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Science overthrows DSG overnight Do Something? Govt. Policy Analyst The Chomicle The Do Something? Government leadership was deposed last night in a swift coup led by senior Jacob Science, senator for academic affairs and senate president pro tempore.

The coup, spurred by discord surrounding the failure of a recent amendment to the DSG Constitution in favor of small government, occurred in the middle of the night. The takeover ended with a seemingly friendly handover of power from former DSG President Magma Render, a junior, to Science, who immediately named himself DSG premier.

“The question isn’t who is going to let me—it’s who is going to stop me,” Science said from a balcony in the Bryan Center in response to popular outcry.

Science called for all senators who have missed more than three meetings to be sacked. This led to the dismissal of 42 of the 60 senators.

No one expected that Science, a strong proponent of democracy, would attempt to overthrow DSG’s popularly elected representatives. In addition to naming himself premier, he also dissolved the former presidential cabinet and replaced it with a select few close advisors, including current Executive Vice President Crabhi Panda, a junior, and Vice President for Academic Affairs Bae Li, a senior.

Li explained that Science was ensuring a future of small government at Duke in a time of moral crisis.

“You can’t be for big government, big tuition and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy,” Li said.

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Entire campus closing down NotaSwedishDJ The Chomicle

Effective immediately, Duke announced that it would be closed for construction until 2017.

All campus buildings will be off-limits to students, faculty and staff, and the University will not be admitting new students for the next two years.

The decision came after administrators realized that the large number of walkways slated to be closed in order to finish the current construction meant that no buildings would remain accessible.

“We decided it would just be too inconvenient to keep the students here any longer,” said Goliath Tusk, vice president for construction. “With the students out of the way, it is the perfect time to fix up all the other buildings as well.”

He noted that air conditioning would be added to all the dorms without it, except for Jarvis.

In the two years students have off, Duke will be providing a number of opportunities—including a new program called DukeConstruct in which students will be able to have “an immersive service experience” for non résumé-related purposes by serving as volunteer construction workers.

“Instead of sending affluent students to go safari camping in Africa, we’re giving them an opportunity to provide meaningful assistance here at home,” said Elmo Netta, vice president for student affairs.

Duke sports will continue during the shutdown, and Madison Square Garden has been reserved for basketball games.

Photo Illustration by Young Chen | The Chronicle Campus construction workers celebrate the two-year closing of campus knowing that students will soon join their ranks.

“We just realized that with the amount of students from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, these would basically all still be home games,” said Kenneth Black, vice president and director of athletics.

Administrators took an optimistic approach to the closing, noting that

visitors to campus will no longer mistake cranes for the Chapel.

Students, however, were largely ambivalent about the closure.

“If it means I won’t have mulch stuck between my toes for the next two years, I guess I’m okay with it,” freshman Cam Plain said.

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Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The Duke University Someone’s Always Dining Committee unanimously voted to add Chipotle to the Merchants-on-Points lineup.

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After months of student speculation, the Duke University Someone’s Always Dining Committee has finally spilled the beans on the next addition to the Merchants on Points program—Chipotle Mexican Grill.

In a meeting Tuesday evening featuring burritos, guacamole and a mariachi band, DUSADC unanimously voted Chipotle as the new MOP vendor. The decision was made after considering a number of other restaurants—including Monuts, another popular choice. DUSADC members not-

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ed, however, the choice was clear.

“Chipotle was by and large the hottest option,” said senior George Thompson, DUSADC co-chair, noting that DUSADC hoped to put the restaurant on food points by the start of the fall semester.

Since a delivery service called Radoozle announced it would be offering Chipotle delivery last spring, many students have speculated about the possibility of bringing Chipotle directly to Duke. A national chain, Chipotle has a location on Erwin Road— still, students pointed out that the distance from West Campus was problematic.

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In the past, there had been logistical issues getting Chipotle as a MOP vendor, Thompson said, since the restaurant doesn’t offer delivery services. DUSADC, however, has reached an agreement with DeliveryOne—the latest undergraduate startup—which will allow Chipotle deliveries to be made by students.

As of now, deliveries from Chipotle may be slightly slower than the average order-to-delivery waiting time of two hours, Thompson said. But DUSADC is confident these minor issues will soon be resolved.

“We’re not going to chicken out of providing students the best dining experience possible,” Thompson said.

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ENDING THE RAPE GAME: Open Letter To Law Professor Neil Siegel I. “She-said, he-said” reigns because evidentiary progress in rape crises stalled.

New DNA ID in 1987 should have beat undergrad rape crises. Sadly, law schools slept.

Student Affairs was open to an evidence solution in ‘12, and suggested students lead.

II. Data: a Duke PhD found 4% college men surveyed “forced sex” +/-6 times each.

“She-said, he-said” impunity fuels their ugly game, and a 20% female survey rape rate.

Some debate the surveys, yet all agree willful repeat-rapists exist. And must be stopped.

For that, alone with a Duke woman, any man must enter knowing rape means expulsion.

Duke alums honed a consent truth framework to beat rape, hacks, leaks, drink, coercion, etc.

Thus, three Duke women who cited ‘13 athlete assault needed such proof of non-consent.

Student Affairs ’12 rationale was that social students often heed students, less often staff.

The damage: five unprotected students hurt; Coach K, AD White, the Chronicle impugned.

“She-said, he-said” wreaks havoc. Rolling Stone’s horrific UVa story is a stark example.

III. Society is focusing on rape. Title IX first hit Yale ’11, then 100 schools by ‘15.

Gloria Allred alleged in TIME ’14: colleges must be sued to change. We believe not, but…

US Title IX lulls schools. Consent training is not enough to prudently deter willful rapists.

Schools’ big risk is local: state courts treat rape as a costly crime meriting stiff penalties.

