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ook baby, when we first met, you thought you saw something in me. Something I didn’t even see in myself. You called it “potential.” I thought you must have made a mistake. Heck, mistakes happen all the time. But you showed me a snapshot of a life far different from mine, and I thought, why not? You made me dream of unfamiliar

on track. Yet as days came and went, the dreams and passions accumulated dust as “tomorrow” became “next week, ” which eventually became “maybe next year.” My convictions slowly turned into open-ended questions. I knew what I wanted from life. I thought I knew what I wanted. Did I know what I wanted? Baby, you made me lose grip of my

Sophia Durand SENIOR COLUMN sights, sounds I had never heard, memories I could almost touch if I closed my eyes and reached out. You promised me small wonders in the form of education and experiences that I could neatly place on the shelves of my heart and mind, wonders that would guide me through life. I started to believe you. Luckily, I was filled with a constant desire for something other than the present, an unbearable wistfulness. You cast your spell and my soul soared. But the thing is, the human spirit is very fickle — it lights up when we are overtaken by child-like delight, by curiosity or wonder, and can dim just as quickly if we lose sight of ourselves. I started to see changes in myself. I had to give up a lot just to keep afloat. I tried to keep my dreams and passions alive — t he dreams and passions that made me who I was. I promised to eventually get back

very essence — w ho I was at my core and how I thought life ought to be. Two years in, I realized that the picture you once showed me was only a half-truth. I knew it wouldn’t be all butterflies and walks in the Gardens. I knew we’d have to compromise to make it work; I expected the long hours and stress and questions and fights. But I didn’t realize quite how toxic your environment — t his relationship — w ould be. Duke, in some regards, you made me a better person. You opened my eyes to a world of research and knowledge and progress. You gave me the opportunity to discover places like Greece and Serbia — p laces that I had only dreamt of. You introduced me to brilliant scholars and lifelong friends. But you also made me question my self-worth and the worth of my aspirations. See, for a long time, I felt like I did not quite belong.

The pressures to live up to a certain image were overwhelming. I wanted to find myself through trial and mistake. You wanted success, both personal and academic. I felt pressure to rip my self up just to keep your image whole. I needed an escape. Durham was that shoulder I could always lean on. As soon as I stepped outside campus, I realized that life was not Duke. I understood that life should not be a constant emotional roller-coaster. So although I will miss some aspects of you, Duke, my heart will ache for Durham and all my experiences outside campus walls. I’ll miss the amazing people I met and the beautiful city that welcomed me. I will miss North Carolina sunsets and listening to B 93.9 Country FM while driving with my windows down. I will miss sweet tea and sweeter locals. The Pauli Murray murals around town, and going to shows at Cat’s Cradle with fantastic friends. The taste of an El Steamo at Fullsteam and chatting with Cameron the bartender after a long and hectic week and the respite of a Sheytoon from Cocoa Cinnamon while trudging through piles of work. The laughter of kids playing as Christophe and I pick out veggies at the farmer’s market bright and early on Saturday mornings. The dogs I walk at the shelter and the committed team that keeps it running. The morning light show, as the sunrise reflects off windows in the warehouse district, and the afternoon pick-me-ups while making conversation with people in line for King’s. Living in Durham changed me in

ways I could never have even anticipated. It started to heal the wounds you made, Duke. It was a release from you. I thought I moved here for you, Duke, because I needed you. But I realize now that it was Durham that I needed. A small city with a tight-knit community where strangers eventually become acquaintances who eventually become friends. A city where art thrives and people care deeply about causes, and each other. So it is with a heavy heart that I leave this city and the incredible family I have made for a new adventure. I cannot thank y’all for everything you have done — p erhaps without my even knowing it. But that unbearable wistfulness for something other is tugging at my heartstrings. Despite your efforts to convince me otherwise, Duke, I have no plans and no idea where life will take me — a nd I am okay with that. Because if there is even the slightest of chances it turns out to be anything like Durham, then baby, that is a risk I am willing to take. Sophia Durand is a Trinity senior and former managing editor of The Chronicle. She would like to thank her family 7004.6 miles away, her surrogate family at the Chronicle (V.107 through 110 and especially Chronphoto) and the amazing friends she has met over the last four years at Duke, in Durham and beyond, who have kept her from walking into manholes and moving cars. She promises to start wearing her glasses and will actively try to be less clumsy.

