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Judge removes DSG VP voter turnout rises 9 percent Duke from Trask lawsuit Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Superior Court Judge Henry Hight removed Duke as a defendant in the lawsuit filed by contract employee Shelvia Underwood against Executive Vice President Tallman Trask and the University, Underwood’s attorney Donald Huggins confirmed Wednesday. Hight heard arguments from Huggins and attorneys representing Duke Tuesday before issuing the decision, which was not accompanied by any explanation of Hight’s reasoning. “The decision speaks for itself,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. Schoenfeld declined further comment. The original lawsuit included two counts against the University, alleging that Trask and Duke engaged in a civil conspiracy to protect Duke’s financial interests and reputation, and that they obstructed justice for failing to investigate the 2014 incident in which Trask hit Underwood with his car and allegedly used a racial slur as he drove off. Two other counts were directed solely at Trask—one for battery and one for negligence. Huggins explained that the lawsuit See LAWSUIT on Page 4
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Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle In an election with significantly higher voter turnout than last year’s, undergraduates selected next year’s class council presidents and vice presidents and Duke Student Government committee vice presidents and senators when polls closed Wednesday at noon. A total of 2,083 students—32 percent of the student body—voted in the election, a 9 percent increase from last year’s voter turnout but less than the 36 percent voter
turnout for the March 2 elections for president, executive vice president, and Student Organization Funding Committee chair. For the vice president of academic affairs and vice president of services races, instant runoff voting—in which candidates are ranked and those with the fewest votes are eliminated so that those votes can be reallocated to remaining candidates based on how candidates are ranked—had to be used because no candidate had a clear majority. In the vice president of academic affairs race, freshman Kushal Kadakia received 49.4 percent of the vote initially,
but freshman Sean Bissell won the instant runoff with 50.5 percent of the vote, noted Attorney General Annie Adair, a junior. Freshman Will Hardee was elected vice president of services after an instant runoff vote. President-elect Tara Bansal, a junior, noted she was pleased with the higher turnout. “I think the reason that we saw a considerable increase this year is because we had a lot more contested races and a lot more candidates running, so clearly there See ELECTIONS on Page 4
Professor Srinivas Aravamudan dies Wednesday Staff Reports The Chronicle
Special to The Chronicle Srinivas Aravamudan was a professor of English and former dean of the humanities.
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Srinivas Aravamudan, a professor of English and former dean of humanities, died Wednesday. Aravamudan was recognized for championing the humanities, including directing both the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Humanities Writ Large Initiative as well as serving as dean of the humanities until 2014. Duke announced in a release that the University has lowered its flags in respect. He was 54. “We are very sad to have lost
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Dunkin’ Donuts, Dame’s Senior named one of Glamour’s delivering on campus College Women of the Year Samantha Neal The Chronicle Fueling late-night study sessions with comfort food just became easier for students. Dunkin’ Donuts and Dame’s Express are now available for delivery through the Merchants-on-Points system. Although Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee voted for Dunkin’ to join the MOP program last year, it experienced difficulties in coordinating a delivery service in the fall. The eatery is now hoping to improve its delivery services. “From what I’ve heard for a long time, people were understandably frustrated that they weren’t delivering or were delivering sporadically,” said senior Brian Taylor, chair of DUSDAC. “Since they’ve gotten some of those issues worked out, it seems like it’s gone a lot better.” Dunkin’ Donuts’ delivery service also allows customers to order coffee and breakfast sandwiches as well as items from Baskin Robbins, such as ice cream cakes.
Pete Turner, the operator of Dunkin’ Donuts, said that the store hopes to use digital marketing to increase business and student awareness of the other items that can be delivered. “It’s improving everyday,” Turner said. ”Business has improved four-fold.” Dame’s Express is now providing delivery services as well. Robert Coffey, director of dining services, wrote in an email that the previous vendor in the Central Campus location Dame’s occupied last August— Devil’s Bistro, which was operated by Food Factory—also delivered and that a delivery service for Dame’s has long been anticipated. “It has always been in the plans to start the delivery service again once they got their feet under them with the opening of Dame’s Express,” Coffey wrote. Dame’s delivery service began operation Wednesday and will serve dinner from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. and weekend brunch from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. See DELIVERY on Page 4
Chronicle File Photo Dunkin’ Donuts was approved to join the Merchants-on-Points program last February but only recently coordinated its delivery service.
Rachel Sereix The Chronicle Senior Suhani Jalota was recently selected as one of Glamour magazine’s 2016 College Women of the Year and received $20,000 as its grand prize winner. Jalota, a Baldwin Scholar, founded the Myna Mahila Foundation to increase accessibility to menstrual hygiene products and public health infrastructure for impoverished women in India. She said she concentrated her efforts on the female hygiene market because most women in Indian slums could not access essential sanitary items. “I started working more on community building and understanding what is it that really keeps women going,” Jalota said. “If I really want to do more action-based and implementation-based things, then we want to work with these women to create something.” Jalota said she began with a team of four women and taught them how to
apply and use the pads so that they could both utilize them and sell them to other women living in their slum. During preliminatry discussions with many women living in the slums, Jalota asked what kind of company could hypothetically lead to female empowerment. Jalota said many of the women she spoke with agreed that they wanted a product that they could make and sell to other women, and that filled a gap in the market. “We want to create a network of young female entrepreneurs that are making these low cost, high quality, everyday and useful products,” Jalota said. “We want to start with menstrual hygiene because it is something that will start to break the stigma.” In many slums, Jalota explained, menstruation is a “taboo” subject and some women are afraid to speak freely about their bodies. “We want these women to talk more and more about these issues,” Jalota said. “That is what is actually going to See JALOTA on Page 16
Special to The Chronicle Senior Suhani Jalota, a Baldwin Scholar third from the left in the back row, created a foundation to make it easier for Indian women to access menstrual hygiene products.
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N.C. House Bill 2 prompts backlash in Durham, nationally Frances Beroset The Chronicle The passage of House Bill 2 in North Carolina March 23 has led to a national backlash, raising concerns that the bill will have negative effects on the state’s economy. The legislation came in response to a February ordinance passed in Charlotte that created antidiscrimination provisions for LGBTQ customers at private businesses and allowed transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identified with. The bill revoked that ordinance, restricted bathroom use to a person’s “biological sex” and banned local governments from creating their own anti-discrimination policies. In response to significant backlash from celebrities and businesses, Governor Pat McCrory signed an executive order Tuesday stating he would strengthen workplace protections for state employees—but he stopped short of altering the bill’s provision limiting which bathrooms transgender people can use. “This bill has very real, very concrete consequences for Durham and our state,” said Wendy Jacobs, a Durham county commissioner. “We really want to make it known to the world that [HB2] does not represent the values of Durham. The Durham City Council, the Durham County commissioners and the school board have all come out strongly against HB2.” Durham City Council passed a resolution April 7 calling for the repeal
Chronicle File Photo North Carolina’s general assembly overturned a local ordinance that allowed transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identified with.
