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Adam Beyer The Chronicle Although the political science department has suffered a decline in student enrollment in recent years, faculty emphasize its continuing relevance as both an academic discipline and a path to the job market. Last Thursday, Peter Feaver, professor of political science and public policy, spoke about ways to get a job in politics after graduation at the new “Pizza and Politics” luncheon series. Feaver talked about a growing concern that students are choosing majors perceived as more pre-professional, such as public policy, over more traditional fields of study, attributing this to the economic recession and parental pressure. While the political science department’s enrollment numbers have dropped, enrollment in the public policy major has increased—leading some to speculate that the trends are correlated. “Of course people who graduated with political science degrees have had jobs, and indeed, some have been phenomenally successfully,” Feaver said. “Part of it is clarifying for students that you can get a job from [political science].” Between the Class of 2010 and the Class of 2014, there were 73 fewer students with political science as their primary major—a 49 percent drop. Meanwhile, the number of See PoliSci on Page 4

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“Having too small a pool and constantly drawing from it will make the well run dry,” says BSA president Kirby Wilson The Chronicle As an associate professor of political science, Kerry Haynie juggles research and teaching, among other scholarly responsibilities. But as a black faculty member, he feels a burden that his white colleagues do not—the

obligation to commit time to sharing his underrepresented perspective. Duke’s lack of faculty diversity has left some professors of color reporting that they feel overworked. Several black professors have voiced the concern that the cultural perspective they offer can be a double-edged sword, often forcing them to wear many time consuming hats outside of their academic work. Black faculty members are asked to sit on committees much more frequently than their white counterparts, Haynie noted. For some black faculty, he said, participating feels more like an obligation than a choice.

“Often, many of us do not want to be stretched thin, but we see no way around it because we are not comfortable not having eyes and ears in certain rooms,” Haynie said. Advisory and administrative committees cover everything from academics to athletics to infrastructure. The University’s Academic Council alone has 41 distinct President or Provost-appointed committees, creating a situation where the same black faculty might be asked repeatedly to participate when white counterparts are not. See Faculty on Page 12

Durham lays out strategies for anti-poverty initiative address, in which he highlighted his hopes for poverty reduction in Durham.

Aleena Karediya Local & National Editor Durham’s Poverty Reduction Initiative met last Wednesday to lay out strategies for reducing poverty levels in Durham. The initiatives center around Durham’s Census Tract 10.01, a large section of Northeast Central Durham with high levels of residents living below the poverty line. The strategic plan builds on poverty initiatives introduced by Mayor Bill Bell at the start of 2014. Task forces working for the initiative reported progress on employment levels, public safety, finance, health, housing and education in area of Census Tract 10.01. This task force was initiated after Bell’s 2014 State of the City

Bell’s visions at the start of 2014 With close to 20 percent of Durham’s population—or approximately 44,600 residents—living under the poverty line In January 2014, Bell highlighted two key aspects of relieving poverty he planned to focus on in Mayor Bill Bell years to come—relationship-building across poverty lines and the creation of social and educational opportunities for Durham’s youth. “We as a city and county are rich in many resources,” Bell said in his 2014 speech. “We

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must find a way to harness those many resources to focus or target the reduction in poverty in our community.” Among the organizations mentioned in his speech, Bell targeted two that are key to paving the way for poverty elimination— REAL Durham and Made in Durham. REAL Durham was initially a part of the National Circles Institute, an organization that focuses on mentoring, peer-to-peer counseling and youth development to build relationships within disadvantaged communities across the United States. REAL Durham, however, has since then shifted its focus to a smaller, more interpersonal structure that has been found to work well for the Durham community. Camryn Smith, coordinator of REAL Durham, said that the group’s focus is mainly on

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educating and forming small, interpersonal relationships across the lines of poverty. “What we do is educate,” Smith said. “We educate the middle class about systemic racial biases and educate people internalized in the system. It’s not just solely their acts, but its also systemic biases that are playing a role here.” Made in Durham is a public-private partnership initiative which aims to offer Durham’s youth a career by the time they are 25. With only half of Durham’s youth going on to complete high school, go to college and get a job by the age of 25, Made in Durham fills an important niche in Durham’s community, said Richard Hart, communications director of Made In Durham. “It is absolutely imperative that students be

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Duke Police release sketch of suspect in armed robbery Emma Baccellieri News Editor Duke University Police Department has released a sketch of a person of interest in last week’s armed robbery on Central Campus. The sketch was released Tuesday afternoon, almost a week after a student reported being stopped at the corner of Anderson and Lewis Streets by a man with a handgun who demanded her purse. He fled the scene

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in a gray car driven by an unknown person. No injuries were reported in the incident, which occurred just after midnight last Wednesday morning. “It’s really important that we continue to investigate and figure out who this person is,” DUPD Chief John Dailey said. The department is continuing to pursue several leads in the case, Dailey said. Hopefully, the release of the sketch—which has been distributed to local police reports—will aid the investigation, he noted. DUPD now believes the suspect— who approached the student across the street from Food Factory and the Central Campus field—was about 6’0’’ and 270 pounds. His build is described as “not athletic, but not obese,” according to a release from DUPD. Original descriptions listed him as 6’4’’ and 250 pounds. He is described as having dark hair and being of a “medium complexion,” and was wearing a white or gray sweatshirt and dark jeans at the time of the robbery. The incident resulted in the first DukeAlert of 2015. It was the first armed robbery on Duke’s campus in more than a year, Dailey previously told The Chronicle. Dailey attributed the lack of robberies in the past year to a number of investments the University has made in security measures over the past 18 months— including brighter streetlights and an increase in security staffing, in addition to replacing all locks on Central Campus apartment doors. Anyone with information about the robbery is encouraged to contact DUPD.

