December 8, 2014

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Trustees OK new master’s degree programs

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Duke students arrested in local demonstration

“We couldn’t quite put everything together. What were we doing that was so unlawful?”

Carleigh Stiehm At their final meeting of 2014 this weekend, the Board of Trustees approved two new master’s degree programs.

The two degrees—one in quantitative financial economics and the other in biomedical science—were proposed at the Nov. 20 meeting of the Academic Council.

The quantitative financial economics program will be geared toward students who eventually want to enroll in Ph.D. programs in finance or careers in the financial markets or with related regulatory and policy institutions. Faculty in Duke’s department of economics are already deeply engaged the research and study of quantitative financial economics, said Emma Rasiel, associate professor of the practice of economics, at last month’s meeting of the Academic Council.

The master’s degree in biomedical science will be geared toward prospective applicants to schools in the medical field as well as those pursuing careers in biomedical sciences. The program will provide students with more knowledge and clinical experience in various areas of medicine.

At last year’s December meeting, the Board approved five new master’s programs.

This approval raised questions from the Academic Council regarding whether the infrastructure for adding new programs was driven by financial or academic factors.

“There was much concern about the trend [last year],” Academic Council chair Joshua Socolar, professor of physics, said at last month’s meeting. “Since then, Dean [of the Graduate School] Paula McClain and others have paid close attention to this issue, and it appears that the pace has slowed a bit.”

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Elysia Su | The Chronicle The Edge, a newly renovated collaborative space which features large dining tables, bucket chairs and rollaway furniture, will officially be ready for students to use Jan. 5, 2015.

from winter break, they will find the renovations to Bostock Library completed and The Edge ready for student use.

Students and faculty can officially begin using The Edge Jan. 5, 2015, and it will have a grand opening and reception Jan. 14.

When the first floor of Bostock Library closed for renovation in May, some students were skeptical as to whether the loss of study spaces for all of Fall semester would be worth the new space. But the $3.5 million project changed the face and functionality of the space, opening group and individual sections for studying or group collaboration.

“The Edge is going to be a social space,” said Aaron Welborn, Duke Libraries director of communications. “Hopefully, it will relieve some of the pressure

The first floor of Bostock Library will reopen in Jan. after semester of construction Carleigh Stiehm Editor-in-Chief Welcome to the library of the future— you can write on the walls.

From the lounge—filled with familystyle dining tables and modern bucket chairs— to the sleek metal lockers—each with internal outlets for charging electronics while storing them—The Edge does not sound like the conventional library space. And with its futuristic lighting features and rollaway furniture to be moved for optimal collaborative configurations, it does not look like a traditional library, either. But when students return

A number of Duke students were among those arrested Friday night in a downtown protest reacting to recent national conversations on police violence and race relations.

More than 200 demonstrators from across North Carolina, including a number of Duke students and faculty, rallied to protest the recent non-indictment of police officers involved in the killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Eric Garner in New York City. As demonstrations moved through Durham, a number of protesters were arrested, with some See Arrests on Page 3

Special to The Chronicle Durham police officers surround a number of demonstrators as they approach the Durham Performing Arts Center for the second time.

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Rubenstein talks vision for University David Rubenstein, chair of the Board of Trustees, visited campus this weekend for the Board’s final meeting of the calendar year.

Rubenstein, Trinity ‘70, also addressed the Academic Council for the first time—only the second time that the chair of the Board has done so. The Chronicle’s Emma Baccellieri sat down with Rubenstein to discuss his vision for the University, at home and abroad.

that productive, honestly.

TC: With the University currently in the process of determining its next strategic plan, are there any specific areas you’d like to see us focus on?

DR: I would like the University to have the best possible student body, so I would like ultimately to make sure that we have a student body that’s as good as any student body. I’d like also to make sure that the faculty’s as good as any faculty. We need to finish the buildings that we have underway now, we need to finish the capital campaign, and we have to deal with some personnel issues—a chancellor has to be selected for the health system—some things like that, but I think generally the University is in a pretty good position.

The Chronicle: The candor you showed at Academic Council seemed to be something appreciated by a lot of the faculty members, and you also had the Town Hall with President Richard Brodhead in October. Are you interested making a concentrated effort to increase transparency?

David Rubenstein: I can’t say that I have asked for the invitations, they came to me so I’m happy to respond—but I TC: The capital campaign has been do think that we should remove any mys- said to be going well so far— tique or mystery that revolves around the DR: Its goal was $3.25 billion, I think Board of Trustees and its members. we’ve raised about $2.3 billion.

TC: On that note, would you ever entertain the idea of returning to opening the Board meetings to media, as was done under President Terry Sanford?

DR: I don’t think that’s a great idea, because I think people like to talk confidentially about certain things. You’re dealing with personnel information, you’re dealing with confidential financial data, and to have it disclosed to the public might put Duke at a competitive disadvantage, so I don’t think that’s a good thing. If there are any particular issues or secrets that people feel they really need to know more about, Brodhead and I are very accessible, so I think that a Board meeting that would be open would not be

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TC: And still with two years to go on that. $3.25 billion is the largest goal Duke’s ever had, but some have critiqued that as modest.

DR: Well, Harvard is raising a $6.5 billion capital campaign, yes, but you also have to think about the capital campaign relative to the size of the alumni base.

We have 160,000 alums, Harvard has 350,000—with your student body, your current endowment, you have to be realistic. $3.25 would be much bigger than everything we’ve ever been raised, and it’s possible we’ll do even better than that, but I think we’re in pretty good shape.

operating after so much planning and so much pushback, what do you say to the critiques so many faculty put forth over the past few years?

