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Adam Beyer The Chronicle The recent protests on campus have not occurred in isolation. Across the country, college students have been protesting about issues ranging from minority representation to budget transparency. Students in North Carolina have focused their efforts on the recently-passed House Bill 2, which restricted access to restrooms based on “biological sex” and repealed local nondiscrimination ordinances. North Carolina response Many students at University of North Carolina schools have expressed disappointment with new UNC System President Margaret Spellings’ decision to comply with the law. Students from several UNC schools gathered at a Board of Governors meeting Friday to show their opposition to Spellings’ decision. They also expressed complaints that the BOG has reduced funding for historically black colleges and universities, according to an article in The Daily Tar Heel last Friday. Some student leaders, however, noted that Spelling has promised to take some steps to counteract the law and that UNC schools will not change their anti-discrimination policies. “Despite the intentions and perceived hate promoted by this bill, I believe President Spellings is taking calculated action to ensure that the UNC system continues to become an ever more welcoming place for all,” wrote Houston Summers, the former UNC-Chapel Hill student body president, in an email. “There is much to be done even in the face of adversity.” However, students and advocacy groups— including the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, Equality North

Carolina and Lambda Legal—criticized Spellings’ decision, arguing that House Bill 2 violates federal law by discriminating against transgender individuals. Appalachian State Student Power, a student advocacy group, occupied the BB Dougherty administration building from April 8 to 13. The group left after a statement from Chancellor Sheri Everts condemned the bill, meeting the group’s major demand, according to an article in the Asheville Citizen-Times April 13. Duke has called for a repeal of the law in a statement issued by President Richard Brodhead, Provost Sally Kornbluth and Chancellor for Health Affairs Dr. A. Eugene Washington Monday. The law has created problems for the University, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs

and government relations. “There are a growing number of scholars from public universities in states that have a specific ban on travel to North Carolina who have not been able to attend conferences and meetings at Duke,” he explained. “I’m aware of at least two national conferences that were supposed to take place at Duke that are now reconsidering their decision.” Schoenfeld said that several parents and students have also reached out to express concern. “Those who are interested in and care about Duke recognize that Duke didn’t create this problem and that both Duke and Durham are places that place a high premium on diversity, inclusion and tolerance for all communities,” he said.

Protests around the nation Students attending the University of California-Davis occupied their campus administration building for five weeks to demand the resignation of Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi for a lack of responsiveness to students. They also called her prior service on the board of DeVry Education Group, which is now under federal investigation, a conflict of interest, according to The Sacramento Bee. Although they left the building April 15, students said they plan to look for other ways to force Katehi’s removal. At Clemson University, five students— known by the hashtag “Clemson5”—were arrested and charged with trespassing for occupying Sikes Hall, a main administration See PROTESTS on Page 16

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Special to The Chronicle Mathematics professor Arlie Petters will take over as dean of academic affairs July 1.

Mathematical physicist Arlie Petters will succeed Lee Baker as dean of academic affairs and associate vice provost for undergraduate education, the University announced Tuesday. Petters currently is a professor of mathematics and physics in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business. He will begin his new position July 1 and will serve through June 2020. Baker will return to the faculty as a professor of cultural anthropology after serving two terms as dean of academic affairs.

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“Petters’ life experiences make him especially well suited to shepherd Duke’s undergraduate academic program,” Dean of Trinity Valerie Ashby said in a Duke Today release. “As a minority man in the sciences, he has learned how to thrive and crafted a deeply successful career.” Born in Dangriga, Belize, Petters moved to New York as a teenager and became the first in his family to attend college. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Petters’ research on the mathematical theory of gravitational lensing, which he was the first to develop, examines how light is affected by the warping of space and time. He has pioneered applications of gravitational lensing in physics and the development of tests for theories of gravity such as Albert

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Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Petters’ work has also focused on the nature of spacetime around black holes. Before coming to Duke in 1998, Petters was the director of graduate studies at Princeton University and served on the faculty at MIT. At Duke, he has been a faculty in residence for six years in Wilson and Bassett residence halls. Petters has also served as a pre-major advisor and the director of undergraduate studies for the mathematics department. In addition, he previously directed Duke’s Reginaldo Howard Scholars program. In 2006, the National Academy of Sciences inducted Petters into its Portrait Collection of Distinguished African American Scientists.

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Huffington Post addresses DSG approves annual budget at campus sleep culture Mon. penultimate meeting of year Rachel Sereix The Chronicle The Huffington Post’s “Sleep Revolution” tour recently came to Duke in an effort to combat the endless drowsiness and poor health habits of the typical college student. Nate James, assistant coach for the men’s basketball team; Jean Hanson, associate director of outreach for the Student Wellness Center; Murali Doraiswamy, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences; and sophomore Jacqueline Monetta, senator for equity and outreach for Duke Student Government, were panelists at the event Monday. They discussed sleep culture at Duke, along with the impact lack of sleep can have on athletic performance, academic ability and psychological health. Sophomore Riley Griffin, campus editor-at-large for The Huffington Post, said that the Huffington Post initiative— which will go to 50 college campuses

across the country this spring—has sparked a national dialogue on the importance of sleep. Griffin added that the topic is especially pertinent to Duke students due to the “work hard, play hard” mentality that dominates campus culture. “We face this excessive anti-sleep culture where we prioritize almost everything before we do health and wellness—specifically mental health,” Griffin said. “We are driven by motivations like GPA or even physical health in the sense that so many people prioritize working out or socializing, but sleep has always come last.” Arianna Huffington, editorin-chief of The Huffington Post, published a book April 5 titled “The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time.” Free copies of Huffington’s book were distributed at the panel. Griffin added that for the event The See SLEEP on Page 4

Special to The Chronicle Duke community members discuss the importance of sleep at a panel sponsored by The Huffington Post Monday.

Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle This article has been edited for length and clarity. The full version can be found online. At its meeting Wednesday, Duke Student Government gave final approval to the annual budget and its plan to fund the Chanticleer, Duke’s student yearbook. Three religious student organizations— Muslim Students Association, the Catholic Center and Presbyterian Campus Ministry— presented to the Senate requesting more funding than their original allocation in the Student Organization Funding Committee’s annual budget. After debating the budgets of several organizations, the Senate approved the annual budget as a whole without reviewing each allocation separately. President-elect Tara Bansal, a junior, Executive Vice President-elect Ilana Weisman, a junior, and senior JP Lucaci, vice president for services, voted against approving the annual budget this

way. SOFC Chair Nikhil Gavai, a senior, emphasized the importance of approving the cuts that SOFC made, as the cuts would put more money into the programming fund. Senior Jay Sullivan, a senator for equity and outreach, noted that DSG’s decisions to add money to some organization’s budgets could cause a funding shortage for the programming fund. “The cumulative effect of the positive decisions we’ve made for students have put us into a position where we know the programming fund will run short on money and we won’t have the surplus to account for that shortage,” Sullivan wrote in an email. During last week’s elections, the student body voted for $14 of each student’s annual student activities fee to fund the Chanticleer. The Senate decided to subsidize this with $20,000 from the annual budget and $20,000 from its surplus. Some senators voiced concerns that $20,000 from the annual budget would take too much money from the programming See DSG on Page 16

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Math prof. Ingrid Daubechies makes waves with research Grace Mok The Chronicle Duke undergraduates know professor Ingrid Daubechies as an instructor of multivariable calculus, but beyond Duke, she has become famous for her study of wavelets, or mathematical functions with the ability to enhance image compression technology. Daubechies, a Belgian James B. Duke professor of mathematics and electrical and computer engineering, came to Duke in 2010 after being on faculty at Princeton University, and she served as the first female president of the International Mathematical Union from 2011 to 2014. Daubechies’ work in applied mathematics is well-known, particularly in regard to the “Daubechies wavelets”—which are integral to the JPEG image compression format. “Wavelets are a mathematical tool,” she explained. “They are like little elementary building blocks to expand images into.” Daubechies’ wavelets can be used to summarize and compress images. In most pictures, pixels look very similar to their neighbors, and pixels that are very different from their neighbors are a minority, she said. Storing each individual pixel takes much more effort and memory than using a tool—like wavelets—to show that there is not something new happening for each pixel you encounter. Daubechies is also a graduate student advisor, and her advisees explained that her work in wavelets has been highly influential. “From a student’s perspective, almost every theorem in wavelets has the Daubechies name attached to it,” said Shan Shan, a second-year graduate student in mathematics. Shan is currently surveying the literature

Special to The Chronicle Professor Ingrid Daubechies uses mathematics to solve real-world problems ranging from art fraud to image restoration.