Campus crime cost/tool: theft - $60mn, locks; arson - $100mn, sprinklers; rape - $1.1bn, none.

Thus, liability risk is real. Colleges must also give students a tool to beat “she-said, he-said.”

Ms. Allred would profit suing schools for large sums, and let courts mandate consent proof tools.

She demanded $100 million for 20 accusers of Dr. Cosby, for events of long ago. Big money, and as +/-20% of female grads cite rape in surveys, college claim pools from ’87 could be vast.

IV. In respectful response to your Chronicle letter doubting benefits of the basketball story, we are honored to propose simple, game-changing student benefit from this publicized trauma.

Per Student Affairs wisdom of ’12, now rape safety and justice is cool for Cameron Crazies to lead.

So we invite you to assist leaders, serving as Faculty Facilitator and Advisor for Consent Evidence.

For if Duke unites, we can beat “she-said, he-said” throughout the NCAA. Or, Duke can stay idle on evidence, let more avoidable crises accrue, and hope lawsuits don’t come. It’s a vital choice.

Consent Evidence benefits honest women and men, schools, presidents, teams and frats.

Only rapists, false accusers, and rape demagogues lose. Whose side are you on? inquiries: gamechangeralliance@gmail.com

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ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH YEAR, ISSUE 102

UNC considers University celebrates Primate Palooza renaming building linked to KKK Sarah Kerman The Chronicle The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will soon decide on a proposal to rename a building associated with an alumnus who had connections to the Ku Klux Klan.

The Real Silent Sam Coalition, a student activist group, has submitted a proposal to the UNC Board of Trustees requesting the name change of Saunders Hall, a history department building on UNC’s campus. The proposal asks the Board to change the name to Hurston Hall to honor writer Zora Neale Hurston, who attended classes at UNC but was denied status as an official student because of her race. The discussion comes less than a year after Duke changed the name of freshman dormitory Aycock Residence Hall because of concerns of its namesake’s ties to white supremacy.

Multiple university history professors have See Saunders on Page 4

Lily Coad | The Chronicle Keynote speaker Mireya Mayor—a former NFL cheerleader and current National Geographic correspondent—presented at the main event of Duke’s week-long celebration of biodiversity Tuesday evening.

Former fraternity re-established at Duke and expanding Samantha Neal The Chronicle After a year spent recruiting new members, Duke’s chapter of Chi Psi has reestablished itself and looks to increase its name recognition on campus.

The fraternity, which was established at Duke in 1986, underwent a re-founding process spearheaded by the national organization during Spring and Fall 2014.

When the re-founding began, there were approximately 25 active members of the fraternity, said Chi Psi’s current president Sophie Turner | The Chronicle Rahul Swaminathan, a junior. All but seven of the original fraternity members were Duke’s chapter of Chi Psi has completed its re-founding and is looking to expand.

dismissed by the end of the process.

“Nationals thought that we needed a change in order for us to be successful in the future, and this was the best way to ensure that,” Swaminathan said.

During this period, national representatives on campus arranged interviews with and offered bids to prospective members. Currently, Chi Psi has 44 members and an incoming pledge class of 12.

Justin Froeber, assistant executive director of the Chi Psi national organization, noted that the national association felt the need to offer a bit of additional assistance to Duke’s chapter in order to ensure its members See Chi Psi on Page 4

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Political experts talk party polarization Gautam Hathi Health and Science Editor Gerson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and Dionne, a former political reporter for the Washington Post and the New York Times, discussed how the public and the political establishment in America have “sorted” themselves into increasingly exclusive ideological camps.

Political columnists Michael Gerson and EJ Dionne reflected on the polarization of politics Tuesday night at the Sanford School of Public Policy.

Gerson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and Dionne, a former political reporter for the Washington Post and the New York Times, discussed how the public and the political establishment in America have “sorted” themselves into increasingly exclusive ideological camps. The speakers noted that members of different political parties interact with and resemble each other less and less. The discussion also explored how social and political institutions have driven polarization and how those same institutions might heal the

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confirmed ties between William L. Saunders—for whom the building is named—and the KKK, known for hate crimes against racial minorities involving intimidation tactics and lynchings.

“On days like today I see these tour groups walking around campus, and I want to stop them and say: do you know who this building is named after?” said Jim Kuras, a third-year graduate student at UNC who works in the geography department in Saunders Hall and is a member of the Real Silent Sam Coalition.

The Real Silent Sam Coalition has also asked that the university install a plaque to contextualize Silent Sam, a statue commemorating UNC students who served in the Civil War, most of who fought for the Confederacy. The group also requested that UNC implement required curriculum about its racial history.

The UNC Board of Trustees University Affairs Committee hosted a community meeting Wednesday in which students and faculty weighed in on the proposals. The committee will consider the comments and feedback received from the meeting and an online public feedback forum. They will make a decision by the end of May. Alston Gardner, vice chair of the UNC

partisan divide.

“You have two parties where no one in those parties can see anyone in the other party that looks and thinks like they do,” Gerson said.

Dionne and Gerson emphasized the increasing polarization of political parties not only on ideological lines, but also along cultural and regional boundaries. They noted that this has led to heated debates over issues that were previously areas of agreement.

Read the rest of this “My concern with that is story online only at that it tends to turn every issue into a culture war debate, no www.dukechronimatter what it is,” Dionne said. cle.com.

Both Dionne and Gerson generally agreed that the Republican Party is currently more ideologically uniform than the Democratic Party. Gerson noted, however, that the Democratic Party appears to be polarizing at a faster rate than the Republican Party.

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Board of Trustees, said that he and the Board will aim to make an evidence-based decision that emphasizes the pedagogical goals of the University and gives context to the history of its campus. He acknowledged that no curation currently exists to describe the relationships between structures in McCorkle Place, the area where the Silent Sam statue is located.

