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‘A no-brainer’: Dame’s set to replace Devil’s Bistro Samantha Neal The Chronicle With the addition of new eateries and food trucks, updates to Marketplace and the anticipated opening of West Union, students will soon get a taste of changes that have been in the works for years. Most notably, Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee has selected Dame’s Express to replace Devil’s Bistro, which closed last year. Although running the Central Campus eatery comes with the pressure of adjusting to a new building and layout, Randy Wadsworth—the owner of Dame’s Chicken and Waffles—is excited about becoming the latest addition to campus. “It was a no-brainer for us to accept the opportunity to work with Duke Dining Services,” Wadsworth said. “Duke students have been some of our biggest supports at the Main Street restaurant since we opened.” A copy of the menu that Wadsworth provided—which provides a broader selection than the downtown restaurant—featured a range of options including egg omelets, frittatas, burgers, “Nawlins” po’ boys, pizzas, regional foods and, of course, the signature fried chicken and waffles. Students can also look forward to the completion of the new West Union, which is finally on the horizon after two years of construction and eight years of planning. The opening of the Devil’s

it’s completed,” Coffey said. “As each week goes on, [first-years] will see more things happening.” As previously reported, the East Union will also house collaborative workspaces for FOCUS clusters. Some of these rooms will be open for use at the start of the Fall with more opening later in the semester. This year, there will also be a new food management system online that will allow students to better access nutritional information and ingredients for food served on campus. The first venues to have this system will be Marketplace and the Divinity Café. “It should be very customer-friendly,” Coffey said. “We think that’s a huge plus for the program and for our customers to have that transparency.” Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Other changes include the addition Dame’s becoming the primary eatery on Central Campus kicks off what promises to be an of the Bull City Street Food and Belgian eventful year for Duke Dining. Waffology food trucks to replace Captain Krafthouse pub in February 2016 will thought there was no better way than to Ponchos and Mac-Ur-Roni, as well be the first opportunity for students actually meet the owners and chefs.” as new Merchants-on-Points vendors to enter the West Union—just in time Coffey maintains that West Union Tijuana Flats and Dunkin’ Donuts to for March Madness, noted Director of will be worth the wait. replace Skewers and Chai’s Noodle Bar Dining Services Robert Coffey. “I truly believe this will be the best and Bistro. Although the West Union and its dining facility in the nation,” he said. Despite a post on the All Duke seven food vendors will not be fully open The East Union—home to Facebook page that Cosmic Cantina until Fall 2016, Coffey said students will Marketplace and Trinity Café—has would be open 24 hours and be available be able to sample food from the venues taken a more aggressive schedule with on food points, Coffey and DUSDAC cothis year. its renovations. Marketplace will be open chair Brian Taylor, a senior, confirmed “One thing we’re going to do immediately to serve the Class of 2019 that these rumors are false. throughout the school year is, once a but will continue to undergo limited “Cosmic is most definitely not joining month, feature one of the vendors that construction during the Fall. the MOP program,” Taylor said. “We will be in the West Union on the plaza,” “It’s going to be a wonderful space have talked to them before, but they Coffey said. “To get people excited, we from top to bottom for students when have no interest in delivering.”

Duke-UNC faculty movement under the microscope Abigail Xie The Chronicle After a lawsuit was filed this summer, faculty movement between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has become an increasingly scrutinized topic— and former Duke administrators claim that the the two institutions have avoided hiring each other’s faculty DR. Danielle for many years. seaman Dr. Danielle Seaman, assistant professor of radiology, filed a class action lawsuit claiming that she was denied a parallel position in

the UNC Department of Radiology’s cardiothoracic imaging division because of an agreement between the two institutions to not hire each other’s medical staff and faculty. The suit— which was filed June 9—contends that the no-hire agreement suppressed competition and employee wages, therefore violating federal and state anti-trust laws. According to the case file, Seaman became aware of the policy earlier this year, but the UNC chief of cardiothoracic imaging—who is unnamed in the file— believed the policy had been in place for several years after Duke had previously tried to recruit the entire bone marrow transplant team from UNC. “The general rule was that we didn’t recruit there and they didn’t recruit at Duke—it certainly was in the years

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I was in the administration,” said John Burness, former senior vice president for public affairs and government relations from 1991 to 2008. “I don’t know if it’s ever been a formal agreement, but it’s certainly been a practice over a long period of time.” Burness—now a visiting professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy—noted that he could not recall an instance in which a faculty member from UNC was recruited to Duke during Nannerl Keohane’s tenure as president of the University from 1993 to 2004. Keohane also confirmed that during her time as president the University avoided poaching of UNC faculty. Recently, however, the former chair of the chemistry department at UNC, Valerie Ashby, elected to take

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on a prominent position at Duke by replacing Laurie Patton as dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. This exchange of an administrator to a deanship role between Duke and UNC is unusual, and Burness believes it is the first time this has happened, although the lawsuit only mentions the no-hire policy as it applies to medical faculty, not senior administrators. “The question of whether Duke and UNC [or N.C. State] should attempt to recruit faculty from the other campus was always somewhat delicate,” Keohane, now Laurance S. Rockefeller distinguished visiting professor of public affairs at Princeton University, wrote in an email. “At least while I was president we tried to avoid aggressive recruitment.

