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Uni. faces hurdles with Bias, Hate Task Force recommendations had been personally affected by hate or bias incidents spoke about their experiences. Since last semester, the advisory committee’s discussions have centered on feedback from administrators. “The people that have come in so far are not students,” Joglekar said. “The listening tour from my understanding was purely hearing from actual students about their hate and bias experiences on campus. The people that have been invited to speak so far are almost exclusively administrators. We are getting a different perspective now, which is how administrators are doing with the hate and bias issues of students.” Moneta said that it is “standard practice” to listen to the voices of various stakeholders impacted by campus issues in order to best formulate recommendations for policy and education.

Likhitha Butchireddygari The Bias and Hate Task Force advisory committee is struggling to maintain student involvement. In late 2016, the University created a steering committee and an advisory committee to work on bias and hate issues after the original Bias and Hate Task Force released its recommendations in May. The advisory committee is chaired by Professor of Public Policy Kathryn Whetten and Paul James, assistant vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion, and is supposed to be composed of faculty, students, administrators and staff. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs and a member of the steering committee, said that Duke typically strives to be as inclusive as possible when forming advisory groups. “If you are a student group that cares about the topic, you have a seat at the table,” Moneta said. “The [Bias and Hate Task Force advisory committee] is going to do the same thing.” However, Rashmi Joglekar, the incoming president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council and a Ph.D student in the integrated toxicology and environmental health program, noted that she is currently the only student member on the advisory committee able to attend its bimonthly meetings. A Duke Today release in March said that junior Riyanka Ganguly, who was recently elected president of Duke Student Government, and junior Khalouk

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Shahbander as well as Christopher Boswell, a graduate student in the Divinity School, are all members of the committee. Those three students all told The Chronicle they had been unable to attend the committee’s meetings this semester due to scheduling conflicts. They were not consulted about this semester’s meeting time. “I think we need at least one more graduate or professional student, and definitely we

need undergraduate representation,” Joglekar said. “We don’t have that right now... So, we are sorely underrepresented.” Joglekar said she believes the committee is looking for replacement students. The advisory committee has taken time to hear from guest speakers at each meeting, Joglekar added. Last Spring, members of the original Bias and Hate Task Force conducted a listening tour, during which students who

Policy changes In its report, the original task force recommended increased sanctions for students who were found responsible for hate and bias incidents. Moneta said that for undergraduate students, that recommendation has been implemented. The process is more complicated for graduate and professional students, Moneta noted. “At the undergraduate level, it’s all set. But, it takes much longer with the graduate schools because conduct is handled school by school and the process of doing anything centrally or uniformly requires all the deans See TASK FORCE on Page 4

Duke demands company stop making Grayson Allen t-shirts Matthew Riley The Chronicle The University recently sent a cease-anddesist letter to Smack Apparel—a clothing company that produces satirical college and professional sports clothing—for creating a t-shirt with the slogan, “Yo Grayson… Why You Trippin?” The letter was sent by Susan Olive, an attorney at the Durham-based intellectual property law firm Olive and Olive, and was posted on TMZ April 1. It states that Grayson Allen does not consent to the use of his name on the t-shirt, and that Smack Apparel has been placed on “express notice” that use of Allen’s image and name for commercial purposes is forbidden. “The double meaning of ‘Yo, Grayson… Why You Trippin?’ is just funny,” Wayne Curtiss, owner of Smack Apparel, told The Chronicle.

He explained that his company focuses on harmless and well-publicized topics for its clothing and that he stays away from controversial situations like the Duke lacrosse scandal and the Penn State football child sex abuse scandal. Curtiss—who first informed TMZ about the situation after receiving the cease-anddesist letter—replied to the letter, saying that the t-shirt’s message was covered under the First Amendment’s right to free speech and that it clearly was not sponsored or endorsed by Allen. He humorously offered to fly to the Durham area and poll 50 college basketball fans, asking them, “Do you believe this shirt is sponsored or endorsed by either Duke University or Grayson Allen?” Curtis offered to provide a 25 percent royalty for all sales if more than five say yes and requested to be reimbursed $2000 for his time and travel expenses if not. Curtiss noted that he has produced similar

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t-shirts in the past—referencing one Smack Apparel produced in April 2015 when Jameis Winston, Florida State University quarterback at the time, stole crab legs from a grocery store. Curtiss said he received a similar letter from FSU, which did not result in any legal action. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, explained that Duke issued the cease-anddesist letter to follow NCAA policy. “This was not a dispute about intellectual property or satire—it is a simple matter of NCAA policy and student-athlete eligibility,” Schoenfeld wrote in an email. “Like other circumstances in the past, the letter sent to Smack Apparel was required by the NCAA, which prohibits the use of any student athlete’s name or likeness to sell commercial products.” Section 12.5.2.2 of the NCAA Division 1 See T-SHIRTS on Page 4

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Trump’s rise due to 2008 Carolina Cup: An annual tradition for Greek students financial crisis, lawyer says Shagun Vashisth The Chronicle This past Saturday, buses of Duke students made a three-hour trek to the midlands of South Carolina for the annual Carolina Cup—a unique mix of horseracing, Southern flair and alcohol-induced shenanigans. According to the Carolina Cup Racing Association, more than 60,000 attendees donned their most vibrant and fancy outfits for the event, which is centered around a series of steeplechase horse races. But the event’s draw is not just limited to the horses. A majority of Duke students who went are involved in Greek life on campus, with their respective organizations coordinating attendance of the Cup as a shared experience that is rooted in tradition. “It was funny how everyone seemed to be wearing Lilly Pulitzer clothes, pearls and floppy hats,” said first-year Ellenor Brown. “There wasn’t an enforced dress code or anything, but the floral prints and authentic

‘Sunday best’ way of dressing is the trademark of the event.” First-year Michael Levin echoed Brown’s thoughts, writing in an email that the general idea was to look as “ridiculously colorful and fancy as possible.” In contrast to the bright colors donned by attendees was the row of white tents where students spent their day. Each fraternity traditionally hosts a tent, which is marked by their respective flags. College students who attend the event are notorious for not actually watching the horse races, Brown explained. She said that the majority of her involvement at the Cup consisted of socializing with her friends and with the brothers of the fraternity that her sorority had paired with for the event. Brown noted that her day included playing corn hole in her tent, conversing with friends and people watching—with loud music and the on-going horse races in the background. “We explored other tents. One had See CAROLINA CUP on Page 4

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Sarah Kerman The Chronicle The 2008 financial crisis might help explain President Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency, but not how many people would expect. Peter Wallison, a lawyer and the Arthur F. Burns fellow in financial policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, argued that the financial crisis can be attributed to government housing policies. At a Duke Law School event Tuesday, Wallison said the explanation conflicted with the prevailing diagnosis that the financial crisis was caused by a failure of government agencies to effectively regulate financial markets. “You have to realize that the diagnosis protected a number of people,” said Wallison, who was also White House counsel for President Ronald Reagan. “No one wanted to investigate the housing policies.” Wallison said he was critical of former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s 2008 policy to bail out Bear Stearns while subsequently allowing the Lehman Brothers to file for bankruptcy. He mentioned that the Lehman Brothers’ failure came as an “incredible shock” to creditors, who did not think very large institutions would be allowed to fail. “All of these people who thought they knew what the world looked like in front of them were wrong, and that’s why we had an enormous crisis at that point,” Wallison said. The dissent of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s report, which Wallison authored, explored the alternate theory that the government’s housing policies caused the financial crisis. He mentioned that the decline of the mortgage-backed securities market can be attributed to harmful policies during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. The government was offering a housing finance standard without adequate standards, he said. And by focusing on the wrong causes, Wallison said the government ended up passing misguided legislation that made

Sarah Kerman | The Chronicle Wallison argued that government housing policies, not a failure to regulate Wall Street, contributed to the 2008 financial crisis.