Gardner expressed enthusiasm about the possibility of a racial history course for UNC students, which he said has been proposed as an online course spanning one to three hours.

“We’re excited by the opportunity to teach a more complete history of North Carolina,” he said.

Kuras acknowledged the importance of considering UNC’s racial history.

“It has become clear that this isn’t a bunch of students on our campus trying to ruffle feathers,” he said. “This is an important conversation that needs to be had.”

Other universities have recently engaged in similar dialogues. Last year, several Duke organizations, including Black Student Alliance, NAACP and Students for a Democratic Society put forth a resolution asking the Duke Board of Trustees to change the name of Aycock, named for former North Carolina governor and white supremacist Charles Aycock. The University opted last summer to change the name of the dormitory back to East Residence Hall, its original name.

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Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Michael Gerson and EJ Dionne offered insight on the polarization of politics and the media in a discussion moderated by Peter D. Feaver.

ments outside the Republican Party has made it harder for moderates within the party. Gerson said that while there are members of the Republican Party that want to reform government, there is also a significant wing of the party which dismisses the role of government in society.

the Aycock debate in that Aycock neither attended nor gave funding to Duke.

Gardner said that UNC differs from Duke in that UNC is a public university, so it places a greater emphasis on educating students about North Carolina’s history.

Prashanth Kamalakanthan—Trinity ‘14 and former chair of Students for a Democratic Society when the organization helped put forth the resolution to the Duke Board of Trustees last year—noted the importance of university dialogues about racial history.

These discussions have taken root at universities including Duke, UNC, the University of Virginia and East Carolina, Clemson and Washington and Lee Universities.

“To currently oppressed people and disadvantaged groups, [these dialogues] say to them that your history and your current material well-being are more important than said person’s ego,” Kamalakanthan said Adrienne Harreveld, Trinity ’14 and program coordinator for the research network on racial and ethnic inequality at Duke Consortium on Social Equity, said that having these discussions allows Duke and other universities to be more critical of their histories.

“It really brings up conversations that aren’t really had about the role of historical figures in governments and universities,” she said. “I think it’s an opportunity to be more open to narratives about race and be more willing to criticize historical and political leaders.”

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continued from page 3 were receiving “a well-rounded, values-based experience.”

Current members of Chi Psi declined to comment more specifically about what necessitated the re-founding process.

Many members of the current pledge class learned about Chi Psi through word of mouth and informal recruitment.

“People join people, not organizations,” Froeber said. “We encourage our men to deeply develop those relationships.”

He noted that Chi Psi prides itself on being a different fraternity experience by emphasizing personal and professional development in addition to social activities.

Some of these activities include faculty desert night in section and bringing in a variety of speakers.

“These guys are truly about building brotherhood bonds and gentlemen for the future,” said freshman Harry Guo, a member of Chi Psi. Swaminathan hopes to sponsor more events on campus to increase Chi Psi’s name recognition.

“Not that many people know us on campus, so our goal over the next year is to get more well-known,” he said.

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Duke can’t get over the hump Nick Martin Sports Editor

After being swept by Boston College last weekend, the Blue Devils came out firing against Campbell. The only problem—the Camels fired back.

Campbell fought back from an early deficit to beat Duke 9-6 Tuesday at Jack 9 Coombs Stadium, CU extending the DUKE 6 Blue Devils’ losing streak to four games. After scoring five runs in the first two innings, Duke registered just two hits in the next five frames, allowing the Camels to work its way back into the game.

Part of the visitors’ success was due to the inability of Blue Devil pitchers to close them out late in the count. Campbell scored four runs when its batters were down to their final strike, something the Blue Devils failed to do, as Duke ended the night with nine strikeouts to Campbell’s five.

“Credit Campbell, because they put on a clinic tonight,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “With two strikes, they were literally just trying to take the ball out of the catcher’s mitt. They fouled so many balls off over the dugout because they were really doing a good job of see-

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Nicole Savage | The Chronicle Freshman third baseman Jack Labosky went 2-for-4 with a double, but the Blue Devil bats fell silent after a hot start as Campbell roared back for a 9-6 victory Tuesday.

ing the baseball deep and being in a position to spoil pitches. Then when they got their pitch, they didn’t miss it.”

During their winless weekend in Delaware, the Blue Devils (19-10) fell behind early in all three games against the Eagles. Tuesday, Duke made sure to draw first blood.

An error by Campbell shortstop Anthony Lopez allowed freshman Peter Zyla

to score and put Duke up 1-0 in the bottom of the first. The Camels extinguished the threat, but the onslaught carried over to the second inning.

Freshman Jack Labosky led off the bottom frame with a double, and classmate Justin Bellinger reached on a walk. Labosky came home on a Max Miller single to push the Duke lead to 2-0. Zyla would then once again be the offensive catalyst for the Blue

Devils, as he brought Andy Perez, Bellinger and Miller home on a three-RBI triple to give Duke a 5-0 lead.

“We were being aggressive early in the counts. That’s when we scored runs,” Perez said. “We did that the first couple innings.

Pete came up with the big hit with the bases loaded. Then after that, we just started different styles at bat. They changed pitchers and took us out of rhythm a little bit.

We scored five in the first two innings— you’ve got to keep pouring it on.”

The Camels (21-8) were determined not to be blown out and countered with seven runs in the final four innings.

After Campbell tagged Duke for a run in the top of the third on an error after freshman Michael Smiciklas mishandled a line drive from Cedric Mullins, the Camels came back in the fourth and seemed poised to make things interesting. Campbell continued to chip away at the lead, picking up runs in the third, fourth and sixth innings before exploding in the seventh.

Redshirt freshman James Ziemba struggled on the mound for the Blue Devils in the top of the seventh inning.

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Blue Devils finish seventh after strong start Ryan Hoerger Sports Managing Editor The Blue Devils played three consistent rounds of golf to cap off their third straight tournament finishing under par.