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The end

riting this column has been shamelessly self-indulgent, but I’d be remiss to define my final semester of college in any other way. I’m really, really terrible at being alone. I’m an extrovert—not necessarily

tled business. At the same time, I don’t think the Duke we’ve lived in these last four years is any place for closure. I spent my last day at home before leaving to start freshman year on a sort of

Elissa Levine SENIOR COLUMN outgoing, but I need interactions with other people to make sense of my world. I’m pretty terrible at living inside my own head because I have no way to organize what’s happening in there. Lately I’ve used writing as a proxy for the depth of conversation necessary to make sense of this last semester; I pour out pages of jumbled thoughts and then painstakingly search for a point buried in the rambling. So I have The Chronicle to thank for my lucidity these last few months. Forcing myself to articulate something for an audience every two weeks has been an outlet that has made me hold myself accountable to some of my most personal thoughts. Here, in my final column, I originally felt an immense pressure to come up with something sufficiently wise or conclusive enough to wrap up four rich years cleanly with a bow, giving closure to any unset-

goodbye tour, paying tearful house visits to my closest friends. A high school teacher had instilled a sense of impending doom in me; she warned me that there would come a point where these people were no longer the most important people in my life, where they’d be replaced with new people and new, shared experiences that would somehow be more meaningful than the past eighteen years. I was scared, awaiting an abstract but massive change in my world. I liked things the way they were. I liked who I was, what I had, who I had. I didn’t get why things had to change. Four years later, as I face graduation and a whole new cycle of massive change, I’m stuck thinking about this again. My high school teacher was mostly wrong. No one got replaced. My world just got bigger and my limits pushed to accommodate a larger physical and emotional

space rather than replacing one world with a newer one. I don’t think it’s fair to think of leaving in terms of loss. Change is not zero-sum. We’ve gotten too much from this place to think of graduation as leaving anything behind. Walk around campus and you’re immersed in a gothic wonderland in flux. We got here as freshmen, impressionable and wide-eyed, and spent a year or so learning our new worlds. The layout. The blueprints. How to navigate the spaces and relationships. How things work around here. How nice things were in our new and different world. Then suddenly, we started seeing cranes. Bits and pieces of everyday life were cleaved out for renovation, parts we considered central to our experience dissolved indefinitely. The permanence we came in expecting was replaced by a persistent feeling of ephemerality and change. The most vulnerable parts got hidden behind a wall and then covered with stone-patterned wallpaper—an administrationsponsored façade to hide the fact that there was an imperfection within. It’s a good thing we don’t take personal cues from campus-wide construction. Once we realize that this is the way things are now—that we will not see the completion of this project of a campus in flux—we accept that we will not get closure from something so outside our con-

trol. We separated our closeness to each other from our closeness to the physical space long ago. We had to. So as a class, though we’re soon to be replaced, we don’t need the school to feel connected to each other. The inevitable scattering and distancing that’s about to happen is not destructive to what holds us together because we’re bonded together by something deeper and more abstract. I’ve found myself inspired, more than usual these days, by this place and the people that inhabit it. Suddenly everything warrants a photo; suddenly everything is infused with a special kind of urgency and thrill. I’ve had more difficulty spending time alone lately—the guilt of not doing something productive, social and bucket-list-y sets in and the silence and space give me the opportunity to feel scary things. But then I’m reminded of the privilege I’ve just had to meet everyone I’ve met in four years here, and I’m inspired by the incredible things everyone has already done to the world. Thank you everyone for being the beautiful humans you are and for giving me the privilege to think out loud for you. Elissa Levine is a Trinity senior. She is currently a columnist and a photographer. Formerly, she was the Associate Photography Editor and a business account executive.