on signal processing, a field in which wavelets are an important tool, noted Rachel Yin, another one of Daubechies’ Ph.D. advisees. In addition to image compression, wavelets can also be used as a tool to help detect art fraud, Daubechies said, although she emphasized that mathematical tools alone may not be enough to identify counterfeit paintings. “If you have a style you’re comfortable with, your brush strokes will look different and actually leave a trace when you start looking at these building blocks of the image than if you tried to copy or imitate the style,” she explained. Daubechies’ work focuses on both applied and interdisciplinary implications of her mathematical research. “She’s really at the frontier of applied

mathematics,” Yin said. Yin also noted Daubechies’ interdisciplinary work with the biology department at Duke and her connections with art museums. Daubechies is currently collaborating with the North Carolina Museum of Art for a 14th century art restoration exhibition—“Reunited: Francescuccio Ghissi’s St. John Altarpiece”—to give viewers an idea of how the paintings must have looked when new. Daubechies’ students added that they felt she was very open-minded and pushed her students to be independent thinkers. “She’s very encouraging of different mathematical thought,” said Tingran Gao, a visiting assistant professor of mathematics and former advisee of Daubechies. “She doesn’t want her prior knowledge to interfere with our

own logical reasoning.” Yin agreed, noting that Daubechies would not “push [you] very hard onto some project that you’re not interested in.” Shan added that she felt like she could ask “stupid” questions without judgment, and that Daubechies always had words of encouragement and a great sense of humor. Daubechies has also been involved in speaking out against academic publishers. She said she is concerned about the monopoly that scientific publishers hold over academia and how they exploit it to make “enormous profits.” Although she recognizes that publishers owe their shareholders profits, Daubechies said she still feels that their journals charge at exploitative rates. “We feel it’s not fair in a business where we [academics] provide the content, the editorship, the reviewing of the papers and the readership,” Daubechies said, noting that editors and reviewers are unpaid. “[Editors and reviewers] do this as volunteering for our community—we don’t need to be [paid]. But then we feel that the community should not have to pay the enormous prices.” Daubechies also teaches undergraduate courses, including multivariable calculus. “I liked being in her class,” junior Daniel Zhu said. “She seemed like she was actually interested in teaching and it’s really cool to be taking a class with someone who’s a leader in the field.” Daubechies’ enthusiasm for working with students—both undergraduate and graduate—mirrors her enthusiasm behind her multidisciplinary research. “I like to work with people who have problems that they’d like to figure out and where I can detect a mathematical aspect to it,” Daubechies said.

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made her question her own sleep habits and prioritization. “I know that I, all too often, think Huffington Post partnered with the that I’m invincible and can manage off National Alliance for Mental Illness barely a few hours of rest, and perhaps it at Duke, the Duke Institute of Brain would be better if I couldn’t function so Sciences, Peer for You and the Duke I would make sleeping more a priority,” Student Wellness Center. Stern wrote. “Finding balance I think can Small workshops of 10 to 15 people revolutionize everything,” Griffin said. were held after the panel, with “We are so driven and so motivated Hanson leading a wellness coaching and have this real appetite for success, workshop to highlight the resources but I don’t think our interpretation of available for students who are success is well-balanced. I think that we struggling with their mental, physical will really focus on academic success and or spiritual health. social success, and what takes the hit can “There needs to be some sort of be our wellness.” cultural shift in attitude about our sleep, The panelists also mental health and discussed how sleep overall wellness,” impacts physical Stern wrote. “It e face this excessive can’t be something performance, how it affects health on a biological level we shove aside and anti-sleep culture and what the sleep culture expect to just be fine is currently like among when we prioritize almost until the semester Duke undergraduates. everything before we do ends and we can Many students asked health and wellness. breathe again.” for advice about how to Stern noted that implement the wellness — Riley Griffin Duke is an ideal stop strategies discussed on The Huffington during the session into Post’s Sleep Revolution their daily lives. College Tour due to students’ view of “Having a good mind and body sleep as a time-consuming or unnecessary health increases your performance in impediment to one’s grades or social every way,” Griffin noted. “We had a life. Describing the campus perspective lot of people in the medical industry as a “two out of the three” mentality, she coming to this event and really talking explained that although students uphold about how we are misconceiving an their grades and social lives, they often all-nighter culture—when really sleeps neglect the third factor of sleep, thus helps preserve long term memory, placing a physical and emotional strain helps focus your attention and on themselves that is unhealthy and increases your speed.” unsustainable. Sophomore Carly Stern, a contributor “I could really see how a place that to The Huffington Post and a columnist is ‘work hard, play hard’ like Duke for The Chronicle, wrote in an email is prime for a wake up call,” Griffin that the research the panelists shared added. from page 2

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science and technology, in 2005. “Education is the great equalizer, and I don’t correlate a humble beginning with the He was also named a member of the Most idea that you won’t do well in life,” Petters Excellent Order of the British Empire by the said in the release. “Mentoring needs Queen of England in 2008. to be in the DNA of our undergraduate To give back to his home country of experience, and it is extremely important Belize, Petters founded the Petters Research for minority and international students Institute, which fosters national development who are dealing with so much in addition through entrepreneurship in mathematics, to the curriculum.”

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If you are one of those well-rested, or otherwise non-morning folk like myself, I tell you, if you need a change in your life, start doing mornings. They’re terrific. The toast. The coffee! The coolness of the air that reminds you of a different country. It feels like a miracle when you start to wake up of your own accord, preempting the alarm as though interrupting a pesky coworker with exactly the words they were about to say. And perhaps the best part is saying “good morning” to anyone you’d like to—more valuable than any of the other salutations because its truthfulness is running out a short clock until noon. Although it took me four years to get to this point, I like the feeling of getting up and going about a part of the day I haven’t explored as fully here as the hours after 10 p.m. There’s two weeks left, but still plenty of things I haven’t done—or at least haven’t done when the sun is still sleepy. It is all lovely and I am glad to have rediscovered it lately, out of necessity for more hours spent in the library. I would say that the morning is the most pure and honest time of day, but there are many cases when this isn’t true at all. When I wake up I’m often filled with worries and anxieties that never come to pass. I’ve told lies before 9 a.m. The trustworthy toaster will sometimes fail to work or—worse—burn. But there is still a reason why manic pixie dream girls of movies say things like, “I just woke up one morning and I knew.” Why science has proven it’s the home of productivity and why the meals are called the most important (but I don’t buy that garbage because lunch is obviously much more fun). The morning always shows up, in a sharp and declarative way that doesn’t apply to the

rolling hills of afternoon or the blues of night. You must be dropped into it from sleep, from above. In the penultimate episode of Aziz Ansari’s excellent Neflix show “Master of None,” titled “Mornings,” features vignettes of Aziz’s character Dev and his girlfriend Rachel, played by Noel Wells, at various stages in their relationship one daybreak at a time. I liked this episode because it was romantic and real and very very funny. But also because of the way it is set up to have the reference point of progress and change be the very start of each of those days. It’s not quite through a direct comparison of one morning to another, but a linkage of a

editor’s note series of earlyness that shows you the phases of their life through seasons. I think about this because my last morning on this campus is approaching. Like a lot of lasts, it’s something that’s happened many times here but for some reason the significance is assigned to the bookend. I lost track of the number of games I saw in Cameron or how many bylines I’ve had in The Chronicle, seen Elmo’s from every table and run a couple dozen Recess production nights. But I know the number has to stop running up soon, and for each of those token experiences, I am cashing in for the last

The Chronicle time either this week or next. But counterintuitively, these lastones, both the happening and the already happened, don’t always carry the extra weight that an ending should. In some cases I am packed and ready to go about the rest of the great big day that is life. Like in the candid glimpses of Dev and Rachel, the biggest days or worst or best were not the last. Their story was in mornings over time—that is, over one episode—in the way that the mornings here in Durham have done for me. I think about the many places I have started a morning since coming to Duke—more than a few in The Chronicle lounge; K-ville tents; the forests of Pisgah National Park; futons of various levels of comfort; a pillow fort; the Pegram common room. I think about every cold basketball fan, PWILDing and each of my six different roommates I woke up next to. I think about the mornings I missed by sleeping in and the ones that arrived undetached from the unraveling scroll of the night before. And on May 16 I will wake up in my Anderson Street apartment and no longer be a Duke student. But that isn’t the morning that matters as much. —Georgia Parke