of House Bill 2 and arguing that the law is unconstitutional. Numerous businesses have canceled plans to expand into North Carolina because of the law. PayPal announced April 4 that it would no longer be moving its global operations center to Charlotte. The center was expected to employ approximately 400 people. Two companies, Red Ventures and Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, have similarly stated that they will re-evaluate their expansion into North Carolina. Deutsche Bank also announced it would freeze its plan to move 250 jobs to Cary,
and the National Basketball Association may also choose to withdraw its business from the state. “The NBA is dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all who attend our games and events,” the league wrote in a statement March 24. “We are deeply concerned that this discriminatory law runs counter to our guiding principles of equality and mutual respect and do not yet know what impact it will have on our ability to successfully host the 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte.” Aaron Chatterji, associate professor in the Fuqua School of Business, noted
that as some companies choose to move their businesses, others are voicing their opinions via social media. “Other CEOs and companies are voicing displeasure on Twitter, like Mark Benioff [CEO of computing company Salesforce] or signing onto the Human Rights Campaign’s letter to Governor McCrory,” he said. “Depending on the characteristics of the company, they’re taking different actions.” Chatterji said his research has found that outcries from businesses had an impact last year when Indiana passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was seen by many as discriminatory. “There are all these demographic, public opinion variables that matter, so I don’t know if it’s going to have an impact in North Carolina, but we’ll see,” he explained. “Obviously [businesses] have power in economic terms, but the question is whether that power will be enough to sway politicians.” Jacobs noted that the bill would have broader impacts than just limiting bathroom use for transgender people. “If you feel like you’ve been discriminated against because of your age, or your race, or because you’re handicapped, or you’re a veteran, you have lost your rights in this bill,” Jacobs said. “And the bathroom aspect of it is really a smokescreen for this being an anti-labor bill. That’s what this bill really is.” New York City, and state, as well as San Francisco, Seattle, the District of Columbia and Boston have also chosen to ban non-essential travel by government See HB2 BACKLASH on Page 16
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Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle A judge ruled in favor of the University following arguments in court Tuesday, removing Duke from the lawsuit filed by contract parking employee Shelvia Underwood against Executive Vice President Tallman Trask.
LAWSUIT from page 1 against Trask will still continue on the counts of battery and negligence. “I’m looking forward to continuing to prosecute Ms. Underwood’s claims on her behalf,” Huggins said. Dan Hartzog of Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog appeared in court on behalf of the University Tuesday, arguing that Underwood’s claims about Duke lacked a legal basis, meaning that the incident should be litigated separately with Trask as the only defendant. He noted that the Duke University Police Department has discretion to choose what cases to investigate and how investigations proceed, adding that citizens do not have the right to sue the police for either not investigating or for conducting an investigation that “didn’t come out the way she wanted it to.” “If I leave court today and have an intersection accident with the mayor of Durham and the police come out, they don’t have to investigate if they don’t want to and I can’t sue them saying, ‘You should have investigated or you should have done a better investigation than you did,’” Hartzog said. “That is not the law.” Hartzog’s defense was inconsistent with standard DUPD procedure, said Danielle Purifoy, a Ph.D. student in environmental policy and member of Duke Students
and Workers in Solidarity, which helped organize last week’s Allen Building sit-in. “There have been several incidents where there have been traffic incidents and the pattern and practice of the DUPD has been to conduct a thorough investigation,” she said. “When you have a police department with the pattern and practice of investigating these incidents and you have this anomaly that involves the EVP, it raises eyebrows.” Hartzog also said that Underwood had signed a document given to her by DUPD detective Arthur Holland agreeing to drop the matter if Trask issued an apology. “She was the reason that it ended,” he said Tuesday. Huggins countered Tuesday that Underwood was pressured into signing that document and that Duke’s decision not to conduct a fair investigation caused Underwood “mental anguish and emotional distress.” Earlier this month, administrators claimed that they were unable to go into specifics on certain demands made by sit-in students because of ongoing litigation against the University. Although Purifoy said she was disappointed with Hight’s decision, she added that she hopes administrators will now be more willing to negotiate given Duke is no longer a defendant in Underwood’s lawsuit. “I certainly hope that the lawsuit will no longer be used as a barrier to justice for the workers of [Parking and Transportation Services] and the other employees of Duke moving forward,” Purifoy said.
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After opening on campus in the fall, Dame’s Express underwent a menu expansion to cater to student demands. In addition to its hallmark chicken and waffles, the eatery now serves sandwiches, salads, pizza and regional fare. Damion Moore, co-owner of Dame’s, said that the remainder of the semester will serve as a trial run for the delivery service. “We’re optimistic,” Moore said. “Right now we’re going to offer it for limited hours, and if it does well, we’ll be able to expand offerings for when we do delivery. Hopefully when we come back next semester, it will be of value to the students and something we continue to do.” Taylor noted that he is enthusiastic about the new service, adding that Dame’s delivery will make its food accessible to students who live on East or West Campus. Both vendors are using the platform Bring It, which is operated by the student organization Campus Enterprises, as their delivery service. Taylor said that Campus Enterprises has become a popular option for MOP vendors because of its success in delivering Sushi Love, another MOP. Taylor explained that the goal for the future is to have all of the vendors in the West Union able to deliver food during regular operating hours, although this will likely not occur until next spring. “We fully recognize that there is a gap, especially for people on Central or if they are not close to a vendor on West, for wanting a dinner delivered at 5 o’clock, 6 o’clock, 7 o’clock,” Taylor said. In order to assess demand, students who participated in Tuesday’s food truck rodeo will be asked in a survey if they would like some MOPs to deliver exclusively to Central Campus from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m each day.
ELECTIONS from page 1 was little more publicity and definitely more attention to the races this year,” Bansal said. “[Executive Vice President-elect Ilana Weisman] and I are talking about ways to coalesce the platforms of the candidates next year to make it easier for students to understand how the candidates are different and who to vote for, so that they are the most educated.” After a 19 percent voter turnout in the freshman election last fall, DSG Senate changed voting rules so that voters no longer had to rank all candidates. However, for the first hour of voting Tuesday, students were still required to rank all candidates. “The voting system had been done and redone and edited so many times as we were trying to clarify the bylaws and what they required-that we didn’t realize we hadn’t turned off the requirement of ranking in order to submit the vote,” Adair wrote in an email. “No votes were lost or not properly counted.” In addition to Bissell and Hardee, the other elected committee vice presidents were junior Tanner Lockhead for Durham and regional affairs, sophomore Riyanka Ganguly for equity and outreach, junior Michael Norwalk for facilities, the environment and the arts, junior Basil Seif for residential life, and freshman Kayla Thompson for social culture. Rising seniors elected Kavita Jain class president and Krista Niemeier class vice president. In addition, they elected Kavita Jain senator for academic affairs, Jessica Van Meir senators for equity and outreach and John Turanchik senator for facility, environment and the arts. Rising juniors elected Ozi Boms class president and Patricia Pinckombe class vice president. They also elected Teddy Bartlett senators for academic affairs, Kevin Mutchnick senator for equity and outreach, Nikita Gawande senator for facilities, environment and the arts, and Sean Gilbert senator for social culture. All of the races for the rising sophomore class had to go into instant runoff voting, except for the races for residential life and facilities, environment and the arts, in which no one ran. Rising sophomores elected Madden Osei class president and Paulos Maruts vice president. They also elected Josh Curtis and Luke Farrell senators for academic affairs, Brian Buhr and Jackson Dellinger senators for Durham and regional affairs, Amulya Vadapalli senator for residential life, Monika Dharia and Kristina Smith senators for services and Noah Eckberg senator for social culture. Rising sophomores had the highest level of participation in class officer and senator elections, with 833 student votes compared to 524 rising junior and 481 rising senior votes. Referendum results from the election mean that Duke’s yearbook, the Chanticleer, will continue to be free for seniors, with funding coming from the student activities fee. Additionally, the SOFC chair will now be appointed by the committee, rather than elected by the student body.