DR: Duke Kunshan is not that big a financial drain, we’re not putting that much money into it. I think we put in for construction about $14.5 million, and for operations about $5 million so far, and it was projected that we were going to put in over five years about $40 million. So we’re not really off the projections very much, and what we’re going to get is a univer-

TC: With Duke Kunshan University

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Durham Police Department Chief Jose Lopez could not immediately be reached for comment by The Chronicle. continued from page 1 In an interview with WTVD News Saturday, Lopez said that police did not take acprotesters later reporting harsh treatment tion against the protesters until the demby police. Several downtown streets were onstrations blocked streets and became shut down during the protests, Durham dangerous.

“When they go into different locations police reported. Police also reported finding an explosive device at the site of the trying to disrupt private business and private places, we ask them to leave,” Lopez demonstrations on Saturday.

Demonstrators gathered on the CCB said in the interview. “If they continue to Plaza and marched toward the Durham try to bypass the police department then Performing Arts Center and the Durham arrests have to be made.”

At the intersection of Rigsbee Ave. and County Detention Center, where they created a human shield between the two Geer St., police arrested demonstrators who were attempting to buildings and laid down leave or were standing in front of the buildings walked up to one of on a public sidewalk, as part of a “die-in.” Prothe police officers and Yao said. The riot gear testers then attempted made it impossible for to move onto the Dur- I asked him for his badge ham Freeway, but were demonstrators to identify and hold accountable blocked by police who number, and they pulled directed them back to- me down to the ground and police officers who were acting aggressively, she wards downtown. started kneeing me in the added.

In total, 31 demonAdrienne Harreveld, strators were arrested in stomach.

Trinity ’14 and a redowntown Durham—a — Adrienne Harreveld search associate at the number of whom were Duke students. Although the protests were Sanford School of Public Policy, was arlargely peaceful, some participants report- rested by police when she asked for an ofed acts of police brutality and aggressive ficer’s badge number after witnessing him behavior from a minority of demonstra- apprehend a woman aggressively.

“I walked up to one of the police offitors.

Several student participants in the cers and I asked him for his badge number, demonstration said that the police, which and they pulled me down to the ground met demonstrators downtown in riot gear, and started kneeing me in the stomach,” were more intense than was necessary for she recalled.

Harreveld and the other demonstrators a peaceful protest and indiscriminate with who were arrested were taken to the poarrests.

“The situation was quite tense,” sopho- lice station, where they waited for several more Carolyn Yao, who participated in the hours before being charged with failure to protests, wrote in an email Saturday. “We disperse and impeding the flow of traffic. couldn’t quite put everything together. The majority of those arrested seemed to What were we doing that was so unlaw- be white women, she said. ful? We were protesting peacefully, and During one point at the police station, with the exception of congregating and Harreveld said she was alone with five disrupting traffic, we were exercising our male police officers who questioned her freedom of expression.” views on white supremacy. A number of Police closed in on demonstrators from the officers attempted to engage her in deboth sides of the block at the intersection bate over the demonstration’s objectives, of Rigsbee Avenue and Geer Street, effec- she said. tively trapping protestors, said sophomore “At one point in time, an officer whose John Victor Alencar, a participant in the name I don’t know was just sort of pointdemonstration. There was no way to dis- ing out, like ‘What do you want us to do perse but to push through, he added, if black people just commit more crime?’” which was when most people got arrested. Harreveld said.

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Special to The Chronicle Demonstrators participate in a “die-in” in protest of the non-indictment of police officers involved in the killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in New York City.

Although the majority of demonstrators protested peacefully, a minority behaved aggressively toward police. These demonstrators “made a lot of people uncomfortable,” she added, because they had firecrackers and were dressed up in masks and dark clothes.

“There were people who were from Occupy Chapel Hill-Carrboro who had different objectives from a lot of the protestors—particularly the Duke protestors,” she said. “They had a lot of anti-state sentiments.”

The small, non-peaceful minority were self-proclaimed anarchists who used the protest as a “veil for their own agenda,” senior Jonathan Hill-Rorie, a member of The Chronicle’s Editorial Board, wrote in a Facebook message Saturday, adding that most of the demonstration was “peaceful but disruptive.”

A number of the demonstrators wore masks, said senior Brendane Tynes, who recalled at one point witnessing two men in masks retreat into a corner to take off their protest attire and melt back into the crowd.

“I don’t know who they are, and they made sure that no one knew who they were,” Tynes said. “They knew that they were going to do destructive things and

they didn’t want to be identified while they were doing them.”

The non-peaceful demonstrators, a majority of whom were white, made all of the demonstrators seem violent, she added.

“The black people and the brown people would have to endure the repercussions for using that white privilege and that mode of thinking to attack other people,” Tynes said. “It distorted the purpose, distorted our mission, and it hurts because it’s already bad enough that there are stereotypes about black people and about how violent we are. For it to be white people to be doing this violent work, for it to be put on us—what can we do about that?”

Police reported finding an “undetonated explosive device” Saturday between West Geer and West Corporation Streets, where a number of protestors were arrested, according the News & Observer.

The bottle with a wick and an apparent petroleum-based liquid was safely removed, said police spokeswoman Kammie Michael.

The Durham demonstration occurred in conjunction with protests in New York, California, Missouri and elsewhere across the country.

Aleena Karediya contributed reporting.

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Wofford said.

When students enter beneath the archway that connect the second floors of Percontinued from page 1 kins and Bostock, they will be greeted by a semi-circle of student employees who at the Link.” will assist in booking rooms and planning Particularly during heavy study times events in the space. These employees are such as midterms and reading period, the just the back-ups, however, to the pre-programmed iPads that sit Link and other study e hope this beoutside each room inspaces throughout the libraries are full and dicating which options comes a space students have difficul- where students feel they are available for use or ties finding spaces for reservation. collaborative studying, are able to collaborate and A hallway wallpahe said. The Edge is de- learn together—in a very pered with whiteboardsigned to supplement fun setting. like material allows for the innovative feeling students to take the of the Link—with the — Brittany Wofford creative process beyond added bonus of natural their desks, and there light because it is not are several glass cubbies underground. designed for individual or small group The vision for the new space grew out study. of a need for collaborative space that fosAlthough still four weeks away from ters innovation, said Brittany Wofford, in- opening, these spaces have already found terim librarian for sociology and cultural themselves occupied by students who anthropology, who has overseen much of somehow slipped past the sealed doors. the renovation process.