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Moogfest brings innovative music festival to Georgina Del Vecho The Chronicle Despite its up-and-coming technology, music and art scenes, Durham doesn’t exactly seem like it would be the perfect location for the next Coachella—and it’s not; because this May, the Bull City will be hosting an event that could be another great musical experience: Moogfest. The festival, which started in 2004, celebrates Dr. Robert Moog, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of electronic music and whose invention of various technology tools for artists has helped to unite the fields of engineering and music. This year, the festival will take place from May 19 to 22 and will be spread out across multiple venues throughout Durham. “It’s not just a music festival— Moogfest is a reimagining of the music festival and tech conference: the synthesis of music, art and technology,” said Marisa Brickman, the director of Moogfest. “By day, Moogfest presents a mind-expanding conference about

creativity, technology and the future. By night, it presents performances by pioneers in electronic music alongside pop and avant-garde experimentalists of today.” The daytime events will feature a wide range of programming, from master classes and panel discussions to hackathons and durational performances and screenings. Some of this year’s events include a talk entitled “The Future of Creativity” given by Martine Rothblatt, the author of “Virtually Human: The Promise— and the Peril—of Digital Immortality,” as well as an interactive pop-up called Modular Marketplace where participants can experience the next generation of musical devices and meet their designers. Moogfest’s daytime programming is not like that of a typical tech conference. “We’re teaching you how to turn code into art, how to take data and make visualizations, how to sonify plants,” Brickman said. “The topics for conversation—’Technoshamanism,’ ‘Art & AI,’ ‘Hacking Sound (Systems)’— these are not your usual ‘conference’ or

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Special to The Chronicle Moogfest, which was first started in 2004, will take place in Durham May 19 to 22 and feature music, art and technology.

‘music festival’ fodder.” Moogfest’s nighttime lineup of electronic artists lives up to the standard set by its equally as intruiging daytime programming. This year, some of the top electronic music artists will be performing, including Odesza, Grimes, Miike Snow and Blood Orange will be performing. Local artists such as Nick Sanborn’s Made of Oak and Mykki Blanco will also be highlighted. “The music really crosses genres and age groups,” Brickman said. “There really is something for everyone, but we’ve curated it very specifically by venue and by day.” Although this event has been around for over ten years, 2016 marks the first year Moogfest will be held in Durham. Previous festivals have been held in New York City and Asheville, N.C. “Durham is a city widely regarded for innovation, entrepreneurship and its progressive reputation. With so many neighboring universities and a burgeoning tech scene, it’s a great fit for our long-term goals,” Brickman said. “We really hope that Moogfest can shine a light on what’s happening in Durham, embrace the talent and culture that

exists here and continue to build an event and a business that is recognized around the world.” Moogfest has also partnered with Duke University and the Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative to create a portion of the daytime programming and will provide student leaders the opportunity to help with the planning and execution of Moogfest starting in the 2016-17 academic year. Other student perks include a heavily discounted student price of $99 for a full festival pass and free admission to a handful of daytime events. Moogfest is also working to launch year-round programming, including efforts to mix STEM education and live performance; an Afrofuturism program with the Hayti Cultural Center; a synth-building workshop; and a program with Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship—which the festival hopes is just the first of many collaborations with Duke. “The ambition is to grow into a global event franchise and content platform with the larger business always revolving around the marquee experience in Durham,” Brickman said.

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Things you didn’t know about your favorite childhood TV shows Jessica Williams The Chronicle With the end of the academic year just around the corner, Recess was feeling a little nostalgic and decided to look back at some of the little known facts from our childhood TV shows. SpongeBob SquarePants: • According to his driver’s license, SpongeBob will be turning 30 years old this July. • Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the show, is actually a real-life marine biologist. • The voice actor who voices SpongeBob is married to the voice actor who voices Karen Plankton in real life.

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Amy Poehler, Johnny Depp, Victoria Beckham and David Bowie have all done voice-overs for the show.

The Powerpuff Girls: • The Powerpuff Girls all had different names when the show was aired in different countries; Chocolate, Bubble and Acorn (Bombón, Burbuja and Bellota) in Latin America, and Molly, Lolly and Dolly in Italy. • The actor who voiced Mojo Jojo also voiced the murderer in the Scream horror movies. • The girls’ appearances are based off of the works of artist Margaret Keane. • Although the original series ended in 2005, a reboot started airing this month.

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The Powerpuff Girls got their start from a student film, where they were called the “Whoop-Ass Girls.”

The Rugrats: • All of the babies were voiced by women. • The babies, as a group, share a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. • It was the first Nickelodeon cartoon show to have a movie. The Fairly OddParents: • Timmy Turner’s hat was originally supposed to be blue, but the creator decided to make it pink after his blue marker ran out of ink. • The Crimson Chin was voiced by Jay Leno. • Mr. Crocker, The Mayor and Dinkleberg are all voiced by the same person. Teletubbies: • All of the bunnies in the show are a species of giant rabbit, because they needed to look to-scale with the massive Teletubby costumes. • During the Christmas season of 1997, Teletubbies merchandise outsold all other toys twice over. • The owner of the land where Teletubbies was filmed got so annoyed with people trespassing she flooded the area to make a pond.

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Dexter’s Laboratory: • Dexter was voiced by women. • Dexter’s Burrito Palace is based off an actual restaurant in Chicago. • Many fans believe Dee Dee is actually Dexter’s time travelling daughter.

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Duke Performances sponsors summer garden concert series Christy Kuesel The Chronicle Though the school year is winding down, those staying in Durham have the opportunity to check out Music in the Gardens, an annual program sponsored by Duke Performances. These weekly performances run from June 1 to July 27, and offer a variety of genres to suit any listener’s tastes. Here is Recess’s rundown of the eight performers: No BS! Brass Band: The program kicks off with the No BS! Brass Band June 1. The band, based in Richmond, is known for its original sound, combining the elements of James Brown, John Coltrane, Michael Jackson and Led Zeppelin. The band has performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert. The Wall Street Journal named them one of the ten best concerts of 2013. Leyla McCalla: McCalla is multitalented—she can play the cello, tenor banjo and guitar. She sings in French, Haitian Creole and English. McCalla derives inspiration from her Haitian heritage, as well as traditional Creole and Cajun music. She has toured across the U.S., Europe and Israel and is coming to the Gardens on June 8. Skylar Gudasz: Durham local Skylar Gudasz will be dropping by the Gardens June 15 as a part of a tour promoting her new album “Oleander.” Gudasz, a singer/ songwriter known for her delicate and

drifting voice, ventures through songs that dabble in influences from old jazz to folk songs. Although some songs navigate more serious themes than others, a guitar beautifully accompanies her voice. In the Gardens, the bright cadence of Gudasz’s voice will bring a deep reflective vibe to the summer series. Mount Moriah: The country-rock group Mount Moriah will provide a raw voice to the Duke Gardens stage. The group, led by lead singer and guitarist Heather McEntire, offers a rustic approach to themes of “symbolism, mysticism, alchemy, universality, sacred geometry” throughout their latest collection of songs entitled “How to Dance,” as they note in their biography. McEntire’s slightly rugged vocals tell meaningful stories that weave together the themes of the record and a relatable and compelling sound. Mount Moriah will offer a cool and addictive note June 29.

William Tyler is a jack of many styles. Known for folk, indie folk and pop rock styles, Tyler will bring his brand of cool guitar instrumentals. Before becoming a solo artist, the Southern musician was a member of the bands Lambchop and Silver Jews. Additionally, Durham folk and soul artist Jake Xerxes Fussell will take the stage. Tyler produced and is featured in Fussell’s first debut record. The record features Fussell’s twangy, deep and humming vocals that give his songs a certain bluesy depth. Both artists will perform July 13. Jonathan Byrd and the Pickup Cowboys: Jonathan Byrd, a Carrboro native, played in a variety of bands before beginning to tour full-time by in 2000. Byrd cites his childhood in Texas and

his father’s collection of bluegrass vinyls as his inspirations. His folksy style tells stories about America, centering on the themes of love, life and death. Byrd has produced nine albums, the most recent being “You Can’t Outrun the Radio” in 2014. He comes to the Gardens July 20. Black Twig Pickers: This four-person string band sticks to their roots of southwest Virginia with their old school Appalachian sound. Though their music is fast paced and takes listeners back to a simpler time, the band still brings something new to the table. Tickets will be available starting April 3. Tickets will be available online at tickets.duke. edu, at the Duke University Box Office and via phone at 919-684-4444.