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FAC Board Co-Chairs sound off on O-Week they don’t exist, and we won’t shy away from that. LM: That’s also the point of the summer reading book, is this common ground that they all have to speak about as they come onto campus. We want to start these conversations and for them to have something to talk about. We were kind of pleased—yes, it was controversial, but the discussion on Facebook was a really good, [respectful] conversation. That’s what we want. We were really excited about it being a graphic novel— that has never been done before. SZ: I don’t enjoy reading, and I read that book in two hours. It’s a really fast read. It will make people who don’t read their summer reading book read their summer reading book.

Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle Few first-years will ever forget the first faces they see as they arrive on move-in day. Teams of first-year advisory counselors help Duke’s newest residents move in, then provide guidance and support throughout the year. Seniors Leah Mackay and Sherry Zhang, FAC Board co-chairs, were tasked with overseeing the group of 240 counselors. Before orientation week, The Chronicle’s Amrith Ramkumar talked with Mackay and Zhang about their experience as FAC Board co-chairs and advice they would give to the Class of 2019.

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The Chronicle: Most of us remember feeling overwhelmed when we first got to campus. What have you tried to do to make this O-week more comfortable for new students? Leah Mackay: Not making them feel like deer in headlights. They’re all so excited, you can see from the Facebook page. We both remember how excited we were to get to campus, so [we want to] kind of keep up that excitement as they go in as opposed to destroy it as O-week goes on. Sherry Zhang: O-week is really fun, and there are always going to be so many events. If you look at the schedule, there are still so many events, and there will still be a feeling of being overwhelmed for certain students, but the fact that there are inserted times for reflection will hopefully be like little pockets of peace throughout O-week. TC: One of the challenges for FACs seems to be connecting to all of the students in their groups, particularly the more introverted ones. Is that something you will address this year during FAC training?

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LM: Yeah, that’s what you push for from the FACs because the FACs are one of the first people that interact with these first-years. It’s always easy to make an effort to talk to those people that are outgoing, so catering activities, catering discussion to pull your introverts into the conversations without making it obvious that you’re doing that is really what we want to try to work with the FACs [on]. SZ: Tangible ways we’re doing that [are] we’re including more FAC chats, so more one-on-one times. There are also [more] meetings with your RA, so more small group discussions as opposed to these large events will definitely help with people getting comfortable with each other in different settings.

they’re moving fridges. We always joke about the U-Hauls, when eight U-Hauls show up, like ‘What are you putting in your dorm rooms?’ TC: Are you jealous that all of the firstyears will have air conditioning this year? SZ: I actually think no AC is better for first-years because we bonded in the common room. This is prejudiced against certain dorms, but I feel like dorms that have AC are too comfortable. When you don’t have AC, it’s a bonding experience.

TC: What are your thoughts on ‘Fun Home’ and all of the conversation it has generated? SZ: I was on the committee for picking it for the summer reading selection. TC: Will having air-conditioning in One of the comments that was brought every dorm on East campus make things up during our discussion was that Duke much easier for FACs? University is a school that won’t shy LM: Definitely on move-in day. The away from these conversations. Yes, we FACs will really appreciate that, and all know it’s a controversial book potentially the first-years as well. I can’t see anyone because other schools have used it and complaining. The FACs are amazing. they have gotten backlash for it. But even They start from 7 a.m., and a lot of the comments on Facebook, [those are] them will have an hour to an hour-and- the conversations we want to encourage a-half lunch break, and other than that, at Duke, and we’re not going to pretend

TC: What advice would you give firstyears for navigating Duke’s complicated academic scene? LM: Take a breath. You’re going to speak to people who [are interested in] two majors and a minor and a certificate, and you come and you’re like ‘I don’t even know what these majors mean.’ It’s just taking a breath, taking classes you think are interesting as opposed to what you think you should take. And from that, you’ll figure out what you’re interested in, what path you want to take and what classes are going to work for you. SZ: For Trinity students, don’t take your language, don’t take Spanish because you’ve taken Spanish for all four years. Don’t take your core yet. People will see this or hear me and they still won’t listen, but I really believe that you shouldn’t take your core classes right away because you can just take them whenever. For Pratt students, it’s possible to take classes outside your regimented classes. I wouldn’t take classes to be safe. Don’t make decisions out of fear. I would really recommend students trying to figure out what they really enjoy. LM: And then talk to the FACs, or an See O-WEEK on Page 4