matters worse. Wallison called Dodd-Frank—the Wall Street regulatory reforms passed after the financial crisis—the “most restrictive legislation on the financial system since the New Deal.” He said the adverse consequences of Dodd-Frank on economic growth— including less credit available to businesses and new regulations stifling risk-taking—can explain Trump’s victory. “The standard diagnosis of what happened in 2016 is that many people in the United States—not on the two coasts—are feeling the pinch of the fact that economic growth is not occurring, that good jobs are not available,” Wallison said. “There’s a lot of malaise and anger, and that could have likely been the reason for the election of Donald Trump, a very unusual candidate, in 2016.” He added that the discussion of Trump’s rise is linked to the false diagnosis of the financial crisis’ roots because it came from stifled economic growth that was a result of a misguided policy response to the crisis. Following the talk, some audience members challenged Wallison’s portrayal See TRUMP on Page 4

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DSG, class council elections draw 49 candidates Kenrick Cai Later this week, undergraduates will cast votes for the newly-restructured Duke Student Government. At noon Thursday, students will be able to choose from among 49 candidates for positions that range from DSG vice presidents and senators to council presidents and class vice presidents. Due to a February amendment, students have to vote for fewer positions after DSG consolidated the number of senate committees from seven to five. One candidate will be elected to each DSG vice president position, while two candidates from each class will be elected to each senate committee. As in previous years, students will vote through an online form which will be linked to them via email. “Hopefully, everything will run smoothly, but as often happens with these things, sometimes something will come up out of the blue and we just have to be ready to deal with whatever may arise,” said Attorney General Sabriyya Pate, a sophomore. The revamped senate structure now consists of five committees—equity and outreach, Durham and regional affairs, services and sustainability, academic affairs and campus life. The campus life committee takes the place of the prior residential life and social culture committees as well as as functions of the prior facilities, environment and arts committee. The new services and sustainability committee replaces the services committee, also taking some of the roles of the prior facilities, environment and arts committee.

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“In terms of how the elections are carried out, it’ll actually make things a little easier,” Pate said. “Going from seven to five means that we have two less committees to run the elections for, which means less chance of error and less contentious races.” Three vice presidential candidates are running unopposed—sophomore Sean Bissell for academic affairs, junior Liz Brown for Durham and regional affairs and junior Elizabeth Barahona for equity and outreach.

Sophomore Monika Dharia is running against sophomore Kristina Smith to be vice president for services and sustainability. The race for vice president of campus life involves three students—sophomore Grant Besner, junior Lizzie Speed and first-year Mycroft Zimmerman. Class council races for rising juniors and seniors are both uncontested. Meanwhile, six first-years are running for sophomore class president, while two others are running for class vice president.

Pate noted that students will not be required to rank all the candidates as they were in the recent DSG presidential election. In March, the DSG Judiciary ruled the previous voting procedures, in which students were required to rank each candidate, unconstitutional. All future DSG elections will proceed via the newlyimplemented rules. Recently, DSG’s voter turnout has decreased, especially for the presidential election. But 29 percent of undergraduates voted in the March presidential election, compared to 36 percent in 2016 and 58 percent in 2014. Last year, fewer students—32 percent—voted in the class council and DSG committee elections than in the presidential race. For the upcoming election, Pate said she expects voter turnout to be similar to that of the recent presidential election. Pate noted that some of this year’s races were “polarizing,” which leads her to believe that turnout will be comparable to that from this year’s presidential election. “It’s very hard to tell the voter turnout because it’s very strongly correlated with the kinds of campaigns that the candidates run,” said Pate, who is also a columnist for The Chronicle. Candidates receive DSG funding for the campaign, but may not use outside funds for advertising in accordance with the DSG Election Rules and Procedures. Class presidents, class vice presidents and senate candidates receive $25, while DSG vice presidents receive $50. “No matter the different experiences you have from coming from various student groups, you do have something to contribute and you don’t have to be an institutional player to get elected,” Pate said.

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a huge buffet with mashed potatoes, corn bread and huge bowls of goldfish, which was much needed in light of the amount of alcohol that was being consumed by people,” she said. “It was a pretty low-key experience for me.” Attendees often begin their day with mimosas on the buses to the event, Brown explained, adding that many students consider alcohol to be central to the experience. She said that alcoholic beverages were served in the majority of tents, and most students were cautious to avoid being caught by the police supervising the location. “I witnessed multiple arrests from a distance at different points in the day just from where I was,” Levin wrote. “Most were for alcohol violations, but some were also due to physical violence.” Levin noted that there was something novel about the collective process of waking up early, traveling a great distance and being at an event with a huge crowd of people. “Overall, it was a fun experience, but it definitely required a lot of energy, time and money that made me question whether or not it was worth it,” he wrote. Both Brown and Levin said they were uncertain as to whether they would attend the event in coming years. “I also got the sense that Duke students were looking forward to this event as a way to immerse themselves in a South Carolina tradition, a part of Southern culture which we don’t typically involve ourselves in deeply on Duke’s campus,” Levin wrote. “With that said, however, compared to Duke—a bubble of great diversity and many different perspectives—I felt the demographic at the Carolina Cup was uncomfortably homogenous.”

Manual states that if a student athlete’s name or image is used to promote a product without his or her knowledge or permission, the studentathlete or institution is required to take steps to stop the activity in order to retain eligibility. If Duke did not send a legal notice, Allen could lose eligibility to play in intercollegiate athletics. “Duke University did exactly what any institution should do under these circumstances, and that is to obey the rules and regulations of the NCAA,” Schoenfeld wrote. Curtiss said that he is not concerned about Duke pursuing the legal matter any further. “Had I known it would get this much coverage, I probably wouldn’t have done it because I don’t want to embarrass anybody,” Curtiss said. “I’m a good person, I’m respectful of people—I just operate that way.”

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of the nation’s stifled economic growth, particularly in reference to the unemployment data he presented. Holt Baker, a J.D. candidate at the Duke Law School, asked whether Wallison’s assessment of the policies that apply to the mortgage securities market had any link to student loans. In response, Wallison linked student lending practices to the risks taken in the mortgage securities market, noting that it has become easier to borrow to finance college costs. Wallison concluded his talk by explaining why investigations that look at the causes of the financial crisis are relevant for future research. Chronicle File Photo “Not only did the diagnosis of the crisis Larry Moneta is a member of the steering produce a law that stifled economic growth in committee for implementing the Bias and this country—it had political consequences— Hate Task Force’s recommendations. but it also created the possibility of yet more crises in the future because it set up exactly from page 1 the kinds of mechanisms that would cause a crisis,” he said. to agree,” he said. All undergraduates are either in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering, but graduate students are more broadly distributed, with affiliations such as School of Law or the Nicholas School for the Environment. “At the graduate level, we’ve been spending the whole semester working with all 10 schools to see if there’s agreement on centralizing all of the response to bias and hate incidents and the same kind of an accelerator clause,” Moneta said. “What I can say to you is that we’ve reached closure.” Moneta said that he has consolidated the group’s ideas for changes to the student conduct policy and has already presented the finalized recommendations to the graduate Sarah Kerman | The Chronicle school deans. In an email Monday, he wrote Peter Wallison was the White House counsel for President Ronald Reagan and is now the that he plans to release the text of the new policies Friday. Arthur F. Burns fellow in financial policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