Sierra Hull: The bluegrass singer Sierra Hull has been in the industry since the age of 13. Today, at 24, Hull continues to grow in success as her recent breakout album “Weighted Mind” climbed to the top of the Billboard bluegrass charts earlier this year. Her deftly pure voice and strumming of her mandolin make Hull’s music comforting and reflective. Her music is reticent of feelings experienced around a warm summer’s bonfire. Hull performs in the Gardens July 6. William Tyler & Jake Xerxes Fussell:

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Q&A: Khan T’10 talks working for TBS’ ‘Full Frontal’ Dillon Fernando The Chronicle Naureen Khan, Trinity ’10, a former local and national news editor for The Chronicle, has gone to write for publications such as National Journal and Al Jazeera after her time at Duke. Currently, Khan is the lead researcher the satirical late night show “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” currently the only late night show with a female host that has also received rave critical praise. Khan spoke to The Chronicle’s Dillon Fernando about her time at Duke and her experiences in the journalism and the media industry. Khan’s conversation with The Chronicle has been condensed for clarity. The Chronicle: What got you really interested in journalism? Naureen Khan: I went to a Chronicle meeting my freshman year and I wrote my first story and I was a bit of a shy girl. I was still trying to find where I would fit in at Duke. I really love that it brought me out of my comfort zone. For one of my first stories I had to call the mayor of Durham and I remember it like working out a script...and when he deviated from the script, I would panic, hands shaking, all of that. But I love the thrill of asking important people questions or getting to tell interesting stories about the Duke community. In a college environment there wasn’t all the competition that there is in the general journalism world. It’s a unique place to be in just how all these stories that not everyone has access to, and it was the first time I had done journalism and I loved it, loved it, loved it, loved.it. Freshman year [first semester] I wrote a couple of stories and then second semester I really ramped it up, and then my sophomore year, I was spending way more time at The Chronicle than in my classes or in my dorm. Yeah, it was just a great experience for a shy girl. TC: What was your approach to getting a job after your time at The Chronicle? Was it through internships, networking, or just randomly applying to things? NK: It was a little bit of everything, The Chronicle had a partnership with the News and Observer so we had some internship slots there. I worked there between my junior and senior year, and it was a great experience to be reporter in a real newsroom. The reason it was really great because it sent you out reporting on the first day. I was driving around in my Toyota Corolla all over the Raleigh-Durham area, but I was just really doing reporting and lots of things that were scary for me—but great experiences. After I graduated, I had an internship with the Austin-American Statesman sort of learning

how to do some nose to the ground reporting, talking to total strangers and cold-calling elected officials. After that [internship], the editor for the Chronicle then actually referred me for a job at The Atlantic. They were looking to hire a lot of young people for the National Journal re-boot. I was at the National Journal for three years, and then an editor at the National Journal helped me get my job—so it kind of naturally connected. I think naturally in the course of your career you meet people who are willing to help you and great mentors, and I feel privileged to have that. TC: So at the National Journal and Al Jazeera, how big of a jump was it to those big publications? NK: I think The Chronicle grounds you in the fundamentals. Of course, in The Chronicle office people are walking around barefoot. Obviously the professional setting is a little bit different, and it changes things when you’re getting paid money. At the National Journal, I was at sort of an entry level position. There were all of these great fabulous reporters all around me, and I was learning so much from them. I think The Chronicle prepared me very well for my first journalism job. I was prepared, but then, obviously, there’s the other part of learning how to be a Washington reporter for the first time which requires its own particular skill set. TC: Moving to “Full Frontal.” You talked a little bit about how you got into it through a connection at Al Jazeera, but that’s not necessarily a job that most people naturally see for journalism. What got you interested in working for a show like that? NK: So it happened organically in that I wish I could say that I had the foresight to say that I wanted to work for a late night satirical news show, but it wasn’t really like that at all. I had been at Al Jazeera for two years and then National Journal for three years, and I had fun political reporting for an outlet. I knew that I wanted to do something different, but I didn’t really know what that was. So when the friend of mine at Al Jazeera had gone for John Oliver, she emailed me and said this new show is starting up, and I think you’d really like it. The host is Samantha Bee and it’s late night, so I know you’ll like that. I thought yeah, I could be into that. I like jokes. It progressed from there. You can’t always plan for things. You have to be open to opportunities when they arise. And again, I guess the thread tying every step of my career together has been fear, getting past that fear and facing new challenges. TC: So you talk a little bit about the fear, and I think that’s something a lot of current

Duke students have to kind of get out of their comfort zone and to try new things. So can you talk a little bit about how you dealt with that uncertainty or self-doubt throughout your career so far? NK: It’s a cliché, but you can’t let your anxiety dictate what you do. It’s a cliché, but stepping out of your comfort zone is finding a way forward and letting yourself be led by what you like doing, your passion. I think the value of being 22 is that you have time. You can sort of eat ravioli out of a can or ramen or whatever while you figure things out. You don’t have to immediately go off to law school. By the way, law school was my backup plan. I took the LSATs and applied. I knew that I would regret not taking this opportunity if it came along. Moving to Washington for the National Journal job, not knowing anyone. I slept on an air mattress for nine months. I lived in this tiny apartment out in Virginia. The Al Jazeera jobs were one of the dream jobs. For this job, I moved to New York and went to go work in television. But I felt that I had to do these things where I would always regret not taking the chance. TC: What exactly is your role at “Full Frontal” on a daily basis? NK: I’m a researcher and actually the fact-checker on our show is another Duke grad. He graduated in 2015, I think. So once a segment idea gets green-lighted, then we research behind it and it gets assigned to one of us. We sort of do the leg work on it— meaning we dig up the information that we think is important or valuable and then we share it with the writers and the producers. We all sort of talk about where the story should go and what we think the important themes are. From there, the writers sort of make it and they’re brilliant jokes and make it something you want to watch. We do more research along the way. They’ll come back to us and then we’ll sort of collaborate on getting them what they need. Everything on “Full Frontal” is grounded in fact and reality and truth, and we’re doing things that we feel are important. We’re highlighting issues that we all feel are important. So not every day is the same. It sort of depends on where the show is and what people are interested in and some weeks and crazy and some weeks are a little bit lighter. But I would say just as much reporting and making phone calls, trying to figure out specific information here that I did at Al Jazeera or National Journal. TC: One of my favorite segments is when Samantha shows the clip of Ted Cruz during a college theater performance saying, “Why am I persecuted?” So are you guys in charge of finding those clips, those segments? Or is it

Special to The Chronicle Samantha Bee, pictured above, hosts the TBS show “Full Frontal with Samatha Bee” which Duke alum Naureen Khan works for.

more just finding the background of the issues at hand? NK: Yeah, that’s sort of the mandate of my team. We sort of dig up all of that lovely video material. The Ted Cruz one, the video was actually in a Boston Globe story and we sort of unearthed it. A lot of our job is to find funny tidbits that may already be circulating out there, but that not a lot of people know about. Our video research team, they do a great job finding funny and absurd things that really crystallize what the spirit is of the current political moment. TC: Is there anything that you wish you could have done at Duke or in The Chronicle that you didn’t get a chance to do, but you would recommend for current students? NK: Oh man. No, actually. I think I did everything with The Chronicle that I meant to do. I had a great time. I made great friends. I think I could have left with the stories that I wanted to do by my senior year. I’m totally drinking the Kool-Aid of The Chronicle. I love The Chronicle. I value what I did there so much, as much as anything else I did at Duke. I’m still really good friends with the people that I met there. If I could go back to past me, I’d tell myself to pay a little more attention in my classes. I’d work on my papers and appreciate the academic experience more. I was so involved in The Chronicle that sometimes I jumped out of my other stuff. I’d say really appreciate your professors and get to know them if you can. Don’t be afraid to introduce yourself and make friends.

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Music Review: ‘Edward Sharpe’ is dead in latest album Jesús Hidalgo The Chronicle Edward Sharpe is dead. That is what every fan of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros might be thinking after seeing the cover of “PersonA,” the band’s latest album. With vocalist Jade Castrinos now gone for good, it remains to be seen what new routes founding member Alex Ebert and the rest of the group will take. But the cover and the title of the album can give us some hints. “Edward Sharpe and” is crossed out on the cover, which might mean that the messianic and romantic character Ebert created a few years ago is gone for good, too. And that is not necessarily a bad sign.

“PersonA” was released April 15 and features 10 songs, perhaps the most authentic songs in the career of the band. There is something paradoxical in this seek for authenticity, considering that “persona” was originally a term designating a theatrical mask. The term has been widely used in psychology to study the different and sometimes contradictory roles a person assumes in diverse social areas of his or her life, which seems to be just the opposite from what is normally considered as “authentic.” But perhaps getting rid of Edward Sharpe also implies that the band is looking for a liberation of sounds, lyrics and music. Without abandoning its hipster and indie roots, the album features Moby-esque musical arrangements,

the sudden but also functional detours inspired by The Beatles’ “Abbey Road”—how could you not think of “You Never Gave me your Money” when listening to this record?—and David Bowie’s festive improvisation. Collectively, “PersonA” is what one would call a “group effort” as most of the songs were written by the 10-member band. Love still represents a huge element of Ebert and co.’s repertoire as “No Love Like Yours” is definitely a remake of “Two,” a song featured in their album released in 2013 “Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros” regarding lyrics and musical arrangements. But a new type of Love emerges in the group’s fifth album— paternal love. “Lullaby” is a sweet composition dedicated to Ebert’s

three-year old daughter dealing with the concerns of parenthood and the “tempus fugit” (time flies) topic. The combination of trumpets, piano and Ebert’s low and deep voice finds a rich balance in “Perfect Time”—dedicated to Castrinos—and “The Ballad of Yaya,” which concludes the album. Whether Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros has finally found a new essence following Castrino’s departure is still debatable, but what is not questionable is that “PersonA” radiates musical authenticity. PS. Ebert has a parallel solo career. So if you are both fond of his music and a Bernielover, you should definitely look for “FEEL THE BERN,” a song written and sung by him to support Bernie Sanders’ campaign for office.