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Fuqua impacted by White House diversity summit Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle Bill Boulding, dean of the Fuqua School of Business and J.B. Fuqua Professor, visited the White House last Wednesday for a summit on how businesses can create more inclusive workplaces. In addition to taking part in a discussion about how businesses and business schools can best support women and working families, Boulding signed a document with other leaders of business schools committing Fuqua to several best practices based on topics that were discussed. The summit was hosted by the White House Council on Women and Girls and the Council of Economic Advisers. “The thing we committed to with the White House is this idea of how business schools can be role models in terms of the kind of organization that you create, and have that carry over into our graduates and the practices they implement as they go to their respective companies,” Boulding said. The list of best practices, designed to help business schools connect businesses to a more diverse talent pool, is separated into four categories—ensuring access to business schools and careers, building a business school experience that prepares students for the workforce of tomorrow, ensuring career services that go beyond the needs of traditional students and exemplifying how organizations should be run. Forty-seven schools signed the

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document, which Boulding said he and other business school deans had been involved with for more than a year. In conjunction with the summit, the Council of Economic Advisers released an issue brief about the disconnect between the increased number of women in the labor force and the small number of strides made in the business sector. Although the majority of college students are women, less than five percent of CEOs at Fortune 500 companies in 2014 were female and only 16.9 percent of Fortune 500 board seats were held by women in 2013. The brief noted that women face obstacles such as explicit

and implicit bias, insufficient preparation and support from business educators and inadequate family-friendly workplace policies. Boulding explained that many of the recommended practices have already been implemented within Fuqua—which saw its MBA program ranked No. 1 last November by Bloomberg Businessweek—and others are “aspirational.” He also noted that the goal for business schools is not just to increase diversity within student bodies, but to train students who embrace it. “What we really have is a challenge of building a generation of leaders who understand how to unlock the value that

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lawsuit from page 1 Although if a faculty member personally reached out and took the initiative, that made it harder to say no.” In a restraint-of-trade argument, the lawsuit contends that the no-hire policy suppresses wages by not allowing faculty to leave and join a competitor for potentially higher pay. “The argument would be that I’m not free, like pro basketball players, to go wherever I can to get the maximum remuneration,” Burness explained. “From an institutional point of view, though, it is much stronger to have the no-poaching policy.” Despite the case file’s claims that such a policy is detrimental to faculty from both schools, Clark Havighurst—a former professor in the Duke University School of Law who taught healthcare policy and antitrust law for more than 40 years—also believes that this agreement would be beneficial to both institutions in the long run.

“You’d probably find relatively few instances where Duke and Carolina have poached each other’s faculty,” Havighurst wrote in an email. “This is probably a matter of mutual restraint as much as explicit agreement, however, as each school or department would hesitate to irritate the faculty at the neighboring institution, thus undermining collegial and personal relations that are undoubtedly beneficial to each.” Other possible justifications for the no-hire agreement described in the lawsuit are a wider market for faculty talent beyond Duke and UNC and the detrimental consequences of poaching patients along with medical faculty. Despite the potential for restraint-of-trade, both Keohane and Burness emphasized the importance of a healthy long-term relationship between Duke and UNC when considering the no-hire policy. “Now because of the cutbacks at Carolina, Duke’s compensation is better for faculty. [If not for this agreement], Duke would start poaching like crazy, and that would not be good for Carolina and not for Duke

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in the long run either,” Burness said. Keohane explained that one of her main priorities as president was building closer relations between the two schools, which is reflected in the Robertson Scholars Program, a joint scholarship for undergraduates from both schools, and the creation of the Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship, a joint faculty chair to promote collaboration between the institutions. “The financial challenges faced by public universities [like UNC] may have exacerbated this problem,” Keohane wrote about avoiding recruitment of UNC’s faculty. “But I think the principle is important and hope it is still honored. UNC-Chapel Hill has always been one of the finest universities in the US; historically it has been a great source of pride and joy to the people of North Carolina.” Although the tension between Duke and UNC in athletics is well-known, Burness noted their academic relationship has always been strongly collaborative, as is the case with many university pairs such as Harvard and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University and The University of CaliforniaBerkeley. “My sense is that the current policy serves both the state and the institution, and in the long run serves the individual,” Burness said. “And it really is true that each institution is stronger if the other institution is strong. It keeps both moving forward.”

O-WEEK from page 2 upperclassman. I know that sounds cheesy, but they’ve been in your shoes, they’ve had to make all of those decisions. They can definitely help guide you or make it look a little less daunting. TC: What are your favorite places to eat, on-campus and off, that you think people should try when they first get to campus? SZ: It used to be the Law School Refectory, but now it doesn’t exist. I still like Divinity School—grilled cheese and tomato soup. Breakfast—Another Broken Egg—I’m always happy when I go there. Dame’s is a classic, just got to put that out there. LM: I’m Div School as well. I love their toasted oatmeal. Off campus, I really like Nanataco. Their queso is great. I tried Daisy Cakes, which is linked to the Farmer’s Market, over the summer, and that was really, really nice. TC: Another wrinkle in this O-week is the special hiphop concert in the gardens only for first-years through Duke Performances. A lot of people want to sneak in, but will FACs be allowed to go? LM: I don’t know if FACs can. It’s special for firstyears, there will be some [FAC] boarders there just to help out. We’ll be there, but it’s supposed to be firstyears getting to know their class, getting to know Duke and having some fun. SZ: The fact that people want to sneak into these events is probably a good sign. That’s a good problem to have.