Claiming ignorance of the floor’s closure, Once it opens, the growing fields of the students were kindly asked to leave “digital humanities” and “digital scholar- their study havens in favor of fighting for ship” will find a home within The Edge, a space among the reading period crowds she said. of Perkins.

“This will be a space for exploration,” An area designated as the “open lab”

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is composed of tables, booths and singleperson study units—all on wheels. Wofford says students will be encouraged to move the furniture into the configurations that best meet their collaborative needs.

The pillars and walls that line this space are also created with the purpose of being written on, as is nearly 90 percent of the white wall space in The Edge, Wofford said.

Group project rooms in The Edge take on a slightly different feel, as some will be reserved by groups for a set period of time.

Four small lock boxes in each room will be divided among groups that have a standing hold on the rooms—with the possibility of having a room for up to an entire semester.

Wofford said she envisioned these spaces being taken advantage of by groups within Bass Connections or student groups that are working on long-term projects. But not all of the rooms will be on long-term reserve. Others will be available to reserve for studying through the Libraries website or the iPads mounted by the rooms.

In addition to the data and visualization lab that will be hosted on the first floor and a workshop room that can hold up to 70 audience members, The Edge will feature a digital studio. The studio will have software available for students to test that other areas of the libraries do not have access to. Students can provide feedback on which software should be added to the Library collection and request access to new software for test trials. The studio will open with access to Dedoose, Mallet, Voyant and a host of other softwares unique to the space.

But perhaps the most defining area of The Edge is the lounge. The kitchen area—designed to host catered events— and plush chairs give the space the feeling of a techno-café far more than a gothic library. A large table made of reclaimed wood has already been requested as a space for professors to hold round-table salons, and the overhead speakers have the option of connecting to an iPod. Two bookshelves, currently empty, will house books filled with information about software and digital innovation that can be freely read within the lounge space.

“We hope this becomes a space where students feel they are able to collaborate and learn together—in a very fun setting,” Wofford said.

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continued from page 1 construction plans for the new parking garage to be constructed at the corner of Cameron Boulevard and Science Drive set to be finished in 2016.

The new structure will add an additional 2,000 parking spots and cost approximately $53 million.

“The new spaces will provide some much needed relief to students at Fuqua and the Law School,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for government affairs and public relations.

The Alumni Association briefed the Board on updates to the strategic plan for alumni affairs, focusing on new ways that technology can be used to keep former students connected with the University and each other.

“Alumni relations have always been very backward-looking, but there are new things we can be doing to keep alumni engaged starting now,” said President Richard Brodhead.

He added that he envisioned a system in the future in which graduates can connect seamlessly to other alumni living in their area through Duke-run social media—not just for networking and career advancement but also for social purposes.

The Board heard a report on Ph.D. programs. Brodhead said it was particularly interesting to hear the ways in which administrators within the Ph.D. sector are focusing on guiding students who want to use their degrees to go into fields other than academia.

“Everyone on the Board has been an undergraduate, but not everyone has graduate education,” Brodhead said, emphasizing the importance of thinking critically about the nuances of graduate education.

This year—as with every few years—the Board had a briefing and breakout session on institutional risks facing the University.

They discussed possibilities of risk within health crises, information security and other topics. Ebola was a large topic of discussion this year, Brodhead said, noting that much of national media was focused on fear surrounding the potential of an outbreak.

“Newspapers are filled with something every hour about risky things going on at universities,” Brodhead said.

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years, and I think we’re in good shape. We have a terrific leader there, and [Brodhead] has put a lot of time and attention into it, so I’m pretty happy with it.

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sity in China that’s going to get an enormous amount of attention, draw a lot of students, increase our brand in China—which is maybe the most important country outside the United States to do this kind of thing in—so I think it’s well worth the effort.

Now, was it easy to get there? No. Was it more aggravation than many people wanted? Yes. Did we have more faculty and student questioning than we thought? Probably yes. But anything worth doing in life has always got challenges, so I’m happy with where we are.

TC: In terms of the opening— DR: The opening went quite well, but openings always go well, openings rarely don’t go well. So the opening went well, people were happy, but the trick is not to have a good opening—and we did have a good one— but it’s what we do in the next one, two, three and four

TC: As for athletics, with the NCAA beginning to consider different autonomy proposals—some of which involve divorcing the roles of student and athlete a little bit more—how do you see Duke moving forward?

DR: We’re in a difficult situation, because we want to have athletes who are truly students, and we’re not really interested in some of the kinds of things that would destroy that student-athlete mindset, so we’ll just have to see. I think Stanford and Duke and similar schools— Northwestern, Rice—want to make sure that we are not doing anything that destroys the kind of student requirements that we have now for all students, and we’ll just have to see where things go. But there’s no doubt that the world is changing, and it’s too early to predict what will happen five years from now. But clearly the world of money has become even bigger with respect to college sports, and I don’t think that’s going to change any time soon.

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A eulogy, exhumed

few months ago, I wrote an article about a young man who had his life stripped away from him. I wrote about him and others alike who have been carried away from this earth in the arms of injustice—I wrote for those who still are, and those who have been forgotten. Moreover, I envisioned the names of the people I love whose entire lives would be simplified to a hashtag if police brutality continues to be unaddressed.