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DUKE READYING FOR MUST-WIN GAME The No. 16 Blue Devils will meet No. 15 Marquette Friday with their NCAA hopes on the line Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle When the members of Duke’s senior class began their college careers in spring 2013, Marquette had just established a Division I lacrosse program. Now four years later, the Golden Eagles travel to Durham hoping to dash the Blue Devils’ postseason hopes and spoil their seniors’ final game at home. With its ACC regular season in the rearview mirror, No. 16 Duke hosts No. 15 Marquette in the Blue Devils’ home finale Friday at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium. Duke was No. 15 able to lock up a spot Marquette in next weekend’s vs. ACC tournament in Kennesaw, Ga., No. 16 Duke with a dominant 14-8 win at Virginia FRIDAY, 7 p.m. last weekend. But Koskinen Stadium having lost three of their last five games, the Blue Devils still have to boost their resume in order to improve their chances of making the NCAA tournament. “This is do-or-die,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “If we lose, there is no tournament for us.... This is absolutely as much of a must-[win] game as we’ve ever had here.” Offensively, the Blue Devils (8-6) have

Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Senior midfielder Deemer Class leads the Blue Devils with 41 goals and ranks third with 50 points, and will need another big game for Duke to get past a strong Marquette defense.

been anchored by their senior corps, including midfielder Myles Jones and his team-high 58 points as well as fellow midfielder Deemer Class. Duke has the second-highest scoring offense in the nation and has posted double-digit goals in three of its past four games. Class leads the Blue Devils with 2.9 goals per game, a mark that ranks eight in the nation. Duke’s balanced attack—

which has been held to single digits just three times this year and boasts six different players with at least 26 points— will challenge Marquette, a team that likes to slow down the pace. “We know that we can fill up the net,” Jones said. “We only do that when all the guys are doing it together, not when one guy is trying to do it himself, so we’re sticking to the fundamentals. We’re

looking for the most high-percentage goal rather than the opportunity that presents itself first, so we’re excited to be patient like we were against Virginia and capitalize when we have the chance.” The Golden Eagles (9-2) will rely on their top-ranked defense—which allows just 6.6 goals per game—to slow Duke down. Marquette boasts an experienced defensive unit led by a pair of graduate students in B.J. Grill and Liam Byrnes as well as junior Nicholas Eufrasio. The key during the past three weeks, though, has been sophomore goaltender Cole Blazer, who made his first career start April 2 against thenNo. 5 Villanova and has dominated since being thrust into the lineup. The Libertyville, Ill., native has surrendered just 24 goals and has made 37 saves in the Golden Eagles’ last four games and allowed just three goals against the Wildcats. “They are a great defensive team,” senior attackman Chad Cohan said. “We just want to go out there and play our game. We’re not changing that much—dodge hard, put the ball in each other’s stick and just make sure we execute.” Although Danowski noted that See M. LACROSSE on Page 13

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Blue Devils waiting for ACC tournament opponent Ali Wells The Chronicle Last season, Duke arrived at the ACC tournament prepared for the quarterfinals with a full roster and two days extra rest but returned to Durham empty-handed, stung by the Yellow Jackets 4-3 for the second time in 2015. Entering the conference championship after a two-round bye again this year, the No. 8 Blue Devils will look to FSU or make a deeper run in UVA the bracket to avenge vs. last season’s early exit. No. 8 Fourth-seeded Duke Duke will take the court Friday at 1 p.m. at the FRIDAY, 1 p.m. Cary Tennis Park Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C., across the net from the winner of Thursday’s matchup between fifth-seeded Virginia and 12thseeded Florida State. The Blue Devils dispatched the Cavaliers

4-0 and the Seminoles 6-1 in regular season play April 1 and Feb. 26, respectively, but they cannot afford to get ahead of themselves and think about their potential semifinal match looming against top-seeded North Carolina, a team undefeated in conference play this season. “We have done a great job over these last couple days of preparing for the tournament and not really worrying about who we play,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We have been talking a lot about playing to our ability and not worrying about our opponents but taking care of what we need to do.” Beatrice Capra will be absent from Duke’s conference tournament lineup as she continues to recover from an illness that prevented her from competing on Senior Day against N.C. State April 12. The timetable for Capra’s return remains uncertain. But in her absence, junior Chalena Scholl and freshman Ellyse Hamlin have been playing their best tennis of the season. Scholl has won two consecutive upset matches on the road against opponents

ranked in the top 40, outlasting Georgia Tech’s No. 34 Johnnise Renaud 6-4, 6-7 (57), 7-5 April 15 and downing Clemson’s No. 40 Ayan Broomfield in straight sets 6-3, 6-3 April 17. The Pompano Beach, Fla., native has only lost one of seven matches while playing on Duke’s top singles court and jumped from 97th to 55th in the most recent national rankings. Hamlin has won three of her last four singles matches and clinched the team victory for the Blue Devils (18-5, 11-3 in the ACC) at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center against Boston College and N.C. State. The freshman has joined her classmate Jessica Ho in doubles with her usual partner Capra sidelined, and the duo remains undefeated on court three with a five-match winning streak dating back to Duke’s dual with Elon Jan. 20. “[Chalena and Ellyse] are playing better than they have the entire semester,” Ashworth said. “Ellyse keeps getting better See W. TENNIS on Page 13

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Duke looks to continue surge at ACC championship Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle In 2015, the young Blue Devils limped off the 18th green at the ACC championship with their worst threeday finish of the season, only to rebound with a third-place performance at the NCAA regional to punch their tickets to the NCAA championship. Fast-forward 12 months, and Duke is coming off one of its best-ever weekends as it readies for another shot at the Old North State Club. The No. 18 Blue Devils will travel to New London, N.C., for the ACC championship Friday through Sunday on the 7,102-yard couse, two weeks removed from a recordsetting performance at the Princeton Invitational. Freshman Alex Smalley picked up the first individual win of his career April 10 as Duke carded a 25-under-par 36-hole performance, including a program-best 15-under-par final round. The task at hand now, though, is to atone for last year’s 22-over-par, 10thplace finish at the ACC championship, one that slowed the momentum of

Jim Liu | The Chronicle Freshman Alex Smalley will try to continue his recent success when the Blue Devils travel to New London, N.C., for the ACC championship.

another late-season charge before the Blue Devils rediscovered their magic at the regional site. “All sports are about playing with confidence and self-belief, and anytime you can set some records and win, it invariably gives the guys confidence,” Duke head coach Jamie Green said.

“They were in a couple of opportunities this spring, kept the pedal down [and got some victories].” Four of the five Duke golfers at the Princeton Invitational finished in the top 10, though the competition at that event will not stack up with the ACC squads the Blue Devils will meet in New

London this weekend. Headlined by No. 10 Clemson—which lost last year’s event in a two-hole playoff—five other top-25 teams are part of the field. Still, topping multiple program records bodes well for Green’s squad going into the weekend. Smalley, who has started all 10 of Duke’s events this season, has turned in four top-10 finishes as a freshman, including three in Duke’s last four events—the Blue Devils won all three. “He’s gone in with his eyes wide open and ears open...even if it’s just getting used to the surroundings, traveling with the team, practice rounds,” Green said. “He really hasn’t changed much. He just took the game that he had and applied it to his surroundings.” Green will not change his lineup from the Princeton Invitational, sending Smalley, sophomores Jake Shuman and Adam Wood and juniors Max Greyserman and Matt Oshrine—a Loyola transfer—to the links this weekend. Three members of that quintet—Shuman, Wood and Greyserman—have experience at the Old North State Course, with Wood See M. GOLF on Page 13

