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“If our University will not act on climate change, then the students must,” reads Divest Duke statement Rachel Chason University Editor The Duke administration announced its rejection of a student-driven proposal to divest the University from fossil fuels.

The announcement was handed down Tuesday, after the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility—a group comprising faculty, students and alumni designed to assess the social impact of Duke’s investment—unanimously recommended against divestment in a letter to President Richard Brodhead dated Nov. 24, 2014.

Brodhead stated his support for the ACIR’s decision Tuesday in a letter addressed to members of Divest Duke—the student group that urged the University to remove its investments in the top-200 publicly-traded companies that hold a majority of the world’s coal, oil and natural gas resources.

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Attempted shootings highlight DPD tensions In light of recent events, the Durham Police Department’s relationship with the community has been called into question Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle A month after two Durham Police Department officers were targeted in shootings, the department’s relationship with the community has been called into question.

In the last week of December 2014, two DPD officers were shot at in separate incidents—leading to

speculation from some that the incidents emerged from tensions between police and the Durham community following national unrest regarding police shootings of black men in Ferguson, Mo. and New York City. As suspects for the shootings have not been identified, the motivation for the crimes remains unclear. Durham Chief of Police Jose Lopez, however, has cautioned against assuming the shootings in Durham are connected to protests in other parts of the country.

“The events in Ferguson didn’t happen in Durham,” Lopez said. “I really don’t believe Durham needs to be piled into something else that happened See Police on Page 3

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Duke kicks off John Hope Franklin centennial celebration status until he passed away in 2009 at the age of 94.

Vernon Jordan—a civil rights activist, lawyer and former adviser of Bill Clinton—was the main speaker at Wednesday evening’s event.

Grace Wang “[Franklin] was a giant in the study of American history and a giant in American Health & Science Editor history himself,” said Jordan, who is also a The centennial celebration commem- longtime family friend of Franklin.

Franklin served as a member of the orating the life of historian John Hope NAACP Legal Defense Fund team in the Franklin kicked off Wednesday night.

The event—titled John Hope Frank- 1950s and was appointed to several nalin@100: Scholar, Activist, Citizen—fea- tional commissions over the decades, tured an opening speech by President eventually being awarded the PresidenRichard Brodhead and tial Medal of Freedom served as the start of a in 1995. His 1947 book e can talk about yearlong celebration of “From Slavery to FreeJohn Hope Frankthe 100th birthday of dom” is credited with the prominent historian lin’s legacy, his scholarship... helping to create the and author, who taught field of African-Amerat Duke for nine years But John Hope Franklin... ican studies, and his and held emeritus sta- would not want us to treat lecture series “Racial tus for 17 more.

Equality in America” is his legacy solely in retro“John Hope Franklin used as a history textwas a scholar, an activ- spective. book in schools across ist and a citizen,” Brodnation.

— Vernon Jordan theWednesday head said during his evening, speech. “The principle of the work he did Jordan reflected on recent events stirring as an activist was done as a scholar, and national conversations on racial equalthe principle of what he did as a scholar ity—noting that Franklin’s legacy should was done as a citizen.” be a source of inspiration when it comes Franklin—who grew up in Oklaho- to addressing situations like the one in ma—received his doctorate degree in his- Ferguson, Mo. tory from Harvard University in 1941 and “We can talk about John Hope Franktaught at Howard University, Brooklyn lin’s legacy, his scholarship.... But John College and the University of Chicago be- Hope Franklin...would not want us to fore coming to Duke in 1983 and becom- treat his legacy solely in retrospective,” ing a James B. Duke professor of history. Jordan said. “He would want us to see it as From 1985 to 1992, Franklin also served a prospective one as well.” as a professor of legal history at Duke Jordan went on to discourage violence University Law School and held emeritus in social upheaval and emphasized the im-

“John Hope Franklin was a scholar, an activist and a citizen,” says President Brodhead

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Sophie Turner | The Chronicle Vernon Jordan, a prominent civil rights attorney and activist, spoke at the centennial celebration commemorating the life of John Hope Franklin, whom he deemed “a giant in American history.”

portance of “peaceful revolution.”

“Rioting is not the solution and assaulting and blaming the police is not the solution,” Jordan said. “I don’t believe it is, and John Hope Franklin wouldn’t either.”

The event was hosted by Black Student Alliance president Jamal Edwards, a junior, and ushered by volunteers from See Franklin on Page 4

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continued from page 1 in this country. The truth is, here in Durham, we’re extremely unique in that we do foster a very good relationship with the community.“ ‘Anti-police sentiment on some level in our culture’ Although Lopez acknowledged the possibility of anti-police sentiment as an influence on the suspect’s actions, he added that such sentiments are unlikely to be pervasive or common in the community.

“There are individuals out here who just aren’t stable, and they start to listen to a lot of the rhetoric that’s coming out and a lot of the hate messages that are coming out,” Lopez said.

Lopez added that the shootings will in no way change the way the police act toward the community.

“They have to continue to be professionals, regardless of whatever’s happening around the country,” Lopez said. “As long as they’re professionals, I don’t see any problem in terms of giving people respect.”

The first incident occurred on Christmas Day, when two men opened fire on an officer as he left his patrol car. The second occurred Dec. 29, when an officer’s apartment was shot at. Neither officer was struck or injured.

Deputy Police Chief Larry Smith noted in a press conference following the shootings, however, that the degree of alienation between the DPD and the community has become concerning.

“There is clearly an anti-police sentiment on some level in our culture right now,” Smith said. “It concerns us, and it’s happened here in Durham.”

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Community relations outpouring of support for DPD officers Although DPD maintains that it has from members of the community, Loa positive relationship with the commu- pez said. Earlier this month, a number nity, the Durham community’s percep- of Durham residents gathered to show support for the police. tions of the police are mixed.

Lopez added that he “firmly beQuanica Peterson, a Durham resident, said DPD hasn’t been as active in lieved” that the majority of Durham citizens support their police department— the community as she would like.

“They need to have a meeting, and even if they didn’t have time to actively they need to put more of these young express that support. kids together to stop violence in the “The majority of the people in the neighborhood,” Peterson said. “They city don’t have time to go downtown with a sign,” Lopez said. “They are livneed to be more interactive.”

Patsy Ziegler, another Durham resi- ing lives, and they are very much gratedent, noted, however, that DPD has ful that their lives can go uninterrupted been doing a good job serving every- because the police can protect them. one’s interests. Although the depart- You don’t hear these individuals.” ment has faced difficulties in the past Spenser Bradford, executive director working with black and minority con- of Durham Congregations in Action— stituents, it has done its best to work an organization involved in advocating with those groups, she said. for changes in policing policy—said that Lopez cited a long DPD has been responhere is clearly an sive to some of the history of collaboration between the DPD group’s concerns and anti-police sentirequests but that there and the community to ment on some level in our ensure that its needs is still some resistance to change from the deand concerns are ad- culture right now. It conequately addressed. cerns us, and it’s happened partment.

“We have individuals here in Durham.

“There have been in the city and groups statements made that in the city that some— Larry Smith continue to express a willingness to adapt times become very vocal about whatever it is and change,” Bradford they are concerned about—and we lis- said. “But there also continue to be chalten to their concerns,” he said. “Some- lenges raised to the validity of the comtimes it’s to their benefit, and some- plaints that have been raised for the last times it’s not to their benefit, but we do two years, and those types of challenges from police leadership continue to raise address them.”

Beverly Thompson, director of pub- concerns then about how seriously they lic affairs for Durham, added that the are taking the need for change.” police department is making every effort to do public outreach and educate Tensions past and present With an increased national spotlight on the community about police procedures. racial profiling by police, DPD has been After the shootings, there was an called into question at several points.