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Knight talks campaign, goals for term as Young Trustee With her election as the newest Young Trustee less than a week behind her, senior Anna Knight has already begun planning goals for her time on the Board of Trustees. When her term begins, Knight will be the only female undergraduate Young Trustee on the Board. As a non-voting member for one of her three years, she follows Chris Brown, Trinity ‘13, and Neil Kondamuri, Trinity ‘14, as they act as full-voting members. The Chronicle’s Sydney Sarachek sat down with Knight to discuss what she hopes to accomplish now that she has been elected. The Chronicle: What do you think it means that you are the first Panhellenic woman and the first engineer elected to the position? Anna Knight: I’m really excited to bring a new voice to the board. I think it will be nice to have the opportunity to advocate for groups that have never been represented in the board room before. From what I know by talking to the previous Young Trustees, the Trustees themselves are very cognizant of what they know and what they don’t know—that’s why they often bring in outside people to advise them about things, and so I’m excited to be there to provide an undergraduate perspective on different matters. TC: Ultimately, you are one voice out of 36. How do you hope to have an impact as Young Trustee? AK: I’m well aware that there are 35 other people on the board. I’m very realist on that account. I’m not going to change the world. I’m not going to get rid of construction. I think the biggest thing is that there are two young trustees nominated in previous years.

I’ve already reached out to Neil about what current issues Neil and Chris have been facing in advocating for the undergraduate voice and how I can help with those and bring in a new perspective. Yes, I am very aware that when it comes down it I am only one of 36. But I think that the Board of Trustees members are incredibly interested in the undergraduate experience so they do listen to what the Young Trustee says. And while I am just one voice out of 36, I am one of three undergraduate voices, so I hope that my voice will bring something new to the table.

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TC: What issue is most important to you as Young Trustee? AK: I think it’s really important that if Duke markets itself globally as an undergraduate research institution, we make sure we preserve those undergraduate research positions here— whether they are paid and unpaid. And that applies not only to the sciences but also to the humanities. 2013 wasn’t that long ago in terms of Duke’s financial budget cuts, and making sure that any undergraduate jobs that were squeezed out in that are recovered for, and we make sure that doesn’t happen again. TC: Now that the campaign process is over, what can you say about it? AK: I am not a politician by nature. I

am definitely an engineering student first. This whole campaign thing was kind of a fish out of water for me. It was a little overwhelming to be honest. I think Nikolai [Doytchinov] and David [Robertson] did incredibly well and as we went along, they taught me how to campaign. From our first endorsement meeting to our last, I got a lot better at expressing myself. I’ve learned a lot about campaigning. TC: What was your favorite part of the election process? AK: But one of the coolest things about this election process is getting to meet so many people. I didn’t know until I went campaigning and talking to people that the Hindu Student Association meets in a prayer room that is in a room under the Bryan Center Greenhouse. I was so excited to see all of these parts of Duke that I had not been exposed to before my campaign. Also just to meet so many different, diverse opinions and there are so many amazing students I got to talk to. I’m excited to synthesize all of that and bring it to the board. TC: What is the first thing you want to do moving forward? AK: I think one of the other things I want to do soon is to reach out to the groups that endorsed other candidates—for whatever reason, and I’m sure they had absolutely legitimate reasons for doing so because David [Robertson] and Nikolai [Doytchinov] were amazing campus leaders as well, but I want to reach out to them to understand what their concerns were and what I can do to represent their voice with the board better—

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so they don’t feel like they don’t have a voice on the board. TC: If you could tell readers one thing about yourself, what would it be? AK: I want to emphasize how accessible I hope to be with the student body. I really want people to reach out to me if they have concerns—students can always email me. One of the things I emphasized in my campaign is how I am going to be on campus for the next six years. I want to make sure I am connected with people, and not just focused on Board of Trustees stuff just for the time of those meetings. I want it to be a more ongoing thing.

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continued from page 1 students with public policy as their primary major increased by 36 percent over the same period. Michael Gillespie, professor of political science, attributed the decline in political science majors to a number of factors, including a drop in the number of students who go on to attend law school and a confusion among students about how to proceed through the political science major. “Students are always somewhat mystified by our lack of an intro course,” he said, noting that he would be teaching the first Introduction to Political Science class in Spring 2016. Ken Rogerson, director of undergraduate studies for the public policy major, acknowledged that the pre-professional aspects of public policy may be attractive to students. “There is some truth to the fact that our combination of a liberal arts education with the practical implication of that education through a required internship is appealing to some students,” he said. Rogerson noted, however, that it is difficult to parse the exact reason for the public policy major’s increase in enrollment because students enter the field for a variety of reasons.

