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to tie the game at 38 apiece, Matt Jones took a feed from Tyus Jones in the right corner and knocked down a huge triple to give the Blue Devils back the lead.

After a Bulldogs timeout, Matt Jones struck again, converting a steal into an easy layup on the other end to extend Duke’s lead.

“This isn’t the first time Matt has come up big for us, and it won’t be the last,” Okafor said.

On the Blue Devils’ next possession, Tyus Jones leapt out of bounds to save the ball and threw it off the back of Gonzaga center Przemek Karnowski— who was lying on the floor—to keep the ball in Duke’s hands.

“It was just off a miss,” Jones said. “I was able to get a deflection and knew that if I was able to throw it off Karnowski, it would give us another possession.”

Okafor hit a jump hook off the ensuing inbounds play to give the Blue Devils a 43-38 advantage and send Duke’s bench into a frenzy.

The Bulldogs hung tough and cut Duke’s lead to 53-51 with less than five minutes to play, but the Blue Devils would not be denied a trip back to Indianapolis, where they won their last national championship in 2010. Duke responded with a 7-0 run, with all seven points coming from Winslow, who hit a triple from the left wing with the shot clock winding down to push his team’s advantage to nine and force a timeout.

Winslow was surprisingly calm from the free-throw line down the stretch as well. Entering play shooting a dismal 59.5 percent from the charity stripe, the freshman forward went a perfect

The Blue Devils defeated the Bulldogs to return to the Final Four for the first time since 2010 Daniel Carp Beat Writer HOUSTON—Heroes can sometimes come from the unlikeliest of places.

With the Blue Devils’ season on the line, it was not ACC Player of the Year Jahlil Okafor, senior captain Quinn Cook or Houston native Justise Winslow who answered the call.

It was the Joneses. Both of them.

Key plays down the stretch from sophomore Matt Jones and freshman Tyus Jones helped propel top-seeded Duke past second-seeded Gonzaga 6652 Sunday evening at NRG Stadium to send the Blue Devils back to the Final Four for the first time since 2010.

“I just kept telling myself that I was due for a big game,” Matt Jones said.

“As a team we had one goal in mind, and that was to get to [the Final Four].

I knew that we had to do whatever it takes to get there. I found myself open a little bit, and a couple of times I just had to knock them down.”

Tyus Jones finished with 15 points and six assists, and Matt Jones added 16 points on 4-of-7 shooting from beyond the arc. Winslow tied Jones with a teamhigh 16 points, 11 of them coming in the second half.

It felt like the game was slipping away from Duke when Gonzaga (35-3) used a 7-0 second-half run to take a 3834 lead with 16:20 left in the game. After the Blue Devils (33-4) fought back

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Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Head coach Mike Krzyzewski cut down the nets after the Blue Devils’ 66-52 victory against the Bulldogs Sunday. Duke will advance to the Final Four for the 12th time under Krzyzewski.

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At 7 p.m. Thursday night, 2,650 of more than 28,000 regular decision applicants learned they had been accepted to Duke.

The 9.4 percent acceptance rate for the Class of 2019—up from last year’s low of 9 percent—marked the third year that the regular decision acceptance rate fell in the single digits. The total number of regular decision applications dipped slightly— from 29,300 last year to just more than 28,000 this year.

This year, 815 students were admitted through the early decision process—filling a record 48 percent of the total class. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag told The Chronicle Thursday

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that admissions officers seek a balance of “students for whom Duke is a first choice” and “students who chose Duke after having had lots of options.”

Guttentag said although exact statistics for racial, ethnic and geographic diversity will not be calculated until students enroll, the Class of 2019 looks as if it will be “very similar” in terms of demographics to the Class of 2018.

Many applicants said they were attracted to the University because of its emphasis on global outreach and international engagement.

“One thing that stood out about the Duke representative and Duke in general was the energy and engagement,” said Phil Kariuki, a prospective student from Kenya.

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Research shows gradual disappearance of southern drawl “It’s just that a lot of the more salient features of the accent have been leveled” Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle New research shows that the well-known Southern drawl is slowly disappearing in North Carolina.