Forever chronicling

have no words. For the first time in my entire life, I am finding it impossible to come up with something to say. I finally have the opportunity to express myself on a public stage, to write about my journey at Duke and my feelings towards graduation—on a medium where potentially hundreds of people will read it—and yet I can’t. I don’t even know where to begin. This is rarely ever the case for me. I’ve always been a writer and a chronicler, con-

ing the news department or attempting to write about sports, I decided to try my hand at photography. I knew a little bit about shutter speed and aperture from a photojournalism class I had taken one summer, so I was basically already an expert. For the next four years, I spent all my time in the photo hall of the Chronicle office, only ever entering the news or sports halls when I wanted to bother Yeshwanth or Danielle or Carleigh or Amrith, eat someone’s food or say hi to the attractive sports writers. And despite my

Nicole Savage SENIOR COLUMN stantly documenting every aspect of life. Growing up, I would lock myself in my room for hours on end and write poems and short stories. I posted on my online blog regularly, composing clever and detailed descriptions of my life, my friends, my opinions on the latest political scandal or the most recent book I read. In my classes, I always preferred writing a final paper over taking an exam. I even kept a journal, writing an entry every single night after my 12th birthday. When I came to Duke, I stopped writing. My blog started to see fewer posts, and my short stories fell into the depths of my computer files. I still kept my journal, but my entries became less creative and more expository. My only pieces of writing that were seen by other people were the essays that I wrote for class assignments. I never even got around to taking that creative writing class I wanted to try. Freshman year, when I passed by the table for The Chronicle at the student activities fair, I decided to sign up for the list-serv and go to the first meeting. But instead of join-

constant desire to cover a news story or start my own opinion column, I never got around to doing it. So maybe that’s the reason I’m struggling so much to write this senior column. I’ve lost my ability to translate my thoughts and emotions into cohesive, logical sentences. And yet I’ve prepared for this moment for months, if not years. One column to summarize my experience at Duke, to write about memories from freshman year and to discuss how much I’ve changed over the past four years. I’ve obsessed over finding the best topic, the perfect metaphor, the one story or lesson that will capture everything I want to convey and be sufficiently sentimental without being too cheesy or cliché. Maybe there are just too many things I could write about. I could tell the story of why I ended up at Duke—how I had never heard of it until a friend in high school asked me to write a peer letter of recommendation for his Early Decision application, and how I ended up adding Duke to the list of colleges on my Common App approximately

two hours before it was due. I could write about Blue Devil Days and how just one day on campus spent learning about Focus and DukeEngage, eating in Marketplace, seeing Cameron Indoor Stadium and K-Ville, laughing at a DUI show and falling in love with the Pitchforks, visiting the Nasher, eating dinner at Plate and Pitchfork (RIP) and meeting students was enough to convince me to come here. I could write about my journal entry on that day, April 15, 2011, when I wrote, “I love Duke. I love everything about it. Walking through campus, I already feel like a student here.” I almost wrote my senior column about all of my favorite places on campus. I thought about describing all my different homes at Duke, from my tiny room in Blackwell to my not much bigger room in Mirecourt section in Craven to my apartment in DG section on Central and now Yellow House, the most perfect little house on the corner of Buchanan and Markham. The late nights in the Coffeehouse and Vondy, the early morning classes in Sanford in Trent, the hundreds of hours spent standing in Wallace Wade and Cameron Indoor Stadium. I could write about living in K-Ville during my freshman and senior year, spending every Friday evening at the Freeman Center and every Sunday in 301 Flowers. And I could write about my favorite cherry tree on campus, the one between the BC and the chapel that everyone always Instagrams during the two weeks in the spring that it’s in bloom. Or I could have written about the senior year bucket list I made with my housemates and how hard we have worked these past few weeks to check everything off. I went to a show at DPAC, a Durham Bulls game, the Farmers Market in the pouring rain, and I even ate at the McDonalds on campus for the first time ever just to check off all the campus eateries. My senior column could’ve been about the lessons I learned from keeping that bucket list, something about how