I acknowledged the tardiness of my former eulogy thinking that the offenses were behind us. But after the events of the past two weeks, it was as if the bodies had been resurfaced just to be shot down once more: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, John Crawford...The streets of Ferguson, Missouri turned inside out with rage as a police officer who undoubtedly shot and killed a teenage boy walked away, protected by the bulletproof vest of privilege.

As the streets filled with fire, I wondered again how this could possibly be the age of sociocultural progression. As police lined the streets and 2,200 National Guard troops were deployed, the scene being crafted looked eerily similar to the system that Emmett Till, Martin Luther King and Malcom X left behind. Nevertheless, my grievances also originated from that the fact that I was not even surprised by the verdict. The deep-rooted system of racism and injustice reared its face again, and I was not the least bit astounded.

Why would it change? If a system has been built to teach law enforcement officers that it is acceptable to dehumanize individuals, particularly those that are not of their perceived caliber, why would they

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change it? It is almost nonsensical at this point to ask a failing system to renew itself, by itself.

When the institutions making the laws are the ones that are breaking them, we simply have to do better. We have to work hard to fixate ourselves so high on the hierarchy of privilege that the only option they have is to look up. We have to put more emphasis in our classrooms, to put more people of color in our courtrooms.

Not just in the stands or outnumbered in the jury but with the gavel in our hands fighting for those who have been neglected. We have to change the mindsets of those who are currently influencing the legal systems. It is too deeply corrupted to be changed only by those currently dominating the system. Make this another kind of power movement and let these unfortunate circumstances empower us to become unimaginably present.

Notice I said power, not vengeance.

Yes, we should absolutely be angry. Anger brings passion, and passion brings change. But imagine if we take the anger into our own hands and let it ignite flames in our body, giving us strength to keep going. If the pursuit of justice is terminated in a state of violence, blacks and other minorities will still be looked upon as criminals. We cannot let the lives of these young bodies dissipate into neglected space. We have to make sure that the sacrifice of the lives of these young men makes it into the history books. All I can think of is to pray for the dignity of this country. We still have bodies to save.

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’m a few weeks too late. What do you think?

The fights have been broken up, the protestors cleared from the streets, the fire of anger and hatred temporarily extinguished. Tears have dried, as the body of Michael Brown has settled into its resting place. It is quiet on our streets, and I shouldn’t be surprised. Everyone knows the hype never lasts too long. As soon as the chaos is over, we slip right back into our routines. What do you think?

This is the social system we have created for ourselves. It is this silence we exhibit which is the breeding ground for our boys and young men to be killed by the very individuals who are supposed to be our defenders. Though we may rise up at the peak of tribulation – though we may raise havoc, hold protests and march–it is the silence in between the chaos that is killing us. So here I am, reinstating the memories of those who we have laid to rest.What do you think?

In the past months, at least five unarmed black and Hispanic men have been brutally harassed and killed by the police. Continuously, there have been excuses made for the fates of the cops who have taken individuals’ lives under unjustifiable situations.

Clearly we have let our guard down again, shielding our eyes and ears to the sound of bullets piercing innocent young bodies—because the police have the right to “stand their ground.” What do you think?

Do we continue to be awakened only when trouble strikes? “Don’t shoot!” we cry, hands up, standing up, surrendering to the fiends we have created. Then we slide back into the rhythm of racism and disparity, hoping that if we disregard its existence, it will vanish from our society. Meanwhile, another youth lies dead on our streets.1 In a world where there is enough violence between civilians, I was optimistic that justice could be found within our law enforcement system. I dream that we will one day live in a world where discrimination is so intensely chastised that we would be afraid to even think of committing such a

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Kalifa Wright is a Trinity junior. This is her final column of the semester.

dehumanizing offense. Nevertheless, it is important to remember that the crimes against civilians are not necessarily representative of an entire population of law enforcement officials. So I thank the ones who continue to do right. But know that you are only as strong as your weakest player. Hence, I ask of you to speak out against the individuals tainting the dignity of your positions, that they will know that their actions are no longer acceptable. What do you think?

So now, what is the fate of the next generation?

I visited my little cousins shortly after the death of Michel Brown, and, though they are still young, I couldn’t help but contemplate their futures. I want to be able to look at them with their bright brown eyes and grand ambitions and tell them with certainty that they are safe. I want to tell them that even though the world can be a scary place, they can always run to the police for help. But instead, I am compelled to say—make sure not to ask too many questions when confronted and don’t reach too suddenly into your pockets. Never assume that you are innocent until proven guilty, and maybe you shouldn’t wear that black hoodie you like so much or get thirsty and bring along your favorite iced tea. But, most of all, darling, don’t walk like this and don’t talk like that, and just make sure you don’t seem too black.What do you think?

This is in memory of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Kajieme Powell, Edgar Vargas Arzate, Eric Garner, Kelly Thomas, Rodney King and the many others who have fallen unnamed. This is for our sons, brothers, fathers, teachers, presidents, surgeons, lawyers and crime fighters. Our voices shape their futures, shape my cousins’ futures. That is why I’m writing this piece five weeks too late, and why someone should write it again five months late, five years late. Their lives are too high a price for us to be silent.What do you think?

Kalifa Wright is a Trinity junior. This column originally ran in the Sept. 12, 2014 edition of The Chronicle.

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likely contribute to peoples’ disillusionment with ESI. Americans ployers will by and large have better benefits and cost-sharing love choice—it’s like baseball and apple pie. On the Exchanges options than plans found publicly subsidized on the Exchangyou get more options and you know the price of your health in- es. If consumers continue to demand employer-sponsored surance. The transformation won’t be fast—and will likely never plans, they won’t disappear.

So how do people realize that buying insurance on an Exbe complete—but bit by bit I think we will move to a system of purchasing health insurance that puts the consumer in charge of change, where they can evaluate more options through a more his own decisions and lets him evaluate all options on the market. conscious process, will be better in the long run? Give it a few By some estimates, that change has already begun. In the years to iron out the kinks and for people to become comfortfirst decade of the 21st century, the percentage of non-elderly able with a new system. I think we’ll get there.