Robin Dodsworth, associate professor of linguistics at North Carolina State University, has used recordings of hundreds of Raleigh residents in order to study changes in the Southern accent.

What she found is that some of the unique vowel sounds most commonly associated with Southern speech are now harder to find in Raleigh. Multiple facRobin Dodsworth tors such as urbanization and stigmatization may have played a role in this transformation. Even in retreat, however, the quintessential Southern accent continues to carry significant weight in people’s cultural imagination.

Linguists are unsure as to exactly when the Southern accent developed, but it might be a more recent development than most people tend to think.

“There is some evidence that it had probably gotten started by the Civil War,” Dodsworth said. “There’s no way it was in full force by then. It’s possible that it only really got going toward the end of the second half of the 19th century.”

Dodsworth added that from then on it is easier to track when the Southern accent took hold in North Carolina.

“What I can tell you for sure is that the Southern shift had hit Raleigh by the early 20th century, no question,” Dodsworth said. “The very oldest speakers of Raleigh were born in the 1920s and 1930s, and they most definitely are southern-shifted.”

Dodsworth noted, however, that when she looked at Raleigh residents born in the 1960s, the Southern accent seemed to be in decline.

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“The Southern shifted accent definitely started to retreat in Raleigh starting with people born in 1950,” Dodsworth said. “It’s been gradually, gradually, gradually in retreat ever since that time. It’s happening all across the urban South. All these places are going to be retreating from the older Southern system to what you can call an a-regional accent.”

Dodsworth added that Raleigh’s growth as an industrial center in the early 1960s was a strong contributor to this shift.

“Following World War II, a lot of people moved down from the North to the South for work, and we saw an industrial boom because it was easier to set up shop here,” Dodsworth said. “In Raleigh specifically, Research Triangle Park and in particular IBM got going, and that drew a lot of whitecollar workers from various Northern places to come down here for work.”

Youth migration in particular was probably a strong cause of this transition

to the a-regional accent, Dodsworth said.

“What you have then is what we call a dialect contact situation,” she explained.

“A lot of people from elsewhere brought their kids, and those kids infiltrated the schools here and little by little by little over the course of several decades Southern features kind of got washed out.”

Although the Southern accent might be in retreat, it has by no means completely disappeared, said Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday distinguished professor of English Linguistics at NC State.

He noted that while the accent remains prevalent in rural areas, it has become less pronounced in urban areas.

“The traditional southern dialect has a much more rural connotation now,” Wolfram said. “The urban south is still Southern but it’s just that a lot of the more salient features of the accent have been leveled.”

Dodsworth noted, however, that mi-

gration is not the only cause of this shift.

The stigmatization of the southern accent in popular culture encouraged residents of the urban South to abandon their old way of speaking.

“A lot of people in southern cities want to cultivate a certain sort of identity,” she said. “[They want] people who are from the North to respect them so they’re not seen as stupid or lazy or something, which is of course absolutely ridiculous because there’s nothing stupid or lazy about the Southern accent.”

Linguists have long known that people exhibit biases and make character judgements based on accents, Dodsworth explained.

“There have been various kinds of experiments, and all of it more or less concludes that we all assign personal characteristics to dialects,” she said. “Even if all See Accents on Page 3

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we’re paying attention to is one feature, we conclude things about the person like level of intelligence, friendliness and other complicated traits. It’s pretty unambiguous that we do that. ” Gareth Price, visiting assistant professor of linguistics at Duke, noted that this effect can be seen in the Netflix show “House of Cards.”

“My guess is that the choice of the Southern accent, rather than a Midwestern or Boston accent, goes all the way back to the Mason-Dixon line and all the way to the North-South divide,” Price said. “The contrast there between the Southern accent and the D.C. accent is particularly stark, and it helps to set up some real opposition and conflict for the characters in the show.”

There are numerous documented examples of politicians changing their accent, whether consciously or unconsciously, in order to reap the benefits of sounding familiar, Wolfram said.

“When Governor [Pat] McCrory was campaigning, he got into trouble for trying to sound too folksy and North Carolinian,” he explained. “People said it wasn’t him and where he came from, so it was kind of a paternalism he was using to sound more homey.”