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might be named Stephanie or Esteban,” Obama said at a press conference following the White House Demo Day. “They might never set foot in Silicon Valley. We’ve got to unleash the full potential of every American—not leave more than half the team on the bench.” Also as part of the White House Demo Day, Tom Katsouleas, former dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, was one of more than 100 engineering deans who signed The Diversity Commitment. The commitment was sponsored by the American Society of Engineering Education and those who signed committed to providing more opportunities in engineering for women and other underrepresented demographic groups. Although Katsouleas’ last day at Duke was Friday—he left to become vice president and provost at the University of Virginia—he noted in his final dean’s memo sent via email to Pratt students that he expects interim dean George Truskey to honor the commitment as a search continues for his replacement. Editor’s note: This article originally ran online Aug. 11

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After losing the program’s winningest senior class and dealing with a rash of injuries early in fall camp, Duke is looking for new faces to take the reins of a program on the rise. The Blue Devils held the first of two fall scrimmages Saturday night at the Brooks Practice Facility. Dealing with the humid summer weather, Duke played 70 snaps, which featured quite a bit of heavy hitting but did not feature heavy playing time for many key players. “What we did tonight is very situational, but it was all totally a personnel evaluation,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “We worked a lot of different combinations to evaluate how they would respond. We were really evaluating our depth and to see if somebody is ready to compete for a job.” The Blue Devil defense forced three turnovers despite limited action from its starters. Sophomore linebacker Zavier Carmichael recorded an interception and a fumble recovery in addition to an interception by freshman cornerback Jeremy McDuffie. “i’m always happy when the defense

Chronicle File Photo Junior wide receiver Johnell Barnes caught five passes for 103 yards in the Blue Devils’ 70-snap scrimmage Saturday.

is taking the ball away,” Cutcliffe said. “What i will evaluate is how many times the offense is taking care of the ball even if we don’t turn it over. A lack of taking care of the ball shows up in a lot of areas.” Although the defense got the best of

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the loss of explosive fourth-round nFl draft pick Jamison Crowder. Senior Shaquille Powell picked up 15 yards on the ground for the Blue Devils but was limited to just four carries to protect the las Vegas running back from injury risk. of the four scholarship running backs who entered fall camp, Powell is the lone rusher still healthy. redshirt junior Jela Duncan is out indefinitely with a partially torn pectoral muscle, and leg injuries have forced sophomore Shaun Wilson and redshirt sophomore Joseph Ajeigbe out of contact drills in practice. With the numbers in the backfield dwindling, Cutcliffe shifted redshirt freshman nicodem Pierre—who entered camp as the third-string quarterback—to running back last week. Thomas Sirk is preparing to take over for Anthony Boone at quarterback this season, and the redshirt junior had the chance to run a no-huddle offense for a two-minute drill during the scrimmage. he finished the drive just 2-of-6, including an incomplete pass targeting an open T.J. rahming breaking down See Football, page 8

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Dorsey leads Duke to win Blue Devils top Cougars by JeSúS hidalgo The ChroniCle

Duke got off on the right foot to start its season—specifically, the right foot of imani Dorsey. The sophomore finished a second-half strike from inside the box for Duke’s first goal of the year as CLEM 0 the Blue Devils deDUKE 1 feated no. 22 Clemson 1-0 in their one and only exhibition contest Saturday at Koskinen Stadium. After being outshot 5-4 in the first period, Duke strung together 10 shot attempts in the second half and found the back of the net in the 72nd minute after Dorsey finished an inviting cross from sophomore defender Morgan reid. “We played fairly well in the first half,” Duke head coach robbie Church said. “But once we won the ball in midfield, we played too many early balls instead of winning it, dribbling at midfield and then playing balls in. But after halftime, we adjusted really well. We made quicker decisions and we attacked them with numbers in the second half.” Six freshmen made their first-ever appearance wearing a Blue Devil jersey Saturday, including midfielder Taylor racioppi. The ocean Township, n.J., native—who

earned All-Freshman Team honors from TopDrawerSoccer.com last week—led Duke’s attack with four shots and could have broken the scoreless draw in the 39th minute when she had a clear sight on goal from inside the box, but her shot toward the far post went too wide. With the first half about to expire, racioppi created another chance from outside the box, but Clemson goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan pulled off an easy save. After a knee injury kept her out of the lineup for the past two seasons, redshirt junior midfielder Cassie Pecht returned to the field and played 57 minutes. The 2012 national Freshman of the Year combined with junior left defender and team captain Christina Gibbons to look for openings on the attack. “[Pecht and racioppi offer] tackling mentality to the team,” Church said. “They are very athletic and very good with the ball. They are going to put other teams on their heels—they are very dynamic out on the field.” Although the Tigers had greater ball possession than the Blue Devils during the first 45 minutes, they were unable to turn their looks into a score against Duke goalkeeper e.J. Proctor. Auditioning to replace See W. Soccer, page 8