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A March 2014 report by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice found that black males account for 17.4 percent of Durham’s population but make up more than 65 percent of the population stopped and searched by police.

The City Council discussed the topic in August following months of hearings by the city’s Human Rights Commission, and City Manager Thomas Bonfield issued a series of recommendations to improve the situation.

Although Lopez agreed that black individuals and other minorities are disproportionately stopped by police, he cautioned against reading too much into the statistics.

“There is no doubt there is disparity, but the science really shows that disparity does not mean bias,” Lopez said. “We really have to look at individual actions, and we address anything having to do with bias definitively. We train our officers with regards to it.”

In response to the public’s concerns, however, the city is taking steps to combat racism within the police force. Last year, the Human Relations Commission released its final report, recommending a number of DPD policy changes.

Since the release of the report, the DPD has implemented some of these recommendations—including written consent forms for traffic stops and new training programs for officers.

Although progress has been made, there is still room for further collaboration between the DPD and the Durham community, Bradford said.

“As members of the Durham community, we have to be willing to have officers and systems of authority that have accountability—that are willing to be criticized [and] to change,” Bradford said.

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continued from page 1 human-induced climate change and the disruptions it poses to the human and natural worlds,” Brodhead wrote. “At the end, however, the ACIR does not recommend divestiture from fossil fuel companies at this time on the terms proposed.”

The committee cited lack of sufficient discourse on the issue and uncertainty about the impact of divestment as primary causes of concern. It also noted that companies had not been given the “reasonable opportunity to alter their activities” required by Trustee guidelines.

The committee recognized the symbolic value that divestment would have but highlighted the importance of action, focusing on the tangible ways Duke has acted to mitigate the effects of global warming—including investing millions to convert the University’s boilers to Chronicle File Photo natural gas, committing to be carbon neutral by 2024 Members of Divest Duke, here pictured at an October 2013 rally in front of the Allen Building, call on the University to divest from fossil fuels. and supporting natural gas and electric busses.

The committee also made a series of recommendations—suggesting that DUMAC make annual reports to the ACIR on its fossil fuel energy and clean energy holdings, make targeted investments to advance clean energy and implement policies to support the reduction of carbon emissions.

“Duke is a place of engagement and exploration, but also action,” said ACIR Chair James Cox, Brainerd Currie professor of law. “We believe our report, and especially the recommendations we made, reflect those values. At the end of the day, we all felt good about having our names associated with it.”

We Following Brodhead’s announcement, Divest Duke accept members described their disappointment in the University’s decision in a public statement.

The statement offered a number of counterarguments to reasons cited by the ACIR for its decision. It Free cinna-zos for the whole party with purchase over $100 noted that, although the ACIR listed lack of community engagement in the discussion as a concern, Divest Duke has held “well-attended panel discussions including Duke faculty and has collected over 3,500 petition signatures from students, gathered 100 faculty support signatures and, in a single day, garnered 250 alumni and student calls to the President’s office in support of divestment.”

“Show us a group on campus that has the same level of community dialogue,” the group’s statement reads.

Divest Duke also noted that the ACIR’s letter seemed to frame the University as having to choose between making a symbolic gesture by divesting or taking action by reducing its carbon footprint.

“This is not an either-or scenario—we welcome enzospizzaco.com changes that make our university more sustainable,” the statement says. “Divestment is a logical and simple next step which complements our current on-campus actions.”

Divest Duke’s statement also declared it impractical to wait for fossil fuel companies to change their policies—asserting that fossil fuel companies “simply cannot and will not adapt in the ways that are necessary to fight climate change.”

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continued from page 2 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, of which Franklin was a member. The Von der Heyden Pavilion was full, with approximately 60 attendees. “[My mother] followed John Hope Franklin as a student, so I grew up hearing about him,” said Lucy Reuben, an adjunct professor at the Fuqua School of Business who attended the event. “He was a kind and gentle soul, in addition to [being] a great light of hope, a person of great insight and certainly a great role model in academics.”

The celebration of Franklin’s life will continue throughout the year and feature events such as faculty symposiums, lecture series and documentary screenings.

“Doing this for a whole year is extraordinary,” said Durham resident Virginia White, who attended Wednesday’s event. “Everybody should know John Hope Franklin and what he has done for the community and what he has done for African-Americans. I think Duke is doing an excellent job.”

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On Tuesday, it was reported that director Paul Feig, known for his popular female-driven comedies like Bridesmaids and The Heat, had finally cast his upcoming 2016 reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise. According to reports, frequent Feig collaborators Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig will join current Saturday Night Live cast members Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones in the roles made popular in the 1980s by Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson. In many ways, this is welcome news. The new cast members are some of the funniest comedians currently working today, and the energy they will bring to the film should be a treat to watch. At the same time, I question the necessity of the project as a whole.

While I am optimistic that the new Ghostbusters movie will be at least solid, the rise of reboots and unnecessary sequels have shunted originality to the background as more and more people await cultural properties that they have already seen.

2015 is a banner year for reboots, remakes and sequels. In the past month alone, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death and Tak3n have opened to moderate box office success despite damning critical reviews. The coming months bring films such as the live-action SpongeBob: Sponge Out of Water, Disney’s reimagining of Cinderella, the long-gestating Mad Max: Fury Road and Jason Statham-less The Transporter Legacy. These properties carry various levels of hype around them: this year alone brings both a new James Bond and Avengers movie, two durable franchises on account of consistent quality and immersion in the popular conversation. I have high hopes that these movies will continue in the tradition of excellence set before them. That being said, most of these films seem rather dire.

Did anyone want a third Taken—in which no one actually gets taken? Who is actually excited about Hotel Transylvania 2? And who, for the love of all that is good and pure, is clamoring for a sequel to Paul Blart: Mall Cop? Someone must have. It comes out on Apr. 17.

Pop culture evolves slowly, but surely so,

centering itself in a common mainstream. This is not a radical thought. If we take a look at Top 40 music over the past 15 years, things have largely hewed to the same basic artistic templates of sensitive singer-songwriters, bubblegum pop, R&B club-bangers and EDM-influenced dance-pop. That is not to say that Top 40 music is unoriginal or boring—there are many innovators who are storming the charts with fresh and skewed takes on common tropes—but the roots remain. Even someone as lauded and talented as Charli XCX is merely a few steps away from a Hilary Duff song.

Another common trend that has become most prevalent in recent years is a sort of pop “revivalism,” by which the sounds of decades past are exhumed to give these pop templates a blast of retro nostalgia. For example, Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” would not seem out of place on a ‘60s jukebox, and the current number one single in the country, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk,” is practically a facsimile of ‘70s funk songs. These songs are catchy, but they suggest that pop is content to recycle sounds ad infinitum in order to make money, leaving little room for the true originals.

It is telling that “indie-pop” has become its own separate genre in the past few years, a space for the non-commercial and original to make their own music.

Film has it even worse, privy more to a stagnation than a slow evolution. According to Grantland’s Mark Harris, there will be 25 sequels released in 2015 alone, with 21 the year after. DC and Marvel currently have 32 films on the docket until 2020. That does not even take into account the ensuing multitudes remakes and reboots of preexisting properties. The rise of the franchise leaves original movies in the dust, not just financially, but conceptually. Generally, sequels, reboots and remakes do good business—only natural, given that the reason such movies exist in the first place was because people ostensibly liked the first version. This scares off directors with original ideas because going head-to-head

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with movies of this ilk often leads to a bomb at box office and a stunted career. Pitching an original idea in today’s market is a crapshoot, as major studios are only willing to produce pitches that appeal to cinemagoer’s hearts and wallets.