life isn’t about checking things off but it’s about the experiences and the people along the way. I could’ve turned that into a lesson about having a plan, and the importance of being flexible and open-minded and allowing yourself to deviate from that plan. As someone who has maintained a detailed roadmap of her entire life but still has no idea what I’m doing after I graduate in exactly two weeks, I think that might be the most important lesson of all. All of those brilliant ideas, and yet here I am. Sitting in the basement of Bostock on a Sunday night surrounded by students studying for finals even though I finished everything almost a week ago and even tweeted this morning about never going to the library again in my life. I have literally nothing else to do other than write this column, and yet I’m about to submit it two days past the deadline. So perhaps there is a lesson to be learned here. It’s not just my inability to write that is keeping me from finishing this column. Maybe some things just can’t be described in words. Maybe it’s simply not possible to summarize four years of lessons and memories in one newspaper column. Maybe one day, I’ll be able to look back on my time at Duke without having to read through every journal entry or look at every photograph. I just need to turn off the part of myself that needs to chronicle everything, and let life happen. And for once, I think I might actually be okay with that. Nicole Savage is a Trinity senior and current photographer for The Chronicle. She is also the former Social Media Editor for the photo department, a position entirely made up just so that she could be on masthead without actually having any responsibilities. She would like to thank Esu, Bri, Jmay, Yeoyeo,Tseuc, Dall and all the Chron photogs who have changed her life in ways they probably will never comprehend. And her family and friends for all their support (especially KB).

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(In)visible

nvisibility is my specialty. I’m not shy or introverted, per se, but the less attention I draw to myself the better. On a large college campus with a lot of loud people who like to be noticed, this has proven laughably easy. Allow me to give a few examples. I walk around campus with headphones on so I don’t have to worry about having an awkward conversation, the vast majority of my closet is neutral or black, and I always, always stand in the back row of group photos. I rarely raise my hand in class even if I know the answer, and in groups of people I only say something after I’ve thought about it for a very long

to most anything someone has to say. But it has also manifested itself in ugly ways. The worst of these, I’ve figured out, is that I’m not great at asking for help when I need it. Last spring, I needed it. I was nearly failing a class and, after realizing that what I had been working towards just wasn’t working, had no idea what I wanted to do after Duke. These anxieties reached a breaking point in February when the sudden passing of a beloved cousin triggered unresolved grief and confusion over my father’s suicide when I was a child, and I entered a complete tailspin. I started to shrink myself. Like I said,

Eliza Strong SENIOR COLUMN time—sometimes, to my frustration, so long that by the time I get the courage to pipe up, the conversation has moved on. On the Chronicle, I was the Design Editor—no byline, just a tiny credit on the back page, which I earned by quietly organizing, packaging and laying out the beautiful work of my peers with meticulous attention to detail. My penchant for fading into backgrounds allows me to do some things wonderfully. I make an easygoing team player, will support the most harebrained schemes of my friends and like to listen

invisibility is my speciality. It was only when my mother came to pick me up from the airport six months later and drove right past me that I realized I had faded so completely that I had become someone that nobody, not even I, recognized. My battle with anorexia has taken a toll on everything. Rebuilding the friendships that I shied away from out of fear of concern or judgment has been a long process and regaining trust from my family that I can take care of myself still a longer one. I can’t blame Duke for the

insecurity and anxiety that became so terrible that I nearly starved myself in a semester because those things came from within. What I have realized as I have put my life and body back together bit by bit is that this place is filled with love and support as rock-solid as the Gothic arches that hold it up—you know, the ones that aren’t being knocked down at the moment. It turns out that the Universe really likes to drive hard lessons home. Just as I started to get things under control again, progressing through the fall semester of my senior year with healthier relationships, mind and body, I hit my real bottom. Or rather, it hit me. I was crossing Erwin Road, returning from the library after submitting no fewer than seventeen law school applications, when an SUV struck me on the right side and flipped me into the air. The next few hours in my memory are blurry images of EMTs strapping me to a board, ER doctors stitching my head and splinting my arm and a flurry of fluorescent lights and masked faces. When I finally came to, I looked to my right and saw one of my dearest friends asleep in the hospital chair beside my bed, postponing her own Thanksgiving vacation until my frantic mother could arrive from Philadelphia. I won’t bore you with the details of my very slow recovery. Suffice it to say, I still have all my limbs just with some extra metal to hold the bones together. The point is, just when you think you might be starting to figure this whole college thing out, everything can get torn