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Duke heads to Cary in need of deep tournament run Jacob Weiss The Chronicle April has been a month to forget for Duke. The Blue Devils entered the final month of the regular season 10-10, but were unable rise above .500. Riding a four-match losing streak, Duke will meet seventh-seeded Notre Dame in the ACC tournament Thursday at 1 p.m. Duke at the Cary Tennis vs. Park in Cary, N.C. The 10th-seeded Blue Notre Dame Devils have suffered lopsided defeats at THURSDAY, 1 p.m. the hands of then-No. Cary Tennis Park 3 Virginia, then-No. 6 Wake Forest and then-No. 5 North Carolina

as well as a narrow 4-3 loss to Clemson, and will need a deep run in the conference championship to increase their chances of receiving an NCAA tournament bid. “We knew we were going to have a tough draw,” Duke head coach Ramsey Smith said. “Especially with how things played out in the ACC season, we knew that our seeding would be low, and there are a lot of really good teams ahead of us. Notre Dame is definitely one of those teams and they are really peaking at the right time.” Duke’s losses to the Tigers and the Tar Heels last weekend came with several players out due to injury. Freshmen Vincent Lin, Adrian Chamdani and Catalin Mateas all ended the season on the sideline, and have not been in the lineup together since March 27. Mateas left Duke’s last match against the

Tar Heels after aggravating a lingering injury in a 6-2 doubles loss to the duo of Anudeep Kodali and Ronnie Schneider. Smith said that he is still unsure whether the Braintree, Mass., native will be able to play in the ACC tournament. “I’m hopeful [that Mateas will play],” Smith said. “It’s kind of a day-to-day thing with him and with a couple other guys, so we will just have to see how they are the day before or the day of.” When Duke (11-14, 4-8 in the ACC) played Notre Dame March 18 in South Bend, Ind., the Fighting Irish (14-12, 6-6) won the doubles point and four singles matches for a 5-2 victory. Duke’s lone points came when Mateas rolled past Josh Hagar 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 at the No. 3 singles spot and T.J. Pura defeated Alex Lawson in See M. TENNIS on Page 16

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there will not be much of a formal sendoff for the seniors in their last game on Duke’s campus, that does not mean they will depart the field at Koskinen for the final time without having left their mark. Jones and Class were members of back-to-back national championship teams in their freshman and sophomore campaigns, but as upperclassmen, they have created their own legacies. Jones has the most points and Class has the most goals of any Blue Devil midfielders in school history. “[The seniors] have represented the program as well as anybody has in our history,” Danowski said. “[They are] really good guys and terrific students.” With the added pressure of having their backs up against the wall, the Blue Devils will have to rely on their experience all over the field. Junior goalkeeper Danny Fowler has been steady in net for most of the season along with senior defensemen Chris Coady and Jamie Ikeda—holding opponents to just more than 10 goals per game. Friday night will be a clash of two very distinct styles, but the opportunity to make a statement and earn a critical late-season win is something that the Blue Devils are looking forward to. “It’s a sense of urgency,” Jones said. “We don’t want to go out with the feeling of playing on our home field for the last time and coming away disappointed. This is a huge game for us.”

and better and has been working really hard. Chalena has embraced playing in that No. 1 position and has done a great job getting two wins over higher-ranked opponents.” With the Tar Heels looming in their half of the bracket, the Blue Devils will need a quick win Friday in hopes of staying fresh for a Saturday matchup. Duke will look to sophomore Samantha Harris to lead all players off the court as she has all season. In eight of her last 10 singles matches, Harris was either the first or second Blue Devil to finish play. The Melbourne, Australia, native has won 10 of her last 11 matches— with the one break in her streak coming from an unfinished match—and has only lost once in ACC play, falling to Virginia Tech’s Elena Cerezo-Codina 6-7, 1-6. “We have to take advantage of our bye and also try to do everything we can to get off the court as fast as we can to prepare for the next day,” Ashworth said. “At the same time, if we don’t take care of what we are supposed to do in the first one, there is no second one. There’s a fine balance there between leaving everything we have on the court and being efficient and disciplined in doing that.” No. 16 Virginia (14-9, 9-5) could present a tough matchup for Duke on courts one and two, with its top two singles players—second-ranked Danielle Collins and No. 16 Julia Elbaba—ranked ahead of the Blue Devils’ top healthy athlete—No. 52 Kaitlyn McCarthy. Daneika Borthwick is Florida State’s lone singles representative in the ITA top 125, coming in at 38th. The Cavaliers and the Seminoles (9-13, 3-11) will compete Thursday at 1 p.m.

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the only Blue Devil to finish under par, coming in at two-under-par as a freshman last season, tying for 14th place. Shuman carded four-over-par in his first ACC championship last year, and Greyserman was 10-overpar as a freshman at the 2014 event before not competing in last season’s championship. Duke’s success this spring has been driven by a lineup without an identifiable star to carry the load tournament after tournament. Instead, the Blue Devils have taken turns pacing the squad—all five golfers who will tee it up this weekend have placed as high as second this season, with Shuman and Greyserman tying for runner-up honors behind Smalley at the Princeton Invitational. Wood leads Duke with a 71.2 scoring average—the only Blue Devil to average an under-par round—but all five golfers are within two strokes of the Zionsville, Ind., native, an indication of a well-balanced team. With no seniors in the lineup—and Oshrine competing in his first season in Durham—Green elected to not have a team captain, instead allowing

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ast week, 32 percent of undergraduates voted in the Duke Student Government elections for committee senators and vice presidents. While campaigns and DSG emails in the lead-up to the election focused on the list of candidates present on the ballot, they failed to emphasize the referenda students would also be asked to weigh in on, one of which called for a re-evaluation of the funding mechanism for the Chanticleer, the student yearbook. Although the referendum was purely informational, its lack of clarity and previous publicity highlighted clear problems with the DSG information propagation and voting system. The Chanticleer referendum presented students with two options. The first would allow students to allocate a portion of their activities fee each year towards a subsidized yearbook gifted upon graduation. The second would maintain the status quo in which students can choose to purchase a yearbook, at full cost, at the end of each academic year. The unclear wording of the referendum, however, may have obscured the details of the options from students. The referendum misleadingly began by stating that “Every senior would automatically get a free yearbook.” Considering that the yearbook would be funded through each student’s activity fee

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“While I agree with the idea of diversity I have to admit that I value the quality of the professors first and foremost. Everyone has to learn to deal with difficult situations and people that are not ‘like’ them and are better off for leaving the comfort zone. And to me diversity of backgrounds, ideas, areas of expertise are just as important as gender, ethnicity, etc.” — “Gavin Richard GB” commenting on the article “Faculty night criticized for lack of diversity”

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over the course of four years, that claim was simply not true. The opportunity cost for funding the Chanticleer through student activities fees is actually quite tremendous. The money that would be funneled to the yearbook has, in the past, totalled up to nearly one in seven dollars of all funding overseen by the Student Organization Funding Committee. That same SOFC funding is

Editorial traditionally used to throw large, open events like Springternational and ArtCon. Although the DSG referendum statute specifically states that they will disseminate information before a vote, they failed to alert students that funding “free” yearbooks would actively lessen the amount of funding available for such events. Even more egregiously, DSG failed to ensure that any information about the referendum was available to the public aside from a single guest column in the Chronicle written by the clearly biased Editor-in-Chief of the Chanticleer. DSG’s lack of action in propagating adequate amounts of information has highlighted

a criticism that we have levied at them in the past: that they rarely live up to their own standards and do not substantively communicate with the students they represent. The continuous criticism for DSG for perpetuating an uninformed voter population highlights large-scale issues with the priorities of the organization. DSG needs to do a better job of providing students with the necessary information to cast reasoned votes, and the burden of voter education should not entirely be placed on candidates. The creation of a central informational hub online could help aggregate candidate platforms and ongoing legislative proposal and projects. Further, releasing a sample ballot prior to the election would incentivize students to visit an informational website while allowing time for the issues to marinate. The Young Trustee or DSG presidential elections seem to garner more attention toward the circulation of candidate platforms and information. However, all student government elections should be given the same care. We need to give equal weight to all elections, not just to Young Trustee or DSG President. We urge DSG to make an effort to inform the students who they represent.