Directors and screenwriters are often forced to prolong their careers by joining the franchise mill rather than honing their own personal artistry. It’s hard to find one’s voice in the limited studio system.

If we look at the top twenty movies at the box office for 2014, only five movies aren’t sequels, reboots, or remakes: The LEGO Movie, American Sniper, Interstellar, Gone Girl and Neighbors.

The LEGO Movie, though utterly delightful, originated as a crass cash-in on the beloved children’s toy and has a sequel forthcoming.

Gone Girl and American Sniper were based on wildly popular books, and Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn has already expressed interest in filming another chapter of the Dunne family saga. Of these five movies, only Interstellar and Neighbors are truly original properties based off of original scripts. This sends a telling message to Hollywood—base your movie off of a preexisting cultural entity, or else.

Films originating from fresh ideas aren’t entirely uncommon. We just don’t hear about them through the clamor of the staler films fighting for their place in the common mainstream. With a new or old franchise hitting theaters literally every other week in 2015, it may be tough to see through into the wild, uncharted territory of original film. To be fair, I’m very excited about some of these movies. As a longtime devotee of James Bond, SPECTRE’s November arrival cannot come soon enough, and Jem and the Holograms looks like a future cult classic. But I wish the system were a little different, that there were original properties being promoted by the studios in a continuous loop much like how franchises are. Originality exists, but Hollywood is doing its best to hide it.

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Nestled in the Louise Jones Brown Gallery on the first floor, North Carolina-native Danielle Burch’s omnibus of vivid artistry is on display. The collection as a whole is laden with fusions of deft brushwork and 3-dimensionsal projections. But it is much more than just uniquely aesthetic beauty: Burch’s Synthesis: The Audio-Visual Connection relates raw ardor, insecurity and hope, all through the lens of one who has grown up with a hearing disability.

After stepping into the gallery, my eye was instantly pulled to a painting on my right. On one half, an old-school wired phone with its cord cut and frayed is latched onto a canvas; on the other half, a painted, towering cochlea is surrounded by a violent sea of clouds.

The piece, entitled Why?, juxtaposes the idea of natural hearing in the cochlea––still defunct but continuing to cause trials––and the synthetic reception of sound mirrored in both the hearing aids and telephone.

However, more so, the piece and its namesake comment on the fact that the doctors at Johns Hopkins do not know why Burch is deaf other than the fact that her cochlea do not function properly.

At age five, Burch suddenly lost her hearing, and her life was forever changed. She recalls, “I was too young to fully understand the magnitude of what happened, so it was a little easier for me to accept that I was deaf.”

Since she lost her hearing a year before cochlear implant surgery was prevalent, Burch and her family learned sign language. To express their solidarity with Burch and their faith in God during this unfortunate turn of events, the first phrase they learned was “I love

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you”––the namesake and inspiration of one of the pieces in Synthesis. With such love and support, Burch and her family “never even saw a language barrier as a problem.”

Nevertheless, some found Burch’s disability to be debilitating.

As a child, Burch was very involved with theater and couldn’t fathom a life “beyond the curtain.” However, in 10th grade, her theater teacher told her that an actress could not be hindered by having to read lips and would begin to cover her mouth when she spoke to Burch. Frustrated by her teacher’s treatment, Burch slowly lost the passion she had for theater. While upset at the time, retrospectively, Burch is grateful for her departure from theater because it allowed her to find her true love: art.

Burch heavily juxtaposes three-dimensional objects with paintings on her bilaterally organized canvases. While her imagery at times may seem to mesh together two dissimilar images, the power of the piece is found in what it represents––images and memories that forge a tale about moments of various sentiments in Burch’s life.

Commenting on her artistic style, Burch noted, “There are abstract painting, nonobjective geometric painting, realistic

painting and assemblage techniques in each.

I really like the idea of trompe l’oeil, which is French for ‘fool the eye,’ and try to make viewers look for the difference between a three-dimensional object and its painted version. This is especially evident in Tragedy to Comedy and Light (in the Darkness), with the paintbrushes and the candles, respectively.”

At the end of touring the gallery, I noticed a painting with the imagery of a remarkably defined rose. The rest of canvas was just as thoughtful, but the vibrancy and definition of the flower was compelling. It also happens to be Burch’s favorite piece because it is a testament to her faith in God that she believes carried her through the difficulties associated with being deaf.

The motif of faith is consistent in most of Burch’s works. While the references to faith may be subtle to the average art-goer, Burch ensures that every piece “blatantly” presents her faith in some form. In fact, as part of her creative process, Burch often prays before attempting to begin her masterpieces.

Implantation, the piece including the vivid rose, is one the pieces that was divinely inspired and naturally came into fruition.

“I feel like I hardly did any work on it because it just unfolded itself... It’s a depiction

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of my audiogram after hearing loss, compared to ‘standard hearing,’” Burch explained. “The rose on the right-hand side represents my faith in Christ. Like a rose, trampled on the ground, He suffered more than I’ll ever have to bear, so being deaf is nothing, really.”

The DUU Visual Arts Committee, who brought Burch’s work to Brown Gallery, selected her work because they were enamored by how she embraced her disability to create work that resonated with creativity and perseverance.

Committee co-chair Yuyi Li, online photo editor at The Chronicle, elaborated, “Through her paintings, the audience is able to see her struggles and hope in various circumstances. We hope that Duke students will be able to appreciate the art and gain a new perspective on how our senses affect our emotions and passions in life.”

Burch continues to persevere even after creating Synthesis. She is currently attending graduate school at the Rochester Institute of Technology in pursuit of an MFA. “The way I see it, my deafness is not a PROBLEM; it’s just part of who I am,” said Burch.

Burch hopes that her work will also inspire others to follow their dreams. Despite all of the issues and shortcomings one might feel he or she has, Burch believes that if we persevere beyond all our doubts and insecurities––with a little support from the people we love––we can find great success in pursuing what we love As Burch said, “I’ve never let being deaf stop me from doing anything, even when others thought deafness would be a hindrance.”

Danielle Burch’s “Synthesis,” will be displayed in the Louise Jones Brown Gallery in the Bryan Center from Jan. 21st to Feb. 13.

Free documentary film screening “Tutu & Franklin: A Journey Towards Peace” Thursday, Feb. 5, 5-9 p.m.

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A retrospective on Durham’s Food Truck Rodeo Tim Campbell The Chronicle When I first heard about the concept of a Food Truck Rodeo, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. Really? I thought, How much hipper could people possibly try to be? I’ve never thought of myself as being anti-hipster, but the idea of a dozen mobile kitchens ringed up like 19th-century gourmands on the Oregon Trail instantly brought to mind the idea of faded Phoenix tee-shirts and sardonic conversations about how much better Burning Man used to be before it got all “mainstream.”

To me, food trucks were a utilitarian concept; they brought food to you, so that you didn’t have to drag yourself out of your beanbag chair and put on your Sunday best just to drive downtown and find yourself a kebab and some potato chips. The idea of turning such a practical innovation into a cultural event was puzzling. However, as a person who loves food, I couldn’t stop myself from being curious when I heard about Durham’s very own Food Truck Rodeo. So, when it came about last Sunday, I battened down my prejudices against the concept and decided to go, mentally fortifying myself to be underwhelmed.

I was absolutely wrong.

The first impression that I got of the Rodeo as I stepped out of the car was the scale of the event. I had expected something like 10 to 15 trucks to be there, and maybe a local artist or two; instead, as I looked down at Durham Central Park I saw what looked like 25 or 30 trucks, and hundreds of people milling around, eating the widest variety of foods that I’ve ever seen in one place at the same time.