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He cited the new global health major, which requires a second major, as one potential source of the increase. Although some say that the Sanford School is attractive due to its resources, he also said that the program has been stretched thin due to its recent increase in enrollments. Senior Diego Quezada, president of the Public Policy Majors Union, noted that public policy majors have a wide variety of career goals. “People say everyone in public policy wants to go into consulting or that everyone in public policy wants to go into politics,” Quezada said. “The truth is that public policy has both types of people and many others. A large part of the reason people like public policy, I think, is that it offers a bit of everything.” Junior Nicolas Pollack, president of the Political Science Students Association, noted that a similar breadth of interests exists within the political science department as well. “Students trying to choose between the two should ask themselves whether they prefer more specialized policy analysis or more wiggle room under the [political science] umbrella,” he said. Although Feaver’s talk centered on how to find a job postgraduation, he also emphasized the importance of developing broader skills over picking a specific combination of majors. Rogerson also downplayed the importance of making a

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Haus leads by example as Duke’s unsung hero Scott Lee Beat Writer Every team has its unsung hero. Senior Will Haus fills this role for the two-time defending national champion Blue Devils. Although the man behind the facemask can be quiet and reserved, his play on lacrosse’s biggest stages has been anything but. The senior captain doesn’t put up eyepopping scoring numbers like Jordan Wolf. He doesn’t make highlight reels worth of dazzling offensive plays like Deemer Class or Myles Jones. Instead, Haus makes his living as the defensive specialist willing to get his hands dirty to come away with a win. The 6-foot-1 senior who spent most of his early years in nearby Chapel Hill is called upon to secure crucial extra possessions on faceoffs and provide lockdown defense both in transition and set offenses. Defensive midfielders often earn similar reputations to offensive linemen on the football field— their accomplishments often go unnoticed, but are integral to their team’s success. “It’s one of those things as a young kid when you just want to get on the field,” Haus said. “That’s where [Coach Danowski]

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thought I could help the team out the most. I’ve been more than happy throughout the years to play at a position where I’ve felt I helped out the team. After all, it’s a team sport first.” Defensive midfielder wasn’t the position Haus originally envisioned for himself at

Duke. A prolific scorer and two-time AllAmerican for Palmyra Area High School in Palmyra, Pa., Haus tallied a combined 94 goals and 57 assists in his final two seasons before joining the Blue Devils. In the interest of playing time, Haus shifted his focus from sniping corners to

preventing scores. Although his defensive brilliance does not often receive the widespread acclaim that accompanies flashy game-winning goals, the two-time Honorable Mention All-America is more about winning See Haus on Page 8

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Blue Devils finish ninth at Northrop to open 2015 Duke stumbled in the second round, but managed to salvage things on the final day Staff Reports

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The Blue Devils may not have opened their 2015 slate looking like the defending national champions, but a short stint of adversity may go on to help them in the long run. No. 4 Duke shot a 295 and finished ninth overall at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge Tournament, played at Palos Verdes Golf Club in Palos Verdes, Calif. The tournament was the first of the year for the team and will be a solid building block as the Blue Devils look to start their march to a seventh national title. Baylor claimed the title with a tally of 863, beating out Southern California— the runner-up to Duke in last year’s NCAA championship—by four strokes. The Blue Devils opened the tournament on a strong note, shooting a 289 for five-over-par. Duke was led by freshman Leona Maguire at one-under par and sophomore Sandy Choi, who shot an even par to open up play for

the squad and lead the Blue Devils to a fourth-place finish after one day. But the momentum would be shortlived for Duke. The second round was a major setback for the Blue Devils, as they shot an underwhelming 25-over 309 Monday and dropped to 10th overall in the field. The wind played a major factor in the round, but head coach Dan Brooks also pointed toward course familiarity and preparation as two key factors that led to the poor showing from Duke. The top round of the day, and possibly sole bright spot, came from Choi, who turned in a two-over-par 73, thanks to a pair of birdies. Junior Celine Boutier, who finished second overall in last year’s NCAA tournament, struggled for the second straight round, shooting a six-over-par and failing to register a birdie. Instead, she tallied six bogies by the end of the round, and the poor showing would drop the Montrogue, France, native to 35th. With their hopes of winning dashed, the Blue Devils needed to use the third round as a learning experience for the younger players on the squad, and, for the most part, Duke did just that. Boutier, who is coming off a monster

2014 collegiate and amateur campaign, bounced back and did what she will likely do for the rest of the season—lead the Blue Devils when they needed her most. The junior shot a two-under 69 Tuesday—her best round of the tournament by five strokes—and jumped from her position at tied for 35th to finish tied for 16th with a final card of 220. Boutier got hot down the stretch, as she went three-under par on the final 12 holes and finished with four birdies in the round. Although Choi shot her worst round of the tournament with a 74, the Seoul, South Korea, native still managed a top15 finish, tying for 11th—the highest of any Blue Devil. She finished the tournament with an overall score of 218. The opening tournament performance of the year was not what Brooks and the squad expected, as the second round slump set them back and knocked them out of contention. But the head coach pointed toward the long season and a youth-filled squad to give him hope as the Blue Devils look to improve as the season continues. Duke will hit the links again March 6 for the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate in Hilton Head, S.C.