Staff rePortS Just three days into their preseason, the Blue Devils took to the road for their first exhibition game and passed their first test as a team, thanks to the play of a hometown hero. Duke secured a 2-1 victory against the College of Charleston at Patriots Point Stadium in Charleston, S.C., Friday night. The Blue Devils got off to an early start with a goal DUKE 2 from sophomore CHAR 1 Jeremy ebobisse in the seventh minute, and after the Cougars managed to tie the game in the beginning of the second half, Durham native Jared rist assured Duke the win with his first goal as a Blue Devil. To give both teams more time to see their rosters in action, the game featured the normal two 45-minute periods followed by a third 30-minute period. Duke took advantage right away when ebobisse placed a rebounded save into the back of the net. The College of Charleston answered back early in the second period with a series that resulted in a goal by forward hamilton Carlin in the 57th minute. later in the second period, rist—a graduate transfer from Georgetown— scored an unassisted go-ahead goal in

Lily Coad | The Chronicle Sophomore Jeremy Ebobisse got the scoring started Friday with a goal in the seventh minute. his first-ever appearance as a Blue Devil. The Cougars would not find an answer in the extra 30 minutes of play. Duke will return home to host UnC Charlotte in its home debut Friday at 7 p.m. in its second and final exhibition game. The Blue Devils will officially kick off the season Aug. 28, hosting St. Mary’s in the John rennie nike invitational.

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if anyone was sleeping on the Blue Devils this season, now might be a good time to wake up. Duke defeated Davidson and Wake Forest in shutout fashion this weekend to end the first week of preseason training. The two-day 0 homestand kicked DAV DUKE 8 off Saturday at Jack Katz Stadium, WAKE 0 where the Blue DUKE 2 Devils put on an offensive clinic for the visiting Wildcats. in 60 minutes of play, they notched eight goals—three of which came off the stick of junior forward heather Morris. Duke tapped into the same attacking rhythm Sunday, downing the defending conference champion Demon Deacons 2-0 in a preview of the Blue Devils’ Sept. 11 conference opener against Wake Forest. “it’s such a great opportunity to work on some game situations this early in the preseason,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin said. “We were able to interchange, get people in at different spots and work on personal connections that you can’t get in a regular practice.” The weekend tune-ups also provided Bustin’s squad with a chance to showcase its chemistry on both sides of the ball. Despite adding six freshmen to the

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roster and dealing with all the growing pains that process entails, the Blue Devils appeared cohesive and in sync this weekend, outperforming their opponents with superior ball movement. The crisp passing quickly translated into control of the pace of play, and Duke was able to sustain a relentless attack both days to keep its opponents on their heels. Davidson and Wake Forest were never given the opportunity to mount attacks of their own. The Blue Devils did not allow the Wildcats to register a shot on goal through three 20-minute periods Saturday, and Wake Forest’s stats were not

much better—just one shot on goal in 75 minutes of play. “This is definitely a special group,” senior defender hannah Barreca said. “i’ve been on a lot of teams with really good chemistry, and i’ve been on some without. This is a great group, and i’m really excited to get to work with them this year. We’re going to have a great season.” For several freshmen, Sunday’s game against the Demon Deacons held a special significance as their first taste of ACC competition. Defender Morgan Bitting saw the most time against Wake Forest with 60

minutes played, and forward erin Scherrer took the field for 56 minutes. Midfielder Christy Palazzese and forward rose Tynan each logged minutes as well, with Tynan drawing a yellow card in the final minutes of the match. “it’s definitely different playing an ACC team,” Scherrer said. “i loved it, though. The team is always so encouraging. There are a lot of freshmen on the team who have been getting good minutes, and the returners always support us. They make us feel really comfortable—when we go out there, it’s super calm.” excluding questions about the look of the starting lineup, the Blue Devils appear on pace to reach regular season form ahead of their Aug. 28 opener against California. But if there is anything that can be gleaned from a full weekend of exhibition play, it is that this Duke team is as versatile as it is deep. nine starters return from the 2014 squad that finished the season ranked ninth in the country, with six freshmen backing them up and a slew of other players hungry for playing time. With one more scrimmage remaining—a Saturday meeting against American—Bustin also has the opportunity to further experiment with different line options and formations. “What i told the team before the See Field hockey, page 8

