and since they’ve refused to provide me a 4.0 in addition to a loving environment, I have decided to not come home for Thanksgiving this year so that I can be dramatic and overly sulky as I get turnt on a cruise ship, just like the Pilgrims did on the Mayflower.

Your guardian devil knows how real the hypocrisy surrounding Thanksgiving is, as evidenced by the fact that basic betches— yeah, the same ones who drink gallons of holiday flavored Starbucks and post “I’m thankful for…” Facebook posts—seem to love Thanksgiving the most. This only scratches the surface for why Thanksgiving is truly a celebrated American holiday. I fail to see—and I have never failed before—why my classmates and contemporaries love Thanksgiving so much. Like I get that all the hype that eating copiously is fun, but isn’t that something you all technically do everyday? Sorry, I’ve seen you freaks at

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country unless you ask Bill O’Reilly. I am the beneficiary of a variety of privilege as a white, straight, male student in America. Even amidst these realities, we all share a simple privilege, that of being a Duke student.

We like to consider ourselves self-made. After all, not all of our friends and peers in high school ended up at prestigious universities nor will they be spending their summer on the other side of the world getting their picture taken next to a well they built with their bare hands.

We all had something that distinguished us from our classmates and set us on the path to success in this world. Whether it was a caring parent, mentor or teacher that made a difference in our trajectory or the inherent privilege of a white, middle-class upbringing in the United States, someone or something affected our journey to Duke. There are countless individuals who, because of where they were born and the structural barriers of our society and world, do not have the privilege to dream of the futures we envision.

Sometimes this perspective is lost in the shuffle of internship applications and endless papers.

In an opinion piece from November 2013, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof addressed “a profound lack of empathy” that many in America exhibit on a daily basis.

Increasingly political discourse in this country on socio-economic status has become a dichotomy between the lazy, undeserving poor and the hard-working, virtuous elite perpetuating a social order fomented in the history of race in America.

What contributes to this framing of success by “modern social Darwinists” at the level of our university is, for me, a lack of perspective as to where we fit into the world we call home.

Often times, our response to recognizing our exceptionalism is to find worth, value and pride in it while judging those who do not share that privilege. We do it to each other on a daily basis

find the common threads that tie us all together.

Compassion requires action and for us as students such action can begin by taking the simple form of gratitude, a concerted effort to frame daily experience through a perspective of empathy.

If those papers, exams, thoughts of employment or the lack thereof have you down, take a moment to interact with the lived experience of others and begin to develop gratitude for what we have rather than what we do not. The first step may be as simple as greeting your housekeeping staff member tomorrow morning. Shout out to Tony in Wannamaker for making mornings a bit more pleasant.

An attitude of gratitude may not be easy, but I have begun to find it difficult without such a perspective to grasp what it means to be an exception and have this privilege of attending Duke.

However, gratitude is only the beginning. We each shoulder the burden of privilege by using our education to make the world a better place, to use this perspective of gratitude to begin giving back to our peers, to Duke, and to the global community in unique and powerful ways.

Gratitude and compassion allow each of us to live lives of service to others even when we have to work long hours in the library or in the office.

If there is any nugget of wisdom I have learned this year it is this: Above all, recognize that being exceptional, being a Duke student, is an existence worth being grateful for. Allnighters writing papers can be a blessing when the alternative is staying up all night because of extreme hunger. That privilege demands we act to be a force for reparative and restorative social justice in our society or else we risk becoming complicit in our broken system.

Losing elections for campus office, not landing the ideal internship or failing to ace that final can be blessings, but only if we take a moment to see things from a different perspective.

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Jay Sullivan is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Monday.

Letter to the Editor ‘You showed the nation that your passion and spirit is unrivaled’ On behalf of our players, coaches and staff, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Duke students who have made Wallace Wade Stadium a terrific home atmosphere this season— especially for last week’s game against North Carolina.

For Duke to be chosen to host a Thursday night, national television game on ESPN speaks volumes about our program and its growth both on and off the field. Your unwavering backing of our teams over the past few seasons helped make last Thursday night an exciting reality—and you

showed the nation that your passion and spirit is unrivaled.

As we continue to build what we believe to be the best football program in the country, please know that our student section in Wallace Wade Stadium is an integral part of any successes we may be fortunate enough to achieve. Thanks again—in advance—for your support!

For those students remaining in the area this weekend, I look forward to seeing you on Saturday night as we say goodbye to 27 seniors as they put a close to the finest two-year win total in school history.

Happy Thanksgiving!

David Cutcliffe Head Football Coach

Pitchfork Provisions and if I were some foreigner who didn’t know any better, I’d say Thanksgiving is basically every Wednesday to Saturday postmidnight.

This isn’t to say your guardian devil hates Thanksgiving—on the contrary, as someone who feeds off of the season’s fakeness and hypocrisy like some kind of satanic succubus, I love Thanksgiving because of what it and its practice means. Your guardian devil feels the need to guide you through this Thanksgiving season, lest you be swayed by faux friendship, familial joy, and ungrateful gratefulness. I appreciate this time of year because even though everything about it is hypocritical and generally awful, it demonstrates why the United States of America is so great.

During my elementary school days, at a school whose tuition was twice that of Duke, I learned about how Squanto and his friends, bad betches who didn’t need no white men, helped the pilgrims survive their first winter because apparently these Puritan failures didn’t know basic survival skills like building a fire, fishing or giving up and going back to England. Regardless, because of the goodness in the Native American’s hearts and the Pilgrim’s survival of winter (where’s my reward for surviving the Polar Vortex), they celebrated in the most friendly of manners, like most Duke Students, by eating and drinking excessively.

From hearing these early Thanksgiving tales, your guardian devil essentially learned that the goal of Thanksgiving could be encompassed by the cliché statement—sharing is caring. Because I’m heartless, I hate sharing. And because I hate sharing, I love how we modern and enlightened Americans have decided to act upon these Thanksgiving values in a manner only a perfectly selfish and capitalistic empire could.

To start, I think it’s a little ironic, but mostly hilarious how millions across the country celebrate the spirit of Thanksgiving— with love, compassion and gratefulness—with their families, but refuse to break bread with millions of others. I hate following orders, so why should we follow what we teach young children every thanksgiving? Why should we demonstrate compassion and kindness, by helping new hardworking immigrants make their place in this land of opportunity, where nearly everyone was descended from immigrants who benefitted from those here before them? Why does it matter that Thanksgiving is supposed to be about gathering in the spirit of togetherness? I love being privileged because, let’s be real, its awesome. So, why should I need to make a place at my table for those who, in the oldest and more powerful democracy, remain unequal? Gay rights? Racism?

Women’s equality? Gross. Your guardian devil like doesn’t need to care about those things because they don’t really pertain to me. Never mind that the Pilgrims came to America because they, too, were seeking equality and freedom. Your guardian devil knows that we pretend that Thanksgiving is about coming together as one, moving past our differences and being thankful for one another. Good thing it is pretend right?

I’ll say it—your guardian devil loves the United States and has chosen not to live in another cheaper country, or somewhere stuffy like Europe, because in the United States, we have the luxury not to care. I’m all about luxury so I make it point during this of year to avoid any type of critical thinking because it distracts from my own delusions of grandeur and feelings of selfworth. Your guardian devil likes helping others, but loves helping myself. So, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I plan to spend this one believing my world is perfect and pretending like yours are as well, because its easier that way.

Your guardian devil is spending Thanksgiving break in Turkey, for the lolz, and plans on buying Central Campus on Black Friday for $300.00.

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