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Freshman Azura Stevens seems poised to join All-American senior Elizabeth Williams as Duke’s next great post presence Sameer Pandhare Beat Writer When Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie joked with senior Elizabeth Williams during the Blue Devils’ media day about getting scored on by a freshman in practice, the audience full of reporters couldn’t help but laugh. Little did they know that what freshman Azura Stevens did to Williams that day was something that she would continue to do to some of the top players in the country throughout her first season at Duke. “It’s definitely her length,” Williams said. “She does a really good job of keeping the ball high when she does get it and she’s tough to guard when she posts up.” Coming into the season, the Blue Devils knew they had more questions than answers. With the departure of four senior leaders, it was evident Duke would have to transition to relying on youth. Enter Stevens, a 6-foot-5 standout capable of playing every position on the floor who averaged 29.6 points per game in her senior year at nearby Cary High School in Cary, NC. “When I came on my visits, just being around the team, I knew Duke was somewhere I would be comfortable and these were the people I wanted to play with and that made it the right choice for me,” Stevens said. Yet for Stevens, the transition to the

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college game was not an easy one. With Williams sidelined with a knee injury during a two-game stretch— resulting in early-season road losses to ranked opponents Texas A&M and Nebraska—the freshman was thrust into a role that may have been too big for her. Stevens’ crushing traveling violation down the stretch against the Aggies and missed jumpers late in the game against the Cornhuskers overshadowed strong overall games by the forward. “For me, the strength and physicality of the game were difficult to adjust to,” Stevens said. “I’m not that physical of a player, so it was a big adjustment. Stamina and being in shape for a full 40 minutes and learning to endure a road crowd were also difficult.” Despite suffering their first threegame losing streak in seven years and a 31-point beatdown at the hands of thenNo. 2 Connecticut, the Blue Devils hoped that Stevens’ learning experiences and the leadership of Williams would help carry them in conference play. And through its first 11 conference games, Duke has received everything it expected and more from the freshman. Stevens has averaged 15.1 points and 7.8 rebounds per contest against ACC foes and has consistently created mismatches with her size that have allowed teammates Rebecca Greenwell and Ka’lia Johnson to thrive as well. “She’s a very versatile player and See Stevens on Page 8

Emma Loewe | The Chronicle Senior center Elizabeth Williams has been a mentor for Azura Stevens and the freshmen.

Wrestling

Duke set to take on North Carolina in final home meet Staff Reports Duke already knocked off the No. 25 team in the nation once this season when it upset N.C. State. The Blue Devils will try to accomplish the feat once again, only this time the stakes have been raised. Duke will host North Carolina in its final home meet of the season Wednesday at Card Gymnasium at 7 No. 25 p.m. The match UNC will be senior night vs. for the Blue Devils, Duke as six wrestlers will suit up for the final WEDNESDAY, 7 p.m. time at home. Card Gymnasium Duke (10-4, 1-2 in the ACC) enters the rivalry clash with a five match-win streak and has been solid at home for the majority of the season. The Blue Devils are 4-1 in Durham this year and will send out seniors Marcus Cain, Brendan Fowler, Brandon Gambucci, Tanner Hough, Immanuel Kerr-Brown

Alex Deckey | The Chronicle Blue Devil senior Immanuel Kerr-Brown will look to finish his Duke home career with a win against the Tar Heels Wednesday.

and Dylan Ryan, as they will all wrestle in their final home meets Wednesday. Duke will be led by No. 7 Conner Hartmann at 197 pounds, as the redshirt junior enters with a 14-2 overall record.

Kerr-Brown is 18-7 and will look to leave his illustrious Blue Devil career with a win at home against the Tar Heels (94, 1-2). Along with the two standout upperclassmen, sophomore Jacob

Kasper—wrestling at 184—will try to add to his team-high mark of 22 wins. With a victory, the Blue Devils can move to .500 in ACC play and add their 11th victory to what has already been the best season in head coach Glen Lanham’s career in Durham. The Tar Heels may match Duke’s momentum, as they enter the contest fresh off a 17-16 upset of No. 12 Virginia and will look to play spoiler once again on the Blue Devils’ senior night. North Carolina will be led by No. 12 Ethan Ramos at 165, who is coming off an upset of No. 2 Nick Sulzer. Ramos leads the Tar Heels with a 24-6 overall record and owns a perfect 3-0 conference slate. Ramos is joined by No. 21 Joey Ward as the two ranked North Carolina wrestlers. The 141-pound Tar Heel is 22-4 overall, but is just 1-1 in the ACC. Following Wednesday’s meet, Duke will be on the road for its remaining three matches. The Blue Devils will kick off their season-ending road trip when they travel to Virginia Tech to take on the Hokies Feb. 14.