out from under you. There’s nothing like a near-death experience to get you to realize that one “D” on your report card doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. Now, I know how to ask for help. I know that my friends will be there for me if I call them, and I know that trying to map out every second of my life is futile because life tends to have other plans. Most importantly, I know that within each of us is a deep and wide store of bravery and resilience that only becomes truly apparent when we need it most. Four years down my Duke road, I don’t have it all figured out. What I do have is trust that things work out even, or maybe especially, when I can’t see how they possibly could. I no longer want to be invisible. I have a voice. And I start every day with a thousand-watt smile for the simple reason that I have woken up and can live another day with all its ups and down. There is a big world out there with innumerable places to go, people to see and things to do, and I get to be a part of it—and I mean not to waste that opportunity. Eliza Strong is a Trinity senior and former Creative Director of Towerview. She would like to thank all of the friends and family who made Duke home and made her feel seen, including Elysia, Sophia, Bri, Cassidy, Sam, Lauren, Kristin, Alison, her sisters and mother, and everyone else. She would especially like to thank Danielle for a friendship that has crossed an ocean and a living room and will last a lifetime.

Enjoy the drive

n my four years at Duke, I have driven up Chapel Drive hundreds of times. Most Duke students have, probably in jampacked C-1s on the way to class, on weekend journeys to Perkin and on late-night returns to West with trays of Cookout. My first trip to Duke’s campus was almost eighteen years ago. I grew up just down the road eight miles away, but my family enjoyed visiting Duke’s gorgeous campus and gardens. My only memories of these first trips to campus are from photographs, but in each of these photographs, the Chapel is there, ever-present in the background.

Elysia Su SENIOR COLUMN The first few times I journeyed up Chapel Drive as a student at Duke, I remember being distinctly in awe, full of that freshman-year enthusiasm and hope for the next four years, the best four years of my life. But some time over the course of my undergraduate career, the drive up to the Chapel somehow lost its wonder. Where the Chapel once stood as the towering icon of Duke’s campus, the epitome of the gothic architecture of the place I’d come to call home, the drive from the roundabout up to the West bus stop had become just another necessary part of the day. Instead of appreciating the Chapel, the drive became a race to get to West and move onto one of the millions of tasks on my to-do list. During my first week at Duke, I somehow wandered into The Chronicle’s halls in 301 Flowers building, which sits directly in the shadows of the Chapel. I can’t even recall how exactly I ended up at my first Sundaynight photo meeting, but all of a sudden I was an associate photo editor with once-a-week shifts, and then I was the incoming sports photography editor, and then Chron had become my whole life. The Chronicle has given me so many amazing opportunities. I’m incredibly grateful for each and every

one of them from covering a speech by President Obama to sitting courtside at Duke-UNC games in Cameron and the Dean Dome to getting to understand and capture the wonderful, diverse, overwhelmingly talented and passionate students of this campus. Several months ago, I had one of the most incredible weekends of my life. Friday night I covered a speech by Laverne Cox, and, thanks to a Chronicle press pass, I got to go backstage and speak with her. Two days later, I was sitting on the floor at Madison Square Garden watching Tyus Jones pour in 22 points as Duke overcame a double-digit deficit to earn Coach K’s 1000th win. ELYSIA SU/THE CHRONICLE These were some of the best moA scene Su captured during her coverage of a Duke basketball game for The Chronicle. ments of my Duke career, and I am forever grateful to the Chronicle for giving me these experiences. But as I look back now at only so many more days that I’ll get to make the trek up my past four years at Duke, it isn’t these moments that Chapel Drive, drive on that forever-bumpy road with the mean the most. windows rolled down and take it all in. It’s the long nights and sometimes mornings in 301, I used to get irrationally mad at people who would ordering too many Loop milkshakes and screaming slow or even stop their cars in the middle of the road along to the songs of Taylor Swift. to take a picture of the Chapel. But now, I find myself It’s the times you forget about work for a while, choos- wanting to do the same. ing instead to lounge around in bed and talk about your In a few weeks, I’ll make my last drive away from hopes and dreams and future with your friends. West as an undergrad, and I’ll probably take the cliche It’s the afternoons you spend on the plaza or in Von- photo of the Chapel in my rearview mirror (What can I dy or in the Gardens, probably wasting time but inevita- say? I’m a photog). But I know that when I look at that bly making the most of it. picture, I’ll remember the four years when I could call It’s the people who are there to guide you and those Duke mine. who you are there to guide. And it’s because along the way, I learned to enjoy It’s the family that formed in that office in Flowers, the drive. the incredible community of exceptionally passionate and unique individuals who come together every day to Elysia Su is a Trinity senior and current Towerview Photo Edimake something amazing. tor. She has previously served as Photo Editor, Managing Editor It’s the way the light hits the Chapel at golden hour for Online and Sports Photography Editor. She would like to thank and the way you can’t help but slow down and take it her parents and sister for dealing with her for always; yy, ajk, all in. crod, dbb, beats, spalenberg, thanh-ha, sophs, dani, bri, lize, em, Over the past few weeks, every drive up to West has carleigh, mouse, ga and everyone v107-v110 for making chron a had me overthinking, counting down. Because there’s family; and bdgt, shelb+cor+ana and taylor for keeping her sane.