Duke entered the final round of the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate in second place with an opportunity to capture its third straight tournament victory. Despite a two-under-par round Tuesday at Bulls Bay Golf Club in Awendaw, S.C., the Blue Devils could not make a move up the leaderboard, finishing in seventh place with a team score of 857.

“We played really solid golf the first couple of rounds and to be honest with you, we played well today for most of the round. When we go back and look at the scorecards, I think our five guys made 23 birdies today,” Duke head coach Jamie Green said. “South Carolina and New Mexico, teams we were playing with, I think they made 22 and 24 birdies. It really wasn’t a matter of how many birdies we made as a group, we just gave too many shots back.”

Freshman Adam Wood and junior Motin Yeung carried the Blue Devils during the 54hole tournament, finishing tied for 19th at

two-under-par after the three rounds. Wood turned in standout performances Sunday and Tuesday but turned in a four-over-par 76 in Monday’s second round that kept him from placing higher on the leaderboard.

Yeung played consistent golf all tournament, posting a one-over-par 73 in the opening round before firing back-to-back under-par rounds to close out the tournament.

An impressive team outing on the links Monday put Duke in contention to bring home the hardware. Competing against a field that included five other top-50 programs and two top-10 squads, the Blue Devils turned in the lowest round of the day—a three-under-par 285—and trailed No. 5 South Carolina by just four strokes.

By virtue of its strong first 36 holes, Duke played in the last grouping of the day with the Lobos and Gamecocks. The late start put the Blue Devils in the thick of the strongest winds of the afternoon that affected their round. Wood and Yeung were the only two Duke golfers to shoot under par Tuesday.

“We knew the wind was going to get a little bit heavier as the day wore on and that’s what happened. You try to play your golf so you can be in the last pairing—you want to be

in contention to win,” Green said. “If you’re playing at the level of the top three, you’re going to be in the last pairing, and we were, which meant for probably an hour or so we were out in some of the strongest wind of the day.... We had a couple hiccups and bogeys coming in.”

South Carolina was able to solve the challenges posed by the elements, winning the tournament by 11 strokes thanks to a 17-under-par final day.

Wood carded a near-mistake free round Sunday to get his tournament off to a strong start. The Zionsville, Ind., native birdied two of his first four holes and his first three on the back nine, finishing at four-under-par after a lone bogey on the 17th hole.

After an up-and-down second round that included four bogeys on the back nine, Wood rebounded with a strong Tuesday performance. The freshman birdied six holes on the front nine before suffering a double-bogey on the 11th green. Rather than let the setback derail his confidence, the rookie returned to form immediately.

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Sanjeev Dasgupta | Chronicle File Photo Freshman Adam Wood shot two-under-par for the tournament, tying with teammate Motin Yeung for 19th place.

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Blue Devils rout Davidson to improve to 11-1 Staff Reports It didn’t take very long for the Blue Devils to jump out to an early lead, and they never looked back from there.

No. 5 Duke scored a pair of goals in the opening 40 seconds and used the early advantage to cruise to a 13-6 victory against Davidson Tuesday DUKE 13 night at Richardson 6 Stadium in Davidson, DAV N.C. Five Blue Devils notched two goals to lead a balanced scoring attack for head coach Kerstin Kimel’s squad.

Senior attacker Kerrin Maurer continued her strong season and kicked off the scoring for Duke (11-1) just 24 seconds into the match off a feed from freshman Kyra Harney. Maurer—who added another goal and two assists for a team-high four points—finished the game having won a career-high nine draws, providing the Blue Devils with the consistent possession they needed to keep piling up goals.

Classmate Katie Trees followed suit almost immediately, firing a shot past Wildcat goalkeeper Katy Boyle 13 seconds later to give Duke a 2-0 lead in the blink of an eye.

But Davidson (3-6) had no intentions of being shut out and responded with a goal of its own just a few minutes later.

Senior Emily Rademacher scored her 12th goal of the season on an unassisted

play that cut the Blue Devil lead in half.

From there, Duke blew the game open. A flurry of offense in the ensuing 20 minutes turned a slim 2-1 advantage into a 9-1 cushion, with six different Blue Devils finding the back of the net to cap a 7-0 stretch that put the game out of reach before halftime.

Junior attack Emma Sissman finally ended the streak by firing a shot past Duke goalkeeper Kelsey Duryea with 1:23 left in the half. The Blue Devils responded with just one tick remaining on the clock before intermission, as Maurer’s second goal of the game sent the teams to the locker rooms with Duke holding a commanding 10-2 lead.

Thanks to Maurer’s efforts in the faceoff circle, the Blue Devils enjoyed a 10-2 advantage in draws in the opening session, which helped them dominate possession and rack up a 20-4 edge in shots during the first 30 minutes—a margin that grew to 3310 by the final whistle.

The Wildcats scored quickly to open the second half on Rademacher’s second goal of the evening but never drew closer than seven the rest of the way. Kimel pulled Duryea with 15 minutes left in the game, inserting reserve goalkeepers Angel Thompson and Oralee Hespenheid to get them some game action.

Duke will return to the field and get back to its ACC slate Saturday when it travels to play No. 3 Boston College in Newton, Mass.

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continued from page 7 “He hit an awful lot of good golf shots,” Green said. “When he did have a bump in the road, some of his best golf was the very next hole or the very next shot. He made a terrific birdie on 12 and 13 after making double-bogey on 11. That says a lot about him and I think it says a lot about our team.”

Senior Turner Southey-Gordon finished tied for 22nd at one-under-par, and sophomore Alexander Matlari and freshman Jake Shuman rounded out the Blue Devil lineup tied for 43rd at fourover-par.