Price added that, ultimately, the accents politicians use can have significant implications for how voters perceive them.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a Republican or a Democrat,” Price said. “If you sound too much like you’re from the Boston Brahmins in the Northeast, you’re not going to do particularly well at all in North Carolina.”

“I fell in love with Duke from that day and words cannot define the excitement that my family and I feel for this glorious opportunity.”

Jennifer Hong, a a student from Beijing who was admitted early decision, said she was most excited about the opportunities for academic engagement that Duke offers.

“Chinese public school doesn’t have much resources for students to pursue what they are passionate about,” Hong said. “However, Duke is different! I can’t wait to meet everyone in my Humanitarian Challenges FOCUS cluster and engage in thought-provoking discussion.”

Pauline Grieb, a student from France, said she “could not believe it” when she received the congratulatory message.

“Suddenly I found myself dancing around the room and my mom’s words repeating ‘Yes, yes oh…yes!’ thudding in my ear,” Grieb wrote in an email Sunday.

For some students, the notion of attending Duke has been a long-standing dream.

Rachel Serieix, who was admitted early decision, said she knew Duke was the university for her as soon as she set foot on campus.

“Duke was truly unmatched,” she said.

“Now, accepted and eagerly awaiting my first day as a student, I can affirm that being a blue devil is the best feeling imaginable.”

With the total cost of attendance for next year coming in $63,273, the highest in the University’s history, many students’ enrollment hinges on the financial aid packages they receive.

Duke admissions policy is domestically need-blind—meaning that students’ ability to pay is not considered in the admissions process and 100 percent of demonstrated financial need will be met. Approximately

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half of Duke students receive some form of financial assistance, with more than 40 percent receiving need-based financial aid.

Grants, loans and work-study opportunities are all included in need-based aid.

“Most of my family has not been to college and here I am going to one of the most prestigious universities in the world,” said Kristel Black, who was admitted early decision. “Hard work really does pay off.

The academia will be rigorous, but valuable, the connections I make will be lifelong, and the experiences I will have will stay with me forever and guide me to find my true calling.”

Many noted that they are most excited

about the people that make up the Duke community.

“I am humbled by the group of students that I will be joining on East Campus next year—they are intelligent, accomplished and all-around fantastic individuals. Duke is one of the best universities in the country with extensive programs and opportunities that I hope to benefit from,” prospective student Robert Bahner said.

Sometimes, pure excitement was all students could focus on.

“I got up from my chair and shouted to my parents downstairs “I GOT INTO DUKE!” prospective student Johnny Everdeen said.

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1 BANNER NOT ENOUGH FOR COOK, DUKE Daniel Carp Beat Writer HOUSTON—Standing atop the ladder preparing to cut down the nets after earning a South Regional championship and his first trip to the Final Four, Quinn Cook joked to his teammates that he was afraid of heights.

Making it to the top of that ladder was a new experience for Cook. Throughout his senior season, the Duke guard said his primary motivation was that he “hadn’t won anything yet.” For a player that has now been part of 116 Blue Devil victories, that is only partially true.

Sunday’s 66-52 victory against secondseeded Gonzaga marked the first time one of Cook’s Duke teams had won a game that would result in a banner hanging at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Cook had previously been a part of three games during his collegiate career that could have sent a banner flying into the rafters. As a freshman, Cook’s Blue Devils squared off with North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium in the final game of the regular season to decide the ACC regular season title. The following year, Duke fell one game short of the Final Four against top-seeded Louisville in the Midwest Regional final. The Blue Devils had the chance to win an ACC tournament

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Senior Quinn Cook is averaging 14.5 points per game in the 2015 NCAA tournament and secured his first banner with Duke’s 66-52 victory against Gonzaga.

SPORTS title when Cook was a junior, but fell to Virginia in the championship game.

As Cook sat in the Duke locker room basking in the team’s first Final Four trip in five years with the net hanging around his neck, he couldn’t say he hadn’t won anything anymore. “[Cook has] done an amazing job all season. He’s been an outstanding leader— he’s been our rock,” junior forward Amile

Jefferson said. “For us to do this for him is bigtime.”