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I’ve been told I’m a “funny person.” This sometimes confuses me, because I wouldn’t necessarily describe myself as someone inherently inclined to comedy. As I’ve grown older, I’ve become more withdrawn and less brash than I used to be to the point where socializing with dozens of random people at parties fills me with mild revulsion. My minor introversion doesn’t necessarily preclude me from comedy, but I still don’t think I ever try to be overtly funny. There are certainly people I know who try to force feed me jokes. These people make me want to lie down with a cold compress on my head. I couldn’t bear to live in a world of knock-knock jokes and unapologetically inorganic silliness. I’d rather spend my time in the company of people who are effortlessly witty, people who can toss off a one-liner like a casual salutation. However, I’m not either of those things. I’m definitely too reserved to mug for a crowd, and I’ve never done anything effortlessly in my entire life. You can see the cogs turning in my head from a mile away. I’ve also been told I’m a “funny weirdo.” That sounds about right. My natural humor is insane and surreal, built on non-sequiturs, funny words and sounds, pop culture references and riffs that spiral off into abysses of lunacy. My celebrity impressions are identically non-verbal—ask me to do my Christopher Walken some time—with the exception of my Katherine Hepburn, and even then I’ve only mastered the cadence of
“Get that leopard out of my foyer!” If you get that reference, we would probably be friends. I enjoy the company of effortlessly witty people, but my ideal posse would be full of my humor clones, so to speak. There’s nothing more I enjoy than sharing a bit or riff with like-minded friends, our laughs careening off the walls like pogo sticks. I’m glad I have a few people in my life who enable me in this respect. In a way, their zero gravity comedy tethers me to Earth. We, as “funny weirdos,” beget other “funny weirdos.” When I studied
editor’s note abroad in Turkey last semester, my program took several bus trips. If you have ever been on a lengthy bus trip, then you know it is truly hell on wheels. We were hot, hungry and exhausted, and at a certain point we all descended into a collective fever dream. Over the course of these trips, surreal humor spread like a virus, manifesting itself into bizarre public service announcements starring Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly, medieval card games that ended in tears and trust issues, and people eating individual Doritos “Lady and the Tramp”-style because
it seemed like the right thing to do. We were a bus full of Mad Hatters, and it was one of the best times of my life. I recognize humor is subjective. My taste is not everyone else’s taste, and I wouldn’t dream of imposing my predilection for light spritzes of unhingedment on people content to remain blissfully normcore. However, weirdness and humor have provided me with insight and a sense of secure individuality that makes me feel a lot more comfortable and sure of myself than some of my peers. It feels great to derive confidence and directional purpose from abject positivity. There’s a sort of exploration and wonder in the pursuit of weird humor that keeps my friends and me on our toes and separates us from the pack. I may not consider myself a funny person in the traditional sense—despite what people say—and I’m at peace with that. Funny weirdos have fun, and the people of this great nation would do better if they added a little surrealism to their day. —Drew Haskins
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Spotlight: Senior distinction projects Christy Kuesel The Chronicle Spring is here, and while students may be dreaming of summer plans, many seniors are still completing and defending their senior distinction projects. Here’s Recess’s spotlight on two interesting projects seniors have created in the arts this year:
Mike DeVito
Having loved jazz for a long time, Mike DeVito chose to write for a jazz quintet in the new jazz genre. DeVito was inspired by jazz and funk, which he said is what made him get into music in the first place. “Funk is almost an oral traditional of learning how to play, a feel-oriented way of playing,” DeVito said. DeVito combined the music he liked to play with the formal training he received at Duke to write four pieces: one ballad and three upbeat pieces. The songs were inspired by the music of the band Snarky Puppy, who use an
orchestrated format to play their pieces in which band members interact with each other during the performance. Whereas in classic jazz the band plays the melody and leaves a solo for each member, this style has more harmonic changes. As part of the project, DeVito will record his pieces through Small Town Records, where he has previously recorded songs as a part of the funk rock quartet Mobius. DeVito will play bass for the set and will be assisted by four other students playing drums, guitar, the keyboard and the saxophone. He said he does not know of anyone else having pursued a distinction in more contemporary
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forms of music, particularly in jazz, during the time he’s been at Duke. “If I manage to pull it off, it’ll be something that I’ve never seen anyone do at Duke and something that I’ve never really heard of people being able to do,” DeVito said.
Madison Spahn
Madison Spahn came up with her project last summer in Germany while participating in a voice program where she sang “Frauenliebe und -Leben.” The song cycle is composed in a series of vignettes about the life of a young woman as she grows up. After noticing the discomfort that many of her fellow colleagues had with the themes of the song cycle, which perpetuated many stereotypes about women, Spahn chose to take a critical look at the piece for her senior distinction. In addition to writing a paper about “Frauenliebe und -Leben,” Spahn also composed a song cycle of her own with similar Courtesy of Mike DeVito | Special to The Chronicle themes. Since “Frauenliebe und -Leben” was
written by a man, Spahn chose to base her song cycle on a series of poems by modern female poets, including Maya Angelou and Erica Jong. Each poem centers around some kind of female experience, such as love or motherhood. In pursuing a senior distinction in the arts, Spahn found she had more freedom to explore different mediums. Instead of just handing in a standard paper, Spahn was able to create her own music and collaborate with a variety of different teachers to compose her piece. “You can really explore a topic from different angles when you’re allowed to use different media that way,” Spahn said. “It’s much less interesting to just write about a song cycle than to perform it and explore it in other ways.” Spahn will perform her project at a recital this Saturday at 5 p.m. in Nelson Music Room.
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Q&A: Argentinian Journo Pachter Jesús Hidalgo The Chronicle Damián Pachter did not imagine that he would be forced to flee his homeland of Argentina and settle in Israel a few days after tweeting that Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his house late in the evening of Jan. 18, 2015. Despite not seeing his mother and family since he left Argentina, he has tried to make the best out of his exile. This week, the Latin American reporter visited Chapel Hill, N.C. to participate in a journalist roundtable in the Reconsidering Antisemitism Conference organized by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. The Chronicle’s Jesús Hidalgo spoke with Pachter to talk to him about the night when Pachter reported Nisman’s death, his new life in Israel and the meaning of journalism in his life. The Chronicle: Can you give us a short chronology of what happened the evening you reported prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s death? Damián Pachter: The Argentinian opposition had scheduled an audience in Congress with Nisman on Monday, [Jan.] 19, 2015, because he had filed an accusation against the Argentinian head of state Cristina Kirchner a week earlier. He was investigating the bombing attack at the AMIA building, the Jewish Community Center [which happened July 18, 1994]. According to Argentinian courts, it was a terrorist attack by Iran and Hezbollah. What Nisan found out is that president Cristina Kirchner and other important politicians were trying to cover up his investigation in order to absolve the Iranian responsibility from the bombing. In 2013, the Argentinian government signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran, which was supposed to reset the bilateral relations between the two countries. Speaking in American terms, imagine that an American president would sign a memorandum of understanding with Al-Qaeda after 9/11. That’s the kind of shock that happened in the Argentinian society. The night of Sunday, [Jan.] 18, 2015, everyone was expecting a major event—Nisman appearing at Congress to give a speech the day after. Suddenly, I received a message from a source saying that prosecutor Alberto Nisman was dead, covered in a pool of blood. That happened at about 11 p.m. I kept questioning my source for 30 minutes and at 11:35 p.m. I used Twitter to break the news. The first tweet was that I was informed about an incident at the prosecutor’s house. I already knew what had happened, but I only said that there was an incident at his house in order to have more time to double-check my information with my source. I was the first and only one with the information about his death. Then at 12:08 a.m., I confirmed what I was told and said that the prosecutor was found over a pool of blood and was not breathing and that the doctors
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TC: Why did you choose Twitter to report his death? DP: I was working at that time as a staff writer for the Buenos Aires Heard, a pro-government paper. My two editors were on vacation so I found myself alone in this particular situation so I thought, “I need to guide myself with my own instincts, with the priority of letting the public know what had happened.” That’s the most basic thing a journalist should do—to expose things that are supposed to remain hidden. I just tweeted from my personal account because I thought that if there were a mistake, the entire responsibility would fall upon me. And I turned on a particular robot mode. When a journalist receives information, you do the process of checking and then you publish [instantly]. I felt that Twitter was the fastest way to let people know about it even though I had just 200 followers at that time. But it actually had the effect that I wanted and people shared it immediately across the globe.