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After picking up another out on a strikeout, Ziemba walked Seth LaRue and Cole Hallum and was replaced by Ryan Day. Day (1-1) did not fare any better, allowing three consecutive singles that plated three runs for Campbell. Sophomore Kevin Lewallyn came in for Day and stopped the bleeding, but by that time, Campbell owned a 7-6 lead, one it would add to as the Camels continued to swing the hot bat in the eighth.

“We got up and then we got very complacent,” Pollard said. “We didn’t stay hungry to push runs across the plate. Sometimes, our guys, because we pitch well,

Duke did not record a top-three finish in the fall, but it seems to have turned a corner in the spring. In their last three events, the Blue Devils are a combined 11-under-par, tied for first at the Bandon Dunes Championship and won their own Blue Devil Spring Shootout.

“In the fall we stumbled a little bit, but we’re bouncing back pretty well in the spring,” Green said. “They were in contention going into the final round and really they were right there in the mix through half to two-thirds of the day today. You can kind of sense it, smell it, you know you’re close.... They’ve worked hard to get themselves into position where they’re contending for wins, so I’m excited for them.”

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Lewallyn was pulled in favor of Karl Blum after allowing runners to reach second and third with one out. Blum would get out of the inning, but not before allowing Campbell to score two more runs and extend its lead to 9-6.

The loss was Duke’s first midweek defeat of the season, moving the Blue Devils to 7-1 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Last season, Duke was 8-5 in midweek contests.

“Up until this point, we’d been playing with a lot of confidence in the midweeks,” Perez said. “We’ve been ahead early and pitching the ball well, and tonight was a matter of not executing in the spots we need to.”

Duke will next head to Coral Gables, Fla., to face Miami for a three-game series starting Friday.

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Duke defines a certificate as a six-course program that “spans multiple disciplines” and allows students to “gain skills and training.” Although some certificates fill gaps in major and minor offerings and thus augment the curriculum, most would be better suited as concentrations within majors. Such consolidation would help resolve the lacking coherence and shared, communal learning experience that pervade certificate programs. It would also reduce numerous personnel

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and administrative costs incurred with students and resources spread across overlapping major, minor and certificate programs.

Furthermore, standards and requirements vary across certificates. For instance, the Study of Ethics certificate—which advertises that it “provides you with the skills and confidence you need to create and to evaluate solutions to ethical dilemmas”—requires only a gateway and capstone course for all certificate pursuers, who may then choose four out of 85 electives to complete the program. That two students can conceivably graduate with the same certificate while having had two-thirds of their coursework be diametrical neuters the certificate of any uniform substance.

More broadly, Duke’s website boasts that, “students can choose courses in nearly 100 programs,” as if the size of a school’s academic menu is correlated to its prestige. First-years faced with the daunting task of choosing their curricular path are bombarded with 54 majors, 52 minors and 21 certificates—which create more than 435,000 unique degree combinations. Although diversity in offerings benefits students, having too many risks breadth over

depth and entices students to fill their three-degree limit. It also makes any curricular-wide coherence impossible. If students within the same program can potentially share only one-third of their classes, the hope for students spread across 100 different programs is nonexistent.

Continuing to offer students a first-class education that allows them to pursue their interests should be a primary focus for the University.

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The first TED talk I ever saw was Ken Robinson’s talk on “How schools kill creativity.” I watched it in my high school English class, and was so inspired that I immediately checked out Robinson’s book “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything” and discovered my own mission in life was to help others pursue their passions. Since then, a number of other TED talks have shaped my life goals: Sarah Kay’s “If I should have a daughter,” Susan Cain’s “The power of introverts,” Hans Roslings’ “The best stats you’ve ever seen,” and Aimee Mullin’s “My 12 pairs of legs.” This past weekend at TEDxDuke, the annual, student-run TEDlike conference held at Duke, I have a few more to add to the list.

First, Mark Hecker’s talk “On Being Helpful” presented new insight to the old adage, “If

jamin Bratton calls TED “middlebrow megachurch infotainment,” a type of feel-good fodder for the masses that diverts our attention, enthusiasm and outrage away from things that really matter. According to Bratton, TED forces speakers to over-simplify their ideas and avoid slogging through the “hard stuff”—history, economics, philosophy, art, ambiguities, contradictions. Bracketing complexities off to the side to focus just on technology and innovation, he says, actually prevents transformation.

As one of the organizers for TEDxDuke, Bratton’s talk initially troubled me, but after TEDxDuke this past weekend, I am convinced that while some of Bratton’s concerns are valid, TED is not a recipe for civilizational disaster. Sure, TED may over-simplify big ideas and ignore complexity. But would we rather people be inspired to engage

Rachel Anderson THe grab bag you teach a person to fish…” In his presentation, Hecker spoke about how people derive meaning and dignity in their lives by being helpful. His organization, Reach Incorporated, develops confident grade-level readers and capable leaders by training teens to teach younger students, creating academic benefit for all. Instead of improving reading competency by tutoring teens directly, Hecker’s organization allows them to be helpful. As tutors, teens become accountable to their mentees, which gives them a more powerful incentive for learning. In other words, if you teach a person how to fish, you feed him or her for a lifetime. But if you teach a person to teach others how to fish, an entire village will eat for an eternity.

Hecker’s ideas about fostering leadership tied to a pre-recorded talk shown at the conference, Derek Sivers’ “How to start a movement.” In just three minutes, Sivers delivers a powerful lesson about leadership, with the main message that it is the first follower who transforms a lone nut into a leader and teaches other followers how to follow. Being a first follower is an underestimated form of leadership in itself, since it takes courage to stand out. Of course, the irony of Sivers’ talk is that TED and other TEDlike events create an environment where the first follower is a celebrated form of leadership and a lone nut can find his or her first followers.