The day before Sunday’s game, Cook called Duke’s 2013 Elite Eight loss to Louisville the most painful of his career. He said he and Jefferson constantly reminded the team’s younger players of that pain in hopes the Blue Devils would never have to feel it again.

Early in the second half it looked like the game might be slipping away from

Duke. A 5-0 Gonzaga run tied the game at 31-31. After sophomore Matt Jones drilled a 3-pointer from the corner to give the Blue Devils back the lead, Cook—the team’s emotional leader—slapped the floor before the start of his team’s next defensive possession.

With Duke trailing 38-34 moments later and the momentum squarely in the Bulldogs’ corner, Cook was vocal when his team took a timeout to steady itself.

“He was just getting us hype, letting us know that we were going to win this game,” freshman center Jahlil Okafor said. “They made their run, and we were about to make ours.”

When the Blue Devils broke the huddle, Cook wasted no time in taking the ball at the rim, banking in a runner off the glass to get his team back on track. That shot was the start of a 9-0 run that gave Duke a lead it would never relinquish.

With 1:17 remaining, Cook was fouled in the backcourt and walked to the freethrow line to give the Blue Devils a 10-point lead. As he calmly stepped to the line and knocked down his two free throws, everyone inside NRG Stadium knew that Duke was finally Final Four-bound.

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Terrapins bounce Blue Devils from NCAA tournament Jack Dolgin Staff Writer SPOKANE, Wash.—Saturday, the deep ball proved superior to the paint.

Despite many Duke runs to close the gap, Maryland’s prolific three-point shooting fueled a 65-55 Terrapin win in the Sweet 16 Saturday afternoon at Spokane Arena.

Not only did Maryland shoot 8-for-19 from beyond the arc, it also won the rebounding battle against the tallest team in the country.

“When they got those threes early we just didn’t adjust very well and then we finally shut them down,” said center Elizabeth Williams, who scored 18 points in the final game of her Blue Devil career. “But we just were so inconsistent in the second half— that’s what hurt us.”

The top-seeded Terrapins (33-2) led from the start, giving up the lead only once during the game when a Williams jumper put the Blue Devils up 11-9 with 14:22 left in the first half.

With a size advantage at every position, Duke (23-11) wanted to play methodically but could not keep slowing the pace down.

Although the Blue Devils avoided the type of severe turnover trouble that has caused problems throughout the year, Maryland took off as the No. 4 seed struggled shooting.

During the first half, the star of Maryland’s offense was Laurin Mincy, who shot 4-of-5 from beyond the arc during the frame and went to the locker room with 15 points.

“The lack of focus on Mincy was a real problem,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “Maryland did a terrific job of being the aggressor in the field half and it kind of set us back a little bit. They have a lot of guards…we didn’t.”

At the same time, Duke was not able

SPORTS Jack Dolgin | The Chronicle Senior Elizabeth Williams closed out her illustrious Duke career with an 18-point performance in Duke’s 65-55 loss to Maryland.

to rely on a usual strength—rebounding.

Led by 6-foot-3 center Brionna Jones— who added 10 rebounds to her 10 points for a double-double—the Terrapins outrebounded the Blue Devils 33-24. On the offensive glass, Duke managed just two

rebounds in the first 20 minutes.

Although it took a little time to reflect it on the scoreboard, the Blue Devils came out of the locker room with a different beat to their step. The team was starting to hunker down on defense in a way it had not in the

first half and fed the ball down low.

“We talked about getting back to the basics, defense and rebounding, and getting back to the way we play basketball,” freshman Azura Stevens said. “That really helped us come out strong.”

Trailing by eight at the 15:08 mark in the second half, Duke jumped out on a 9-2 spurt, needing a little more than two minutes to cut the deficit to one. The Blue Devils used a block, an offensive rebound, a 3-pointer and three layups to force a Maryland timeout.

From there, though, it was all downhill for Duke.