In the meantime, imagine a world in which everybody enAmericans with ESI declined by just over 10 percent. The reasons for decreases in ESI are myriad: fewer people employed, ters a standardized marketplace to buy their health insurance. fewer employers offering health insurance, fewer employees They have multiple options from multiple companies. They THOUGHTS ON HEALTHCARE choosing the health insurance options offered at their employ- have tools to compare apples to apples, and decision aids that of making you better—you’d pay him for his services. Maybe ment, etc. Some experts believe “employer insurance’s most give information about benefit design. Man, that would be that payment was money, or maybe it was chickens or whiskey likely trajectory is continuing erosion.” Although we’ve seen a something, wouldn’t it? or any other mutually agreed upon currency. significant drop since 2000, the community doesn’t stand in Max Stayman is a Trinity junior. This is his final column of the It wasn’t until the Second World War that a key tenet of to- unison—some policy analysts and economists say that ESI will day’s healthcare financing system—employer-sponsored insur- continue unaffected for a while yet. Plans offered through em- semester. ance (ESI)—really emerged. ESI is one of those policy solutions that satisfied an important need at one point in time, but eventually turned into an unwieldy system that no longer has a problem to solve, and creates unintended consequences.

One of the first employer-sponsored plans started in Dallas, Texas, when a group of school teachers contracted with Baylor Hospital in 1929 to set up an insurance plan for inpatient For First-Year Students stays—for $6 dollars per year – can you believe that? It wasn’t for another 14 years, though, that the idea really took off.

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Despite these controls, the National War Labor Board ruled • Fate of engineered nanoparticles in wastewater treatment plants in 1943 that health insurance and some other benefits were not The focus of the Research Fellows Program is an individual research experience. Students • Abl kinases in breast cancer tumor initiating cells (TICs) are placed in laboratories on the Duke campus according to their interests and work on subject to these limitations. Without missing a beat, employers projects defined by faculty mentors. They attend seminars and workshops designed to • Maintenance of neurocognitive functions in immunodeficient mice via voluntary running offered health insurance policies, contingent on employment, support a developing career in science and present their results in a poster session at the to attract workers to their organizations.

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• Developmental and functional modularity in mantis shrimp Stipend, Housing, Travel So what of it? Why should we care that people get their All students completing the program will receive a $4,000 stipend. The program will health insurance tied to their employment?

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But there remains another problem with employer-sponsored insurance—the lack of transparency.

Most Americans with health insurance—60% of them anyways—have very little knowledge about how health insurance works or how much it costs because they are divorced from the purchase of the policy. A typical employer will offer anywhere from two to four plan options for its employees, and at the end of each year the employee will choose what he wants for himself and any dependents for the next coverage year. There is no shopping around on the part of the employee—he simply chooses from the limited options he is given.

In addition to not knowing how the insurance works, many employees don’t know the full cost, either, because it is split between employee and employer contributions. The problem is that most employees don’t know, or pay attention to, how much money is taken out. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation report, the average annual premiums for family coverage in 2013 were $16,351, of which employees paid on average $4,565 and employers paid $11,786.

As an employee that’s great because you can get pretty broad health insurance benefits for a relatively low price. But when our country is trying to reign in the costs of health care, the last thing we need is for people to be ignorant about the costs of health care. Full information about costs needs to be kept on the front burner. Although most of the facts and figures about our healthcare system are unfathomable—for example, that total healthcare spending is expected to hit $4.8 trillion by 2021—letting people shy away from them is not the way to combat rising costs. Educated and conscious consumers will play an integral part in reforming healthcare. By moving away from ESI, we can start to buy health insurance in a context that facilitates informed decision-making.

The advent of the Health Benefit Exchanges in the ACA will ack in the day paying for health care looked a little different than it does now. When you got sick you’d go and see a provider, who might be a doctor, but more likely was a blacksmith or a medicine man or a barber. He’d provide you with some service, and if you survived—it wasn’t until the mid1900’s that going to the doctor had a better than 50-50 chance

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oing home feels kind of weird.

When I was packing my bags before freshman year, I knew that it was likely the last time I would really be living with my parents. Sure, I’d gone to summer camps before—I’d been away from home for months at a time—but when I came back, my life was always centered back in my hometown.

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When I first have dinner with my parents, I’m a little more polite than usual. Not in a formal or awkward way—I’m just careful to avoid subjects I know we’d disagree on. They do the same. Nobody wants to fight when we’ll only see each other for a few days. When I drive through town, the scenery’s changed a bit. New restaurants have popped up. I don’t recognize the kids on the sides of the roads.

Perhaps the biggest change is the overall impression of nostalgia. The restaurants, the streets and the random landmarks all bring back memories. When I drive past the movie theater, I think of trying to sneak into R-rated movies with my friends, swearing we forgot our drivers’ licenses at home. I think of growing up here—from the chaperoned middle school movie trips to the sweaty-palmed first dates. When I see my friends from high school, it’s mainly to catch up—to learn about all the things we’ve done without each other—and to reminisce about high school.

It’s hard to call a place home when I’m just not there most of the time.

But it also feels strange to call Duke home. You don’t get kicked out of your home during holidays and summers. Even though I go to school here, have made unforgettable memories and—while it’s hard to remember during finals week—am very content here, it still feels like there’s something missing.

Maybe home is a feeling that comes with time.

After all, I’ve only been at Duke for two years. It feels like I just got here. But then again, I only have two left. And with half the junior class going abroad next year, Duke doesn’t feel like it’s getting any cozier.

Quite the opposite, actually. With senior year already ominously looming overhead, it feels like it’s getting ready to kick me out.