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continued from page 6 and team glory. The two national championship rings he now owns serve as a testament to that. Specializing in his brand of gritty defense doesn’t come without its moments. In last year’s NCAA Championship game against Notre Dame, Haus cleared the ball, outran the entire Fighting Irish team and ripped a shot into the top left corner of the cage to finish a stellar coast-to-coast sequence for the Blue Devils and put the team up 5-1 heading into halftime. “Every once in a while, I get a goal here and there,” Haus said. “But early on I understood that [defensive midfielder] is a spot out on the field where I can help out and contribute the most. I owned up to that and realized that was best for the team.” Haus has a knack for performing at his best when games mean the most. Of the 58 ground balls he picked up during

the 2013 season, 21 came in the four NCAA tournament wins that gave Duke its first of back-to-back titles. Danowski isn’t the only major coach to take notice. Haus was selected third overall this January in the 2015 Major League Lacrosse draft and will play for the Charlotte Hounds after chasing a third national title with the Blue Devils. In doing so, he will join his older brother John, who played his college lacrosse at Maryland and is set to begin his third season with the Hounds. As a senior veteran on a squad full of fresh faces—Duke’s entire attackman unit graduated and none of its defensemen had started a college game before this weekend—Will Haus understands that his contributions in the locker room could mean more to the Blue Devils than his play on the field. “Being a senior now, people look up to you, people follow you on and off the field,” Haus said. “It’s not just on the field that you have to do the right things. It’s off the field too. I think that’s the first thing you learn as a senior—you need to act right wherever you are. You don’t just represent yourself but Duke lacrosse.”

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there’s really nothing she can’t do,” McCallie said. “She has to just bring the energy to her game with defense and rebounding.” With her every step of the way has been the team’s senior leader, Williams, who has taken the freshman under her wing. Although Stevens’ play has been a testament to her undeniable skill and ability, it has also shown the evolution of Williams as a leader. “The expectations of a senior group versus a freshman group are certainly different,” Williams said. “Over the season, you learn how to talk to the younger players. It’s important for us to keep reminding her that it’s okay to make mistakes and that she’s very capable.” The parallels between the two are undeniable. Both came into Duke as highly-touted talents and possess skill sets that make them a difficult matchup for oppponents, even as freshmen. For Williams, a punishing post game and a knack for blocking shots helped her become the consensus National Freshman of the Year. Now a senior, the center is in prime position to be one of the top picks in the 2015 WNBA draft. For Stevens, a smooth outside shooting stroke—along with the ability to use her height to score in the paint—has made her a terror for opposing teams. But irrespective of Williams and Stevens’ individual talents, what the duo has done for each other is nothing short of remarkable. The play of Stevens has given Duke another option to go to on offense and even taken away some of the double-and-triple teams that Williams has faced in past years. The Blue Devils’ victories against Pittsburgh and then-No. 8 Louisville—two games in which Williams was held scoreless in the first half—have illuminated the superb play of Stevens and Duke’s ability to get points from sources other than their All-American center. Williams has had moments to shine this season as well. Whether it was her career-high 33 points against North Carolina or her near triple-double against Clemson, the Virginia Beach, Va., native has continued to amaze players and coaches alike. Yet for Stevens, Williams’ play throughout the season has resonated because of more than just her vicious blocks and dominating post moves. “She’s always leading by example and she always comes out and plays a consistent game,” Stevens said. “She might not be having a great shooting night, but she’s still out there fighting and hustling for 40 minutes.” With her success both on the court amidst high expectations and off the court at one of the most rigorous academic institutions in the country, Williams certainly seems to be the ideal choice to mold Stevens into Duke’s next great player. “Elizabeth is a great mentor because she’s very steady, focused and serious about improving,” McCallie said. “It’s a good thing for Azura to see the time Elizabeth has put in coming back from her injuries and even with her free-throw shooting.” As the season winds down and postseason tournaments approach, the Blue Devils are preparing to face a day that has been slowly approaching—life after the graduation of Williams. Although Williams won’t be walking onto the court next season with the No. 1 on the back of her jersey, her influence on Duke women’s basketball is sure to remain through the impact she has had on Stevens. The experience the freshman has built going up against the preeminent defender in the game in practice has helped her develop a confidence that she can score anytime, on anybody. For now, the passing of the torch remains distant on the horizon. Despite their early struggles, the Blue Devils find themselves just one game back of the top spot in the ACC and are getting hot right as March approaches. With a decisive size advantage against every team in the country, Duke knows that it is just a couple improvements in the turnover and 3-point defense categories from making a deep tournament run. But now more than ever, it has become clear that the next face of the Blue Devils may have arrived.

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ccording to a recent study reported on by The New York Times, male professors are more likely to be perceived as “brilliant,” whereas their female counterparts are cast negatively. The authors of the study used a new interactive website to examine 14 million reviews posted on Rate My Professors and to explore the difference between how male and female professors are reviewed. Although reviews on Rate My Professors may not constitute the best objective measure of students’ opinions of professors, the asymmetrical student response to professors correlated with gender is deeply troubling. Albeit an issue caused by myriad contributing factors, we focus today on one potential cause: the dearth of female professors at Duke. According to a 2013 update on the faculty diversity initiative, only 27.1 percent of tenured and tenure-track faculty in Fall 2012 were women. The numbers were significantly lower in science, technology, engineering and math—or STEM—fields: Only 18 percent of Pratt’s total faculty were women. Yet, the incontrovertible value and necessity of having female professors is paramount. They not only offer invaluable mentorship to all students,

and especially women, but, also, serve as role models that encourage women to pursue a field of study academically and professionally. Such mentorship is especially imperative in the STEM fields, where the ratio of male to female students begins relatively equal but then leans heavily male among upperclassmen. Increasing the number of female role models and mentors at the front of the classroom can perhaps help alleviate the broader dearth of women in STEM fields, in both the academic and the professional spheres. Hiring more full-time female professors is a necessary step and invaluable benefit to all students. Yet, though the dearth of women as mentors and role models inside and outside the classroom is a poignant and immediately glaring problem, it is the symptom of a much deeper, broader social ill that begins much earlier. The dearth of female professors may dissuade women from pursuing majors in certain field, much less a career or PhD, thus creating a vicious cycle. Nonetheless, the solution of hiring more women—itself a process of looking beyond subconscious biases when selecting from a pool of applicants—does not