The Chronicle Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s rendition of “American Idiot” will be the first production of the show in the Research Triangle. “American Idiot” is an adaptation of the eponymous hit Green Day album and derives much of its plot from the music on the original album. The musical also deals with the disillusionment that many people experienced in the years following 9/11 and with Green Day’s
frustration with the political decisions of the Bush administration. The musical expands upon these themes from the original album and adds greater depth to the story presented in the music. While most millennials can sing along to “Holiday” and “American Idiot,” they may be surprised to find that these songs rise to greater significance in the musical. “When the songs are taken in the context of the album and the context of the show, they take on a whole new story,” explained senior Morgan Hoit, president of Hoof ‘n’ Horn.
TC: How involved was then-president Cristina Kirchner in Nisman’s death? DP: I’m certain that she was involved in Nisman’s murder with elements of the Islamic Republic of Iran. What happened after his death was a media operation orchestrated by the government trying to disqualify his work, demonstrate that he committed suicide instead of being murdered, and show Cristina Kirchner as a victim [of false accusations]. TC: When was the moment that you realized that your life was in danger? DP: One of my sources whom I trust and who lived outside Buenos Aires asked me to visit him. I didn’t know what he meant at the beginning, but then I understood that I had to leave the city. I waited for the newsroom to be empty. I left my car at the parking lot of the newspaper, and I called a cab. I didn’t register my exit from the building, and I went to my apartment and told my mom, “Mom, from this moment on, don’t believe in anything that goes out on TV about me. I’ll come back in three days,” which was my original plan. I didn’t want the spotlight to be on me instead of Nisman’s death. I packed a small backpack, I took a few dollars with me, and I can’t explain how it happened, but I just took my Israeli passport and ID. That was a decision that saved my life. I left the city, and while I was waiting for my source to have a coffee at a gas station, suddenly a very strange guy came. The guy looked suspicious, was sitting close to me and didn’t order anything. It was weird. My source arrived and recognized the guy. He was an Intelligence officer, and my source knew him personally. We pretended that we were taking a selfie but actually took a picture See PACHTER on Page 10
Courtesy of Sid Gopinath Students perform in Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s rendition of “American Idiot,” which opens this Thursday in Reynolds Industries Theater.
Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Damián Pachter, an Argentinian journalist, visited Chapel Hill last week to participate in a roundtable in the Reconsidering Antisemitism Conference.
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angle premiere of ‘American Idiot’ this weekend “Intrinsically, Green Day did a great job of shaping that, and then it’s taken one step further by having people embody these roles on stage.” Senior Kyle Alderdice, one of the lead actors, said he enjoyed the process of filling and expanding upon the characters from the original album. “It’s actually been really interesting,” Alderdice said. “‘American Idiot’ was the first album that I bought with my own money, and I enjoyed it, but I didn’t really understand it. Now, having to act these lyrics and sing them and trying to find meaning in them and tell a story with them… they really do tell a story, they’re really poetic.” As the director of “American Idiot,” Hoit worked with the cast to flesh out the original music with more complex characters. This process allowed the actors to bring their own experiences and interpretations of the characters into their work, rather than following the precedent set by the Broadway production. “We had a lot of free-form time in discussing who their characters were and where they were coming from,” Hoit said of Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s creative process. “So, when I come in and try to convey an idea of what’s happening in a scene, we’re coming in with the hours of background conversations that we’ve had about the relationships between characters, why they respond to things the way they do and then, in the rehearsal process, things click.” Alderdice described his and his co-
stars’ characters as “anti-institution and anti-establishment.” Frustrated with suburbia, the main characters set out to make new lives for themselves in the city, a sentiment that Alderdice personally identifies with. “I think [about] the delusions of grandeur that we all have and especially being a senior about to graduate and wanting to do something cool, do something big,” Alderdice said. “There’s this blind optimism that I really understand, but this show has also reminded me that a lot of the time these things don’t work out and that reality’s going to smack you in the face.” Hoit said that though the emotions and pressures faced by the characters are very real and very relatable, “American Idiot” deliberately leaves ambiguity about details of the setting such as location and period. “You never identify which suburb they’re in specifically, which city they’re in specifically… you don’t know what it is they’re doing or where it is they’re working,” Hoit explained. “Part of that is making it so that any audience member can color it in in their own way… You can slide yourself into these characters.” The cast has also worked together to ensure that the show engages modern viewers. In this way, “American Idiot” still manages to convey messages that are relevant in the current political and social climate. “While the album and the show are set in that post-9/11 era, there are
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three teenage guys dealing with these things and that it could happen now, 15 years ago or even 40 years ago,” Hoit said. Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s production also bears musical differences from both the album and original Broadway production. In addition to new songs from the album “21st Century Breakdown,” the musical contains original pieces by composer Tim Kitt. In his role as music director for “American Idiot,” Jon Aisenberg, a junior, worked with the cast to reinterpret the music, making the final product a uniquely Hoof ‘n’ Horn rendition.
“The most challenging thing was recognizing that this isn’t just the album ‘American Idiot,’” Aisenberg said. “I think the biggest challenge has been translating my previous experience with music directing to music directing a concept album.” Aisenberg was reluctant to reveal too much about the creative changes to the production’s score. “I don’t want to give anything away,” Aisenberg said. “The best changes are things you’re not even going to notice because they fit with the music and with the production of the show.” “American Idiot,” will run April 14 to April 24 at Reynolds Industries Theater.
Project Vox highlights work of women philosophers Jessica Williams The Chronicle For students, it’s often easy to take what professors say as absolute truth— but even they can’t know everything, especially when it comes to female-driven philosophy. Project Vox at Duke is working to fill a void in philosophy’s canonical narrative by providing learning materials about female figures in philosophy and creating a website where the public can learn about the women and their philosophies. In addition, the project conducts active research on the women, and works on translating and publishing their works. The website currently focuses on Lady Damaris Masham, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway and Émilie du Châtelet. “If you want to be correct historically, these women were important in their own time and they were in dialogue with philosophers we today think of as canonical and really important,” said project manager Adela Deanova, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy. While extremely popular during their own lifetimes, these figures fell out of the historical narrative as time went on. During the nation building of the 18th and 19th centuries, many textbook writers omitted female figures in attempt to portray national narratives. In addition, in the 19th century period after the French Revolution, women faced more backlash for societal prominence. This discouraged the publication of women’s ideas and philosophies, resulting in their absence from the historical record. “Some of the voices got lost because they said what they had to say in
correspondence,” Deanova said. Although many female philosophers did not publish a book, they shared their ideas through letters with other intellectuals. They wrote for the “Republic of Letters,” an academic community of correspondence of the 16th to 18th centuries in which philosophes proliferated their ideas and learned about others. Much of their correspondence has not been published or translated, though, limiting the available knowledge about these figures and their philosophies. Project Vox thus hopes to expand what is known about these women through translating and publishing their works. The project is currently working on publishing a manuscript on optics by du Châtelet—the first time it will be available to the public. “A student can discover something new about these figures just by doing their own research. That’s why a lot of students have gotten involved,” said Project Vox’s Co-Leader Andrew Janiak, chair of the philosophy department and Creed C. Black Associate Professor of Philosophy. Although the more popularly taught male philosophers have been extensively studied and written about, Project Vox conducts original research and continually discovers new information. Even further, it makes this information publicly available through an informational, newly-updated website. “First phase was to get a professional, academically-researched website up, and the second phase focused more on teaching materials and visual media to enhance the website,” Deanova said. In conjunction with the research and website creation, Project Vox also See PHILOSOPHY on Page 10
Special to The Chronicle Project Vox is working on publishing a manuscript on optics by Émilie du Châtelet, part of which is pictured above.