I walked downhill, entering into the fray, and was engulfed in scents and sounds. From my left, I heard a local band playing Latin music, overlaid with intervening shouts from a few workers from local breweries having an amiable and heated discussion with a ruddyfaced man who was insisting that Californian beer stood head and shoulders above North Carolina’s, a statement which apparently incensed Durham’s local brewmasters. To the right, the line of trucks blended in to stalls from local artisanal shops and artists, selling everything from handmade bags and jewelry to outdoor art and soap in the shape of cookies and cupcakes that could have passed for the real deal if not for their piercing odors and bright colors. Between it all roamed a variety of people even more eclectic than the foods and crafts being offered; the largest group represented seemed to be young families, with

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middle aged and older folks making up a large part of the retinue as well. Students and other young people were there in small groups, many of them bearing expressions that I’m sure mirrored my own surprise and curiosity.

Despite the allure of the beer and soap, I decided to keep myself on track and stick to thing that had initially piqued my curiosity (and wouldn’t get me in trouble with my editor if I wrote about it): the food.

The number and quality of different things available was astounding; my cynical side that initially was dismissive of the concept of the food truck was already slipping away before I even tried anything. Alongside the ones familiar to Duke students (Gussy’s, Humble Pig, and the regretfully departed Baguettaboutit) were trucks offering Italian, Brazilian and Asian food, as well as such esoteric offerings as Belgian waffles. Overwhelmed by choice, I decided to go with something somewhat familiar to me.

I like to think of myself as somewhat of an expert regarding tacos, given their prevalence in my hometown of Oakland, so I started with a Thai taco from the Asian-Mexican fusion truck Amigosan. The taco was delicious, with toasted coconut and spicy slaw beautifully accenting and moderating the spiciness of the chicken. Granted, it was not at all what I had expected––but, in that regard, I think the chefs at Amigosan were successful; they had taken two completely different concepts, and turned them into their own, new thing, completely unique from anything I had ever

seen before.

More curious than ever, I went on to try food from many of the other trucks. At each one, I noticed that the chefs at each truck were clearly working to achieve a very clear goal just like the chefs at Amigosan.

Quite a few of the other trucks seemed to be following a similar inspiration, fusing two or more influences to put their own stamp on cuisines that traditionally would never have incorporated elements from each other. For example, at Porchetta, I ate a sandwich that incorporated elements of traditional Italian cuisine with southern barbeque influences to create a unique pulled pork sandwich. Fusion and creative synergy seemed to be the name of the game at the Rodeo; for each chef’s novel creation, another chef had concocted something even more esoteric from seemingly disparate regions and cuisines. However, against this backdrop of hybrids and blends, a few of the trucks were preparing foods that were more familiar. To me, their decision to forego fusion for well-made classics was an even stronger statement than the novelties at the other trucks. The meatball hero I had from Valentino’s, a New York style Italian truck, was better than any I had ever had before, with subtle hints of fennel and parsley in the meat and tangy, delicious parmesan.

In observing the variety of different approaches to cuisine that each chef took, I also noticed a shared energy and enthusiasm between each truck that I visited. My earlier assumption that food trucks were purely

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practical, and nothing else, was definitely not the case here in Durham. While still serving a very distinct purpose, Durham’s food trucks have taken on a life of their own, both as a distinct entity and as a part of the broader culture of Durham. With so many others to be compared to, each truck has to do something special to stand out against the backdrop of excellence that is so readily available. The community provides the competitive fire for each vendor to create a better product, but in doing so also provides a receptive and encouraging outlet for chefs who want to try something new or untraditional and add a new dimension to the expanding and evolving food culture in Durham.

On a similar note, the Rodeo also led me to notice the interplay between Durham’s food trucks and Durham’s overall standard of culinary excellence. Given that Durham has been recognized over the past few years as being one of the foodiest places in the South, one might expect that restaurants would become more pretentious. However, the food trucks and Food Truck Rodeo show an active resistance against this trend, breaking down the barrier between diners and chefs rather than distancing the customers from the creators. Instead of making food into an obscure, mythical creation that appears flawlessly from an unseen kitchen, food trucks create an environment where the role of chef, waiter and hostess is all wrapped up together.

At a food truck, there is no “front of the house” or “back of the house,” and having a conversation with the owner of the truck is the norm.

This realization surprised me even more than any of the foods that were at the Rodeo.

I had anticipated pretension and hipsters to be the norm at the Food Truck Rodeo, and although I wasn’t wrong about the fact that the Rodeo was consciously different, I had completely misjudged the causes of these differences and the implications that they would have. The creative energy that leads to the quirky food truck culture of Durham is both a product of Durham’s commitment to being unique and a reaction against the arrogance that may come as a result of the city being so highly praised for its food. The Food Truck Rodeo is something completely different from what my experiences with taco trucks and snooty restaurants back home in California had conditioned me to expect, and Durham is the perfect city to foster it. So, the next time the Durham Food Truck Rodeo comes around, I’ll be there again, and I’ll make sure to bring as many people with me as I can.

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Recess staff predicts arts and entertainment 2015 Sid Gopinath Playground Editor

Here we are – 2015! We made it! As we move forward into the unknown of this new, exciting year, Recess sat around our crystal ball and summoned forth some predictions for what to expect in 2015.

Whether the predictions have to do with the rise of television, the wealth of new movies being released, or seemingly random artist collaborations, Recess has you covered. Read on to see what our staff members think.

Contributing Staff Members: Adam Schutzman, Drew Haskins, Gary Hoffman, Josh Polikov, Katie Fernelius, Sid Gopinath Music Surprise Albums: Beyonce did it! Bjork did it! Kanye is kind of doing it! This is the year that artists flock to the idea of dropping albums without any warning. Why? Just because they can! (Sid) Rihanna will surprise-drop a new album: It will be a solid B+. (Drew) Kanye West and Paul McCartney will surprise-drop a new collaborative album: It will be a solid B-, leading many to question why Yeezus wanted to work with such an untalented young upstart. (Drew) Return of Simple Plan: You just wait.

They’ll be back with that angsty teen sh*t.

(Adam) Holographic Headliners: Run the Jewels rock Lollapalooza, appearing on stage alongside a holographic Biggie Smalls. Sun Kil Moon’s Mark Kozelek, performing at the same time with holographic Jerry Garcia, storms off stage and weeks later releases a double-album titled Run the Jewels: You Hurt My Feelings. (Josh) Frank Ocean FINALLY releases his new album: After three long years of waiting, Frank Ocean finally seems like he might be on the brink of releasing a new album.

He has posted teaser songs, like the snippet of a song titled “memrise” and his tribute to Aaliyah, on Tumblr, as well as given an interview to Pitchfork, but beyond these brief glimpses, his sophomore album remains mostly shrouded in secrecy. My guess is that it will not only live up to the hype, but solidify Frank Ocean’s place as one of the best working musical artists today. (Katie)

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House of Cards premieres its third season: Kevin Spacey will continue his nefarious monologues and political climbing in the third season of Netflix’s critically acclaimed series. Now that he has become the leader of the free world, what’s left of the political ladder to climb? In true Greek tragedy form, I anticipate his fall from grace will be the next big plot movement, but who or what will be responsible for his downfall remains a mystery.