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the departed Meghan Thomas and Ali Kershner, the sophomore blocked a header and a shot from inside the box before being replaced by redshirt freshman Abby Pyne in the second half. After returning from the locker room, Clemson continued dominating ball possession and had two great opportunities to break the scoreless draw. in the 47th minute, midfielder Tina Shakes fired from outside the box but Proctor turned away the shot. Two minutes later, Shakes sent in another shot that met the same fate. on the other end of the pitch, Duke started finding openings in the Tiger’s solid defense, generating some threatening looks thanks to the speed of junior midfielder Toni Payne. in the 59th minute, Payne put a shot on frame but Sheridan managed to control the ball. Two minutes later, racioppi left a ball for Payne and it seemed as though the Birmingham, Ala., native was going to notch the first goal of the evening, but her shot toward the left post went too wide. After Dorsey rolled the ball home to give Duke the 1-0 lead, Payne had two more chances within the next 10 minutes to add to the Blue Devils’ advantage, but Sheridan dealt with both attempts. More scoring was not needed, though, as Pyne and the rest of the defense finished off the shutout. “This team has incredible resiliency,” racioppi said. “even if it’s not going our way, we’re not going to give up and that’s an awesome quality for this team to have. once we got the goal, the first goal of the season against a great ACC opponent, we knew that was the turning point for us.” The Blue Devils return to action Friday at 5 p.m., when they kick off the regular season against Fresno State in the first game of the UnC nike Classic in Chapel hill.

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Keep your faces fresh, minds open This Tuesday, international and other early movein students will be joined by many more new arrivals to bring a larger-than-ever horde of 1,750 first-years to East Campus. The day begins with Freshman Advisory Counselors running minivan-load after minivan-load of possessions up and down dormitory staircases in a massive act of controlled chaos. Similarly, many new students find themselves thrown into a week packed with events, their heads abuzz with all the new stimuli of life at Duke. For some, however, the adjustment puts their minds in a kind of fog, one that bewilders them almost as much as it welcomes them. These early days are full of excitement, of course. The presentation of our University’s many resources, the honeymoon period of freely talking to every other freshman in Marketplace and the general thrill of newfound independence are enough to give anyone a boost. For all their forward momentum and opportunities, however, these days can also be some of the most difficult to navigate properly. Everybody gets through them, but not all first impressions are as good as they could be. To best engage Duke in these first days, there is more to say to incoming first-years than fits in the

space of one editorial. With that in mind, a timeless piece of catch-all advice is to keep an open mind. Many students arrive on campus with high expectations of having good times all around, thanks in part to college’s promises of near boundless independence. But in taking full advantage of a newfound range of freedom, sometimes the opposite happens and they end up closing themselves off too soon. With respect to extracurriculars, keeping an open

Editorial mind means trying new things. That does not mean to go on an exhausting marathon with every Orientation Week open house and information session, seeing everything but taking in nothing. What it does mean is to go to good fits but then to continue to be willing to take chances on other possibilities when they present themselves. Additionally, any first-year student’s transition to college would be incomplete without the anxiety of socializing and making new friends from scratch.

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*Trigger warning: sexual assault* inding Nemo is one of my favorite movies. Though the talking sharks terrified my childhood self and are the root cause of my recurring shark nightmares, the themes of friendship, finding oneself and devotion to friends and family were all great things I learned from it. One of my favorite scenes is when Nemo and his fishy friends are floating on the edge of the reef overlooking the vast ocean beneath them and see – for the first time – what they call a “butt,” which actually a fishing boat drifting on the ocean’s surface. They find it thrilling, fascinating, mysterious and tantalizing. One by one Nemo’s friends dare each other to see who can swim closest to “the butt”. Nemo at first refuses to swim toward it, remembering his father’s warnings, but eventually, under pressure, he swims in a cavalier manner across the open water and smacks “the butt” with his fin. Many of you will enjoy going to Shooters your first couple of weeks at Duke, and for many first-years, Shooters will be one of your first ‘going-out’ experiences. For better or for worse, going to Shooters has become one of

right? A few minutes later that boy grabbed my face and forced his mouth on to mine. I felt the familiar numbness I had felt so many times before creep itself back upward. Their faces reappeared. Their words rang again in my ears. Everything I had spent so long trying to repress came spewing back out in one violent torrent. I felt everything, and nothing. Those groping hands brought back memories of sexual assault and abusive relationships. A couple of days later I crawled like a wounded animal into the Women’s Center. I spent the next year fighting PTSD, depression and anxiety. While first-years were out meeting new people and establishing social circles, the drugs I had to take to calm me down knocked me out at 11 p.m. every night. I was eventually able to claw myself out of that dark hole I was buried in for so long, with the help of my friends. But those groping hands, desperate and peer pressured to touch “the butt” are still there. I would posit most if not every woman who has been to Shooters could attest to the existence of those hands. College is unexplored water. All of you first-years are