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Duke’s Rape Mistake: Part 2 Beating peer rape shapes up as a basic GRE analytical question. The general logic of how to beat rape is, at most, a 500-level standardized test question: “A Duke PhD found that 2% of men he surveyed stated they had ‘forced sex’ average 9 women, yet Duke has almost never expelled for peer rape. Thus, data suggest repeat rapists stay at Duke with impunity. To best beat peer rape, Duke should: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)

Fund its women’s centers’ vigils and distribution of ‘no means no’ media Train women in self defense via martial arts or handguns Train men on ‘yes means yes’ affirmative consent rules Equip women to prove private encounters by voice or video recording Equip women to prove non-consent”

Seems wacky that this simple question is the core of a $1.2 billion source of damage to women in US colleges each year, with 9,350 rapes reported in 2013, and as many as 90% being peer rapes. But consider: Answer 1 was tried and failed for 30 years, so some suggested women prepare to escalate physically, in number 2. Rape persisted, and when activists took a complaint to DOJ in 2011, DOJ agreed campus was unequal. DOJ then required number 3, which, like 1, is easily ignored by men who are willing to rape then lie. And, of course, suggesting students record intimacy as in 4 is too invasive. The answer is 5: a woman can share her past consent information with whom she chooses. When schools are proactive, this is all she needs to prove non-consent. She simply needs a solid record, more credible than verbal testimony. Duke can’t force a woman to record her consents, and doesn’t need to. Duke only needs to provide women the most prudent, private possible framework to prove non-consent. From there, it’s a Duke woman’s informed choice as to whether to use it. The high cost of student rape show in the high table, and a sole means of beating it, mean Duke must provide women this option. Practical constraints leaving just one viable solution in campus life is nothing new. Duke has no option but to provide students water pipes. Water buckets were long used, and highly unsatisfactory. Other options like catching rain on dorm roofs or a water cannon in the quad are simply laughable – about like asking a willful rapist to heed “no means no” or “yes means yes”. So there’s ample precedent for single answers that go everywhere. Just as Duke had to figure out how to deal with water leaks before putting pipes in dorms, data leaks must be beat for women’s rape safety. With Duke-style ingenuity, they are. That requires a bit of 750-type analytical logic – to systemically beat hackers and leakers. Elite colleges are stocked full of persons with the intellect to do just that.