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Aziz Ansari stars in Rent-a-Show: With the hugely popular Parks and Recreation coming to a close, its only natural that they announce a spin off in the near future. I think the best characters to focus on would be Tom Haverford or Ron Swanson. Seeing as Swanson’s gruff, dry delivery just wouldn’t be the same without being contrasted to Leslie’s chipper attitude, I would much rather see Tom Haverford and Jean-Ralphio struggle as entrepreneurs for a season or two. (Gary) Better Call Saul is a major hit: Breaking Bad fans will absolutely love the take on crooked attorney Jimmy McGill’s transition into the infamous Saul Goodman. They’ll even be willing to leave their chemistry sets behind for this one. (Adam)

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An up and down year for Marvel: The Avengers: Age of Ultron will be beloved by fanboys worldwide, but Ant Man will mark Marvel’s first descent into darkness. Though Guardians of the Galaxy was Marvel’s surprise hit of the summer, Ant Man will fail to reach the heart and soul of the people. (Adam) Spiderman will officially make its way to Marvel Studios. (Adam)

The New Star Wars Movie will underwhelm: But no one will care because it isn’t The Phantom Menace. (Drew) Star Wars Stops Being Geeky: We all love Star Wars. But this is the year, with JJ Abrams’ reboot, that it re-enters the public’s mind as a totally valid, non-geeky film series. It totally worked for Star Trek! Right…? (Sid) Chappie will put Neil Blomkamp back on the map: His directional debut for District 9 was met with near universal acclaim for its science fiction plot meeting relevant political topics like South African segregation. Unfortunately his follow-up Elysium failed to deliver even with similar hype surrounding its release.

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intelligence robot finding his place in human society is sure to strike a cord in viewers minds.

(Adam) Alicia Vikander: With five high profiles movies coming out in 2015 alone, she will be the “It Girl” of 2015. (Drew) Leonardo DiCaprio will remain Oscar free: And Meryl Streep will get nominated for something AGAIN. Poor Leo. (Adam) Other Race will be at the forefront of discussion: 2014 was feminism’s year: between #YesAllWomen, #HeForShe and #BringBackOurGirls, it seemed that every few weeks, a new conversation on gender emerged, whether in regards to the Gamergate controversy, Rolling Stone’s article, or even Duke’s own Belle Knox. I predict that 2015 will be the year for activists who fight racism.

Selma’s Oscar snub already drew ire from hordes of movie fans, but networks like ABC are investing in programming featuring people of color, like Scandal, Black*ish and Fresh Off the Boat. My guess is that the momentum behind political movements like #BlackLivesMatter will translate into more diverse mainstream art. (Katie)

Blink-182 and The Civil Wars announce reunion tours: One of the groups does it for the money. The other group does it because people actually want them to get back together. (Sid) Television Amazon and Netflix will dominate the TV realm: Amazon Prime’s success with Transparent and Netflix’s success with House of Cards and Orange is the New Black have already given the two companies credibility but with a whole new slue of shows they are bound to enter serious awards contention and become a legitimate television industry.

(Adam) The new Netflix Marvel series (Daredevil, A.K.A. Jessica Jones) will exceed expectations: Krysten Ritter will finally outrun the memory of Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23. (Drew) Arrow will get another spin-off: The Atom.

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American Sniper offers intense, shallow war thriller Adam Schutzman The Chronicle Chris Kyle’s finger holds steady above the trigger as he zones in on a young boy who appears to be approaching a tank with a grenade. Though it’s possible that the child does not have any sort of lethal weapon, Kyle must make a decision in a matter of seconds. This is the tension that initially draws viewers into American Sniper.

As a war film, American Sniper succeeds in maintaining a taut atmosphere throughout Kyle’s multiple tours in Iraq.

Each mission is filled with an intensity and sense of urgency that is reminiscent of the bomb diffusing scenes in The Hurt Locker. We are given a new perspective; Kyle is not a man engaged in ground combat, but rather a U.S. Navy SEAL sniper whose job is to pick off enemy combatants and protect his fellow soldiers from a distance. Clint Eastwood, director of films such as Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, is not new to the war film genre, which explains why the military operations are the strongest aspect of the film.

Unfortunately, the film lacks a certain depth of character for the multifaceted Chris Kyle. Bradley Cooper performs an excellent, transformative take on the war hero, but his role lacks the subtlety and complexity one would expect for the conflicted man. However, this seems more of a screenplay miscalculation than Cooper’s fault. We receive limited information into the motives of Kyle.

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and emotional core that would connect us to his inability to mentally return home. Soon, the action set pieces cover such a majority of the second half of the film that we are unable to feel any interconnectedness of the plot at all. A rushed epilogue to close it all out doesn’t make matters any better.

Cinematically, American Sniper succeeds on multiple fronts. It sustains a rugged, gritty feel through the green-

tinted cinematography and western-like scenery. The crisp sounds interspersed with the fast-paced, yet minimal dialogue help create a realistic military setting that leaves viewers’ hearts pounding out of their chests. The film, in all honesty, is far stronger as a study of modern combat than it is as a biopic of Kyle. Though I won’t get into the debates over the true characteristic of “the legend,” I will say that the film lacks thorough insight into

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our protagonist’s inner workings and demons outside of his inevitable desire to keep going back to war.

Plain and simple: if you want a tense military thriller, then this is your film. If you want a more introspective, contemplative character study, I’m sure Selma is playing in the next theater over.

P.S. Anyone else weirded out by that fake baby they used? I mean it’s the 21st century. Come on.

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Led by Jerian Grant’s 23 points and 12 assists, Notre Dame upset Duke for the second straight year Daniel Carp Beat Writer SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Warming up to “The Final Bell” from the soundtrack of Rocky, Notre Dame must have envisioned itself as a contender in a heavyweight prizefight. In a game that lived up to its primetime billing, Duke landed a flurry of second-half punches DUKE 73 that would have left 77 almost any opponent ND on the ropes.

But when the Blue Devils thought they had the game won, Notre Dame responded with a knockout blow.

The No. 8 Fighting Irish came from 10 points down in the second half to stun the No. 4 Blue Devils 77-73 at Purcell Pavilion.

After erasing a double-digit deficit Sunday to earn head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s 1,000thcareer victory, this time it was Duke that fell victim to a late-game comeback.

“We didn’t make the tough plays at the right time,” senior guard Quinn Cook said.

“We had a chance to win. We were up. We just let up.”

A pair of baskets with the shot clock expiring ultimately sealed the Blue Devils’ fate. Senior guard Jerian Grant—who finished with a game-high 23 points—hit a circus shot in the lane to give the Fighting

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Irish (20-2, 8-1 in the ACC) a 73-70 lead with 1:07 to play.

Following two Cook free throws, Duke sent a late double-team at Grant in the shot clock’s closing seconds, leaving sophomore guard Steve Vasturia open for a 3-pointer from the right corner with 22.9 seconds remaining.

“Grant made a heck of a bucket—a fortunate bucket, but a heck of a bucket,” Krzyzewski said. “Then the next

play, we should not have left Vasturia.

You have to make Grant take a two-point shot, which we were, and we left him, and [Vasturia] hit a huge shot.”

Freshman center Jahlil Okafor led the way for Duke (17-3, 4-3) with 22 points and 17 rebounds, shooting 10-of18 from the floor but just 2-for-7 from the foul line.

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Cameron Indoor Stadium Indoor Stadium after its dramatic 74-67 overtime win at then-No. 12 North Carolina Sunday led by senior Elizabeth Williams’ heroic 33-point effort. The Blue Devils enjoyed the crucial ACC victory Sunday night, but realizing they still have more work to do to reach their goals later this season, got right back to work preparing for the Panthers.

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Joanne P. McCallie said. “Monday we were right back in the film room, right back in the weight room and correcting the things we needed to correct.”

Williams and freshman forward Azura Stevens have set the tone lately for Duke (14-6, 5-2 in the ACC) on both ends of the court, combining for more than 40 points in their last three contests. The duo is capable of dominating almost any opponent on the interior, but will face two obstacles Thursday night—one familiar and the other much more unique.