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MUSIC REVIEW: Parquet Courts’ ‘Human Performance’ Alex Griffith The Chronicle With their third full album “Human Performance,” New York garage rock outfit Parquet Courts has produced their most varied and interesting album to date. In their first release since last year’s bizarre and borderline sadistic “Monastic Living” EP, “Human Performance” finds the band returning to its punk roots. Although it still wears influences from The Velvet Underground and The Ramones on its sleeve, the band has grown increasingly unafraid to shy away from increased instrumentation to more develop its own sound. The opener “Dust” is literally about dust and is notable for Parquet Court songs because the lyrics are not one of the main focuses. As the lyrics urge the listener to “sweep,” they become an afterthought to the gradual buildup of sound over a fuzzy and driving guitar riff that is eventually obscured by waves of distortion, distant piano chords and the sounds of New York (the band never lets you forget where it is from). Most of the other songs are largely straightforward, however, with lyrical focuses on breakups and city living. There is, however, the occasional political song, like the driving “Two Dead Cops,” which seems to simultaneously remember two officers shot dead in New York and
criticize the cops who say that to “Protect you / Is what they say/ But point and shoot / Is what they do.” Other standout tracks include the titular “Human Performance,” which features beautiful rising keyboard lines while co-lead singer Andrew Savage channels Bob Weir in his conversational verses before the chorus expands into a cavern of reverb. The song eventually leads into a bridge of synth effects over surf-rock guitar, serving as yet another example of sonic experimentation that the band would have shuddered at on their first two LPs. Such sonic experimentation also has the band using tropical drums lifted straight out of Marvin Gaye’s “Right On”—minus the ratchet—on “One Man No City,” where Savage describes disaffection with New York life. The album ends on an interestingly acoustic note, with the spare ballad “It’s Gonna Happen” featuring snare stutters and a simple strummed guitar over Eno-aping ambient synth work. However, the punk is still there: lowkey love song “Steady On My Mind” is built around a burbling electric guitar riff that echoes The Velvet Underground while co-frontman Austin Brown does his best Lou Reed impersonation and timpanis or bass drums crash in the distance. “Berlin Got Blurry” is composed of Savage’s Germanic tales of döner kebabs and getting drunk and churning
Special to The Chronicle The garage rock band Parquet Courts released their third album “Human Performance” April 8 through Rough Trade.
surf guitar that wouldn’t be out of place on the soundtrack of “Pulp Fiction.” “Paraphrased” and the incredibly named “Pathos Prairie” both could have worked on any of the band’s other albums, with powerful punk power chords and inscrutable lyrics that at once seem transcendent and nonsensical in their dry delivery. “I Was Just Here” sounds like Captain Beefheart in its startand-stop guitar riffs and stomping drums
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of the guy. When he realized what we were doing, he stood up and left immediately. That’s the moment when I realized that I had to leave the country because my life was in danger. Thanks to some friends, I managed to travel to Uruguay without using my own credit card, and from there, I flew to Spain and then to Israel.
compiles example syllabi to provide professors with examples of how female philosophers can be incorporated into courses. By researching and spreading information about the philosophers, Project Vox looks to educate professors more about the figures, so they can in turn share with students a more complete view of early modern philosophy. “One of our barriers is a lack of knowledge,” Janiak said. “People have heard of these figures but don’t know enough to teach them.” Although the researchers initially thought only a small audience would be interested in their work—teachers of early modern philosophy—the website has attracted viewers from all over the world, even in countries where English is not the primary language. “There was a much larger audience than we ever expected—we’ve had 19,000
Argentina at least for now. What I want to do is to find a full-time job in Israel and focus on both my academic life and in my journalistic career. I’m working as a freelance reporter and correspondent for an Argentinian newspaper. And I started a master’s in Latin American History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Maybe I’ll do a Ph.D. later somewhere, but I still don’t TC: What is the most difficult part about know where. living in exile? DP: Obviously, being away from my TC: How would you describe what family and the country where I lived and journalism is in your life? where I was born, which I felt rejected from. DP: For me, it’s the tool under which I I was forced to leave. The most difficult part fulfill my purpose. Of course, it’s a passion. was entering a new life, without money in I don’t imagine myself doing anything else another country. But besides the material but that. And I just feel very lucky that I had stuff, I also had my working routine and the chance to break a story like that in the now all of that is gone. way that it was made, which happens once in a lifetime and, in general, to journalists TC: Do you envision yourself returning older than me. I feel lucky and proud. I to Argentina soon? paid the ultimate price that a journalist pays DP: I’m not planning to go back to when he does his job, but I don’t complain.
as the band laments the closure of a local Chinese restaurant—another hazard of living in New York. “Human Performance” is hopefully the next step in the Parquet Courts’ move towards a more varied sound. Considering the wide variety and tasteful appointment of the different sounds utilized on the record, the band would be wise to do so as it continues to release music and build its unique identity.
unique visitors from 139 countries,” Janiak said. “We’ve already had faculty from different parts of the world write to us asking to help with expansion.” With such a large interest in the subject matter, Project Vox aims to eventually include even more philosophers on the website, to translate and publish even more writings and to provide more teaching materials. Project Vox will hold its first large event, a convention entitled “New Narratives in Philosophy: Rediscovering neglected works by early modern women,” April 14 to 17 in Smith Warehouse. Hosted by the Franklin Humanities Institute, the conference has invited academics from around the country, and a few from around the world, to speak about the female philosophers Cavendish, Conway and du Châtelet. The event is open to the public, with registration online.
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Duke won its third in a row thanks to timely hitting by Chris Proctor and strong pitching David Rieder The Chronicle One night after scoring 13 runs in a win at Davidson, timely hitting carried Duke to its third straight win. The Blue Devils won their ninth out of 11 contests Wednesday evening with a 3-0 victory against N.C. Central at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Freshman catcher Chris Proctor led the way for Duke with a pair of singles and a sacrifice fly, driving in two of the three Blue Devil NCCU 0 runs, and redshirt DUKE 3 sophomore James Ziemba recorded his first win of the season with two innings of scoreless relief and six strikeouts as Duke picked up its third shut of the season. “We got back late last night, [the Davidson] game started late, and just being able to turn around right away, get back, guys have early classes and stuff like that,” Ziemba said. “Being able to get on the board early [was key], and guys were throwing the ball well all day. We were able to bounce back and get ready for the weekend.” Duke (19-15) plated a first-inning run off of N.C. Central starting Christian Gonnelli. Freshman outfielder Jimmy Herron led off with a single and stole
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second before advancing to third on a groundout by Proctor. Herron then ran home when Eagle shortstop Thomas Prospero committed an error as he tried to field a ground ball off the bat of designated hitter Cris Perez. An inning later, Zack Kone led off with a double and scored on a Proctor line drive into the right-center field gap. But the inning came to an end when but center fielder Carlos Ortiz threw Proctor out as he was trying to advance to second.