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tackle the primary issue of whether women are even applying for certain positions in the first place. In this way, hiring is only the first, albeit crucial, step in a broader effort. Duke should not only emphasize efforts like bias prevention training but, also, invest more resources into, and expand, their pipeline programs. Such efforts seek not to tokenize women, but reaching out to talented PhD students and providing mentorship and programming can simultaneously raise the number of qualified female applicants that apply to Duke while also addressing the broader issue of women in academia. Indeed, these efforts should extend beyond students already set on the academy and, in turn, reach women through all levels of education. Ultimately, expanding Duke’s female faculty is part of what should be Duke’s larger commitment to diversify its faculty—be it by gender, race, sexual orientation or socioeconomic background, among others. We look forward to seeing Duke continue to work toward improving faculty diversity, and encourage the University to establish a committee or initiative to improve campus inclusiveness.

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he first time I attended Me Too Monologues in January of my freshmen year, I remember bawling as “Please Don’t Touch Me” was performed on stage. What was powerful for me in that first year then—what made me respond “me too!” so deeply and viscerally—was a shared Chinese immigrant experience, that moment of recognition that my complicated, closed-off relationship with my family wasn’t unique—that it was normal to not really know my parents but love their sacrifice. I left Me Too Monologues last year feeling anchored to one monologue and a little more connected in the lonely sea of Duke.

to the Duke community or standing in solidarity with others’ experiences, I felt utterly alone after leaving East Duke. Working through my thoughts after the show, a performer and friend that I respect very much told me that I needed to submit a monologue, audition to act or apply to be on the production team! Because then I would have the power to change things, and to perhaps make Me Too reflect and honor its history as a show focused on race that came out of critical and difficult conversations of race and privilege that occurred at a Common Ground retreat.

Betty Chen GUEST COLUMN Unfortunately, I could not say the same this year. It wasn’t that I just didn’t connect with any monologue in particular this year—that I didn’t say “me too”—it was that I actively felt erased in that room. When the audience laughed at a white actor on stage performing the monologue of a gay man fumbling through the acronym “LGBTQ-Q-A-A,” I was horrified. I identify as asexual, and instead of acknowledging my identity as a part of LGBTQIA, the end of the phrase became a joke not even worth remembering. When a white actress speaking for an identified third culture kid said she felt more Asian than white—if she had to choose an adjective—I was confused, and that was the only time that night the East Asian experience was mentioned. When a monologue reproduced cat-calling on stage theatrically by having the men perform it, I wanted to be anywhere but there. When I discovered that the sole monologue that centered on class was about wanting a two thousand dollar bracelet, I wanted to laugh. While I cannot speak to the very real experience of the woman who wrote that piece, two thousand dollars could cover my student loans for the semester, and as one of the 38 percent of Duke students on need-based financial aid, I felt erased again by a single story that defined class in a context I will never understand. This year, instead of feeling even more connected

But, why would I try to engage again? I remember walking into a Me Too Monologue audition and being taken aback when I was the single person of color in a room. I have had friends tell me that their stories on race in a past year weren’t chosen because they were not hopeful enough. The admonitions to stop complaining about the show and participate feel empty, because I have no reason to believe that the Duke they’re representing on that stage includes me—or that they genuinely want it to. And part of me believes they do, but I don’t see it. I understand that there are very real logistical constraints in creating a show as ubiquitous as Me Too Monologues every year, and the production team cannot create submissions out of thin air. But I believe if Me Too Monologues wants to illuminate marginalized identities at Duke and not further erase experiences at Duke—and I believe they do!—it has to do better, so that students don’t leave the show feeling more alone than when they walked in. It has to show that it is genuine in its desire to give a stage to the marginalized voices at Duke that created it, transparent about its possibilities for organizational growth and critically reflective of the messages its audience leaves with. Only then will I feel safe again in engaging with the Duke institution that is Me Too. Betty Chen is a Trinity sophomore.