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What is bad music? It’s a question that I, along with numerous other journalists and bloggers—even college professors—across the U.S. have asked myself on countless occasions. Does bad music even exist if the true purpose of the medium is to entertain? In this case, as long as there is at least one person enjoying what has been created, there is no such thing. That being said, there are some artists out there who are just objectively bad. Never once have I heard someone hail Tyga as a lyrical genius—a musical prodigy forging new frontiers in the characteristically misogynistic and vapid genre that is rap. Even our very own Old Duke headliner, Lil Jon, is simply just not a good artist; it’s hard to argue when some of his most reputable lyrics are “shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots” and “bend over make ya knees touch ya elbows.” Why, then, are these artists some of the most successful in the music industry? Is it because of their inherent musical superiority? Because their lyrics offer thought-provoking insights into the perils of modernday society? Perhaps it’s because the common themes of money, drugs and women in their music relate to the life of the average music listener. Or maybe it’s because these artists, similar to large companies like McDonald’s or Walmart, have found and exploited their positions in the present-day consumerist society. When Lil Jon incessantly shouts “shots” he’s not selling alcohol (to an extent), he’s selling the good times, the carefree feeling that shots can bring. It’s not about how

good the music is, it’s about how good the feeling the music sells is. Do we actually like the unce-unce of club music or the bass drops characteristic of most of today’s top hits, or do we like the feelings we’ve been conditioned to associate them with? If the answer is yes, it offers an explanation as to why we, the general public, like repetitive music, music that our parents will tell us “all sounds the same.” It especially offers an explanation as to why “Closer” sounds so much better after we’ve heard it at frat parties a couple of times. This doesn’t mean that music geared to sell stereotypical

editor’s note consumerist ideals is intrinsically worse than music that does not feign to be anything more than it is. The meshing of music and ideas has, arguably, made music production more efficient and effective in achieving its end goal of entertainment. And if the end goal of music is entertainment, there’s nothing bad to be said about the music listener who enjoys a certain type of music because it makes them happy, even if that happiness is more the result of branding than anything else. While unabashed consumption in almost any other sphere of society has detrimental consequences, such as public health concerns associated

with eating too much junk food or environmental degradation associated with over-development, it’s hard to argue that one individual’s consumption of “bad” music has any tangible effect on society as a whole. My unbridled consumption of Lil Uzi Vert’s new single, other than potentially perpetuating a self-indulgent value system, won’t raise your taxes like my unbridled consumption of Big Macs will. So is bad music actually bad, or is it just yet another advertising success story? It’s an issue that is still up for debate. Regardless, there continues to be an odd sense of superiority associated with the medium, despite the fact that one person’s consumption affects others’ very little. Are the consumers of “bad” music lesser because they have fallen victim to the advertising tactics of the music industry? Or are they the smart ones because they have figured out how to efficiently and effectively be entertained? These are questions that are not only unanswerable, but questions I will not be thinking about as I shamelessly scream “shots” with Lil Jon this Thursday evening. –Georgina Del Vecho

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The Duke Native American Student Alliance (NASA) and the Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMA) will host the annual Powwow on Saturday, April 8th on Abele Quad, West Campus, 12:00N to 5:00pm, to celebrate Native American culture and the achievements of Native students on campus. A powwow is a social gathering held by many different Native American communities. The word is derived from the Narragansett word powwaw, meaning “spiritual leader”. Modern powwows are a unique cultural event held to honor and celebrate Native American traditions through showcases of various types of dancing, singing and drumming. The annual powwow at Duke, ﬁrst held in 2001, is the most notable event organized by NASA. The event was not held for the past few years due to low membership, but with the support of CMA, NASA has been working hard to bring it back this year, coinciding with NASA’s 25th anniversary. This is part of NASA’s ongoing effort to increase the visibility of Native American students on campus, ﬁght outdated notions of Native American culture and create a voice for the underrepresented Native population at Duke. One of NASA’s early leaders, Dr. Kelly Fayard, now Director of Native American Cultural Center at Yale College, commented, “I am really looking forward to attending the powwow this year as I return for my 15th year reunion. As a student, there were only three Native students during my tenure at Duke. I am so happy to see the NASA leadership undertaking such amazingly visible and vibrant community events such as the reunion weekend powwow, so that Native students will have an opportunity to be able to be seen and heard.” Ashley Claw, NASA’s co-president, also expressed what the powwow means to her. “Powwows are very special to me because My Nálís (paternal Grandparents) started taking me to powwows before I could even walk. A powwow is a celebration of all Native American life. It makes us remember where we came from, our homelands, our ancestors, and our resiliency. As a Native woman it means the world to me to be able to have this celebration on our campus.”

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Brickside creates space for experimental music at Duke Nina Wilder The Chronicle By any measure, the Duke Coffeehouse isn’t one of the more popular spots for students on campus. Tucked away in the farther reaches of Duke’s East Campus (it’s located in the back of Crowell), the Coffeehouse has a reputation for “doing things differently,” perhaps a bit more eccentrically. If you’re looking to stop in for a quick latte or find a study space in between classes, you should probably head to Trinity Café or Vondy–the Coffeehouse, which opens at 6 p.m., is all at once a venue for live music, a space for Duke students and Durham residents alike and a spot to intimately experience art. Rarely do Coffeehouse-goers actually drink coffee or stress over work. Last Saturday, the Duke Coffeehouse orchestrated its biggest musical event of the school year in collaboration with Duke’s radio station, WXDU: Brickside Music Festival, a celebration of eclectic music that originated in 2012. In line with the Coffeehouse’s endearingly unconventional atmosphere and patrons, Brickside featured a line-up of artists that was experimental and wide-ranging. “It’s a really weird, kind of congruous line-up that makes us hope people will come for one act and be curious enough to stay around for the rest,” admitted sophomore Evan Morgan, an employee at the Duke Coffeehouse.

Special to The Chronicle Brickside Music Festival, a celebration of eclectic music that first took place in 2012, was hosted last weekend at the Duke Coffeehouse.

Indeed, weird might be the most apt way to describe the eight artists who played at Brickside, which lasted from roughly 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. There were black metal bands, such as Paint Fumes, MAKE and Aevangelist; electronic artists like Via App, Just The Right Height and Shlohmo; rapper Open Mike Eagle; and guitarist Sarah Louise, who describes her music as “nature-inspired guitar composition” on her Facebook page.

“We tried to be very open-minded with what type of audience we were trying to cater to. We wanted to leave everyone with a little bit of something and also expose them to new things,” said junior Jason Calixto, who works as the booking manager at the Duke Coffeehouse. The diverse and avant-garde mix of musicians might seem disjointed on its surface, but all of the performances were united under the fact that they

pushed the envelope of whatever musical genre they found themselves in. Nowhere in Brickside’s line-up were artists that would be considered mainstream by any merit, and perhaps that’s one of the enduring charms of the music festival. You can find popular artists such as Lil Jon, Daya and Tory Lanez easily on the radio or on Spotify, but Brickside aims to See BRICKSIDE on Page 10

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A look back at the 2004 novel ‘The News from Paraguay’ Maria Carnovale The Chronicle He is rich and ambitious, the successor to a South American dictatorship. She is a young divorcee in the high society of 19th-century Paris: beautiful, sophisticated and penniless. It is only a matter of time before Franco’s courtship, generosity and financial stability reaches fertile soil: Ella follows him to Paraguay. Lily Tuck, best known for her book “Siam,” collects their little-known story in “The News from Paraguay.” After the straining trip from Paris to Asunción, Franco and Ella set up in the capital. While he climbs into his father seat and starts ruling the country, Ella uses her charm to get accepted as Franco’s courtesan. Their rein is short-lived, though: The war that hits Paraguay in 1864 will wrack the country and their lives. Paraguay takes life with Tuck’s rich and vivid descriptions. Luxuriant, sensual and dangerous, it’s the archetypal exotic setting for a tale, a trip through bursting jungles, malarial swamps, crocodile infested rivers and cities that grow under the supervision of foreign architects and then fold during the War of the Triple Alliance. History provides the blueprint of “The News from Paraguay,” but Tuck blurs the boundaries between truth and imagination. Francisco Solano Lopez was, in fact, the dictator of Paraguay in 1862, and his imperialistic vision dragged the country into a hopeless war with its neighbors. Ella Lynch was his Irish mistress, charming,

elegant and influential in his partner’s political affairs. However, Tuck avoids any political theme. Historical occurrences are decontextualized and merely fall upon the protagonists. Our anti-heroes navigate through a sea of events surrendering the ability—or the illusion—to stir the boat, a rather unusual depiction of countries’ leaders. As in traditional tales, the characters are one-dimensional and unrealistic: Franco’s sisters are fat versions of Cinderella’s stepsisters, picking on Ella out of jealousy and indifferent to the country’s political dynamics. Franco, manly and selfish, never shows the charisma to lead a nation into a suicidal war. Even Ella, the heroine, is feminine, cultured, spoiled and ultimately unconcerned with her children, the political affairs, the death and misery of her acquaintances or the atrocity of the war. The circumstances do not enrich her, nor do they shape her thoughts. Most importantly, she never becomes crucial to the plot, like any of the characters in the book. The story would have unfolded with or without their participation. Yet each has his or her mini-saga brought to fulfillment. From the ruling family’s members and servants to U.S. ministers and farmers turned soldiers, no character is minute enough to be left behind. However, none of them is grand enough to be crucial to the plot. Nobody is necessary, but nobody is unimportant either. Unlike traditional tales, though, this story does not have a happy ending. Paraguay is devastated, its population decimated, its high society tortured and eradicated. Tuck’s agile prose dances through the war

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with a cold and unempathetic eye. Distant and unemotional, she flows through torture and rape, famine and epidemics and all manner of hopelessness with a vexing aura of normality and inevitability. Frustrated, the reader searches for a lesson—what could have changed that?—to find none. You close your book and are left with the unfamiliar frustration of not taking anything with you, like it was all a waste of time. It is a tale without a moral. “The News from Paraguay” was both obscure to the public and

controversial in the industry. It won the prestigious National Book Award in 2004, but it was largely unpopular among book lovers and reviewers. Readers loathe Tuck’s narrative as much as they reject the dispassionate eye that history lays on them. They refuse the idea of having no power to shape the world. We naturally turn against our insignificance. But maybe we need something unsatisfying that frustrates us. Something that makes our hearts rebel. Something that reawakens the need to leave our marks and shape our future.