The familiar foe is one that has defined the Blue Devils’ season to this point— turnovers. Duke gives the ball away 18.4 times per game, the 267th-ranked clip in the nation, and often is unable to get the ball to Stevens, Williams, or the team’s third double-digit scorer, Rebecca Greenwell due to its trouble handling the ball.

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Emma Loewe | The Chronicle Senior center Elizabeth Williams is coming off a career-high 33 point performance against North Carolina.

SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Tyus Jones had it played perfectly.

Jerian Grant hit the shot anyway.

Giving up four inches to the Fighting Irish guard, Jones held his ground as Grant backed him down at the top of the key, seconds running off the shot clock late in a 71-70 ball game. With three ticks left, Jones stripped the ball free, but Grant was the first to pounce on it, rising up to hit an off-balance mid-range jumper as the shot clock buzzer blared, then was drowned out by the roaring crowd at Purcell Pavilion.

“I was just trying to make it tough on him, he just made an unbelievable play. We got a deflection and we weren’t able to come up with the loose ball. And he just hits an incredible shot,” Jones said. “If we were able to come up with that loose ball, I think that would’ve turned some things around.”

It was that kind of night for Grant, who finished with a game-high 23 points and dished out 12 assists—as many as the entire Blue Devil roster. For good measure, the senior pulled down six rebounds and swatted away a driving lay-up by Quinn Cook with 17 seconds left to start a Fighting Irish fast break that earned a trip to the foul line.

On the next Notre Dame possession after his circus shot, Grant again found himself with a size mismatch at the top of the key late in the shot clock, this time against Cook—an old high-school friend—and with less than 30 seconds to play in regulation. Duke’s captain forced Grant to spin over his left shoulder, looking for all the world like he would attempt a fadeaway jumper to salt the game away.

As sophomore Matt Jones collapsed from the corner to help on the hot-handed Grant, the senior made the unselfish play, hitting the now-unguarded Steve Vasturia in the corner in front of the Fighting Irish bench. The sophomore drilled the triple—his only field goal of the night—to beat the shot clock again and send the Blue Devils home empty-handed from South Bend for the second year in a row, each time having led by at least nine in the second half.

“He loves the moment,” Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey said postgame. “He is such a bright-lights, big-stage guy. He’s really clutch.”

Grant wasn’t around for Notre Dame’s 79-77 upset of Duke last January in the ACC opener, serving a semester-long academic suspension.

He made sure his presence was felt early and often Wednesday.

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floor in the first half, freshman point guard Tyus Jones took over early in the second half en route to 14 points. The Apple Valley, Minn., native made several key plays in a 9-0 run that opened up a 60-51 lead for the Blue Devils with 13:50 to play.

Jones pushed the lead to double-digits when he received a feed off a missed free throw from sophomore guard Matt Jones and knocked down a 3-pointer from the left corner to extend Duke’s lead to 63-53 with 12:45 left.

Refusing to go down for the count, the Fighting Irish responded with a 14-2 run of their own, holding the Blue Devils to just one field goal in 7:17 and storming back to take the lead.

“You’re going to get a run from them,” Krzyzewski said. “We had a run—that’s why we had a 10-point lead. Two teams are playing, that’s just the way it goes.”

Ultimately, it was missed opportunities that cost the Blue Devils the game. Duke converted just 10-of-20 attempts from the free-throw line, including back-to-back misses by Okafor from the charity stripe with 2:42 remaining and the Blue Devils trailing 70-69.

Krzyzewski chalked up Duke’s woes from the line to his team’s youth and a disproportionate amount of attempts taken by Okafor and Amile Jefferson— who combined for 10 of their teams trips to the line and converted just twice.

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Kevin Shamieh | The Chronicle Duke center Jahlil Okafor led the Blue Devils with 22 points and 17 rebounds in Wednesday’s loss to Notre Dame.

Dame, the Blue Devils as a team dipped below 70 percent from the charity stripe on the season.

The Blue Devils were not without opportunities—they simply failed to cash in. Despite pulling in 13 offensive rebounds on the evening, Duke turned them into just nine second-chance points. Missing easy chances at the rim was a major reason the Fighting Irish only trailed 39-36 heading into halftime.

Duke’s toughest road trip of the year will only get tougher when the Blue Devils travel to face No. 2 Virginia Saturday. If there’s any way the Blue Devils would like to bounce back, it is by handing the Cavaliers their first loss of the season.

“We can’t feel sorry for ourselves, we have a big-time game on Saturday,” Cook said.

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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski was forced to go small in response, playing Jones and freshman Justise Winslow at the four position. Jefferson scored the first four points for the Blue Devils, but didn’t score again and only played 17 minutes.

Regardless of the lineup, there was no stopping Grant. He attacked the basket hard,

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navigating through traffic and around the length of 6-foot-11 Jahlil Okafor to finish multiple times at the rim, keeping the ball away from the shot-blocker until the last instant.

“He protects the ball. I don’t know what else to say about that,” Okafor said. “He’s a great player.”

Grant’s game-clinching effort stole the show and will bolster his case for ACC Player of the Year honors, but Okafor—the AP Preseason Player of the Year—put together a monster stat line as well. The Chicago native finished with 22 points and 17 rebounds, but wasn’t happy with his performance.

The charity stripe proved especially cruel for the freshman, posting just a 2-of-7 ledger at the line. Three of those misses came inside the final four minutes as the Fighting Irish made their run to steal the game away from the Blue Devils.

“I’m not sure what it is, that’s how the game went,” Okafor said of his struggles at the line.

“Free-throws definitely killed us, and that’s all on me too.”

As a team, the Blue Devils shot just 10of-20 from the line, leaving points at the charity stripe that could have staved off the Notre Dame comeback. Krzyzewski chalked up the loss to missed chances, particularly “the opportunities that are free and the opportunities that are close.”

There will be very few of those opportunities come Saturday night in Charlottesville, Va., against the No. 2 Cavaliers, one of the stingiest defensive teams in college basketball.

Given a second chance to play against Duke, Grant made the most of his opportunity Wednesday. Given a second chance to topple a top-10 team on the road, the Blue Devils must look to do the same Saturday.

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negative impacts of costly giveaways.

“The reality is we have more post players than guards,” McCallie said. “We’re going to have turnovers because there are great teams that we play. What we need to do is reduce them by growing our IQ, making better decisions and maybe making up for them by doing other things on the floor.

We’ve got to work within that structure.”

What has a chance to make Thursday’s game unique is the matchup between Duke’s frontcourt and Panther 6-foot-3 forward Monica Wignot. A graduate student and four-year standout as a volleyball player, Wignot can give opponents headaches with her versatility on the hardwood and gives Pittsburgh (13-6, 3-3) a dimension most teams don’t have when she gets it going.

Wignot has been in a groove in league play, averaging 15.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.2 blocks—though nine came in one game—per contest while shooting 46.3 percent from distance.

After 10 days off, the ability of Wignot and freshman forward Stasha Carey to hold their own against the No. 2 team in the nation in rebounding margin could determine whether or not Pittsburgh gets in position to pull off the upset. “[Wignot is] absolutely outstanding and the X-factor to their entire team,” McCallie said. “She can hit the high post j, the short corner J, she steps out and hits the three—she’s very aggressive.

She’s incredible. [She’s] changed their whole team dynamic completely.”

Wignot might be the spark-plug, but guard Briannasudoku_460A Kiesel is the steady

engine that makes the Panthers go. The senior guard averages 18.1 points, 5.0 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game and joins Carey and Wignot as the team’s primary long-range shooters. All three shoot better than 39 percent from beyond the arc and will look to be in attack mode against Duke’s long zone defense.