When we were considering colleges, we were told to find our perfect fit—to find our home for the next four years. Now that I think about it, that phrase seems oxymoronic. How do you create a home—find a true sense of belonging—in such a short period of time, in a place that’s not even meant to be permanent?

The “college experience” is so built up—so overhyped—that it turns into a disappointment when it doesn’t meet our expectations. And it doesn’t help that when we look around, there are so many people who make it all look so easy. There are people who seem like they have really found their home here— involved in organizations, doing research, balancing classwork and jobs—people who just seem happy. But through anonymous platforms, we also see the other end of the spectrum—people who feel left out, who feel like they can’t find their place here.

College is a strange time in our lives—a transition period, as cliché as that sounds. I think it’s unfortunate how strongly we emphasize finding ourselves during these four years, which really aren’t much more crucial than the four years before or the four years after.

Many people do find a home at college. But for the many that don’t, it’s okay to be a little uncomfortable.

Everyone’s college experience is different—for that matter, everyone’s life experience is different. There are many times and places that we will feel completely at home, and those times and places are different for each of us. This doesn’t have to be one of them.

Pallavi Shankar is a Trinity Sophomore. This is her final column of the semester.

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DEVILS TO BATTLE IN THE DESERT Brian Mazur Beat Writer

Duke is headed to El Paso, Texas, with the chance to break a 53-year bowl victory drought.

After a 9-3 season, including a 5-3 record in ACC play the Blue Devils will play No. 15 Arizona State for the first time in program history in the Hyundai Sun Bowl Dec. 27 at 2 p.m. The game will be televised nationally on CBS, the first time the network will feature Duke in a football game during the 21st century.

“To be selected to participate in the Sun Bowl is both a privilege and honor for our program,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said in a press release. “I could not be any more thrilled for our seniors, who together become the first class in Duke history to play in three bowl games.

That means a lot, and it should. This group has earned this. Winning 25 games in three seasons and 19 games over the past two seasons hasn’t been easy.”

This will be Duke’s first appearance in the Sun Bowl and the first against a Pac12 team since the Blue Devils lost to thenNo. 25 Stanford 50-13 Sept. 8, 2012 in Palo Alto, Calif. Duke is 3-6-1 all-time against Pac-12 opponents and is 0-2 against Pac-12

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Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle Duke will face No. 15 Arizona State as the Blue Devils head to their third-straight bowl game for the first time in program history.

opponents in the Cutcliffe era. The Blue Devils appeared twice against now-Pac-12 schools Southern California and Oregon State in losing performances in the 1939 and 1942 Rose Bowls.

The Sun Bowl will be the program’s third straight bowl game in as many years, but Duke has not won a bowl game since

Bill Murray led the team to a 7-6 Cotton Bowl victory against Arkansas in 1961.

Most recently, the Blue Devils fell 48-34 to Cincinnati in the 2012 Belk Bowl and 52-48 to Texas A&M in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on New Year’s Eve. In both of those games, the Blue Devils led by at least 16 points in the first half.

Arizona State (9-3) has notched wins against three ranked opponents this season and features one of the nation’s most dynamic offenses, averaging 37.0 points per game. Junior D.J. Foster is a dynamic and versatile back who has rushed See Sun Bowl on Page 17

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No. 1 Gamecocks escape with last-second bucket Sameer Pandh re Beat Writer As the tallest team in the nation, the Blue Devils have been one of the top rebounding teams all year. They were just one rebound short of upsetting the top-ranked Gamecocks Sunday No. 9 Duke fell 51-50 to No.1 South Carolina in a tightly 51 contested, backUSC battle DUKE 50 and-forth Sunday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“It felt very much like an NCAA game and I thought it was a great game,” Duke head coach Joanne P.McCallie said.

“Both teams worked really hard and I’m really proud of our team’s effort and fight.”

The Blue Devils (5-3) were done in by a putback by South Carolina freshman A’Ja Wilson off a missed floater by Tiffany Mitchell, which put the Gamecocks up one with just 1.8 seconds to go in the game.

“I just saw Tiffany attack the basket, which is what she was supposed to do,

and the thing we emphasize most is rebounding,” Wilson said. “I knew whatever shot went up I had to go in and crash the boards, so I went in and it kind of just fell in my hands. “ The Blue Devils built an early 7-2 lead on the backs of a tenacious 2-3 zone defense that held the Gamecocks (8-0) to 21 percent shooting in the first half.

The impact of the return of All-American Elizabeth Williams was immediately evident, as the center had four blocks and altered numerous Gamecock shots in the paint. When Williams exited the game with 5:39 left in the first half due to foul trouble, freshman Azura Stevens sustained a similar effort down low.

However, the Duke offense also struggled—shooting just 22 percent— and endured a 1-of-21 shooting slump that spanned nine minutes against a feisty Gamecock defense. The drought was finally ended with a coast-to-coast finish by redshirt freshman Rebecca Greenwell at the buzzer that gave the Blue Devils momentum going into haltime.

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“We weren’t attacking and I think after we started turning the ball over, our team attacked more and got more aggressive,” McCallie said. “You have to attack the paint and that is where we lost the game. They have 32 points in the paint and we’ve got 24 and that’s where it is.”

South Carolina got off to a flying start in the second half fueled by the large Gamecock contingent on hand and used a 7-0 run to take a 24-21 lead—its largest of the game. South Carolina’s intensity coming out of the locker room frazzled the Blue Devils and a 35foot 3-pointer by Asia Dozier as the shot clock expired pushed the lead to six points. With Williams picking up her fourth foul with 13:27 still remaining in the half, the Gamecocks looked poised to run Duke out of the gym.

“We did not come out with the right defensive intensity,” McCallie said. “We have to become a 40 minute defensive team and we’re just not quite there yet.”

But with better execution on offense and timely shots by senior Ka’lia Johnson, the Blue Devils were able to get back into the game and cut the lead to 36-34 with 9:42 remaining in the contest.