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SXSW 2017: Norway’s Sigrid is a superstar in the making Drew Haskins The Chronicle South by Southwest is full of label showcases, typically devised for a label’s up-and-coming artists to get a platform for good press. You don’t really see superstars at this level; indeed, artists like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry eschew SXSW altogether. In a way, it’s a canny facsimile of SXSW’s increasingly irrelevant “indie” ethos. These showcases are designed to show off the relative unknowns, the young upstarts whose careers either skyrocket from here or fizzle out into obscurity. It’s easy to expect far more of the latter than the former. Austin is riddled with obscure bands playing cheap bar shows, desperately trying to regain a shot at their former glory. This isn’t really a playground for superstars, and the whole week can feel like one big version of “American Idol.” Imagine my surprise at finding a legitimate superstar in the making during the one festival where such a thing is almost unheard of. Her name is Sigrid. She is a 21-year-old singer from Bergen, Norway, and she is a certifiable pop phenomenon. If you go on her Spotify, you might be confused. “She only has one song! How is she a superstar if she only has one release?” That one song, “Don’t Kill My Vibe,” is perfect. It is so perfect, in fact, that it just might be my pick for best song of 2017 thus far. That may seem like a reach this early in the year, but

consider that this winter and spring have brought us gems like Drake and Jorja Smith’s “Get It Together,” Charli XCX’s “ILY2” and everything Kendrick Lamar has done so far. This is serious and not at all hyperbolic praise. “Don’t Kill My Vibe” is pop balladry done right, a synth-driven call of empowerment raging against the people in your life who want to break you down and generally hate on your state of affairs. Lyrically, it’s well-worn territory, but it’s the performance and the details that separate it from the rest of the pack. Sigrid’s voice is stunning, gritty but not too raspy with a beautiful falsetto. Like Lana Del Rey, you’re not quite sure how the same person is singing in such disparate voices, but you’re amazed by the sheer technical versatility. The song’s production pops and crackles, especially the vocal mixing. There’s an absolutely sublime moment right before the second chorus where Sigrid transitions out of a softly delivered verse into a punchy, raw shout—“I TRIED TO PLAY IT NICE”— that gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. Sigrid doesn’t just have one perfect song. She has eight. At the Universal Music Group Showcase at Antone’s Nightclub (Sigrid is signed to Island Records), she performed all of them. As a festival, SXSW thrives on tight, thirtyminute sets. It’s great for audience members, as we can fit in an absurd amount of shows in a short amount of time. I can’t imagine how pressurefilled it must be for artists; how can they maximize the impact of their

performance in such a short time? The Sigrid show, however, was professional and seasoned, a show-stopping demonstration of a phenomenal talent. Sigrid performed all eight tracks back-to-back with a little stage banter thrown around as her band adjusted between songs. As unreleased songs, I couldn’t find the names of any song that wasn’t “Don’t Kill My Vibe,” but her debut EP is reportedly due for a release later in the spring. I can’t wait for it to come; each new song was a master-class in Scandinavian pop. Sigrid excels at every major pop musical convention. Her ballads are properly serious and showcase dramatic vocals, her midtempo bops glide and bounce, and her new-wave rockers manage to sound like nothing else in a sea of ‘80s-inspired

Spotify playlist filler. Through all of these styles, Sigrid conveyed a particular charisma, that “it factor” that every major pop star has. You could tell in her dancing, her diction, the little smirks she’d give the crowd. It is legitimately amazing that SXSW was her first major festival. She seemed as if she’d been performing for huge crowds for years. It’s been at least forty years since ABBA, the last bona fide, Scandinavian pop sensation to have a long career in the States, broke onto the scene. Sigrid seems primed to do what Tove Lo, September and countless others haven’t managed to do—conquer America. “Don’t Kill My Vibe,” the rest of her stellar unreleased catalogue and her innate charisma should make her a household name by the end of the year.

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With much-hyped releases from Kendrick Lamar, Gorillaz and Father John Misty on the horizon, the next month promises to be a big one for music. But as we wait with bated breath for whatever Kendrick has in store for us April 7, let’s take a look back at some of the records released in the last month that we at Recess haven’t gotten a chance to review. Drake, “More Life” Is it an album? A mixtape? A playlist? Or, as Wikipedia elegantly puts it, a “musical project”? We may never know what Drake expects us to make of his latest release, but it nevertheless garnered as much hype as any of his “official” outputs. “More Life” largely continues the vein of dancehallinflected pop that has marked the rapper’s recent releases, inviting a host of guests to share the spotlight, including Sampha, Skepta, Kanye West and Young Thug. If anything, the lack of a weighty label for this project makes its overlong sprawl more enjoyable. Here, the stakes are low (unlike last year’s universally-panned “Views”) and the result is an engaging collection of cuts that prove Drake hasn’t lost his knack for curation just yet. The Magnetic Fields, “50 Song Memoir” Two weeks ago, Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields played their new record “50 Song Memoir” for an audience of about a thousand thirty-something-year-old Durhamite couples and me. From my nosebleed seats, I watched Merritt chronicle every year of his life over the course of the two-night spectacle. While it continues the series of gimmick-based albums Merritt has produced since 1999’s classic “69 Love Songs,” “50 Song Memoir” manages not to veer into the self-indulgence suggested by its title. Rather, Merritt takes a more impressionistic angle on each year, isolating anecdotes, historical context and universal messages that sometimes only loosely relate to his

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Drake’s “musical project” “More Life” is enjoyable, featuring a host of guests to share the spotlight.

personal experiences. This strategy produces some relatable moments— and catchy to boot—but it leaves us wondering about the man beneath the brown flat cap. Despite being perhaps Merritt’s most ambitious concept to date, “50 Song Memoir” ultimately produces more questions than answers. Behind the dad jokes, the curmudgeonly facade and the precious arrangements, just who is Stephin Merritt? Mount Eerie, “A Crow Looked at Me” In the first line of his latest album as Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum calmly sings, “Death is real / Someone’s there and then they’re not / And it’s not for singing about / It’s not for making art.” Elverum, whose past projects include the Microphones, lost his wife to cancer in July 2016. If the precise

dates scattered throughout the lyrics of “A Crow Looked at Me” are to be believed, Elverum began writing this material just eleven days after her death. In announcing the record, the songwriter said it was a “reminder of the love and infinity beneath all of this obliteration.” Each track is his attempt to mine the devastation for that reminder, delivered with a frankness of expression that renders every concrete image and half-formed thought all the more devastating, from driving back and forth between hospital visits to throwing away old clothes. Spare, organic arrangements— recorded in his wife’s room, on her old instruments—fill the space around Elverum’s voice, punctuated by creeping distortion and static in songs like “My Chasm.” The hint of hope