“I got ahead in the count, and I didn’t want to be late on a fastball, and he threw me a breaking ball actually. And it was up in the zone, just what I was looking for, and so I drove it that way,” Proctor said. “When [the shortstop] caught the ball and I was a step away from the bag, I realized, ‘I’m out.’” From there, Gonnelli settled in, allowing just one more hit in his final four innings. He finished his six innings of work after allowing five hits, the two earned runs, five
strikeouts and three walks. The Blue Devils began to mount another threat in the fourth frame when Kone reached first after being hit by Gonnelli. But the Eagles (17-19) quickly caught Kone trying to steal second, and sophomore Max Miller flied out to end the inning. “I felt like we let Gonnelli off the hook a little bit with a couple of base-running mistakes, and we just missed a couple of pitches,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “And then credit Gonnelli because he settled in and really threw the baseball great. He got stronger as the game went on. The [sixth] inning was his most effective inning. His changeup kept the guys off-balance. He threw a good ballgame.” After Gonnelli exited the game the Blue Devils put immediate pressure on Eagle southpaw Justice Sampson. Outfielder Michael Smiciklas led off with a single, and advanced to second on a fielder’s choice when N.C. Central catcher Conrad Kovalvic threw late to second on Miller’s sacrifice bunt attempt. Both runners advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Herron, and Smiciklas scored on a Proctor sacrifice fly. Duke utilized six different pitchers— five of them left-handers–who combined See BASEBALL on Page 13
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Duke looks to clinch ACC tournament berth Siddharth Bhaskara The Chronicle When Virginia and Duke take the field, the two perennial powers are generally battling in high-stakes games for tournament crowns. But the two struggling squads will battle Sunday just to make the ACC tournament. The No. 16 Blue Devils travel to Charlottesville, Va., to take on Virginia at noon at Klöckner Stadium. Although both teams have endured No. 16 disappointing Duke seasons, the vs. matchup between Virginia the teams will have a lot on the line with SUNDAY, Noon the loser missing Klöckner Stadium out on next week’s ACC tournament to play a consolation game against No. 4 Brown and a long shot to make the NCAA tournament.
Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Senior Case Matheis has recorded 20 goals and 21 assists this season for the Blue Devils, who face a crucial test Sunday at Virginia.
“We’re just excited for another ACC game against Virginia,” senior attackman Case Matheis said. “It’s a great rivalry that we’ve always had against them and whenever you play an ACC team
you know it’s going to be an athletic game but most importantly, it’s another chance for us to get an ACC win.” In an uncharacteristically poor year for all of the ACC—outside of top-ranked
Notre Dame—the Blue Devils and Cavaliers have battled their respective problems and are simply fighting to stay above .500. Duke (7-6, 1-2 in the ACC) comes into Sunday’s game on the heels of a pair of close losses to then-No. 17 North Carolina and the Fighting Irish. The Blue Devils appeared to be turning the corner after an overtime victory against then-No. 5 Syracuse March 26 but could not knock off the top two teams in the conference despite holding a late lead in each game. In addition to playing the nation’s most difficult schedule according to Inside Lacrosse this season, the Blue Devils have been done in by late game struggles. Duke is just 1-5 in games decided by two or fewer goals, and for the first time in head coach John Danowski’s tenure in Durham, the Blue Devils are not a lock to make the NCAA tournament. On the other side of the field, See M. LACROSSE on Page 13
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Editorial in the structure of particular programs. Successful programs like Kenya-WISER have developed long-term, robust models. By combining on-campus and on-site programming, WISER encourages students to engage beyond the eight weeks spent in Kenya. The program maintains a club to support its summer efforts and requires future program attendees to take a house course in order to better prepare themselves for their summers of service. The key component to WISER’s success, however, is its strong on-site and on-campus faculty mentorship. Because the program’s founder provides necessary expertise and guidance directly to students,
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the program attendees are more invested in the outcomes of their summers. Modelling programs after the success of WISER would allay some criticisms often levied on DukeEngage. To further develop other DukeEngage programs, we suggest more stringent pre-acceptance screening. In the past, we have urged DukeEngage to become more selective. The efficacy of DukeEngage depends on allowing students to reflect on privileges afforded to them in a deliberate, genuine manner. The efficacy of that particular DukeEngage goal is severely diminished when all participants are not properly motivated. A more extensive interview process is recommended to review candidates best suited for DukeEngage. Once chosen, attendees should be required to integrate their summer work into their time on campus through either pre-departure trainings and language classes or postprogram reflections on blogs. Also, the development of a mandatory DukeEngage house course for each program for alumni and future participants would promote program consistency from year to year and allow service to transcend the eight-week summer windows. A two-day academy is not sufficient to remind students to be humble in their approaches to their summer experiences. Only structural changes to the program can push students toward authentic commitments to service, even beyond DukeEngage.
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t the beginning of this semester, members of Duke’s Curriculum Committee released an initial draft of their proposed overhaul to the university’s general education requirements. Entitled “Experience Duke Deliberately,” it will allegedly allow students to “create coherent, self-authored pathways” so they can “think for themselves and work with others to engage the opportunities and challenges they and their communities will face.” With an array of people including North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and Fox Business writer and management consultant Steve Tobak questioning the value of
creative projects of the human imagination” and “evaluate, manage and interpret information.” In other words, a student could very well spend his or her entire four years at Duke without taking a single quantitative, humanities or foreign language course, a problematic reality. After all, isn’t the “liberal arts” education promised to us by the admissions office supposed to consist of all of those components, courses we know won’t directly apply to our future careers but are nonetheless necessary to better understand the world around us? Some of the best classes I’ve taken at Duke would not have even made it into my ACES bookbag were
Tom Vosburgh THE STRUGGLE a traditional liberal arts education, it makes sense that the powers that be in the Allen Building want to eliminate the alphabet soup of CZs, CCIs and NSs that currently constitutes our curriculum. Its proposed replacement to Curriculum 2000 is a weak broth, however; while some of its components merit praise and deserve implementation, most of it is disappointing at best. Under the new curriculum, students would be required to take an interdisciplinary yearlong “Duke Experience” course and conclude their undergraduate career with a “mandatory scholarly experience.” Both of these ideas are commendable; a single course in which all first-year students are enrolled would give them an unprecedented degree of intellectual common ground. For instance, the website of Columbia University, an institution with a rigorous undergraduate core, claims its six mandatory classes and four sets of further requirements allow “all students [to encounter] the same texts and issues at the same time” and promote dialogue between all members of the student body, evidence that Duke administrators’ goals are both commonplace and achievable. Furthermore, undergraduate research allows upperclassmen to engage more deeply with their course of study and prepare for life after graduation. In short, I believe these two components of the Committee’s recommendations are well intentioned and worthy of further consideration. On the other hand, the shift from requirements to “expectations” in the general curriculum all but ensures the death of intellectual exploration by the average student. After their four years here, future Dukies are expected to “communicate compellingly,” “understand other language, cultures and civilizations,” “understand different forms of scientific thought and practice,” “understand
it not for the current distribution requirements. “Art and Architecture of Berlin” first grabbed my attention not due to its promise of “an introduction to the visual arts of Germany from the 15th to the 20th century” but because it carries a coveted “CZ” curricular code. A graduate-level Documentary Studies class fulfilled my second “Arts, Literature and Performance” requirement, but it also changed the way I read and write works of journalism. My friends, too, have admitted to studying abroad only because it was an efficient way to fulfill their Trinity requirements and agree that some of the best classes they took outside their major would not have even crossed their mind had they not been mandated to take courses outside their primary area of study. The current curriculum, while difficult to explain to a first-year student and undeniably in need of a refresh, is nonetheless effective at fostering the intellectual exploration integral to a comprehensive university education. Should the proposed curricular restructuring become reality, I imagine a campus even more fragmented than it is currently, with students specializing even further and avoiding classes outside their interests that would introduce them to people of different backgrounds, capabilities and passions. To prevent the center of the University’s academic life from collapsing and the aforementioned prophecy to become reality, I recommend Committee members reconsider their suggestions. Encouraging Dukies to explore the intellectual world beyond their primary concentrations should be the goal of curricular reform, but removing almost any obligation to actually do so all but guarantees students will not take such expectations to heart. Tom Vosburgh is a Trinity senior and the Editorial Page Editor.