The Blue Devils will try to use their length to shut down a streaky team that routed the Tar Heels by 25 Jan. 8 before scoring just 43 points in a loss at Florida State but might have to do so without much help from their bench. Senior Amber Henson—who has had much of her career derailed by injuries— averages 18.4 minutes per game, but left Sunday’s contest with a knee injury and did not return.

The versatile 6-foot-4 forward’s potential absence means that Duke might not be able to afford any more injuries or heavy foul trouble against a team that rotates nine players who average 14.5 or more minutes per game.

“She’s doing well, but we can’t tell you yet whether she would play tomorrow,” McCallie said. “She’s not in practice today, so there’s a probability she won’t play tomorrow. It’s nothing long term, but it’s banged up enough and swollen enough that it could prevent her from playing.”

But looking to keep climbing in the ACC standings ahead of a home date with No. 8 Louisville—one of three teams atop the conference at 6-1—Monday, the Blue Devils aren’t looking for another excuse.

They are looking for consistent results.

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usiness suits and interview folios descend upon campus as the most recent interview season begins—this one largely for summer consulting and finance positions. A glimpse into last week’s Career Fair yields a room crowded with well-dressed students eagerly networking with resumes in hand. To obtain a prestigious summer internship is the first step on the path toward postgraduation success. The scene is not an unfamiliar one, but it raises questions about prevailing notions of “success” and its converse: failure.

To be successful, as unofficially defined in the campus and broader social lexicon, is to find oneself on a well-worn track. We have written before about the gravitation toward pre-professional paths and the “Big Four” careers—law, medicine, consulting and banking—for their designated prestige and financial reward. As a student, the metric for success lies in the number of accomplishments, titles and accolades brimming from the resume page that guides one toward not just a job upon graduation but a three-digit paycheck.

Yet, if success is working toward prestige, failure is straying from these well-beaten paths. In this model, choosing to take a summer to work to pay tuition or to replenish by pleasure reading,

rather than landing the right internship, can be seen as failure.

Yet, such a dichotomous understanding of success and failure is narrow and limited. In her talk to students earlier this month, Sarah Lewis challenged the misconceptions surrounding failure. On one hand, our society is rarely exposed to the failure of its most iconic and celebrated—indeed “successful”—figures. Martin Luther King Jr.—renowned civil rights advocate who changed history through the power of his voice—according to Lewis, in fact received a C in his college oratory class. It is a fact that most history books omit. Yet, hiding such setbacks creates an aura of effortless perfection that petrifies those locked within its veneer. Fear of personal failure where others sail effortlessly to success paralyzes us against taking risks and exploring unconventional passions.

To re-conceptualize failure, then, is to embrace it as fuel and inspiration. It is a paradigm shift away from “minimizing the bad and upping the good” to understanding that, oftentimes, failure is necessary for success.

Yet still, embedded within this duality is an implicit complacency in avoiding failure and settling

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Who am I writing these for? Why even bother? As an editor, I get frustrated with how other columnists put opinions on pedestals as if to enlighten the hoards of impressionable readers.

The truth is I don’t care how going home for winter break forever changed how you appreciate your friendships. But then, every two weeks, I preach how going home for winter break forever changed how I appreciate my friendships.

The only difference between me and other columnists is sometimes they’ll use actual facts to support their claims.

I have a newfound admiration for the sports and news writers down the hall. Their sole purpose is to pay homage to important events or people deserving of recognition. I feel like my

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for success. In Lewis’ terms, we should strive not simply for “success” but, rather, “mastery.” Her message, transposed to the college landscape, might look like this: not just memorizing equations for an exam to be forgotten the next day but, rather, genuinely learning and understanding how they function. Delving deeply into a major rather than spreading thin attempting to force together multiple majors and certificates and minors. Immersing oneself genuinely in four courses and selected co-curricular activities rather than overloading in and outside the classroom.

In the words of Robert Frost, we should consider taking “the road less traveled.” After all, failure, in many ways, is intrinsic to who we are.

Brene Brown discusses the difference between guilt and shame: Guilt is thinking, “I have failed,” whereas shame is thinking, “I am a failure.” One is a single event—a learning moment that can galvanize rather than render helpless; one that teaches us how to yield a better outcome next time and reminds us of our fundamental humanness. The other, a problematic tendency to allow failure to define us. As students, we must reclaim failure and change the way we speak about and understand it.

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I’m doing it.

None of this explains why anyone would want to read a column. I could achieve the same effect by keeping a diary that I occasionally share with my mom. So a better question is what’s the point of reading columns, or from my perspective, what do I want the reader to get out of it?

To say that column writing is a venue for educating would assume I integrate factual content and consider relevant current events— really a job for the more ambitious columnists.

Even taking responsibility for developing new perspective assumes the novelty of my opinions.

Whatever limited entertainment a column provides, I would hope its value would reach deeper than that.

Personally, I found that deeper value when reading the column, “Pipe dreams.” The author

Kyle Harvey GOLDEN BOY gang of columnists and I keep paying homage to ourselves. Check out this cool, nuanced idea I just thought of. My opinion on this controversial issue is pretty convincing, huh? I’m going to write a meta article on being a columnist. Bet you never would have thought of that? There’s something to be said for the art of writing to make the author invisible—the priority of news reporting and the antithesis of opinion writing.

Then again, I wouldn’t touch news with a tenfoot pole. I don’t like being invisible.

So what’s the point of writing columns?

There are the obvious, selfish reasons and then there are the unobvious, selfish reasons.

The obvious reason being that I bask in a consistent stream of validation from a tight knit fan base of which my mom may or may not be a significant member. It’s nice to get feedback on work outside of an academic context, and there’s a heightened pressure in writing for your peers compared to writing for a grade. A less intuitive self-serving benefit is that column writing forces me to think about what my opinions actually are. It provides a diary of sorts—allowing me to deconstruct my experiences—and I don’t have to call it a diary. When I finish a column, I feel like I taught myself more in the process of writing it than I could ever expect anyone else to learn in reading it. For example, after writing this one, maybe the next time I have to give up two hours of my day to write a stupid column, I’ll know why

said, “And that’s why I hate wanting to be a writer.

Not only does it give me an attitude of annoying entitlement, it is this very ambition that makes me horribly, decidedly unhappy.” Not only do I share a similar aspiration, I suffer from that same ailment that has never been put into words for me.

The piece translated my thoughts into words. To me, this is the essence of why we write columns.

It’s overly ambitious to believe that a seven hundred-word essay will open every reader’s eyes to my way of seeing the world. But, it can validate what a reader already sees. The ultimate goal of a column isn’t to change people’s minds, or even to vaguely resonate with an audience. It’s to hit the nail on the head—maybe for just one person.

It’s to write a piece where every word perfectly chronicles the thoughts that keep a single reader up at night, or crystallizes an argument already kindling inside them.

Don’t give columnists any credit for this. We just want to passionately argue issues we barely understand, and give you sage advice you never needed. But if we have any redeeming qualities— with an emphasis on the “if”— it’s that our words can connect two people without them ever seeing each other. For that reader, the author becomes freakishly visible—dare I say, human.

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hough I’m genuinely grateful for my education shaping me into a thoughtful individual, I find myself asking a crucial question—has my ability to critique shrouded my ability to love?

I am overloading this semester with a class about Rumi, the great Sufi poet. Rumi’s poetry shows us that love does not have to be sexual or romantic. Rather, love is an experiential phenomenon that can precipitate out of any relationship. And when you love purely, you become part of the Divine Beloved.