that grounds “A Crow Looked at Me” is Elverum’s young daughter, to whom he addresses the final song “Crow”: “It was all silent except the sound of one crow / Following us as we wove through the cedar grove / I walked and you bobbed and dozed.” Amid the despair, the scene depicts a brief moment of transcendence, bringing to a close one of the most emotionally wrenching albums of this year. Pile, “A Hairshirt of Purpose” The A.V. Club’s recent profile of Pile describes the Boston act as what would happen “if Waylon Jennings stumbled into a Jesus Lizard show, grabbed the mic out of David Yow’s hands, then went on to finish the set.” It’s not an inaccurate depiction of the band’s sound on their fourth album, “A Hairshirt of Purpose,” which finds frontman Rick Maguire’s slightly twangy croon driving a brand of rock that contracts and releases between noisy post-punk and haunting country. The album is a climactic affair that never loses momentum over its 13 tracks, managing to push the boundaries of what rock can sound like while maintaining its visceral core. Vagabon, “Infinite Worlds” With the release of her debut studio album as Vagabon, Laetitia Tamko has established herself as an up-andcoming star in the indie world. By all accounts, she seems to have merely stumbled upon this status—she didn’t seriously pursue music until after college, when she picked up a guitar once again (having put it down in favor of a “real job”) and got a break in Brooklyn’s DIY music community. As a black woman in a largely white scene, she actively pushes against its norms, hoping to break down the barriers for other people like her: “Black girls need to listen to me. Black girls need to see me. There aren’t enough of us, and in order for me to reach them, I need to spread wide,” she said in an interview with Stereogum last year. “Infinite Worlds” is a bold debut, expansive even in its 28 short minutes. Buoying it all is Tamko’s voice, a powerful tenor whose range of expression well exceeds most singers in her particular field of quirky indie pop.

Pollination playlist: Tunes to get you over the allergy blues Recess Staff The Chronicle Coughing and sneezing got you down? Run out of Claritin? Unable to drag yourself out of bed? Recess has got you covered. Put off starting that final paper a little longer and listen to our fire, 100% hypo-allergenic Pollination Playlist. “Let’s Fall in Love”–Nancy Sinatra Birds can do it, bees can do it... Nothing says rebirth like spring and the possibilities of new love interests. “April Skies”–The Jesus and Mary Chain Okay, maybe you’re not looking for new love interests because your boo just dumped you and you’re still sad. Mope around to this song. “Dance for You”–Dirty Projectors Sprightly guitar lines, perfect for frolics in the sunshine and ignoring the fact that you still don’t have plans for the summer.

“Under Pressure”–Queen Unfortunately, springtime means finals are finally upon us–and we’re all under pressure. “Seasons (Waiting On You)”–Future Islands We’ve been waiting on you, spring! Deliver us to LDOC, finals, beach week and the grace of summer before we collapse from stress. “Take a Walk”–Passion Pit Emerge from the dark cave that is your dorm or the abyss that is Perkins and take a walk around campus. Just avoid the pollen! “Who’ll Stop the Rain”–Creedence Clearwater Revival April showers bring May flowers? Listen to this tune as you avoid the downpour. “Passionfruit”–Drake It’s a lighthearted blast to give you the final shove you need toward summer.

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expose you to musicians you probably wouldn’t listen to on a regular basis. “Having such a large event puts Duke students in the Coffeehouse and lets them encounter things they’ve never heard before,” Morgan noted. “None of these acts would find a space at any other Dukesponsored event. There’s not a lot of musical diversity among the artists that are booked for LDOC or Campus Concerts, so that sets Brickside apart as something really special.” Sophomore Lexi Bateman, who was in attendance at Brickside, also noted that the music festival benefitted from its relationship with the Coffeehouse. “An advantage of Brickside being put on by the Coffeehouse is that they get to use the Coffeehouse’s space, which is really cool,” Bateman said. “It’s a really inviting environment and the sound is amazing– better than it is at a lot of local music venues. I also think that the Coffeehouse has better music hookups because of its crossover with WXDU.” Brickside also provided an opportunity for Duke students to engage with the Coffeehouse as both a social spot and a music venue, a bit more accessible than the majority of the shows put on by the venue. Most students filtered in and out of the Coffeehouse throughout the day or stopped by at the end of the night for the headliners–but there was always a consistent Duke presence, a testament to the approachability and draw of the music festival. “Many Coffeehouse shows normally don’t end up drawing that big of a Duke crowd–there’s always more community members–but at Brickside, there are more Duke students who tend to come through,” Morgan noted. “The community involvement is absolutely wonderful and do want to make it more of an open community event, but at the same time we don’t want to forget the fact that we are a student-based organization and we are catering to the student body,” Calixto said. In all, Brickside was an incredibly fun music festival, with plenty of food, good tunes and art to satisfy even the most casual of music-listeners. While some Duke students might’ve not enjoyed all of the acts or found them to be a bit esoteric, it was still an exciting opportunity to engage with music and artists that’s certainly unmatched anywhere else on Duke’s campus. “[The Coffeehouse is] a Duke institution, we’re here for the students before anything,” Calixto surmised. “It really just gets down to trying to expose students to different kinds of music.”

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Matt Danowski’s 2007 Tewaaraton Award elevated the Blue Devil program Sid Bhaskara The Chronicle When Duke beat Jacksonville in March, Blue Devil head coach John Danowski made history with his NCAA Division I record 376th career win. Standing next to him on the sideline for the seminal victory was his son—assistant coach and former Blue Devil great Matt Danowski. In 2007, Matt Danowski won the Tewaaraton Award, awarded annually to the Division I Player of the Year. Now, 10 years later, he mentors a lethal attack unit for a vastly different program than the one he graduated from nearly a decade ago. “That award, just like any individual award, was really a team award,” Danowski said. “I played with some really great players. Zack Greer is the obvious one.... Without him, I obviously don’t have that. Without Casey Caroll, Tony McDevitt, Mike Ward, Nick O’Hara, Dan Loftus and our defense, it wouldn’t have happened either. I think it was more of a testament to how good a team we were. I happened to be on the end of the rainbow a bunch of times.” The 2007 season marked a transition period for Duke as a program. Although the team had been among the top teams in the nation for several years, it seemed locked into its perennial bridesmaid status. It was Danowski’s 2007 Tewaaraton win—the program’s first—that helped Duke quickly move past the recentlyresolved lacrosse case and catalyzed its rapid ascension to becoming the nation’s premier program. Having already earned ACC Rookie of the Year honors in 2004 and first-team All-American status in 2005, Danowski did not emerge from obscurity to capture the trophy. But when his father took the job following Mike Pressler’s dismissal in 2006, Danowski took on an even greater

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stellar pitching from the hosts en route to a 2-1 defeat at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. In front of a crowd of more than 4,000, Bulls hurlers Ryan Yarbrough and Jeff Ames set down 17 straight Blue Devils between the third and eighth innings before a Chase Cheek single in the penultimate frame ended the streak. Although the outcome was a familiar one for a team that has been unable to find similar success to last season, Duke head coach Chris Pollard and his team acknowledged the unique challenges of facing a professional team. “The most impressive thing for me was the way we swung the bats, considering we don’t

Before the officials hijacked what was expected to be a riveting showdown between North Carolina and Gonzaga, one of the most eye-popping similarities between the teams was their size. Many expected the Bulldog duo of Przemek Karnowski and Zach Collins to roam the floor and make the Tar Heels’ Isaiah Hicks and Kennedy Meeks look small. Yes, I did say Kennedy Meeks— all 260 pounds of him—and small in the same sentence. But what made the title game so fascinating leading up to the contest and during the matchup was the diverse skillset among the big men. For all the jokes about Meeks’ weight, the senior’s ability to fight on the glass is as good as anyone’s and without Meeks’ 25-point, 14-rebound performance against Oregon in the Final Four, North Carolina may not have made it to Monday. The Charlotte native then turned in a pedestrian box score performance against Gonzaga but made arguably the game’s biggest play when he blocked the Bulldogs’ Nigel Williams-Goss late. On the other side of the court, Karnowski’s girth and mountain-man beard took some of the attention away from his knack for making smart passes from the high post and out of double teams. For a casual sports fan who watched only Monday’s contest, reading 1,000 words about a Polish man who routinely missed shots at the hoop seems insane. But I assure you, the play we saw from the 7-foot-1 center against the Tar Heels was far from the norm. As Karnowski’s understudy, Collins may not have been a household name before the Big Dance, and foul trouble—code word for questionable officiating—limited the Las Vegas native’s impact in the title game. But the freshman rose up draft boards in March after showing a high level of mobility for a 7-footer and bringing physicality and toughness to both ends of the floor. With the NBA entrenched in the floor-spacing, small-ball revolution and college basketball becoming more and more perimeter-oriented, the build-up to Monday night served as a reminder that the perception of a decline in the value of post players may be a bit overblown. Yes, you need a standout ball handler to make a run into April, and yes, the 3-pointer is still the sport’s most valuable shot. But although the back-to-the-basket game that made the likes of Shaquille