In opposition to the Women’s Center move

s a group of students who cherish the Women’s Center and its role on campus, we are deeply concerned about the confusion and misinformation created by the administration’s handling of the decision to move the Center to East Campus. We would like to explain recent events from the student perspective and reiterate that the move to East Campus would significantly damage efforts for gender equity among students at Duke for years to come. In late February, the administration decided that the Women’s Center would move to the basement of the Crowell Building on East Campus in the Fall of

time so as to not interfere with counseling appointments; we complied without question. When we arrived at the Center at 4:30, all staff had left and a plainclothes police officer arrived, telling students that the Center was supposed to have been closed at 3:30 rather than 5. He left without further explanation. Dr. Airall and Dean Sue Wasiolek then arrived and demanded that the students inside immediately leave with their belongings, initially refusing to give a real reason. Airall then said the Center must close “because [she] said so.” She eventually revealed that a single specific tweet with the phrase “packing the Women’s Center,” sent from the

Stop the Move GUEST COLUMN 2016. In an email to the student body on March 2, Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Larry Moneta subtly alluded to the Women’s Center decision when he said “changes will require the relocation of the Center for Leadership Development and Social Action and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, as well as other campus units.” On March 7, a group of Women’s Center interns met with Moneta to discuss the move in an effort to understand how and why the decision was made. The meeting concluded with no clear commitments made and no responsibility accepted, with all responsibility deflected to the Center’s staff. In a set of emails to Dr. Moneta on April 5 and 8 following on the meeting, students shared detailed concerns about moving the space, proposals for potential solutions to the move, and calls for future action, requesting a response by the next day. They sent the second email attaching over 200 responses received from a survey submitted to the student body, which has grown to over 400 since. Over 95 percent of respondents said they would be unhappy if the Center moved to East. The main points of concern for the new location included decreased visibility and effectiveness of the Center’s programming, logistical and symbolic displacement of the Center from a central part of campus, and Student Conduct hearings—including sexual assault cases—being held in the same building as the Center. On April 18, we, as concerned students, organized a “Show the Love to Stop the Move” event in a spirit of positivity to show student support for the Women’s Center’s incredible work. Over a hundred students turned out to show their love for the Center’s current location in person, over three hundred students demonstrated support on social media, and not a single staff member was present, while the administration attempted to lock us out. The staff of the Center requested we move the event

personal account of a student had ignited their concern. The administration projected their own assumptions of disruption to shut the event down. What this demonstrated to us again was that the administration and staff were not willing to engage with what students had to say, despite the detailed responses outlining specific student-centered rationale against the move, over 900 signatures to an online petition, and over 400 survey responses detailing student’s individual reasons for keeping the Women’s Center on West Campus. As people of all genders who are friends of the Women’s Center recognizing the importance of having a space created for women and feminine-of-center students on campus, we feel vilified, alienated and abandoned. We are deeply concerned with the lack of transparency and collaborative engagement with the wider student body about possible concerns for the administration’s and staff’s decision. It is deeply troubling that administrators and staff who are supposed to advocate for students are not willing to listen. We urge the Women’s Center staff and the administration engage with why the move is strongly opposed by a significant number of students. We hope that others will join us in calling for public commitments to alternatives to the move, following the lead of organizations like Duke Student Government, whether that alternative be the Women’s Center staying on West Campus with a satellite office on East Campus, or the Center moving to the East Campus location with a clear, sincere, and strong commitment that it will be given its own new, free-standing building within the next five years alongside Central Campus renovations. As we all work towards a larger space for the Women’s Center in the future, we call for progressive - rather than regressive—steps. The Women’s Center is a home for gender equity on this campus, and we urge students to join us in protecting this home. The full list of authors can be viewed online.

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or the class of 2016, the penultimate week of classes in our final year at Duke is concluding. Amidst the typical Duke buzz and the added pressures of senior-year, we are called to consider who we have become and the role that Duke has played in that process. Like almost every first-year to matriculate at Duke, I arrived on East Campus in August 2012 excited for what I knew would be four very important years. I had general ideas about my major and a prospective

interest in the meaning of the human person and the consequences of that meaning for the rest of one’s worldview. As I proceeded from question to question—Is Jesus perhaps God? What is the Church? What about evil?—my intellectual and spiritual lives began to converge. I attended Mass more regularly, and by the beginning of my junior year, I had concluded that the human person is unintelligible without God and had received the grace-endowed certitude that the Church is true.

Death rushes headlong to meet us all

ell here it is: my last ever column for The Chronicle. This’ll be my 32nd piece of opinion writing for this paper, topping off almost 30,000 words of work written across 16 months. If I’m honest with myself, I probably should have taken the advice of that curmudgeonly old man at the New York gay pride parade this year and spun them all together into some kind of independent

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career path. I had concrete aspirations for my cross-country and track career and a strong interest in exploring Duke’s vibrant social scene. I had few initial thoughts, though, about my spiritual and intellectual lives. In fact, to the extent that the great Life Questions (as I have called them throughout this column) entered my mind, I pushed them to the periphery, believing that I could address them later, perhaps in my forties, when I thought they would finally be relevant. In a similar vein, I entered Duke skeptical and largely uninterested in the Catholic faith in which I had been raised, as I viewed that faith as little more than a burden on the “freedoms” that I sought at Duke. But as I settled into the academic and social culture, those pesky moral and existential questions wriggled back into plain view. My first-year experience forced me, almost against my will, to confront the propositions that I had brought to East Campus. Some professors flatly asserted that objective truth—and perhaps the entire reality that we perceive—is fictional and constructed. Others triumphantly claimed that religious people are happier than atheists only because atheists are able to accept the (supposed) meaningless of our existence. At the same time, the Duke culture presented as entirely permissible that which conventional morality would roundly reject. I quickly realized that I had to jettison far sooner than I had hoped my plan of attending only to the convenient aspects of my life. So, I began to consider the Life Questions: Is faith reasonable? Does morality exist? Must God exist for objective morality to exist? If so, what does that mean for my life? As professors and peers answered those questions in the negative and, indeed, asserted that positive answers reeked of “bigotry,” “intolerance” and “irrationality,” the gauntlet was thrown. I picked it up and undertook to find answers to those questions, answers that would ultimately form the person I have become. The answers began to appear in the most unsuspecting of places. The topic of my first-year writing seminar—the only course required by this university—happened to address friendship and the life of virtue. There, we read Aristotle’s account of the three kinds of friendship. Aristotle spoke of the friendships of utility and pleasure, where “friends” agreeably use each other for their own selfish ends, and of the highest kind of friendship, grounded in love, where each friend does what is good for the other for the sake of the other. I was struck by the beauty and timeless relevance of his 2,300-year-old insights and noticed their application to the relationships in my own life. Excited by what I had found in Aristotle (and appreciating that he was no intellectual slouch), I developed a keen

Over my four years at Duke in the classroom, on the track, in the Catholic Center, and in my social life, I have come to understand that each human person is a unique and unrepeatable composite of body and soul. I have learned that faith and reason are not just compatible but synergistic—one without the other is impoverished. Most importantly, I have experienced the joy of love—that our happiness increases precisely in the measure that we make ourselves gifts to others. And what of my first-year instinct that faith would restrict and oppress? I had it exactly backwards. Truth liberates and elevates, not encumbers and limits. To say “yes” to truth—ultimately to God—is to say yes to human flourishing. To make the human person a creator in a godless world—to seek happiness by meeting every fleeting desire—delivers anxiety and emptiness on a personal level and division and conflict on a societal level. Duke is fairly criticized for not fostering introspection. With no core or even recommended curriculum and no mentorship program, Duke fails to encourage its students to acknowledge, much less examine, the Life Questions. But requirements can be beneficial and formative, as that Writing 101 course (the topic of which I still had to choose) spurred the introspection that has changed my life. A senior administrator once told me, “Duke is about achieving excellence in everything.” Too often, though, many at Duke pursue and value only material excellence and the honor of peer recognition, not the human excellence of moral virtue. A quest for empirical achievement that ignores or denies moral virtue reduces our horizon to the practical and tangible and deprives us of our deepest dignity. This column has claimed that truth includes and transcends the material order. In truth, we find a freedom that leads to durable fulfillment, responsible citizenship and moral virtue. That proposition states nothing new or radical but only revives the Duke motto that should guide our mission: Eruditio et Religio, knowledge and religion, reason and faith—the lives of the mind and of the soul. Duke should draw from its roots and endorse the fullness of truth and human excellence. I would like to close with a note of gratitude to the readers of this column. Each installment has given me the joyful opportunity to explore a different facet of the bedazzling jewel that is the human person. I can only hope that those explorations might have inspired others to turn upward, embrace the human person as the luminous image of God and rejoice in the splendor of truth! William Rooney is a Trinity senior. This is his final column for The Chronicle.