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Duke’s Rape Mistake: Part 3 In 2012, alumni – technically advised by a Chapel Hill resident, Fortune 500 web programmer, college rape victim – brought Duke a $300,000 grant proposal under the federal Violence Against Women’s to implement a proof of consent truth pilot project. The meeting didn’t cite Duke’s past mistakes, as this note does. Rather, it focused on cost-free means for Duke to rectify it. Duke refused to sign off on the grant, stating there were too many staff opinions that would be needed before the grant window. Wacky. Next, Duke staff were offered a privately funded rollout for Duke to protect women from rape, to begin with the entering class of ’17 – the freshman class in which Duke concluded a woman was raped at Sigma Nu. So it is plainly Duke staff’s refusal to proactively provide proof of non-consent that left a freshman at risk of Mr. McLeod moving to sex without assuring he had her consent. Mr. McLeod was an honor scholar whose lawsuit against Duke asserts his character by stating he earned 6 A’s in a semester, and won a coveted Wall Street bank offer. To believe Mr. McLeod would have proceeded to rape if he knew a Duke woman could prove non-consent is to believe he’d have made a self-sabotaging decision to cast aside 4 years of hard work and great academic success. Highly doubtful. So the rape Duke concluded of the ’17 freshman was, almost certainly, Duke’s fault. Duke was either indifferent to women’s rape safety or incapable of basic logic analysis of require to implement women’s rape safety. Neither is good. Gloria Allred probably wouldn’t have been dismayed, as we were, when Duke rolled out bogus logic to keep entering ‘17 women at the old risk of rape. Ms. Allred herself was raped at gunpoint, and has made a prominent career of seeking to advance women’s rights. From decades of pushing institutions, she draws on a wealth of experience when she says schools will only beat rape when made to pay. Seems she’d not have been surprised, but confirmed. If the ’17 freshman were suing Duke for neglect of rape safety, we would offer to testify on her behalf. For what moral choice do we have, at this point? If we seek back to protect a school we love, we are complicit with subjecting women to unneeded rape risk. That’s not a moral stance that works for all of us. This month, the Wall Street Journal described a Raleigh court’s finding of sufficient credence in Lewis McLeod’s claim of Duke’s failure of due process, to set a February, 2016 trial despite Duke’s court goal to dismiss the case. While we recognize that it’s possible Mr. McLeod raped, our offering to support his case is apparently the only way to help spare many campus rapes. Duke has, thus far, proven Ms. Allred correct. Perhaps an outside court view informing Duke it’s been negligent will bring change. That’s the current path. Sad. Unfortunate. Unnecessary. And was wholly avoidable.

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Duke’s Rape Mistake: Part 4 The Wall Street Journal cast Duke as prejudiced against men this month. But had we united to act for ‘safety’ in 2012, there’s every reason to believe WSJ reporting in 2015 would cover a booming Duke success in ‘safety’ -- along the lines of Stanford in ‘search’ from 1996 and Harvard in ‘social’ from 2003. Larry Moneta told alumni that he splits arriving freshman into 2 sessions of 400 men and 2 sessions of 400 women. He offered the idea of alumni sitting into observe in a 2012 session, with an eye toward a roll out of rape safety for women and justice for men in 2013. The next step was a staff review. At the staff review, a psychologist said men could sue Duke if women have the right to prove nonconsent. This fails logic 101: women eminently have the right to document their consents, and share that documentation with whom they choose -- a sex partner or a judiciary. Duke judiciary has the right to weigh any such information that students have the legitimate right to render. Ironically, a man did sue Duke – and his suit claims a stress-related psychological condition. So the Duke psychologist strayed from his field into law, and erred on both. Worse, the focus on Duke’s financial interest over student mental health was odd. Barring a technicality, commonsense says the McLeod case sets up for Duke to again face payment to a man accused of rape -- as in the lacrosse scandal. But think how different it could have been: The Jameis Winston “she-said, he-said” was the most media intense college rape case in history. The free media and the strength of NCAA wide partnering for rape safety and justice would have been a major motor promoting proof of consent truth from Duke across the NCAA. A huge opportunity to lead, missed. Two weeks back, a top Raleigh law firm sent a FEDEX to each of 6 senior Duke leaders, pointing out that Dean Smith ran an all white team from 1961-6, then integrated the Tar Heels in 1967, and was eulogized this year as a civil rights hero. A great example of moving to higher ground that Duke can now mirror. With just 2 hours effort by a few as those 6 Duke leaders, Duke can trigger a vast fall in America’s 9,000 plus annual Clery reported rapes. And in so doing, the Duke endowment can realize 8, 9, or 10 digits sums that exceed any payouts that may accrue as a result of past mistakes. The downside to Duke? None. In close, the Gamechanger Alliance leaves it to community judgment as to whether we acted, and are acting, in good faith for both student interests, and Duke’s interests. We thank each of you for your kind attention. Coach K, who has given all Duke so much, deserved better than to have 2015’s NCAA banner publicly stained by “she-said, he-said.” Next play. Let’s get safety done. Inquiries: gamechangeralliance@gmail.com

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