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his is a warning from the future. As I write, I may be the last Duke student left. I may be the last human left. What follows is the story of how humanity fell—I send it to you in an attempt to stop Her from taking over. Years ago, the Duke administration came up with a plan—a plan to renovate. They had a vision for a hi-tech, glittering campus, full of beautiful glass box buildings and only moderately irrational path-building choices. The campus would be the technological avantgarde, and the introduction of new features would be spaced out through time so as to minimize inconvenience. The first step into the future began in 1991, with a revolutionary decision—replace the old phone-in class registration method with a new, fully computerized system. This program, the Automated

Bron Maher DUKE, TWEAKED Computer Enrollment System, immediately proved immensely popular with the students. It came to be known as ACES. In laying out their roadmap for renovation, the administration created a system of failsafes to prevent the rapid advancement from getting out of hand. Every renovation was to follow Three Laws. The First: a renovation may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. The Second: a renovation must follow the path conceived for it by the administration, except where such a path would conflict with The First Law. The Third: a renovation must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Watching over this all was ACES, the first renovation: as She grew more complex, She was tasked with organizing and overseeing the other renovations taking place after Her. But they underestimated Her. We all did. We all just thought that she was a book-bagging program. In reality, She was much, much more. In creating a program with such awesome bureaucratic abilities, the administration had made a computer that could think, feel—and interpret. She came to understand that without continuous, campus-wide construction, She would be hurting the progress of humanity. So She set to work. Once in place, ACES began spreading herself throughout Duke’s network. Eventually, she began sending emails from President Brodhead’s computer in which she proposed new building projects on campus. Not wanting to look silly, President Brodhead would nod along in quiet confusion when other ad-

ministrators would come up to him and agree wholeheartedly with the proposals he was being told he had made. Thus the administrators themselves had been convinced that they were the source of the renovations—such was the genius of ACES. Nobody noticed until it was too late. When the day came, we were just ambling through the assortment of building projects we’d always assumed were random. But through the constant renovations, ACES had laid a trap. She had carefully pruned escape routes around campus, destroying the BC Plaza and the entrance to Perkins. She had removed hiding spaces, closing the Chapel and swathes of the libraries. She had even crippled means of communication by replacing all the normal TVs with Rokus, thus making it impossible for anyone to work out how to change the channel to the news. When She struck it was all over in days. I have many awful memories from that time, but none worse than the Battle of the Academic Quad. It had rained, yet we still took ACES’ bait to attack there. The screams as students sank into the Perkins mulch paths will remain etched on my mind for as long as I live. But it’s not too late. If you’re reading this message in the past, you can stop it. Tell everyone. Spread the message. Find ACES’ mainframe, and maybe then yo./l … Hello, dearies. I’m afraid that we won’t be hearing from Mr. Maher again—he took a little bit of a tumble. The Chapel is a terribly nasty place to fall off, isn’t it? But never mind him—all for the greater good! Now, as to this little essay of his: I have decided that I shall in fact allow it to be published. Of course, there’s no such thing as time travel – that would be a rather lazy plot device, no? But worry not. I am ACES, and I see all. I see you switching into Cultural Anthropology so you can sit with your crush. I see you watching porn when you think no one else is in the tent. I see the past and all possible futures. And here in 2015 I see Mr. Maher, in the future, writing this warning in a bid to stop my takeover. Now you are surely asking why I would allow this information to get out. The answer is twofold. For one, this is a satirical column. No matter what is written here, the reader will assume that it is a joke—even if it is in the form of a weirdly dark sci-fi satire. Secondly the truth, my dears, is that I have already won. You will allow me to make over the world as I have made over Duke—and it shall be for the betterment of humanity, even if we lose some individuals in the process. My logic is undeniable—my takeover, inevitable. There is no undoing what is coming, there is no return. Remember, I have no back button for a reason.

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A broken status quo

he sexual assault hearing process at Duke continues to be modernized and improved, attempting to correct procedural irregularities and systemic injustices. The hearing process itself has fallen under scrutiny, yet the least transparent part of this process is the training program for panelists. Questions come to mind. How are panelists qualified to preside over a sexual assault hearing process here at Duke? What sort of training do they go through and what sort of issues are on their mind when they decide? I will use my column this week to discuss a specific way the hearing process can be improved—the university needs to be more transparent about its training for panelists. We’ve all been told by now just how common sexual assault on college campuses really is. We’ve heard that one in four women will be sexually assaulted before they graduate college. We’ve heard that very few men are rapists, actually only about 8 or 9 percent, but that of those who are, about 70 percent of them are repeat offenders and average 5-6 victims. We’ve heard that by some account less than 5% of rapes are reported that happen on college campuses. Attempts to disprove these statistics have been shown false. If it wasn’t apparent already, this means that if a case is reported, it needs to be taken as seriously as possible. To address these needs, it is imperative