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study for class credit. First piece of advice to take away from this column, people: always follow the unsolicited advice of irritable old men at gay pride parades. Alright, so before I launch into this column, a few personal things. First off, I am very unemployed. If any employers are reading this and need, like, a person to do something—anything—contact me. Second, there are a bunch of things I didn’t get to write about this semester, so here are some condensed versions of the columns that never were. Don’t move the Women’s Center, Duke! I know you’ve lost your way PR-wise recently, but really? Moving the Women’s Center to the building where sexual misconduct meetings are heard? Do you not, perhaps just a tad, sense how some people might be uncomfortable with that? I know you’re trying to make space for the new cultural centers, but if you really need space that badly then why not just follow your otherwise-beloved strategy of building them a glass box? Regarding freedom of speech: okay, all I’m going to say is of course speech can be harmful. Plenty of countries have anti-hate speech laws in light of that very fact. And yes, free speech is wonderful and important and can be a valuable tool in the defence of minorities and minority viewpoints, but we need to recognise that it also protects the circulation of hate. The hard work shouldn’t be spent blindly defending free speech but instead working out a compromise based on the acknowledgment of both its benefits and drawbacks. Also, content advisories aren’t new or dangerous, and neither are trigger warnings. Did anyone ever work out whether stuff you put in the recycling at Duke really does just get thrown in with the rest of the trash? Someone should look into that. You have my blessing. And now on to the actual column. It’s popular around this time of year to speak of graduation as not being an end, but instead a beginning: keynote speakers talk about how we’ll take the lessons we learnt here and bring them into our real lives beyond this campus; graduation isn’t called graduation but rather “commencement;” columns pop up reflecting on how seniors can transition into the rest of their lives. But that’s all silly, of course. Of course the end of college is an end. Let’s be clear here: I am never going to see some of you people again. Some of the things you are

doing now you are doing for the last time. Our lives here are ending. The idea that— this is only a beginning—doesn’t do that reality justice. It is an end, and I think that in itself is something worth valuing. For one thing, I think we should all be viewing this as a useful practice run for our ultimate deaths. Hear me out here! Look: in the period leading up to graduation you have all the

perfect ingredients for a psychological dry run of your eventual demise. You’ve got the looming sense of finality. You’ve got an equivalent to getting your will in order in the form of desperately getting rid of your possessions via All Duke. You’ve got the kind of nostalgia so overwhelming that you remember drunken freshman fumbles as epic stories of youthful vitality. If you can make it through the next month you’ll know that you have what it takes to one day die of old age. Well done, you! I certainly hope that whoever plans my eventual funeral will have the optimism to frame it as a commencement. But here’s my main point: there’s nothing wrong with this being the end, and there’s nothing wrong with treating— or mourning—it as such. Just from my perspective, I’m about to graduate with no job and so be legally required to leave the United States. Most of my friends are here. My life has been here for the last four years. I literally don’t know what I’m going to do with myself, besides maybe do that whole millennial/creative/Lena Dunham thing of stumbling around at my parent’s home for a while feeling like I’m too good for a normal job. Adding to my struggle, there are exactly zero British employers who know what an International Comparative Studies degree is. Am I sad as a result of this? Of course, but thank God for that. The end is a great thing, friends. The end is what sets everything in proportion. Set against the backdrop of our looming mortality we can finally look back clearly on what came before. Never mind all that stuff about “it all went so quickly”. How long ago does this year’s Heatwave concert feel? When was the last time you went in The Chapel? Are you really the same person you were sophomore spring break? These all feel so long ago and so unique. Your time at Duke has been filled with these experiences— don’t go trivialising that by painting your entire time at Duke as a smooth, single event. Embrace the end and the hindsight it gives you. Embrace the finality. Go back to places you haven’t visited since freshman year. Write letters to your best friends. Think honestly about how you’ll never live in this place again. And if it makes you feel sad – good. Because if you feel sad it’s ending, that’s how you know it was all worth going through in the first place. Bron Maher is a Trinity senior. This is his final column for The Chronicle.

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PROTESTS from page 1 building, last week. The sit-in began after a series of racist incidents on campus, including the discovery of bananas hanging from a sign celebrating Clemson’s African-American history, according to an article in The Atlantic last Friday. The students then began occupying the steps to the building and have reiterated demands for increased minority inclusion, which they initially issued in January. Earlier this month, students at Ohio State University attempted to stage a sit-in of Bricker Hall, an administrative building, but ultimately disbanded after they were threatened with arrest and expulsion by campus administrators, said Caitlin Pitt, an OSU senior who was not involved with the sit-in. The students had issued a list of demands calling for budget transparency and requesting administrators to either divest from companies involved in human rights abuses, refuse to outsource employees or provide more sustainable food options. Since leaving the building, the protestors have continued their activism by hosting teachins and have gained support from faculty and alumni, Pitt said. Pitt noted that he thinks students at OSU know about the protests at Duke. “We’ve been very aware, and we stand in solidarity with you guys,” he said. Carbon divestment campaign heats up Other groups are demanding their universities divest from fossil fuels. At New York University, students ended a 33-hour occupation of an elevator leading to administrative offices Tuesday. They claimed the administration failed to live up to its earlier promises to divest, according to an article in the Washington Square News Tuesday. Students at Columbia University have occupied Low Library, which houses

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administrative offices, since Thursday and plan to do so until their president makes a statement in support of divestment. The protestors noted that their actions are situated within a larger history. “Our first thought wasn’t just to sit-in,” junior Cristian Padilla, who is occupying the building, said. “This is a campaign that has been going on for three and a half years at this point.” Senior Jennifer Tang, another occupier, said she hopes the action can have a broader impact. “Asking a university to divest its funds is mostly a symbolic act, but when taken as a collective movement across campuses and around the world it does add up to a lot of actual money that can then hopefully be invested elsewhere,” she said. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders showed solidarity with the movement from his Twitter account Monday with the hashtag “keepitintheground.” Connections to Duke Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity, the organization that led the occupation of the Allen Building, has backed several of the student movements across the country. Anastasia Karklina, Trinity ’14, a Ph.D. student in literature and African and African-American studies and a media liaison for DSWS, noted that social media has helped connect students across campuses. “I cannot speak to any direct actions sparking elsewhere in direct response to our sit-in, since I’m not aware of any,” she said. “I do think, however, that seeing a growing student movement spreading across campuses has been a source of inspiration and moral support for many, myself included.” Karklina noted that DSWS has received messages from activists at the University of Texas at Austin, Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University and Appalachian State University. The connections provide a

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support system for protestors, she said. from page 2 “It seems to me that there is a common understanding—between student organizers across campuses—about the kind of emotional, fund, while other senators argued that psychological and physical weight this work the Chanticleer needed to be funded. carries for many of us,” Karklina explained. Junior Tanner Lockhead, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, said he thought DSG should respond according to the referendum in which the student body from page 12 had the opportunity to give input. “The economies of scale and cost structure two sets on court four. of the Chanticleer make a subsidy a far better Duke’s No. 22 Nicolas Alvarez, then ranked policy option,” Lockhead wrote in an email. No. 20, lost to No. 32 Quentin Monaghan—who “It’s also critical to understand that the funding is now ranked No. 42—by a score of 7-6 (7-5), 6-3. level approved by DSG does not jeopardize The two players are slated to once again face off student group funding.” in the No. 1 singles match Thursday. Originally, 17 senators voted for the funding “We have been working with each allocation, and 19 voted against it. However, guy individually,” Smith said. “Obviously, two senators missed the original roll call vote Monaghan—their number one guy—is really later voted in favor of the proposal, resulting good. He made the semis of the NCAAs last in a tie, which Executive Vice President John year, and he beat [Alvarez] when we played Guarco, a junior, broke by voting for the them at their place, but [Alvarez] is playing funding allocation. much better tennis right now, and he is super MSA requested that their annual retreat motivated. I’m really excited for him to get receive funding because the University cut its another shot at a big win.” support for retreats. The Senate tied in the vote to The Blue Devils practiced in Cary increase the allocation by $3,800, and Guarco cast Wednesday in preparation for Thursday’s the deciding vote to approve the request. match. Duke will drive just 20 minutes down The Senate approved three of the four the road for its first conference tournament increases in the budget requested by the Catholic match, whereas the Fighting Irish will travel Center as well as a funding request brought by nearly 730 miles. The Blue Devils have played the Presbyterian Campus Ministry. at Cary Tennis Park twice already this year at the James Bonk Invite in September and the In other business: ITA Regional Qualifiers in October. The Senate unanimously approved SOFC’s “The nice thing about Cary is that we host allocations to the annual budgets of the DSG two tournaments there in the fall,” Smith said. newspaper program, DIYA, Swing Dance Club, “We have had the ACCs there for 10 years now A Cappella Council and the National Society so we’re very familiar with it, and it’s kind of of Black Engineers. like a second home.” The Senate chartered two new groups— If Duke finds its way past Notre Dame Global Health Review and GateKeepers. Thursday, it will take on the tournament’s No. The Senate approved the Financial 2 seed Wake Forest Friday. The Blue Devils Oversight and Appeals Committee’s decision lost to the No. 7 Demon Deacons 6-1 earlier to give the Eastern European Association more this month. money for a rotisserie.

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