Mincy did not score in the second half, but other sharpshooting Terrapins picked up the slack, scoring eight straight points to push the lead back to nine. Shatori WalkerKimbrough scored 18 of her game-high 24 points in the final 20 minutes and Brene Moseley hit a pair of timely triples to extend the Maryland advantage. The potent outside shooting—combined with eight more Blue Devil turnovers and an upbeat tempo to the game—spelled doom for the Duke.

“Once we made up our mind that we were going to attack and jam the ball inside like we always do, I think we put them on their heels,” senior guard Ka’lia Johnson said. “We just needed to keep that going for a full 40, not just 20 minutes.”

Maryland will face the winner of Gonzaga and Tennessee in the Elite Eight Monday night as the careers of Williams and Johnson came to a close for the Blue Devils. The seniors combined for 33 points in the loss.

“We’re never going to forget the lessons [Elizabeth and Ka’lia] brought,” McCallie said. “We’re not going to let go of the foundation for what they represent and who they are… Duke women’s basketball is so much better because [they] chose to be a part.”

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From liability to indispensable—Mr. Matt Jones HOUSTON—”It’s like a sigh of relief to be able to feel good about yourself on the offensive end and not be that liability anymore.”

That was Matt Jones Feb. 7 after Duke’s 90-60 win against Notre Dame.

Don’t worry Matt, nobody will confuse you for a liability anymore after Sunday’s Regional Championship game.

The sophomore from DeSoto, Texas, was arguably the best player on the floor for the Blue Devils as No. 1 seeded Duke toppled No. 2 seeded Gonzaga 66-52 to earn a trip to the Final Four in Indianapolis. Not only did Jones apply his usual defensive magic—matching a career-high with three steals— but he also poured in a team-high-tying 16 points and hit 4-of-7 shots from beyond the arc. After the game, he was also named to the South Regional All-Tournament Team along with Justise Winslow, Gonzaga’s Kyle Wiltjer and Domantas Sabonis, and Most Outstanding Player Tyus Jones.

“Matt gave us such a huge lift,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He’s been that dirty-work guy, and for him to hit those four threes, it’s like a big difference.”

“Dirty work” may as well be Matt Jones’ middle name.

Jones is always the guy diving for loose balls, scrapping for offensive rebounds, and talking to his teammates on defense.

He’s also always the man who’s forgotten when Duke thrives.

During a 20-minute press conference before the Elite Eight matchup, Jones sat idly on the dais while the rest of the starting unit answered question after question until the moderator mercifully told Jones to answer one for himself.

You can’t even find Matt Jones on the Internet if you look for him. On ESPN.com alone there are four results for Matt Jones that come up before the hero of the South Region Championship game: Matt Jones, the former Cincinnati Bengal who hasn’t played since 2008; Matt Jones of the Florida Gators, who is one in a committee of running backs; Matt Jones, the former Phoenix Coyote, who also hasn’t played since 2008; and a Matt Jones who allegedly played for the San Jose Sharks, though Hockey-Reference.com has no record of any Matt Jones other than the former Coyote (who, apparently, never played for the Sharks).

Think about that. Duke’s Matt Jones is so obscure that he’s comes up after two guys who haven’t played their sport in seven years and a phantom player who may not actually exist.

But in a weird way, that sort of quirk fits the Blue Devils’

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Matt Jones’ personality. Although his teammates were quick to heap praise onto their defensive ace, Jones himself stayed humble and pretended that he was not integral to the team’s victory.

“If I found myself open, I was going to shoot it,” Jones said.

“Luckily we have guys like Jahlil [Okafor] and Justise [Winslow] to take us home—and Quinn [Cook]—so I took a back seat to them and obviously we’re here in this position.”

Sorry to burst the bubble, but I’m not sure hitting a 3-pointer to nip a 5-0 run in the bud before it got out of hand and coming up with a steal and transition layup to ice the game count as taking a back seat.

“That three—we all felt it,” Winslow said. “It just gave us a lot of energy. He’s always there on defense and being tough and being active. When he has that shooting ability and that attacking the basket on the offensive end you know we’re very tough to beat.”

Who could blame Jones for thinking he was taking a back seat, though? That’s been his job all season. Krzyzewski even talked about Jones as a starter before the year because he didn’t need the ball in his hands on offense. That’s the epitome of back seat.