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the integral Duke experiences. But let me reiterate an important lesson for all you first-year Nemos: don’t touch the butt. Don’t do it. While you might not be caught by a couple of fisherman, as was Nemo, your actions do have tangible and severe results. My first night at Shooters was my second night at Duke, and I had no idea of what to expect. I waited in the endless line at the decrepit-looking saloon all for the chance to see what everyone had been telling me I “had to see.” Ten dollars later I stepped inside to the boozy welcome of dim lights, loud music and pulsing bodies everywhere. Overwhelmed, my roommate and I squeezed past revelers drenched in sweat, looking for a break in the crowd so we could stop and take it all in. I had been there about five minutes before the first one grabbed me. I was just getting into the swing of the music with my friends when I felt a pair of hands wrap around my waist and a slimy body shove up against me. Quickly whipping around, I sent an absolute death stare to the boy who had so nonchalantly affixed himself to me as if I were nothing more than a body to be had rather than a person capable of thought. He quickly skunked off. A few minutes later a different set of hands were back. I quietly spun around and placed myself on the opposite side of my friends, ridding myself of another pair of groping fingers. Then more hands. Eventually exhausted and seemingly defeated, I didn’t pull away from the next pair of hands. One dance couldn’t hurt,

just starting to leave the safety of the reef and begin exploring along with the rest of us. But in your exploration, remember that treating others with dignity and respect is paramount. While “the butt” in Finding Nemo was in fact an inanimate object, butts in real life are indeed attached to real people. With real emotions. In grabbing someone’s butt without asking you may, unknowingly, bring back unbearably painful memories. In grabbing our butts you are telling us that we are not worthy of respect. One of my favorite speakers put it succinctly: “They treated me like I was nothing. I began to believe I was nothing. They stole my voice and in the after I did not dare to believe that anything I might say could matter.” Our voices matter. Our thoughts, emotions and opinions matter. Touching the butt, without asking the person that butt is attached to, is not something you can allow yourself to be goaded into in some twisted attempt to prove your manhood. Our bodies do not exist for the purpose of your pleasure. We have the right to go to Shooters, to dance at Shooters, to exist at Shooters, without the fear of grimy fingers reaching for our behinds. Don’t be the guy with the grimy, grabby fingers. Don’t touch the butt. Dana Raphael is a Trinity junior and biweekly columnist.

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o first-years and more likely the parents who picked this up amidst a bevy of move-in materials, Welcome to the beginning of what can truly become an amazing four-year journey. As I prepared to write this column, I asked some fellow seniors and upperclassmen for nuggets of wisdom, “What would you want to tell the first-year you?” Even as I asked myself this question, I felt like no Gandalf or Yoda. Even though make a sentence like him I can, it is hard to contextualize the person who first walked onto this campus. In a way, he seems quite distant. First-day-of-school Jay was a Classics major with dreams of becoming a modern-day Indiana Jones, bullwhip and hat included. He was also fully unaware of alcohol and sexual assault on college campuses, Greek life, hierarchical social networks and this place people kept mentioning called Shooters. The question I tried to answer was what did that person want to know as he stepped out of his car to be greeted by an army of

Take the time to integrate and reflect on your experiences as you go and build the story of who you are and where you are going. People may push you into specific tracks to prepare you for the next step after college, but by taking more deviations from that path than planned, you give yourself more chances to grow and develop than you ever would have following a preset plan. 3) Never be fully comfortable If you’re comfortable with everything in your life at Duke and don’t feel pushed or challenged, you’re doing something wrong. Recent articles about higher education have pointed to an overly politically correct campus experience that harms mental health and intellectual discourse. While I fundamentally disagree with the concept that being a good person is somehow being “politically correct,” there is value to the notion that discomfort is vital to gaining something from your Duke experience. Push yourself in the classroom, expose yourself to competing ideas and claims, and make friends with people who you would not under different conditions. You will make your life far richer

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he lecture that resonated with me the most during DukeEngage Academy was the one that my friends complained about the most: the lecture on how our social media representations of our DukeEngage experience may have unintended consequences on how our placement locations are perceived. The lecturer showed some pictures that previous participants took at their placements. One picture featured a group of smiling African children surrounding a white Duke student. Another featured some skinned animals hung on a rope, which reminded me of the time I went to a Chinese grocery store with my friend who saw the live fish in the tank and commented, “most Americans would feel sick if they see this.” What’s problematic about those images is not what they convey, but what they fail to convey. They fail to complicate and humanize those places, which have been