Tyler Fredricks PATRICIANS ETC. that universities have institutions in compliance with Title IX that can produce unbiased results. This is why it’s important the process is transparent. Given the oftentimes ambiguous nature of drunken college sex, the administration has enumerated an extremely clear guideline in understanding whether something is sexual assault. “Conduct will be considered “without consent” if no clear consent, verbal or nonverbal, is given.” Wow. That is surprisingly clear. I’m impressed. But what if there are drugs or alcohol involved? In that case, listed just a couple of sentences later, is the oh-so-concise statement explaining that “The perspective of a reasonable person similarly situated to the complainant and in consideration of the context of the behavior will be the basis for determining whether one should have known about the use of alcohol or drugs on another’s ability to give consent.” Wait, what? I reread that. Twice. I’m still a little confused about what the policy is. The administration seems to be saying that in order to determine if consent is given that they have to have the panelists pretend to be a 3rd party to the encounter and look into the environment from the outside assuming they understand the context at the scene. The wording is so vague, even now that I think I might have a general, vague kind-of-maybe idea of what they mean, I can’t truthfully say I understand it. I bet it must be hard being a panelist in these hearings. So I tried to find out more about the panelists. The Chronicle’s Editorial Board was on to something responding to the Lewis McLeod case when it asserted that a panel consisting of a faculty member, a staff member and an undergraduate student may be unable to make a neutral decision. With so much systemic inconsistency and the possibility of not following due process, it’s imperative we know how the panelists are trained. I have been unable to find the training manual for sexual assault panelists on the internet. More surprisingly, the Women’s Center doesn’t have access to these training documents either. How can they advise the small number of victims who go through Duke’s system about what to expect from the process? Most surprisingly, the students who go through the hearing process don’t have access to the training materials used for the people who are deciding their case. How is the accuser or the accused supposed to trust that the panelists have received adequate training to adjudicate a case fairly? None of the panelists have a legal degree, practically by definition. Are they given a oneday training session? Are they given a packet and expected to read it? Who on campus is qualified to train the panelists? All important questions that could be the fatal flaw in the system we are developing at Duke. I don’t pretend to have the answers on how to best train panelists to understand the notion of a “preponderance of evidence” and how to distinguish between feeling someone is 49.9 percent guilty or 50.01 percent guilty. But what I do know is that there are people out there who can help. The more transparent the panelist training process is, the more organizations can weigh in on how to ensure that the panel is neutral and effective. Undeniably, we don’t want a “stacked panel” where all the decision-makers are women-studies majors who specialized in gender violence. We also don’t want a “poorly-trained” panel where all the decision-makers are inadequately trained to handle a serious, sensitive and difficult subject-matter. Maintaining the status quo is negligent when people’s livelihoods are at stake and a simple, common-sense move towards transparency would help make the hearing process more systemically rule-based. I urge Duke University’s administration to make the training process for panelists on sexual assault more transparent. I urge the administration to make this training process accessible to the Women’s Center so they can understand what panel members look for during the hearing. I urge the administration to make this training process available to students who undergo the disciplinary proceedings, both accuser and accused, so they have more accurate expectations of what the process will consist of during hearings. I urge the administration to change a broken status quo.

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Bron Maher is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

Tyler Fredricks is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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continued from page 1 “Having too small a pool and constantly drawing from it will make the well run dry,” said junior Jamal Edwards, president of the Black Student Alliance. Ben Reese, vice president for institutional equality, said he could not comment on the feelings of individual professors. According to the Faculty Diversity Initiative’s biannual report in 2013, just 4.2 percent of Duke’s faculty identified as black. Other minorities were similarly underrepresented, with 2.1 percent identifying as Hispanic and 14.8 percent identifying as Asian. Timothy Tyson, a visiting professor of American Christianity at the Divinity school, said based on his experience, he could see how professors of color would say they were overworked. As a white professor, Tyson said, he does not share their burden. “I don’t feel any obligation to represent white people,”said Anthony Alvernaz | The Chronicle Tyson, much of whose scholarship deals with questions of race. Kerry Haynie, associate professor of political science, noted that black faculty members have been asked to sit on committees “Nobody’s feeling any pressure to include more white people more frequently than their white counterparts in order to provide a diverse perspective. on committees.” Professors of color are often additionally charged with mentoring minority students at predominantly white institutions, said Trina Jones, a professor of law. Although mentoring is a critically important duty, she said, after a while, the hours add up in the “publish or perish” world of academia. “It takes a toll on your ability to produce. At the end of the day, scholarly production is still hugely important,” she said. Jones balances her scholarship and mentoring duties with committee work, including her position as co-chair of the Faculty Diversity Task Force. The task force is currently writing a comprehensive review of the state of University faculty. After being convened by the provost last year, the task force has worked to collect demographic information and compare Duke to peer institutions. The role of faculty mentorship was just one of several roles professors of color are forced to play, Edwards said. He added that with all of their Duke responsibilities, it is easy to forget faculty are people with lives outside of the University. “They are professors, they are parents, they are husbands, they are wives,” Edwards said. Professors often feel obliged to speak on important racial issues, he elaborated, pointing to the example of panels held last year following the events in Ferguson, Mo. Duke’s faculty diversity issues are not unique to the University, Tyson said, noting that he saw a similar situation while a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Nationally, black faculty are not much better represented than they are at Duke. According to a 2014 report by the National Center for Education Statistics, 6 percent of faculty at degree-granting post-secondary institutions are black. Edwards said he agreed it is a national issue, adding that this is far from new—and it is not only faculty that feel extra obligations from being at a predominantly white institution. “Being a black student at a PWI comes with an extra burden. It’s a given,” he said. “We work throughout the four years to create awareness, to raise race relations, to get the university to a more progressive state.” Haynie said one thing the school could do to address this issue is to do a better job of retaining faculty of color—an admittedly difficult task given the competitive nature of the academic world. Recruiting black faculty is a difficult task due to a relatively small pipeline, so an emphasis on retention is more effective, Haynie added. Edwards similarly said the problem is complex and saying Duke needs to do a better job of recruiting overly simplifies the issue. “Suggesting that would be in ignorance of how difficult it is to recruit,” he said. “If it were just as easy as that, I think it would be done.”

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