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leadership role, and his ensuing 96 points— which led the nation in 2007—made the award all but assured. The Blue Devils fell in the national championship by one goal to Johns Hopkins, just as they did in 2005, but the influence of the program’s first major hardware would manifest in a string of titles in the not-so-distant future. “I didn’t do anything,” John Danowski said. “When I came here, his [junior] year, he was already a two-time first-team All American, he was already two-time ACC Player of the Year, so it wasn’t anything that I was responsible for.... This was his team, this was his school. I was kind of like an interloper. I didn’t unlock anything.” Matt Danowski finished his Duke career in 2008 as the NCAA’s all-time leader in total points, but found his championship hopes dashed with a third consecutive loss to Johns Hopkins in the Final Four. Danowski’s No. 40 was retired before he started his professional career. Despite losing their most dynamic player, the Blue

Devils maintained their success without him, going on to reach the Final Four again in 2009 before falling to Syracuse. The following year was the first that Danowski’s Tewaaraton win translated to the sport’s ultimate prize. The team finally came out on top for the first time in a close national championship game with a dramatic 6-5 overtime win against Notre Dame. Ned Crotty, who played alongside Danowski for two seasons, captured Duke’s second Tewaaraton Award that season. Danowski then joined his father on the sidelines in 2012, and the effect on the Duke attack was seemingly instantaneous. After promising sophomore years, the 2013 attack unit for the Blue Devils proved deadly for opponents. Jordan Wolf, Josh Dionne and Christian Walsh lit up opponents en route to beating Syracuse in the national championship, and that same group, with added depth in Case See M. LACROSSE on Page 12

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With one of the ACC’s worst pitching staffs slated to face a lineup featuring three of the top 100 professional prospects in all of baseball, the Blue Devils’ midseason exhibition contest had all the makings of a potential thrashing. Yet, Duke put up a solid fight against its Triple-A opponent DUKE 1 Tuesday night before BULLS 2 coming up just short. The Blue Devils’ five pitchers limited the Durham Bulls to just two combined runs on six hits, but Duke struggled to find an offensive rhythm against

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BASEBALL from page 11 get a lot of practice during the year in a live-game setting,” Pollard said. “[The players] realized we were getting kind of manhandled a little bit by some pro guys who are really good at what they do. But to their credit, they kept riding it and had some really good at-bats there at the end.” The Blue Devils sent freshman Graeme Stinson to the hill, and the first-year southpaw showed no fear from the outset. He struck out a pair of Bulls in the bottom of the first inning, including shortstop Willy Adames—baseball’s No. 10 prospect according to Baseball America—and surrendered just one run in four innings of work. Duke’s wins leader through 31 games, Stinson has had his share of ups and downs through his first two months of college baseball. The Norcross, Ga., native has tallied 34 strikeouts to just eight walks, but his 6.52 ERA is the highest of any Blue Devil with at least four starts. “I’ve learned my lesson the last couple of weeks in not giving

hitters too much credit,” Stinson said. “They’re going to get themselves out more than seven out of 10 times—you’ve just got to trust your stuff and not let that get in your head.” Duke opened the scoring in the second inning when junior Jack Labosky led off the inning with a double that landed at the base of the right-field wall. After left fielder Michael Smiciklas flied out to left, second baseman Max Miller slapped an RBI single into right field, giving his team the early 1-0 advantage. As the Blue Devils’ bats went silent following a Peter Zyla single to start off the third inning, though, the Bulls finally got to Stinson to knot the game at one apiece. Adames belted a leadoff double of his own to start the bottom of the fourth inning and the following batter, left fielder Jake Bauers, brought him across on an RBI single up the middle. The Bulls added another run in the next inning with a triple from center fielder Johnny Field that sailed over the head of Duke center fielder Jimmy Herron. A single down the left-field line then scored Field, putting the Bulls up 2-1 and giving the home side a lead it would not relinquish.

The highlight of the night came during the top of the ninth, however, when Durham native Aaron Therien stepped to the plate for only his second career plate appearance. The walk-on catcher poked a double all the way down the left-field line into the corner, giving Duke some late life as it looked to tie the game in the final frame. Therien was waved around third on a single by sophomore Kennie Taylor two batters later—but even with a slick slide, he was unable to avoid the tag of Bulls catcher Mike Marjama for what would have been a game-tying run. “I told him several times when he entered into this journey that there were no guarantees and we likely didn’t have a spot for him,” Pollard said. “We [as a staff] had said we were going to get him one at-bat, regardless of what happens tonight. He deserves it, he’s earned it, and then for him to go get a double like that is icing on the cake.” The Blue Devils will return to ACC play this weekend as they head to Coral Gables, Fla., for a three-game set against Miami.

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Matheis and Kyle Keenan, took down Notre Dame again to complete a title defense in 2014. Now, Danowski—a five-time Major League Lacrosse All-Star who still plays professionally in the summer— presides over two Tewaaraton watch list players of his own. Through 11 games this year, Justin Guterding and Jack Bruckner have emerged as two of the best attackmen in the country with a combined 97 points. As a junior, Guterding in particular seems poised to surpass Danowski’s scoring records, as he became the fastest Duke player to 100 points last season. “I remember growing up watching Matt,” Guterding said. “He was my role model for God knows how long. I just remember watching him play and get to the Final Four. [Being coached by him] is incredible. He’s one of the best of all time.… It’s an honor playing for him.” For all that has changed for men’s lacrosse in Durham, the sport has also changed outside the confines of Koskinen Stadium. With more and more youth players adopting the sport and the number of Division I programs increasing in the last decade, parity and contentious recruiting battles for young high schoolers have become commonplace. This has caused a rude awakening for the Blue Devils in the postseason, as they followed a string of eight straight Final Four appearances with a pair of first-round exits from the NCAA tournament. It is simply harder to win in 2017 than it was in 2014 or even 2007. “I think there’s a lot more kids playing,” Danowski said. “It’s still a niche sport but there’s more kids playing than there ever have been, which is a good thing. The early recruiting has probably played into the parity a little bit.... There’s kids who are developing later and kids that [used to say], ‘Maybe I’ll play D-III football,’ are choosing to play D-I lacrosse.” A great deal has changed in the decade since Danowski helped shift the Blue Devils’ trajectory with his award, but Duke could still develop into a title contender with an 8-3 record this season and has played a number of freshmen from its top-ranked recruiting class from last summer. “It certainly helps, being on good teams, playing on ESPN,” Danowski said. “More kids see it and they think of more than just basketball when they think of Duke in terms of looking at schools for lacrosse.”

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post players are still crucial in today’s perimeter-oriented game. In many ways, the Blue Devils have seen what the consequences of not having enough quality bigs can be in the biggest moments. A year ago, Duke was almost entirely dependent on center Marshall Plumlee to carry them down low, as Chase Jeter struggled to make the adjustment to the college game. Despite coming into this season with more options on paper, the Blue Devils fell victim to the same problem once again as the team ran out of answers after graduate student Amile Jefferson. Although no two seasons are alike and other factors contributed to both disappointing finishes, the perimeteroriented Duke teams were eerily similar in their frailty down low. Yet, it’s hard to say these struggles for the Blue Devil bigs were surprising. Outside of Kentucky’s NBA factory, post players take longer to develop than their smaller counterparts. Karnowski averaged a measly 5.4 points per game as a freshman, and Meeks struggled with criticism from his own head coach. Collins may be an exception, but even he had stretches this season when he was held in check by opponents and did not always play heavy minutes because of his team’s frontcourt depth. At the end of the day, college basketball has shown that doing due diligence to either develop or recruit multiple big men with skillsets that complement the players around them can pay major dividends. As North Carolina celebrates its sixth national championship in program history, the Tar Heels made a statement about the lasting importance of the biggest players on the court.