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silent contract was made when I reached the age of attempting adulthood. I would not smoke. I would take part in our democratic system with my vote. I would not adopt any more pets for the time being, and a tattoo was to only appear on my skin if it represented something I knew to be true. All these have stayed true, except the pet one. I have since adopted a bunny, a cat and a guinea pig named Gus since the enactment of said contract. This contract was devised shortly after my
concept does not just translate into an individual experience though. It permeates group cultures, nations, relationships, actions, inactions, teams, decisions, truth seeking and truth telling. You can decide what it is you want in life. However, the exact path towards such goal is out of your control. That path is the process. It constitutes the events, lessons, relationships, realizations, practices, risks, attempts and rejections. The process can be painful, joyous, mundane, seemingly useless, repetitive
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nslaved or dead. These two scenarios are the fate of a tragic number of young women the world so fervently cared about just two years ago. Exactly two years ago, on April 14, 2013, 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria. Boko Haram, the responsible radical ‘un-Islamic’ terrorist faction whose name translates from Hausa, a subSaharan African language, to “western education is evil,” has for years engaged
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18th birthday during a retreat called Kairos. Ancient Greeks have two words for time: chronos and kairos. Chronos represents a linear quantitative sequence of events. Kairos, on the other hand, is qualitative and nonlinear in its nature. Kairos is derived from the Greek word kara, meaning coming to a head. Kairos is a time for which all things come together. It manifests itself as an opportunity requiring one’s decisive action. Kairos is the indeterminate time in which everything happens. It is an advantageous moment for decision-making. There is just one pre-requisite for kairos. That is to operate on a baseline of trust. This trust concept was completely foreign to me, but one that I had to believe and practice in order to take full advantage of kairos. There was a reason why the integral theme of the retreat was “Trust the Process.” It took four years for me to realize the profound nature of these three words, and a tattoo of them shortly followed. Here is what I know to be true from the words now inked on my rib cage below my left breast. To begin to trust the process, whatever process in which you find yourself, requires you to unravel your sense of complete control, something that I personally like to have. It is something that I think I have. It is something that I thought I was quite good at. Operating under a baseline of control, in the absence of trust, meant that a majority of my 22 years was spent as a Type A-Control Addict. Avoidant of faux pas, constantly putting out fires that didn’t exist and pleasing people who had no regard for my well being or future. Control meant always striving for a perceived perfection, but also exhausting my being in this futile pursuit. Control, while good in some aspects of personal disciple and even hygiene, brings with it a host of pitfalls. These include, but are not limited to, anxiety about absolute results, expectations about the future and complete disappointment and frustration when things stray from your personal power. Control is a draining state of mind, one that is often incongruent with the reality of the situation. Life often does not play out how you predicted or wanted it to. In fact, nine times out of 10, it will turn out better. The more you attempt to control some aspect of your life is a telling reflection of your lack of trust in that same arena. This
and often hilarious in hindsight. The process is what prepares you for your opportune moment, your unique kairos. Letting go of control feels like you are falling without a parachute. It is the sense that if you let off just a bit, all hell will break lose. Putting trust into something outside of yourself is difficult beyond measure. Often it is easier to just get it done on your own time, terms and choice style. To operate under this mentality repeatedly over years time can result in exhaustion, an inflated ego, heightened anxiety, less overall productivity and acute loneliness. Entrusting another to maintain the integrity of your work at the same time following through with their end of the deal is tough, but essential to any said process to work. To get from opportune moment A to B is not a straight shot. Your process will take you to every letter in the alphabet. Whether it be a job, an internship or a certain status, there is a process to get from where you are and where you will be or know in your deepest heart deserve to be. Even if it is long and arduous, recognize that you will gain much more from the process than you will from the accolade that actualizes itself at the end. It is during the process where you will be strengthened, where you will hone in on your craft. When you realize a kairos, you will be far prepared and confident to take full advantage of it. Just trust that your process prepared you for the moment and relinquish control of how it should be. Rather, awaken to what actually is. All of the energy and effort you put into your research, your club, your sport, your relationship, your health, your event, your application, your final project, all have lead you to an opportunity of sorts. An opportunity where you can dive fully into its present reality. When you have no idea what the hell is going on and you feel lost and out of control, trust that by the time you get to wherever you end up you will be far more prepared to handle it. You are enough. If it appears in your reality, it is not there by accident. If you take some time to reflect on your own life, you might just find that taking a past risk or putting trust into an unknown made it possible for your present and your future to happen. Trust the process, Catherine. Catherine White is a Trinity senior. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.
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in senseless slaughtering of primarily children, women and elderly people. As of today, two years have passed since ‘our Chibok girls’ were abducted from their dormitories, forced into trucks and herded off in convoys to the Cameroonian border. Two years later and one of the largest areas of violence in Africa has yet to be treated as such by the international community. Two years later and the Nigerian government has only recently asked for global assistance in their fight against Boko Haram. Two years later and the girls are not all back. And yet, two years later, social media activism perpetuates selfaggrandizing notions of concrete contributions to ‘addressing’ many of the world’s travesties. In response to the 2013 kidnappings, the hashtag “#BringBackOurGirls” trended as first ladies, activists, community organizations and individuals alike sought to share their thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families. Coincidentally, just over a month after the kidnappings, I found myself behind a government convoy transporting some of the schoolgirls’ parents from the Nigerian capitol city of Abuja. In those moments, I could not help but grin at the thought of the tweets directed at them in attempts to provide solace. Before we left Abuja, I was inspired by the hundreds of people rallying together to hold their government accountable. Sadly, across the ocean, there was no such prolonged enthusiasm for the cause. While the protest in Nigeria continued, the hashtag had faded away from the social media spheres I had left behind in the U.S. Granted, it is irrational for individuals to invest themselves in every single world tragedy, but I was still abashed by the West’s relatively ephemeral “#BringBackOurGirls” campaign. Despite this, progress has been made. As recently as Feb. 27, Nigerian forces have collaborated to kill 100 Boko Haram militants and free hundreds of hostages in Kiushe, Nigeria. Unfortunately, news outlets outside of the affected nations dangerously underemphasize the seriousness of Boko Haram’s span of influence. For example, in 2014 alone, ISIS killed 6,073 people. That same year in which Boko Haram claimed the lives of 6,644, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria concluded that ISIS committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. Just one year later, the United States officially recognized the actions of ISIS as constituting genocide against Christians, Shia Muslims and Yazidis. Despite the similarities between the transgressions in the Middle East, and those in areas controlled by Boko Haram, the same vindictive language is rarely used when the latter commits similar egregious acts.