Gonzaga head coach Mark Few certainly hoped Jones would stay out of the offensive flow, opting to “take a chance” and try to hide Kyle Wiltjer defensively on Jones. It’s clear how that plan worked out.

That back-seat mentality is hard to shed for a player. Jones started to do so after the Notre Dame game back in February, but it’s tough to totally eradicate it. Freshman Grayson Allen described Jones as “hard on himself and critical of himself.”

He spoke of how the team and the coaches needed to keep showing confidence in Jones, because they all knew he could be that difference-maker offensively.

“As a team we just try to put on the mantra of a new day,” Jones said. “I hated being a liability, and today I had a good game.”

Jones is certainly not a liability anymore. He’s the reason Duke is still dancing.

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But just minutes after achieving a goal that dates back four years, Cook had moved onto his team’s next challenge. When a reporter asked him about Duke’s quest for a banner being done, Cook interrupted her and replied, “It’s not over.”

“Just getting to the Final Four wasn’t our ultimate goal. We want to win two more games,” he said. “To be so close, it’s overwhelming. But you have to stay humble and hungry because it’s not over yet.”

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6-for-6 on the evening.

“He was locked in,” Cook said. “He showed the world the type of player he is.”

Redshirt junior Kyle Wiltjer was a matchup problem for Duke all night, scoring 16 points to lead Gonzaga.

But Winslow’s defensive intensity helped keep Wiltjer off the scoreboard when it mattered most, holding the 6-foot-10 forward to just three points in the second half.

After allowing the Bulldogs—who entered play ranked seventh in the nation averaging 79.4 points per game—to take the lead, the Blue Devils let up just 14 points in the game’s final 16:20.

“I’m so proud of our guys because we beat a hell of a team and our defense the last 16 minutes was spectacular,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I love these guys and they came through.”

The Blue Devils will advance to the Final Four for the 12th time under Krzyzewski and will take on East Regional champion Michigan State Saturday at 6:09 p.m. at Lucas Oil Stadium.

“This is what I always wanted,” Okafor said.

“Watching March Madness growing up, you always wanted to be on a team that goes to the Final Four and has an opportunity to win a national championship.

It’s a dream come true.”

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This is an awe I hold for all politicians—those who are able to weather incessant misrepresentation and attack, and not take it personally.

We all vilify politics as disingenuous and manipulative. We laugh darkly at those political ads that grossly oversimplify complex issues into ridiculous slogans. Many of us—myself included—have at some point become completely disillusioned with the process. When I tell people I’m a political science major with zero plans of going into elected office, they raise an eyebrow initially and then immediately nod in approval. It’s a terrible, messy business, they say. I’m glad you’re steering clear of it.

And the numbers don’t lie. Only 30 percent of the Duke student body voted in the most recent DSG elections.

We don’t give our politicians enough credit, do we?

It is at this point that I shall invoke the words of the great—also much vilified—Machiavelli, who argued that politics functioned under an alternative moral framework. Public necessity requires acts that private ethics condemn as immoral and unjust, he said. Once

power was no longer personal, it must be moralized based on ragion di stato—the reason of state. After all, should we not care less about the authenticity of a leader than about the deliverance of peace and security?

Politics is an art, and a noble one at that.

Being a politician requires balancing the often-contradictory interests of the public and your party with your conscience. It doesn’t take an Einstein to realize how incredibly difficult that is. As the former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada Michael Ignatieff once said, “it is really something in life to be utterly disabused about human motive, venality, capacity for double-crossing, and yet still come to work every day, trying to get something done.” Beyond that, the political process we have today, vulgar as it can be, is the only way we can carry out any form of democracy.

We spend far too much time dissecting the person and not the policies—to this day, Americans still get fired up about the Clinton-Lewinsky affair. In democratic North America we demand total transparency without realizing that transparency usually makes it harder for politicians to find compromise and get things done. And let’s face it, we all think we’re better than our politicians.

Now, I’m not discouraging active dialogue and criticism. We absolutely need to hold politicians accountable to their words. But I also think we need to give them more leeway, especially in our judgments. There needs to be a public consensus that sometimes in politics “what goes on in Vegas stays in Vegas”.