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Brodhead and beyond

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n Sunday, the Editorial Board interviewed President Brodhead; for the past two days, we have reflected on his history at Duke, mulling over the roses and thorns of his legacy. Today we shift gears and use the interview to look forward on the university-time continuum to when Brodhead steps down and his successor, current University of Pennsylvania Provost Vincent Price, takes over. In our first question to Brodhead about Price, we asked if he had a plan he wanted to lay out for Price. His answer was resolute. “If I [started with] a plan on day one, I would’ve wanted people to run in terror. He [Price] will need to figure out what the university will be called to do in the future [for himself] and how to plan for that now.” We, of course, concur with that sentiment. Price will need to come into the presidency on his own and, in Brodhead’s words, find the “pulses” on campus he must take to enable himself to make good decisions. An example of such a campus pulse is that of middle class students on campus struggling to keep up with constantly rising tuition. When we asked Brodhead about that specific pulse, he noted three things: that real cost of attending

Duke had declined for students on financial aid over time for several years, that we were likely in a temporary era of rising tuition/rising financial aid which might eventually come to an end and that stabilizing or reducing tuition could hurt students by preventing the maintenance of certain institutions. Such was the pulse he took and such was the measurement the university operated on. Whether the measurement was proper or not is up for debate. The point still stands though that the measures taken by the president on behalf of the

Editorial administration have significant impacts. Along those lines, if we were to channel Brodhead’s words and combine them with our own, we would advise our incoming president to establish proper roots in the ground at Duke, learn to take proper pulses on campus and to come to truly know the university before seeking to change it. While Duke certainly has problems worth fixing, its institutional problems, just like those at the University of Pennsylvania, are formed by unique local conditions and are riddled with complexities. Without exploring the facets of those conditions and becoming intimate with the history that has constructed them,

it is nearly impossible to fix those problems and effectively move the university forward. Only after developing roots can Price, like the Duke presidents before him, set out on a personal mission to improve the university with his own mark. Taking a step back from the future and returning to the here and now, we look back on Brodhead’s presidency and personal mission with mixed but overall positive feelings. To be sure, it has had its stumbles—the 2007 handling of the lacrosse case and recent lukewarm handling of racial problems on campus chief among them— but it has also been a period of growth and evolution for the university. Under Brodhead, we have become a truly global university with pointed academic outreaches like DukeEngage and DKU that benefit not only Duke, but the broader world; we have tapped into the innate engaged nature of many Duke students through programs like Bass Connections; and, despite rising tuition, we have made an enormous drive to keep Duke University affordable through aid. In the next era of Duke, we hope to steepen our ascent and overcome our troubles while carrying forward the positives of the Brodhead years.

Not all fraternity brothers

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ot all men are like that. This is a common protest that faces people who try to speak about gender violence issues. The messages many try to share about sexual assault often are brushed aside because it is an uncomfortable topic. “Not all men” was a common deflection used to avoid these conversations, but in 2014 it became an Internet meme and hashtag used to mock the very people eluding this dialogue. It generally is understood that not all men are rapists. However, this conception cannot stop further discussion about sexual assault from occurring. Just as “not all men” has been used as a diversion, discussions about fraternities as breeding grounds for sexual assault also are being evaded. Again, of course, not all fraternity brothers are rapists. But the reason that fraternities often are discussed in issues surrounding rape culture and sexual assault is that fraternities foster behaviors that are recognized as risk factors for sexual assault. The Duke University Student Experiences Survey states that Greek houses, along with bars, were the most reported locations of off-campus sexual assaults. So what is it about Greek life that poses risk factors for

I still believe this to be true. As a woman, I should not have to let fear dictate my actions. Yet I live in a world that demands it. I live in a world where my female-led organization enforces rules that lead me straight into a male-dominated, vulnerable environment. And I do it for fun. Victim-blaming exists at Duke in many forms. “I know I’ll never get raped because I don’t get really drunk and I don’t sleep around,” a fellow female Duke student told my friend. “It’s only girls that have sex with anyone who get themselves into a position to be raped.” This victim-blaming is internalized; it shows that some women have been taught that only girls who “sleep around” get raped. This is damaging not only for other women to hear, but also for the girl who believes it. Drinking and sleeping around do not cause rape; rapists cause rape. Duke has tried to become accountable for this. Duke requires all students accepting bids from sororities or fraternities to take Greek-specific alcohol, hazing, and sexual assault courses online. These are similar to the ones required of all incoming students, AlcoholEdu and Haven. Along with this, the university has begun to increase its

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sexual assault? The most obvious answer usually is alcohol. The National Panhellenic Conference restricts the ability of sororities to host events with alcohol. This means that the majority of parties are hosted by fraternities, who supply alcohol to both Greek and non-Greek students in attendance. During the 2015-2016 school year, both victims and perpetrators of sexual assault reported a high level of alcohol and drug use. Because fraternities are tasked with hosting parties, these parties are entirely male-controlled. The fraternity brothers control transportation, music, themes, and access to alcohol. Thus, the National Panhellenic Conference’s restriction not only stops sororities from hosting parties, but also forces the parties that sorority women attend to be controlled by males, rather than controlled by the entirely capable female sorority members. The power dynamic created at parties sets up fraternities brothers to have power over the usually intoxicated partygoers. This power creates vulnerability; the women are not in control and consequently can be more easily exploited. This power dynamic is often turned into victimblaming: “Well, it’s her fault she got raped—she was so drunk! And did you see what she wore to the party?” But in our world, where women do not exist to serve men, this victim-blaming is ludicrous. The age-old feminist argument is that women should be able to do whatever they want without being worried about rape.

education about sexual assault by holding PACT training for new member classes in fraternities. This is meant to prevent sexual assaults from occurring, encourage bystander intervention and allow non-survivors to understand the severity of the impact of sexual assault. However, the discussion of rape culture within fraternities often evokes defense. The discussions sometimes are perceived as blaming Greek life. This is demonstrated in a tweet that recently went viral for its crack on Donald Trump: “Most rapists coming from Mexico are just frat boys returning from spring break.” Depending on who reads this tweet, it could incite laughter or outrage. Regardless, it got 294,567 likes on Twitter. Some people responded with the same outrage felt by those who say “not all men.” Not all frat boys returning from spring break in Mexico are rapists. Yes, this is true. But to ignore the message—and the 294,567 who liked this message—is to ignore the problem of sexual assault within Greek life. I believe an overhaul of the entire Greek system would most effectively change the rape culture of fraternities; however, it is important that—for now—changes are made within the system itself. Delaney Dryfoos is a Trinity sophomore. Her column, “let’s talk sex” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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enn State University has released new restrictions on its Greek life in light of an ongoing criminal investigation of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. A pledge recently suffered a fatal accident in the fraternity house and a new research study also shed light on disturbing statistics about the frat scene’s alcohol abuse, drug abuse and hazing patterns. As is the case with most state universities, Penn State fraternities have private houses off campus so mandating laws is not an easy task for Penn’s administration. Damon Sims, Vice President for Student Affairs, addressed this in the following statement: “Our ability to influence outcomes among these young adults is profoundly limited…However, we no longer believe that vesting so much responsibility in the self-governance of these groups will produce positive outcomes. Today, Penn

This is the empty promise of Greek life. It institutionalizes social strata, provides titles and validates stereotypes. It supposedly turns this artificial society into a “come one, come all” fair playing field, where anybody is welcome to join as long as he or she is liked and feels comfortable in the group. This is a flawed vision. When taken seriously and manipulated so loosely, Greek life can be an agent of social hierarchy, a scapegoat for horrendously cruel acts and a playground for alcohol abuse, drug abuse, peer pressure and sexual misconduct. Perhaps this is what bothers me most: that fraternity men and sorority women still have to sit through their chapter meetings and initiation rituals; they oftentimes read verses out of the Bible, pretending like their reality of drinking, partying and hazing does not exist. And then a pledge died at Penn State and its administration finally had

Rethinking health care

ongressional Republicans failed to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA) last month, which amounted to the first major defeat of the Trump Administration. While the AHCA would have replaced the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), it still maintained key provisions of Obama’s signature health care policy reform, thus failing to gain the necessary support of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. When the Affordable Care Act (ACC) was adopted in 2010, it amounted to the biggest overhaul of the US Healthcare system since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The ACC created health insurance marketplaces, which provide a set of government-regulated and standardized health care plans from which individuals may purchase health insurance policies eligible for federal subsidies. Those subsidies, covering insurance premiums and outof-pocket costs, depend on an individual’s income as a percentage of the federal poverty level.