After trading buckets for the next six possessions, the Blue Devils regained a 41-40 lead on freshman Sierra Calhoun’s second 3-pointer of the half. Duke then converted a Gamecock turnover into two more points and held a three-point lead with 6:34 remaining in the game.

With the game in the balance, the Blue Devils went to Williams—the player they’ve relied on so heavily throughout the past four years. The All-American scored five consecutive points—her first five points of the game —during the span of three possessions.

“In the second half, I just tried to come out and bring energy to the team, rebound and do whatever I needed to help the team,” Williams said.

But the Gamecocks would simply not go away and missed a big chance to take the lead when Dozier could not connect on a wide-open corner three.

With 42 seconds remaining in the ballgame, Greenwell was able to draw contact taking the ball to the basket. The ensuing two free throws put Duke up four with just half a minute remaining.

But the Gamecocks would respond again. A tough 3-pointer by Mitchell was followed up by a steal by junior guard Khadijah Sessions and Olivia Gaines— who played only one minute all game—in the backcourt and gave the Gamecocks the ball down 50-49 with 10.9 seconds remaining in the game. After the putback by Wilson, Johnson’s halfcourt prayer as time expired fell short and gave the Gamecocks the hard-fought win.

The loss marked Duke’s first three-game losing streak since 2007-08. The Blue Devils will take a 10-day break before taking the court against Oklahoma Dec. 17.

SPORTS Phillip Catterall | The Chronicle The Blue Devils were held to a season-low 50 points on 31.6 percent shooting Sunday against the top-ranked Gamecocks, as they suffered their third-straight loss.

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Duke and Arizona State. This is a blessing and it’s a good thing for El Paso.”

Duke has also put up big numbers on the offensive side of the ball—averaging 32.5 points per game—but is also one of the best in the nation on the defensive side of the ball only allowing 20.6 points per game. Both strike safety Jeremy Cash and linebacker David Helton garnered All-ACC first team honors from the media this past week, and rover safety DeVon Edwards was an honorable mention.

Offensive linemen Austin Davis, Sterling Korona and Tanner Stone and defensive end Jordan DeWalt-Ondijio all hail from the state of Texas, although none of the four are from the western part of the state.

Cutcliffe also has a connection to the bowl, as he was a tight ends coach on a 1984 Tennessee teamsudoku_451A that suffered a 28-27 to Maryland in theCreated Sunby Peter Bowl Dec. 22, 1984.

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his past Friday night doesn’t seem real anymore, one of those hyper-real dreams that you wake up from and question, “Did it really happen that way?” While the events of Friday night seemed like a dream to me, it represented the reality that black and brown bodies have faced historically in this nation. The non-violent protest in Durham that brought police in full-riot gear marching in line with acoustic weapons, batons and brute force at their disposal didn’t seem like Durham. But it is.

Durham is as much Ferguson as Ferguson represents the totality of the American systems of control. To argue against it is simply to disagree with fact. “No, gravity does not exist. We got rid of it 50 years ago.” When all you have is a voice and a body, police with military-grade weapons and armor prove the point for us.

I will always have a voice in this society as a white, straight man. Color-less rhetoric of

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HOPE, FOR THE WIN #AllLivesMatter that asks everyone to just go home and pretend that this white supremacist society built on systemic racism and structural inequality does not exist because “not all cops are racist” breeds perpetual silence. My privilege, specifically my white privilege in a social order built for me, causes oppression. Whiteness constricts and restricts the voice of oppressed and disenfranchised peoples in this nation putting a chokehold on them, while they too gasp, “I can’t breathe.”

White people need to hear the voice of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Martin Luther King Jr. and so many others, but they were gunned down in a white supremacist state and misrepresented in national media to perpetuate the American social order. When white people act irrationally, as masked white anarchists did Friday night shooting fireworks off in the middle of the demonstration then hiding behind their white faces, we endanger vulnerable bodies not protected by our privilege to the force of the state. That type of white voice further perpetuates systems of control on black and brown bodies. It serves as an example of why white people, including myself, need to learn to shut up and start listening.

Ally-ship is about empowerment—not dominating discriminated voices. Our dominion of society cannot be over social movements to reform it. That just leaves us exactly where we were in the first place.

My voice is the not the one you should be hearing today. The silence created by white voices dominating black, brown, queer and trans voices must be recognized. The blank space that follows is the beginning of my listening.

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remember thinking junior year of high school that if I could just get into Duke I would have proven to myself that I was enough.

I remember thinking junior year of high school that if I could just get into Duke I would have proven to myself that I was enough. I would have made it. From discussions with friends, I know a lot of us thought that way. At least we did until realizing that a Duke acceptance letter affirms our sense of self worth for just long enough that we are completely blind-sided when the university turns and tramples us, particularly those of us who

I would still be “enough” if I stopped operating according to an all-or-nothing standard. I felt a false sense of control in believing I could analyze and perfect my way out of each situation. So instead, I began fixating on the pieces of myself I was convinced were broken because, if they were broken, that meant there was something I could fix to make my struggles go away. This mindset ushered in the semester in which I experienced a brief, though major, depressive episode.

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ime is on my mind. Both as a theoretical physicist-in-training and a college senior about to enter my last semester of responsibility-free life, I can’t escape contemplating that inexorable force that is the passage of time.

Time, as we all know, is a three-headed monster, and each head menaces us in its own way. The past comes back to us at unexpected times and in unexpected ways—the smell of rain can instantly and vividly evoke the mood palette of freshman year and the very act of sitting on the steps of your favorite building on campus often weaves a new thread into the skein of memories associated with the place. The present, on the other hand, is always running away. But the hardest of the three to grapple with, in my opinion, is the future.

The future is an enormous void of uncertainty, and while most of us have only beautiful futures to look forward to, it’s still a daunting void to face.