There are opportunists and glory-seekers in every field, but I think that we’ll find that at the end of the day, most politicians simply want the best for their public. They are ordinary humans carrying out an extraordinary task.

And so to all the student governmentarians and politicians out there: I salute you. I salute your stamina, your ability to play the game and your ruthless ambition to do something that matters. But while I respect you, I never want to be you.

Bochen Han is a Trinity sophomore.

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t is my firm belief that we, as a collective student community, have the capacity and power to create widespread institutional change.

Faced with the reemergence of racism at Duke, something that has become a semester-ly occurrence, an inept student government and a general apathy amongst the student body for a multitude of local and campus-wide issues, maintaining this belief may just be in vain. After all, we’ll only ever do something if Yale or Stanford has already done it.

Every time there is another scandal that makes national news, social media explodes with posts of support or rejection taking about a week to die down before slipping into our subconscious as Duke students. Rarely, if ever, does tangible institutional change result from a problem or issue coming to light. We have no one to blame but our-

analyze and engage with complex issues seeking a dosage of truth amidst the clutter. Even when it might be easy to do this in a paper for class, we shy away from applying such questioning to our own lives, our own communities, and our institutions simply out of convenience and sometimes out of fear.

Risk is inherent to this process of Socratic Questioning when it comes to our own lives. I have to be willing to come to grips with hard truths about myself and my place in society, especially when I am the beneficiary of privilege and institutional advantages because this society and this community were made for me. The truth is rarely convenient nor does it come without a cost. When you begin to recognize the truth about yourself, questioning mandates a response to injustice.

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veryone around me—or at least it feels like everyone—is stressed, rushing between temples of productivity. Beautiful spring Sundays spent standing over lab benches. Theses spun from the recycled air of Von Der Heyden and caffeine. Art exhibits planned justso along the tightrope line of theorizing and inspiring. Conferences where everyone’s an expert.

And I watch as these rituals prove my peers’ prowess in ever-higher circles— spiraling up ivory towers of academia I’ve foregone. I try to console myself with the idea that the Chapel is best viewed from below.

It’s a desperate attempt.

I’m proud of my peers and humbled. But, as my tone likely reveals, I suffer pangs of self-doubt and a need to prove myself— to crescendo, to flaunt, to impress.

I am currently a second semester part-time, non-thesis-writing senior. I am taking the scenic route towards May 10th graduation while many rough it through capstones, theses and the LSAT/MCAT/GMAT/etc. You’re bar-

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selves for that lack of development as a university.

When President Brodhead and Provost Kornbluth emailed the student body on Thursday in response to the growing recognition of an incident on East Campus involving the racist SAE chant and responses on a variety of social media from Yik Yak to Tumblr, all I could think to myself is here we go again. Another email, another statement, and then little change as a result.

The email spoke of “our dream for a colorblind and inclusive nation” and an “institutional climate that affirms the dignity of every community member.” Clearly, they meant well by communicating this message to the Duke community even with the faulty colorblind reference, but there is a deeper truth beneath the words. We’re great at making statements, at handling scandals, but we really do not want to take the risk to make a tangible effort to remedy or change the way we operate as a result. There are students and faculty committed to this change, yet many remain apathetic save maybe a Facebook post.

I want to imagine for a minute what a different response might look like to this most recent revelation—one many on this campus have known since they arrived at Duke—that racism both individual and institutional exists in the Gothic Wonderland. Imagine with me for a moment.

When reports of the incident on East Campus circulated on campus and outlets like Yik Yak became the hub of racist sentiments on campus, social media outlets would begin to propagate these statements to reach a broader student audience. In tandem, student leaders would gather to organize and determine a path forward, something that has actually occurred over the past week. While social media campaigns take hold of student consciousness amid Final Four berths and midterms, each individual from student to top administrator would take at least a moment to seek out truth, to question deeply and honestly whether this is the Duke we want it to be.