As with many events, there are detractors about TED, including Benjamin Bratton’s TEDx talk “We need to talk about TED.” In his presentation, Ben-

with the world by watching semi-educational videos for fun, or shut it out by binge-watching television on Netflix? That TED asks speakers to make their work accessible by boiling down big ideas into 18-mimute-or-less talks is a gift: it gives future change agents a goal to aspire to.

At an institution with a liberal arts curriculum like Duke, TED has another important value: introducing students to new ideas in other fields and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration.

For work that isn’t featured by TED, and for more challenging work that affects real change, there is the MacArthur Fellowship or the Fields Medal or any number of prestigious awards that focus on content and not speech delivery. If TED were the only way we shared or supported big ideas, then we would have a problem. Fortunately, it’s just another way we celebrate big ideas, develop the oral tradition, and inspire people out of many.

So whether or not you had the opportunity to attend TEDxDuke this past Sunday, I encourage you to help us continue the conversation about “Building Energy” by joining us for our student-speaker meal series. Or, if you can’t make it, schedule a FLUNCH with a professor this month in honor of the TED spirit. Get inspired—watch some TED videos with your friends. Ask intelligent questions, and come up with your own idea worth spreading.

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The illusion of “merit”

She probably got in because of affirmative action. She doesn’t really deserve to go to Duke.”

I was sitting in class, working on an assignment with a fellow white student when she said that, pointing at a black classmate sitting across the room who was asking the teacher a question about our assignment. I’m glad nobody was around to take a picture of my face at that moment, because I’m sure I looked like a dumbstruck idiot, with my eyes wide and my jaw dropped.

It may sound shocking—and it certainly shocked me in that moment—but this line of thinking is alive and well at Duke. It’s whispered in classrooms, posted on anonymous social media apps and written in the pages of the Chronicle.

Of course, many of the people complaining about affirmative action are shockingly misinformed about its political history, forgetting, for example, that the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action have actually been white women, a history that is a powerful testament to the utility of these policies. They are

Katie Becker THing again also the type who conceptualize affirmative action as some sort of reparation for past wrongdoing, not recognizing the systemic yet sometimes hidden inequalities faced by people of color, including people of color at Duke, that call for such policies now. Indeed, when people argue that affirmative action “treats races unfairly,” they are, in effect, saying that removing this policy would result in an increase in white admission rates and a decrease in underrepresented minority admissions, an assumption that, if true, is itself a testament to the racebased social inequalities of our society.

The thing is, I’ve always found Duke students inexplicably obsessed with finding out why another person got in here.

It’s as though we want to dichotomize people into the underserving Duke students—often underrepresented minorities and athletes—versus everyone else.

As though that’s some sort of meaningful, useful distinction. But what does that even mean, to say that someone’s is or isn’t deserving of a Duke education?

Whenever the topic of affirmative action—or even college admissions more generally—comes up, the word “merit” is sure to follow. American society is obsessed with merit. We love to talk about our perceived meritocracy. Our favorite stories involve a hero who works hard and pulls himself up by his bootstraps, because many of us genuinely believe that it’s possible for anyone to do that.

The problem is that it’s never that simple, and the elite college admissions process is no exception.

Think back to the moment you got into Duke, and the days and weeks that followed. What thoughts went through your head? What did your family and friends tell you? Maybe your mom told you, “You deserve this” or “Your hard work is paying off.” Maybe your relatives called to say, “I always knew you would get in ‘cause you’re a special kid.” Maybe your friends screamed and jumped up and down excitedly with you, saying, “You’re gonna be the President/the person who cures cancer/in Forbes Magazine one day!”

I bet no one told you, “Aren’t you glad your parents were able to afford that fan-

cy SAT prep course for you? You probably wouldn’t have gotten into Duke without it.” I bet no one thought to say, “Thank goodness that teacher took a special interest you and mentored you, because who knows where you’d be without her.”

I’m sure no one thought to say, “I know you’re excited, but don’t forget that one of the most significant factors in your admissions decision was probably that your dad went here or that your mom donated a bunch of money to the school.”

But maybe they should have. It might have been more honest. Because, let’s face it, none of us got into Duke solely on our own merit. Indeed, to think we did would be quite self-important.

Yet, in our hyper-individualistic society, we enjoy thinking that each of our accomplishments was brought on 100% by our own efforts and talents. And, let’s be honest, it feels good. It’s nice to think that we’re special, and it’s particularly nice to think we’re more special than the person sitting next to us. We enjoy believing that we are the sole entity responsible for our accomplishments. It’s

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Feeding gardens

hen I was eight, my dad—baba—gave me a mini plow.

At nine, I got the set— plastic shovel and rake.

At ten, I got a red wagon and pretended that it was a wheelbarrow.

“Keep feeding this garden, and watch it grow,” Baba regularly told me. I didn’t really know what Baba meant. He fused gardening metaphors and life lessons so much that they seemed second nature.

But Baba wasn’t talking garden. No, Baba was talking life. Subconsciously, Baba’s mantra guided much of my life’s trajectory.

Baba realized I had a hard time finding my group. Reared in Mississippi’s public schools, I was considered ambiguous by all standards. I didn’t fit into any ethnic or racial category— which, let’s be real, there were only two. My last name was pronounced with more pauses than there are syllables. The school thought that my “rs” rolled a little too much and placed me in speech therapy until middle school. And most importantly, I did not consume, indulge in or profess love for the unofficial food ambassador of the south—the pig. Needless to say, I was an anomaly in a sea of Mississippians. Yet, I was Mississippian. I am Mississippian.

“Keep feeding this garden, and watch it grow.”

Similar to how Baba taught me to nourish in order to be nourished by our garden, he taught me to nourish to be nourished by our community. Pour love, energy and resources into your earth and watch it bloom; pour love, energy and resources into your people and watch them bloom. So, I was raised to dive right in. I became a member of and sang with my school’s predominantly Christian choir and performed in spoken word & poetry events to show solidarity for the oppressed of our community. My parents didn’t teach us to tolerate our community. They taught us to love our community. And more than anything, they encouraged us to never stop learning and asking about it.