There is an inappropriate and disproportional amount of fervor concentrated on the human rights violations facing people in Nigeria, Cameron, Chad and Niger—individuals all threatened by the same relentless terrorist organization. Genocide Watch, the Coordinator of the Alliance Against Genocide, has defined Boko Haram as a genocidal criminal movement. Now is the time for the U.S. to follow suit and add pressure to destroy Boko Haram before the terrorist organization’s ties with ISIS
and other potential global terror threats further strengthen. Given all this politicization of the situation in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is important that students engage in activism on behalf of affected populations; showing solidarity is extremely important, if only to inform the community in which we live. This past Sunday through Monday, the Coalition for Preserving Memory organized a 24-hour name reading ceremony memorializing victims of genocide. Even if the relatives of these victims did not hear their names directly, the alternate option of willful ignorance is a betrayal to our own communities and intellectual growth. However, do not succumb to delusions of grandeur—typing seventeen characters on a website with a blue birdie cannot rescue the girls sold off into marriage or tricked into bombing markets as suicide bombers. Sharing an article you have not read about an issue with which you have no familiarity is as distasteful as it is embarrassing. There are political nuances to passive expressions of solidarity that Duke’s very own Larry Moneta has faced when prioritizing, and there is no clear answer to the questions such words raise. However, those complications should not deter us from looking beyond hashtags and truly developing understandings of the current state of world affairs. From the national and international levels, more needs to be done to invest in the education of girls and security of schools at large. The humanitarian situation in Nigeria and other nations affected by Boko Haram begs for intervention led by (cautious) international military forces. Simultaneously, the savior complex that often taints online activism should be avoided at all costs. While digital tools have been able to address major humanitarian challenges, as Professor at University of Connecticut Bhakti Shringapure has written, globally informed citizens should understand the distinction between meaningful help and “prejudiced representations of nonWestern places.” For now, while fifty girls have been able to rely on their own perspicacity to escape, many more remain missing, feared enslaved or dead. Today, we should all engage in discussions about Chibok and remember the futility of silence in the face of injustice. When will the world again unite in solidarity to only forget till we are reminded at the next anniversary? Will we let the silence of these past two years continue? For the sake of humanity, I beg, say never again. Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.
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top 100 and features the No. 2 doubles team of Brett Clark and Robert Kelly. “It will certainly be a challenge—they’ve obviously had a much better season than us this year,” Smith said. “Normally it’s pretty close, and often times we’re the one that’s ranked a little bit higher, so we really don’t have anything to lose…. If everyone’s playing their best, we’ve got a shot, but there’s not a whole lot of room for error.” Sunday’s match marks a chance for Duke’s seniors to gain an edge in their career series against their rivals. The Tar Heels knocked the Blue Devils out of the ACC tournament each of the last two seasons, dashing their hopes of their first conference title since 2006. But since 2013, Duke has not lost to the Tar Heels on its home courts.
The Blue Devils opened their dual season 1-4, facing three top-25 teams in that stretch. The tough competition early was nothing unfamiliar to the squad’s seniors, who have faced some of the nation’s best to open all four of their seasons on the team. “[Tough competition early has] worked both ways. The first couple years, we had a really hard schedule, and we did very well, so that kind of inflated our ranking a bit,” McCall said. “This year, it worked against us a little bit—a couple of tough losses early to really good teams—but we’ve grown from those losses.” This year’s bout with the Tar Heels will mimic the 2014 edition with Duke as the underdog once again. The Blue Devils will face a squad that has just three losses, boasts three singles players ranked in the nation’s Ryan Hoerger contributed reporting.
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employees to North Carolina. Musician Bruce Springsteen cancelled his April 10 concert in Greensboro in response to the bill. The law has also been targeted by a number of comedy and late-night routines, including “The Daily Show” with Trevor Noah, “Late Night” with Seth Meyers and “Saturday Night Live.” Businesses in Durham have made their own statements, with many choosing to display anti-HB2 signs in their shop windows. One such business is Vaguely Reminiscent, a boutique located on Ninth Street near East Campus. “Everyone here feels pretty strongly about it,” said Karen Merowcheck, a store employee. “One of our employees printed the sign at home so we could hang it up. It wasn’t like an official movement. I think people are taking it upon themselves to print and hang their own signs.” Merowcheck added she thought it was unlikely that their gesture would have an impact on the legislature. “Our response is more for the people and to help people feel welcome and not alienated or isolated—that the majority of us don’t support this bill and don’t feel that way,” she said. “It’s just a way for us to support the community.” Jacobs said that Durham officials are trying to “send a message” that they do not share the views of the bill. “We will all be coming together as a community to say to the world, ‘please come to Durham, we welcome you and who we are is not what House Bill 2 says,’” Jacobs said.
start the conversation about menstrual hygiene, or about sanitation, or even about their own intimate care, or even about domestic violence, sexual assault. All of these things come under the same umbrella of things that women are not talking about at all.” Although her foundation primarily centers on the production of menstrual pads, e want she said she sees women the foundation as a greater platform to talk more and female more about these for advancement, issues. particularly in terms of education — Suhani Jalota and freedom of speech. After being recognized by Glamour magazine for her endeavor, Jalota said she will give the funds and resources provided to her—the grandprize came with a $20,000 award—to fund her foundation. “I was actually really glad that finally there is an international organization that is recognizing our work and is recognizing it for the right reasons,” Jalota said. She plans on working full time with the foundation after graduation for three to four months during the summer. With the funding she received from Glamour, she will seek to expand the Myna Mahila Foundation and buy another machine for production of more menstrual pads. “Now our biggest challenge is to balance social impact with running our business sustainably,” Jalota explained.
Sarah Kerman contributed reporting.
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Congratulations to the following students, organizations, faculty and staff, who have been nominated to receive Duke University’s most prestigious campus-wide honors for student leadership and service. Awards recipients and nominees will be celebrated at In The Spotlight on April 21, 2016, 5 pm, Arts Annex. The event is open to the Duke community.
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Best Buddies Duke EMS Duke Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers S.O.C.A. Wind Symphony
Julie Anne levey MeMoriAl leAderShip up-And-coMing AwArd Analese Bridges Jason Chang Kelly Chung Danielle Holt Omar Khan Isabella Letourneau John Madden Ernesto Morfin Montes de Oca Haley Sink Jade Tso Trey Walk
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David Boyd Linda Capers Kiah Glenn the Student orgAnizAtion line-up Jennifer Handel Tyrone Jean Headliners
Alan Kendrick Annette Moore Sean Palmer David Pittman Sondra Ponzi Allison Shumar Ryan Smith Adam Wax
BetSy Alden outStAnding ServiceleArning AwArd Medha Gudavalli Leta Hallowell Yvonne Lu Erica Weinberg
williAM J. griffith univerSity Service AwArd Umer Ahmed Quang Do Zack Fowler Brittany Glassberg Suhani Jalota Safa Kaleem Quang Nguyen Christopher Paul Gayle Powell Parigna Praveen Ezgi Ustundag Jonah Yousif
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Kari Barclay Lindsey Brown Shangnon Fei Stephen Ghazikhanian Yossra Hamid Grace Hsu Nicole Jadue Antonio Lopez Eliza Meredith Quang Nguyen Greg Poore Josephine Ramseyer Abrianna Robles Emily Spiera Thomas Vosburgh Stanley Yuan
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Emily Davis Lizzie Fitzpatrick Billy Gist Tyler Goldberger Scott Irons Julia Knorr Jilliam Lowery Christian Meyer Melanie Park
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Meredyth Albright Matthew Brague Phoebe Caplin Alice Chen Young Hoo Cho Juliana Hoover Zhaoliang Ma Shannon Malloy Bobby Menges Ernesto Morfin Montes de Oca Mahnoor Nazeer Ivana Premasinghe Kate Watkins clASS of 2019 AwArd for Service
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Quinn Baker Jackson Dellinger Jack Donahue Mumbi Kanyogo Sydney Roberts Claire Wang
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Evan Carter Luke Farrell Connor Henderson Nicholas Kardous Eliana Lauder Claire Wang Jeffrey Wubbenhorst
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