The conditions at a university are perfect for producing young people that are constantly facing that void. To be honest, I think that, apart from a little bit of procrastination, Duke students do an amazing job of looking out for their future selves. But I think our ethical obligations—and the “we” here is now humankind at large—towards future others are still not entirely clear to us. In general, we place more weight on the lives, happiness and suffering of people

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don’t know how to redefine our definition of “enough” once we have made it into such a highly prestigious environment.

A far as I can tell, this concept of “enough” is founded on two paradoxical principles—conformity and competition.

It’s a rivalry to see who fits into the “ideal” mold the best. When we look towards titles such as—top student, top athlete, top humanitarian, top beauty—to define ourselves, Duke certainly shakes our sense of what our identities are built upon.

I know this all sounds obvious, but I have seen far too many peers struggle to define a new sense of identity for themselves in this new and overwhelming context. I think the greatest part of this struggle with “enough” comes from the fact that Duke students tend to operate according to an all-or-nothing mindset.

There is no spectrum, just a life according to a series of binaries—yes/no, good/ bad, enough/worthless. Either I am, or I am not. It doesn’t matter if I was a hair away from achieving the goal I wanted.

Either I have made it, or I haven’t.

Little did I know, this phenomenon would reproduce itself over and over again. First, there was the semester I didn’t feel smart enough to be here. I worked myself so hard that my brain shut down in the middle of my statistics exam during finals week. For two nights after, I lay in bed for hours unable to fall asleep because I was terrified that if I had messed up this one time, nothing would ever keep me from falling short every time thereafter.

All or nothing—if I can’t succeed at it all, I can succeed at nothing. Once I figured that one out, there was the semester I sought help for an eating disorder that had taken over. At the time, it felt like I was pulling the plug on my self control and control of my world. All or nothing—I will either eat nothing and stay skinny, or I will binge and eat it all until I can no longer stand to look at myself in the mirror.

So much of all-or-nothing thinking comes down to a desire for control and predictability—if I prove I can be it all, I will be “enough” no matter the circumstance. We don’t realize that this logic is flawed, and the opposite is actually true. Whether we feel we are “enough” is based on the context of the circumstance, and we will never be able to predict these circumstances with absolute certainty.

But did I want to believe this? Of course not. I was too afraid to trust that

it. If you can’t be it all, you are nothing.

You are nothing.

So, where do we go from there?

Because that doesn’t seem like such a great ending to the story. I believe the question demanding to be answered in this all is: How to be “enough” in an all-ornothing world? My answer may not work for everyone, but here are the mindset tweaks that changed everything for me.

First, widen the width of perspective from which you are drawing conclusions—for from perspective flows awareness and gratitude—and be wary of the contexts in which you pull comparisons. Comparisons are relative, so if you are comparing yourself to the top 1% of society, expect to be a little disappointed.

Second, if you can, try to stay away from comparisons all together. We are all on different journeys. I cannot compare the leg I am on to the leg someone else is on when neither of us know what each other’s journey is about.

Third, recognize the difference between power, which comes from an external comparison that says I am bigger/better/stronger than you, and strength, which comes from an internal source that says I am big/ strong regardless. If you can master this, “enough” will no longer fluctuate uncontrollably depending on relative context because “enough” will no longer depend on the reassurance and approval of others. It will come from a stable source within.

Fourth, recognize that this concept of “enough” isn’t some small issue; there are major consequences because it is tied so closely to our sense of identity, which in turn impacts the extent to which we feel worthy of love. How much love and what kind of love we seek and accept highly depends on the love we think we deserve.

Fifth, never look at yourself as something to be fixed. When it comes to humanity, there is no such thing as damaged goods.

Sixth, we hear that which we listen for, so listen for affirmation just as much as constructive criticism. Author Courtney E. Martin wrote, “We are a generation… that was told we could do anything, and heard we had to be everything.” Be gentle with yourself and try your best not to misinterpret such messages.

Finally, dare to believe that the opposite of control is not chaos, as we so often assume, but freedom.

alive now than those that will be alive later. And part of this is justified—the future, after all, is an uncertain thing, so it’s not even clear who the future people are. Moreover, suppose we changed our present behavior so as to change the circumstances for future people—by the change of our present actions, we are likely to change the exact group of future people for whom we were changing our actions in the first place. To which of the two groups of people were we morally responsible? It’s hard to say we were morally responsible to the first group since our change of behavior caused it to never come into being.

But it doesn’t make sense to say that we were morally responsible to the second group either, since we didn’t change our actions for their sake.

Despite these real objections, I still think that our obligations towards future people exist. Take, as an illustrative and practical example, the issue of climate change. We’re putting off solving the problem precisely because we value the cost to future humans less than we would the same cost to present humans. We figure we’ll wait until we absolutely have to address the situation, whatever the cost will be then. And until the problem is vivid and present, we think nothing of it. But I think it’s unfair to force the next generation to bear that cost when the cost to us if we addressed the problem would be much less. At the very least, if rising water levels and temperatures caused large-scale migrations and the need to rebuild some of the world’s largest cities, wouldn’t it have been a terrible move for present us to impose that need on future us? But the problem is actually even worse—It’s looking like, unless we do something now, our present irresponsibility can have severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems. This would be one of the greatest wrongs we could commit, and I think there’s no question that it would be an unacceptable outcome, that we would be making a farce of our obligation to the continued existence and welfare of humanity.

The future is silent and opaque. We can’t hear the cries nor see the suffering of future beings. But that shouldn’t stop us from caring about their general welfare. If we’ve learned anything from the 20th century, it’s that we’re now in a place where the human race holds the power to destroy itself, and if that happened, it would be more than an enormous tragedy. Accordingly, we ought to take the lessons of the past century seriously and apply ourselves to problems threatening our continued existence. If we do that, we’ll have gone a long way towards conquering the void.

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