Love urges us to love for the sake of pushing ourselves beyond our ego, and this is why love is dangerous. You won’t ever understand what love is—a divine love, a motherly love, or a romantic love—until you love something.

Until you go beyond yourself.

Duke has hardened me. It has taken my naiveté and ignorance away and replaced it with an urge to criticize. And to never stop. Maybe that’s what education looks like in human form. But, as students, soon to be leaders in the world, it’s imperative we make room for the uninhibited, raw love on campus. This is even most crucial as our university is experiencing backlash for many issues on a national and international level.

It’s ok to get mad at Duke. It’s ok to protest and sign petitions and campaign. It’s ok to admit your university is wrong.

But don’t let this take away from your Duke experience. Don’t let this take away your ability to love, in hopes of realizing what it is to be loved. There are too many opportunities on campus afforded to you

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e’re incredibly fortunate to go to a university that the public seems to pay attention to and care about. Yet as a second-semester senior, I’ve noticed that our campus gets national media attention most consistently for two categories of events—sensationalized controversies and sports. And since spring is high season for scandal at Duke, like clockwork we’re already catching our share of coverage after a remarkably quiet fall semester.

Our lowest moments seem to happen in the spring. A search for Duke on some of our favorite news and media sites doesn’t paint a pretty picture—in the last two springs alone we’ve gotten written

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I’m not usually a romantic. The only hearts I wear on my sleeves are those that come stitched on. But this notion of to lovebe loved got me thinking. What have I loved during my Duke experience? Have I ever left this culture of chaos and busyness to explore something beyond myself? Or have I succumbed to the Duke curriculum and become a full-time Duke curriculum?

Searching introspectively, I realized that my answer was a little harder to unearth.

Duke has molded me into a more critical student. Courses have left me fluent in theories and paradigms and –isms. Case studies have trained my eyes to detect the problem and labs have taught me how to derive solutions. I spent my due diligence inquiring into ethics, politics, policies, systems and methods. My classes have prepared me to question and doubt anything put before me. Through this, I’m afraid I’ve confused a critical mind with the critical need to love.

I’d like to believe that’s not the case, but when you only see evil on your campus, you begin to question your genuineness.

The adhan reversal? So much for safe places and religious pluralism. $51M Science Drive parking garage? How is this any more convenient? They basically built it for the football fans. Friend who won’t return calls? Obviously hiding something. Duke graduation at Durham Bulls Athletic Park?

Are you kidding me Duke? First you take my Subway, then you take mama’s only chance to see Wallace Wade. Thanks but nope—no thanks.

because you are you. As individual humans, there will always be parts of us that need to be worked on. Institutions are no different, especially wealthy institutions.

To underclasswomen and underclassmen, there are many opportunities on campus that are waiting for you. Go discover a place that moves and inspires you, like the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke gardens, Lemur Center, or the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame.

Take the time to appreciate a talent, like music, painting, or writing. These skills not only showcase your humanness in this culture of busyness, but they also allow you to see a part of yourself that does not precipitate throughout your daily activities and interactions.

Experience a home Duke basketball game.

There is nothing comparable to the energy, community and spirit found in Cameron.

(And if you’re even more adventurous, tent!

Nothing says community than 12 bodies sleeping head-toe in a tent).

It’s taken me a few years (basically all 4 years) to separate the love for my university from the hate for my university. But I have. All of us have lovable parts as we have workable parts, and this realization has helped me freely live while also never forgetting my need to intensely work.

Don’t let Duke harden you—Go love.

Because you won’t ever understand what love is until you love.

up for drama surrounding the adhan, potential rape, the Asia Prime party and our very own porn star. Go further back and you’ll find plenty more unflattering coverage from other campus events.

So what causes this spring awakening of controversial behavior and drama every year? Maybe it’s the sudden inescapable ubiquity of groups—sororities, fraternities, SLGs, whatever— that makes us feel like, individually, we must behave at our most extreme in order to keep up with some supposed collective identity.

Maybe it’s the prevalence of suits and padfolios on campus for recruiting. With so many peers gunning for finance positions, we wonder whether we should also want to be on Wall Street ourselves. Maybe we even try on some jaded pretentiousness to prove we could totally fit an imagined persona.

Maybe it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy sparked by hard-wired tradition, maybe it’s just a coincidence. Whatever it is, each spring semester our campus becomes caricaturized to fill shoes so ambitiously large that something inevitably goes wrong.

The media’s “this again” attitude glorifies a Duke we should not be proud of. It perpetuates a false impression of us as collectively racist, classist, sexist and oversexed. We’ve become a campus outwardly known for its callousness, its superficiality, its pretension and its division.

But there’s another Duke here in the spring, one that comes out of the woodwork once a year and quietly grounds us in something I’m much more proud to be a part of.

Walk through K-Ville late at night and you’ll see something that’s still Duke to its core but unrecognizable against our “Dukebag” reputation.

Huddled for warmth, immobile and avoiding phone usage to preserve battery, we’re forced to actually talk to one another, to catch up and have real conversations. Makeupless, dressed down and borderline smelly, the feigned “effortless perfection” of our typical Wednesdaynight-to-Thursday-morning grind is replaced with real people. And come game time, the calculated apathy that we’re trained to convey yearround with our outward appearances is replaced by legitimate maniacal enthusiasm so vibrant and so genu-

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ine that our rivals totally pretend to hate us for it.

It’s not that K-Ville exists in opposition to the Duke the media loves to hate—it thrives in parallel. The same student body that supposedly churns out scandals fills our campus swamp with stories. Only at Duke can 11:30 on a Wednesday night be considered weekend hours and a tent a legitimate pregame, postgame, study and sleep spot all at the same time.

We managed to turn camping into a competition and built an entire vocabulary around the concept of lining up early—dirty black, tent shift, walk-up line and the implicit expletives in eye contact shared with a line monitor during a 4:00 AM check.

Wall-less and sleepless, K-Ville has no secrets for Rolling Stone to expose or Buzzfeed to exploit.

There’s meaning in the ridiculousness—it’s a tradition that takes so much effort and energy that it restores some of our credibility as real humans with passions and quirks. As an institution, K-Ville keeps us grounded.

I’m probably not in K-Ville’s target demographic. I originally thought I wanted to go to a liberal arts school and sports were not on my radar. My first sporting event viewed in its entirety was at Duke— a football game freshman year I attended out of a sense of obligation.

I had never gone camping or slept outside in my life.

I’m barely even in it for the basketball itself, either. In my third year tenting, I’m not in it to cross off a bucket list item or because I was raised hating Carolina Blue. I’m in it because I like the Duke brought out by tenting.

When Coach K won his 1000th game this week, we got so into his accomplishment. I relished in the opportunity to sit in my apartment surrounded by a dozen or so friends, passing around a jar of cookie butter and shouting poorly informed things at our little TV. When the game ended I caught myself feeling like my involvement had contributed somehow to his success, beaming like a proud grandma.

That’s a part of life at Duke I’m proud to support, one I hope to see discussed on TV and made fun of on Buzzfeed.

I’m not trying to suggest that every member of the Duke community should live in a tent for a couple of weeks each January as a magic antidote for bad press. K-Ville does more good symbolically—we gather with unstoppable spirit for our school, hours or days before a regular game or weeks before we play UNC. We need K-Ville. It’s inconsistent with the blasé and put-together demeanor we’re supposed to project everywhere else. It undermines our outside reputation as elitist, intolerant kids who breed controversy. In a semester where we’re more aware than ever of our divisions, K-Ville’s contagious energy supports a tradition that binds us together.

Elissa Levine is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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