Two, four or six years ago, we all entered a new community, Duke, to get a first-class education. We poured our time and resources into Duke, watching as it changed and grew, reflecting the change and growth we saw in ourselves. Along the way, we stopped tolerating

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But it’s simply not true. It’s never true. It’s a dangerous, often ungrateful, line of thinking. There are always factors, or some confluence of factors, that allow us to get where we are and where we are going. Sure, we all work hard, but that’s not enough. It looks different for each person. Maybe the factors are obvious—you had enough money to afford a tutor when you needed one, or you got to attend a fancy private or charter school, or your family and friends knew how the college admissions process worked. Maybe they’re not so obvious—your parents spoke English and read to you when you were little, or you played the tuba and Duke’s marching band really needed a tuba player, or you were simply born in the United States or another industrialized country. Everyone’s situation is unique, but my point is this: the idea that college admissions can partition out different aspects of someone’s experience to look solely at “merit” is ludicrous.

None of this is to discount the accomplishments of my peers or of the —welcome!—Duke Class of 2019. We all worked hard. We made the right grades or had the highest test scores or joined the right clubs. We probably missed sleep or skipped out on time with friends to make that presentation perfect or to cram for the SAT. I know I did. That narrative is familiar to many of us here, and it’s very real. But it’s only one part of a larger story. None of our accomplishments exist in a vacuum.

So the next time you feel yourself starting to think, “I bet he or she only got in because of X,” stop and think.

What were the factors outside of your control that allowed you to come to Duke? Before you decide that someone else is “unworthy” of their education, remind yourself that you too are indebted to others—be it your parents, your teachers from high school, or an admissions dean that really loved the essay you wrote. Maybe this means that no one technically deserves to be at Duke. Or that we all deserve to be here uniquely.

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Duke. We started loving Duke.

But we did not love Duke because of the championships or the national awards though these definitely helped. We loved Duke because we were trained to not be content with becoming experts in our fields. We were trained to use our passions and interests to move entire communities, companies and countries forward.

Duke became a part of us when we used our experience in the labs to design custom devices to aid disabled individuals, when we revolutionized technology to implement water purification systems across the world and when we combined our passions for dance and healing to implement a dance therapy project to improve the health of elderly populations.

This “do good” mentality wasn’t limited to the classrooms. Through Common Ground retreats, panel discussions and even 2 a.m. conversations with a dorm mate who looks nothing like you, we learned how to go beyond ourselves and prioritize the well being of someone else.

And in that sense, we’re all not that different. Sure, we come from diverse backgrounds, and we’re all heading in different directions after Duke, but we’re all leaving with experiences that have left the world a little more bearable for humanity to thrive in.

One of my biggest fears after graduating was that I would be expected to fill a position, not fill a person, turning my Duke mind off and turning my mimetic brain on. And after talking to classmates, seniors and younger, I’ve realized I’m not the only one.

We don’t want to become physicians or teachers because we don’t think we’re making enough of a difference. But what I’ve realized these last few weeks, through the multiple challenges our campus and country has experienced, is that our values, our hope of moving the world forward, does not come with a specific career title.

In receiving a privilege that may make our lives a tad bit easier, we must recognize the obligation to pay it forward. At every step of the way, even if our careers are not outright saving lives, we must ask ourselves, “Who is not represented here? Who is not being served by my work? Who may be being hurt by my work? How can I mitigate this?”

We can incorporate this value of thoughtful work in our day-to-day lives in many ways.

For example, ensure that all voices are in discussions, especially women and minorities. I attended the Clinton Global Initiative meeting earlier this year, and we discussed the implications of women serving as signatories in only 4 percent of the 31 major peace processes in the last 20 years. Peace agreements are 60 percent less likely to fail when they include women as active participants. To include more of the unheard issues, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security was passed. It acknowledges women’s unique perspective on issues and recognizes the critical role women play in the processes of negotiating, peace building and mediation. Imagine how much more sustainable decisions and progress all over the world would be if we could bring more unheard voices to the table.

Another way to live Duke outside of Duke is to never distance ourselves from who our employer may be hurting. There are clear infractions many companies commit like Exxon’s environmental infringements or Dillard’s unethical sweatshops. However, there are more indirect ways companies are hurting people such as investing in corporations that have human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories.

And if we find ourselves intimidated by being these voices immediately out of Duke, we can still find ways to support a collaborative, working environment. Far too many companies are adopting a me centric world rather than an us centric one. Duke made sure we know how to collaborate. Bring this skill with you wherever you end up. Keep feeding the garden, and watch it grow, Baba told me.

No matter where you go, keep feeding the garden. Watch it grow. Infect all pockets of our world. Your employer may be caught up in her own agenda, but you don’t have to be.

Your Duke Blue Devil sisters and brothers are feeding this garden, too, hoping to move all people and communities forward not just some people and communities, so that our world is able to experience the uninhibited love we experienced at Duke.

Leena El-Sadek is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Exciting courses for area studies during Fall 2015 For more information please contact 668-2603 AMES 205 Understanding the Middle East Wed 3:05 -5:35 The course aims at introducing the students to the politics, cultures, and socioeconomic concerns of the contemporary Middle East. What are the ideological, political, and cultural trajectories of future American and European relations with Turkey, Israel, and the Arab countries, will be exposed to a wide variety of texts and films, from Morocco to Iraq and the Gulf States. Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad (*NEW) AMES 219S Civil Society and Civic Engage in the Arab World TH 1:40-4:10 Why does civil society matter in the Arab world?