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FACs and a brand new community to call home. Three years of Duke has felt like many more, and the hardwon lessons we’ve learned have certainly racked up. For this, my first column of my last year at Duke, I thought it would be appropriate provide some pieces of advice to guide you on your journey. As all that have come before you, you may tread forward in the established ruts for a college experience, and perhaps, you’ll have to learn the lessons that follow in practice for them to truly mean something—I know this was the case for me—but my hope for you is that Duke can be a place where you grow and learn to take advantage of the many opportunities set before you. A place where you’re challenged to grow into the person you want to become and begin to know who that will be for the rest of your life. 1) Recognize your youth. You seem like kids to my fellow seniors and me. You’re fresh out of high school with so much ahead of you that will build you into a self-sufficient adult. You might be less experienced, but this campus and this community are truly yours now. Ignore the habits and refuse to let seniors dictate the future of a community they will soon depart from. Seeing Duke with fresh eyes can add so much more to the discussions about its future than our years of habit. 2) Wander with purpose I guarantee you that some high-level administrators will tell you this week to explore and go outside of your comfort zone. I will tell you now before them hopefully to do more than that. Wander, don’t just explore, but do it with purpose. This first year is the best opportunity you will have in college to try a random class in a subject with which you have no experience or to go to that club meeting you heard about from a friend. Start a project for a need you observe in the community or apply for pretty much everything and anything. You never know where you might end up. The best experiences I have had at Duke were ones that happened by chance and because I said yes to something that was unconventional and unexpected.

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by pushing yourself to live outside of your academic and social comfort zones. 4) Define Yourself You are awesome. Never let anyone tell you otherwise or convince yourself of the opposite. That said, everyone is different. Just because someone is really good at something does not preclude you from being really good at your passion. We have a tendency to compete as people who once were the top of our respective classes and that competition breeds a degree of insecurity. We all feel it, even if we don’t let you in to the feelings behind our smiling selfies on Facebook. These four years are an opportunity to learn about yourself and define the person you are becoming. Focus on that personal development and on enjoying what you have instead of wondering why you’re not doing this internship, class, or club like your friend Susie. Leave this campus in four years with a better sense of who you are as a person in a global community of leaders and scholars. It may take time and you’ll always have your doubts, but that outcome is far more important than a specific leadership position or academic opportunity. On Wednesday I turn 21, marking an official induction into being a real adult in America. Three years ago, I was excitedly preparing for move-in day, nervously wondering if I would make friends and what I would do with these four years ahead of me. I never expected what has happened and how I have diverged from the path I had envisioned. May the L-Mo be with you! This community is yours now to make your own and to learn from. And if you’re ever in need of guidance, ask any upperclassmen. They’ll be more than happy to tell you where Gross Hall is or how to land that perfect internship. We’ve all been there before. Jay Sullivan is a Trinity senior and a biweekly columnist.

simplified into laden stereotypes for too long. We don’t need to reinforce the concept of the white savior or the barbarous eating habits of uncivilized cultures because such concepts are usually the first things that come into our minds when “the third world” is evoked. Similar problems can result from not just the pictures we take and share but our mentality going into countries of the “Global South.” Words like “serving” and “volunteering”, which can be neutral in a domestic context, become loaded with power differential when the exchange occurs between a mighty, historically colonizing country and a developing, historically colonized country. Only the powerful and superior can afford to fly to another continent and volunteer for two months. The powerful and superior feel obligated to serve the underprivileged because the latter need the former’s intelligence and skills. While such compassion is admirable, the justification guiding our compassion manifests the patronizing attitude of citizens of a developed Western nation and perpetuates the essentialist construct of the white savior and his poor, desperate charity cases. This summer, I spent two months in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Once in a taxi, one of us told the driver that we were “volunteering at charities.” The taxi driver bluntly responded, “Why did you Americans come here to volunteer? Who do you think you are?” I was amused by his Northern Irish sass, but wondered if such an accusation would come from someone who is used to receiving help from good-intentioned Americans. I want to go back to Belfast because I have grown attached to their culture and the people I worked with and not because I expect to alleviate their trauma in any way. Angie Shen is a Trinity sophomore.

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One Team. One Common Goal. To Provide Quality Service & Products to the Duke University Community.

RETAIL STORES University Store Duke Team Store eSTORE/Concessions Terrace Shop Nasher Museum Store Food Concessions Provisions at Integrative Medicine BOOKSTORES Textbook Store Medical Center Store Gothic Bookshop Duke Divinity Bookshop COMPUTERS Duke Technology Center Computer Repair CONVENIENCE STORES Lobby Shop Uncle Harry’s East Campus Store

THE MISSION of DUKE UNIVERSITY STORES OPERATIONS

is to be an integral component of the educational, research and patient care functions of the University by providing books, educational resources, convenience products, and service contributions to enhance the quality of life in our community. We are committed to sound management of University resources, providing a fair return on investment, and offering quality products and services at competitive prices in a professional and customer-driven manner.

Quality Now – The Excellence that Duke Deserves. Duke University Stores has been serving the Duke Community for over 80 years. The department now consists of 28 varied book, computer, retail, office services, vending and licensing operations, with 9 of those being contracted operations, and 19 self-operated.

OFFICE PRODUCTS Office Products Copy Center Fax Machines Sales/Service VENDING Drink/Food Vending Office Coffee Washers/Dryers Barbershop SUPPORT FUNCTIONS Business/Information Technology Marketing Warehouse Licensing

Box 90 850 Dur ha m , N C 27708 9 19. 684. 20 65 www.d u kestores.duke.edu