This questioning, Socratic Questioning in other words, is the key to creating change in institutions like Duke. It’s the kind of soul searching to take ownership over unjust realities and to respond in turn. It’s the kind of questioning we are meant to perform every day in the classroom to

to improve society. When our university’s goal is “knowledge in the service of society”, yet we fail to even seek the knowledge of ourselves that allows us to serve our own community, something must be wrong.

If we want to see change on this campus, the first step is to recognize the truths of daily life here, the paradoxes of wealth and inequality, of privilege and lack thereof among others. Often we get stuck on this step, but even when we take the time to perform this process, tangible responses rarely follow. Questioning mandates a response when truth is obtained. Emails, statements and social media only go so far. Once we question, we have to learn to take the risk of acting to remedy injustice with material realities.

After the Adhan controversy, what if we realized that space for religious life on this campus comes at a premium and that Muslim students are relegated to a small campus center on Central campus. What if we decided to construct a space for them like the Freeman Center or the Chapel, a space where it was clear that Muslim students at Duke were not expected to hide in the basement or be under constant scrutiny?

Today, what if we recognized as BSAI weekend occurred on campus that the lack of investment in financial aid restricts access to a Duke education and continues to feed a campus culture marked by massive inequality masked by wealth. What if the discussion became more about building a table, a campus community, that affirms the humanity and dignity of every student, rather than opening up spots at the old table for marginalized identities?

What if we took the risk to eliminate the communities that divide students based on race, income, sexual orientation and gender identity among other marginalized identities?

We’ll only get to that point when students and administrators each take the bold step to seek truth and acknowledge the failures of this community. The road to creating communities that celebrate all identities rather than simply include them in the fold will continue to be set before us as we still stand at a crossroads.

We only need the courage to walk down it.

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reling towards the finish line and I’m well— I’m meandering.

The meandering is harder than it looks, though.

There are impulses to busy and buzz, to prove and push, to flex and rush nipping at my heels. “Don’t let them send you off running,” I have to constantly remind myself.

Four years ago as a Duke first-year, I studied Karl Marx and was captivated by the idea that capitalism makes time, money and leisure and expression its enemy—my enemy. In the margins of Marx’s manuscripts, I decided that our economic system wasn’t right. I was reflective and youthfully indignant. Yet, just a year later, I declared a major in economics and finance, chasing a job on Wall Street, chasing wealth. Stockpiling rather than living.

I learned how a person could forget her own truths.

This reflection is a reminder for me because I am not really frustrated with anyone else. I am afraid of myself. I am afraid for my future.

I am afraid of the part of myself that looks around Duke and feels anxiety. That worries about the empty spot on her diploma where graduation with distinction might have been.

I am afraid that I will think there is a difference between a cashier’s smile and generosity, between giving the benefit of the doubt and strength.

I am afraid that I will get tired. That one day, I will let myself forget that it takes constant conscientiousness and vigilance to live a life I am proud of. And that, instead, I will give in to the belief that a job or a house or a partner could be my one-stop-shop guarantee. I am afraid that I will seek renown, seek permission to celebrate myself. That love will become conditional. That I will confuse slowness and patience for unimportance. That I will think influence is measured at mahogany tables, in money and miles.

That it is measurable at all.

I am afraid of the part of myself that mistakes peace for mediocrity.

So this year I am trying to train the muscles that meander. I am taking wheel-throwing classes with elderly woman. I am shucking oysters and filleting fish. I am going for walks. I am reading a translation of the Gita. I am letting simple curiosities consume my whole day. Like when a question about crickets turned into twelve hours of learning about R, Python and data mining Twitter. I am spending time—not worrying about wasting it. I am traveling. I am going to bed early and leaving the blinds open to wake up to the sun—not an alarm.

I am not rushing between classes, meetings, raucous parties and my books.

I am sitting uncomfortable in free time, and I’m working hard to like it.

To love myself without the fanfare.

So, Class of 2015, best of luck! Do great things and be great to the people around you. Any one of us might be the one to cure Alzheimer’s, stabilize global markets or redesign the education system. Who knows?

The thing that I do know is just this: I won’t always keep pace with you but with any luck—no with hard and constant work I might just keep peace.

Kate Bulger is a Trinity senior.

The Chronicle

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12 | MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015

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