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State is drawing a line and imposing critical changes. Enough is enough.” Not only has Beta Theta Pi been permanently banned at Penn, but rush for all organizations has also been postponed from the fall to spring semesters. New social restrictions on underage drinking were put in place, parties during the day are now banned and a new “monitoring protocol” has been installed to more strictly enforce these new rules. Greek life seems to be one of those American things that nobody understands or knows the purpose of, but—like great forces of nature—is an unavoidable, destructive force at many colleges around the country. For example, hazing is utterly cruel, pointless and horrifying, yet it is a phenomena that is perpetuated and practiced every year by its very own victims under the guise of “brotherhood” and “bonding.” As a sophomore now on the other side of rush, I have been repeatedly frustrated during conversations with my male counterparts who admit to having been psychologically strained during their hazing as freshmen, but who are now excited to be on the other side this year. Of course, hazing is illegal in almost every state and probably in every fraternity’s unique regulations. Beta Theta Pi’s Risk Management Policy reads as follows: “No member shall permit, tolerate, encourage or participate in ‘drinking games’ or other activities that encourage excessive consumption of alcohol… No fraternity members, individually or collectively, shall purchase for, serve, or sell alcoholic beverages to minors (i.e., those under legal ‘drinking age’)…No chapter, colony, collegiate member or alumnus shall engage in hazing activities.” After the death of a drunk underage pledge, it may be safe to assume that most regulations for Greek life organizations are basically peed on—and that is the point. Greek life is fun, which is why it is an ancient institution that has been adapted to remain current. However, its regulations are regularly and serially thrown out of the window. In their actual existence, sororities and fraternities offer social status, a vast social network and exclusive party invites. How could something so exciting—that anyone has the opportunity to join—turn into something so harmful?

a glimpse into the dark, underground reality of Greek life that everyone who is, or has been, a part of a Greek organization pretends does not exist. This reality seems to be as dumb, permanent and threatening as death by hazing. I am a part of a Panhellenic sorority myself, and I admit there are often times when I feel entirely helpless as far as changing the things about Greek life I know are toxic because the toxic aspects all happen under the radar. I have met a lot of incredible people through my involvement in my sorority. It is true that at times, my sorority proves to be an empowering network of friendly and bright women who hold each other up across many different platforms and situations. But I wonder—if Duke was just a little bigger, or if Greek life was taken a little more seriously on this campus—whether the social capital my sorority offers me and my sisters would have begun to define our relationships and social lives more seriously, as it does on many other campuses. Greek life has the potential to be destructive in a society of young, insecure men and women. It gives people status they can wear in the form of Greek letters on their sweaters and caps, determines who can go to which parties and who can meet who. It also suppresses many poisonous societal problems under dumb, false pretenses of sisterhood and brotherhood, bonding, leadership and even philanthropy. The reality of fraternities and sororities on campuses is hilariously out of touch with the policies that govern most of those organizations. This is seen in the repeated accidents and violence that occur due to hazing and excessive drinking that supposedly are not happening, many of which take place in my average weekend as a sorority sister attending events that supposedly are not allowed. With so many Americans and American institutions involved in Greek life, how do we all allow its laws and regulations to be so out of touch with reality? How do we expect to prevent any more deaths by continually lying to ourselves and to each other? Daniela Flamini is a Trinity sophomore. Her column, “musings of an immigrant” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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The ACC also introduced key regulations aimed to guarantee health insurance coverage for the most vulnerable Americans—who also are the riskiest clients in the eyes of insurers. For example, it forbids insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions. To make those private markets viable in the face of increased regulation, Obamacare introduced individual mandates (taxes) on individuals who do not have coverage or companies who do not provide it to their employees, thus increasing the coverage of poor clients. Finally, Obamacare expanded Medicaid—a health care program of federal subsidies for the poorest Americans—for states who requested it. Republicans were most opposed to the latter two provisions of Obamacare: the individual mandate and Medicaid expansion. Although their 2017 Health Care reform maintained the logic and broad outline of Obamacare, including the reliance on subsidies and some regulations, it weakened many of its key provisions. According to the widely respected Congressional Budget Office, the AHCA would have led 24 million Americans to lose insurance coverage by 2026 as a result. In my opinion, and in that of Democrats and many moderate Republicans, the AHCA consequently was a bad bill. However, this does not mean that the concerns of conservatives regarding the failure of insurance markets in certain states— which include insurers pulling out of the market, skyrocketing premiums and the tax burden the mandate imposes on individuals and companies—should be brushed aside altogether. Indeed, what is increasingly evident is that cost of health care itself has become unaffordable for the US economy. Last Wednesday, I attended a conference organized by the Duke Health Care Policy Forum and Ralph Snyderman, who is the Chancellor Emeritus at Duke University and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine. As the director of Duke Center for Research on Personalized Health Care, Snyderman argued that his research shows it is possible to make health care affordable in this country. But before talking about health care, he argued, one must first recognize the advances of medicine in recent times. In the 20th Century, with the advent of disciples such as Germ theory, chemistry and physiology, we have come to understand that causative factors lie at the root of disease that we can identify and fix. However, in the 21st century with the advent of disciplines such genomics, proteomics, and micro/nano processing, we

now know that at the root of disease lie both a baseline risk proper to each individual and environmental factors. Theoretically, we could now personalize medicine. At birth, we could quantify the risk that a disease will occur and design a plan to enhance health accordingly, potentially delaying the initiation of the disease until after the patient has died at a very late stage from something else. In the event that a disease has been detected, we could monitor its progression and personalize therapy. This is key both to health and health care policy, as the longer a patient waits to treat a disease, the greater the likelihood is that the disease is irreversible and the more expensive the treatment will be. The real problem is that the current typical intervention in the US health care system occurs too late, way after the earliest potential clinical detection, at a time when the cost is too high and the likelihood of irreversibility too low. Why is this the case? Why has the practice

of medicine not kept pace with technological progress? Is it not the job of doctors to make sure their patients are safe? To answer those questions, one must first look at the incentives at the root of our health care system. If you have health insurance today, your insurer will reimburse your health provider based on a fee-for-service system. In other words, your doctor will be reimbursed for every service he or she offers regardless of the quality or value of that service. Therefore, your general practitioner and other specialists you might see have no incentive to coordinate your care, get you engaged in your own health management, quantify your risks, help you set up your wellness plan, track the evolution of your health metrics or follow up with you on a daily basis—all of which are capital steps for personalized health care. Professor Snyderman argued that the way to reduce the cost of health care would be to replace the fee-for-service reimbursement system with a population-based reimbursement system. A health care provider, such as a health care system hospitals and clinics, would be granted a fixed sum of money for every one of their patients. This would give health care providers the incentive to maximize healthcare outcomes and minimize costs. Unfortunately, neither the Republican nor the Democratic Party seem to take seriously the potentialities of personalized health care and a population-based reimbursement system. Although Obamacare did create Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), or health providers who were awarded bonuses in exchange for high-quality personalized medicine, neither this nor the Republican reform mainly focused on that issue. To solve the problem of health care in this country, policymakers on both sides of the spectrum need to move away from polarized and counterproductive debates around health care and instead come to the table to discuss innovative ways to reduce its costs. Most importantly, they have to face the tremendous business interests that make humongous profits out of the current system and will resist any change to it, ranging from pharmaceutical companies to big health systems. And they will never face such interests until we, the people, demand it. Emile Riachi is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “the voice of dissent,” usually runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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