What type of civil society is good for good governance? Explore civil society and civic engagement in the Arabic speaking word through documentary films, case studies of Arab NGOs, meeting with experts, Duke Engage Cairo, Beirut and Lebanon. This is a writing course with Service Learning component. Professor Mbaye Lo

(*NEW) AMES 236 Graphic Asia: Visual Storytelling & Global Asian/American Networks W 3:05- 5:35 explores the particular status of the graphic novel (encompassing all manners of earlier word-image texts; mainstream, alternative, and web-based comics; Asian traditions of manga, manhwa, manhua) and the role of the graphic artist in the changing epistemologies, histories, and formations of Global Asian/Pacific/American networks. X-listed AMI 236, ICS 264 Professor Eileen Chow AMES 251 Indian Cinema TTH 3:05-4:20 https://youtu.be/xS-TVE6QJEE 75 Years of Indian Cinema, from Sant Tukaram (1936) to Alms for the Blind Horse (2011), viewed from the perspective of Indian aesthetics. Films by Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mani Kaul among others.

Special focus on the range between high contrast and minimalist cinema. Readings in Ananda Coomaraswamy. Beginning video exercises. X-listed LIT 211 Professor Satti Khanna.

AMES 316S Breakdancers, Vocaloids and Game TUTH 1:25- 2:40 From breakdance crews in Seoul, video game teams in Shanghai, and skateboarders in Tokyo, youth cultures flourish and travel throughout East Asia and outwards across the Pacific Rim. This class tackles theories of youth identity while paying close attention the ways kids in Asia have changed their societies and reflected back larger political and economic issues. We’ll be thinking about how style, media, body practices (like breakdancing), concepts of romance and sex, and global communication are incorporated into the daily lives of young people and in turn make them a powerful and heterogeneous cultural force. X-listed CULANTH 316S Professor Dwayne Dixon (*NEW) AMES 317 Martin Luther King TU 4:55-7:45 Perhaps more than any other figure in 20th century America, Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr., is usually presented as an iconic solitary figure who floats above history and represents the fulfillment of the American “Dream.” This course charts a different path, insisting that King has to be read as a situated historical figure who must be engaged within multiple contexts of the segregated American South, a decades long struggle against racism, and also a global discourse of anti-colonialism. The course also examines where the prophetic tradition stands today, and what today’s religious leaders from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions have to say about the contemporary issues of racism, poverty, militarism, and environmental destruction. X-listed AAAS 249, PUBPOL 253, REL 234 Professor Omid Safi

(*NEW) AMES 319S Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain TH 3:05-5:35 A course on the cultural flourishing from the contact— and sometimes clash—of Islamic, Jewish, Christian, European, Arab, and African civilizations in southern Spain. Poetry, music, philosophy, architecture, mysticism, literature, language, and religion at a crossroads of civilization. A consciousness that continues to permeate life in contemporary Spain, in the Arab world, and in the Jewish diaspora and beyond. X-listed REL 214S, JEWISHST 319S, AMES 519S Professors Ellen McLarney and Laura Lieber (*NEW) AMES 325 Islamic Awakening: Revival and Reform T 3:05-5:35 The revival of Islamic commitments—both spiritual and

political—across the Muslim world, in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Europe, and beyond. Religious revolutions, political parties, social movements, media, and cultural production (literature, film, art, graffiti, poetry, music, and rap). Textual and technological dimensions of the revival, in its theological, intellectual, literary, visual, auditory, and digital aspects. Salafism, Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia, Ennahda in Tunisia, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hamas in Palestine, Hizbullah in Lebanon, the Islamic Revolution in Iran, as well as ISIS and al-Qaeda. X-listed REL 372, AMES 625 Professor Ellen McLarney

AMES 332S Storyworlds: The Art, Technology, and Pleasure of Narrative M3:05-5:35 Is “tell me a story” an universal imperative?

Seminar examines storytelling practices across a broad span of histories and cultures, and the creation of storyworlds through multiple media, genres, and platforms.

Topics include comparative oral traditions, Medieval story cycles, serial tales, textual poaching and fanfic, alternate reality gameworlds (ARG), social media, transmedia storytelling and transcultural fandoms. Seminar will also engage in an extended collaborative project with Story Lab at FHI. X-listed AMI 338S; ICS 333S Professor Eileen Chow

(*NEW) AMES 390S Special Topics: Material China TU 4:40-7:10 How do smartphones change our relationships? How do food and

eating make us rethink nationalities? How does technology affect religious beliefs? By putting “material objects” at the center of our inquiry, we will tackle various sociopolitical and cultural issues affecting contemporary China, as well as China’s rapidly growing material presence in global contexts— especially in sub-Saharan African countries. Professor Yasmin Cho

(*NEW) AMES 423S Sex & Violence in Mod Arabic Literature Anti-colonial struggles of the mid-20th century brought Arabs independence from European rule, but at a high price. Since then, the region has endured dictatorships and civil wars and most recently the revolutions of the Arab spring. This course will trace the ways in which Palestinian, Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, Algerian and Iraqi writers have responded to their people’s experiences of trauma. Professor miriam cooke

AMES 475S North Korea TH 11:45-2:15 Critical examination of the political and economic with social, cultural, and religious dimensions of

North Korea. Topics includes North Korea’s leadership, religious aspects of the North Korean Juche ideology, the daily lives of its citizens, religious traditions, the Korean War, nuclear development and missiles, North Korean defectors and refugees in other Asian countries, human rights, international relationships, and unification. X-listed REL 411S Professor Hwansoo Kim

AMES 620S Critical Genealogies of the Middle East: An examination of the canon of Middle East Scholarship M 1:40 – 4:25 The course will offer in-depth investigation into the theoretical traditions that inform interdisciplinary Middle East studies (specific foci include literary and cultural theory, Islamic feminism, postcolonial theory, visual studies, and deconstruction, among others). Professor Shai Ginsburg

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